The concert was being held in the bay, and Luffy and the others were on a platform rising above the water.
At some point, mist had begun to spread across the island, dimming the scene.
Click!
A spotlight suddenly lit up onstage, followed by a clear, lilting voice.
"New era, this is the future~~"
Click! Click! Click!
One spotlight after another came on, converging on the center of the stage.
A young woman in a pristine white minidress and a red-and-white hooded sweatshirt appeared before the crowd.
Her hair was distinctly divided into red and white, and she had tied it behind her head in two bunches like rabbit ears.
Uta lowered the brim of her hood and strode toward the front of the stage, her fair legs moving beneath the dazzling lights.
"—Whoa!"
"Uta!"
"It's starting!"
The audience, who had been waiting for ages, could no longer sit still. Cheers rang through the open-air venue.
The moment the first note rang out, the entire stage seemed to come alive.
In an instant, lively, vibrant lights burst in every direction, and the mist over the venue was swept away. The blue sea and sky stretched clear to the horizon once more.
Dum—dum—dun!
Crisp beats rang out, like the notes of a leaping sprite.
Standing beneath the colorful spotlights, Uta raised a hand and swept it across the audience. With her other hand on her hip, she stamped her foot and nodded along to the beat.
"Annoying, troublesome things—disappear, all of you~~"
"Let's change this world together, music~~"
Her cheerful singing trilled like a bird, her ethereal voice echoing through the venue like an angel's song from another world.
As Uta sang, colorful bubbles and musical notes began to flutter through the air.
In an instant, the whole place turned dreamlike.