Was that a Stradivarius? Of course it was.
A fresh, piping-hot Stradivarius, just pulled from Genzaburo Shitara's Palace.
As Tangze had expected, whether there would be any other gains at the Shitara family tonight was hard to say, but there would be no shortage of violins.
Before the afternoon banquet began, Asai Narumi had already taken one out of a Palace, one from the Palace of Ayane Shitara, whose mental state had been terrible at the time.
Driven by an almost obsessive fixation, the moment Haga Kyosuke learned that their abilities could not only make evildoers shed their twisted personalities and repent for the past, but also mend cracks in the soul and restore those with troubled minds, he immediately made a request. He hoped they could bring the delirious Ayane Shitara back to her senses.
He was taking revenge. He wanted to see the fear and regret on his enemies' faces. If possible, he wanted them as lucid as they could be, rather than drifting through a dream until they died.
Its form was a little too strange, and Haga Kyosuke still had some psychological reservations about taking it, so he ultimately chose not to use that one.
Tangze understood his choice. After all, anyone who watched a somewhat bizarrely designed baby doll turn into a violin right before their eyes would have trouble looking at that violin without bias.
Anyway, according to Asai Narumi, even if that violin had never been rumored to be cursed before, after seeing that scene, you would rather believe it was cursed now.
Carrying a violin born from a dead man's soul, Haga Kyosuke stepped onto the stage one step at a time. The lights in the venue dimmed accordingly, once more entering a mode better suited for focusing on the performance.
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