In the quiet park.
Kousei Arima had always refused to believe in his own "darkness."
Sogo Doma was still perched on the tree trunk, providing background narration: "Destroy it all! Destroy everything beautiful! That is the true desire of me, Kousei Arima!"
Kaori Miyazono watched the scene with a twitching expression.
After a while.
She finally shouted at Sogo Doma.
"Senpai!"
Kousei Arima: _
"Ehehe?" Sogo Doma, lying on the tree trunk, looked down. "Oh my, I was actually discovered."
Kousei Arima looked at Sogo Doma, who had suddenly poked his head out from the tree. "..."
What was this supposed to be? Wait, what was this supposed to be?
"Senpai, why did you use Arima's voice just now..." Kaori Miyazono demanded angrily, but before she could finish, Sogo Doma answered first.
"It's just a little trick!"
Kaori Miyazono: "..."
Who even asked about that? She had clearly wanted to question why he had done such a thing.
Kousei Arima: !!! (⊙_⊙)
Huh? Senpai Doma had used his voice just now? How was that possible?
Wait.
So that hadn't been his subconscious? He had thought his condition was getting worse again!
Kousei Arima, once a genius piano prodigy and now a carrier of psychological illness, had been easily misled by Sogo Doma precisely because of that.
Once he understood, Kousei Arima, as a little fanboy, became somewhat dissatisfied. "Senpai Doma, why did you do that?"
"Good question!" Sogo Doma flipped over and jumped down from the tree. "If you were sleeping soundly and having a wonderful dream, only to be suddenly woken up by someone making noise, what would your first reaction be?"
Kaori Miyazono and Kousei Arima: "??"
Were those two things related?
"Just now, I was enjoying the breeze and resting my mind, one beautiful dream after another