Throughout the first song, Hina remained unable to recover her composure.
Before she had even "recovered from the shock," the first song ended.
Even Hina, who knew little about music, could intuitively appreciate the wonder of this unprecedented musical style.
Thunderous cheers and applause no longer sufficed to describe the uproar in the venue. The audience had been swept into a frenzy by something as stunning as a revelation from another world.
...After all, they had hardly ever sampled the finer things. The pinnacle of music in this world was Uta, who had yet to make her debut.
The Rumble-Rumble Fruit's "high-precision synthesized sound," combined with tried-and-tested songs from Blue Star, utterly demolished the competition in this world.
Stage effects... could those things even compare to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit?
Then, amid multicolored ball lightning and ghosts in all sorts of poses, the members of Kessoku Band began smoothly swapping instruments with flamboyant movements.
Guided by lightning and accompanied by ghosts, Ghost Princess Perona took center stage.
"Horo-horo~ Everyone~! Today~! Lord Shining wrote a new song for me too~!"
Perona struck a cute pose as the audience cheered.
But as her voice faded, a melody with a heavier electronic sound began to play.
The first to speak was, surprisingly, Satellite Shining.
And it was not singing, but something like... dialogue from a story?
(The following sounds better in English. English is actually also the official language of the One Piece world.)
"It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming... on days like these, kids like you..."
At some point, Shining and Perona had come to stand facing each other, only a few steps apart.
The smile on Shining's pitch-black face was calm, yet carried a hint of something chilling.
"-Should be burning in hell-"
Lightning cracked, sending a