sounds of nature

When Ninefold Harmony and Tsukimori Ren were trapped in the wardrobe in the lounge, the rear of the stage in front of them was about to explode.

"Where did the two of them go?!" Forget about Yuesen, why is Jiuzhong gone?Mr. Kanazawa scratched his head irritably, "Fortunately, I changed the order of appearance for her temporarily, but the performance of Yuki is almost over, and she won't come back—"

"Jinou seems to say that she went to the lounge." At this time, Hayashihara Yui put down the score and said calmly.

"Hey..." Xiang Suizi jumped up immediately, "Then I'll look for it now."

Tsuchiura and Huoyuan hurriedly said, "Let's help find someone too."

Hiroto Kanazawa: "...I hope they can catch up."

On that day, Noka Hoko stumbled into the lounge, and happened to see a jaw-dropping scene——

The closet used to store the players' personal belongings seemed to have been forcibly broken open from the inside. The doors of the cabinet fell to both sides, some of which may have been directly hit, and irregularly shaped pieces of wood stood upside down.

"Oh, let me go, this cabinet door is really not secure. It broke open within two hits..."

"How dare you say that! Look at your own arm, is there anyone who does things so recklessly?"

The two people who disappeared for no reason, who were worried by everyone for a long time, are standing alive in the room at this moment, but they look a little bit embarrassed, but fortunately there is no serious problem...?

"Heyin! Your hand—" Xiang Suizi couldn't help exclaiming when her eyes touched Jiufold Heyin's left forearm.Due to the reason of wearing a sleeveless performance dress, the girl's bare arm had several obvious scratches, and the bright red blood dripped from the wound, smearing the entire forearm, which was really scary.

"Ah, Xiang Suizi, you finally found it!" Jiuzhong Heyin was still in the mood to greet others, then she remembered something, her face changed, and she turned to Yuesenlian and said sharply: "Alian, you are still wasting here What time is it, hurry up and pick up the violin and go to the competition!"

Yue Senlian: "Hey, you—"

"What are you talking about?" Heyin couldn't stand it and pulled his violin case and threw it to Xiang Suizi, while holding Yuesenlian with his uninjured hand, he ran out, "Scratch your wool, time waits for no one Do you know! If you have anything to say, come back and talk about it!"

Xiang Suizi, who followed step by step behind him, said: "Heyin, what should you do yourself? Hand... Although I don't know how it happened, it will affect it!"

When she said this, Yue Senlian, who was being dragged away obediently, darkened, and was even more unhappy. "I said that even if you want to hit the door, I should come, you girl—" I don't know how to protect myself more!No wonder Tiangong Qinglai wanted to develop such a temperament to take care of others, otherwise she really couldn't do anything about it.

"Shut up, if I leave it to you, a dilly-dallying fellow, it's up to us whether we can come out now!" Heyin replied unceremoniously, while pushing open the door leading to the back of the stage, and pushing people in. "Here, hurry up and get ready to play." She had already heard the end of Yuki Azuma's performance.According to the normal sequence, Yuesenlian should be next to play.

The people who were waiting anxiously in the backstage were all relieved to varying degrees when they saw that the two had returned in good condition.The Yuesen couple, who were temporarily invited here, saw their son and niece safely appearing, and their hearts that had been worrying for a while suddenly relaxed a lot.

Hiroto Kanazawa immediately said: "Just come back. Yuesen, hurry up, it's your turn next." Then he looked at Heyin and said, "Kouou, I temporarily changed the order of appearance, so you will be the last... What happened to your hand!"

When the two didn't approach just now, everyone didn't notice it. Now Yuesenlian walked away to get his violin, and the injured arm of Harmony, who had been blocked all the time, was immediately exposed to the public.

"Oh my God……"

"—how did it happen?"

"..."

Everyone took a deep breath, because of her injury that caused a drop of blood to fall to the ground when she took a step.This guy can still tell people to go to the competition without changing his expression. Doesn't she hurt? !If you read correctly, the surface of the wound seems to have sawdust stuck on it...

Hamai Misa rushed to He Yin in a hurry, and grabbed her left arm. "You child...why are you so careless." She raised her head and said to Hiroto Kanazawa, "Teacher, let's take her to deal with—"

"..." But there is still a game.But after thinking about it, Jiuhe Yin's hand was injured like that, so it is reasonable for his family to ask for such.

Mr. Kanazawa hesitated for a moment, and was about to agree, but saw Jiuzhong Heyin standing up and saying: "No. It's okay, let me continue to bandage after the competition..."

"Harmony! The key is that you can't play a good tune like this."

"It's ok." Ninefold Harmony turned her head and said to Hamai Misa seriously: "I can do it, Auntie. If it were Alian, you wouldn't stop him, right?" For a qualified music performance For the musicians, the most important thing is to complete their own performance, and all other accidents or injuries, if they can be overcome, must be overcome.

Hamai Misa looked at her unrelated niece with such a serious look, which was very rare.At this time, Yue Senlian's father also came over, hugged his wife's shoulders, gave her a comforting look, and then said to Heyin: "Okay, we promise you. But first, we need to stop the bleeding a little bit. And, if you can't If you insist, you must not force it!"

He Yin nodded, "I promise you."

On the field, Yuesenlian's "Chaconne in G Minor" still echoed in people's ears.He Yin sat down and asked the person Kanazawa called temporarily to help pick out the sawdust from the wound, and washed the wound with clean water.But there was still blood coming out of the unhealed wound, He Yin listened to the end of Yuesenlian's performance over there, asked someone to help lift her harp out of the next room, and said anxiously: "Ah, just find the wound. Just pack something up."

As a result, the door leading to the corridor at the back was slammed open again, and Lin Yuan Yuyi walked in.The girl who had always given off a calm and indifferent aura now showed anger and disbelief on her face, as well as worry when she looked at Harmony.

"……What's wrong?"

"And you, your harp was pushed to the ground by someone, and the strings... were all cut."

"..."

"How come..." The two girls, Xiang Suizi and Dong Hai Shengzi lost their voices immediately, and they all cast their eyes on Heyin at the same time.

The flaxen-haired girl wearing a wine red satin dress today, when she heard the news brought by Hayashi Yuan Yui, she lowered her head slightly and remained silent the whole time without saying a word.

After being taken aback, Jin Zehong also asked someone to bring the piano over immediately.Because the harmonic harp occupies too much space, it was previously placed in their women's lounge.I thought it wasn't far away anyway, so I would just move here when the time comes.The result was unexpected...

Contacting Jiuzhong Heyin and Yuesenlian's disappearance for no reason, and after returning, it was at the cost of a hand injury!Those present are not stupid people who are ignorant of the world, and they can understand the reason of the matter with a little thought.

Did you offend someone... Mr. Kanazawa really wanted to ask this question, but seeing the Tsukimori and his wife were still standing aside, the words on his lips could only be used as a guarantee, "The school will investigate this matter and give you an explanation. !"

The two parents looked up at Mr. Kanazawa and nodded slightly.Their faces were all ugly, but what was more worrying was the still silent ninefold chord.

"Harmony..." At this moment, someone called out, as if a switch had been turned on.She stood up all of a sudden, took the unwrapped bandage, casually wrapped it around her arm a few times, and tied it.

At this time, the stage staff brought her harp over, and Harmony approached step by step.The people around looked at her, but no one made a sound.

There was a crack in the resonance box at the bottom of the piano, and the 47 strings that were originally in good condition were almost broken. Judging from the fracture, it was obvious that someone had deliberately cut it.

"..." Heyin clenched her fists silently, she knew that everyone around her was looking at her, whether they were familiar or unfamiliar.But at the moment, she doesn't have much energy to care about what those sights contain. There seems to be a very bitter and cold wind blowing in her mind, which makes her feel that her whole mind is about to be separated from her body.

At this time, thunderous applause came from outside the stage.It was the end of Yuesenlian's performance. After listening to the audience's feedback, it seemed that she played well.

After walking backstage, Yuesenlian sensed that the atmosphere was not right.Although it had long been expected that few of the people staying here would be distracted to listen to his performance, but he did not expect the situation to be even worse.He immediately found the figure of Harmony, and then saw the tragic appearance of the expensive concert-level grand harp by the way.Yue Senlian's heart suddenly jumped. As a music student, seeing such a violent act of destroying musical instruments, even if he is not the owner of the musical instrument, it is difficult to contain the anger in his heart.What's more, the girl who stood in front of the harp and hasn't moved for a long time...

He Yin, what will she do?

"Hey, how are you going to compete now..." Mr. Kanazawa murmured irritably, how could a music competition go wrong?In the last game, the accompanist set pigeons at him, but this time it was even more ruthless, and even the human instrument was broken.This situation is definitely not the level of a small fight, and it must be reported to the school at that time.He felt a little dignified in his heart, who the hell would have such a heavy revenge mentality? !

Because there was no special instruction from the backstage, the announcer who sat back to her original position thought she was still following the previous agreement, so she cleared her throat and said into the microphone: "The next one, Class 2, Year [-], general class, ninefold chord... The repertoire is—" The announcer subconsciously glanced up, then paused.

The girl in the red dress walked onto the stage alone, and the spotlight hit her, covering the surface of her slender figure with a layer of bright reflection.There was no agreed upon harp, only her.Standing in the center of the stage, facing the suddenly silent audience, he suddenly showed a haughty and contemptuous smile aimed at whom.

"The repertoire is "Chaconne in D Minor" composed by Bach and arranged by Busoni."

The performer, who was attracting attention, took up the announcer's words, and the voice came from the earphone amplifier she borrowed from somewhere.

"..."

"..."

The audience suddenly became restless.

What's going on here?Shouldn't the girl's instrument in front of me be a harp?

Hey, why did she go to the piano and sit down?Did you change your instrument and prepare to play the piano?Isn't that the same as Tsuchiura Ryotaro...

And, you heard me right!Yuesen has already played "Chaconne", will she play another one?

On the side of the stage, the backstage blocked by the curtain.So the contestants who had finished the performance and other related people held their breath as they watched the Ninefold Harmony walk out and sat down in front of the piano.

None of them had forgotten that just now, the moment when the announcer announced her name was the same as waking up from a state of trance.She didn't look at anyone, but turned to face the stage and murmured. "...Want to see my jokes and embarrass me? Oh, even death won't fulfill you—"

That aura is going to scare people silly!People who didn't know thought she was going out to kill people... When she heard her repertoire, Hamai Misa's eyes widened in a little surprise.

The uproar in the auditorium seemed to have no effect on those sitting in front of the piano.She closed her eyes and meditated for a moment, then raised her hands and placed them on the keys.

When the first chord of the left hand is struck, the nine-fold chord brings an auditory feast to everyone present - ordinary audience, judges, other players in the backstage, etc., which will be deeply imprinted in their minds from now on. place.

Even if they have heard better performances than her before or after, none of them can make people feel like they are listening to the performance of a young girl who was fashionable and unknown at that time in this small school recital. At that moment, I felt a sense of resonance that hit the bottom of my heart.

At the beginning, it was just a powerful and dignified melody, but after a few bars, the melody immediately rushed like a flood.The rigorous sonata style suddenly becomes an unrestrained and free singing style, from adagio to allegro, and from prelude to fugue.The gestures fluctuated faster and faster, and then fell back to a softer point at an inadvertent moment.People with sharp eyes can completely see the white gauze wrapped around the player's left arm, but under the high-intensity left-hand accompaniment, there is no stagnation in the piano's tone at all.Such a smooth and complicated melody, even a layman can hear the melody with technical content, took away everyone's thinking ability at this moment.

"...God, what does this feel like, is she really playing Bach?"

"Yeah, I can't find Bach's dignified and rigorous style of music at all. It was performed by her... as if she had completely let go."

"But it also feels good! I can't keep up with her rhythm just by listening..."

"...What do you want to express? It seems that you can hear some kind of aloofness from the sound of her piano! Isn't the theme of this competition trust?"

on the jury.

At the end of the performance, the judges who were finally relieved looked at each other with amazement in their eyes.

"It's already at a professional performance level, that kid..."

"Although I played it arbitrarily and didn't feel Bach's style at all, it was surprisingly good!"

"Arrogant yet stubborn and confident, the sound of the piano faintly gives people a bright feeling. It's hard to grasp... what she wants to express."

There was a lot of discussion on the sidelines, but for Ninefold Harmony, who was completely immersed in her own music world, what she wanted to express through this piece was just one sentence——

No matter how much you insidious bastards try to harm me, I will never lose to you in music!

This can also be said to be her trust in her own ability and in the music that has accompanied her for more than 20 years in her two lives.

The performance is over.

When everyone was still unable to recover from the lingering performance for a long time, Ninefold Harmony stood up and bowed in front of the audience.When I looked up again, for some reason, I felt that the stage lights were countless times more dazzling than before.She squinted her eyes, and there was rumbling applause from the audience as if she had just woken up from a dream, and there was even warm applause from the side of the stage.

He Yin felt that his nerves relaxed at this moment, and his eyes were white.Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps approaching eagerly, her knees gave way, and she was hugged by someone before she fell to the ground.

"..." The familiar and warm embrace, the person who hugged him tightly said something eagerly above his eyes.Heyin smiled silently, and wanted to raise his hand to pull at the other person's face, but found that his arm was so painful that he couldn't move at all.

"You're back, Qinglai..." she murmured in a low voice.

There was a slight pause for the arm holding him, and then the familiar face was close to the ear, and the boy's messy breath sprayed on the skin of the ear, and he choked slightly: "Yes, I'm back! Harmony, elder sister……"