Chapter 85: Elf vs Siren
"Perfect score"
Top Chat: Whoa!!
Top Chat: A perfect score! Perfect!
Top Chat: Amazing, first Elf-san and now even Kyoka-chan!
Top Chat: I didn’t think it actually came out…
Top Chat: The song was moving, but seeing the number is still shocking.
Top Chat: So now Elf-san has to get a perfect score too or she loses, huh. Tough.
Top Chat: They say what happens twice happens thrice… feels like it might!
Second match, second singer. Kyoka’s song scored 98.6. With that, she secured the round’s victory.
And then, in the final match as the opening singer, Kyoka blasted out a perfect score.
"See? Kyoka’s good at singing, right?"
Top Chat: Elf-san being all smug is cute.
Top Chat: Damn it, twitching those ears… perfection!
Top Chat: Haaaaaah so cuteeeee
Top Chat: No! Don’t give too much ear content to us ear-lovers!
Top Chat: Talk about the song, lol
Top Chat: It was seriously amazing.
Top Chat: It squeezed my heart.
Top Chat: I couldn’t help but cry.
Top Chat: I suspected, but now I’m convinced—Kyoka-chan really is a Siren…
Top Chat: Even if she didn’t get a perfect score in the second match, in the final match she pulled it off.
Top Chat: By the way, Elf-san, how about trying to copy that song just now…?
"Impossible."
Top Chat: Yeah, figured.
Top Chat: 『If This Is What You Call Love』 is a song that uses the full vocal range, after all.
Top Chat: About half of the songs the Siren composed are like that.
"Kyoka wrote it?"
"I’m back, Onii-cha… huh? Wrote what?"
Top Chat: Elf-san, lol
Top Chat: Even family can’t keep up, huh
Top Chat: We’re talking about the song you sang just now.
"Ah, right. Both 『Heroic Scattering』 and 『If This Is What You Call Love』 were written by me."
"Kyoka, you’re amazing."
"Thanks. But really, the arranger is the amazing one."
"Is that so?"
"All I did was make the melody. Everything I hummed without accompaniment, the arranger turned into full songs."
Top Chat: Wow, so you can still be the composer even if you only make the melody.
Top Chat: Happens pretty often.
Top Chat: I didn’t know that.
"On the deadline for 『Heroic Scattering』, there were still parts of the lyrics unfinished, so I just sent over some humming… ahaha."
Top Chat: Wait, I really want to hear that.
Top Chat: thud (stands up)
Top Chat: Haaaaaaah so cuteeeeeeee
Top Chat: Stop! Don’t give excessive humming to us humming-lovers!
Top Chat: She hasn’t even given it yet.
"Hm. Decided."
Top Chat: Huh?
Top Chat: Decided what?
"The song I’ll sing."
Top Chat: Ohhh!
Top Chat: So you picked one.
Top Chat: A nursery rhyme? A commercial jingle?
"I don’t know the correct lyrics for verses past the first in those kinds of songs."
Top Chat: Ahhh.
Top Chat: Yeah, this isn’t about getting 70 or 80 points.
Top Chat: No one wants to aim for a perfect score with half-remembered lyrics, lol.
Top Chat: So what are you going to sing?
"Kyoka’s song."
"Eh?"
Top Chat: …Wait, but you can’t sing those, right?
Top Chat: You can’t hit the notes, can you?
Top Chat: She’s typing something.
Top Chat: Looks like she selected Kyoka-chan in the composer search.
Top Chat: Seriously going for a Siren song?
"Alright, this one."
From among the works composed by Isaribi Seere, lined up before me, I chose one.
Top Chat: !
Top Chat: Different intro!
Top Chat: It’s not 『Heroic Scattering』 or 『If This Is What You Call Love』!
Top Chat: What is this!?
Top Chat: Uh, the name is a-e-u…
Top Chat: Na-ni-nu-ne-no…
Top Chat: If you can’t remember, don’t force yourself to say it, lol.
"『Let’s Walk Toward Tomorrow』…"
Kyoka muttered the song title in a daze.
"Mm. I remember the lyrics to this one. I can manage it."
The intro began. What appeared on screen were the very lyrics I knew.
"…《《How》》 did you know this was a song within your singable range?"
Kyoka looked at me with fearful eyes. I gave her a light answer.
"—When you wrote this one, Kyoka, you couldn’t hit the lower notes yet, right?"
"Are you… really my big brother?"
"Kyoka."
"Y-yes!"
"The Siren spirit was strong, but don’t underestimate the Elf spirit either."
With that smile, I gripped the mic tight at center stage.
Comments (0)
Please login or sign up to post a comment.