【Togenkyo Story】 Episode 1 Requiem

Here is a Troubadour

Once, with the shamisen,
the national instrument
of Japan, in hand,

He wandered around the world to
learn about the current state of the world.

He left Togenkyo and traveled outside the special zone to wander around the region where half-machine people live.

What he saw there was

People are still fighting over
thought and territories
under the banner of mutual justice.

The strong feed on the weak
to satisfy their greed,

Creating more than they need
at the expense of all living things
and nature.

The ugly egos of such
people are eventually reflected
in the garments they wear.

The originally translucent
robe of feathers becomes
as black as the wet feathers of a crow.

This distressed me greatly,
and I closed my heart to it.

One moonlight night,

The troubadour,
who no longer sings or plays

Sitting alone by a blue lake

Then a girl in a fur hat appeared, watching him.

She quietly approached,
offered him a painting,
and immediately left.

He looked at the painting for a moment, and then dropped a tear.

What was depicted in the painting was a depiction of the heartache He had seen in her wanderings and wanted to close her eyes to it.

What I have turned away from until now, when it appears in the form
of a painting,
brings me back to myself...

She who presented the picture
to the he is no longer there to ask her questions.

The troubadour rises again
to follow her shadow

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