Chapter 1860: Crow
Hisako, Miyuki, and Shiori, three bandmates of Iwasawa, were waiting nervously in the waiting room. They wanted to blame themselves since they didn't realize that they had put pressure on Iwasawa, but now, there was nothing that they could do, and they knew that they could only believe in Haru.
"Ugh... Masami..." Hisako was quite depressed, but suddenly the door of the waiting room opened.
The three of them were startled, but their eyes brightened when they saw the one who opened the door!
"Masami!!!" 3x
Iwasawa nodded and said, "Sorry to make you worry, so are you ready?"
"Yeah!" 3x
Watching Iwasawa, who had this confident smile on her face, the three of them answered without hesitation!
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When Yuri, Megumi, Suzune, Ritsu, and Shiina were waiting at the Thunder Stage with a worry, they suddenly heard a voice that made them calm down.
"Sorry to make you wait."
They turned and saw Haru was there.
"Haru!"
They sighed in relief, then Yuri quickly asked, "How?"
"She's alright." Haru smiled and said, "You should be able to watch her performance soon."
"Great!" Yuri was full of smiles.
Haru nodded, then noticed the gaze of Suzune and Megumi on him. "Is there something wrong?"
"Nothing." 2x
Suzune and Megumi shook their heads.
"We'll probably have another sister," Megumi said.
Suzune nodded in agreement.
"...." Haru.
Haru didn't say anything since what they were saying was right, and it wasn't wrong, so he didn't need to say anything.
"What?" Yuri was dumbfounded, but before she reacted, Iwasawa entered the stage with her bandmates.
When the name of Girls Dead Monster was announced, everyone shouted excitedly.
Haru looked in Yuri's direction from a distance and smiled. Somehow, he felt happy and proud when he saw Iwasawa standing on the stage, receiving a lot of cheers.
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Iwasawa was standing on the stage, with a microphone in front of her, and a guitar in her hands. She took a deep breath as she stared at the crowd in front of her. Somehow, she could see Haru and his group watching from a distance and knew that she wasn't alone.
"Crow Song!"
Iwasawa shouted those words, and the drummer started to hit the drum, and the guitar started to strum the strings.
"There's a wall of shutters behind me.
My fingertips smell like iron.
Move ahead! Strum those strings! It's crowded, at any rate.
Find a way from here."
Along with those lyrics, everyone shouted and danced excitedly.
Haru knew that music really had this kind of magic where it could move everyone. Hearing those lyrics, somehow it reminded him of many things, especially when his parents had just passed away, and he hadn't become a member of the Group Chat.
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Even though some of his girls couldn't come to the Fuji Rock Festival, they gathered at his house to watch the concert on television.
"Ugh... I want to go there too," Sakura said with a sigh.
Utaha glanced at Sakura and said, "You have just gotten better. What if you're dying there?"
"...." Sakura.
"Well, we're going on the trip later, right?" Sakura asked.
"Yes." Utaha nodded and said, "But we'll need to go to the summer Comiket first."
"Summer Comiket, huh?" Sakura rubbed her chin and wondered whether it was an interesting place, but well, she was healthy now, so she also wanted to visit that place.
"Well, if you want to visit summer Comiket, then you need to ask his permission first," Utaha said.
"....." Sakura pouted.
"Shh, Iwasawa is about to sing," Sora said.
"Oh!"
Everyone quickly focussed on the television and watched how Iwasawa sang, but the moment they watched her, they felt like their minds were blown away.
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Iwasawa closed her eyes and sang with all of her might and feeling.
"With all my power, I'm about to collapse.
My fingers are worn out and in pain,
But, still, I'll perform. Tonight will be a big story."
This song had a long meaning to Iwasawa. When she wrote this song, she poured all of her emotions, feelings, experiences, past, present, and future into the lyrics, which was why everyone could feel the emotion that she wanted to express in this song.
In the past, before she met him, she didn't live in a good place, or rather, every day was hell for her, and the reason why she could have a hope to live was that she listened to a song in the music store. In her gray world, where everything was vague and when she had never thought about her future, that song gave her a light, giving a color of her world.
In the beginning, everything wasn't good. She sang on the street with the guitar that she got from the street. It was secondhand, but for her, who had nothing, it was something very precious. Her journey wasn't smooth, but just singing saved her from her misery, and her meeting with him was probably the best thing that happened in her life.
The reason why she could stand and sing in front of a lot of people and receive their cheers, she knew that it was because of him.
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"She's so amazing..." Suzune said in amazmenet.
Everyone also nodded, but they didn't react that much since they were all affected by Iwasawa's song.
Haru looked at Iwasawa and didn't expect that she would grow so much. When she sang this song, he somehow could see that all of the members of the Girls Dead Monster had become crows, soaring in the sky, chirping happily, without anything to trap them.
"To create art is to convey something, huh?"
"What's wrong, Haru?" Ritsu asked.
"Nothing." Haru shook his head and said, "It's an amazing song."
"Yeah."
Haru knew that it was only a time before Iwasawa would grow even more beautiful, and his job was to protect her since he knew that all the characters of the Angel Beats were very unlucky.
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Iwasawa was like a bird, who was trapped in the cage, but now, she had broken that cage, flying freely in the sky. Even if she might be a crow, the most hateful bird, she could soar in that sky with everyone.
"Even you must also be tired.
I want to send this to that back of yours
From within the pitch darkness,
The song of light that gleams with hope…
Yes, that song."
With those last lyrics, Iwasawa ended her song.
Iwasawa was full of sweat, and she was quite tired, but her face was full of smiles., especially after...
"OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!"
Everyone cheered loudly.
Iwasawa wanted to meet him now.