Chapter 2 - Stopped sound
Rinko : My mother took me to a certain concert.. and I was moved by ... The pianist performance...
Rinko : I want to play piano like that too... I thought... and then, I started going to piano class...
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Rinko : ...
Piano teacher : Amazing Rinko-chan! You could already play something as difficult as that!?
Rinko : Yes... It's because I practice a lot...
Piano teacher : Fufu, Rinko-chan really love Piano. Seeing Rinko-chan playing Piano happily like that, make me happy too.
Rinko : Ehehe...
Piano teacher : If you could already play something at that level, you could probably enter a much larger contest. would you like to participate?
Rinko : C-contest is, Um...
Piano teacher : Don't worry. Rinko-chan has already entered many contests before, so even if it's a larger one, you could definitely play well.
Rinko : Y, yes...
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Yukina : It's a little surprising. I thought you don't like participating in something like a contest.
Rinko : It's not that I don't hate it... There is many people there... Even at that time, it's something that I'm afraid of...
Rinko : But if I enter a contest... then everyone will be happy... My mom and Dad... also My piano teacher...
Rinko : It makes me happy... So even if I don't like it... At that time I participate in a contest a lot...
Yukina : I see...
Rinko : But, at that time, participating in a large contest... I still don't understand the meaning of it...
Rinko : The place... that my mother brought me to... is a place as big as a concert hall...
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Rinko : (Compared to the other place... this is much wider and larger...)
Rinko : (There are many people here... Everyone is looking at me...)
Staff : ...Gane-san? Shirogane Rinko-san?
Rinko : Eh...?
Staff : It already begins, so please start your performance.
Rinko : Y, yes...! I'm gonna play soon...!
Rinko : ( I must work hard... I must play it... Mom, Dad, and Sensei... is cheering for me...)
Rinko : ( I already practice a lot... So it will definitely be okay...)
Rinko : ( I mustn't mind the audience... I mustn't mind the audience...)
Rinko : !?
Rinko : ( I made a mistake...! Even though I usually could play it well...!)
Rinko : (Ah! I mustn't stop playing... I must play the continuation...)
Rinko : ( Next is...Um...Ummm... What should I do... I forget it...)
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Yukina : ...I see. So that's what happens.
Rinko : After that, I become scared... and stop participating... in a contest...
Rinko : But, after entering Roselia... Little by little, I feel... I have changed...
Rinko : I thought... If it's now...I could face the contest once again, but...
Rinko : It seems it was still too early... to participate in the contest...
Yukina : Rinko...
Rinko : The truth is... The contest that I plan to enter... is the same contest that I failed before...
Rinko : Once again... I want to enter the contest....and finished my performance until the end...
Rinko : I feel like I have overcome one thing... If I do that...
Rinko : But when I play that song... It reminds me of that time...
Rinko : The face of disappointment... of many people... I could still remember it clearly even now...
Rinko : I... Haven't changed at all, right...
Yukina : ...
Yukina : If there is that kind of circumstances, then how about you call it off.
Rinko : T, that... I don't want that...
Yukina : Why? You might fail again like last time, you know?
Rinko : P, probably so... But, I don't want to run away from the contest...
Rinko : If I run away, then I'm still the same as back then...
Yukina : ...
Yukina : You said that you haven't change. but I don't think so.
Rinko : Eh...?
Yukina : You have decided to not run away. Just by that, I could tell that you have changed.
Rinko : I, is that so...?
Yukina : Yes, It means you have courage.
Rinko : ....
Rinko : Yukina-san... Can I... Ask you one question.
Yukina : Yes, I don't mind.
Rinko : Yukina-san ... when you stand on the stage ... did you not feel any pressure ...?
Rinko : Something like, is my performance good... is the audience disappointed in my performance...
Rinko : On top of the stage... I think there is so much pressure there...
Yukina : I don't feel anything like that.
Yukina : Is not like I don't have any consciousness toward the audience... It's just that, I stand on the stage not because I want to fulfill somebody expectation.
Yukina : It's for my... for Roselia that I stand there.
Yukina : I only think about something like that, and everything other than that, just don't enter my mind.
Rinko : ...!
Rinko : (It's the same as... the technique to focused one mind... that Hikawa-san teaches me...)
Rinko : (I see... Yukina-san too... have that kind of mindset....)
Rinko : (That's why, Yukina-san even when she stands on the stage... She could pierce through anything without any hesitations...)
Yukina : Rinko, let me ask you one question too.
Rinko : Eh? Y, yes...
Yukina : For what sake do you play piano for?
Rinko : That's it...that...
Rinko : ...
Rinko : I, I'm sorry... I couldn't answer it immediately...
Yukina : There is no need to answer it immediately. But, you should look closely at your own feeling.
Yukina : The answer that you're looking for is definitely there.
Rinko : Yukina-san
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