Last Dream

1st Movement (Last Part)

What lies at the end? Happiness, or...

1st Movement "Wonder Tree" (Last Part)

50m..

Walking out from a passageway so bright that it was impossible to blink, a space with a marble floor just like the tree's room appeared before us, in which I could smell the scent of life. In the middle of the room, standing all alone while giving out a strange presence, was a large black grand piano.

(I've... seen this piano before...)

Yes... This was the piano that the person I couldn't remember, that precious person of mine, had played on——...

"...Wow, the window looks so close by now..."

In the end, I still couldn't remember anything. While gathering up the faint memories I had of the world I was born in, the world from before I came here, I looked up to the window ceiling and spoke with a sigh.

Very soon, I'll surely be able to go home. After all, the window ceiling that had been so faraway before was now right there. And the soft light that was coming from the window was flowing in without a pause.

"......"

Ever since coming into this room, Deemo had been standing there, staring at the window ceiling in a daze.

(What's that platform... floating near the window?)

Yes... Perhaps that's a rocket.

Using that emerald-like floating platform, I might be able to escape from this mysterious planet...

(But how can I get to that floating platform...?)

I had no idea how tall the tree had grown to, but as I looked up at it, its branches seemed to have been growing jewels of some kind, letting countless lights drift down.

It was as if, yes... As if the tree was giving us a signal using the lights, letting us know that it could no longer grow any taller than it has.

———Hey, Deemo... I feel as though I must definitely move to my next destination...

50%

——Just as I had guessed, even though it listened to the sounds of the piano, the tree would grow no more.

However, since a while ago, Deemo had been playing the piano without any rest. And, for some reason, he kept playing the same song, repeating it over and over for countless times... Those beautiful sounds were, without a doubt, the very first song Deemo played when I came to this world.

""

——I was certain that was the name of the song...

(Maybe... the reason Deemo keeps playing the piano has something to do with that floating platform...?)

Since coming to this room, the window ceiling had seemed close, but it was still beyond our reach. The platform floating just below the window was also at a distance that made it impossible to jump onto.

(But playing the piano won't make the tree grow any further... How is Deemo planning to help me reach that floating platform...?)

As I thought that, I sat down beside the piano that was creating pulsations like that of heartbeats, and vacantly looked to the ceiling window.

Right then I noticed something, and was so surprised I even felt a little frightened.

There, beside the tree, as though it was magic, was a short staircase leading up towards the emerald-coloured floating platform!