“Forgive My rudeness, Does Duke’s rest of the songs have the same atmosphere?”
Joshua, for the sake of his own and Ciri’s safety, has to confirm this before listening to the next performance.
Just in case, if the following all performance was also dominated by this icy tone, then Joshua might become the first individual in history to become ‘ a chaos Demon frozen to death by listening to music.’
For Ciri….. Well, even if the Skeleton Duke doesn’t continue to play; she won’t last long if she doesn’t find a heater or pile of firewood.
Zenas was not allowed to step in here by the Skeleton Duke. Otherwise, if the Zenas brand small heater was here, Ciri would have felt much better.
“Yes, these songs all come from this sheet of music. This is the only sheet of music I have.”
The Skeleton Duke picked up a sheet of music whose cover seems to have been very badly damaged. Judging from the old marks on the music sheet, it should have been in his hand for years.
An excellent performer, but not a composer?
“That…. Sir Duke, can I play a song?”
Joshua once again made a rash proposal, however, the skeleton Duke did not get angry with Joshua’s “smashing the place” behavior. Instead, skeleton duke’s soul fire leaped, Joshua felt it as “Ridiculed” expression.
“Your Highness, this piano is an old friend of mine. Its temper is much worse than me, if you play the music which doesn’t satisfy it, then it will swallow your soul! At that time, even I also won’t be able to save you.”
The Skeleton Duke’s hand rested on top of the piano as if responding to Skelton duke’s words, the piano issued several musical notes, which seemed like it was mocking at Joshua’s overconfidence.
“I wish to give a try.”
To speak, even Joshua does not believe in himself, from childhood Joshua’s father hoped to cultivate him as a pianist, so when Joshua was six years old he began to come in contact with piano.
He practiced for a half year, the final result, he did not even clear a grade exam successfully, and therefore chose to give up.
The main reason for giving up was……. Just like many people in childhood, addicted to the game and was unable to get out of it.
After so many years of not touching the piano, Joshua should have forgotten about it, but after his memories combined with the third prince, Joshua’s own memory became very clear and formidable.
Even to the extent that Joshua could find his childhood’s piano practice muscle memory.
“Are you sure? The last challenger was quite a famous composer in the human world.”
The Skeleton Duke couldn’t remember any accomplishment this third prince had in music, the term “Despicable Human” was definitely not a good nickname in the Demon world.
“My music will satisfy your friend.”
Quite famous? How famous were Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin? Joshua does not believe that when the “Moonlight Sonata” will be played, this piano would not clap.
Oh…………Joshua forgot that this piano doesn’t have the hands.
Behind Joshua, there were earth’s countless great classical music masters as support. Really want to do live music, Joshua was not afraid of anyone.
The skeleton duke also didn’t talk any more nonsense. He directly walked out of the stage and arrived at the corner of the room where a table was placed. He picked up a glass full of red wine on the table and was prepared to watch the show.
“Maintain your body temperature and don’t fall asleep.”
Joshua rubbed Ciri’s cheek with his warm hands and wiped the frost from her eyelashes.
Her temperature still didn’t show any sign of recovery, and in this drowsy state, once ciri falls asleep, she will never wake up.
There was no heater in the room, and Zenas could not come in because of the Skeleton Duke’s order.
Ciri could only recover her body temperature by herself, however, her clothes were wet with the melting ice and so was Joshua’s clothes. In this state, to recover her body temperature by herself was impossible.
“Listening to music and dying is too depressing. I am not going to die so easily.”
Ciri shook her head and broke away from Joshua’s hand which was touching her cheeks. It seemed that Joshua’s close contact behavior made her unhappy.
“Then, please continue to hold on for ten more seconds, miss magician.”
Joshua took back his hand and walked towards the piano.
It has already been 18 years since he touched the piano. Even with the familiarity he had found with his memory, Joshua was not sure if he could play properly.
Joshua pressed the first key on the piano, soon after, he felt that a part of his soul was pulled out from his body.
This piano was really weird!.
However, Joshua didn’t feel frightened, immediately Joshua put both his hand on the piano and began to play.
It was a song that makes people feel like standing under the sun and bathing in the spring breeze, then…….. Joshua really felt the sunshine!
This was not an illusion, Joshua felt a warm touch of sunshine on his body, and also the blowing of the spring breeze.
It was like, in an afternoon, lying down on the field full of blooming flowers under the warm sun.
Ciri who was suffering from the cold was stunned when she heard the notes Joshua was playing.
A kind of warmth instantly dispelled cold on Ciri’s body, just like a pair of hands gently embracing her, there was kind of pleasant and comfortable touch.
It was a warm feeling that Ciri couldn’t describe. It was just….. A little thought of crying appeared the nose began to turn little sour.
She thought a lot about the days of her early years when she left home and lived alone. She kept telling herself to be strong and survive, but because of loneliness and helplessness, she felt endless grievance but had no place to vent.
Continuously her eyes looked at Joshua playing the piano. She touched her cheeks lightly, where the warmth of Joshua’s seems to be still present there.
Immersed; all the people present on the scene seems to be immersed in the notes released from Joshuas fingers, a gentle and warm tone.
Even the Skeleton duke was no exception, he was standing there without even noticing that his cup had fallen on the ground.
Music could wake up a lot of things in a person, it was not like movies, novels, paintings that take a long time to make a person emotionally move. Music to affect a person emotion takes only a split second, a note.
Just when the gentle tone reached climax, it suddenly stopped.
The skeleton Duke’s soul also recovered from this warm atmosphere.
“Continue! Why did you stop!” the skeleton Duke asked aloud.
“Ah… I can’t play further.”
Joshua’s hand moved away from the piano. Although he did not take part in the grade examination, his piano level was between level 3 and level 4. The part after this was simple and super simple for piano masters, but Joshua does not have the ability to play.
“Can’t play further?! YOU!”
The skeleton duke after so many years finally tasted what it was like to be choked. The song just got into enjoyable part but it was stopped and he felt suffocation. It made the skeleton Duke angry and felt like to hit people!
“What is the name of this song!”
Compared to this, Skelton duke wanted to know what the song was called.
“‘Canon in D Major’ originally meant to be a melody, the author is Johann Pachelbel, a great composer”. Joshua said.