She can imitate the sound of any instrument.
Piano, violin, drums: if she’s heard it once, her fingers can reproduce it perfectly. But she has never been able to play anything that truly belongs to her.
Rei Natsukawa, daughter of one of Tokyo’s most powerful conglomerates, hears the keyboard for the first time at a Crychic performance. From that day on, she buys a keyboard and begins to learn. Then Crychic disbands, Saki disappears, and one sentence shatters her: “You’re nothing but a glass bottle.”
She drops out of school and moves into a small apartment in Sasazuka, playing to an empty audience in Daisaki Park. She doesn’t talk, go home, or pretend.
Then Anon Chihaya appears. A girl who has just returned from England, so dazzlingly sunny she almost hurts to look at, she drops a lemon candy into Rei’s keyboard case.
This is a story about “finding yourself only after you’ve lost everything.”
