The end is coming!

[roadroller]

[Anyone passing by 947 Beulah will see Rin, sitting on the stage that Yosuke had built for her with her synthesizer - a pretty uncommon instrument for the 50's, but surely one that can be dismissed. She's not acting up. She's just singing and playing a little song for all to hear.]

♪♫♪ The celebrated of all countries stare down at their desks
They're never progressing on anything, it's reality alone they're clueless about

Another day 'round the street corner, "coincidence" would be a lie
I keep to your left for a five-minute smile to treasure
Concerning what's happened to "the world,"
I don't know how I really feel at all
Only being this close to you, as my skin and hands tell me...
is such a joyful feeling...

The END is coming
Not that I'm particularly interested in such things
The WEEKEND's coming
This time I have to tell you my thoughts
Even the big predictions for the end of the century were way wrong, humanity was shocked
Surely, it's all just arguing the end
Aliens? Is this some kind of prank?

The celebrated of all countries stare down at their desks
They're never progressing on anything, it's reality alone they're clueless about
You, with much abruptness, went away somewhere "far"
And with a word from the adults
They tore my optimism like tissue paper

I don't know what "the world" even is
"War?" "Calamity?" I don't know what a thing!
Only being this far from you, my skin and hands tell me...
fills me with a sense of loss...

The END is coming!
I didn't care if that stuff was true
The WEEKEND'S coming!
I didn't tell you my helpless feelings

Packed with uncontrollable thoughts,
And prayers, and dreams, and songs
A single one of these letters isn't enough
But however many I write I can't ever tell you

In my hands, I hold ten pieces of my thoughts
"Addressed to?" I don't know
Since it's so, sooner or later,
should I just spread them across the world?

The WEEKEND is coming!
How does a love song sound?
If someone, somewhere, just a little,
will be brought a smile in this world...
The END is coming!
Even though you aren't coming ever again...
The WEEKEND is coming!
Even though you aren't coming ever again...

Even though the end is coming, don't ever come again, I hate it
Even though the weekend's coming, it'll never come again, not anybody's smile...

The END is coming...
The WEEKEND is coming...
The WEEKEND is coming... ♪♫♪



[Sitting across from her is a drone that she's apparently roped into watching her 'choir practice.' After he listens to the whole thing, he leaves. Rin stands up from her seat and watches him go. After that, she mutters with a painful smile.]

I love you. That will never change... but goodbye. ♪

[and with that she exits the stage as well, walking in the other direction from Len. Or to be specific, walking toward the rest of the town. Her roadroller is gone, and her head is throbbing, but the memory of Zemekis before they were brainwashed, and the memory of Annie speaking in her mind have come back to the surface. Along with that, a promise made that everything would be all right. Rin's finally awake, and it's time to find out who else is. She hopes it's not too late.

Fighting the pain, she sings softly as she tours the town for perhaps the last time.]

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[roadroller]

[She may pester him yet. But for now, she starts playing the intro to The Worst Carnival. Getting into character for the song, her expression isn't one of subdued cheer any more. It's more sour.

In fact, perhaps that's exactly why she picked it.]


♪♫♪ I sent you a love letter in the main street, you threw it away in the place I was looking at
As always, a worn out love can't be defined

If you don't have words to begin with, don't look at anything and you'll pass
Because after all you are searching for someone, right?

The sky comes to my mind, the daytime sky I am yearning for
They make merry, they make merry, their faces look so stupid, now I look like a rakshasa

Today is certainly the worst day of my life, I release my heart and it bursts out in laughter
I kick the sorrow that can't come back and I dance in this carnival
I even forget that I'm jealous of other people, tomorrow I'll shine even more
If the goodbye is sorrowful, it will be a carnival at the bottom of hell

If in the end the night sky is going to vanish, then this distant world will be dyed in the red of the sunshine
A devilish dream would be the same as me, right?

Secret intentions overlap each other, faults and feelings are breaking
The disgraceful behaviour I left behind me drifts about in the wind

If a shooting star falls down, I'll try to catch it with one hand
I will grant my wish by myself, because it's the only thing I have
From Yohohama to Tokyo, it seems so near, it seems so far
Even if I long for the morning glow, this dancing carnival won't disappear

Today is certainly the worst day of my life, I release my heart and it bursts out in laughter
I kick the sorrow that can't come back and I dance in this carnival
I even forgot that I'm jelous of other people, tomorrow I'll shine even more
If the goodbye is sorrowful, it will be a carnival at the bottom of hell.... ♪♫♪

[doudemoe]

[Quite a dark song for her to be singing, about up to there with her last one. Rather appropriate for current events going on. Before he can comment though, he hears something else. The sounds of a crowd drawing near. And with it, the winds start to pick up. His expression becomes serious.

A literal carnival of hell is taking place.]

We should get inside.

[roadroller]

[Once she's done playing, she hears it too. She's not going to argue with him as rain starts to fall, so she nods. The noise of the crowd picks up though, so as she walks off the stage, she asks him, since his expression tells her that he knows the answer.]

What is that?? ♪