Escape of Salmhofer the Witch

"And people began calling me a witch."

Escape of the Witch, Salmhofer is a song by mothy, released on July 30, 2012. It is part of a prequel to the Original Sin Series trilogy.

Plot
A woman named Meta Salmhofer grows up without knowing who her mother or father was. When she's twenty, she falls in love with "a criminal murderer". Because of her attraction to him, his evil stains her and people begin to call her a witch.

Eve Moonlit, covered in blood, claims she can't find her children and Meta is arrested for their disappearance. On the day of her execution, a man who resembled "the criminal murderer" she fell in love with offers to free her if she would consent to being a test subject. She agrees and becomes involved in "The [Ma] Project." From the "seeds of God that had been embedded in the heartbeat within her", Hansel and Gretel are born as test subjects with no father. Meta remembers then that she had been like Hansel and Gretel, artificially created without parents. Meta refuses to let the children grow up like she did, and steals them from the laboratory.

Meta takes Hansel and Gretel to Eldoh's Forest and keeps them from other people. While taking a walk in the forest one night, she leaves the babies alone for a moment. When she comes back, the babies are gone, stolen by Eve.

Singing Roles
MEIKO as Meta Salmhofer

Non-Singing Roles
Kiyoteru Hiyama as Pale Noël and Seth Twiright

Len Kagamine as Hansel

Rin Kagamine as Gretel

Miku Hatsune as Eve Moonlit

Moonlit Bear (EC 001)
Being its direct sequel, Moonlit Bear relates the events after Meta's kids disappeared. It explains how Eve kidnapped Meta's children and how Eve murdered the woman when she tried to retrieve them.

Full Moon Laboratory (EC ???)
Full Moon Laboratory talks about some experiments of doubtful moral. Considering the song is related with Levianta's Fire Disaster, the [Ma] Project and Elluka probably are of the same (or similar to) the shown ones in Escape of the Witch, Salmhofer.

Project 「MA」
Project 「MA」 follows the first attempt to innoculate a candidate with "the God's seed," showing the circumstances of Eve's children dying and why Meta was needed for the Project MA experiment.

Curiosities

 * There are 5 images shown inside the red circles (embryos) during the song's PV. All of them are related to Hansel and Gretel in some way.
 * A full moon, with craters that look like blood splats.
 * An apple. This is a reference to the twins' role as the Forbidden Fruit.
 * A fetus.
 * A patch of grass with flowers and butterflies.
 * A snake/dragon bitting its tail, or Ouroboros. The symbol represents the infinite cycle of birth, life and death and is also a typical alchemical symbol. This Ouroboros contains Levianta's crest in its center
 * On the "The [Ma] Project" song lyrics it is stated that Meta didn't kill Eve's children; Eve's children were in fact, born dead.
 * Pale Noël shares his last name with the criminal organization Pere Noel. The connection between the two remains unknown. It is possible he set up (or inspired) the organization. He is the leader of the "Apocalypse" Organization.