Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep

"For the sake of your happiness."

- Margarita Blankenheim

Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep is a song released by Akuno-P on May 23, 2011. It is part of the Seven Deadly Sins Series, depicting Sloth.

Plot
In Toragay, Elphegort, Margarita Blankenheim asks for someone to take her gift to sleep, "for the sake of their happiness." She speaks of how, even though her philandering husband, Caspar, married her in an arranged match just for her doctor father's money, and has forgotten their childhood promise, she loves him. Unable to handle seeing him always so weary, Margarita learns from her friend Julia Abelard how to make a medicine to heal his body.

She notes that everyone in the city also has worries and she gives her "medicine" to everyone to help them sleep. It's revealed that Margarita has in fact poisoned everyone in the city, and now, as the only one left, she has acquired her freedom and wealth. She states how she had been broken from her marriage and so wished to destroy everything.

She then says that now it's her turn to take the medicine, to turn from the "Princess Who Brought Sleep" to "Sleeping Beauty." At the end of the PV, a dialogue between Elluka Clockworker and Gumillia is shown, hinting the relationship of Margarita and Julia with Père Noël.

Composition
The song is written in the scale of E minor, with a tempo of about 126 bpm and a meter of 4/4. The vocals are provided by Hatsune Miku using the VOCALOID2 engine. Electric guitar, piano, flute, synthesizers, bass guitar are used for the instrumentals, as well as the sound effect of a bubbling cauldron. The song uses the following structure:

C - b - 1stV - 2ndV - Ch - b - 3rdV - P.S - 4thV - C - C - b

The song begins  with a long period of silence, then at 0.14 the first chorus is sung, and ends at 0.36. The bridge plays between 0.37 and 0.51, and the first verse is played between 0.52 and 1.22. The second verse plays between 1.23 and 1.37, the third verse plays between 2.08 and 2.38. A piano solo plays from 2.38 until 2.53.The fourth verse plays between 2.54 and 3.23. The song ends with a variation of the chorus.

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Five the Pierrot
Five the Pierrot describes the events following Margarita's murders; it details the actions of Julia's organization Père Noël, of which Margarita was a member.

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * The English word gift means "present" and is subtitled in the early song lyrics with the kanji for "gift" and "medicine"; the German word gift means "poison" and is subtitled as such during the latter half of the song.


 * The song PV plays with this, showing the word's English dictionary definition before the song begins and later showing the word's German dictionary definition towards the song's end.
 * Similarly, the word used for "sleep" (眠らせ) also means "kill", referencing the double nature of Margarita's gift.


 * The song's English title, "Belphegor's gift", is a reference to Belphegor, the patron demon of Sloth, and the aforementioned wordplay of the word gift.
 * When drawing on inspiration for themes of "sloth" and "sleep", mothy was influenced by stories of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and to a lesser extent, Rapunzel.

Curiosities

 * At one point in the song PV, news headlines appear explaining the progressing events in Elphegort as Toragay plunges into panic at the increasing number of deaths; with trade to the city cut off toward the end of the serial killings, the Freesis Foundation is hired to investigate.
 * The Evils Court booklet examines the causes of the Toragay Serial Killings and confirms Père Noël's involvement for the inhabitants.
 * Later in the booklet, Gammon Octo comments about Julia's involvement in Margarita's spring of murders and her connection to the Clockworker's Doll; based on this, he hypothesizes that Margarita's actions were intentional to bring about an incarnation of the demon.
 * The Evils Court booklet examines the causes of the Toragay Serial Killings, including Père Noël's influence.
 * Throughout most of the song, bubbling sounds of the "gift" can be heard in the background.

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