User blog:Misstress of the heavenly yard/Handbeat Clocktower

"What exactly is "evil"?"

Handbeat Clocktower is a song to be released. It is the seventh song in Story of Evil, following Michaela Elphen as she prepares to confront her father, King Sohni.

Plot
In Elphegort, Michaela Elphen walks to the top of the Handbeat Clocktower. She questions if Sohni Elphen sitting and laughing at the top, is a "demon" or her "father." Walking up the stairs, she speaks of how she once painted a picture of Ney, and how a woman with "evil intentions" created the Seven Deadly Sins, which started everything. Gabriel Freesis reminds him that the right path hasn't vanished yet and that the "Story of Evil" has now ended. Michaela says she will not hesitate to dispense justice, even if she has to turn his blade towards her father and sister. She then laments of how he is tired of despair and that her heart feels empty. Gabriel comforts her, saying that they will pray for the "endless rain" to finally stop.

Michaela then encounters Ney at the top of the tower, possessed by the Demon of Gluttony. Although she gains the upper hand, Clarith Avadonia comes to Michaela's rescue. Michaela says that one day, when she can laugh at his past suffering, she will write the "true story" of what happened. She questions again if the one at the top of the clocktower, now decaying on the chair, was indeed a "demon" or her "father."

Singing Roles
Hatsune Miku as Michaela Elphen

Gachapoid as Gabriel Freesis

Kagamine Len as Alexiel Lucifen d'Autriche

Kagamine Rin as Rin Avadonia

Non-Singing Roles
Yowane Haku as Clarith Avadonia

Akita Neru as Ney Futapie

??? as Sohni Elphen

Hiyama Kiyoteru as Keel Freesis

SF-A2 miki as Mikina Freesis

Kamui Gakupo as Gast

Megurine Luka as Elluka Clockworker

Megurine Luka as Irina Clockworker

KAITO as Kyle

Kasane Teto as Chartette Langley

Lily as Liliane Mouchet

MEIKO as Clarith

LE♂N as Leonhart Avadonia

Hatsune Miku as Eve Moonlit

Heartbeat Clocktower
Heartbeat Clocktower shares a similar melody and arrangement with Handbeat Clocktower, as well as both songs containing similar imagery.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * The song's title references the clocktower Michaela ascends as she prepares to confront her father.

Curiousities

 * The song PV will mostly be composed of images from The Prince of Evil novels.