Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep


 * Are you looking for the manga short titled 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 then speaks of how, even though her philandering husband, Kaspar, married her as part of an arranged engagement for her father's money and has forgotten their childhood promise, she still loves him and is alright with just being by his side. Claiming to be unable to handle seeing him always so weary, Margarita decides to give to him the "medicine" she learned to make from her friend Julia Abelard as a present.

She then regards how everyone in the city also has worries and so she gives her "medicine" to everyone to grant them repose. It's then revealed that Margarita actually poisoned everyone in the city; as the only one left, she has acquired the freedom and wealth she desired. Reiterating her wish to see her husband sleep with her poison, she states how she had been broken from being used like a doll and so wished to destroy everything.

She then says that now it's her turn to take her wonderful "medicine" and consumes her Gift, going from being the "Sleep Princess" to finally becoming the "Sleeping Princess". At the end of the PV, a dialogue between Elluka Clockworker and Gumillia is shown, resolving to head to Lucifenia to pursue Julia Abelard and take a closer look at Père Noël.

Composition
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 begins with a long period of silence, then at 0.14 the first chorus is sung and ended 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, while 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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Fifth Pierrot
Fifth Pierrot describes the events following Margarita's murders; it details the actions of Julia's organization Père Noël, of which Margarita was a member.

Flower of the Plateau
Flower of the Plateau features a previous transmigration of Eve Moonlit, the true identity behind Margarita Blankenheim, who also uses questionable means to find happiness.

Seven Crimes and Punishments
The poisoning of Toragay is alluded to in the song Seven Crimes and Punishments, along with Margarita's wish to go to sleep.

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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; fittingly, Elphegort, the song's setting, is inspired by Germany.
 * Similarly, the word used for "sleep" (眠らせ) also means "kill", alluding to 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

 * Like the other songs in the Seven Deadly Sins Series, the song PV begins with the phrase "さあ" (Saa).
 * 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.
 * Throughout most of the song, bubbling sounds of Gift can be heard in the background.

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