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Manuela enters the scene

♪Mmm... Mmm... Mmm...♪

Edelgard enters the scene

That song...

♪Mmm... Mmm...♪ Ah! Hello, Edelgard.

Professor Manuela, that song you were humming... I feel as though I've heard it before, long ago.

And I'm sure it was you singing it back then...at the opera house in the Imperial capital, perhaps?

Why, yes! You must have seen me there. I am flattered you would remember it!

I performed with the Mittelfrank Opera Company in Enbarr on numerous occasions.

So it was you. I went to that performance with my uncle.

I wanted desperately to see it again, but after that night, he took me to seek asylum in the Kingdom...

When I returned to the Empire several years later, you had already retired.

Oh... That's a shame. So, you only got to hear me sing once?

Sadly, that's correct.

Yet you still remember it...even the melody of the song I sang. I'm honored.

That's how much of an impression your voice left on me.

I must ask... Why did you retire so soon? You could have continued for another 10 or 20 years.

Indeed. Many singers perform for decades.

But that wasn't for me. I wanted to go out on top.

My voice is a gift from the goddess. However, as all things do, it will decline with age. One day, I will lose that gift.

And so I decided I needed to learn to survive without it, long before that day came.

I needed to prove to myself that I can live on... even after my voice returns to the goddess.

So despite your belief in the goddess, you wished to live by your own strength?

It's hard for me to explain. The goddess supports me both spiritually and emotionally.

Everything else is up to me.