NOISZ STΔRLIVHT/Story/Chapter 5.IV

"I have to do my part...just as you have to do yours."This page contains story spoilers for NOISZ STΔRLIVHT; proceed with caution.

 Release date: November 19, 2022

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# Story

At the final concert of the Clash of Twilight, Shion speaks out about Hakuno's outing on stage, offering her support for her sister - telling the audience that the person they know is still there. She allows Hakuno to speak, who shows a rare moment of anxiety; she too speaks up about it, and confidently confirms to the audience that she is trans, is not ashamed of it, and that she is happy in life where she is: a normal girl living a normal life, just like so many others, rather than someone wanting to be seen as "different". She reassures the crowd that making it to tomorrow is good enough, and hands over to Sera, who closes their speech, asking that she'd rather everyone left the topic where it was.

Shortly afterwards, Sera proposes to Grace on stage, offering her a sword she had forged - the Binary Star. Grace accepts, and the two kiss.

With both STΔRLIVHT and SUNRaiSE on stage, the show begins, and all seven of them burn brighter than they ever have before, and as the final song approaches - one both groups perform - two Noise Beasts appear, and Grace steps up.

In the next scene, Beyond asks an unknown person what happened next. They reply that STΔRLIVHT lost the competition and were forced to disband just as Beyond had hoped, and then fought Gaius Antiphon in the basement of the Antiphon Building, though Beyond expresses scepticism that STΔRLIVHT went straight from the Clash of Twilight to the Antiphon Building.

The unknown speaker racks their brain to try to remember what had happened inbetween - though affirms that there was nothing inbetween. Beyond asserts once again that the sequence of events makes no sense, especially with STΔRLIVHT having no reason to be at the Antiphon Building basement, yet the unknown speaker remembers it vividly; Beyond relents, and asks how they got there. The unknown speaker still does not remember anything, and Beyond points out that the speaker should have been there at their final show, as Producer - though adds that they in fact weren't there in this recollection.

Beyond comments on how the unknown speaker had hidden the truth - subtle alterations to the parameters over each "cycle", writing themselves out of the story, bit by bit, out of their own story, though the lies that had been built up had finally exposed holes in the narrative, making these recollections amount to no more than a dream. She tells this unknown person that she knows who they are, and the unknown speaker begins to remember - that their identity did not belong to Beyond, but was instead "Arisa Antiphon" - aka Arietta Antiphon. Memories resurface of opening the portal in the basement with Beyond, of what they encountered; however, more discrepancies surface. "Arietta" recalls memories of having interned for Antiphon in her last year of high school, and being brought into the company right afterwards, assigned to STΔRLIVHT as their producer.

These memories continue to confuse her, and Beyond remains sceptical, and yet she insists it all happened, regardless of the fact that she was unsure how, citing that a person's memories can't be rewritten.

Annoyed, Beyond writes off the cycle as lost, and asks "Ari" to tell her once more about STΔRLIVHT's final battle - the conclusion of this story.

# Drops

* Song: Clash of Twilight
* Ashes x200

# Song

Chapter 5.IV's song is Clash of Twilight, as Grace in her STΔRLIVHT STΔGE style; note that she gains a +1 TEC stat increase. Consider it a marriage bonus.