The Daughter of Green

"*I'm sorry for being alive.*"
―Michaela

**The Daughter of Green** is a song. It is the fourth song in The Son of Evil Series, its events coinciding with both The Son of Evil and Regret Message.

## Plot

The song starts in the village of Yatski as a girl, Michaela, is ostracized by the Netsumas for having green hair. She prays to an old tree for friends. One day, she meets Clarith after finding her unconscious and they become close. Michaela becomes happy that someone wants to be friends with her.

She explains how they left the village to work in the city under Mikina Freezis. One day, a red-haired queen visits the mansion and meets Clarith. She falls in love with her, and so rejects Prince Alexiel's proposal. Alexiel thus orders the death of all the white-haired women in Elphegort, and Michaela once again becomes depressed as the prince's wish is acted out.

The song starts again by the harbor as Michaela relates how she became a nun in a monastery after the Lucifenian Revolution. One day she meets a mysterious boy, "Allen", whom she begins to grow closer to. Eventually, Michaela comes across a confession booth and by mistake overhears Allen's confession, realizing that Allen is actually Alexiel, the Son of Evil. Later, Alexiel is alone at the beach. From behind, Michaela approaches, preparing to kill him with a knife. She points it at his back.

However, Michaela reveals that she could not kill Alexiel because she recognized herself in him, a lonely boy. She relates how Alexiel is getting better at his cooking. In the final moments, Michaela recalls how she saw an illusion that stopped her at the harbor. She wonders who that girl she saw was.

## Lyrics

I would say 'I’m sorry that I’m alive'

It’d become a habit, a favourite phrase

I was used to saying nothing but complaints

Living a boring life day after day

In my village, everyone you would meet

Has got a head of beautiful white hair

I am the only one excluded there

Me with my green hair that’s so different from theirs

Deep within the forest, towering high

Is what we called the ‘Millennium Tree’

One day when I was all alone here, I

Got on my knees and made a prayer to God

"To have to live without a family or friends

That has to be so very lonely

It doesn’t matter to me who it is

Send somebody to be a friend for me."

There in the forest by that old tree

It was in that spot where she had met me

She had become weak and she collapsed

I rescued her, that’s how it all began

And before I knew it, that girl and I

Grew even closer at the time went by

Even though you wouldn’t have thought we would

That girl and I were not at all alike

More than anybody, her hair of white

Is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen

She’s got a smile and an attitude to match

She is beloved by everyone indeed

The way you act isn’t so easy to believe

Why be so kind to somebody like me?

I am inferior, everyone can see

So it is really that you just pity me?

But as awful as I am, she quickly pulled me close

Holding me right, she whispered so light

"To me you are more wonderful than anyone else I know."

Hearing that, I could only cry

Even if for all my life

Everybody far and wide

Treated me like I’m deserving of their hate and spite

There is still somebody here

Who wants me to be by their side

That alone will be quite enough for me to smile

One day we left the village and we ran away

Living in the city, starting over

Everything here’s so unfamiliar

We’ll be okay, though, if we’re together

We found our work on a large estate

Where we worked for a merchant’s wife

We learned to manage everyday as maids

That was enough for us to get by

Then during our duties we happened to see

A woman with red hair, when she came one day

It didn’t take long for both of them to meet

And that meeting ruined everything

The woman was the queen from across the sea

And as it so happened, since she fell in love with her

She told the young prince she was to marry

That she could not wed him anymore

The kingdom that we lived in was engulfed in war

For that young prince had given an order:

"If you don’t know who she is

Then you shall do this instead

Kill off all of the white-haired women."

Everyone, now everyone

That I knew is forever dead

Except me with the green hair that no one else shares

She should have been the one spared

And I should have died in her stead

it shouldn’t have been her

Why’d this happen? Tell me why!

I would say 'I’m sorry that I’m alive'

It’d become a habit, a favourite phrase

I was used to saying nothing but complaints

Living a boring life day after day

There was a port city I moved to next

Where I began to work again in a church

In the revolution, the young Prince perished

Brought on the wind, that’s a rumour I heard

There in the monastery by the sea

It was in that spot where he had met me

He had become weak and he collapsed

I rescued him, that’s how it all began

And before I knew it, that boy and I

Grew even closer at the time went by

Even though you wouldn’t have thought we would

That boy and I were not at all alike…

One night I came upon an open confession booth

And mistakenly I had overheard

When the boy confessed the whole truth

Ah, it has shaken me to my very soul

For that boy is certainly

The true Son of Evil

Out of town, beside the sea next to the harbour

A boy stands alone under the moon there

But I am behind

Drawing closer and closer

From a pocket I took out a knife

I aimed it at the vain prince shining in the moonlight

And then…

Then I swung it high

My cherished friend, there’s something that I have to do

I have to say I’m sorry to you too

Since in the end, I didn’t see it through

I was unable to avenge you

In him I saw the girl that I used to be

A person who didn’t have anybody then

To have to live without a family or friends

That has to be so very lonely

A boy who once knew nothing of work or labour

Became a little bit better, at least, at cooking

The treat he baked for us all today, the brioche

Had actually been made quite nicely, you know

At that moment when I was by the sea

I briefly found myself hallucinating

Even today I still don’t know the meaning

Who was the girl I saw before me?

## Related Songs

### The Son of Evil

The Son of Evil recounts the actions of the tyrannical prince Alexiel, in events occurring alongside The Daughter of Green, before his repentance.

### Tree Maiden ~Millennium Wiegenlied~

Tree Maiden ~Millennium Wiegenlied~ details the life and death of Michaela's friend Clarith, in events that occur alongside The Daughter of Green; as well as containing a reference to The Daughter of Green in its lyrics.

### Regret Message

Regret Message establishes the efforts of Alexiel to repent for his sins as alluded to in The Daughter of Green, showing events that occur alongside the song itself.

### Handbeat Clocktower

Handbeat Clocktower portrays the later life of Germaine Marlon. Taking place in the country across the ocean, the song recounts her confrontation with her mother and brother.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Alexiel Lucifen d'Autriche
* Clarith
* Germaine Marlon
* Held (first appearance)
* Keel Freezis (first indirect mention)
* Michaela
* Mikina Freezis (mentioned only)
* Ney Avadonia (appears in PV)
* Rin Avadonia

### Locations

* Aceid (first appearance)
* Bolganio
* Elphegort
* Freezis Mansion (first appearance)
* Held Monastery (first appearance)
* Lucifenia
* Lucifenian (appears in PV)
* Lucifenian Royal Palace (appears in PV)
* Marlon (mentioned only)
* Millennium Tree Forest
* Periods
* Third Period
* Yatski (first appearance)

### Events

* Conspiracy of Evil
* Lucifenia-Elphegort War
* Lucifenian Revolution
* Reign of Evil

### Groups

* Avadonia Family
* Beelzenian Imperial Family (appears in PV)
* Behemoth
* Elphe Clan
* Evillious Commerce Alliance (first indirect mention)
* Freezis Family (mentioned only)
* Freezis Firm (first mentioned)
* Glassred Bloodline (appears in PV)
* Lucifenian Resistance (appears in PV)
* Lucifenian Royal Family
* Marlon Royal Family

### Misc

* Bolganio Wildlife (first appearance)
* Ghoul Children (indirect mention only)
* Gods
* Grim the End
* Humans
* Irregulars
* Magic
* Magic Abilities
* Magic Tools
* Possession
* Soul (first appearance in PV)
* Vessels of Sin

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* The song's title is a reference to The Son of Evil and Alexiel, connecting the similarity between "Allen" and Michaela: their loneliness.
* The song's English title, "Bystander", refers to Michaela's outside perspective of the main events in The Son of Evil Series, not directly involved or apart of them and only watching.

### Curiosities

* At the song's climax, when Michaela is about to stab Allen, a bell rings three times, signaling three o'clock; Rin's execution occurred at the same time, alluding to her intervention at that time during the song.
* Similarly, both situations involve Rin's actions to prevent Alexiel's death.
* Michaela's discovery of Clarith is echoed later in the song with her discovery of Allen, although she was different from either person for very different reasons.
* Ironically, the green hair that Michaela hated saved her from Elphegort's genocide, as the Lucifenian soldiers killed everyone around her, leaving her alone again and wishing she had died.
* Her words after meeting Clarith are paralleled in Tree Maiden ~Millennium Wiegenlied~ by Clarith and can be heard during the final chorus of the song; similarly, both songs begin with the same line: "I am sorry for being alive".