Liar's Story

Liar's Story is a song trilogy about two or more liars, and the general subject of lying to another or many, starring GUMI and Hatsune Miku.

Releasing it's first song "Liar and You This Night", and continuing with a second song which is "Liar and Your Disappearance", before ending with it's third song, "Yourself in The Bouquet Of Liars".

All songs were released on April 15th, 2019 in Masa's third album ALBINO.

## Background

Liar's Story is a song trilogy about two or more liars, and the general subject of lying to another or many, starring GUMI and Hatsune Miku.

Releasing it's first song "Liar And You This Night", and continuing with a second song which is "Liar And Your Disappearance", before ending with it's third song, "Yourself In The Bouquet Of Liars".

All songs released on April 15th, 2019 in Masa's third album ALBINO.

The series was initially planned to have a PV of it's own for all songs, seen by teasers and live speedpaints shown on Masa's twitter and YouTube channel, however, it has since been cancelled for unknown reasons.

Because of the series's cancellation and Masa not bothering to speak about it much after that, the series went on to become ambiguous and mysterious, before falling into irrelevancy within the fandom, as a result, the story remains unknown to this very day.

But what we do know is that the story centers about the subject of lying and liars, specifically between two girls, represented by GUMI and Hatsune Miku, while also playing with tongue cutting illustrations and imagery, possibly being a metaphor for cutting a liar's tongue, preventing them from lying even more.

From another perspective, it can be interpreted as fearing what that person would say, and falsely accusing them of being a liar for one's own benefit.

It is noted that the story seems to could have been a trilogy song series alongside the Sister's Story and Secret's Story, as they all seem to center about the subject of body replacement or fusion and taking revenge.

### Liar and You This Night

From the lyrics, the song seems to talk about a terrible and twisted tale where a girl has put too much faith in a lie she heard somewhere, with the girl being a brutally honest person.

Alongside strange noises being made in the song such as "chachacha", which the sound of something or someone being muffled at a time of talking or making noise, this could be as a result of one's tongue being cut.

### Liar and Your Disappearance

The song seems to be a prequel of some sorts, proof of this is that at the end of the song, it is asked "when will the pair meet?", possibly referring to the brutally honest person and the lying girl.

Again, strange noises of "chachacha" are made in the song multiple times.

### Yourself in The Bouquet Of Liars

The song seems to decipet the fate of the lying girl, being exposed for her lies to many. Showing that when trying to pin the lies on someone else, all laugh at her attempt.

it is unknown what happened to the brutally honest person, but it's possible that they took their revenge from the lying girl by "cutting" out her lies.

## Fan Interpretations

(The order of the songs in this theory will be followed like this: “Liar and your disappearance”, “Liar and you this night” and “Yourself in the bouquet of liars”.)

I will call the girl represented as Miku Uso and the girl represented as Gumi will be called Shoujiki. Shoujiki is a brutally honest girl, she never tells lies. Meanwhile, Uso is a liar who lies to get along with others and escape from her problems. The two girls were sad people; Shoujiki was rejected by others for being so honest and always resorting to sincericide, while Uso was a mythomaniac who lied to get the attention of others due to her low self-esteem and insecurity.

At the beginning of the story, Uso met Shoujiki. After this, the two girls ended up falling in love, but neither of them really knew each other since Uso didn't know how honest Shoujiki was and Shoujiki didn't know that Uso was such a liar. This love relationship caused Shoujiki to tell lies and Uso to tell the truth due to their influence on each other. Shoujiki believed a terrible lie told by Uso to be true and told it, while Uso expressed her honest love to Shoujiki. After meeting Shoujiki, Uso disappeared for the others and spent her time in Shoujiki’s house, this was probably to hide from the others because of her lies.

Shoujiki spent a long time thinking that the lie Uso had told her was true, until someone else told her it was false. Shoujiki was seen as a liar since Uso had told this lie only to her and she had said it as if it were true. The honest girl tried to defend herself by saying that she had heard that lie from Uso, but when people asked Uso if she was responsible, she became a victim and seemed very sad, to which the people, feeling sorry for her, decided to believe her. After this, Shoujiki was hated because of lying. Upon learning that she had told a lie, Shoujiki became quite angry at Uso and confronted her. Uso, trying to appease Shoujiki, proposed that each of them would cut their own tongues with scissors to form the words "lie" and "honesty". They didn't completely slice their tongues, they just cut them off above to leave engraved words. The lying girl wrote the word lie on her tongue and the honest girl wrote honesty, this to remind herself of what they really were. This action was probably a somewhat unusual form of self-harm, as they were both trying to punish themselves for what they had said.

After this, the two girls danced, sang, hugged and kissed with their tongues still bleeding as a way of reconciliation. Uso hoped that Shoujiki wasn't overly honest anymore and Shoujiki hoped that Uso wasn't such a liar, but neither of them really knew each other. They both promised that nothing like this would happen again and demonstrated their sincere love for each other. The girls sang a song multiple times that said, "I found your lie and kept it hidden, surrounding myself with honesty. Let's sing a pitiful song of lies and honesty. I swallow up your lie whom that honest person erases".

Shoujiki realized that Uso couldn't stop lying, so she gave her the option of being able to lie but only tell the lies to her and no one else, this being represented as swallowing the lie so that no one knows about it. No one knew that Shoujiki was absorbing Uso's lies nor that Uso stopped lying thanks to Shoujiki. Meanwhile, the couple continued cutting their tongues forming the same words as a ritual, producing deep wounds that made it difficult for them to speak and sing, which is why the sounds "chuchuchu" and "chachacha" are heard in the lyrics of the song.

Because of absorbing so many lies, Shoujiki's honesty became corrupted. Shoujiki began to think that all the lies Uso had told were true, becoming confused because she was not used to lies. They repeated the ritual of cutting their tongues and dancing many times to calm themselves down, but this was no longer effective. Because of the desperation they were feeling, love turned to hate, making Shoujiki angry at Uso for lying so much, to which Uso lied by saying that Shoujiki was the real liar, confusing her even more. This hatred went so far that the two girls began threatening each other saying that they were going to kill each other, mentioning slicing out their tongues and hanging each other.

Uso decided to take revenge on Shoujiki because she had given her honest love and her partner now hated her. Uso, who had not been seen since she was victimized, hid her face and told people that Shoujiki was a liar because she told the lies that Uso had told only her as if they were true, which made her look like a liar. People made fun of Shoujiki and insulted her, believing that she was a liar, so Shoujiki went completely crazy and her hatred towards Uso increased exaggeratedly. Shoujiki devised a plan to get rid of Uso once and for all, but first she had to calm down. Once calmed down, she lied to Uso telling her that she wanted to reconcile with her and that she really loved her. Uso believed her, trusting that Shoujiki was still an honest person and being blinded by the love she felt, which had been extinguished by her anger. Uso told the truth, admitting that she was the one who pushed Shoujiki to lie and that she was always the liar. People realized that this was the truth, so Shoujiki's reputation was restored. It seemed like Uso had finally told the truth, but that wasn't entirely true. Shoujiki had lied to her about wanting to reconcile and about her honest love for her. Now the liar was Shoujiki.

Shoujiki began his revenge plan and, after writing the word "honesty" for the last time, she cut out her own tongue with scissors. After this, she attacked Uso and cut and sliced her tongue as well, writing the word “lie”, then sewed her own tongue into Uso's mouth and sewed Uso's tongue into her own mouth. Not satisfied with this, Shoujiki took a rope and hung Uso, watching her as she suffocated, and eventually, Uso died.

After all this, it is not possible to know with certainty what happened to Shoujiki, but three options may be that she continued her life normally being an honest person, she became a liar or she committed suicide for having killed her partner.

The destiny of Uso was death, but in the song “Demon's March” a part of the lyrics hint that Uso was in that march, this because its mentioned “a hanging tongue-cut girl”.

-Theory made by Xochith Himenesu.

## Trivia

* In reality, there is no clear song order of the series, but what will be followed is the order on Masa's release on either ITunes, SoundCloud or Spotify.

* Masa could have possibly cancelled the series because he grew out of traditional Japanese music, as the series is noted to be one of the last tradition Japanese songs that Masa uploaded as of date.

* Another reason for it's cancellation would be lack of either motivation or inspiration, as Masa still hasn't bothered to complete the sketches he made for this series's three PVs to this day.

* It is believed the Liar's Story is inspired by the fable Shita-Kiri Suzume (Tongue Cut Sparrow). As two of the Liar's Story's songs heavily mention it by title and all three seem to mention sparrows (Suzume) a lot.

## Songs

* 嘘吐キト君トソノ夜ニ (Usotsukito Kimito Sonoyoruni/Liar and You This Night)

* 嘘吐キト消エタ君 (Usotsukito Kietakimi/Liar and Your Disappearance)

* 嘘吐キノ君ニ花束ヲ (Usotsukino Kimini Hanatabawo/Yourself in The Bouquet Of Liars)

## Gallery

Sketch of Liar!Gumi and Liar!Miku holding scissorsNon-colored sketch of Liar!Miku holding a scissor