Handbeat Clocktower

**Handbeat Clocktower** is the sixth song of the "Story of Evil Series", following Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche as she prepares to confront her father, King Arth Lucifen d'Autriche.

## Plot

In the Lucifenian Palace, Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche climbs to the top of the Handbeat Clocktower. She questions whether her father, sitting and laughing at the top, is a "demon" or her "father". Walking up the stairs, she speaks of how she once saw a picture her fiance had painted of Arkadi Rogze, and how a woman with "good intentions" had created the Seven Heavenly Virtues, which started everything.

Keel Freezis reminds her that the right path hasn't vanished yet and that the "story of evil" has now ended. Riliane claims she will not hesitate to bring justice, even if she has to turn her blade towards her father and brother. She then laments how she is tired of despairing and that her heart feels empty. Keel comforts her, saying that they will pray for the "endless rain" to finally stop.

Riliane then encounters Arkadi at the top of the tower, possessed by the Angel of Diligence. Although he gains the upper hand, Germaine Avadonia comes to her rescue. Riliane believes that one day, when she can laugh at her past suffering, she will tell the "true story" of what happened. Finally arriving at the top of the clocktower, she ponders if Arth, now dead and decaying in his chair, was indeed a "demon" or what used to be her "father".

## Lyrics

Smiling and sitting in a chair

At the top of the clocktower

Are you a demon, or

Are you my father...?

The moving second hand sways

*A normal spirit*

Above the clocktower, is it

*Justice or poison*

Each time I advance up the spiral staircase

*A handbeat reverberates*

Time and conflict, they strongly etch onto my heart

Hands that offered charity and were seeped in virtue

Who is the companion who should wield

This sword in the place of atonement

A portrait of a boy

*That I saw that day*

That faint memory was

*The beginning of madness*

Seven blessings,

An abnormal miracle brought forth

By a lone woman

Who wanted to save everything

But because the correct way still hasn't vanished

This dramatic "story of evil" is now drawing to a close

I won't hesitate anymore

Even if this is an unavoidable fight

Even if it comes to

Turning my sword on you

Smiling and sitting in a chair

At the top of the clocktower

Are you a demon, or

Are you my father...?

Someone, someone tell me

*What in the world is "evil"?*

I have just one hope, but my heart is empty

*I have grown sick of despair*

There isn't much I can do, but

*I tightly grasp my hands*

And continue to pray

*For an end to this falling rain*

Someone's laughing voice resounds

Louder than the clock hands' sound

Now there is only madmen left

In the Handbeat Clocktower

Someday time will pass, and if

The day when we can laugh

At all this suffering comes,

I will tell the true story myself

I won't hesitate anymore

Even if this is an unavoidable fight

Even if it comes to

Turning my sword on you

Rotting in a chair

At the top of the clocktower

Are you a demon, or

What used to be my father...?

## Related Songs

### The Son of White

The Son of White shows how Riliane became enamored with Eater and rejected her engagement with Kyle Marlon, indirectly causing the Marlon-Elphegort War.

### Reach for the Stars ~The Letter He Kept Waiting For~

Reach for the Stars ~The Letter He Kept Waiting For~ recounts how years after Handbeat Clocktower, an older Riliane became a baker under the name "Rin Lucif" and explained Kyle's past misdeeds to a group of orphans he raised.

### Heartbeat Clocktower

Heartbeat Clocktower shares a similar melody and arrangement with this song, as well as similar imagery. Both songs also focus on an individual that the singer knows as a "parental figure".

### The Boy of Destruction

The Boy of Destruction alludes to Arkadi's work as a spy for Lucifenia, his connection with the Clockworker's Doll, and Arth's death at his hands.

## Appearances

* Arkadi Rogze
* Arth Lucifen d'Autriche
* Keel Freezis
* Kyle Marlon
* Meta Salmhofer (mentioned only)
* Mora Viwirtz
* Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche