"Merfolk's Song・Sung Again" Memory Scrolls

* TW/JP Servers: November 25th - December 15th 2020
* GL Server: November 25th - December 15th 2020

This was the memory scroll event accompanying the release of the SSR shikigami Senhime.

### Rewards

When each part of the scroll is fixed, rewards will be distributed across server depending on participation. The participation value depends on the shards being given, and the more given the higher the value. Each portion of the scroll has a separate ranking for participation, and the ranking spans the entire server. Data is refreshed once every minute.

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## Shikigami Story

* Scroll I
* Scroll II
* Scroll III
* Scroll IV
* Scroll V
* Scroll VI

### Song of the Sunset

There are many legends in the world about the merfolk. Some are romantic, and some are sad.

One legend tells the beautiful story of a merfolk being who sang under the moonlight and fell in love with a human.

Legend has it that the merfolk died a slow death after leaving the sea. But still they bravely ventured onto land for a promised rendezvous.

According to the legends, the merfolk were astonishingly beautiful and blessed with eternal life. So, they were forced to watch their human lovers die while they spent the rest of their lives in an eternal loneliness.

Legend also has it that the merfolk of the Sea of Eternity ruled the sea. They would kill their enemies ruthlessly and drink their blood in a ritual for ever-lasting prosperity.

Among all the myths, there is, perhaps, just one truth: that, aside from an eternal prosperity, beautiful tales of melancholy are the only things that can be found here.

These stories were recorded in the sound of the waves and told word-of-mouth by the fishermen in the village...

The Sea of Eternity was home to the merfolk. It was a beautiful place located at the end of the sea.

A young Merfolk Princess would go to a stack of rocks before sunset to sing her favorite song of promise.

When she sang, the tides tumbled with the tunes, the sea birds screeched, and the fish and whales jumped out of the water and soared into the air.

The voice of the Merfolk Princess would be heard throughout the seas, telling the story of her love and hope all through the night until the drawn broke.

But there was a small and insignificant secret hiding here: the secret of the Merfolk Princess.

### Bloodline

When the Merfolk Princess was young, she had a dream. She dreamed of becoming a powerful queen like her mother, protecting the sea while maintaining her grace.

She learned how the bravest merfolk hunt and ruthlessly expelled the havoc-wrecking krakens from the Sea of Eternity.

She often offered loots as a proof of her power to the queen's throne, hoping her mother would acknowledge and praise her.

The queen never smiled at her. She always maintained her majestic manner and would only cast a stern look on the princess.

Just a simple word of praise could make the young merfolk princess's day. She could never hide her happiness.

She would sing happy tunes and revel in joys, as if her wounds from the battle no longer pained her.

But there was one thing she never managed to change.

Her mother always told her that everyone's fate was pre-destined. A princess not of the Merdragon lineage could never be the queen, however hard she tried.

The Merdragon was the rarest lineage of the merfolk. A common merfolk could never wield Murex Halberd, the artifact of the Sea of Eternity, to harness the tides.

Only when she was a Merdragon, acknowledged by the tides, could she become the queen and protect the Sea of Eternity.

Having eternal life meant the Merfolk Princess was destined to try and fail again and again. She could improve failure after failure, yet would still fail.

She would never succeed yet she never would give up.

She was unable to choose to born as a Merdragon, but she was able to stick to her faith.

It's a bit like the sound of her song that never fades along the long road of eternal life.

### A Different Path

When a princess of the Merdragon lineage was born, the whole area celebrated. The tide brought the most sincere blessings and the merfolk prayed for her devoutly at their altar.

And the merfolk started to care less about the Merfolk Princess despite the plaudits she had earned in battle. The new-born Merdragon princess, on the other hand, received many blessings as if she was a true star.

From this moment on, the Merdragon Princes Suzuhime and the Merfolk Princess Senhime embarked on very different paths into the future.

One bright path would lead to a place filled with light, and the other to the deep dark sea.

The deep sea was a lonely place full of shadows. As Senhime sat on the bones of a dead whale, she watched the fluffy whiteness falling into the sea.

Yes, it snows in the sea. An old merfolk once told her that the snows were what was left of living beings. They were dead but could still nurture those who were alive.

In the cold deep sea, these snows were the only thing that was soft and warm.

In the deepest place in the dark sea, one could not see the sky or the sun. There was only endless darkness.

She started to sing in desperation.

### Stranded

For the Merfolk Princess, her people never had any hope for her. Such was the pathetic life of a merfolk princess.

However, she refused to give up on her dream. She set off to the altar of the Sea of Eternity and sang the promised song, hoping to be acknowledged by the tides.

The tides pushed her away angrily. The water formed into blades and ran through her body, painfully slicing off her scales, and forcing her to kneel before the majesty.

Tenacious, the Merfolk Princess would not leave. As her courageous and desperate voice traveled further, the sea itself was deeply touched.

However, the tides were not touched at all. They converged and became the flow of fate and plunged at her. The pain didn't arrive as expected.

She saw a blinding light. The tides turned into water droplets and scattered in the light, healing her wounded body.

It was the first time the Merdragon Princess had left her mother's arms and appeared before her sister.

The Merdragon Princess gave her sister a tiny smile as she rode on the tamed tides. Jealousy and hatred filled Senhime's heart.

Devastated, Senhime went to the stack of rocks and started to sing. Her voice was like the moans of a stranded whale.

Why can't I be acknowledged however hard I tried? Why should a Merdragon have everything from the moment she is born?

She cried out, unleashing her resentment and fury with her song.

This was the only place where the tides could not hurt Senhime. However violent a tide was in the distance, it simply broke into spoondrifts when it hit the rocks.

Then, another guest arrived at the secluded retreat.

### The Oath

Ever since that day, Suzuhime started to follow Senhime around. When she sang, she sang along with her.

But Senhime couldn't hate this little sister of hers. Although she had the power of the Merdragon she dreamed of, she herself was innocent.

They weren't close, but they depended on each other. A conch shell filled with the tide was their witness.

One day, there was a disaster. The freezing wind froze the time and tides ceased to flow.

Upon losing her blessing from the tide, the queen of the Sea of Eternity was unable to protect her people because her power had drained out like the sea.

The once prosperous place was eroded by the ice. And the merfolk were prisoned in a nightmare of eternal sleep.

Senhime traveled everywhere to look for her young sister, but Suzuhime was no where to be found.

The Sea of Eternity started to fall after losing their Merdragon. During the outsiders' invasion, Senhime led a remaining force of her people against the intruders. For a moment, it was as if she had become the heroic merfolk princess she once was.

Senhime kissed the hand of the queen who was by this time asleep. She made an oath to turn desperation into new hope even without the protection of the Tides.

Protecting the Sea of Eternity became her only purpose.

### A New Dawn

Centuries passed by in the blink of an eye. The queen told Senhime that the Merdragon Princess, who had the power to change the fate of the Sea of Eternity, was coming back.

All those forgotten memories were awakened. The things they had done together in the past rushed to Senhime's mind. But the grown-up Suzuhime had lost her childhood memories and treated Senhime as if she was a stranger.

The power of the Merdragon made everything as easy as child's play. Though the weak merfolk had had to pay a heavy price.

Senhime sighed again at how unfair fate was. Yet she still refused to yield.

Senhime would not lose to anyone once she'd set her heart on protecting the Sea of Eternity and every living soul in it.

In the end, while facing the powerful enemy, her allies wounded, the Merfolk Princess regained her courage and sang the promised song again, praying to the tides for power.

Rejection after rejection, the wound after wound came. Then, finally, the tides merged with the song and embraced the princess not of the Merdragon lineage.

She was able to overcome her weakness and the limit of her lineage. The tides welcomed the new-born Senhime.

The fate of the merfolk had now been changed. In the sea after the ice had melted, the bubbles rose up towards the rising sun, as tiny parts of her purest faith.

The fish jumped out of the water and the whales soared the sky. The merfolk woke up from their nightmares of eternal sleep and sang songs loudly.

Through the Merfolk Princess' last song, a new agreement forged. The Sea of Eternity had chosen a new future.