Heartbeat Clocktower

"*Just before her death a solitary woman created that small theater deep in the forest.*"
―Gear

**Heartbeat Clocktower** is a song released on October 1, 2009 and later uploaded with a PV on April 25, 2010. It is the fifth song in the Clockwork Lullaby Series, describing the experiences of Gear in Evil's Theater.

## Plot

The song concerns the guardian of the titular clocktower, whose role it is to keep the gears going to keep the Clockworker's Doll alive; she muses about the tower's previous master, the embodiment of Greed, had brought herself to ruin and left only the doll behind with burn marks. After the text describes the "Collector" who created a theater for her "collectibles", Gear watches the Master of the Graveyard and the pretentious servant boy going about their daily activities; the PV notes how the tower seemed to come alive singing one day.

The bloodstained scissors and the purple sword remain dormant among the Vessels of Sin, Utopia still unable to be created. Realizing that the clock has broken down and that the Doll's time is running short, Gear takes out her heart and sacrifices herself to power the clocktower in fulfillment of her role. At the end of the PV, the text describes how the one who built the theater loved the Clockwork Doll the most, saying that someone has the leading part.

## Lyrics

The sound of the clocktower’s gears

That is the proof she’s alive

So that this second hand doesn’t stop

Watching over it is “my” role

The former master, a personification of greed

Why couldn’t she notice sooner

That her own sin would ruin herself

One of these days?

The ugly burn marks that remain on half of her body even now

Etch those two’s memories

Today again there are lost

Pitiful visitors who don’t know anything

Before long they’ll probably be delivered

Into the “Master of the Graveyard”’s stomach

That “boy” pretending to be the lead role

As usual is absorbing himself in selfishness

While the loneliness of having lost his “counterpart”

Shows a little on his face

Just before her death a solitary woman created

That small theater deep in the forest

In that time when it was left behind, it began to ring out

The clockwork lullaby

“Bloodstained scissors”, “Violet katana”

The days we wait for those who have yet to wake

When all the songs have been recited

It appears Utopia will complete

The clock hand stopping

Means the end of herself

The time left in the rusted and chipped gears

Isn’t long

Just before her death a solitary woman created

A small theater deep in the forest

The one acting as curator is the one she loved most

“The Clockwork Doll”

Resolving myself

I gently placed my hand

Into my own left breast and reached in deeply…

My spring resounds with the gears of the clocktower

And the story begins anew

So that the clock hands don’t stop

Continuing to turn is my role

## PV Text

A solitary woman, the ‘Collector’

Created just before her death

A small, small theater.

There was only one work that she screened

Just a documentary introducing her “collection”

When that theater inside the forest

Was completely forgotten by everyone

The springs start to move

A singing voice rings out

The “collection” pieces, with their own hands

Begin to make a new story

Pride

Gluttony

Envy

Lust

Greed

Sloth

Wrath

Graveyard Court

Hellish Yard Heavenly Yard

In the small, small theatre

The one acting as curator,

Is the one she loved most in her lifetime,

“The Clockwork Doll”

And the lead role is…

## Related Songs

### Handbeat Clocktower

Handbeat Clocktower shares a similar melody and arrangement with Heartbeat Clocktower, also containing similar imagery.

### Miniature Garden Girl

Miniature Garden Girl details the events that occurred prior to Heartbeat Clocktower, describing the life and near-death of the Clockworker's Doll and the event that led to her gaining severe burns.

### Master of the Graveyard

Master of the Graveyard details the life and interactions of the Master of the Graveyard as alluded to by Gear in Heartbeat Clocktower.

### Master of the Court

Master of the Court recounts the goals of the Clockworker's Doll after the events of Heartbeat Clocktower, as well as her interactions with other members of the theater.

### Capriccio Farce

Capriccio Farce recounts the later exchanges of the theater inhabitants after the happenings of Heartbeat Clocktower, as it details their later attempts to convene and locate Grim the End.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Alexiel Lucifen d'Autriche (appears in PV)
* Carlos Marlon
* Cherubim Venomania (first appearance in PV)
* Elluka Marlon
* Gakuga Octo (appears in PV)
* Gear
* Gretel Twiright
* Gumina Glassred (first appearance in PV)
* Hänsel Twiright
* Karchess Crim (first appearance in PV)
* Kasper Blankenheim (first appearance in PV)
* Master of the Court
* Maylo Beelzenia (first appearance in PV)
* Michelle Octo (appears in PV)
* Rin Avadonia (indirect mention only)
* Waiter (first appearance)

### Locations

* Asmodean (first appearance in PV)
* Beelzenia (appears in PV)
* Bolganio
* Conchita Mansion (appears in PV)
* Elphegort
* Enbizaka (appears in PV)
* Evil's Forest
* Evil's Theater (first appearance)
* Gasto (appears in PV)
* Glassred Mansion (first appearance in PV)
* Grave Yard (first mentioned in PV)
* Heavenly Yard (first mentioned in PV)
* Hellish Yard (first mentioned in PV)
* Jakoku (appears in PV)
* Lasaland (first appearance in PV)
* Lucifenia (appears in PV)
* Lucifenian (appears in PV)
* Lucifenian Royal Palace (appears in PV)
* Onigashima (appears in PV)
* Periods
* Third Period
* Union State of Evillious

### Events

* Dark Star Scandal (mentioned only)
* Disappearance of Evil Food Eater Marlon (appears in PV)
* Enbizaka Murderer Scandal (appears in PV)
* Four Endings (mentioned in PV)
* Glassred Event (first appearance in PV)
* Leviantan Civil War (appears in PV)
* Reign of Evil (appears in PV)
* Toragay Epidemic (first appearance in PV)

### Groups

* Avadonia Family (indirect mention only)
* Baldured Family (first appearance)
* Beelzenian Imperial Family (appears in PV)
* Behemoth (appears in PV)
* Blankenheim Family (first appearance in PV)
* Conchita Family
* Dark Star Bureau
* Felix Family (first appearance in PV)
* Five Dukes (appears in PV)
* Glassred Bloodline (appears in PV)
* Glassred Family (first appearance in PV)
* Glassred Harem (first appearance in PV)
* Lucifenian Royal Family (appears in PV)
* Marlon Family
* Miroku Family (appears in PV)
* Moonlit Family
* Octo Family (appears in PV)
* Père Noël (first appearance in PV)
* PN
* Sudou Family (appears in PV)
* Venomania Family (first appearance in PV)

### Misc

* Brainwashing Magic (first appearance in PV)
* Clockwork Lullaby
* Clockworker's Doll
* Demons of Sin
* Four Mirrors of Lucifenia (appears in PV)
* Gestures (first appearance in PV)
* Ghoul Children
* Glass of Marlon (appears in PV)
* Grim the End (first appearance in PV)
* Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome
* Humans
* Hypnosis (first appearance in PV)
* Inheritors
* Irregulars
* Transformation Magic
* Twin Blades of Levianta (appears in PV)
* Magic
* Magic Abilities
* Magic Tools
* Marlon Spoon (appears in PV)
* Other Magic (first appearance in PV)
* Possession
* Spell Songs
* Venom Sword (first mentioned)
* Vessels of Sin

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* The song's title alludes to Gear's sacrifice of connecting her heart to the clocktower, letting her heartbeat power it and keep the Clockworker's Doll alive.
* The song shares a motif with Miniature Garden Girl.

### Curiosities

* The song's PV text was taken from the Evils Theater album.
* During the song PV, the Seven Deadly Sins are represented by gears colored with the respective sin's color; the teal gear representing the Sloth spins at a slower pace than the others, while the one representing Wrath falls at the edge of the screen during the song's opening sequence.
* The song was rearranged to promote the The Son of Evil: Praefacio of Red, titled Handbeat Clocktower; the song's PV also uses imagery of the gear.
* During the song's "Lu Li La" chorus, the images of the vessel owners followed by the Latin name for their respective sin appear translucent over Hänsel and Gretel Twiright; at the end of the sequence, the names of the Four Endings appear in the four corners of the song PV.
* The seven vessel owners' order of appearance in the PV follows the release order of their respective songs.
* In the Clockwork Lullaby album, Meta Clockworker puzzles over Eve's assistance of Irina Clockworker, deciding to look into the relationship between the two.