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夢違科学世紀 ~ Changeability of Strange Dream (ゆめたがえかがくせいき ~ Changeability of Strange Dream, yumetagae kagaku seiki ~ Changeability of Strange Dream)
(夢違科学世紀: Science Era, When It's Not Clear Whether a Dream or Reality)
Tracks
上海アリス幻樂団が奏でる、幻想的で激しい音楽第三弾
Fantastic and hard music performed by Shanghai Alice Illusionary Band, Part 3
- 童祭 ~ Innocent Treasures
Kid's Festival ~ Innocent Treasures - 華胥の夢
Dream of Arcadia - 上海紅茶館 ~Chinese Tea
Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea - ヴォヤージュ1969
Voyage 1969 - 科学世紀の少年少女
Boys and Girls of Science Era - 永夜の報い ~ Imperishable Night
Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night - 夜が降りてくる ~ Evening Star
The Night Will Fall Down ~ Evening Star - 人形裁判 ~ 人の形弄びし少女
Doll Judgment ~ A Girl Who Plays with Human's Shapes - 夢と現の境界
Border between Dream and Reality - 幻想機械 ~ Phantom Factory
Phantasm Machine ~ Phantom Factory - 幽玄の槭樹 ~Eternal Dream
Mystic Maple ~ Eternal Dream
- 2004 ZUN's theme, which was used at the event "The Dawn of Touhou"
- 2004 Original Track
- 2002 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Theme of Stage 3
- 2004 Imperishable Night Theme of Stage 6
- 2004 Original Track
- 2004 Imperishable Night Theme of Stage 4
- 2004 Immaterial and Missing Power Theme of Semi-Final Stage
- 2003 Perfect Cherry Blossom Theme of Alice Margatroid
- 2004 Original Track
- 2000 Shu So Gyoku (秋霜玉) Theme of Final Boss, Part 2
- 2004 Imperishable Night Theme of Staff Roll
- 2004 ZUN's theme, which was used at the event "The Dawn of Touhou"
Story
Original Text
- Moon rabbit and lunar exploration vehicle― Is it an illusion, reality, good dream or bad dream?
- 童祭 ~ Innocent Treasures
Kid's Festival ~ Innocent Treasures
- Being awaken, with a memory of morning mist in an illusionary world.
- Reality, a vanity.
- Daydream, a history of an ancient mystic world.
- Daylight, into a vanishing town.
(The night is going to break. The night is going to break in an illusionary morning mist.
I had a good time with kids in an illusionary world.
All the kids looked like really happy, and smiled.)
- Is it an illusion or a castle in the air?
- Till the daybreak, this dream is like a vanity of human world.
(...I cannot remember the last time when I saw these kids with a big smile.
Mysterious songs that I've never listen to, and mysterious dances that I've never seen. It seems like a festival is held today.
Someday, I want to live in such a country where I can see kids' smile.)
- Being awaken, with a memory of an illusionary scarlet mansion in its strange color.
- Reality, a cold-hearted stone.
- Daydream, a fairy tale of an ancient beautiful capital.
- Daylight, into a filthy town.
- 華胥の夢
Dream of Arcadia (Paradisiacal Daydream)
"...And you know, I had a dream like this yesterday."
"...You're gonna tell me about your dream again?"
"I called you so as to tell about my dream I had."
My name is Maribel Han. I belong to a club about occult powers in this deserted town.
Unlike other clubs, ours doesn't do the proper acts as a necromancer.
They call us unusual... I belong to the "club", though the number of its member is only us two.
"Hey, the story of other's dream is nothing but annoyance."
It doesn't matter to me at all.
By the way, I have a great power. It's because our clan has had a kind of inspiration since ancient times...
I have the ability of seeing every boundary all over the world, in other words, a border.
Our true scheme is to seek for gaps of the boundaries and to dive into another world. It's what they say "Spiriting Away", isn't it?
...Of course, it's forbidden.
Even so, recently I've had dreams of every kind of the world...
"May I ask you a favor? Please listen to my dreams I had and give me some advices, or I'll be confused which is the real myself."
- 上海紅茶館 ~ Chinese Tea
Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea
Inside the deep forest was a scarlet mansion.
Around the mansion, there were deep green forest and white-glowing lake...
What a fascinating scenery...
In spite of the color of deep scarlet, it looks so naturally.
This bold color looks somewhat childish but... I love it.
How about dropping in?
Isn't it impolite to visit all of a sudden?
What's wrong with you? Why are you coward in your dream?
...Oh? Came out a maid.
I'll tell her that...
I want to greet the owner of such a wonderful mansion.
- ヴォヤージュ1969
Voyage 1969 (1969, from Cape Canaveral)
All I could see was the same scenery everywhere I went.
The sun has already set, and I could hardly see the ground...
I didn't know that the dark bamboo forest made me easily miss the path.
Sometimes I heard a strange crying. Were they beasts, or...
What should I do? I didn't know.
Am I to wander in the bamboo forest and starve to death?
Or eaten by some youkai? I've got plenty of things that I haven't done yet.
I wandered about without any purpose.
I thought I could eat some bamboo shoots, so I didn't consider seriously.
...Even so, I was in my dream.
But, I realized at that time. I have no idea how the natural bamboo shoots are.
I've only seen its composition. All I know about the bamboo shoot is only its taste...
I looked up the sky with no hope.
There were a lot of glowing stars.
I envied your eyes for the first time.
Perhaps you could find where you were, and couldn't miss the path.
That was the time, when I heard a terrified laughter just behind me!
- 科学世紀の少年少女
Boys and Girls of Science Era (21st Century Boy and Girl)
"Here are some cookies I got at a scarlet mansion, and natural bamboo shoots in a bamboo forest."
"Eh? You're talking about your dream aren't you, Mary?"
The girl is Usami Renko, who is listening to my story of dream I had.
She's another member of our club, whose member is only two of us.
She's so active that she proposes most of what we do.
According to Renko, she can tell where she is and when it is by looking up the sky. How scary...
And, Renko calls me Mary. It's too hard for people in this country to pronounce my name.
I'm afraid she's already forgotten my real name...
"It's about my dream. I've said it many times."
"...In spite of the story of your dream, why have you got the stuff of dream?"
"That's why I want your advice."
I'm not certain which is a reality or a dream.
Dreams usually end when I'm chased by some youkai.
If you say it's a bad dream, maybe it's right...
Even so, I somehow got the things of my dream.
I'm afraid I'm talking now in my dream...
"I'll tell you, Mary. It's not already been any bamboo shoots. They've grown too much and been too stiff, so you cannot eat them."
Though, If I could change a bad dream to a good dream, It would be nice than the reality...
"Natural bamboo shoots hide below the earth and save themselves when they're tasty."
- 永夜の報い ~ Imperishable Night
Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night
I ran for dear life, even in a dream.
I cannot explain clearly, but the laughter that I heard sounded like obviously a being of non-human.
I trusted my instincts calling "Run for it!"
Though, the bamboo forest sloped a little, which made me lose my sense of balance.
I suppose I ran straight, but I cannot say whether it was true.
I ran for a long distance, but all I could see was the scene I've seen before.
Does this forest lead etarnally? Or am I running the same place?
...They don't matter to me at all.
I think the idea of Renko is out-of-date -- "When you think objectively, there is a obvious truth."
The truth exists in the subjectivity.
If you can only see the scene that you've seen before... Here's the place.
That's why I'm running for my life.
You know, "dream" cannot be the antonym of "reality".
Recently, it's considered as the synonym.
Even if you were in your dream, you must run for dear life from the mysterious being.
That's the truth.
Anyway, my major is relativity psychology.
Yours is ultra-general physics, Renko? How does your study of "string" advance?
- 夜が降りてくる ~ Evening Star
The Night Will Fall Down ~ Evening Star
How mysterious...
Old-fasioned people, including you, make a difference between dream and reality.
But people in extreme old days didn't do so, I heard.
And these days, dream and reality are different, but same.
There're both the world in dream and the world in reality, both myself in dream and myself in reality.
I'm not sure which one is true; a butterfly in the night or human being in the daytime...
Considering from the sence in these days, they're both true.
I ran for a long distance, though I don't feel any fatigue.
It's because I moved as if I flew over the sky? Did I become a butterfly?
But the darkness of the night finally came to an end...
...I stopped running.
I found a scarlet light in the bamboo forest over there.
It glowed abominably and was beyond the reality.
Saying easily to you...
It was similar to the flame reaction of rubidium, I guess.
I couldn't recognize it as just a glowing bamboo forest.
I glimpsed the glowing place, keeping a watchout for my back.
- 人形裁判 ~ 人の形弄びし少女
Doll Judgment ~ A Girl Who Plays with Human's Shapes
I can't believe the scene I saw just now!
Nowadays, you can watch the extinct wild dogs and kappas through 3DCG...
Even so, I've never seen such a big creature in front of me.
It was bigger than wild dogs; a mouse-like black being, whose eyes were red.
...No, was it a rabbit? Its eyes were red.
Still, It had strange shape.
I mean... on the face were two eyes, like yours.
Human's are mostly like this.
The size of its face was same as that of human.
Or rather, was it a human's face? Yes, it was. It was a human's face, I believe.
Do you know some big mouses that have a human's face?
...At that time, the big mouse raised a horrible voice.
It was this big mouse that chased me.
Though, it no longer stares at me; at the scarlet light.
The truth was... it wasn't the big mouse's eyes that lit scarlet all around.
I couldn't believe that the horrible big mouse was afraid of the scarlet light.
I turned my face on the light...
- 夢と現の境界
Border between Dream and Reality (Wake Up Mysterious Girl)
"And, this is the scrap of paper I found after the big mouse and the girl left."
"Hey, are you really talking about your dream?"
I've never thought that the true figure the mouse faced was a girl.
The girl was in a red gleam. You'll wonder why I can say so. It's simple; The girl glowed herself.
No, it's not the right expression. Saying "She shot the fire from her body" may be better.
The deep scarlet flame spread diagonally, like a bird spreading its wing...
It was much adominable than the big mouse with human's face.
The mouse terrified and ran away by just seeing the girl raise her hands.
"Don't you still get it? Dream and reality are the same thing. I've told you hundreds of times. To me, it's the dream I'm talking to you now..."
"Calm down, Mary. I'll listen to the world of your dream. After all, what's the girl? What happened to the girl?"
"I don't know. After that, the big mouse ran away... and so did the girl. I hid for a long time not to be found by them. Why did I still hide even she sent the mouse away for me? It's because..."
I gazed at the girl's eyes, which were in scarlet gleam like the mouse...
"...You cannot call it human."
- 幻想機械 ~ Phantom Factory
Phantasm Machine ~ Phantom Factory
After all, Mary just talked about the world of dream and went home satisfactorily.
I considered what she said while I looked at a few stuff Mary gave me.
Mary said that dream and reality are the same thing, but it can't be.
Even if that's what the recent theory of relativity psychology proves, it only applies in mentality.
If some objects in a dream show up, we'll be confused. It's against the law of conservation of mass. Besides, how's the entropy?
It's obvious that Mary went to the inside of the boundary unconsiously, and she thinks she's in a dream.
Now, she may be very close to the inside of the boundary.
It's because Mary changed the ability of seeing the boundary to that of manipulate it? No, it's impossible.
Uh, it's the proper club activity, isn't it?
If I ignore the situation, she must be eaten by youkai in a dream or be spirited away.
Her mentality is wandering about everywhere.
She would be trapped in another world if she didn't think she's in a dream.
She would recognize this world as a dream.
She's in danger, though she herself doesn't notice the danger.
- I can help her in two ways:
- First, throw the stuff away and make her recognize she's in a dream or an illusion.
- By doing this, she couldn't wander into the world of dream again. Dream and reality are different.
- And the another way is...
- Waking her up from her dream by making her storongly recognize she's not in the world of dream but actually exsists in another world.
- Still... she couldn't come back to this world again.
- Which's better for you, Mary?
- Which's better for me?
- ...There's no need to explain.
- 幽玄の槭樹 ~Eternal Dream
Mystic Maple ~ Eternal Dream
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