Musical Planetarium

A different piece of music is randomly picked every ten minutes. Among all 11, here is the piece numbered 5.

Cover image of the song. Two girls embracing each other, as if the deep green night was cut by a yellow light shining from their hearts.

Fireflies Never Came

蛍はいなかった

Harumaki Gohan

はるまきごはん

Character relationship chart. Mikage→Spica: (Dodging eyes by the train window). Spica→Mikage: Wants to get to know her better. Mikage→Yuhi: Childhood friends; She is like a small animal. Yuhi→Mikage: Wants to help her (a little too much). Spica↔Yuhi: Easy to talk to. Spica→Urara: Comfortable. Urara→Mikage: zzz…… Yuhi→Urara: Some kind of feeling of fellowship. Urara→Mikage: zzz…… Mikage→Urara: Mystery. Urara→Mikage: ……

Spica might just be pretending not to know about Mikage’s sentiment. Or maybe she really didn’t know, or even couldn’t know; how sad it would be for Mikage if this is true — that she can only go on to be a good friend to this lively girl, and that everything beyond feel as if blocked by a thick layer of glass. The helplessness of being behind that glass was probably more painful than the loss of a wish. What was Mikage thinking about when Spica was leaning on her in the photo?

That aside, if I were to feel relatable for one of them, it would probably be Yuhi the wingmate. Though Yuhi, unlike me, with her warmth like the sunlight, would simply smile it away knowing she was unable to do much, continuing to offer whatever support she could afterwards. If it were me, I would be consumed by the obsession with “being needed” and the pain of overdone empathy, to the point of harbouring the thought of “if only it could be me who go through all this…” — probably, Yuhi and Urara, standing on the periphery of the story, have unexpectedly become role models that I would learn from?