The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 43 - Music Soothes the Soul

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Wolf

After lazing around in my portable system store for a day, I go ahead and move over to a room I haven’t really visited for quite a while. It’s a room that I used to go to a lot during high school simply because I’ve always loved everything in it.

And when I enter the room, I find it just as I left it.

At the center of the room is a nice piano, with a few other instruments spread out around the edges of the room. Including an instrument called a euphonium, which a lot of people unfortunately don’t recognize, along with a few others like a trombone and a tuba.

All of which are instruments I used to play at some points in my life.

I would just switch from one instrument to another over and over again. With Mom and Dad feeling rather exasperated every time I did.

But I worked rather hard to afford most of these instruments with my own salary.

Although the piano wasn’t paid for by me. That was actually Mom’s, since she plays it.

She was actually the one who taught me how to play in the first place.

I walk over to the piano before sitting down and opening the cover on the keys. Then I play a few keys, tune it, and try to play a couple of my favorite songs. Only to find that my skills have definitely become rusty over my years in the dungeon. Not to mention the additional year or two since I last played a piano even before the dungeon.

Time passes and soon evening comes around for the second day, with Sapphire coming in and sitting on the floor next to the bench listening to me practice playing the piano. And at this point, I’ve at least gotten a bit more used to it again.

I play one soothing classical piece of music after another, all while Sapphire just plays a video game at the base of the bench. Then I eventually move on to the other instruments and begin playing them again as well.

As I truly relax for the first time in who knows how long.

Although I can’t help but wonder what it is the people viewing me right now are thinking, seeing as all they’re doing is watching me practice…

My thoughts blank out for a second before I hurriedly open up the System Forums.

And lo and behold, there they are.

Hundreds of thousands of threads all showcasing me playing music on the livestream. With so many titles talking about things like ‘The Winter Wolf – The Strongest Musician in the universe’ and other such titles.

Well then.

Guess I gave an accidental concert?

I tilt my head at that for a few seconds before shrugging. Then I go ahead and check out the threads, only to find the opinions split.

There are a lot of them that just want me to continue moving on in the dungeon. To move on to the next floor with them treating me as if I’m over here fighting for nothing but their entertainment.

Which honestly irks me a little bit, but not much more than that. Mostly because I’ve been used as entertainment for years now, whether I like it or not.

There are also a lot of people who are talking about becoming my fans now after realizing I can do things besides battling. Beautiful things that aren’t just killing.

I guess that’s nice to see.

The sounds of my music mostly covers the sounds of Sapphire’s game, but I can still hear her playing and tapping away at buttons on her controller despite that. Meanwhile I try to find one piece of sheet music after another on the System Forums.

A task that is made easier when viewers notice what I’m doing and start posting their own sheet music there for me to see. Which I have to admit is a nice benefit of these stalkers watching me go through my day.

I continue playing one piece after another until a thought comes to me.

Aren’t I just basically some sort of live streamer playing music for fans at this point?

That thought makes me blank out for a few seconds, but I eventually just shrug it off and decide that I don’t really care so long as I can relax and enjoy the music.

Because music is a beautiful thing.

If it weren’t for the fact that I need situational awareness in the dungeon, I would probably have music playing on my headphones while there. But it’s too bad I can’t do that.

The Beta Dungeon is just too dangerous to do that. To stop paying attention to my surroundings even if it’s only through audible means.

Such a pity.

I let out a sigh before going back to the piano and continuing to play some classical pieces of music.

Then I spend the rest of the little vacation doing various different activities including but not limited to listening to music, playing my own music, playing video games with Sapphire when she asks, and just browsing around the System Forums. I also go ahead and answer messages from both friends and family during this time.

And eventually I find the portable system store vanishing with us inside of it, leaving us falling onto the grass plains as a door appears in front of us.

One that no doubt leads to the next floor of the dungeon.

The 296th floor of the Beta Dungeon.

And to my amusement, I find numerous threads on the System Forums sounding upset about how I won’t likely be able to play music for them again for quite some time. Which is also a little flattering, if I’m being honest.

But now is the time to get serious again. So I take a deep breath before reequipping all of my gear.

Then I walk up to the door, glance at Sapphire, give her a nod of my head that she returns back at me, and reach out to touch the door. Following which a flash of green light shines all around us and we appear within the stadium again for the Sixth Centurion Quinzel.