祝福のメシアとアイの塔 (Shukufuku no Messiah to Ai no Tou)

Background
Having searched for power which surpasses human intellect and mocked God, the civilization earned His anger. Once he sealed the Nine Components which make up the world in one tower, the world began its slow journey towards destruction. It was then that a Messiah and their companions climbed the tower in order to beg God for forgiveness. After earning His forgiveness, they took the Blessed Light from the Nine Components and lit the world's lifespan at the altar. What followed was-the world's lifespan was connected by the light of the Messiah, who is created every 15 years. One day, the local seamstress of the "Village of Youth" (Miku) received a letter from the oracle of the nearby kingdom. She was destined to become the next Messiah the one who has to get the nine "blessings" inside of the "Tower of AI". The other villagers and her friends decided to help her too. What they didn't know was that the so called "blessings" were tests God set up to test the Messiah and see if he/she could endure the curse. The Messiah has the choice of either enduring/surviving all the curses or spiltting the curse between 9 people. Miku doesn't know about the curse, and how you could split it between 9 people or endure it yourself, so she lets her friends join her. They are Len, Rin, Luka, GUMI, Gakupo, MAYU, IA, MEIKO, and KAITO.

However, inside of the tower, the 9 "friends" put aside their friendship and betray her, one by one. The Messiah realizes that they were all blinded by greed, wanting to get more power by grabbing the blessings for themselves.

Finally, she reached the top of the tower, alone, where the altar was waiting for her. Surrounding a stone pedestal, nine statues were arranged in a circle, holding unlit, red candles in their skeletal hands... which were suddenly illuminated. She then found out that her 9 friends actually knew about the curse, and just didn't want her to know what they were doing so they pretended to betray her so that she could save the world instead.

Realizing the fate that her friends had to suffer, splitting the curse, the Messiah understood that they were never being greedy, they just wanted to protect her and never once wanted to steal the "blessings", they just didn't want her to feel the pain of enduring the curse. Even at their death they always remembered their motto, "In sickness and in health, we share joy and pain".

A ghostly figure disappears right after the flame on the stone pedestal ignites. The Messiah finally accepts her fate, smiles for herself and reaches her hands to the altar. In the end, it is unknown what happened to the Messiah and is left for open interpretations.

This song has entered the Hall of Fame. It is featured in the albums VersuS and Vocalocreation. The song's theme is "Hope" and "Despair".

Lyrics
Japanese and Romaji = IMPORTANT NOTE: Some lyrics may be attributed to the wrong singer, as there is no official log of who sings what, specially the parts with black lyrics, as they mean that some combination of singers is singing that part.

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Trivia

 * All of the villagers' professions were revealed in a Tweet by Hitoshizuku-P.
 * Before the official video was uploaded, TSO showed the 3D models of the stone statues, the altar, and the torch in his Twitter.