Chapter 19
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Joshua’s proposal was effective. The Duke of Bones actually accepted his request happily as Joshua turned from an uncouth intruder to a noble guest who came to listen to his performance.
It was just that, for a human, the live experience of this concerto… would be a bit creepy.
There was a dedicated auditorium in the castle where the Duke of Bones used for his performances. The room was replete with instruments from a piano to violins, and they could be used by an orchestra to perform grand classical music.
Some of the musicians were skeletons, while another part consisted of living corpses with meat still hanging off their rotten body.
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All of them were dressed up like 19th-century Victorian English gentlemen, and their outfits made them look very elegant as they picked their instruments up.
The only drawback was the lack of flesh on their bodies. White bones alone could not be described as elegant, much less living corpses with their eyeballs fallen off.
The Duke of Bones was, surprisingly, not the conductor of the orchestra, instead, he was the pianist!
No one could actually say which genre of music was good or bad, and if someone ever did so, that person would be woefully arrogant!
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Whether a piece of music was good or bad was simply down to personal taste.
If the Duke of Bones’ performance had not been so “real” to the point that Joshua felt the need to hug a stove to listen to it, he would have listened to the end.
Besides, Ciri and Joshua were not the only ones affected. Even the performers themselves were affected. The duke’s fingers were already covered in frost, and he had to move them to get rid of it.
“It is a necessary effect of the performance.”
The Duke of Bones did not deny Joshua’s claims.