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[The picture starts on a stack of quiet a few thin books. Closer inspection would reveal that they are apparently collections of piano music. Some music lover seems to have lucked out and found these for dirt cheap somewhere since they're next to useless in this place.

Right as people may begin questioning who is doing this, a kitten that's appeared on screen before walks up and starts curiously poking at the books with her nose. A hand reaches in to grab her as the tablet is seemingly placed against the books due to the odd angle it holds for a few moments.]

Hey, be careful with those!

[The voice, if recognizable, is oddly soft and gentle despite the chastising. Like he was hoping no one would hear that. Oops.

Finally the video sharply turns to show a very serious looking Elliot as Arietta squirms from his grasp onto his shoulder.]

Does anyone know who these people are?! Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky... [He probably mispronounced a few of those.] There are dozens of these guys and I've never heard of any of them! Do all of them live in this place?!

[Elliot seems to think that finding out this information is incredibly important from the tone in his voice.]

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That's obvious! But how much did they compose? Where are they from? Information like that.

How do you not know who Mozart was? Ugh.

Anyway, Mozart and Beethoven were both Germans, Tchaikovsky's Russian and Chopin's Polish, I think. They all lived like two hundred years ago or something and they're pretty much some of the most famous composers of classical music!

Seriously, how can you not have even heard of them before?

Did you pay any attention when you arrived here? People come here from different places and they don't exist where I'm from. So despite that, they are prominent musicians here? I'm surprised it was readily available if this was written for the upper tier of society.

Maybe it was for the upper class like two hundred years ago. Now it's available in pretty much any music store.

Or it was, anyway.

I see. Were music stores common before this war began?

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