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All of the noise seemed to fade away completely as Nagisa pulled the pin of Khanda from his lapel.

"♪ Zhìhuì zhī rèn Khanda zzizl... ♫"

...and in a flash of blinding light, Mirage Skarn made his entrance on the scene.

"Find a place to hide! Metal and I will take care of the rest!"

He turned and moved to follow Araki, his running footsteps loud and heavy in his extremely thick armor.

"Got it. Keep him still, Araki."

Nagisa edged closer to the struggling Taro, looking for a good opening to dart in and inject him.

"Nothing good, Hagane."

Nagisa glanced over at Kazuma, one hand going to Khanda pinned at his lapel.

"Do you want to check it out, or do you want the pair of us to look around?"

Nagisa focused his icy glare on the man in black. The other one was clearly just a misguided fan who had probably been talked into the scheme, which meant this guy was probably the brains behind whatever operation this was actually all about.

"Amanojaku trouble or regular trouble?"

Nagisa adjusted his coat again but kept his hand near the lapel Khanda was pinned to, just in case.

"A song in your heart, huh...?"

Nagisa looked down as he walked, thinking. He wondered if there was such a thing - a single composition that could encompass the whole of one's existence. Surely there must be - the rhythms of day to day life, the melodies of unexpected encounters, the crescendo and fall of relationships, but to summarize all of that in a mere five or six minutes? What lyrics could relay, what instruments could play the tune of even a single human's breadth and depth of existence? To try to encapsulate the whole of the human experience was a staggeringly monumental undertaking.

He was brought back to reality at Araki pointing at him, and he chuckled and shook his head.

"I would prefer if she did no such thing. You're capable of these thoughts on your own, Araki."

"...Hmm."

Nagisa put his hands in his coat pockets and looked up for a moment as he thought.

"...Very military minded - almost the opposite of us, I would say, or at least me. They put the fighting of Amanojaku ahead of the show - not that there's anything wrong with that, but I would say we're the better performers."

He laughed softly, eyes closed.

"Not to downplay our own abilities, of course. We've been pretty successful at that ourselves. But I think, more so than just combating these demons, we're here to entertain and make everyone's day brighter. Give them an escape from all of their worries and troubles. That's what being a musician, an idol - a Mirager - is to me."