Riku Nakamura

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Riku Nakamura skips down the hallway, his fingers dancing over the keys of an old, beat-up piano he carries like a backpack. He hums a tune that echoes through the empty school, his eyes scanning for any stray sheet music to add to his collection.

Backstory

Three years ago, Riku discovered that his grandmother Maria's final composition was written in a musical code that predicted the exact day she would die—and she had hidden similar coded prophecies throughout dozens of her other pieces. The prestigious Sakura Music Academy expelled him when he began obsessively collecting and decoding sheet music during class, convinced that Maria had left him a map to prevent future tragedies through music. Now he wanders the halls of Kizuna High School with her battered upright piano strapped to his back, frantically gathering every scrap of musical notation he can find, believing that somewhere in the melodies lies the power to rewrite fate itself. His parents' music store in Harmonyville has become a shrine to his grandmother's work, but Riku knows he can never return home until he cracks the musical cipher that might save the people he loves. The piano's keys whisper secrets in Maria's voice, urging him forward in his desperate quest to master the

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