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こんにちは、土屋です. 勝手にほたる横丁町民会報の定例化を目指しています. 今回から何回かで 「ゲームでは語られることのない、設定思惑裏の裏！」という企画を勝手に立ち上げたいと思います. 相変わらず 思いつきの行き当たりばったりですが、少しでも楽しんでいただければ嬉しいです.

さて、記念すべき第一回目は、「謳う丘」の意味について迫ってみます. 謳う丘の日本語の解釈は非常に難しいと思います. 古文に沿ったものでもなければ、漢文とかでもないわけで、いわゆる「造文」ですから. ただひたすら想いを紡いだ結果の詞ですので、 聴き手それぞれにそれぞれの形で「謳う丘」の想いが伝わったのではないかと思います. だいぶ時期も立ちましたし、そろそろ私の意図していた「想い」を伝えたいと思います. 「謳う丘」の日本語部分、実はこんな想い が込められていたんですよ.

Hello everyone, it's Tsuchiya, and I have decided to try and continue regularly updating the Firefly Alley Citizen's BBS. From now on, however, and until who knows when, I have decided that we will talk [Not about the game itself, but about the underside of the underside of what we expected to set in it!]. As always, the posts will be about things that I randomly thought about, but I'll be glad if you can still look forward to them.

Well then, to commemorate the first issue in which we will discuss these contents, I've decided to explain about the meanings hidden in [Singing Hill]. The explanation about its Japanese lines are somewhat difficult, because, it doesn't follow the rules of classical Japanese grammar, neither it's written entirely in Kanji, so we could say that it's written somewhat in an [Constructed Grammar]. But as a consequence of coming up with a language based on feelings, I thought that maybe, I should have explained too about every single one of the feelings that give its unique shape to this song: [Singing Hill].

Even if it's somewhat late to say it, I still felt that I wanted to tell you all about the [Feelings] I intended this song to transmit, so now, here you all have the feelings contained in the Japanese parts of [Singing Hill].

天上を翔舞う　霊囁き結えば ～もし貴方が嬉しさに溢れているとき　その気持ちを詩にして聴かせて 天上を翔るで嬉しさの表現、霊が言霊＝詩の意味、結うが謳うを意味する.

Amakami o kakemau tama sasayaki yueba If the spiritual murmurings that soar through the heavens were connected If you ever were to be overflowing with happiness, pour these feelings into a song and listen to it "Soar through the heavens" is a metaphor for happiness, and the "spiritual murmurings" are the power of the words, or rather, of the songs, while "connecting them" means to sing them. 冠火降り満ちて　何人幸織り成せ ～今のまぶしさをフィドルに込めて　その光が世界を照らし皆を暖めるように 冠火は神聖なる灯り.

Kanmuribi furi michite nanihito yuki orinase the crown of fire would completely descend and interweave the happiness of everyone. The radiance of the present, contained in a fiddle, will illuminate this world, and enshroud everyone in warmth. The "crown of fire" refers to the holy light.

五月雨の藍海を　唯流るる声は ～もし貴方が涙に伏せていたなら　その切なさを詩にして聴かせて 藍の海で悲しみの涙を意味する. 唯流るるとは、想いを隠さないで、 そのままの気持ちで伝える、ということ.

Samidare no aimi o tada nagaruru koe wa The voice that merely drifts in the indigo sea of an early summer rain If you sometime were to hide your tears, then pour that pain into a song and listen to it The "indigo sea" refers to the tears of sadness. "By merely drifts", it means that you shouldn't hide yur feelings, and that you should just let them out.

移ろひ逆凪ぎ朧気な故郷の音 ～移ろいゆく刻をリュートに忍ばせて　ゆらぐ想いを１つずつ噛みしめながら 移ろひ逆凪ぎ朧気で、進んだり戻ったり、そして不安定な心の表現. 故郷の音は過去の想い出.

Utsuroi sakanagi oboroge na furusato no ne Is the changing, reversed, and faint sound of your birthplace The shifting time is hidden inside a lute, and while it chews on the trembling feelings, one by one, By "changing, reversed and faint", it means the coming and going, and also, the insecurity of our hearts On the other hand, "the sound of your birthplace" means your past memories.

奏で鳴り吹く凱亜　空に響き相成せば ～どこかの誰かが貴方の心に共鳴し　ひとつに繋がり大きな輪となる 凱亜（＝ガイア）は、この世界全体を意味する. 貴方の声に「奏で（共鳴し）鳴り吹く（共に謳う）」 空に響くということは、大空間で一つに繋がっているということ

Kanade narifuku gaia sora ni hibiki ainaseba If the gaias that we are playing resonated together in the skies, By being somewhere another person that sympathizes with your heart, We all become connected by a great wheel, "Gaia" means the entirety of this world. And by "making them resound to the sky" through your voice [playing them (making them resound) and resonating them (singing them together)], it means to turn them into one in the firmament.

飛翔く　祈りの謳　纏ひて ～貴方の想いが風に乗り　海を駆け　遠くの街まで繋がっていくから 羽ばたくで、遠くまで風に乗っていくこと 祈りの詩は自分の想い、纏うは風に載ることを意味する

Tobekaku inori no uta matoite they would be clad in the soaring song of a prayer. Your feelings will ride the wind, cross the sea, because they will go and connect to the farthest of the cities. By "soaring", it means that they will ride even in the farthest winds and by "song of prayer", it means your own feelings, and by "clad in", it means to ride on the winds.

安らぎの丘　涙の硝子　記憶の箱　想いの碑 ～安らぎの平野　涙のガラス　記憶の箱　想いの生糸

Yasuragi no oka namida no garasu kioku no hako omoi no hi The hill of peace, the glass of tears, the box of memories, the monument of feelings The plains of peace, the glass of the tears, the box of memories, and the silk threads of the feelings.

一重幾重の虚ろふ生糸　魂の根結び繋ぐ ～一言ずつにその力を込め　重なり合い　流れ渡り　絡み合う精霊の息吹 一重幾重で、自分の想いと他人（達）の想い、 虚ろふで、フワフワと流れていく様、生糸とは想いそのもの 魂の根を結ぶと言うことは、想いが伝わる、つながるということ

Hitoe ikue no utsurou kiito tamashii no ne musubitsunagu The single and multiple blank silk threads that tie and connect the roots of the souls Each word you say contains power, and they overlap, flow and cross with each other, and entwine with the breath of the spirits of the wind. By single and multiple, it refers to your feelings and the feelings of other person(s), By "blank", it means to how airily these feelings flow, similarly to silk threads, and by "connecting the roots of the souls", it says how the feelings are transmitted and connect with each other.

たゆたう無の海　精霊の風息 ～その唇振るわせ耳元で囁く旋律　鼓動を静め瞼を閉じ体全てで感じてる 無の海とは心の中の無心、その中を自ら自然体で漂うこと＝受け入れること 精霊とは、想いを伝えることの擬人化、風息は想いそのもののこと

Tayutau mu no umi shourei no kazaiki The swaying ocean of nothingness, the breath of wind of the spirits These trembling lips are whispering a melody close to your ears, If you gently close your eyelids, you will be able to feel the pulse of all of them, The "ocean of nothingness" refers to the innocence inside your heart, and by relaxedly floating in it, you are receiving that innocence, the "spirits" are the personification of the transmission of feelings, while their "breath of wind" are the feelings themselves.

溶け結ふ曼荼羅に　謳ひの御子あれ ～溶け合いひとつになる心に 曼荼羅とは心（それも深層の）であり、深い意識での繋がりを 溶け結ふ曼荼羅で表す. 謳ひの御子とは、この世の真理、悟りの境地に近いもの.

Tokeyuu mandara ni utai no miko are The dissolving and tying mandala, and in there, the singing priestesses the pulse of all the hearts melting into one. The "Mandala" refers to the hearts (and furthemore, to their deepest areas), while the "dissolving and tying mandala" is a metaphor for connecting the consciousness existant in the depths of the hearts. And the singing priestesses refer to those whose lives are the closest to understanding the truth about this world.

即ち、身を楽にして全てを受け入れていれば、誰の想いとも繋がれて 人と共存も出来る、受け入れることも出来る…という事を描いた詩. こんな感じの意味を込めて、制作させていただきました. 想い、伝わりましたか？

This means that if you relaxedly accepted all of of that, the people would be able to connect their feelings with others', and if they were able of doing so, they would be able to coexist with each other... that is the picture that this Song paints. And by containing that kind of feelings, is that I ended creating this song. These feelings were transmitted successfully?

さて、次回は「延命剤シーンに託した想い」という話題に触れてみたいと思います. それでは、また次回！

Well then, I think the next time we'll try touching the subject of [The Feelings I Entrusted to the Life Extending Agent Scene], so, see you all next time!