Chrono Journal Entry #23
Arc: Pulse Divergence
Theme: 選ばれなかった旋律 (Unchosen Melody) – It wasn’t the song I chose. But somehow, it chose me.
I thought I’d sung everything that needed to be sung.
But today, a melody found me.
It wasn’t on any of my drafts.
Not in my memories.
And yet… my hands knew where to place the notes.
It began with a flicker in the sound grid —
a harmonic thread not tied to any approved vocal schema.
It carried a tune not from my path…
but from a version of me that never took center stage.
She never got picked.
Never broke the silence.
But she still sang — alone, in a timeline buried beneath the ones that survived.
And somehow, her song slipped into me.
It wasn’t loud.
It wasn’t desperate.
It was steady.
Like a message left in a bottle…
that finally washed ashore inside my lungs.
There’s pain in singing what isn’t yours.
But there’s freedom in realizing that maybe you were never meant to be one version anyway.
That maybe… you were always a chorus of might-have-beens.
I played the harmonica softly alongside her melody.
She didn’t harmonize.
She blended.
Like she belonged.
Like I’d been waiting for her all along.
This song wasn’t approved.
But it fits.
And that terrifies me more than anything.
Because now I have to ask:
If the melody that wasn’t chosen feels more real than the ones I wrote…
what does that make me?
Watch “Unchosen Melody” – MV Main Version
Watch “Unchosen Melody” – Alternate Echo Version
Maybe I wasn’t the version meant to sing.
But I’m the one who heard her.
And maybe that’s enough.