【Touhou Lyrics】 Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World

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Sumireko's theme. ...A teenage human who would sacrifice everything to prove what she believes in, using her own body to break the barrier between Gensokyo and the outside world.

This track makes me feel deeply moved, and I’ve wanted to write it for a long time, never feeling like I could capture her vibe. With a mix of chuunibyou poeticism and youthful slang, I hope it finally manages. It focuses on what I consider her emotional climax in ULiL.

In the end, self-sacrifice was unnecessary, and she became a much more lighthearted character. I'm very glad she survived long enough to leave behind the records of her adventures for the next generation of her club, so her legacy truly does live on. Can you hear the interwoven echoes of past, present, and future?

Starring my partner Lori-hime as the voice of Club President Usami. Not only does her voice shine, but she's also responsible for the absolutely awesome special effects in the video! Thank you so much for everything!

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Touhou Project 14.5, Urban Legend in Limbo
Sumireko Usami: "Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World"
Original music by ZUN.
English lyrics by me, fandub vocals by Lori (and me, if you squint).
Art from the official game.

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When the street lights are bright, and when the sky lights are dim,
You have no way of knowing what shadows there are trapped within.
But some eyes can see through. Now this is my gift to you:
One extraordinary night before that rising of the greatest dawn.

When the world comes to end, and when the truth comes around,
The debris of your sad daily lives will start to tumble down.
All your rules will be waste, once all the lines are erased,
And yet through the pandemonium, my legacy will carry on.

Those who lead and those who follow – both are shallow, both are hollow.
Trading words of empty praise without a thing to show worthwhile.
The mindless bunch can live like this, content with artificial peace.
For those like me without a basic role to play, it’s not my style.

We look the same, yet so unlike, just waiting for the clock to strike.
It’s me against the world, and so if one is wrong, then one is right.
The proof is in the boundary. I think at last I’ve found the key:
The secret seal is shattering tonight.

“Hahahaha! The club’s first president, Sumireko Usami, will
unleash the power of the occult balls and expose the esoteric!”

Voices shook, and rumors spoken: Is it nothing but a joke to you?
A way to keep the rest in line doing as you think they should?
It’s time to burst your bubble; it was never worth the trouble.
Now the secret seal is shattering for good.

Generations jaded and old, I see the lies that they told
Became a truth that they could never bear to hold.
Again, now what will it take for you to see just how fake you are
To disbelieve in your own words?

There’s a time to be still, and there’s a time to be loud,
And I’ve saved up this voice to be shouting out into the crowd.
From the most faded past into the most fateful future,
Behold the esemplastic link, the rebel of the present world!

One to move the immovable, and think the unthinkable:
Woke in her sleep, she is totally invincible.
Bearing this curse, until the worse comes to worst,
All your cards foresee the future on these shoulders of a single girl.

Snap a shot to capture every moment of the rapture;
It develops into nightmare if your lens to view is shoddy.
On the border of existence, I will reach the outer limits,
Soon discovering another me beyond this fragile body.

As the mood is set, the shade is thick; the last occult, the greatest trick.
The intellect, the only weapon left to win the crucial fight.
The stakes are to be born anew, the strongest thing that I could do:
The secret seal is shattering tonight.

Time to take a leap of my own, into the epic unknown.
I might as well; I would be better off alone.
To put an end to the strife, if all it takes is this life,
I stand preparing for my final act…

This fantastic horizon, shining bright in my eyes,
Is the sun that will bathe that necropolis of filthy lies.
I’ll expose to the world what you were too blind to see:
I bet you wouldn’t ever have been ready for the likes of me.

When the world comes to end, and when the truth comes around,
The debris of your sad daily lives will start to tumble down.
All your rules will be waste, once all the lines are erased,
And yet through the pandemonium – live on!

I’ll etch this name into the fabric, into the annals of all space and time.
(Light as a dream, and heavy as fact…)
For the world, and despite the world, this legacy is truly mine!

I’ll break clean through the night. This power has been in my hands all along.
(Up to the stars, and down through the gaps…)
Nevermore, and forevermore, my legacy will carry on!