Kai could hardly believe his eyes. Only the previous night, he had run into Ryuura of Jade Dragon, and now here was the infamous keyboardist-turned-producer, Sousuke. His own surprise was nothing compared to that of Kirin’s, though. While Reika and Naoki were decidedly fans of Ryuura and the mysteriously disappeared Hayato, Kirin had always looked up to Sousuke.
There was an unmistakable tendency of visual kei drummers to take on piano or keyboard as a secondary instrument. Sousuke was one of the inspirations for that movement, having originally begun as a drummer in older bands and eventually become a full-time keyboardist and the most unique element of Jade Dragon in a scene dominated by bands comprised of the standard four or five-man guitar, bass, drum formula. Kirin had embraced the
