<h4>Chapter 129</h4>


    Early next morning.


    Joshua arrived outside Madam Schroder’s mansion in a horse carriage. A rare asion, Ciri had ‘slept in’ today. Because of that, Joshua was alone.


    Last night, Joshua wrote a letter to Madam Schroder informing her that he will pay her a visit today. Because of that, the middle-aged butler was already waiting for Joshua’s arrival.


    Joshua followed the middle-aged butler into Madam Schroder’s mansion. A rxing yet passionate singing voice sounded from within the mansion.


    The middle-aged butler brought Joshua back to the study. Madam Schroder was sitting on her desk writing something. When Joshua walked in, she raised her head.


    “You mentioned in the letter that your visitation today is for the sake of ‘Léon: The Demon’s’ music apaniment?”


    Madam Schroder stopped writing and looked at Joshua. Joshua nodded his head in response.


    “Like how stage ys needed to be adorned with music, music is also extremely important for movies,” said Joshua.


    “Colum, bring over the musical scores.”


    Before Joshua could bring out the musical scores he wrotest night, Madam Schroder ordered the middle-aged butler to take out a thick and heavy book from something resembling a safe.


    The middle-aged butler even put on white gloves before touching the book. With how stern he looked, it was as if that book recorded some sort of taboo magic.


    The thick book was ced on the table before Joshua. The middle-aged butler opened the book. What was recorded in the book was not magic. Instead, they were songs, pages of songspiled by theposers of this world.


    “Mister Joshua, go ahead and pick a couple that you feel is suitable for the movie,” said Madam Schroder.


    Even though the country of Nond had a semi-modern political system like a parliamentary republic, the other countries still possess an absolute monarchy or constitutional monarchy for their political systems.


    In other words, the social ss system with nobles still exists in this world. Fari was one such country. Because of that, most of the songsposed by theposers from Fari were privately owned. Only after receiving theposers’ permission would a choir or orchestra be allowed to perform their songs.


    Ifmoners, wandering minstrels or bards dared to publicly perform the music of a certain importantposer, they could be punished or even imprisoned.


    In a nutshell, that was the music ‘copyright’ of this world.


    Fortunately, the majority of theposers were very open-minded. Take ‘Seron’s Song’ that was being performed in Madam Schroder’s mansion for example, it was a song that could be sung by anyone.


    It was no wonder the butler was so stern when he was flipping through the pages of this book of musical scores. Those musical scores were all the works hand written by famousposers. If this was earth, it would be akin to a collection of musical drafts from Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert and other renowned ssical musicposers.


    In several tens of years, merely an iplete piece of paper from the many pages ofpositions in that book would be able to sell for hundreds of thousands on the inte.


    Of course, that was considering that the people of this world were ‘idle’ with ‘nothing to do’ like the people on earth.


    “Madam Schroder, I thank you for your consideration. But, I’ve already written the musical apaniments for ‘Léon: The Demon.’”


    By showing Joshua the book of musical scores, Madam Schroder’s intention was extremely clear. She was basically telling him that he can use any of the scores in that book. Her behavior was simply that of a tyrannic female CEO.


    However, Joshua tactfully declined Madam Schroder’s kind intentions. If he wanted to remake ‘Léon: The Demon’ as faithful to the original as possible, he must use the original scores for the movie.


    “You’ve already written the musical apaniments?”


    Madam Schroder narrowed her brows at Joshua’s response. It wasn’t that Madam Schroder was looking down upon Joshua. It’s just that Joshua was simply too young. Even though he was a demon, he does not give off the airs of an older person from his every action.


    In Fari, the masterposers were all old fellows over fifty years of age. Of course, there were some geniuses that were able to grab fate by the throat. Unfortunately, those geniuses were from other countries.


    But, art does not distinguish national borders. The book of musical scores Madam Schroder presented to Joshua contained masterpieces from masterposers all over the world. She does not believe that Joshua’spositions would be able to match those masterpieces.


    “That’s correct.”


    Joshua took out the pile of musical scores he wrotest night and handed them to the middle-aged butler. The middle-aged butler passed the musical scores to Madam Schroder. Madam Schroder began to flip through the pages.


    “I don’t believe a movie’s musical apaniments needed to be outstanding on their own right. The most important thing is whether or not it suits the movie.”


    Except for special circumstances, no one will bother to pay attention to a movie’s soundtracks while watching the movie. Perhaps a certain scene would be vivid in one’s mind after watching the movie. But, generally, the audience would have forgotten about the soundtracks by then.


    The most important aspect for musical apaniments in movies was to set the atmosphere.


    “I understand what you’re saying.”


    Madam Schroder was the person who had made the ck Swan Theatrical Troupe into what they’ve be today. When writing scripts for stageys, she had personally hiredposers topose scene-specific music.


    Unfortunately, Madam Schroder did not bring with her any famousposer to Nond. If she was to return to Fari, it would take several weeks of travel. That was why she told Joshua to pick musical scores from the book to apany the movie.


    Madam Schroder began to focus on Joshua’s musical scores. As she was a person well learned in music theory, her fingers began to rhythmically tap her desk as she read the scores.


    The several scores for background music were quite normal. They would only be said to be pleasant to the ears. It did not bring about a shocking sensation to Madam Schroder like when she read the script for ‘Léon: The Demon.’


    But, as they were the musical apaniments for a movie and Joshua was so young, Madam Schroder would instead find it unbelievable if Joshua managed to produce musical scores capable of stunning her.


    It was only with thest score that Madam Schroder felt an urge after reading it. The song was titled ‘Shape Of My Heart.’ It was the only song with lyrics.


    “Is this all the songs?”


    Madam Schroder put down the thick amount of papers. Overall, apart from the song for the end credits, she was slightly disappointed with the rest of the musical scores. Having seen the masterpieces from many of thete masterposers, it was very hard to satisfy Madam Schroder with those musical apaniments.


    “I actually have another song. However, that is not a musical apaniment for ‘Léon: The Demon.’”


    Joshua took out the musical scores for ‘Star Sky.’ Even though it was a single song, it took up a pile of papers. The middle-aged butler passed along that pile of papers to Madam Schroder.


    A single song? Seeing the confident look on Joshua’s face, Madam Schroder picked up the score expecting to have the thought of criticizing him afterwards. But, once the instruments for the song began ying in her mind, she started feeling her blood burning hot...


    “Mister Joshua, speak your price.”


    After taking several minutes to skim through the song, Madam Schroder ced down the pile of papers and took a deep breath. After calming down her emotions, she entered the state of a tyrannic female CEO again.


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