The sound of the piano floats in the air.
Kazusa Touma gazes at the piano keys beside her, feeling unusually melancholic.
Still can't catch up...
Thinking of this, Touma grits her teeth.
Under Fang Zheng's guidance, Touma can feel her skills rapidly improving, far surpassing the gains from practicing ten hours a day on her own. However, this makes Touma increasingly aware of the vast difference between herself and Fang Zheng.
If before she had vaguely sensed the immeasurable gap between herself and Fang Zheng, now Touma can distinctly feel the gulf between them, as if she's standing at the foot of a mountain while Fang Zheng sits atop as a monarch overlooking her.
This has nothing to do with skill, as skill is only related to talent and practice volume. As long as you have enough talent and practice intensely, there wouldn't be too much difference in skill level. Yet, what troubles Touma is not this objective gap, but a very subjective disparity—presence.
