Where we tell the story of a heart, a lost heart, a lying heart, a royal heart ... The little prince is officially dead and his true destiny remains hidden. The child's body was autopsied by a doctor and buried. Years later, the same doctor declares that he took the child's heart and a lock of his hair ... this little mummified heart is kept in a crystal reliquary ... in 1975, this heart was moved in the Basilica of St Denis, with his parents and with all the Kings of France.

Meanwhile the real Louis XVII became a vampire and Prince of the night.

He lives his secret in solitude, and yet in the hubbub of Parisian nights he gets drunk on blood at the Moulin Rouge, dances, music and vibrations ...

... he is the midnight shepherd!

And yet in this night a secret bet is played in Paris, their secret is hers and it which takes place every night ...  

Vampire but also King by birth, Louis wants to conquer a territory and the hearts of men.
Louis tramples on his past, he has become a wild beast, a lion. He creates an army which displays under the moon while flags are displayed. He wants to take his Bastille, arrest the devil, destroy it to create his future kingdom.
His army will be warlike and spiritual. He claims to be of the order of the Rose Croix his beautiful empire will also have the hearts of men.

The soldiers are chosen, at night during a dream ... They know that they will die. The vampire chooses them, they are special and delicious, their existence is miraculous and he will keep them until the end. They are finally parading under the moon ... army of shadows ... army of monsters ?

He sets out to conquer an empire but his soul is also questioned, Louis is tormented and prays to heaven. He is alone but he has chosen his destiny and will not give up.
Alone he wanders in the night, under the caress of the wind alone at the Champs-Elysées ... Tears run down his rain. He likes. He was enlightened, dazzled ... his empty heart is invaded by feelings that do not disappear, his heart awakens again.

He cries because admitting his love is also leading him to his loss.
The Night King has lost his heart and yet this meeting will make him forget his forgotten feelings… he loves, he is in love… she is human and their love is prohibited by the law of the Clan.

They meet at night ... At the edge of a lake under the stars, bats land like butterflies on his cold shoulder, he would like to be reflected in his eyes forever but the dawn near always sounds their separation. She has given him back his lost heart and he finally understands the meaning of love feeling miraculous and is ready to lose his soul again to have his love.
She is human, she loves him but suffers from their difference and suffers from their separation each morning. He always suddenly appears and leaves her with only a tender word ... Just a moment longer ... she sighed ... at first it was enough for her but she longed for eternity, to be by her side every moment. Dawn and separation left her empty and sad. She alone understood her warmth, the burning ice of her love under her cold embrace. 

The heart is a territory prohibited by the law of the clan.

Louis wants to live his dream whatever anyone says, even if it displeases.
The opinion of others does not concern him.
Just a step separates him from his shattered dream behind the mirror.

Like a fallen angel, he set foot on forbidden territory and he takes his beloved with him with him to hell.

No matter how hard he tried, his feelings did not change.
There is no one to support him, no matter what he will oppose them to live their love.

She knows that she is changing, that if her dream unites with hers another reality will be born from them. She leads an internal fight and holds back her tears. In her heart blows the wind of revolution, soon she will be at the door of her destiny.

Clan law prohibits love. Louis is a vampire, she is human, like his friend he committed the same sin of loving a human being.

The Count is dead and a crowd gathers around the head of the deceased like hyenas attracted to death.

In the Count's gallery of paintings hides the "young coal girl" in a corner, knife in hand.

Secret meeting in the garden, at night, where Louis, in silence and without saying anything fascinated by the beauty of the eyes of his beloved, hugs him and drinks his blood. Their love will freeze forever in eternity. A forbidden love that only the stars have witnessed ...

No more feeling, no suffering, no pleasure ...

Heart is a special album. Listening to it seems quite heterogeneous in musical genres and seems to lack homogeneity at first glance.
When you read Koichiro Kokubun's Liner (Japanese philosopher and academic) and the lyrics, things change. The lyrics tell of the two sides of the character. On the one hand the warrior vampire, the King who creates an army of shadows, on the other a Vampire who lives a love story with a mortal. Always a lot of melancholy, and above all a certain solitude which emerges from this album.

The album begins with the King side "Long live the King" it is an acclamation and almost a battle cry. It is the foundation of the Vampire Empire, he sets out to conquer a kingdom and the hearts of men. It therefore begins in a warlike manner. We recall the fate of the Vampire in another version of "La Vie en Rose" which recalls the passage of Louis to the state of Vampire; the miracle of life, he is alive and well.

"Death Parade" seems to have two levels of reading. A first military band, he formed his army and recruited. We can see a second level of different reading through the prism of Aestheticism which could have a different interpretation in terms of recruits and the nature of this army. The soldier could be contracted and would be active after his death. The missing corpses would be the energetic soldiers? "You're going to die it's clear (...) Even if you wake up (...) Follow the parade (...) You are special (...) I will keep you until the end. (…)

Yamiyo no Lion / Bastille / Death Parade / Rose Croix are "warrior" songs but also spiritual with "Rose Croix" which speaks more of mysticism. He sets out to conquer an empire but his soul is also questioned, Louis is tormented and prays to heaven.

“Unmeï” is a fairly mystical song that sounds like a prayer to heaven, to God?

"Moulin Rouge" tells of a festive life in the middle of Parisian nights, of "orgies" of blood, but also an encounter, a secret between two people. This assumption is reinforced for me by the presence on the single of "Moulin Rouge" of "Tsuiyoku no Mon Amour" on the single and the album. Vampire in love in "Romantique" where we see the evocation of a love story. The place of the lovers' nocturnal reunion is the edge of a lake under the stars, it is not without evoking the lake of Reminiscence of "Lillie Charlotte" where the two lovers found themselves and where they confessed their love.
The songs tell this story from two points of view: that of Louis in "Romantic" and "Sanctuary" and that of his beloved in "Dakishimerare Nagara" and "Katate ni Yume wo Motsu Shoujou". The two suffer from the situation, their love is prohibited and a choice arises for them.

The Night King has lost his heart and yet this meeting will make him forget his forgotten feelings… he loves, he is in love… she is human and their love is prohibited by the law of the Clan. What clan? That of Versailles? (See "The Revenant Choir"), we must admit that this notion of "Clan" challenges and tickles our memories ...

Sanctuary speaks of forbidden territory, a territory that may be that of the heart and love, the fallen angel would be Louis.
St Denis is seen as a sanctuary, so the place where the heart is safe by the liner but the text within Heart can be seen as a vision of the situation of the two lovers against all odds.

The words of Sanctuary: "In the way to lead to my dream, regardless of the opinions that will pursue me. I will do as it is do not concern me, I will say nothing !" For me in the context of romance we can interpret this as : I will live my love in secret, regardless of the contrary opinions that pursue me.
"The fallen angel had put his feet on the Forbidden Territory. Possession of you completely now, him dismantling you to the devil" he is the fallen angel and he has trod the forbidden territory of the heart, territory forbidden by the Clan. He completely has his beloved and takes him with him to hell.

Heart's words: "Ah, I committed the same sin as my friend. I pray to the Heart, love. The Heart is a territory prohibited by the law of the clan", this is the evocation of the clan of which I spoke above and which explains the complicated situation of the lovers. "Ah I committed the same sin as my friend" he committed the same sin of Beethoven? Did he make a vampire? He loved a human since Beethoven loved humans ...? So is sin love?
"The heart is a territory prohibited by the law of the clan" This sentence supports the thesis that love is the sin committed. But the heart is also the heart of Louis XVII this heart mummified and deposited in a sanctuary which is St Denis but as he speaks of "the love of the Heart" I lean more for the love of a human.
As for the Count, the evocation of the Count of St Germain, mystical and supposedly immortal in the Pamphlet of Epic Rock Orchestra in 2017 can give a clue about the identity of the Count of Heart.
In this text we also evoke "the girl from coal" I do not know Japanese but it could be an awkward translation of a more symbolic image.
 

"Secretly taken in the middle of the night in the garden. His throat turns red when he hugs him tightly without saying anything as usual." (...) "So the two for eternity, an endless love. Who feels neither sadness nor pleasure, who does not feel anything anymore. Doesn't feel anything anymore": he bit his beloved. Has she become a vampire or is she dead? Like Flowery in Versailles?
Did he kill her to spare her the punishment of the Clan's law? No longer feeling anything can be seen as death, but he himself became a vampire and felt nothing. The song speaks a lot about the looks exchanged by the two lovers, like Romantique. Which reminds the silent exchange by the look between Lillie and Jérémie in LAREINE's album.