Drama CD - Dramatic Image Album III ~Schwarz I

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Dramatic Image Album III - Schwarz I
Schwarz Drama cd 1
schwarz ~ ein

Translated by Jey Kama

Thanks to KojiRose for the MP3s and scans to work from to get this translated.

Translator's Note: The first thing I apologize for is the age of my world atlas, as it dates from the early 1960s, so it is tres difficult for me to locate the smaller locations mentioned by only sound, and we all know how butchered German gets when translated into Japanese. The drama takes place in the vicinity of Munich, Germany, and the Bavarian Alps and Austrian border just to the south. Farblos ('colorless', in German) is mentioned as the commander of Rosenkrüs (I know it's not a word X_x but no, it's not Rosenkreuz. It's pronounced "rozenkreus"), but never appears as a character. Bern is the capitol of Switzerland.

... And even if it's "not Germanically correct", I'm NOT using Schuldig instead of Schuldich X_x I'm just being illogical about this, so live with it.

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Track 1: Koyasu's monologue

Love - Some call Love the most beautiful thing. Hah, don't be absurd. The beauty is but a mask. Beneath Love's sultry layers lies rapine greed, festering in endless gloom. It breeds vanity, leeching, and gravid hate. The ignorant believe such things to be Love. But I... I believe not in Love... not in "love"...

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Track 2: OP: Monochrome ni Somari-yuku Machi

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Track 3

TV Male Reporter: And now, for the weather forecast in the Bavarian region...

TV Female Reporter: Certainly. The Munich vicinity will have clear skies throughout the morning, but because of the dry weather we're having, there will be some clouds around noon. In the eve~

[The TV shorts out in loud protest. Schuldich grunts unhappily.]

Schuldich: Hn, what's going on? A power outage?

Nagi: No, it's Farfarello. His body is absorbing all of the house power.

Crawford: His body feels no pain... but maybe the electricity evokes some shadow of feeling.

Schuldich: Shit, he makes me sick.

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[Miniature lightning arcs as Farfarello applies the electrodes to himself.]

Farfarello: Uuh.... uoooh...

[His thoughts are interrupted by a ghostly female voice...]

Voice: Who are you?

Farfarello: Huh?

Voice: You, there. Who are you?

Farfarello: And you... what are you?

Voice: Why... why do you suffer so?

Farfarello: ... Snow... I can see snow... Where is this?! The... Alps? If so...

[The vision is interrupted by an intensified surge of electricity.]

Farfarello: AaaaaahhH!!!!!!!

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[In the Bavarian Alps, amidst the roar of artillery...]

Rudolf: Sally!!

[Some fire comes a little too close for comfort]

Rudolf: Sally! Don't just stand there!

Sally: Wha'?

Rudolf: Are you all right? Get in this army bike before they can catch up to us!

Sally: Okay!

[In the surrounding mess, a pigeon coos and flutters]

Sally: Look! Why's there a pigeon over there?

Rudolf: [sucking in his breath] It's Colonel Amlisch's!

[He kicks on the accelerator, and drives the bike away from pursuit.]
[Somewhere else in the vicinity, a pigeon alights on an older man's finger]

Amlisch: Good girl, Nina. You did a good job finding them.

[The motorcycle chase continues, punctuated by occasional gunbursts.]

Rudolf: Hahhahhah, dumb shits!

Sally: Ah!

[The fire comes very close...]

Rudolf: Sally?! It's that damn Sergei!!

[Pulling up from the rear, a man named Sergei concentrates, growling in a strangely distorted crescendo.]

Sergei: Haaaa!!

[Struck by an immense telekinetic force, Rudolf's bike careens, but somehow stays up.]

Sergei: Haaaa!!

[Things explode around them, and a woman leaps into the air.]

Silvia: Haaa!!!

Sally: Silvia's flying towards us!

Sergei: Nnnn.... Haaaa!!

[His blast throws a mess in Sally's way, and she screams]

Rudolf: Sally! Step on the gas!
Sally: Right!

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[The howling wind can't disguise the continuing sound of gunfire. Rudolf and Sally run, but he brings them to a halt, setting up a shelter against the wind inside of an abandoned shack.]

Sally: What is it? Why are we stopping?

Rudolf: Sally, if you can face the danger, Germany's just over there. We'll rendezvous at that church in Munich come morning, but I'm going to stop them here.
Sally: N...No!

Rudolf: Farblos is one of Rosenkrüs's most talented commanders. He'll be right on our heels. If we don't deal with them now, we'll never be free!

Sally: [almost sobbing] Rudolf!!

Rudolf: [softly] I'll be fine. I was one of Farblos's captains, after all, I won't beaten so easily... and I have to face them.

Sally: [shouting] You can't!!

Rudolf: Just go! Hurry and go!

Sally: Rudolf... Please be careful... You'll be there! You will find me!

Rudolf: Yes...

[She runs off while he zippers the shelter closed.]

Rudolf: (M) Dear God... please watch over Sally Schumars... I have felt Your love for the first time since I was born... because of Sally.

[A man's footsteps echo against hard ground.]

Amlisch: Hmm... That was a moment to break the heart, don't you think, Nina?

[The pigeon coos.]

Amlisch: However, my dear Rudolf, passionate love clouds the eye of reason and wrests control of a man's fate.

Rudolf: Colonel Amlisch...

Sergei: How about it, Rudolf? Unless you've relied so much on your fucking witch's magic that your wits've gone bad...

Rudolf: Sergei...!! Sally's not a witch! She's a gentle, pure-hearted... holy woman!

[Silvia erupts into mocking laughter, then appears at his side, faster than sound.]

Silvia: A gentle, innocent girl? Do you really believe that?

Rudolf: Silvia!

Silvia: That woman's blood lineage are all witches, one generation after another. They insinuated themselves gradually into European Jewish heritage, driving fools of men to madness and ultimately to their doom. So do you mean to become one of them?

Sergei: Hah, he just wants to fuck'er! Let'em take her to the research labs, but when I see her shitty mug, I wanna bash it in! Hahhahahahhah!!!!

Amlisch: Rudolf, I advise you to reconsider. The Malefici existing within Sally Schumars must be contained within Rosenkrüs, for hers is an important factor vital to the fate of all humankind. Thus, she must not escape into the outside world.

[Rudolf scoffs smugly.]

Rudolf: Hmph, Sally told me everything, that Rosenkrüs only seemed a facility for the supernaturally 'gifted', but actually houses brutality more gruesome than the concentration camps at Auschwitz... Experimentation on innocent children, slain without mercy if deemed as failures! I won't allow such an organization to get their hands on her!

Amlisch: The words of a man blinded by love. Your brilliant light has become but a mediocre campfire.

Sergei: You thinkin' of taking all three of us on, with mere human vibes?

Rudolf: I have the snow-strewn Alps as my ally!

Amlisch: Hm?

Sergei: Seeya...

[He concentrates for a blast to send Rudolf to kingdom-come, and lets it loose.]

Silvia: A self-detonator?!

Amlisch: Go!! As soon as you can move!!

[Rudolf screams as he sets off the device, dumping an avalanche on their laps.]

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[Away from the action, Sally hears the explosion.]

Sally: R...Rudolf?! Rudolf!! ...Noo!!!!!!

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Track 4

Farfarello: Ugn?!

[He jerks out of bed, shivering.]

Farfarello: Someone's calling... for me...

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[Sally stumbles uncertainly through the streets of Munich, dogs barking in the distance.]
[She trips over her feet, collapsing in to tears.]

Sally: Rudolf... Why...? Why for me?!

[A guy walks up to her.]

Guy: Hey! Hey, you! What're you doing here in the dead of night?

Sally: Er...

Guy: Where'd you come from? You don't look from these parts... You'd better come with me before the police notice you.

Sally: But I...

Guy: Heh, what, are you scared of me? You know, you've got a pretty cute face, hmmm?

[He grabs her roughly, lust creeping into his voice.]

Sally: Wha... What're you...?

Guy: Not bad from behind, either. Just trust me, I won't let any harm come to you.

Sally: No... stop!

Guy: Shaddup!

[He slaps her. Hard. As she struggles.]

Sally: Aah!!

Guy: It's your fault! It's all your fault!!! You're the one making me feel this good!!

Sally: Noo!!!!!

[Suddenly, a single gunshot, and the man falls, stone dead.]

Silvia: Perfect as ever, Colonel. You killed him with a single shot though both your eyes are blind.

Amlisch: My body's eyes may be restrained, but my mind's eye has no limit. When I need to see better, Nina serves in their stead.

[The pigeon coos softly.]

Sally: Wh... how...?

[Sergei laughs darkly.]

Sergei: Heh, unfortunately, an avalanche is no match for my psychobarrier. Unfortunate for that traitor Rudolf, that is.

Amlisch: Life is like bitter wine. Wherever you run, you can only dread the misery waiting for you. Give it up, and return to the laboratories.

Sally: I...

[A jeep hurls itself into their conversation, wheels locked and skidding.]

Farfarello: Get in!!

Sally: Eh?

Farfarello: Get IN!!

[He grabs her and drags her inside.]

Farfarello: Let's go...

[The car screechs away.]

Silvia: What the?!

Sergei: Fucking christ!!

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[Things calm down a bit, on the road. Somewhat.]
[Sally struggles to make herself heard above the engine roar.]

Sally: Er... who... who are you?

[...]

Sally: Um... why did you...?

[He eases off the gas a little.]

Farfarello: Your sobs.

Sally: Huh?

Farfarello: I heard you sobbing.

[Pursuing them in their own vehicle...]

Sergei: Shit! That stupid shit, what'd he butt in for?!

Amlisch: Leave the questions for later. Fire at Farfarello. Just don't hit the Malefici.

Sergei: Hehheh...

[He rolls down the window, hauling out an automatic rifle of sorts.]

Sergei: Eat this!!

[Shots glance off the jeep chassis, but several come close, and he grunts as some connect. The jeep veers wildly.]

Farfarello: Aaghh!!!

Sally: Aaah!!!

Farfarello: The wheel...

Sally: Eh?

Farfarello: Take the wheel!!

Sally: Okay!

[Something mechanical juts from the car.]

Sally: What is that?!

[It emits some high-pitched beeps.]

Silvia: Look, Farfarello's up to something!

Amlisch: They're anti-artillery missiles!!

Sergei: What?!

Silvia: Sergei!! We need your psychobarrier!

Sergei: Aah!! Not enough time!!

Amlisch: Jump!!

[The missile totals their car, and Sally lets out a horrified squeak.]
[Amidst the exploding parts, Farfarello mutters softly.]

Farfarello: Give it back.

Sally: Eh?

Farfarello: The wheel. Give it back to me.

Sally: Oh... yeah. Your back?!! You were hit by the bullets?!

Farfarello: They're nothing.

Sally: But they're all over!

Farfarello: My body... can feel no pain. The wounds will heal soon.

Sally: Eh...?

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[She awakens in the Schwarz home base, birds chirping lightly outside.]

Sally: Nnn... where... Where am I?!

Nagi: You're awake?

Sally: Huh?!!

Nagi: Don't be frightened. You're in the Munich outskirts. Our base.

Sally: Base? I... [remembering] What happened to him?!

Nagi: You mean Farfarello? After he brought you here, he collapsed. Anyhow, he had five bullet wounds in his back.

Sally: Then...?!

[The door opens unceremoniously, and Schuldich lets out an appraising whistle.]

Schuldich: Pretty lil' thing... Where'd that Farfarello steal ya from?

Sally: Is he... Is he still alive?

Crawford: He's the kind that if you kill him, he still won't die. More to the point, who are you? What do you have to do with Farfarello?

Sally: I only met him last night... but, I've felt like I'd known him long ago...

Nagi: Are you also... a psychic?

Sally: ... Yes. My name is Sally Schumars. There's a laboratory for supernatural talents in the Austrian Alps--

Schuldich: [abruptly] Rosenkrüs!? You ran away from there!?

Sally: ... Yes, with a man named Rudolf.

Crawford: Rudolf?

Schuldich: [unbelievingly] Hey, then, that means the guys Farfarello was fighting were... Farblos?!

Sally: But... Why do you...?

Nagi: We all once lived in Rosenkrüs.

Sally: Eh!?

Crawford: What happened to Rudolf?

Sally: He died... so I could live.

Schuldich: That guy...

Crawford: This is unfortunate. Colonel Amlisch's clairvoyance will lead him straight here.

Schuldich: Forget it! There's no way we can stand up to them.

Nagi: I don't know much about them. Are the Falbros that strong?

Crawford: Colonel Karn Amlisch, former commander of an Indian special forces unit. Pretending to form a rebel nation, he put many thousands in the villages to death, then was retired by the army. Both of the Colonel's eyes have been blind from birth, but his talent for clairvoyance allows him to 'see' anything that happens on the planet. Moreover, he can create illusions. In both military and psychic matters, he is an extremely dangerous man. Sergei Prahanov is also a military man, from the Ukraine. His psychobarrier has proved unbreakable against all forces thrown against it so far.

Schuldich: There's one more. Silvia Lin grew up in Hong Kong slums. She's got some lethal bitchslaps, as a master of not only kung fu and other Chinese martial arts, but also telekinesis. [softly] She's also really incredible in another field...

Nagi: Another field?

[He coughs quite loudly.]

Schuldich: Anyways, I meant that that Weiß bunch can't compare to them. Compared to them, our powers are just spit in the wind.

[Suddenly, a ghostly voice announces itself.]

Amlisch: You understand well, gentlemen.

[They murmur in surprise.]

Crawford: It's been awhile.

Amlisch: Crawford, I have no interest in your group. Simply hand over the Malefici... We will be waiting outside!

Nagi: Malefici...? Isn't that... a witch?

Sally: ... Yes. My mother... and grandmother... were called that.

Nagi: I see... You were always discriminated against and persecuted...

Schuldich: What do we go?

Crawford: It's nothing we need to think about. Sally, you will return to Rosenkrüs.

Nagi: She can't! Farfarello risked his life to bring her here!

Crawford: To Farfarello, a woman is just a toy to rip to bits. It'll be much safer for you to return to Rosenkrüs.

Sally: You're lying! He's... I don't think he's like that at all!

Schuldich: At first glance, though, I could see he was that kinda person.

Crawford: There is no room for argument. Come on.

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[Outside with the rustling wind, they are waiting.]

Silvia: I wonder if they'll come out peaceably. I don't feel like having missiles fired at me all the sudden again.

Amlisch: Crawford is a man of foresight. He should understand that he'd best bend knee to us.

[The door opens.]

Sergei: Nn?!

Crawford: Hold your fire. We offer no resistance.

Schuldich: Heya, Silvia. You're still lookin' good in that Chinese dress.

Silvia: Oh, you're here too, Schuldich? Well, have you gotten any better at making a girl happy?

Schuldich: Heh, thanks to you, yeah.

Silvia: [much more sultry] Mmm... Crawford... How many years has it been now since we stayed in that lodge in Switzerland, just the two of us?

Crawford: Hmph. If that is what you call it.

Schuldich: What?! Shit, you slept with Silvia, too?

Crawford: Colonel Amlisch, we'll give you back the woman.

[He roughly pushes her forward.]

Sally: I... I don't want this. If I'm made to cooperate with Rosenkrüs, I'd rather die!

Sergei: Hahhah! Don't worry, I'll make you want to die as much as ya want... hey... Get movin'!

Sally: It hurts!!

[He drags her off, stumbling, but suddenly a form bursts through the building window with a shriek.]

Farfarello: Raauughh!!!

[Farfarello lands squarely on top of Sergei.]

Sergei: Uwaaah!!

[...who starts firing at him with the machine gun.]

Schuldich: Stop, you fool!

Sergei: Fucking ass!!

Schuldich: What t'do...

[He draws his pistol and fires at Sergei.]

Schuldich: Sergei, cut it out! I don't want t'fight you! Drop your gun!!

[The gunfire continues, and Sally shouts out in terror]

Amlisch: Don't shoot at the Malefici!!

[Suddenly, the sound of screeching wheels as Nagi (?_?) mashes through the scene with the car]

Nagi: Everyone, get in!

[They clamber inside.]

Crawford: Colonel, we cannot be civil under these circumstances. Perhaps another time. For the meanwhile, please refrain from firing, and if you pursue us, we will kill the woman.

Sally: Eh?!
Farfarello: Nn?

Amlisch: Crawford, are you seriously defying us?!

Nagi: Let's go!

[He steps on the gas, and the car quickly disappears]

Farfarello: DIE!!

[Farfarello shoots off a missile, which detonates in Falbros's midst unexpectedly ^_^;]

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Track 5

[A foghorn bellows somewhere in the distance. Someone's footsteps echo against metal floors.]

Nagi: I've set up a telepathic shield with the equipment here. As long as we're on this ship, I don't think we'll be detected by his clairvoyance.

Schuldich: So y're saying we shouldn't leave this floating junkheap? Let's just spend all our days drifting along the Rhine... Shit, don't joke with me! Bern never had much in the way of amusement, but I'd rather die if we can't even move about freely in -Bavaria-.

Sally: I'm sorry... you had to sacrifice that for me...

Schuldich: Yeah, it's all your fault. So how're you going to make it up? Eh, how? [slyly] Well, how'd you spend the time with that Rudolf? I betcha he was a lusty chump.

Sally: He wasn't that kind of person at all! He didn't lay a finger on me.

Schuldich: Stop lyin' already! You think a guy'd hold back on a girl like you?

Sally: What?! I...

[Their spat is interrupted by the buzz of unharnessed electricity.]

Crawford: What now? Is Farfarello taking a high-voltage shower again?

Sally: Eh?

Nagi: It'll be bad if he knocks out the power. Then the shield won't work.

Sally: I... I'll go look!

[She dashes away.]

Schuldich: H... Hey, wait!

Crawford: Schuldich, it's best if you don't get too close to that woman.

Schuldich: ... Why?

Crawford: Some divine essence surges through her unconscious soul. Depending on the person, she may well bring into being a New Testament.

Nagi: A new testament? Then... Farfarello did really bring her here to hurt him...

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[In his room, Farfarello zaps himself.]

Farfarello: Uuuhh...uuu...

[The door slams open, and Sally runs over, gasping in horror.]

Sally: Why?! Why are you doing this to yourself!?

[Farfarello moans, unable to move much]

Sally: How horrible... Wounds all over your body. These... you didn't do these to yourself, did you?! Anyhow, let me bandage them...

Farfarello: Don't.

[He gurgles slightly, still weak.]

Sally: Eh?

Farfarello: [softly] Don't touch me.

Sally: But...

Farfarello: [shouts] Don't touch me!!!

[He pushes her off, which knocks her to the floor.]

Farfarello: My body... feels none of the pain. Hehheh... I can't even die. God bewitched Death into abandoning me...

Sally: But...

Farfarello: So... so you shouldn't care about me, just like them. I'm depraved. Everyone who hated me, I killed. Everyone who... loved me, I killed. Any person who touches me... I'll kill'm all!!

{She listens, then suddenly laughs.]

Farfarello: What's so funny?

Sally: Everyone... everyone who touched me died a miserable death. I was singled out as a child, had stones thrown at me. All through my youth, the girls, boys, all of them, all thought me some kind of enemy. The men sought after my body, and I've been hurt countless times. But once in a while someone would come to rescue me. They told me that I wasn't some kind of witch, but a holy woman. That man... Rudolf... was one of those. But... they all died.

[Her clothes rustle as she touches, and he flinches.]

Sally: Please, please don't run away! It's all right... please? Let me... just embrace you tight like this... please?

[Suddenly, he starts sobbing uncontrollably. He grunts hoarsely, but without much conviction.]

Farfarello: Didn't I tell you... not to touch me...?!

Sally: You're the one who came to me. You saved me, risking your life. Why? ... Tell me, why did you save me?

[He mumbles, barely able to speak.]

Farfarello: I... don't... know... I... I... Gyaaaaaahhhh!!!

[He falls to the floor noisily.]

Farfarello: I'm a monster! I'm going to... kill you... Kill you!

[He grabs her, banging her a few times into the wall.]

Farfarello: Kill you... Kill you!!

[Then, he stops, voice screeching in pain.]

Sally: ...What's wrong?

Farfarello: Don't... Don't say anything!!!! ...Kill... really gonna... Kill you!!!

Sally: [gently] Then go ahead.

Farfarello: ...What...?

Sally: My poor Farfarello... If you can suffer like this, then you lie, saying you feel no pain. You feel the pain of your soul, you understand the pain of others. Since you have always felt this pain, you never knew that was what it was.

Farfarello: I... I...

Sally: If you're going to kill, then kill me. If it will bring ease to your pain even in the slightest.

[Farfarello screeches, collapsing to the floor.]

Sally: Farfarello...

Farfarello: S...Sally... You're so... kind... Just like Sister was... My... to me...

Sally: It's all right, you can cry.

Farfarello: [gumming tears] Sally... I've... I've killed...! I've killed everyone! Everyone... Hold me... please hold m... please hold me!

Sally: Of course... but you must... you must also hold me...

[He hisses reluctantly, then softly, and then the power lines in the boat hum weirdly.]

Crawford: What... what was that surge?

Nagi: It was... a very warm, gentle feeling...

[Sally and Farfarello breathe in exultation.]
[A baby cries in the distance]

Farfarello: Sally... I can see Sally. The baby... Sally. The child, Sally. The adult, Sally... I can see everything about Sally!

Sally: Farfarello...! I can see everything about you, too! I can see everything! The sadness, the joy, everything!

Farfarello: You were always... alone... You always cried alone...

Sally: And you, too... You were also always alone... But you were wrong, you were never alone!

Farfarello: Yes! Likewise, you were never truly alone... I was never abandoned by God or Death... I merely lived without dying... so that... so that finally, I could meet you!

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Track 6: Koyasu's monologue

A Destined Love.
Lovers bound together before their birth.
That is a sweetly tempting illusion.
Meeting by sheer chance is the reality.
If there is union, there too is division
Isn't that all there is?
Therefore, I will not believe.
Not in Destiny, not in Love.

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Track 7: Mayfly

Track 8: Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me