Drama CD - Dramatic Image Album II ~The Eternal Angel~

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Dramatic Image Album II - The Eternal Angel
Dramatic Image Album II - The Eternal Angel (End)
Translated by Jey Kama, 4.30.00.

-Opening Theme: White Flames-

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SCENE 1 The Dollroom

[the ring of her earrings]

SAYAKA: Where... am I? [she looks around and gasps] These are... dolls? Why are ... all these dolls in here?

KIRYUU: This is the room for my children.

SAYAKA: [gasp]

KIRYUU: Don't they look like they're having such fun? They're all thinking about you.

SAYAKA: [frightened gasp]

KIRYUU: These children never do anything to hurt anyone. They're always so full of kindness, always smiling, always so gentle. Always. But humans are different. Hate, jealousy, wickedness, hurting each other, abusing each other, willfully sinning. What is belief to them? What is love to them? Their souls splinter in the face of greed and pride... so ugly. They're so miserable and filthy, I can't stand them. [strange feeling in the air] Aah... I'm sorry, my children. Please don't worry about me, I'm just fine. I'll be just fine.

SAYAKA: [sobbing] ... Let me go... please... Please let me go home! Please!

KIRYUU: I'm afraid I can't let you.

SAYAKA: [crying] Let me go home!

KIRYUU: You were chosen. When I saw you at last month's Doll Photography Convention, I held out my life... You were chosen for a rebirth, and very soon, you can also become one of these gentle eternal angels, just like your friend.

SAYAKA: [sob]
[(memory) YUMI: Sa...ya...ka...] Yumi... No! No!! Let me go home! Please let me go home!!

KIRYUU: Shh... Quiet... be quiet...

SAYAKA: Wait!!! Help me! Someone please help me!!

[the door locks shut]

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SCENE 2 To the Rescue...

[a motorcycle is started up]

YOUJI: Sayaka... Wait for me!

[Omi walks out]

OMI: Ah, Youji-kun, welcome back! How is Sayaka-chan now? She looked a lot calmer when you two left. [only the loud growl of the bike] Youji-kun...? What's wrong? Did something happen? ...Ah! Your... your right leg's covered in blood!

YOUJI: Omi! I'm going.

OMI: Huh?!

YOUJI: Right up to that bastard Yoshimasa Kiryuu!

OMI: What about Kiryuu?! You can't mean... you're going there like this?!

YOUJI: I'm gonna go save Sayaka...

OMI: Sayaka-chan?! Youji-kun, what on earth happen--! [Youji hits the gas and shrieks away] Wait! Youji-k-- Youji-kun!!!

[on the road]
YOUJI: Please still be all right, Sayaka!
[he speeds away]

[in the dollroom]
SAYAKA: [crying] Youji...

[parking the bike]
YOUJI: Agh... [stepping off] So he's here... [he flounders, unable to stand] Ah! Shit, this bulletwound... [falling]

[a car approaches, doors opening]

OMI: Youji-kun!

KEN: Hey, you all right?

YOUJI: Don't touch me, Ken!

KEN: [surprised] Youji...

AYA: Youji, I won't permit you to act on your own.

YOUJI: [weakly] ... Aya...!

OMI: Com'n, Youji, put your arm over my shoulders.

YOUJI: Didn't I just say not to touch me!? [stands up unsteadily] I'm not getting in the way... I... I...'m gonna save Sayaka...! [he tries to walk, but falls again]

OMI: [concerned] Eh... Youji-kun!

KEN: Youji, that girl's in there, right? She was kidnapped?

YOUJI: [grunts assent] I'm goin' in there...now. Sayaka... [he takes a few steps] She was abducted... right in front of my eyes...

KEN: Youji...

OMI: Youji-kun...[Youji breathes heavily] Aya-kun, I understand that we haven't fully prepared yet. I fully understand that in no way will a mission failure be tolerated, too. But...

KEN: We're gonna do the job tonight, and it dun' matter if we fail or not, right, Aya?

[Youji breathes heavily in the background]

OMI: Aya-kun...!

KEN: If you're not going, then we're goin' in by ourselves!

AYA: [mockingly] What are you getting so emotional for? Our job isn't to rescue people.

KEN: [growling] Aya!

OMI: [incredulous] Aya-kun!

AYA: Don't rush in hot-headed, and think clearly.

KEN: Omi, let's go. Youji, lean on my shoulder.

OMI: But Ken-kun!

KEN: If you aren't coming, chicken out with Aya. I'm goin' in with Youji! [pulling Youji's arm over his shoulders] OK, Youji, let's go.

YOUJI: [determined, but weakly] Aah!

AYA: [intensely] Couldn't you hear me tell you to think clearly? [calmer] In his condition, you'll only be tripping over each other's feet.

KEN: [peeved] Nn?

AYA: Omi, go get the infrared scope from my car.

OMI: Eh?

AYA: What are you just standing there for? Go!

OMI: Ah... yeah! I'll bring it back! [he runs off]

AYA: It looks like we can infiltrate a mansion window from the courtyard grove, but keep on the alert for any defenses.

KEN: Shit, that couldn't almost be a smile on your face?

YOUJI: Sayaka...

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SCENE 3 Intruders

[in the Kiryuu residence]
KIRYUU: [snaps his fingers] Beautiful... I've finally finished...

HAMAZAKI: It's incredible, teacher!

KIRYUU: Hehheh... Just as I thought, that child's skin will be perfect for this one... What do you think, Hamazaki? Isn't this teasing smile so adorable?

HAMAZAKI: Truly... Teacher, let me toast to you! To the birth of a new angel!

KIRYUU: Hmm.... Right. I'm feeling a bit up for that...[he spasms in to a coughing fit]

HAMAZAKI: Teacher!

KIRYUU: Ugh... I'm all right... I'm fine, don't worry. [an alarm goes off] Hm? Oh? The gate alarm?

HAMAZAKI: [intensely] Intruders...!

[in the mansion]
[a door opens, all that is heard is the ring of a grandfather clock]

KEN: What's going on?

OMI: This is the last room in the mansion...!

YOUJI: What the hell?! There's... there's no one here?

KEN: Is this really Yoshimasa Kiryuu's home?

OMI: It's Persia's information, so it has to be!

KEN: Then, what the hell's this?!

AYA: ...A villa...

KEN: Huh?

OMI: That's right... If he's so famous, he more than likely has more than one hiding place!

KEN: Then... you're saying that Sayaka-chan wasn't taken to -this- mansion!?

YOUJI: Sa...Sayaka...! [he collapses]

OMI: Youji-kun!!

YOUJI: Damn it... damn...! Where is she?! Where was she taken!? Sayaka!!

AYA: We'll find out. We'll find the details on Kiryuu's alternate estate.

YOUJI: What the hell're you talking about!? We have to go now! [shouting] If we don't go now, it might be too late!

OMI: But...!

YOUJI: No buts! It's... It's Sayaka's life we're risking! ... right... Persia... if we contact Persia, he can find out for us! He has to understand!!

AYA: [darkly] Don't be foolish!

YOUJI: What's foolish?!

OMI: We can't contact Persia! Have you forgotten that, Youji-kun?

YOUJI: Then, the police! We can tell everything to the police!

KEN: If we do, that's the end for us, Youji...

YOUJI: [sobbing] Then... then... are you tellin' me to just watch Sayaka be killed?! Let her skin be peeled off and made into a doll!?

OMI: Youji-kun!!

YOUJI: [sob] I'm going to the police. I'm going... [he passes out]

KEN: Youji!

OMI: Youji-kun! Hold on!! Youji-kun!!

AYA: He's just unconscious from blood loss. It's nothing life-threatening. For now, let's withdraw.

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STAGE 5 Yo...u...ji...

[the door opens, and Sayaka is roughly pushed to the ground]

SAYAKA: Nnh!

HAMAZAKI: So you're the one who activated the gate alarm...

KIRYUU: It would be bad if she escaped... but how did she? We should prepare the room better for next time...

HAMAZAKI: Apparently she picked the lock with something in the Pink Room. Stupid girl, I can't believe you tried to
escape.

SAYAKA: The... the police are coming for you now!

HAMAZAKI: What?

SAYAKA: I called them from the phone on the street corner. [almost sobbing] It's all over for you!

HAMAZAKI: [snickering] So you think they're come to save you? I'll tell you something. Where are you? Could you explain that to them? How can the police save you from somewhere you don't know? You want them to rescue you, but you can't tell them how!

SAYAKA: [sobbing]

HAMAZAKI: Give it up. You won't leave this place again.

SAYAKA: I'm going to get out... I'm going to... just like this!!

[she pushes him away, and grabs a doll]

KIRYUU: No!! What are you going to do to the doll?!

SAYAKA: Stay right there!! If you don't, I'll tear this doll's head off!

HAMAZAKI: You little bitch!

KIRYUU: No no, stop! Don't say that! Stop! Please let my child go!

SAYAKA: Don't move!! I'm going to leave now, so don't ever move from there! If you chase me, I'm going to break this doll to pieces!!

KIRYUU: Please stop! I beg you! Plea-- [he spasms again, coughing]

HAMAZAKI: Teacher!

KIRYUU: Pl... please stop!!

SAYAKA: Don't move! The police are coming... I hope they kill you!

[she runs away, and a shot is fired. She falls]

KIRYUU: Hamazaki?!

HAMAZAKI: It was just an anesthetic. I didn't kill her.

KIRYUU: I see... [relieved] I'm glad. If she died, her skin would become unusable. I'm so glad...[he picks up the doll] Aah! She didn't harm you... Were you scared? You're safe now. Your neck doesn't hurt? [coughs] What a terrible thing to do.

[again in the doll room]
SAYAKA: [sobbing, earrings chiming] Youji...

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SCENE 5 The Tip

INTERCOM: Dr. Shirasaki of Neurology, Dr. Shirasaki of Neurology, please contact the Obstetrics department. Dr. Shirasaki of Neurolo--

[the shutters open]

OMI: Youji-kun... It's too early! If you don't rest... Please go back to bed!

YOUJI: Omi... go find my shoes.

OMI: Youji-ku~n!

YOUJI: Huh... how many hours has it been?

OMI: Eh?

YOUJI: Don't you realize how long I've been out of it?! It's already daylight!! The sun's already risen! And maybe Sayaka's already...

OMI: Aya-kun and Ken-kun are frantically looking for Kiryuu's villa right now.. I'm going back to the search soon, too! She might still be all right, don't be reckless, Youji-kun!

YOUJI: [sadly] You think I'm being reckless?

OMI: Eh?

YOUJI: Why the hell'd we become murderers? For the reward? For self-serving goals? Neither! I came here from bloody near-death... You think I didn't want the power to save my partner's life?! I want those bastards who randomly snatch away others! I joined to cut off those guys' lives short!

OMI: Youji-kun...

YOUJI: I... I want to save Sayaka. She had such a pure, innocent heart...[a pause] Let's go, Omi. There's no time.

[a knock at the door, it opens]

NURSE: Excuse me... Ah?

YOUJI: Err!

OMI: Nurse!

NURSE: Mr. Kudou, you really ought to sleep some more.

YOUJI: [loosely] It's all right now, gorgeous nurse.

NURSE: [chuckles]

YOUJI: Omi, my shoes.

NURSE: [sighing] Well, if it weren't for my looks, you wouldn't care much for me?

YOUJI: [confused] Eh?

NURSE: I came to return something you forgot, this handkerchief. Isn't this yours?

OMI: Mine?

NURSE: Yes. You lent it to me. Well, then, good morning! [she walks away]

OMI: Ah, wait! This handkerchief isn't...

NURSE: No, it's most definitely yours, Omi-ku~n...

OMI: Heh?

NURSE: [giggle]

[the door closes]

OMI: How... how did she know my name?

YOUJI: ... Birman... That was Birman!

OMI: Eh?! You mean, that nurse just now was...!

YOUJI: [shouting] Wait, Birman! I need to talk to you!!

OMI: Wait... Look... Look here, Youji-kun!! There's something written on the handkerchief!

YOUJI: What?!

OMI: An address... This... is this...

YOUJI: ... Yoshimasa Kiryuu's... villa?!

[Kiryuu's residence]
KIRYUU: My adorable children... You are everything to me... Even though I wish to, I cannot change my existance for you. Born to be loved, I hope you continue to be loved into eternity... Even if we are separated far away...well, even into forever. Cure the wicked hearts of humankind... with those smiles overflowing with kindness...I love you, all of you, I love you! My.. beautiful Angels...

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SCENE 7 Inferno
[the crash of a broken window, the house alarm erupts]

KEN: [grunting as he lands] This rush an' rumble's more my kinda thing.

OMI: Youji-kun, how're you holding?

YOUJI: The more concerned you are with me, the more depressed I'll get.

OMI: ... Sorry...

AYA: Let's go.

[footsteps approach]

OMI: ??

HAMAZAKI: I do say, you're much too bold to be thieves.

KEN: Heh... he must be the coot's bodyguard.

HAMAZAKI: Who are you?

AYA: [intensely] The white hunters of darkness... Weiß.

HAMAZAKI: [softly] Weiß? Heh... Are you for real? But I won't let you do as you wish... I will protect my teacher, even if the price is my life.

[he squirts them with liquid]

KEN: Nn?

OMI: [incredulous] A water-gun?!

KEN: Hey, we don't have time to joke around...

HAMAZAKI: [cooly] Oh?
[he sprays them heavily, then throws in a lighter]
[they go up in flames]

OMI: Aah!!! The fire!! I'm burning!!

KEN: Augh!! What the hell!?

AYA: [gasping] K'... taxidermic preservatives?!

HAMAZAKI: Hahhahhah!! Burn, burn! Dance to your deaths in the flames!

YOUJI: D...Damn it!

HAMAZAKI: Burn to a crisp, Weiß!! [he squirts them more] Hah hahhahhah!!

YOUJI: Stupid creep... don't enjoy yourself too much!! [he pulls out his wire]

HAMAZAKI: [noticing] Hn? A wire?

[Youji throws the wire, nailing Hamazaki on the face. He drops the gun]

KEN: You did it, Youji!

HAMAZAKI: M...My FACE!! AAahH!!!! [he screams, running away]

YOUJI: You can't run!

[they follow his wild moans, and he shuts himself in a room]

KEN: He ran into that room!

[they enter that room]

OMI: ... It's pitch black in here...

KEN: No windows, and no lights... the hell kind of room is this?

YOUJI: You can't hide in here! Come out!

OMI: [nervously] He disappeared?

[a deep growl]

KEN: What... was that growl?

OMI: A tiger?!

KEN: It's friggin' huge!!

[it roars, swiping]

AYA: Get out of here, quickly!!

[they run out, the tiger on their heels, and shut the door behind them]
[they gasp for breath]

OMI: That was scary!!

[The tiger crashes through the door, snarling menacingly]

YOUJI: I guess it'll just have to be taken down, then.

AYA: [harshly] Ken! Omi! We'll leave this up to you.

KEN/OMI: WHAAAA~~~~AT?!

KEN: You crazy?! Aya, what're you saying?!

OMI: Y...Yeah?!!

AYA: We can't waste any time here!

YOUJI: He's absolutely right. Good luck, you two! We're counting on you.

OMI: How can you say such a thing!!?

KEN: [back to business] Well, it can't be helped. [to Aya & Youji] Got it. Aya, Youji, you go first, and leave this wild hairball to us!

OMI: [whining] Ke~~~~~n-kun!!!!!!

AYA: Understood. Let's go, Youji. Lean on my shoulder.

YOUJI: Yeah, thanks. [they run ahead]

OMI: Ah... they really left... [deep growl] Waaah!!

KEN: [heroic voice] Omi... pull yourself together. This calls for a bit of gorgeous teamwork!

OMI: Yeah, that's that, but this is...! It's a freaking -tiger-!! [it roars loudly] [he sucks in his breath] It's coming!!

KEN: My bugnuks are styled after tiger claws, only made from steel. Which will prove the stronger... the real thing versus ... these...? It's time to test that out...! [he unsheathes them] Come and get me!!

[it roars and pounces on him, and nails him really hard. He sprawls, pinned on his back]

KEN: GAWD!!

OMI: KEN-KUN!!

KEN: Ouchshitouch!!! You stupid shit, Ken, what the hell were you talking about?!!

[It roars, trying to bite him]

KEN: O... Omi!! Your bow! It doesn't see your bow, so shoot the damn thing!!

OMI: Ah!! Yeah!! [he sets it and shoots a bolt into the tiger's neck. It roars, distracted] Got it!! Got its throat!! It's open for you, Ken-kun!!

KEN: I -KNOW- that!!! [he swipes hard] D'ryaaaa!!!

[it digs in, hitting something vital, and the tiger collapses]

OMI: [celebrating] We did it!!!

KEN: [wheezing, getting out from under it] We won...

[the roaring flames become more apparent]

KEN: [jokingly] That was pretty dangerous...

[as the building goes up in flames]

OMI: The ceiling!!

KEN: Crap, this place's falling apart! Let's go, Omi!

OMI: Yeah! [they run forwards]

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SCENE 7 ...Sayaka...

[the door to the dollroom opens]

AYA: [nonplussed] What is this... place? [calmer] A ... room of dolls...

YOUJI: Sayaka! Sayaka!! ... Shit, she's not here, either...

SAYAKA's voice: Youji...!

YOUJI: ... Sayaka!

SAYAKA's voice: Youji...! Save me!

YOUJI: Sayaka... Sayaka!! Where are you?! Where you you?!!

HAMAZAKI: She's right here.

YOUJI: You... you bastard... where's Sayaka?! Where have you hidden her?!

HAMAZAKI: She's not hidden anywhere. Hehheh... [he throws something on the floor]

AYA: A cassette recorder...

YOUJI: Wh... What's this... What the hell is this?!

SAYAKA's voice: Youji... I'm scared... I'm scared!! I don't want to die... Youji!!

YOUJI: Sayaka...!

HAMAZAKI: Wasn't that a passionate message? She wanted to see you again...I thought I'd let you hear it. [chuckles evilly]

YOUJI: You... Where is Sayaka?! Where is the real Sayaka?!

HAMAZAKI: She's in my teacher's workroom, but I can't let you go there. That place is sacrosanct, and I won't let your kind of trash defile it. [he draws a sword]

AYA: A sword of Seiryuu-make?

HAMAZAKI: I'll slice you to shreds. Just like how you tore my beautiful face, your faces, bodies, I'll tear them into ragged little pieces!!

AYA: [dead calm] Youji, step back. [he unhurriedly draws his katana]

HAMAZAKI: [losing his cool] So you think you can win with that crude Japanese sword?

AYA: Those are the nervous words of someone who merely knows how to hold a sword. The match has already begun.

HAMAZAKI: [shouting] Shaddup!! [he launches into attack]

AYA: [shortly] T'yaa!! [one stroke]

HAMAZAKI: ... You... no... [he falls, dead]

YOUJI: Aya...

AYA: [quietly] Go. Sayaka's waiting.

YOUJI: [he nods] Hn!

[in the workshop, the chime of Sayaka's earrings, sounding hollow]
KIRYUU: Hahhahhahhah... Hahhahah!!

[the door opens]
YOUJI: Kiryuu!

KIRYUU: Ah, you came! Perfect timing.

YOUJI: Where is Sayaka...?

KIRYUU: Until now I have continued to create dolls with souls more human than human beings. Never resting, I forsook my bed, immersing myself in the work of creating eternal angels.

YOUJI: Where is Sayaka!

KIRYUU: The dollmaker Yoshimasa Kiryuu. Until now, I continued to create dolls that brought not dishonor to that name. And now, that is all finished.

YOUJI: [whispers] What?

KIRYUU: [coughs feebly] Appropriately, I have brought my work to a grand finale with my most perfect masterpiece. After seeking long and and far for perfection, I now present to you, the goddess of love, my Aphrodite!

[the chime of the earrings]

YOUJI: [gasp of disbelief]

[memory]
[YOUJI: Those are cute earrings. ]
[SAYAKA: Eh?]
[YOUJI: They look good on you. Such a gentle ring... Hn... I like that, that sound.]
[SAYAKA: Um...]
[YOUJI: Mm?]
[SAYAKA: I... um... I... I love you, Youji!]

[the chime of the earrings]

KIRYUU: Aphrodite rings truly to her perfection... [coughs weakly]

YOUJI: [his wires stretch tautly]

KIRYUU: I thank you, Weiß. I don't have much longer... I never bothered to learn what disease I had, but it has ravaged my body for many long years, so I understand. [the metallic squeal of the wires] But, I have thought of living out my life, having become so attached to my work... but this is a good time to close the book. I carry no regrets.
[Youji chokes back a few sobs] Thank you... Thank you!

YOUJI: [screaming] AAAHH!!! [he throws his wires, killing Kiryuu]

KIRYUU: Uhh! [falls]

YOUJI: [sobbing] [the chime of the earrings] Aphrodite? The goddess of love? What bullshit! What complete bullshit!!For this thing... Sayaka... Sayaka was... [screams out] AAAAHH!!!!

[he flings his wires again, breaking a window]

[SAYAKA: I love you...]

PERSIA [N]: Everything is a process leading to a result. In order to achieve the best results, People wrack their minds, grit their teeth, Apply themselves diligently, and sometimes even risk their lives. However, attaining those results does not Guarantee a happy ending. Human tears and sobs of anger...The results they strive for have always been such. The truth cannot be known. They are all that realize this. And so they took up the burden of false sin, Living in the darkness where there is no light, believing in the "Weiß" that lives somewhere in this city that had forgotten gentleness. Weiß - Endlessly clear White.

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EPILOGUE
NEWSREPORTER: This is the news. Today at 2AM, the workshop of Yoshimasa Kiryuu, the retired dollmaker become a living National Treasure last year, was destroyed in a fire. The ruins are being carefully examined. Two bodies were discovered at the scene, which after autopsy, were confirmed to be Kiryuu and Hamazaki Reiichi, who lived with him. Another body was discovered with them that appeared to have been murdered before the fire, but as to the cause of the fire, the police suspect an assassination arson ring, and have commenced an investigation. Though expecting a cruel signature, the police found no such thing marking the killers as enemies of Kiryuu. However, all of the dolls Kiryuu created were destroyed in the fire...Kiryuu's creations were called the modern Japanese dolls, and command high prices even overseas. This terrible event is the news of today...

END.