Voice Drama "Exhibition" - Part1

**Voice Drama "Exhibition" - Part1** is the first drama track in Paradox Live Exhibition Show. A sample was posted on November 22, 2020 on the official Paradox Live YouTube Channel.

## Featured Characters

* Naoakira Saimon
* Yohei Kanbayashi
* Tsubaki
* Iori Suiseki

## Teaser

Before the exhibition match, each person tends to spend their own time off. Those who reminisce about their old friends or old times, some who think of their loved ones. A person who chases a person whose identity is unknown, a person who drowns themself in alcohol and winds up a waste. Those who did some work they didn't mean to, those who can do unexpected work. Each purposes and thoughts are different, they are mixed. The scenery they see for a brief break is...

(Translated by Kam)

## Translation

Translation provided by Chrome. Please note minor edits to fix small typographical and grammatical errors and describe certain sound effects were made. The original translation can be accessed here.

*(At Bar 4/7)*

*(Rustling noises as Yohei is taking inventory)*

**Yohei**: And the inventory for the alcohol… Alright, with this, everything’s here. What is left is… lemon and lime. Seems like groceries are missing for now. Leaving the cleaning duties to Shiki and Ryu, it’s still too early to start making dinner for them. I should’ve slept some more.

*(Door opens)*

**Yohei**: Sorry but it’s not open ye- Oh, it’s just you.

**Iori**: What a nice greeting to say “oh it’s just you”, *danna*! I came all the way around here for some minor business and thought I’d come by while I’m at it~

**Yohei**: Well, take a seat.

**Iori**: Thanks~ Heave-ho!

*(He sits down.)*

**Yohei**: You fine with gimlet?

**Iori**: Haha, I’ll hold back on the alcohol when the sun is still so high in the sky.

**Yohei**: Then make it coffee, I was just going to make some for myself.

**Iori**: Oh! Then please!

*(Sound of coffee brewing)*

**Iori**: *(Inhales)* Ooh, that’s a nice smell. Such a professional way though, to use something like a nel drip.

**Yohei**: It’s Saimon’s hobby, saying some nonsense like “There is a one minute song to a good-tasting coffee.”

**Iori**: You say this, but you seem to have gotten quite good at it though. You guys could just make this shop a coffee shop during the day!

**Yohei**: Too much trouble. Here. *(He pours a cup of coffee and gives it to Iori.)*

**Iori**: Aaah, tasty! You could absolutely serve this out in a coffee shop!

**Yohei**: I don’t plan on serving it out in the shop.

**Iori**: Come to think, is the glasses gentleman not here today?

**Yohei**: Ah, because Saimon’s main job is a university teacher. He’s not here around this time. Usually, he just shows his face in the evening-… Did you come to meet Saimon?

**Iori**: Aah, nope, not really?

**Yohei**: Besides, today is Tsubaki-san’s… He went to visit his wife’s grave. If you need to talk to him, make it another day.

**Iori**: Ah no problem, no problem! Since I came here thinking I could warm up my old friendship with *danna*!

**Yohei**: What’s that?

**Iori**: I thought… you had thrown that away a long time ago.

**Yohei**: Huh?

**Iori**: *Oyaji*’s *maneki-neko*.

**Yohei**: Oh.

**Iori**: The other day, when I found it sitting here, you know… to be honest, I was happy~

**Yohei**: Oh…

**Iori**: Keeping such good care of a piece of junk like this…

**Yohei**: There’s no way I’d throw it away. This is a token from *Oyaji*, and from the old times.

**Iori**: I see.

**Yohei**: I’m grateful, even now. The fact that I can still do music like this is thanks to *Oyaji* and… you, Iori.

**Iori**: Ahhaha! Hey, don’t say something so cringey! *Oyaji* aside, I didn’t do a~nything to be thanked for! Aaah, right right! Talking about that-

**Yohei**: Don’t suddenly change the subject

**Iori**: It’s fine!! If you keep complaining so much, you’ll go bald.

**Yohei**: No I won’t. So? What about it?

**Iori**: The music, the *music*. Around the time we met each other, *danna*, you weren’t making your own music yet right?

**Yohei**: Right.

**Iori**: And so, how did that *danna* end up like this? Why did you suddenly awaken?

**Yohei**: Oh that, huh. What started it is this 4/7. It was on a rainy day. I came in here needing a rain shelter… and met Saimon and that person. That was the beginning.

*(At the cemetery)*

**Saimon**: It’s been a long time, Tsubaki. I came to see you.

*(Ruffling of flower bouquet)*

**Saimon**: Isn’t it beautiful, the flowers that share your name: camellias. Originally, it’d be against manners to present them in front of a grave, but I thought that if it’s you, you wouldn’t mind it. I invited Yohei too, but got scolded and told I shouldn’t do something so tactless.

**Saimon**: Haha, surprising right? That wild and cheeky young man grew up before I was even aware of it. It’s incredible that we are able to perform at *that* Club Paradox… If only, you could have been there with us… No. As long as we continue to do music, Tsubaki, you will always be by my and Yohei’s side. Alongside the will of connecting people with music.

**Saimon**: Heh, do you remember? About that day. The legendary live that was carried out at Club Paradox. On Buraikan’s stage.

*(Flashback)*

*(Crowd cheering and lively music playing)*

**Saimon**: What is up, Yohei? You’ve been blanking out since earlier. Haha, I take it that you’ve been affected by Buraikan’s sound, huh.

**Yohei**: Hah?! What are you saying Saimon! After hearing music like this, it’d be crazier to not be affected than being affected!!

**Saimon**: !? Oh, uh, yeah, hahaha

**Yohei**: Right, Tsubaki-san?! You get it right?! That Buraikan sound was DOPE!! My soul, my everything, from the moment of the very first verse, it grasped at me and all of me was taken away to a place that’s so far so high and incredible…! And then, it *MELTED*, the sound, myself, everything and everyone around becoming one– AAAAAH I CAN’T EXPLAIN IT WELL SINCE I’M AN IDIOT BUT- You get what I’m saying, right?!

**Tsubaki**: Hehe, yes I get it! Buraikan’s sound is special: a music that connects people to one another.

**Yohei**: Music that… connects people to one another?

**Tsubaki**: Hm! The feeling of “melting” Yohei-kun is talking about is probably that.

**Yohei**: Then…!!

**Tsubaki**: I felt it too! Like “Aah, we are connected right now.” I certainly felt the boundaries within myself disappearing, my heart and soul connecting in an invisible place, and thought it is such a wonderful thing!

**Yohei**: Heh!

**Saimon**: So in other words, this is a feeling created by music, or maybe more like a mental sympathetic phenomenon. To begin with, sound is a vibration of the air, waves transmitted through space–

**Yohei**: GAAH, STOP THAT ALREADY! Music is not logic, it’s something to be listened to with the heart!

**Saimon**: Ugh– hh…

**Tsubaki**: Hehehe, he got you on this one, Naoakira-san!

**Saimon**: Huh, still though, the “being taken away” by Buraikan’s music that Yohei is talking about is the result of knowledge and theory.

**Yohei**: HAH?

**Saimon**: Buraikan’s Yasha and Shura for example. To most people, it seems like it is the overwhelmingly charismatic Yasha leading and pulling the team up, though that isn’t actually everything there is to it.

**Yohei**: Aaand it starts to be like a lesson again…

**Tsubaki**: Now, now, let’s hear him out!

**Saimon**: There is an unwavering construction attribute to Buraikan’s instrumentals, the freedom backed up by music theory ––err, how do I say this… In other words, no matter the music, if the basis, the foundation, isn’t done properly, it is impossible to dance freely on it.

**Saimon**: Yasha’s overwhelming talent, what is supporting that is Shura’s knowledge and theory. While being polar opposites, they support and lift one another. Yasha and Shura, it is precisely because it is these two that Buraikan’s sound, that overwhelming performance can be born.

**Yohei**: Hey, Tsubaki-san… So in the end…what does Saimon want to say?

**Tsubaki**: Let’s see… Long story short, something like Naoakira-san's a big fan of Shura?

**Yohei**: Ughhh so confusing! You could’ve just said that from the start!

**Saimon**: Err, huhh, well… Even if the music style is different, Shura as a rapper is the goal I am aiming for.

**Yohei**: Are you… saying this seriously?

**Saimon**: Huh?

**Yohei**: I’m asking you if you’re serious about aiming to make music like Buraikan’s.

**Saimon**: Oh, well, Shura in the end is just a goal, an aspiration, by no means can I-…

**Yohei**: Saimon! Are you doing hip-hop without the intention of taking the top?!

**Saimon**: Well, that’s…

**Yohei**: Are you just going to get away with “aspiration” after hearing that sound?! Are you okay with that?!

**Saimon**: …

**Yohei**: You are smart. The… music “construction” thing? You get that, right?

**Saimon**: Yeah, but there is nothing I can do with just that. It’s not possible to put together music like that with just theory. And to begin with, I alone can’t–

**Yohei**: IN THAT CASE!

**Saimon**: Hm?

**Yohei**: In that case, I’ll be the one to become your Yasha!

**Saimon**: Huh?

**Yohei**: W-Weeell, maybe I can’t become someone *that* amazing but… I have musical talent too… Right, Tsubaki-san..? I’m special, a genius, right?

**Tsubaki**: Hehe, that’s right, Mr. genius.

**Yohei**: I understood it, after listening to that Buraikan sound, that *this is what I want to do*. Yeah, for the first time in my life, listening to music gave me happiness. My heart shook and was so full. Something like this… It’s my first time!

**Saimon**: Yohei…

**Tsubaki**: Yohei-kun…

**Yohei**: I want to make that kinda music. That…*real*, the kind that takes all of your soul away with it, that sort of…!

**Yohei**: … That’s why, Saimon, team up with me. I will make you Shura.

**Saimon**: ..!! Make… me… into Shura.

**Yohei**: Yeah. The one who taught me music is Tsubaki-san. Then the one who will do hip-hop with me has to be no one but you, Saimon. Right?

*(Saimon and Tsubaki laugh together)*

**Yohei**: W-What.

**Saimon**: What should I do, Tsubaki, that is some marriage proposal.

**Tsubaki**: Mhfufu, it really is.

**Yohei**: Even Tsubaki-san…

**Saimon**: I will gladly accept, Yohei.

**Yohei**: REALLY?!

**Saimon**: Is there any idiot out there to respond “no” to the guy who suddenly managed to make a hip-hop arrangement of Chopin after hearing Tsubaki play it for the first time after he said all that to you?

**Yohei**: Uh?

**Tsubaki**: Jeez, Naoakira-san really isn’t honest at all.

**Saimon**: Uh…

**Tsubaki**: Here, do this more properly.

**Saimon**: Yohei.

**Yohei**: W-What, why are you suddenly so formal?

**Saimon**: Will you be my Yasha, Yohei?

**Yohei**: Yeah. Me and you, someday we’ll take the top together there, at Club Paradox, and rival Buraikan.

*(Back to Bar 4/7)*

**Iori**: I see~ So that was the start of the romance between you guys~!

**Yohei**: Don’t say things in such a gross way.

**Iori**: Hmmmmmmmm~

**Yohei**: What.

**Iori**: And so? What happened with that Tsubaki person in the end?

**Yohei**: What do you mean what happened-

**Iori**: You loved her, right~?

**Yohei**: !! Nothing happened, since the moment we met, she was already Saimon’s lover.

**Iori**: You could have taken her?

**Yohei**: As if. I was a kid back then, and to her I was more like a little brother. Nothing more

**Iori**: Hmm…

**Yohei**: And a little while after the live, she married Saimon anyway.

**Iori**: So like, *danna* is teaming up with an old love riva–

**Yohei**: And to begin with, that person isn’t here anymore. She died. From a disease.

**Iori**: Oh… Sorry. Right, he went to visit her grave.

*(Faith instrumental plays in the background).*

**Yohei**: Yeah. Tsubaki-san was… She was the one to teach me music. Things are fine just this way.

**Iori**: I see.

*(Iori starts to walk out.)*

**Yohei**: Are you leaving?

**Iori**: Yup, I have some tiny business to attend to after this. Thanks for the drink! Say hello to the glasses gentleman for me too!

**Yohei**: Yeah.

**Iori**: Heh, after just a little while of not meeting you, you’ve become quite the looker.

**Yohei**: Huh?

**Iori**: I won’t lose. The ones to compete with Buraikan at Club Paradox… will be us: Akan Yatsura.

*(The door opens)*

**Iori**: Bye-bye!

*(Door closes)*

**Yohei**: Alright, let’s start making dinner. Haha, “I’ll make you Shura” huh! Although I was a kid, that was still something pretty incredible to say.

Translation Notes:

1. ↑ Oyaji means "boss", or highest rank in yakuza group hierarchy