MaruMA:DramaCD71:Track1

His Majesty's and his nadzukeoya's: 'I can't sleep tonight.'

Yuuri: Monthly Asuka December's Issue Drama CD Appendix

Conrad: Kyou Kara Ma no Tsuku Jiyuugyou

Yuuri: His Majesty's and

Conrad: his nadzukeoya's

Yuuri/Conrad: I can't sleep tonight.

FX:*owls, wind*

FX:*fire burning*

Conrad:*humming*

FX:*knock on the door*

Conrad: Hm? Yes, come in.

FX:*door opens*

Yuuri: Conrad, are you awake?

Conrad:*cackles* Your majesty! *laughs* I'm awake.

Yuuri: I've told you already to stop calling me majesty.

Conrad: So you did. But Yuuri, why are you in your pajamas?

Yuuri: Ah, right... It's just that I couldn't sleep. I'm happy that you're awake.Since it's so late at night, I thought everyone in the country was asleep already. Ah! Could it be that instead of being in a "good night" mode, you're actually in a "just woke up early" mode?

Conrad: Nope, I'm in a "forgot to sleep" mode since this evening. While sorting out some documents, I perked up. So I thought, maybe I should just go through some more papers.

Yuuri: So, what are you doing?

Conrad: Ah, this? I'm just doing some sword maintenance...

Yuuri: Ehh! Just like a master fencer!

Conrad: I made the grip to be just like that of a baseball bat.

Yuuri: Really? Ah, can I get that chair?

Conrad: Go ahead

FX:*Yuuri sits on the chair, and drags it closer to the fireplace*

Yuuri: Ahh.... ahaha... It's so warm in front of the fireplace

Conrad: Yuuri!!! You're barefoot!

Yuuri: What? Ah! There are supposed to be some slippers in my room, but I could only find one of them, and it would be difficult to walk with just the one, so I came here like this.

FX:*Conrad stands up and walks*

Conrad: Yes, but it's cold to be walking around the castle barefoot, isn't it?

FX:*touches Yuuri's feet*

Conrad: Tsk! Look, they're so cold.

Yuuri: W-wait, it tickles! Ah... or rather... don't kneel and make such a cool pose. It's embarrassing.

Conrad: But...

Yuuri: I'm fine! The soles of my feet are warm

Conrad: Then, at least make sure to warm yourself up properly in this room.

Yuuri: Yeah! ... But if it's too warm, I might end up falling asleep.

Conrad: But you can't sleep, right? So if that happens, you'd have your wish granted. It's fine if you fall asleep. If that happens, I'll pick you up like a princess and take you back to your room.

Yuuri: No, well... that's no good. Rather than have something so embarrassing done to me, I'd rather sleep here till morning. Because at dawn, we'll have morning training, right? In that case, I'll just borrow a jersey and shoes and... although now that I think about it .. ah! The size would be completely off, so it won't work.

Conrad: In that case, I'll go to your room, get a change of your training clothes, and come back.

Yuuri: Ah, that'd be great!

Conrad: By the way, what about Wolfram? If he's in your room, we can just ask him to bring it here

Yuuri: Uhm... I don't think we can ask him that. He... you know? He hasn't been spending any time by my side recently... Because he doesn't sleep with me at night... Well, although it's good that he doesn't wake me up with his snoring... Rather than saying he's on a different sleeping schedule.... It seems that tonight he made an appointment with someone as well, and left late at night.

Conrad: Wolfram? That's strange.

Yuuri: Right? Lately he's been acting weird. He's frowning hard like Gwendal as if trying to figure out something difficult, staring into the air.

Conrad: Ah! Could it be that he can see something that others can't?

Yuuri: No, since your younger brother is not a cat, he can't see spirits.

Conrad: But it is indeed weird... It can't be helped that he avoids me, but it's unthinkable for him to even keep a distance from you.

Yuuri: It's not like him to be avoiding you. I mean, because his older brother finally returned to Shin Makoku. Don't you two have private brotherly conversations when no one's watching?

Conrad: We haven't had them...unfortunately. Because Wolfram has had ill feelings towards me since the beginning. In other words, it'd be better to say that his pride as a pure-blooded mazoku, doesn't allow him to acknowledge the existence of someone like me.

Yuuri: But that was a long time ago, right? Don't you think that if he still cared about that, he wouldn't accept I, who have a human mother, as the maou?

Conrad: That would never happen. For Wolfram, you're his first best friend and fiance... the master he has bowed loyalty to.

Yuuri: In that case...!

Conrad: But I'm the one who betrayed you and Shin Makoku

Yuuri: But... about that... I'm sure if you explain him the reason why...

Conrad: Even so, the fact that I hurt you is undeniable. It's only natural for Wolfram to have angry feelings towards me.

Yuuri: Conrad...

Conrad: Well, putting that aside, it's not like him to not want to sleep in the same bed with you. Even though he used to sneak into your bedroom (for sex) every day ...

Yuuri: Uh... can I ask you to please stop saying things that invite misunderstandings?

Conrad: Don't you know who he was meeting up with?

Yuuri: Mhh... the first time he said it was someone from his hometown who had come visit, but... it's not like I've seen them myself.

Conrad: How about making Josak follow after him?

Yuuri: Of course I wouldn't do that! I wouldn't hire a private detective... it sounds like investigating an affair

Conrad: *laughs* Investigating an affair! *gets serious* Hmm... well that's right. I guess that's a possibility. In other words, for him to have a partner other than you...

Yuuri: No! Well I'd be perfectly okay with that though! Or rather, I'd welcome it warmly... Because look, like Effe the kitchen girl. If he were to tell me that he was secretly in love with such a cute girl, at first I think I'd be paralyzed thinking 'dammit', but then I'd give them my heartfelt blessing.

Conrad: Maybe he's having a secret date with a MACHO soldier

Yuuri: I... I hadn't thought about that... Is there a possibility of that?

Conrad: I wouldn't know ... Because I don't have a habit of sticking my nose into my relatives love lives. But among the soldiers, there are really a lot of sexual relationships and marriages between men. In other words, marriage between co-workers.

Yuuri: Heee... Is that so?

Conrad: Although it may be happening too much...

Yuuri: No, since I have a globalized point of view, I don't have any prejudice against that. Ah! But there's that... same sex marriage means, that maybe there are lesbian couples, too?

Conrad: Looks that way... But even if I say so, there are very few female soldiers, so I don't think there are that many of them.

Yuuri: I see... Ah! That makes me happy *ahhhhh*

Conrad: Yuuri! It's best if you don't have too many dreams about female soldiers, since they're women who are very strict about training performance. There are many of them, who surpass men in courage, strength and fighting skills.

Yuuri: Is... is that so...?

Conrad: But if Wolfram isn't on some clandestine date or anything like that and is indeed meeting someone from his hometown, then I'm a little worried...

Yuuri: What do you mean?

Conrad: The current head of the Bielefeld territory is Waltorana, Wolfram's uncle.

Yuuri: Ah... I've heard his name often. Wasn't he the original owner of the golden brooch that Wolfram gave me?

Conrad: Although he's a smart man, he's done radical reforms under his jurisdiction. This is hard for me to say, but he has extremely high expectations from his nephew, and is the type of man who wants him to gain a foothold at the center of the government office.

Yuuri: In other words, a doting uncle?

Conrad: Well, if you want to get straight to the point... But every since your majesty came here, and soon after Wolfram became your fiance... he had been calm for a while.

Yuuri: Why?

Conrad: Maybe it's because having the nephew he cared for so deeply been chosen by the soukoku maou as his partner, has satisfied his high self-esteem. Or maybe, because Wolfram was born with the purests of bloods above other retainers, he might be raising his expectations more and more, waiting for the opportunity.

Yuuri: What sort of expectations?

Conrad: He wants Wolfram to become the LEADER

Yuuri: The LEADER of what?

Conrad: Of Bielefeld. Or maybe even this country.

Yuuri: Country... you say? Even though I may be a bit of a henachoko... aren't I the LEADER right now?

Conrad: That's right. You're a benevolent, legendary maou, who has fixed problems with other countries. You're a wonderful leader. And I want to think that....Waltorana is so foolish as to try and oppose you...

Yuuri: So you mean that the reason why Wolfram has been acting strangely is because of problems in regards to being the leader of Bielefeld ?

Conrad: Who knows...? If they're thinking about changing the Lord of Bielefeld, they should have let the Blood Pledge Castle, or rather the Maou know about it.

Yuuri: Is that so?

Conrad: That's because it's the king's important job to appoint a new vassal when a generation changes. But at the moment, this hasn't happened; so I wouldn't be able to say for sure

Yuuri: I feel like there are so many things I know nothing about

Conrad: It's fine if you remember them as you find out about them. That's why you have Gwendal and Günter. They're wonderful teachers.

Yuuri: I know. I see now... if Wolfram becomes the Head of the Bielefeld territory, he can't stay at the Blood Pledge Castle all the time...

Conrad: Does it make you sad?

Yuuri: Uh? No, of course not! I was just thinking 'What a great thing it will be to have a bigger bed!'

Conrad: Well, you don't need to worry about that. Because you can tell just by looking at Gwendal and Günter, right? Heads of territories that have important jobs at the capital, because they have been summoned by the king, can leave suitable relatives they trust to work as substitutes leaders.

Yuuri: Eh? Then does that mean that even if Wolfram becomes the head of the territory, when he's over here, his uncle will oversee the matters at Bielefeld?

Conrad: Probably

Yuuri: Then things won't change much from the way they are now, right?

Conrad: That's right. Which is why it's strange for him to be so worried. When Waltorana lost his older brother, Wolfram's father, he said he'd only fill the position until his nephew could become the head of the territory, so for him to only be stepping down now, feels like a little too late.

Yuuri: Right?

FX:*stretches*

Yuuri: Even though I finally came back to Shin Makoku after a long time and I thought that I could finally relax for a while, everyone seems to be busy doing their own thing. Wolfram is being like that, Greta is always following Anissina around, and then when Beatrice and Mr. Shiny came to visit I realized they were spoiling her.... I'm being completely left out

Conrad: *laughs* In other words, you're sad, right?

Yuuri: It's not like that... And then, I had to go to Shinou's Shrine today

Conrad: I didn't know that. Did you bring anyone with you?

Yuuri: Yeah, I asked Josak to come with me. I mean, look, since he doesn't seem to be in 'spy' mode at 100% yet, it also helps with his rehabilitation. And it's perfect, because there are many medicines made by the priestesses, and then Ulrike said, come over here and I'll give you a special treatment...

Conrad: Wait! It's understandable that they made an exception for his majesty, but are you saying that even Josa entered the building? That place doesn't allow men!

Yuuri: Yeah, but... since 'Gurie-chan said he has the heart of a maiden' it seems it's okay.

Conrad: How irresponsible...

Yuuri: And you know? Even though Murata told me to go, he was in bed with a high fever. 'Maybe it's influenza or measles', he said and in the end he sent me home alone.

Conrad: Eh? And Josak?

Yuuri: He said, 'If it's measles, I got it as a kid and I'll be fine' and he stayed there taking care of him. Since Murata also had something he had to talk with Josak about, he said to leave Josak there and go. Don't you think that was mean? He sent his friend from Earth away, and was all friendly and close to Josak...

Conrad: I wonder if he's all right...

Yuuri: Ah... he's all right now. Josak I mean... The doctor said it was a surprisingly quick recovery, and that he's just as he was before! Ah... but it seems that he hasn't seen Gwendal yet.

Conrad: That might take some more time. After all, I think he can't face Gwen right now, and he's thoughts are going round and round. He's unexpectedly timid under that big body of his. He hesitates at strange times, and is someone who can't say the words he wants to say the most.

Yuuri: I know. He was the same with me. But he told me in Seisakoku

Conrad: In Seisakoku? What did he say?

Yuuri: He said 'Sorry for what happened back then, when we got Morgif'. 'I've been worrying about that for a long time'.

Conrad: Is that so?

Yuuri: You two resemble each other.

Conrad: What?

Yuuri: Do childhood friends resemble each other? And even if I say 'Really, it's fine already, let it go' , and I think it's over, you're always worrying, as if a thorn has pierced your heart, going round and round with it in your brain.

Conrad: You're talking about me?

Yuuri: That's right. You and Josak are the same. Even if you've been soldiers for a long time, you're psychologically weak. Someone like that couldn't win the Japan Series (Nippon Professional Baseball series), probably not even win the League's Series.

Conrad: *scoffs* I'll keep that in mind . But I can't have you compare me to Josak.

Yuuri: Why?

Conrad: Because he's a timid person. He likes getting kicked by people with extraordinary self-confidence, but I don't have that kind of special consideration towards people.

Yuuri: People with great self- confidence?

Conrad: I'm talking about people like Anissina or his Highness.

Yuuri: Murata? He's not someone with great self- confidence, he's just a schemer! A scheming glasses guy!

Conrad: You don't go easy on your friend, huh?

FX:*time passes, wind blows, owls*

FX:*Conrad's pouring coffee*

Yuuri: Huh? *sniffs* What's that nice aroma?

Conrad: It's coffee. I can only make something like this in my room. I wonder if you can drink it.

Yuuri: Of course I can... ah! It's black... although I'm used to taking it with lots of milk and sugar...

Conrad: Cafe au lait?

Yuuri: Nope, milk coffee. I love the 500ml pack they sell at the convenience store, and silently drinking it while taking a bath at the public bath house, is the best! Conrad: You really sound like a SPORTS teen. I guess it's part of the basic calorie intake for an adolescent.

Yuuri: Yeah *blows coffee* *drinks coffee* *sighs* But I'm surprised.... there's also coffee in this world. But... you don't see it often, right? Where do they sell it?

Conrad: They don't. Originally , there wasn't a drink like coffee here.

Yuuri: What? ... But this is coffee right?

Conrad: Yes, it's a special coffee made with coffee seeds that I secretly brought from Earth and that I entrusted a close friend farmer to grow it. I'm experimenting with it, or rather, I just do it because I have a particular interest in it, I don't harvest enough to sell it.

Yuuri: So it's really homemade?

Conrad: That's right. It's pretty good, right?

Yuuri: Yeah, I mean... I don't know a lot about coffee, but I know it's tasty. Wouldn't it be better to grow lots of it and have a whole coffee plantation?

Conrad: That's not possible

Yuuri: Why?

Conrad: Look at the color of the liquid. The common mazoku will see this dark colored drink and be too afraid to drink it, and humans might end up hating it.

Yuuri: Ahhhh!!! I can't believe that the 'BLACK' problem would even show up with something like this.

Conrad:*laughs* But I think that if we add lots of milk and sugar to it, the way you like it, we might be able to fix the problem.

Yuuri: It's fine for you to drink it secretly... As I gathered, only men who know a lot about coffee like it black.

Conrad: Well, I don't quite understand that theory... Damn it! I shouldn't have made you drink such strong coffee, it will wake you up and it will be harder and harder for you to go to sleep!

Yuuri: It's fine. I couldn't sleep to begin with, and that's the reason why I ended up coming to your room. *sighs*

FX:*chatting music begins*

Yuuri: Autumn nights are long and boring... although I the daytime vibe of 'sports in the fall' is enjoyable...

Conrad: Because the so called 'Maou's BASEBALL Celebration' will be starting soon, right?

Yuuri: Yeah! And this time the amount of teams participating has increased! I wonder if they're all excited about the TOURNAMENT. I'm really looking forward to it!

Conrad: That's because the participants have doubled since the creation of the tournament. Thanks to the recommendation of distributing equipment and cleaning up vacant lots for their use, it seems that even in rural areas the amount of children enjoying baseball has increased.

Yuuri: ...I'm.... moved....! I think this is the first time .... I'm glad to have become a king and gained such power.

Conrad: The first time? That's a bit of a problem.... Please don't be satisfied by such small things.

Yuuri: But....! Baseball has become the national sport and everyone LOVES it. For me it's like a BIG DREAM!

Conrad: Yes, yes...

Yuuri: Tsk! Can you stop smiling like you're trying to humor a baby... ? Me being the only one in high spirits, makes me feel like a child.

Conrad: A 16 year old is still a child, right?

Yuuri: Maybe in Japan, but in Shin Makoku they're already adults, right?

Conrad: I think it's fine if you are not in a hurry to become an adult... because that's the reason why you became the maou while still being a high school student.

Yuuri: What do you mean?

Conrad: I mean, so that you can worry... Although I don't completely believe in his Majesty Shinou, I believe that his ability to choose people is real. That's why his choice of you was the right one... And the things that trouble you, will cause you to grow into an adult... I'm sure of that.

Yuuri: But if all of a sudden someone appears and cuts in line, and becomes the leader of the country, even if he's a child and a henachoko, the citizens will experience a lot of uneasiness, right? They'll say 'Who's this guy?' 'Can we really trust him?'

Conrad: And I always say that you'll be fine, exactly because you think like that.

Yuuri: You're too kind to me...

Conrad: Of course, not. But I do have my own selfish reasons to be like this.

Yuuri: Selfish reasons?

Conrad: I don't want to be hated by you

Yuuri: *gasp* I-I-I-I don't hate you! What are you talking about? There's no way I could hate you!

Conrad: Thank you. But until recently, I didn't think I'd be able to return to a situation like this. Although I distanced myself, and there was a time when I stood before you as an enemy, it was very painful to me.

Yuuri: It was painful to me too.

Conrad: You said before that I was psychologically weak, and I won't deny it. Because if I had to separate from you and fight you as an enemy before me that I had to win against no matter what, it would still be impossible for me to point my sword at you. No matter what reason or situation I may be in, whether I'm perplexed, angry, or desperate at the time, my brain would just freeze.

Yuuri: I know that... I knew it already.

Conrad: Hmm.. that's right... but...

Yuuri: I told you it's enough already!

Conrad: Yuuri!

Yuuri: ... Heheh... Conrad... you're here, right?

Conrad: I am... right here...

Yuuri: You know? I had a strange dream, when you weren't here.

Conrad: A dream?

Yuuri: Yeah, in a night like this, when you weren't supposed to be here, I dreamed that you came into my room, and you spoke about a lot of sad things. Like the moon on the battlefield being red, because it was dyed in blood.... and that you felt like your left arm didn't feel like your own... and that it hurt a lot... that's what you said.

Conrad: PHANTOM PAIN

Yuuri: Eh?

Conrad: It's the illusion of feeling pain in a limb that you've lost. It often haunted injured soldiers on the battlefield, but I only learned that word when I was in America. It's really strange... I wonder if I've ever talked to you about this before...

Yuuri: I heard about it, in that dream

Conrad: That's amazing... Even though I often met you in my dreams, it seems that in one of them, I must have connected to the real you.

FX:*engiwarui birds cry*

Yuuri: It's the engiwarui bird... ah! It was called a paradise bird, right?

Conrad: Yes, officially.

Yuuri: Only the souls carried by those birds receive the blessing of Shinou and are reborn. That's also something you said...

Conrad: In that dream?

Yuuri: Yeah... Say Conrad, have you ever met Shinou?

Conrad: Why are you asking me that all of a sudden?

Yuuri: It's just that you said earlier that you don't completely trust Shinou or something, and your arm that was supposed to have been severed is right there to the way it was. It's one thing if you were to unexpectedly COME OUT and say 'I'm a special lizard soldier', but if that's not the case I can't think of anything else but you talking directly with Shinou to have it resurrected like a CYBORG.

Conrad: That's right... I might have met him. He was inappropriate, belligerent and overflowing with confidence.... A great being, similar to the sun. But his flames are the type that burn everything down in seconds with overwhelming power... I prefer a sun that nurtures living things.

Yuuri: A sun...

Conrad: A bright and warm one, right... one like Yuuri...

Yuuri: Eh!? I'm the sun? You're praising me too much...

Conrad: No. Before you were born, I held the soul that was going to become against the light, like this, and prayed. 'May you become like the sun'... Ah! Look! The ridge-line of the mountains have turned purple... the sun will come out soon.

Yuuri: You're right. Aaaahh.... in the end I couldn't sleep at all.

Conrad: As I thought, the coffee wasn't good for you... You're still not sleepy?

Yuuri: Not really. But I think I will after the morning training and breakfast.

Conrad: Then shall we cancel morning training just for today? And instead of that, let's go to the courtyard and collect morning dew that gathers on plants.

Yuuri: Morning dew? Why?

Conrad: If you think about it, today is Harouin.

Yuuri: Halloween?

Conrad: No, not that one. The one where you drink dew from the leaves. It's a traditional event in Shin Makoku.

Yuuri: Ah, the one that's like Tanabata, where your wishes are granted.

Conrad: That's right. It's something like praying for your health and prosperity while drinking morning dew.

Yuuri: Great, it sounds like fun. Shall we go to the garden now?

Conrad: Yeah, but before that...just ignore the size and use my jacket and shoes.

Yuuri: Thank you... they're warm...

Conrad: Wait a minute, Yuuri. To collect the dew we need a glass and spoon.

FX:*they walk away*

Yuuri: Say, what are you going to wish for?

Conrad: I guess I'll wish for his majesty to become more and more splendid as a king

Yuuri: Don't give me such an intangible answer. Try something more concrete...

Conrad: Then, what will you wish for?

Yuuri: Hmm... let's see... maybe I'll wish 'I want a tennis court'!

Conrad: Why tennis? Did you like that sport?

Yuuri: No, I like watching it, but I'm bad at playing it. I had a TRAUMA as a kid, you know? But if you play it Conrad, I think it would suit you.

Conrad: Me?

Yuuri: That's right. Besides I was thinking that it would be nice if there were other national sports besides baseball.

Conrad: If we're talking about major sports, how about soccer?

Yuuri: As for that one, I think that Murata will bring it here, even without me praying for it.

Conrad: I see... So what did you mean by the trauma caused by tennis?

Yuuri: Ah! A long time ago, when we went to a rental villa in Karuizawa, my dumb big brother said ' I have come up with a special killer move', and hit a hard ball straight at me, when I was in the tennis court. And on the next day, when I saw myself in the mirror in the bathroom, there was a blue bruise on my butt that was this big!

Conrad: Wasn't that a Mongolian spot? Because you had a Mongolian spot until you grew quite big

Yuuri: It wasn't that! Or rather, why do you know something like that!?

Conrad: Well, that's of course because I'm your nadzukeoya...

Yuuri: What does that mean!? Cuz I don't understand !!!

FX:*door opens, Conrad laughs*

Conrad: It means that I know everything about you, Yuuri!

FX:*door closes*

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