−273.15 °C

−273.15 °C
Kanji	絶対零度
Romaji	Zettai Reido
Voice Drama Information
Characters	Kashiki Yuno Es
Released	September 21, 2022
Length	13:59
Label	Arma Bianca Record

−273.15 °C, (絶(ぜっ)対(たい)零(れい)度(ど), Zettai Reido) is thirteenth voice drama featuring the prisoner Kashiki Yuno. It's the second trial interrogation between Yuno and the prison guard Es, right before the song starts.

Track Listing

1. Tear Drop
2. Tear Drop (Instrumental)
3. The Vampire (ヴァンパイア) [YUNO Cover]
4. The Vampire (ヴァンパイア) [YUNO Cover] (Instrumental)
5. −273.15 °C (絶対零度) -Voice Drama- Yuno & Es

Featured Characters

• Kashiki Yuno
• Es

Transcript

-WIP-

Translations by Letters and Mads (@maddsgram on Twitter)

• Romaji
• Japanese
• English

*Door opening, footsteps*
Es	I've kept you wait, Yuno.
Yuno	Quite. It's been a while, Guard-san.
Es	From what I can see, it seems you have not changed.
Yuno	Hm? I won't particularly change. Ah, I see, because Haruka changed a lot, right? Ah, men sure do change when they're with women.
Es	For now, I'm relieved. Then, I'm going to begin the interrogation.
Yuno	Hm….
Es	Yuno.
Yuno	It's bothersome, so I'll pass.
Es	What?
Yuno	Hurry up and extract the song or whatever. And then! Why don't you go ahead and arbitrarily think up what is and isn't, and arbitrarily make your decision?
Es	Hm. That's a pretty uncooperative attitude.
Yuno	I suppose so. I just kinda lost interest, you know.
Es	Regardless of if you are interested or not, I am just going to do my job.
Yuno	Job…huh. Hey, how is it? This chaotic situation you wrought with that splendid job of yours? Is it fun?
Es	What are you trying to say?
Yuno	Are you personally satisfied? I mean, having forgiven and not forgiven, the inside of the prison is like this now.
Es	You mean the conflicts between the prisoners.
Yuno	Yep! Kotoko-san, who you forgave, went super violent, and then injured people came rolling in one after the other!
Es	You mean Mahiru and Fuuta. That was an incident even I had not expected.
Yuno	Really? If you ask me, Kotoko-san is someone I would never want to make my friend, though. She's the type who picks a conclusion from the very beginning and won't actually talk with you.
Es	Hm.
Yuno	Well, I guess it's arbitrary who one gets along with. But Mahiru-san in particular is something. I think both her body and mind are at their limits. Also, Mikoto-san was also attacked but apparently it ended up in something of a draw. That guy was strong, huh—how unexpected. Also Haruka and Muu-chan have become kind of bothersome. And additionally, Amane-chan and Shidou-san too, huh.
Es	Amane and Shidou?
Yuno	Well, it's like they're the total opposite of Haruka and Muu-chan. It's quite a considerable thing so please go ahead and confirm it for yourself.
Es	So that's also an effect of the first hearing's results.
Yuno	Well, if I were to say what I'm trying to say… It's fucking bothersome.
Es	...
Yuno	I said so at the start, didn't I? That punishing people outside of the law is boundless. And so I had no interest in MILGRAM.
Es	Yes, I remember. You said that you would pay my judgment no mind and remain as you were.
Yuno	Oh! That's right! I'm happy you remembered. But, you know, I didn't exactly hate it, MILGRAM. It's nothing but weird people but it was warmer than my day-to-day life.
Es	It did appear as though you were having fun.
Yuno	Yes, it was fun! They may be murderers, but they're interesting people! It puts me at ease, in a way, that we're all people lacking in something.
Es	You are saying that that changed and it's my fault?
Yuno	Yep! This situation's bothersome-ness has won out over the fun so I am extremely cooled off. That is all.
Es	...
Yuno	And? Are you satisfied with this situation?
Es	You all are murderers. In order to clarify your sins, this job is necessary. MILGRAM will make clear your essences and truths-
Yuno	That. Does it not hold up unless you desperately repeat it back to yourself?
Es	!
Yuno	*Laugh* You want to make clear the truth…huh?
Es	Yes. Of course. As MILGRAM's guard, in order to correctly judge your sins-
Yuno	The result of doing looooots of sugar-daddying: Abortion.
Es	!
Yuno	That's probably my murder. Well, please go ahead and partake of the truth.
Es	...
Yuno	How is it? Satisfied? Then, can we be done already?
Es	Yuno…you….
Yuno	You don't surprise much, do you? As I thought, you knew it from the song extraction.
Es	Well, yes. As one possibility, I thought it was likely. That, going by MILGRAM's scope of interpretation for murder, it was possible.
Yuno	I'm sure. Well, I generally got the sense that that's how it was. I could feel it.
Es	You could feel it…you say?
Yuno	I can hear it, while I'm in MILGRAM. Probably, everyone else is the same. Voices peeking in, digging around, and discussing my sins.
Es	Something like that….
Yuno	Are those not the thoughts you were having or something? Not that I would know.
Es	I don't know. I wasn't told MILGRAM had that kind of effect. It's true that I did decide to forgive you while considering that fact. Though it is provisional.
Yuno	*Sigh*
Es	...
Yuno	Well then, I will now announce the second reason I am cooled off! Yaaay!
Es	...
Yuno	You're bad at jumping on the mood, huh.
Es	I'm beginning to lose understanding of the kind of human being you are.
Yuno	It's dull to get too serious, you know.
Es	Understood. Continue.
Yuno	My second cool-off reason is…to put it simply, the fact that I was forgiven.
Es	What?
Yuno	Well, to be precise, it's not the forgiveness itself but….
Es	I don't understand. Say it clearly.
Yuno	Hm…well then, should I tell you what I heard the voices saying in my head? "Because she's pitiable.” “There's no mistake that she has some kind of reason." "She might have become like this because she had some kind of hardship in her past." "She's become like this because there's some problem in her home life—because she doesn't know love yet!" "Because of that…I'll forgive her."
Es	It's true that I arrived at those kinds of analogical reasons.
Yuno	Ah, yes yes. Well, this is going to be purely—purely—personal opinion but… I find those kinds of assumptions preachy and unpleasant! They're worthless! Arbitrarily deciding that I'm pitiable. Arbitrarily making up a backstory for me. Creating a personally idealized version of me. Creating an acceptable version of me. They really exist, you know, those kinds of people. And in particular, those kinds of people…won't do anything for me.
Es	Yuno….
Yuno	I'm not pitiable. My family gets along super well. And I'm not particularly struggling for money. I decided, of my own free will, to do it because I felt that it was necessary for me.
Es	Then…what were you aiming for with…that is…your compensated, dating….
Yuno	Why are you stammering? *Gasp* You're so pure!
Es	Shut up.
Yuno	*Laugh*
Es	I have no intention to pursue your numerous acts outside of murder, but there is no mistake that that is an ethically questionable act.
Yuno	Ah…I don't have much interest in things like ethics and morals. Doesn't it not fill your stomach*?
*This is a pun! She literally says "doesn't your stomach not inflate?" using a phrase that references a term for being full/stuffed. She's joking that ethics/morals aren't emotionally filling while also referencing pregnancy/balloons.
Es	That sounds like quite a dangerous ideology.
Yuno	No, but seriously, I do think so…that there are lots of people who think, "I have to protect ethics and morals" and end up constrained and miserable. That they should just live in a more easygoing manner~.
Es	I believe it depends on the degree.
Yuno	Yes yes. Of course, I think criminal offenses fundamentally aren't good.
Es	...
Yuno	But immoral acts that don't cause anyone misfortune do exist, right? Just like sugar-daddying: because it's been deemed ethically wrong, I was hiding it but…is someone being troubled by it? It's a win-win engagement, isn't it?
Es	It's as I said before, I have no intent to pursue the rights and wrongs of your acts outside of murder. However, the reality is that that is connected to your murder.
Yuno	Hm…that's true. I have no intent to say abortion isn't murder. I'm a respectable murderer.
Es	I…don't really understand you. Seemingly being picky, yet not. Having valued personal opinions yet not sticking to them.
Yuno	It's not like I want to win the discussion. I'm just saying what I think.
Es	Do you feel no regret?
Yuno	To the extent of understanding the feeling of actually taking a life... I couldn't feel that that was a life. A discomfort and…the sensation of a foreign body….
Es	...
Yuno	Do you feel disdain? Sorry! But, really, I can't claim a sadness I never actually felt.
Es	It's something I cannot understand. I have never experienced it.
Yuno	That's true. *Stretch* Even if I was scorned by you, I would have been okay with being told I'm not forgiven. I don't believe I'm not in the wrong. I'd accept it.
Es	...
Yuno	Despite that, you arbitrarily assumed things about me and sympathized with me. Even though all I did was make a rational decision of my own free will.
Es	I'm sorry, but that's the sort of thing MILGRAM is.
Yuno	Then, I hate MILGRAM.
Es	It's fine if you do.
Yuno	Can you not forgive without some extreme reason? Then, alternatively, if there was some extreme reason, could you forgive?
Es	The reality is that such sides of the issue exist.
Yuno	Even though the act itself is the same?
Es	Even if you refer to the law, not MILGRAM, 'Reduction of Punishment in the Light of Extenuating Circumstances' or 'Taking Extenuating Circumstances Into Consideration' so to speak, exists. Motive is an important factor.
Yuno	Well, I guess so. But if you refer to the law, regardless, I can't be accused of murder.
Es	This is MILGRAM.
Yuno	Yes, yes. You love MILGRAM a lot, don't you, Guard-san?
Es	That is not particularly true.
Yuno	I'm sure. Seems painful, Guard-san.
Es	Me….?
Yuno	Yes. Who else is there?
Es	That is not the case.
Yuno	Hm. Well, let's just leave it at that, shall we?
*Bell rings, mechanical sounds in the back*
Yuno	It's done! Now, hurry, go ahead and extract a song or anything else!
Es	Really…this person….
Yuno	We verified the answers regarding what I did, right? So what else is there? Reason or motive or the feelings of the composer—why don't you consider them to your personal preferences?
Es	You've abundantly found faults to pick at in my job.
Yuno	Ah, are you mad?
Es	A little.
Yuno	I mean, stuff like forgive and not forgive—that's all made-up play! I won't get warm with something like that! Unless you embrace me, impossible, no way.
Es	Say whatever you want. No matter what you say, I won't quit MILGRAM.
Yuno	Yes, yes.
Es	I believe I said it before, that I would make my decisions, no matter how selfishly.
Yuno	You did say that, huh?
Es	Complain as much as you like. You problem child.
Yuno	*Laugh* Oh! Also, that reminds me, there was one thing I'm curious about.
Es	What? Go ahead and say it.
Yuno	Am I…really alive?
Es	That's…what do you….
Yuno	Hm…if you don't know, then it's fine.
Es	Yuno….
Yuno	Hey, it's time, right?
Es	Y-yes. Prisoner number 2, Yuno. Sing your sins.
Continued on Tear Drop MV