Chisei Kuzuryu and Haruomi Shingu

Haruomi Shingu a cold and possessive person. Chisei Kuzuryu a playful and smug person. These two person are not real, they are illusion made by phantometal to manipulate and corrupt the users of the phantometals. From the saturated hip-hop culture rises a new movement – the Phantom Live. Using metals called “phantom metals” embedded into their accessories, the rappers create illusions (phantoms) that are linked to their emotions, through the chemical reaction of the metals with their DNA.

However, on the other side, there are those who suffer from “phantom of trauma” as a reaction (trap reaction) after using the phantom metals.

Club PARADOX is suddenly back as the stage of the mysterious Paradox Live Battle, 10 years after the club’s disappearance. Four units were invited to compete to win 10 billion yen worth of prize money and a right to challenge the legendary rapper unit called “Buraikan”. Chisei Kuzuryu and Haruomi Shingu are the legendary rapper unit called "Buraikan".

There is a side effect of phantometal fir users, users will afterwards suffer from illusions of their past trauma. This is referred to as a trap response. A kind of dark red and black marks appear on users if they don't quickly calm themselves down they will experience pain and mental breakdown and be corrupted by darkness. These phantometal can also make illusion to make the users drown in darkness to make trauma worse and harder to leave it.