Chapter 27

Translator: True Detective

Chapter 27

7. Dystopia Outlaw (1)

To say it now, the portion related to 「Outlaws」 among the entire trailer of 「Dystopia 9999」 was only about 1 minute at most.

However, the gallery users were captivated by the trailer of only about 1 minute and came to harbor tremendous expectations.

The reason was very simple.

That's right.

Just by watching the 1-minute trailer of 「Dystopia Outlaw」, people realized the fact that their hearts were pounding and shaking greatly.

If it's possible to excite them like this with just a 1-minute trailer at most.

If they watch the main story, what kind of reaction will they show then?

Although they didn't speak it out loud, everyone in the gallery had this kind of expectation.

As if responding to everyone's expectations, the airing of 「Dystopia Outlaw」 episode 1 started on Seo-jin's channel.

The animation was set in a near-future city called Dawn City.

A city where humans entrust all their lives to machines as the development of civilization reached its extreme.

Just as seen in the trailer of 「Dystopia 9999」, a city like a nightless castle boasting splendid and decadent beauty even in the dark middle of the night.

The story begins in earnest as the scenery of such a city slowly reveals itself in beautiful drawings.

Naturally, seeing the drawing that one might mistake for a real scene if watching without knowing anything, viewers couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

At first, the majority of viewers only expressed fascination that the drawings move very vividly alive rather than the content of the anime called 「Dystopia Outlaw」.

But that was also momentary.

People started to be gradually immersed in the worldview called 「Dystopia Outlaw」, not the novelty of the medium called ‘Animation’ they witness for the first time in their lives.

It became a world where one replaces one's body with machines casually, but exactly because of that, the element called ‘Humanity’ is considered more important.

In a Cyberpunk world where one became extremely rich materially, but paradoxically cannot be treated as a human if one has no money.

The protagonist ‘David’ living a life like a gutter.

He wanders the very bottom of society experiencing all kinds of shame and humiliation.

Naturally, watching that appearance, viewers couldn't help but feel a frustrating feeling as if cancer cells inside the body were multiplying in real-time.

It was so.

For cultures like movies, games, or animation to develop, incredibly many conditions had to precede.

So practically, it was not an exaggeration to say they are Earth's exclusive culture at this point.

But the condition needed for the culture called 'Novel' to develop was only human imagination, so novels were bound to develop considerably in each dimension.

The genre popular in a significant number of dimensions including Petra where 'ITrowAwayYoplaitLidWithoutLicking' lives is exactly Hero Party Banishment!

Caught the Demon King with effort, but the hero betrayed by hitting the back of the head by the same party members crawls up from the bottom and does Musou, extreme Cider (refreshing) genre itself!

Especially in fantasy-type dimensions, demand was bound to be even greater because novels of such genre looked like documentaries.

For those who came from reading such novels written to squeeze dopamine out of primate brains to the limit, the early development of 「Dystopia Outlaw」 was bound to feel frustrating.

However.

Kwaaaaaang-!

As if ridiculing the viewers who were chanting Buddhist prayers saying the development so far was boring, rapid development like riding a roller coaster begins to take place.

The sudden death of the mother who was the only one understanding and loving the protagonist in a life like a gutter.

And the society's system treating such mother's urn like trash just because there is no money.

Instead of expressing condolences for the mother's death, classmates busy throwing ridicule instead.

If it were usual, the chat window itself would have been occupied by all kinds of curses around this time.

At this moment, the chat window was only quiet as a mouse.

Because the viewers also had eyes, so they could know.

The fact that despair absolutely does not dwell in David's two eyes.

Traditionally, when humans face despair they cannot endure, they are bound to be divided into two human types.

Whether to break and bend unable to endure despair.

...Or whether to step on despair and rise to move forward.

The majority of humans belong to the former.

However, although extremely few, there are people in this world who choose the latter.

Just like Luke, the protagonist of 「Star Wars」, didn't despair and didn't abandon the hope that he could return his father to the Orthodox Faction Martial Arts again, even though he realized the fact that his father was the Heavenly Demon who plunged the universe into a nightmare.

And the world points to such people.

And often calls them 'Heroes'.

The Ripperdoc looks at the object David handed over.

Sandevistan (Bullet time).

Cyberware possessing the effect like stopping the surrounding spacetime by forcibly accelerating the nervous system.

However, because the side effects are too severe, an object that even decent soldiers cannot handle carelessly.

Why did a mere brat bring such a precious thing.

Simply to sell it?

If not that, surely—

With David's words asking to implant the extremely dangerous object while being prepared for his own death as the last.

Pajik-

The screen turns off with a pajik sound.

Blackout.

Up to the ending credits there.

Viewers couldn't take their eyes off the screen with their mouths wide open, then suddenly realized one nightmare-like fact.

Ending credits? ED song?

Then surely... the anime ended like this?

Really?

At those words, Seo-jin made a somewhat unknown smile and opened his mouth.

“Hmm, do you know that? The fact that originally on Earth, airing 1 episode of animation per week is a kind of custom.”

“At first, I also thought about screening anime in that way. But... seeing so many people liking the anime called 「Dystopia Outlaw」 to this extent, I don't have the confidence to do such an act lacking business ethics.”

“Yes, your guess is correct.”

Seo-jin spoke making a warm smile like Santa Claus.

“I will declare here. Today, I will screen 「Dystopia Outlaw」 up to episode 5 continuously! Next week too, I will release 5 episodes similarly! So that the expectations you harbored for the past week won't be made in vain!”

Simultaneously with Seo-jin's declaration, countless requests for handshakes started pouring into the chat window.

However, they did not know.

The fact that the anime called 「Dystopia Outlaw」 was originally screened with all 10 episodes released on Earth.

But viewers were happy to be able to scoop up up to episode 5 continuously right now like dogs.

And Seo-jin was happy to receive sponsorship and delay the consumption of content by a week.

It was the completion of a world where no one gets hurt.