Chapter 31
Translator: True Detective
## Chapter 31
**7. Dystopia Outlaw (5)**
In the past, around the time Yurika first met Seo-jin, she had said this to him.
‘Excuse me... Could you perhaps make the next work a game with Machine Civilization as the background?’
‘Yes?’
‘If a game with the theme of Machine Civilization is released, I think it can change people's perception. Just like the perception of games itself changed due to the release of 「My Creation」 this time.’
‘So... would it not be possible?’
Although Yurika made such a request with her own mouth back then.
Actually, even she herself didn't expect that wish to come true.
The reason was simple.
Although the culture called ‘Game’ revived due to the release of 「My Creation」.
It was not an exaggeration to say that simply making one game a hit and changing the perception of a whole dimension was a difference between heaven and earth.
However.
FORUM POST
Title: Watching 「Outlaw」 it seems Machine Civilization isn't that bad either???- The society is fucking awful, the average level of people is like a dog, and the system is dirty, but
The kids living there seem not bad
Rather, because the background is Machine Civilization, the kids trying to survive in such a place seem more human???
No refutations accepted, if refuted I am unconditionally right
COMMENTS
User: Fuck rather just curse refreshingly lolol
User: One line summary : Civilization is fucking awful but kids are nice
User: ↳ Fact is this is still a much improved evaluation... In the past we used to curse saying even the kids living there are all fucking awful...
User: Sommelier of Shit Bro... But you are unlikable so please go to paradise in that world...
User: ↳ CloseRangeAxe she is not dead yet you bastard
User: ↳ Lolololol
FORUM POST
Title: I am 578 years old... I came to have a dream of wanting to marry a woman from Machine Civilization...- Heo-eo... My age is already 578 years old...
Watching the anime called 「Outlaw」 I realized the fact that the women from Machine Civilization appearing there are my type...
Confident, saying everything they should and shouldn't say, and secretly taking good care of people
I didn't know either but it seems those kinds of women were my type...
So someone please answer how I can marry such women... I am urgent...
COMMENTS
User: 578 years old lolololol
User: If you think you know why on earth this bastard couldn't marry until he became 578 years old upvote lolololol
User: Fr please share the method to marry a woman in 2D with me too I am also very urgent dude
User: ??? : I.want.to.embrace.you~~~@#@@
User: ↳ Ah fuck
User: ↳ I barely forgot but you make me remember lolololol
User: ↳ Text-Scat lolololol
Surprisingly, after the airing of 「Outlaw」, the gallery's perception of Machine Civilization had changed considerably.
Of course, it wasn't up to a favorable perception and was still something close to a laughing stock.
Considering the fact that until just a while ago, people's reaction to Machine Civilization was something close to contempt or avoidance.
Even just this much had to be expressed as a tremendous development.
‘Is this exactly... the power of Earth culture?’
Honestly speaking, it was surprising.
All Seo-jin did was just screen the anime called 「Dystopia Outlaw」 up to episode 5.
To think the perception of a certain specific dimension would change significantly because of just this!
If one says this truly happened because of a single cultural work, who in the world would believe it?
However, because of that, Yurika's heart was beating violently.
Even though the anime called 「Dystopia Outlaw」 was aired only up to episode 5, such a nonsensical result came out.
Then today, if the remaining 5 episodes are all screened, what on earth will happen?
To run the hope circuit a little bit, perhaps all dimensions will look at our Machine Civilization dimension with an astonished gaze?
“So please I hope the anime called 「Outlaw」 ends with an ending that leaves a lingering lingering feeling and remains in people's memories for a long, long time!”
Yurika made such a wish with an incredibly pure heart.
And-
「...Granted.」
“...Huh?”
For some reason, she felt like she heard such a voice from somewhere.
Umm....
Was it just her imagination?
***
Finally, the day people eagerly anticipated and anticipated, when the latter part of 「Dystopia Outlaw」 is screened, arrived.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Wow this day really does come...
Viewer: Bros I thought I was dying because my hands and feet were trembling for a week
Viewer: Seriously it was a week where I felt like time was passing slower than when I was dragged to the military...
Viewer: Guys please calm down do you not even know the proverb 'Cool head Warm heart'??
Viewer: ↳ Bald's heart burns???
Viewer: ↳ Lolololol
Viewer: ↳ Are you crazy lololol
Falling for Seo-jin's evil scheme beyond measure, there were countless patients across all dimensions suffering from withdrawal symptoms because they couldn't watch the rest of the latter part of 「Outlaw」.
They were currently accessing Seo-jin's channel hastily like Pavlov's dogs, waiting with their two eyes wide open to watch episode 6.
And the reason they were obsessed with the anime called 「Outlaw」 even while trembling their bodies from withdrawal symptoms was only one.
“I definitely want to see the protagonist becoming happy...!”
“Please I really hope he becomes happy. The protagonist, Lucy, Rebecca, everyone together...!”
It was so.
Honestly speaking, seen through the eyes of the majority of people, the protagonist's life was pitiful to an excessive degree.
Always rolling at the bottom of society in his life until now.
Losing the mother who loved him his whole life right in front of his eyes.
Before that wound could even heal, he had to lose someone like family yet again.
At this point, one could even suspect if Earthlings actually have a weird hobby of rolling the protagonist to a miserable degree.
Just in time, as the story developed, the fact that the protagonist's comrades also had tragic pasts was revealed.
“...As expected, they weren't just simple comrade relationships but a kind of family.”
“That was exactly the reason why the protagonist and comrades became intimate rapidly.”
“Earthlings, at this point please give a happy ending where everyone smiles and ends...!”
However, someone had said this.
A person is not remembered by how they lived.
But remembered by how they met their death.
And David, the protagonist of 「Outlaw」, is a person who tries to burn even his own life not for himself but for a precious person.
He eventually started advancing slowly towards destruction like a moth flying into the flame.
「...Your body is already at its limit. If you advance further from there, you will die. Brat.」
To protect others, the protagonist cuts out the parts that were human and fills the empty space with machines.
Eventually, he practically receives a terminally ill diagnosis.
To make matters worse, a despairing situation where even Lucy, who can be called the protagonist's lover and the heroine of 「Outlaw」, is kidnapped by the Mega Corp that rules this world.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Hey... This isn't right...?
Viewer: In the setting Mega Corp is at the level of national power *shiver*
Viewer: How do you win against this crazy...
The viewers watching that scene unintentionally spat out weak words.
It makes sense, wasn't it a situation where they had to fight head-on against a corporation practically no different from a nation.
The protagonist's body is no different from its limit, and the enemy is powerful to a despairing degree.
Cannot win.
It's a suicidal act.
Even knowing the fact that an ending miserable beyond measure is waiting for them at this end—
「...Ah. You really became a mean man.」
「Yeah, let's go together. To the end of this hell, I will hang out with you.」
The protagonist and Rebecca who loves him willingly throw their bodies towards hell.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Ah....
Viewer: Please don't do that... I beg you...
Viewer: Earthlings please Harem Ending Earthlings please Harem Ending Earthlings please Harem Ending Earthlings please Harem Ending Earthlings please Harem Ending
Viewer: It's okay even if it's not Harem so please no one else die seriously...
Viewer: Protagonist you promised to go to the moon with Lucy!!!! You shouldn't die here!!!!
Viewer: Lolol Earthlings I know all this is just a template up to here, it's good you tried to induce tension but it doesn't work on me lol
As if disproving the atmosphere in the work, the chat window was completely plastered with these kinds of comments.
Actually, the viewers each harbored a kind of hope saying 'Surely not'.
Ay, surely not.
No matter what, would the protagonist really die?
He is not a passing extra, but a whopping protagonist.
He is the protagonist who has lived with difficulty until now and was just about to become happy.
So it's a happy ending... right?
Right?
However.
「It was fun, brat.」
*Bang-!*
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Eh...?
Viewer: Huh...?
With one gunshot ringing out, everything ended.
After that, the epilogue.
And.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Kyaaaaaaack!!!!!
Viewer: Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill Earthlings kill kill kill all Earthlings!!!!!
Viewer: Earthling!!! You!!!! Sons of bitches!!!! Ah!!!!
Viewer: Despair, frustration, fear, regret, responsibility, anger, remorse, sorrow, beyond that, everything, I want to kill, going crazy and madness, and also-
Viewer: Fuck from tomorrow Machine Civilization bastards are all dead I memoed all the half-named users so be prepared really
Viewer: ↳ Why beat those bastards again lol
Viewer: ↳ Guilt by association lol
System Notification
[You have acquired an achievement!]
[Achievement Name: I can dominate people's emotions.]
[You have acquired hidden achievements continuously!]
[As a reward, hidden items in the Point Shop will be opened!]
[The screening of 「Dystopia Outlaw」 has ended.]
[50% of the revenue is accumulated to the animation production company.]
[You have acquired an achievement!]
[Achievement Name: I can dominate people's emotions.]
[You have acquired hidden achievements continuously!]
[As a reward, hidden items in the Point Shop will be opened!]
[The screening of 「Dystopia Outlaw」 has ended.]
[50% of the revenue is accumulated to the animation production company.]
[These points can be converted into Karma figures and additionally...]
Thus.
The entire dimension, turned upside down.
***
Dimension, Martial Arts World.
The residence of the White Lotus Cult Leader in the Heavenly Mountains.
Because it is the place where the current Number One Under Heaven stays, it is a place not an exaggeration to say is the safest in the world.
And now, right there.
“Kuaaaaaaack...!”
The scream of the Number One Under Heaven, the White Lotus Cult Leader rang out.
No, it wasn't a simple scream.
It was a 'wail' bursting out from inside the Cult Leader.
“Cup Noodle-Zwa, and Earthling bastards...! To betray this lady, in this way...!”
“This lady merely wanted an ending where everyone is happy. But was that a big mistake? Was the wish this lady harbored such a wish beyond my station...!”
Heavens.
No, Earth!
Why are you so cruel!
Just when the Cult Leader was repeatedly letting out sighs looking at the sky like that.
“C-Cult Leader-nim! T-Terrible trouble...!”
One of the servant girls rushed into the inner part of the residence urgently, and hurriedly gave a report.
“*Qi Deviation*, people have fallen into *Qi Deviation*!”
“...? What does that mean. *Qi Deviation*?”
“I mean the cult members fell into *Qi Deviation* collectively while watching the last episode of 「Outlaw」!”
At that report, the Cult Leader ended up making a nonchalant expression.
Oh I thought it was some big trouble.
Without needing to go far, didn't the Cult Leader herself also experience *Qi Deviation* watching the last episode of 「Outlaw」 just a moment ago.
So it is extremely natural for the cult members watching the anime on a full HD screen to fall into heart demons as well-
“No! I don't mean it in that sense!”
“...Not in that sense?”
“I mean I didn't say it in a figurative sense-”
*Kwaaang!*
“Kuaaaack! Lucy! Rebecca! David!”
“Kill, I will kill! Earthlings! And Machine Civilization bastards!”
“Elder-nim! The Elder-nims went crazy watching anime!”
“It's *Qi Deviation*! Stop them somehow!”
“....”
...Ah, so you mean.
It wasn't a simple metaphor but they literally went physically crazy watching anime?
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