Chapter 40
Translator: True Detective
## Chapter 40
**9. Henry Etta (4)**
In this world, there is a thing called the Sophomore Jinx.
Roughly speaking, it's a term meaning if the 1st installment of a certain work comes out as a masterpiece, the 2nd installment has a high probability of being a shit-tier ruined work....
For example, a certain game that left an amazing four-character idiom like ‘That-Won-Kyung-Gi’ (That Original Godly Game) in the Korean gaming industry.
Or if not that, a certain game that left the amazing famous saying 'Eve of the Storm' in our hearts, things like that.
Well, actually thinking about it, this is also a phrase close to a kind of forced hate (*Eok-kka*).
Because if the 1st installment succeeds greatly, people hope the 2nd installment comes out as an even more amazing super masterpiece.
And if the 2nd installment fails to meet their expectations, they often express it as ‘Ruined.’
However, thinking about this backwards, it means it's 'common sense' that unless it's a quite special case, the 2nd installment cannot surpass the perfection of the 1st installment but-
It seems such common sense didn't work for the novel called 「Henry Etta」.
Because to what the majority of people felt, the dopamine the 2nd installment gave wasn't lacking at all compared to the 1st installment.
「Henry, did you think I would continue to use the name of a filthy human father?」
「I, who inherited the bloodline of the founder who established this school?」
「Yes, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named that you guys speak of.... He is my past, present, and future....」
The appearance of ‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’, who was hinted as the final boss of the work itself throughout the 1st and 2nd installments.
A terrible snake hidden somewhere in the school thought to be just a mysterious place.
And up to a phoenix saving Henry who fell into crisis at the desperate moment!
Although the 1st installment was definitely a masterpiece, the majority of evaluations were that it became more fun compared to the 1st installment which had a strong feeling of a fairy tale for children for now.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Hiya honestly I didn't have high expectations for the 2nd installment but it's damn fun indeed
Viewer: Don't need anything else, me who usually fucking doesn't read books <---- The fact that this bastard enjoyed this novel means it's already game over yeah
Viewer: ↳ Kya look at the clear explanation lolol
Viewer: ↳ The reliability goes up damn high lololol
Also.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Bullshit lolol Honestly the 3rd installment is more of a masterpiece than the 2nd lololol
Viewer: Honestly my taste is the 3rd installment which has a somewhat bright atmosphere rather than the serious atmosphere of black magic or whatever
Viewer: Honestly how do you endure time travel this is a honey-jam material that really can't not be fun lolol
Perhaps reflecting the evaluation that the novel is fun but feels a bit loose because the pacing is too long.
The surprisingly announced 「Henry Etta」 2nd installment, and 3rd installment.
These two works, announced with a volume approaching one book each, succeeded in immersing people and making them enthusiastic even more than when serialized in newspapers.
And that was the same even for the users within the Dimensional Gallery who try to look at everything in the world with a twisted view.
No matter how much it was them, they couldn't deny the fact that the work called 「Henry Etta」 is fun.
To the extent that a few days after 「Henry Etta」 was introduced on Trans-Dimensional Streaming, a mini gallery with this name was newly established, what more needs to be said.
FORUM POST
[Henry Etta Mini Gallery]- A gallery to share stories about the greatest magic novel of this century, 「Henry Etta」.
Main Manager : ‘LowRankingMartialArtsAllianceWarrior’
■ Henry Etta Mini Gallery Operation Policy
(Image of a middle-aged man shouting 'Damn it, nothing in the world can stop me!')
(Side profile image of a middle-aged man saying 'There is nothing in this world that cannot be done with power!')
Operate as I please.
Delete as I please.
Block as I please.
If you're upset get out of the gallery
COMMENTS
User: Lolololol
User: Main Manager this bastard is a manly man lololol
User: This bastard kept singing he wants to take the express train bound for magic school in the gallery and eventually made a gallery and ate the Main Manager spot lololol
User: ↳ Then did this guy also become an upper-class life working receiving monthly salary now??? Damn envious... *sob*
User: There's a rumor that they attach a beautiful girl girlfriend to each Main Manager as site welfare is it true???
User: ↳ (Main Manager) Then you guys do it fucking bitches
User: ↳ Lolololol
Isn't it the biggest evidence that a ‘Mini Gallery’ was newly established where people with the same taste gather and chat with only that as the topic.
However, above all, the decisive factor for 「Henry Etta」 gaining such explosive popularity throughout the entire gallery is-
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Wow!!!!! 「Henry Etta」 live-action movie!!!!
Viewer: Kya the movie did the original reproduction damn faithfully
Viewer: It has a taste to watch in a different sense from 「Star Wars」 lololol
Viewer: Looks exactly identical to Henry's image in my head lololol Where did they bring such an actor from lolol
Viewer: ↳ Fr lololol
It was none other than the 「Henry Etta」 live-action movie series released on Seo-jin's channel recently.
It's a somewhat sad fact for people who love novels or comics but.
The number of people flowing in with interest in visual media like movies or anime cannot even be compared to the floating population of analog media like comics or novels.
Because leaving everything else aside, convenience couldn't be compared in the first place.
If a movie or anime based on a novel or comic becomes a mega-hit, doesn't the phenomenon of the influx to the original work increasing significantly happen quite often!
Of course, if the perfection of the live-action movie is at a miserable level, it would have been better not to make anything from the beginning but-
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Heo...
Viewer: That is... magic...?
Viewer: Was this that sorcery or whatever the sorcerers of the West are said to use...? Incredibly fascinating...
Viewer: ↳ What sorcery is magic you ignorant bastard lololol
Viewer: ↳ Martial artist characteristic) If there is something they don't understand they first insist it's sorcery and start
Viewer: ↳ Fr lololol
Fortunately, the 「Henry Etta」 live-action movie was something that fulfilled people's expectations 120%.
Traditionally, human imagination is great, but limits exist.
And this movie could be said to be something that perfectly fulfills the limits people unconsciously felt while reading the novel.
The descriptions of various magics appearing in the novel were amazing enough, but the hype filling up when witnessing the appearance of it materialized in reality was also at an amazing level!
However, at the same time, the meaning of Seo-jin releasing the 「Henry Etta」 live-action movie series on his channel was exactly-
“Umm... I'm sorry. I didn't exactly have the intention to trick or deceive you guys.”
Seo-jin unintentionally scratched the back of his head and opened his mouth.
“Unlike movies, games, and anime, isn't novel a cultural genre universally developed across all dimensions? But before introducing 「Henry Etta」 to you guys, someone said this. Not to let my guard down too much even if it's an Earth-made novel.”
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Hmm
Viewer: Well it's not entirely wrong words
“So I wanted to test it. To what extent 「Henry Etta」, with the title of 'Earth-made work' removed, could succeed. If anyone felt betrayed in this process, I apologize in advance.”
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Lolol what apology
Viewer: It felt like a mystery show for the first time in a while and was fun lolol I did suspect a bit what unknown author from where wrote such a novel lolol
System Notification
[‘NinthHeavenMysteriousWoman’ has donated 5,000 Mana!]
[‘NinthHeavenMysteriousWoman’ has donated 5,000 Mana!]
[All the Room Manager did was introduce a good novel, so why apologize? By the way, the female mages' outfits in the movie look stuffy, are there no plans for slightly open outfits to appear in the work???]
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Open outfit oh my
Viewer: This guy was observing female characters' outfits instead of the story while watching the movie lololol
Viewer: Fr honestly a female character wearing something like Lucy's outfit from 「Outlaw」 should appear to be a work lolol
Viewer: ↳ Learned person lolol
Like that, the mask was taken off and the hidden identity was revealed, but unexpectedly the viewers' reaction was not that bad.
'...That's a relief.'
Watching 「Henry Etta」 burning the Empire and the gallery brightly recently, I thought I made a useless bet, but fortunately nothing big happened?
Just around the time Seo-jin was unintentionally breathing a sigh of relief like that-
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Lolololol
Viewer: Empire bastards who were acting arrogant wailing lololol
In the Dimensional Gallery, not Seo-jin's channel, a 'Festival' was happening in full swing.
FORUM POST
Title: Empire hey Empire do that thing lololol- ??? : If there is 「Henry Etta」... Earth's works are no longer scary...! (※Words actually said)
Upvotes: 7946 / Downvotes: 445
COMMENTS
User: Kuaaaaaack!!!!
User: Please... please don't do that... I beg you...
User: ↳ Don't dooo thaat~~ lololol
User: ↳ You guys also teased damn hard in the past when Machine Civilization kids acted arrogant thinking 「My Creation」 was their game lolol
User: ↳ It's karma from that time just accept it sweetly lololol
User: ↳ So who told you to act smart in the gallery????
User: ↳ Fr lololol
It wasn't a festival.
Not a festival but... it was a funeral home.
***
FORUM POSTS
[The kids in our dimension went crazy from embarrassment while doing gallery lolol]
[Thinking about it now there were many suspicious points yeah]
[Phew it's a relief our Machine dimension prevented misfortune in advance lololol]
Dimension Niflheim.
The strongest lifeform on earth respected by all short-lived species including humans.
At the same time, the only things she does are watching Cup Noodle-Zwa's broadcast or engaging in one-on-one combat with 'WhiteLotusCultIsNotADemonicCult' in the 「My Creation」 multi-server.
The Ancient Dragon Tina, who is not an exaggeration to say is spending a truly fruitful life, unintentionally muttered while browsing the gallery.
“I see. So 「Henry Etta」 was actually, an Earth work...?”
Throughout her long Dragon life, she had never really read humans' novels enjoyably but.
「Henry Etta」, which taught her the joy of reading for the first time in her Dragon life.
She was currently sincere about 「Henry Etta」 enough to reduce her playtime of 「My Creation」 she liked so much.
Hearing the news that such 「Henry Etta」 is actually an Earth work, she ended up having this thought.
“...Then Cup Noodle-Zwa, why on earth is that guy not releasing the sequels?”
Judging from the plot of the novel, the novel called 「Henry Etta」 will definitely unfold the story until Henry graduates in his 7th year.
Even so, Cup Noodle-Zwa had only released up to the 3rd installment of this novel that obviously already has an ending on Earth!
For Tina, who wanted to see Henry become a 7th year even a moment sooner, she was feeling dizziness in real-time.
“Ugh.... This evil guy...! Is it his underlying motive to make me, a Dragon, anxious in this way...?”
However, no matter how much she wants to see the sequels, as long as Cup Noodle-Zwa stays still, the only method is for her to write directly-
'...Hmm? Wait a minute.'
Then suddenly.
In Tina's mind, a thought flashed.
'Me directly... writing...?'
Naturally, she wasn't saying she would write the unreleased sequels of 「Henry Etta」 right now.
She was a reader to the end, not a writer.
But wouldn't it be fully possible to write an IF story of the main story using the settings and plot of 「Henry Etta」 already released?
A fanfiction she directly writes down, based on the setting of 「Henry Etta」.
Since she's writing, it wouldn't be bad to twist the setting in the novel slightly.
For example, how about the setting that Ray, the detestable character who picks fights with Henry at every turn, is a girl?
'Sounds fun!'
Thus.
Secondary creation fanfic.
And Gender Bender (*TS*) genre.
Shortly after, scheduled to land in the Dimensional Gallery soon.
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