Chapter 41
Translator: True Detective
## Chapter 41
**9. Henry Etta (5)**
To mention it now, among the users using the Empire or Dimensional Gallery, there were people who didn't consider the work called 「Henry Etta」 very favorable.
Of course, just because they didn't consider 「Henry Etta」 favorable, it didn't mean they went around gritting their teeth and shouting that the work itself was no fun.
Because the part they paid attention to wasn't the fun of the work in the first place, but a different part.
“Tremendous incidents happen 3 years in a row but actually no one died... does this even make sense?”
“The Demon King of Black Magic...? Ah, looking from the outside he seems to have something, but actually he's that laughing stock who got head-shotted by snowballs kids threw?”
“Despite acting like he's the Demon King or whatever, he's an ordinary guy who couldn't even kill a ten-year-old kid for 2 years straight, so what can you do?”
“That professor fellow called Snake, I heard this guy used to be the Demon King's subordinate. Why on earth is such a dangerous guy playing professor?”
“It's a fairy tale book for kids, you know. We should be understanding.”
It was so.
The point they pointed out was none other than the atmosphere of the work!
Looking from the outside, the work called 「Henry Etta」 had a worldview without dreams or hope where an existence called the Demon King is vigilantly waiting for a chance for his own resurrection.
And the evil black mages following him are looking for a chance.
In reality, it was an extremely peaceful world itself where it's rare to even find someone who got 1 kill even after 3 years passed.
Well, actually this was something that couldn't be helped either.
Because the start of the work called 「Henry Etta」 on Earth was exactly a ‘fairy tale book’ for children.
Thanks to that, people who expected something thrilling where someone dies constantly like 「Outlaw」 couldn't help but spit out complaints and dissatisfaction.
However.
A while later, 「Henry Etta」 installment 4 was released and the atmosphere inside the work changed completely.
「...Henry Etta, the boy who lived.」
「My nemesis, who once put me in a miserable state worse than dead.」
「But at the same time... through your blood, I have come to gain flesh like this.」
「Let everyone know. That I have returned. That the Demon King has returned to the present world!」
As if deciding to escape the vow and restriction of being a fairy tale book, various murder cases happen continuously simultaneously with the start of the 4th installment.
All readers thought he was merely an ordinary guy but.
The Demon King who started emitting truly tremendous charisma as soon as he resurrected.
The atmosphere of the work starting to rapidly darken in line with his resurrection.
The readers who were reading 「Henry Etta」 instinctively realized.
The fact that this work is no longer a fairy tale book for children.
But has transformed into a work targeting adults in earnest.
And-
“...So, what on earth happened after the Demon King resurrected...?”
“The Wizarding World! Magic School! Ordinary citizens! Henry's friends! I'm curious about their reactions! Uwaaaaah!”
“Has this bastard Headmaster really gone senile? Professor Snake looks like a spy no matter how you look at it, why aren't they killing him! Why on earth!”
“I didn't like that guy from the beginning. Wasn't he a guy who always revealed his inferiority complex about Henry's father?”
After polishing off the 4th installment completely, readers ended up feeling an impulse as if rapid hunger and thirst were rushing in like people infected with the T-virus.
No, if it were something else I could somehow endure and pass but.
The final boss resurrected you know.
The final boss of this work, who had been scattering baits awesomely from the introduction of volume 1, and despite that, emitted a tremendous creepy feeling, resurrected you know!
But why on earth aren't you showing the contents after that?
Why on earth!
“Grrr.... Can't endure it!”
“Feed.... Need feed...! Feed that will make this anger I feel subside...!”
Like that, the fans of 「Henry Etta」 full of anger started wandering everywhere looking for Omega blockers... no, feed that would make their hunger subside.
Eventually, in a peripheral gallery called [Henry Etta Mini Gallery], they ended up discovering something.
“...「Noble Young Lady Hera」?”
“It's a fan-made novel based on the work called 「Henry Etta」...?”
Its name is 「Noble Young Lady Hera」, a secondary creation novel of 「Henry Etta」.
It was exactly a fanfiction written by one of the fans of 「Henry Etta」, who read the novel so enjoyably that they filled it with plenty of their own delusions.
If it were their usual selves calling themselves gourmets, they wouldn't have even clicked the post let alone read it but.
Sadly, they were in a situation where the aftereffects of reading 「Henry Etta」 installment 4... that is, the demonic energy caused by *Qi Deviation* had already penetrated to their marrow.
In this situation, even a Great Principle Golden Immortal couldn't cure their symptoms.
Eventually, with the mindset of nothing to lose, they clicked the post written as episode 1 and—
“...!”
They soon ended up witnessing the 'New World' beyond the Sabaody Archipelago.
“T-This can't be...!”
“It's fun...! It's fun...! Damn it, why is this fun...!”
It was so.
「Noble Young Lady Hera」.
It was a novel where the story unfolds based on the minor imagination of 'What if the protagonist Henry's gender was female?'.
Infinitely similar to the original work, but at the same time, just for the single reason that the gender is different, variables occur in the story, providing a taste different from the original work.
Decisively, wasn't the setting that the daughter Henry exactly inherited the mother's appearance, where descriptions of being a beauty appeared countlessly, also a delicacy inducing readers' drool.
All these things were written based on the age accumulated from living for thousands of years, so it was a gastronomy that dogs suffering from thirst couldn't help but go crazy for!
“The character who was male in the original... became female...? Like these heretics...! Grrrk...! Kuaaaack...!”
“Friend! Snap out of it, friend!”
“Huh, indeed. The fact that the protagonist who was male in the original is female here is exactly what makes this work even more delicious.”
“According to the author's afterword, they are also preparing 「Villainess Princess Reika」 where Ray turned into a woman next?”
“The villain who nitpicks the protagonist changed from male to female...? That is really tremendously mouth-watering!”
Honestly speaking, any fan of 「Henry Etta」 was eating the work called 「Noble Young Lady Hera」 deliciously but.
Because people's tastes were all different, there were also people whose *Qi Deviation* worsened seeing this work.
Among them, the ones who foamed at the mouth especially while looking at the fanfic were exactly... the mages of the Magic Tower.
“What is the reason for putting an independent interpretation of the original magic inside the novel? Surely... self-display?”
“The magics appearing in the original can be realized with Dragon's Dragon Language? Does the author think she is some kind of Dragon?”
Because when Tina was writing the fanfic, to make the magic of the original work seem realistic, she shoved in the result interpreted into Dragon Language as it was.
However, all those things were written from the perspective of a Dragon, so it was impossible for humans to even understand.
The mages of the Magic Tower naturally couldn't help but misunderstand that she was a 'fucking fake expert who knows fucking nothing but acts like she knows'.
One side thinks 「Noble Young Lady Hera」 is a fanfic written by a true fan of the original work.
The other side thinks this fanfic is a fucking fake expert novel written by a magic assistant.
Eventually, it was a kind of inevitability that a Holy Grail War risking each other's beliefs started between these two.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: 「Noble Young Lady Hera」 <--- Best fanfic in this world absolute no refutations accepted yeah
Viewer: ↳ Bullshit lol Just looking at it, it's a novel written by a mage bastard who graduated from a fucking trash college but you're sucking it damn hard
Viewer: But why did you change the protagonist's gender to female, author
Viewer: ↳ What are you guys talking about? In the original work too, Henry was female and all the professors falling for that appearance is a kind of 'common sense' right?
Viewer: ↳ Fr lolol
Viewer: Professor Snake being nice to Henry because she looks exactly like her mom is completely character breakdown lolol that professor is absolutely not that kind of personality
Viewer: ↳ Fr huge stretch lololol
Viewer: But the original work called 「Henry Etta」 is openly there, is it okay to write a novel twisting and changing that setting as you please?
Viewer: ↳ It's a free novel uploaded for free on the gallery anyway so what does it matter lololol
Viewer: ↳ Retard it's a moral issue well if your parents are odd numbers so you didn't receive home education you might not know what the problem is lolol
Viewer: ↳ Fuck lololol
Like that, they fought until blood burst regarding whether it is okay to serialize a secondary creation twisting the setting of the original work.
'What should I do about this...?'
Watching all these scenes, Yurika unintentionally ended up frowning.
To Yurika's thinking, Earth's cultural works were something like a treasure that couldn't be easily found even if you searched the entire dimension.
She didn't like someone using such a treasure carelessly, nor did she like people having a fight because of it.
However-
“It's fine. Just leave it.”
“...Yes?”
Seo-jin, who actually received the report from Yurika, answered like that with a very carefree voice.
'The vitalization of the secondary creation market... honestly that's not a bad thing you know?'
Among Korean character subculture games, there is one mobile game that drew tremendous popularity overseas beyond the country.
If I say it's a game where the characters in the game call the protagonist 'Sensei', would you understand.
There would be various factors regarding why on earth this game succeeded to this extent.
As one of them, people often cite the 'vitalization of the secondary creation market'.
It is a clear fact that the game succeeded by riding the word of mouth through allowing free secondary creations by the fans of the game.
Of course, if there is a work that crosses the line excessively, sanctions must be taken but.
There was no reason anywhere to necessarily stop doing free creation within a certain range.
“...B-But because of that fanfic, people in the gallery are engaging in a fierce keyboard battle right now. And I don't know well if a place called a gallery is an appropriate place to serialize a fanfic either....”
“Hmm....”
At Yurika's words, Seo-jin agonized over something, then nods his head as if he made a decision shortly after.
“Certainly, this seems to be a problem that requires a certain measure.”
“...R-Right? Then what should we do? Should I contact the gallery Main Manager to delete all those fanfics-”
“How about we step forward directly and make a site where users can serialize fanfics with peace of mind?”
“...Yes?”
Ah, as expected you don't know.
On Earth you know, there are also sites like 'Novel Pia' where fans can serialize fanfics with peace of mind?
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