Chapter 42
Translator: True Detective
## Chapter 42
**9. Henry Etta (6)**
It's a matter people commonly misunderstand but.
In human history, ‘fanfics’ were absolutely not something that occurred recently.
Rather, it could be said to be something like a folk game equipped with a long history and tradition.
For example, the knight Lancelot appearing in the ‘King Arthur story’ where the protagonist's gender is undeniably female, is actually a creation of people in later generations in its existence itself.
It means if there was no such thing as fanfics, the unfortunate event of Lancelot rebelling against King Arthur in the Holy Grail War wouldn't have happened.
But at the same time, if there was no character named Lancelot, the part that made people crazy about the element of romance fall into the ‘King Arthur story’, the affair, also wouldn't have existed.
Simply put, secondary creation means it is capable of coexisting with the original work depending on its mode of existence, and in a sense, it can also be an element that further strengthens the popularity of the original work.
Looking at it in that sense, the fanfic of 「Henry Etta」 written by Tina was also playing a very big role in the box office success of the work.
FORUM POST
Title: Fuck lololol what are these bastards doing here lololol- (Image capturing over [999+] comments on episode 1 of 「Noble Young Lady Hera」)
There's a 「Henry Etta」 fanfiction novel I'm enjoying recently
Actually the content of that novel brought a setting that people who saw the original work might have a little seizure over right???
Because of that right now in the comment section original fans and bastards reading the fanfic are cursing each other's moms damn hard and it's a mess really lololol
In the picture it shows 999+ comments right now but if you actually go in it's over 3000
It's honey-jam just looking at the comment section not the novel lololol
COMMENTS
User: ????? 3000 comments??? Crazy lolol
User: I went to check directly and it's over 5000 now
User: A fierce bloody battle risking the pride of corner-room jobless bum bastards *shiver*
User: ↳ Son... It's mom... Please stop commenting on that post called fanfic or whatever and come out of the room and eat some food... You haven't eaten since yesterday and are only leaving comments...
User: ↳ Lolololol
User: How fun is 「Henry Etta」 that everyone is acting like that, Empire bastards were doing viral marketing so hard I wasn't watching
User: ↳ It's a damn honey-jam novel, if you don't watch it you lose half your life...
User: The recent development is really crazy... The final boss resurrected and is trying to wreak havoc so the atmosphere became really dark lololol
User: ↳ Did it do a genre drift in the short time I didn't watch, how did the content change like that lolol
User: ↳ Wasn't it a fairy tale book for kids??? I clearly heard it was...
User: ↳ If you can't follow the novel just watch the movie, Cup Noodle-Zwa screens it on his channel every time a volume finishes releasing anyway
FORUM POST
Title: Hello. I am the mother of a member of this site. - LowRankingMartialArtsAllianceWarrior- Our son turned 15 this year.
He is still in an immature state, an immature child whose mind is not fully cultivated.
Recently our son's time accessing the Dimensional Gallery has increased tremendously, so I looked around the site here and there just in case, and I saw several shocking posts.
Posts like saying the work's popularity would be double if the protagonist Henry of 「Henry Etta」 was a girl, or hoping the fanfic author would write a development where they feed a magic potion to Professor Snake, one of the villains, and go wal-lal-lal-lu on his belly.
When I called my son and scolded him severely, he got really angry asking if mom would take responsibility if original fans are leaving weird comments even at this moment...
He probably saw and learned this from this site...
Our son was a good child even if he wasn't good at studying, but seeing him turn violent after encountering the Dimensional Gallery makes me sad so I am writing this post...
COMMENTS
User: You were here
User: ↳ Lolololol
User: ↳ Crazy lololol
User: ↳ Real lunatic lolol
User: ↳ You were here what lolololol
User: ↳ Fr I thought she didn't exist lololol
User: Isn't this bastard the manager of that gallery that became a mess??? But why are you playing here???
User: ↳ Uh-huh it's not the manager himself but his mother who wrote the post
User: So is your mom pretty???? Main Manager answer quickly
User: ↳ What are you going to do finding out you bastard
User: ↳ Lolololol
Traditionally in the Dimensional Gallery, fights between users were a kind of regular event, or no different from WWE but.
Cases of engaging in a life-or-death struggle to the point where over a thousand comments run on one post were extremely rare.
Because the act of writing a post in the gallery was a kind of amusement in the first place, there was no need to put sincerity into it anywhere.
However, currently, the original fans of 「Henry Etta」 and the readers of the fanfic were engaging in a bloody battle grinding their lives in real-time.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: At this point I'm curious how fun it is that they're doing that shit lolol
Viewer: Yeah I lost if all this is viral marketing you guys won
Eventually, riding the word of mouth, they succeeded in bringing in all the people who hadn't had a big interest in the work called 「Henry Etta」 until now.
Also, unlike the past, since the live-action movie of 「Henry Etta」 was released at the current point, entry being much easier also played a part.
However.
Regrettably, they chose the wrong time to enter this work.
The part currently being serialized is none other than 「Henry Etta」 installment 5.
And the reaction of the people watching this 5th installment in real-time was none other than-
“Ugh, kuaaaaaaack!”
“My throat, my throat is choked...!”
“Earthlings, I was wrong...! Please, show mercy...!”
It was so.
What people hoped for was the protagonist Henry fighting head-on with the Demon King resurrected after the 4th installment.
Or something like going on a journey to defeat the massive evil while eliminating the Demon King's subordinates one by one.
Sadly, the guy called Demon King wasn't revealing himself in the darkness.
Because he was so afraid of the Headmaster that he was hiding his body tightly in the corner of a room like Jerry from Jiangdong.
Instead, the hobby of the Demon King stuck in the corner of a room changed into something like infiltrating the dream of a 15-year-old greenhorn and tormenting him.
Readers watching what a guy called Demon King is doing in real-time from the corner of a room naturally couldn't help but feel frustration (*Sweet Potato*).
Besides, decisively, up to the development where the godfather who loved the protagonist unconditionally in place of his parents dies!
“This is not right... This is absolutely not right...!”
“I hate... my past self! I want to kill... my past self who babbled hoping 「Henry Etta」 would just change into an atmosphere like 「Outlaw」...!”
“He's a person who suffered for over a whopping 10 years...! A pitiful person who blew all his youth for his friend! Did you really have to... kill such a person like this? Earthlings!”
“Did the author perhaps not like the fact that the protagonist had family left...? There is no reason to kill the godfather otherwise? Why?”
“It's not too late even now so just revise it! Just revise the story development!”
“Don't you perhaps know? The fact that a long time ago, the work called 「Henry Etta」 was already completed on Earth....”
“...T-Then?”
“Yeah. We have nothing we can do but writhe in agony watching the work...!”
“Ugh... Kuaaaaaaack!”
Like that, people writhing in agony for a long time due to the development of the 5th installment suddenly recalled one fact.
Traditionally, Earthlings are a species that very much enjoys the wicked sport of manipulating others' hearts through cultural works.
In 「Star Wars」 too, in 「Outlaw」 too.
Wasn't there an promised development where their families and loved ones die amidst the journey of the protagonists in the works.
Then surely, in this work too?
Is 「Henry Etta」 also... planning to show such a terrible development where people around the protagonist die off *hwik-hwik*?
“Ay, no way.”
Seo-jin, hearing such concerns of viewers on the live broadcast, chuckled and dismissed people's worries at once.
“Actually, this 5th installment has quite a lot of build-up invested for the development of the latter half. So I also fully understand that you guys must have had a hard time.”
CHAT LOG
Viewer: A? Little?
Viewer: Are you saying Henry's godfather dying right now is merely a build-up...? Such cruelty...!
Viewer: I like it better when everyone smiles ha-ha ho-ho and meets the ending so please stop...
“Still don't worry too much. From the 6th installment, the atmosphere will brighten up again, and scenes where someone is forcibly killed by another person like in the 5th installment are also not planned to appear. Then tomorrow, I will release the entire 6th volume as scheduled!”
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Really??? Is that really true???? Is it okay for me to be relieved???
Viewer: I was really so scared that a development where everyone except the heroine dies like 「Outlaw」 would come out...
System Notification
[‘ITrowAwayYoplaitLidWithoutLicking’ has donated 1,000 Mana!]
[‘ITrowAwayYoplaitLidWithoutLicking’ has donated 1,000 Mana!]
[To say there's no one forcibly killed... that one thing is really a relief. I will trust you, Room Manager.]
Meanwhile, viewers hearing Seo-jin's words unintentionally let out a sigh of relief.
Of course.
No matter how wicked Earthlings are, since they killed a whopping family member of the protagonist, it seems they don't have the courage to kill someone else again here.
CHAT LOG
Viewer: Then we're finally going to the epic hero tale development of catching and crushing that guy called Demon King or whatever right???
Viewer: Let's go!!! Kill the Demon King and let's kill that fucking bastard Ray or whoever together too!!!
Viewer: You shouldn't kill Ray you have to feed him a magic potion and turn him into a woman to make him pay for his crimes so far
Viewer: ↳ Lolol
Viewer: ↳ Look at him immediately revealing his taste because his worries disappeared at Cup Noodle-Zwa's words lolol
And-
「Snake....」
Losing his wand due to a surprise attack, the cornered Headmaster Merlin.
And in front of him, Professor Snake, the professor he usually trusted, was situated.
「Snake.... I beg you....」
The truly pitiful voice of the great mage holding the title of the only mage the Demon King fears.
However, Snake, the Demon King's most favored subordinate, at his plea rather pulled out his wand and-
“Kyaaaaaaack!”
“No! I saw nothing!!! This is a dream!!!”
Watching ‘that scene’ where a mage who was great beyond measure dies by the betrayal of his trusted closest aide, people ended up thinking like this.
This crazy.
You said there would be no scenes of someone being forcibly killed by another person in the 6th installment....
Cup Noodle-Zwa, did you perhaps trick me...?
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