episode_0109

“Richard, do you know this book?”

“What book?”

Cypris handed Richard a book as he was refitting after the battle.

“Manaphia?”

“This is a book that has recently become very popular among people.”

“Wow, a book made entirely of pictures.”

In fact, some time had passed since comics became popular, but to Richard, who lived away from the world and spent every day fighting with the night people, it was an unfamiliar book.

Richard glanced at the Manapia that Cypris had handed him and asked back.

“But why this book?”

“Take a look at the work included at the end of the book.”

Following her advice, Richard turned the page to the end of the book and saw a comic book titled “Van Helsing.”

“Wait a minute! This is….”

And then, Richard’s eyes widened as he was reading a comic without thinking, and he shouted without realizing it.

“Yeah, it’s like our story, right?”

“Nonsense! Is there anyone else besides us who knows about the Night’s Legions?”

Richard couldn’t believe it.

The vampires appearing in the comic book that he was reading right now were not only similar to the Night’s servants, they were identical.

The secret society that fought against such vampires, Van Helsing, was similar to the Crimson Wardens that he led.

Moreover, the content is so similar that it feels like they are telling their own story exactly as if they were watching it from the side.

“Juro is just like the deceased Oregon!”

At that time, Richard, who was still immature in terms of skill and mentality, was in danger while dealing with Satanael without knowing what to do.

The end of Juro, who appears in the comics, was similar to that of his teacher, Karl O’Regan, who died fighting Satanael in his stead after saving him.

“How on earth did you get all this content… .”

“Richard, look at the author’s name.”

Richard, who went back to the very beginning of the comic at Cypris’s words and checked the author’s name written there, couldn’t help but be shocked again.

by Rupert Somerset.

Because it was a work drawn by his younger brother.

***

“Miss Xenia, why did you use fire magic when the allies and enemies were so close together?”

“Oh? That’s it.”

While Xenia was resting in a tent prepared for magicians, Morten, one of the magicians who had come to the Magic Tower to provide support at the request of Yustav, spoke to her.

“I am confident that I can control my magic.”

When Morten asked why she used fire magic when the allies and enemies were so close together, Xenia answered confidently.

Number 99.

Surprisingly, this is the number of times Xenia simulated the situation before casting and controlling the magic.

It was a method of raising one’s cognitive power to the limit by casting Acceleration Magic and Acceleration Magic, thereby raising the accuracy of magical techniques to the limit.

If a normal wizard had done this, his brain would have been overloaded, he would have collapsed and fainted, spitting up blood.

Even Yustav exclaimed in admiration when he saw Xenia using this method to control fire magic.

“Yes, that’s what I thought too. The way dozens, if not thousands, of flames flew at once, aiming only at the enemies, was truly a work of art.”

“Right?”

“But it’s greedy to think you can control every situation, Xenia.”

Xenia, who had been excited by the praise for her magic, began to question what followed.

“Of course that’s true, but… .”

“No matter how excellent your senses and calculation skills are, if you are not careful, you will make mistakes. Because humans are human.”

After Morten finished speaking, he went out of the tent, but Xenia could not agree with his words.

“I’m calculating with the error in mind… .”

It wasn’t the first time Xenia had heard Morten give her advice.

‘That’s too dangerous! It’s a computational amount that humans can’t handle.’

‘Miss Xenia, are you kidding me about using both Acceleration Magic and Acceleration Magic at the same time?’

‘So this is the vision magic that Yustav taught me.’

Whenever she showed people a new magic trick she had developed on her own, they always had the same reaction.

It was too dangerous. Or, rather than believing Xenia’s words, people often misunderstood that her teacher, Yustav, had taught her a vision.

‘Is it that hard?’

Of course, for her, using magic while raising her cognitive powers to the limit was something that required a great deal of concentration.

But for Xenia, such arduous magical calculations were not difficult at all when she only thought of one person.

Pot!

Xenia, holding a staff in her hand, casts thought acceleration magic and calculation acceleration magic on herself.

There is something she does when she feels confused like this.

‘I need to turn things around before I go to bed.’

With her extremely extended cognitive abilities, she was able to perform countless illusionary magic spells.

Spreading pictures of her future self with Rupert.

***

『“Ugh!”

A child starts to scream and clutch his neck as if he can’t breathe.

It wasn’t just one child. There were dozens of them, lying in hospital beds, shaking and convulsing.

“What the… what the… .”

“It’s because of the mushroom powder that the mechanical dolls are spreading around.”

Kato knew, because he had suffered the same pain as these children. He knew how difficult the fight they were going through right now.

“So don’t ever make that face in front of the kids.”

-If you want to make the children feel even a little more comfortable, you must always smile, no matter how sad or difficult it is.

The abbot and the people of the monastery endure even taking drugs to always make the children smile.

“This is too much… This is too much… .”

Kato shed tears as he watched the child he had been playing with until yesterday die from a seizure.

But he couldn’t distort his expression. If he didn’t smile, the children would suffer.

So he laughed with tears in his eyes.

“What the heck! Why am I crying!”

“Honestly, I’m crying too.”

“I want to destroy all those machine dolls!!!”

Manapia’s new book release date.

If it were a normal year, the stories about the most popular works, such as or , would be heard the most.

Today was different.

The work that people were talking about the most was definitely .

Until recently, the work had been criticized by many for being boring and frustrating, but recently, it has been attracting attention again with its fast-paced development and dense content.

In particular, the scene where the identity of the clown disease that Kato, one of the three main characters in this episode, had been suffering from was revealed drew admiration from people.

The scenes depicting the many people infected by the mushroom powder spread by the mechanical doll and how much they were suffering made readers immerse themselves in the work.

“And the more I look at it, the more amazing this drawing style is.”

“That’s right. At first I thought it was messy, but somehow I don’t think it would have hit me like this if it weren’t for this drawing style.”

“The scene where Kato wears a mask and laughs while shedding tears of blood still gives me goosebumps when I watch it again.”

showed a rough drawing style that looked a bit messy.

Because of this, first-time readers sometimes showed resistance, but as they read on, they soon realized that this rough drawing style played an important role in bringing out the emotional line of the work.

And Jorge, who was secretly listening to people’s conversations.

He was just delighted by people’s positive reactions.

***

-Your Majesty, it is important to lay the groundwork for development, but ultimately, a comic must have explosive power.

Iolin remembered Rupert’s advice when he came to the palace.

‘This drawing style is really great!’

‘Is that really so? Other people say it’s messy.’

‘It doesn’t matter whether you draw well or not, it’s important that it’s neat. This drawing style suits the princess’s work very well.’

When he heard harsh criticism about his cartoon, no matter how much praise he received from people around him, it was no comfort.

Strangely, it seemed to give her courage when Rupert told her how great her work was.

So, when drawing a cartoon, Iolin followed his advice and drew the cartoon while recalling the foreshadowing that had been built up so far, and it really felt like the characters he had created were alive and moving.

widely.

Her book collection is now proudly displayed.

Among them, Rupert took out , the first fairy tale book he had made for himself.

The Snow White she was reading now was the only book in the world where Rupert had created a new ending just for Iolin.

“I was so rude.”

As she drew the cartoon, Iolin came to understand the feelings of the author when creating a book, and when she recalled her past actions, she felt ashamed.

It was clearly rude of him to demand a remake just because the ending didn’t suit his taste.

“Still, it was a cute revenge.”

Iolin puts the specially made back on the bookshelf and then takes out and speaks.

When you open the book, you see illustrations drawn by Rupert.

And her eyes stop at an illustration depicting the Little Mermaid going to the witch and asking her to make legs for her.

A witch with black hair.

‘Interest is fearless!’

It was Iolin who had a hard time calming down the enraged Chief Chamberlain Ayton when he first saw the book.

At that time, Iolin just thought that he had drawn her as a model and passed it over.

Now she realized that this was Rupert’s cute revenge for redrawing the ending.

That’s probably why I like , which I’m reading now, more than .

Because I felt like I was sharing a secret with Rupert that others didn’t know about.

***

“Ishmael.”

“Yes, Rupert… .”

“Your comics are in danger right now.”

As Rupert spoke with a stern face, Ishmael’s face, which had already been showing signs of anxiety, darkened suddenly.

, a boy’s adventure comic about the sea and whales drawn by Ishmael.

But recently, I’ve been feeling like people’s interest in is starting to wane.

“I don’t know what to do right now.”

Ishmael also knows why his work is receiving less and less attention, but he is wandering around, unable to find a solution.

“Maybe it’s because of the ending?”

And Rupert already knew why.