Chapter 151 – Volume 31 – Antinomy of Hope and Despair (1)
“Ha, I really didn’t have time on a day like yesterday…”
A wizard was annoyed at his job, which took up his time all day yesterday.
A day passed, and he felt fortunate as he looked at the amount of work remaining.
It must have been the work of the artist Siu, so he had prepared a huge quantity.
“So, you mean these five are all different works?”
“Yes, that’s right. Can I give you everything?”
“Please do so.”
The wizard had already heard the rough story, so he was in a situation where he had plenty of money.
By the way, there are 5 works this time, so it was a situation where I did not regret having prepared time to enjoy while spending my vacation.
What kind of work is this time, so it has such a peculiar shape…
“First, let’s read this.”
Titled ‘The Tale of the Glass Slippers’, it was the story of a protagonist named Ella who wanted to be recognized by her family.
In the meantime, she tilted her head as she saw ‘The Story of Despair’ written under the title.
Is it a terrible story enough to talk about despair?
Ella was neglected by her family and was under a lot of stress because her family only recognized the results that were verified through her abilities.
In the meantime, she awakens to what is called ‘Merchen’, and she decides that if it is a Merge battle through this, it will be recognized.
She fights hard in many ways and develops her skills in the Marchen Battle.
Ella’s Marchen is the story of a girl who, like Ella, wants to be recognized by her family.
Indeed, the ending was not to be recognized by her family, but rather to give her recognition, but it was a story of her family being punished for harassing her until the end and trying to take away her prince.
Other than that, the magic that dissolves at 12 o’clock and the glass slippers left by that magic left a deep impression on the wizard.
“Well, it’s hard to see that there’s such a strange magic, but it’s like a dream…”
Rather, it is that it stops because its magic power runs out over time.
The fact that the basic frame of magic is maintained is probably something that the artist Siu who drew this can’t help.
Since Green himself is a wizard, he couldn’t have done it completely differently from actual magic.
Ella, who had been growing stronger while promoting like that, was defeated and collapsed at an unexpected point.
She feels that the situation is like a wall, and the story changes rapidly when she meets a strange person in that situation.
That person seduces Ella, saying that there is a way to become stronger, and Ella eventually succumbs to the temptation in order to win her.
At that moment, Ella’s Marchen is completely changed.
The original story of going to a party to meet the prince is completely gone.
Using the wizard’s magic, to be recognized by their family, it was the changed appearance of Merhen that fell into a strange form.
A girl wearing glass slippers, similar to a succubus.
The image of her violating and training her family with something made using her magic was a completely different Marchen from what I had known so far.
“Wow, wow…”
Even though the ending was that her entire family, including her, were burned at the stake as warlocks.
It was so impressive to see a good child who only thought of her family, sexually harassing her family with her twisted love.
Ella’s madness of defeating everyone with the changed Marchen card and rare card due to her changed Marchen also gave a strange pleasure.
Even so, Ella’s family didn’t acknowledge her until the end because of her darkness in Marchen, and she took advantage of her loneliness to become stronger and even obtain her mighty power.
Fearing that he would destroy his family like Märchen, he distanced himself from his family as much as possible.
The ending of living alone left a lot of aftertaste.
Although the other works I read after that consisted of episodes that flowed similarly.
Apparently, she liked Ella’s story the most, and she also liked Ella’s Marchen, which has the concept of “Violating” Her opponent.
After the wizard had read all of his works, he chose Ella’s as the Marchen deck he would use.
“Uh, huh?”
And the wizard realized that something was wrong with the work he was reading.
It was because of the competition named ‘Walpurnigis Night’, which coincidentally coincided with the date.
I didn’t know anyone in particular, so I only did the test play by myself.
He thought he knew 5 decks perfectly.
Most of the decks you meet in the tournament are completely different from what you know.
No, to be precise, to something like Marchen before the transformation that appears at the beginning of the story.
These were decks that felt like only a little bit of rare card development.
At least this side knew about that concept, so we responded somehow.
The opponents started to get hit helplessly as if it was a deck they had never seen before.
It was as if he became Ella himself and borrowed her evil powers to become stronger.
He enjoyed the situation more and more and continued the Marchen loom.
“There’s no way there’s a card like that! It’s against the rules!”
“The referee’s expression is that it’s a card that exists? If this card had a problem in the first place, would I have come this far?”
“That, that’s…!”
Feeling like the stress accumulated while working at the bottom of the job is exploding.
The wizard was enjoying the contest with excitement.
『In a world where erotic comics are legal』
“I really didn’t think it would work…”
“Well, it might be a bad experience for many players, but a tournament like this needs at least one incident with a twist to be fun.”
Seeing my happy smile, Rosalia let out a sigh saying that it was evil.
To be honest, I think the 5 deck concept is not enough, so it’s good to divide each story into 2 decks and go to 10 decks.
It was also good that the concept was taken as hope and despair respectively.
However, it was a bit disappointing to just sell it.
However, if you go in the form of drawing as before, the probability of being caught is rather high.
She knew the only way to eat was to sell it at a high price.
“However, the difference between selling works when the date is odd and even is different…”
“On the first day, almost everyone will come and buy books. On that day, hope will be sold. The next day, despair will be sold. Wasn’t it okay?”
“It worked out the way Kali wanted it to. A handful of people with Despair decks are embarrassing people in tournaments.”
Internally, the concept of Inner Marchen’s first series was confirmed to be a story of hope and despair.
So, for each character, both were released with subtitles of a story of hope and a story of despair.
And it was decided to sell them on the day of hope and day of despair, alternating sales days once a day.
That way, even those who buy multiple works will be deceived into saying that there is only one story between hope and despair.
“Still, it’s amazing. The lack of information alone can make such a difference in win rates.”
“There are parts that are rather weakly designed, but it’s amazing to see them advertised that way.”
Basically, the concept of despair-side decks is a form of harassing opponents, so if they become too mainstream, people who suffer too much in the game will lose interest.
Even though it’s slightly weaker than the hopeful decks.
In the first tournament, there were many people who didn’t know about the existence of the Despair Deck, so I felt that the Despair Deck was doing well.
“It’s funny. It’s the same character’s deck, but the concept is completely different and they collide.”
“With one win or loss at a specific timing in the work, it’s like a lot has changed.”
Just as the ending changes when you choose an option in a game book, the story of hope and despair has a completely different ending due to just one difference.
The story of despair laughing at you saying that you were able to become so strong because you won there.
A story of hope that claims that if it had not been broken even if it lost there, it could have become stronger with such a standard method.
I think the fight shown by the gap between the two is really good.
By the way, I was worried that the story of despair had a lot of hard or unusual tastes that I was a little worried about.
It must have been because the outcome of doing such a thing was not good.
“But in the golden apple orchard, the orchard elves were raped en masse by orcs and corrupted by pleasure. What did you think?”
“To be precise, it fell due to the aphrodisiac effect of the fangs… What? That, sometimes Orca drives me with fangs and injects me with aphrodisiacs? I made use of some experience there.”
“Aha?”
‘The Tale of the Golden Apple Orchard’, based on a shepherd boy, ends with a story of enduring the temptations of the orcs and repenting of the sin of lying in hope.
In despair, the orcs were corrupted by pleasure, handing over all the information about the golden apple, and siding with the orcs, giving birth to a lot of harps of orcs and elves.
It can be a bit sensitive, so I remember that I only drew it in the form of reproducing it by searching through history as much as possible.
And in the end, I came to my senses later, regretting it, and ending up committing suicide.
There was absolutely nothing glorifying or gloating about this story.
“Did you pay attention to all of that while drawing?”
“…Am I weird?”
And the fact that it wasn’t such a sensitive part between races, even though it was similar, there were parts that were painted with some degree of beautification.
In the case of despair in ‘The Tale of the Princess Who Never Laughs’ featuring Sharp.
If the knight appeared and couldn’t make the princess laugh, a noble made an absurd condition that she would make her laugh with pleasure-filled sex.
I remember that the story was developed with content that made me laugh because I was really stuck in my dick and corrupted by pleasure.
Laughing is a pleasure-filled laugh that seems a bit broken.
Anyway, laughing was laughing, so the noble married the princess as it was.
“But wasn’t that a bad ending after all?”
“Well, that’s right.”
The only ones who bullied others because of their greed, especially the nobles who had the greatest influence.
Because the princess who was holding the only rebellion fell over.
Naturally, dissatisfaction piled up until a rebellion broke out and the story ended with the death of the princess.
