Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 78



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EP 3 – Demon Sword! Please control me!

“Everyone stop!”

Kim Byeol, Gu Yuna, and Min Hyochan, who were very excited, suddenly stopped. The children looked at me blankly, asking why I was doing this.

I appealed to them with earnest heart.

“Let’s all regain our senses.”

However, the children do not seem to know what is wrong with this. It seems that he has already been engulfed in madness and has reached the point of no return.

I was tearing out my hair in anger at the shortsightedness of young people these days.

“this···! “This isn’t literature!”

“What do you mean? “Inseop?”

“Everything from one to ten is wrong! Senior Kim!”

I pleaded, pointing at the laptop containing the cursed manuscript.

“Why are there schools in the Middle Ages in the first place? “If you think about it like the University of Bologna, why on earth did children go to school wearing uniforms in the Middle Ages?”

“Well…is the character in the school uniform pretty?”

Min Hyo-chan answered as if it was obvious.

It seems like he doesn’t know what’s wrong.

I was afraid of confronting his madness, but I stood up to him as the last bastion of pure Korean literature.

“Don’t you think it’s strange that short skirts are allowed in a conservative Christian worldview?”

“Isn’t that obvious?”

“Why on earth do elves and humans use the same language? “Humans are the same species, but even if we live a little further away, they use different words, right?”

“Why do we have to verify that?”

“And the timing of the appearance of the magic sword is also strange! According to the setting, it was sealed because it was very dangerous, but does it make sense to easily draw the protagonist in by dropping a teardrop into the lake? Isn’t this too much of a protagonist-friendly development? And why is the magic sword female? “Why do objects have genders?”

“whatever.”

shit. This kid can’t do it. If we don’t do something…!

“Where on earth is the fun in this!”

It’s crazy and crazy.

In my opinion, the biggest problem is this.

“The novel has no sense of theme! Isn’t it just a story about getting revenge on people who bully you? This is the same plot as The Count of Monte Cristo! Damn it! It’s the same plot as the 1844 novel! I’m not good at math, so I can’t calculate it right away, but it’s a topic that came out more than 100 years ago! So, what does it mean to say that Magic Sword, What are you doing? is a novel that has no novelty, no literary value, and is just a peripheral pleasure!”

As soon as I finished speaking, I took a deep breath.

I really did my best to speak passionately.

But Min Hyo-chan,

Pink-haired boy group main rapper.

And as a web novel aficionado, he-

“Rebirth…”

-He was looking at me with the eyes of a Buddha looking at foolish sentient beings.

“What on earth makes you wander like that?”

“···!!!”

“Isn’t it okay if there is only peripheral pleasure in a novel?”

Kim Byeol, who couldn’t help but yell, ‘Stop teasing me!’ slapped Min Hyo-chan on the back.

Min Hyo-chan took a few steps back, groaning from the pain in his back. And he lost his playful tone and said this.

“No, but… does a novel really have to have a moral?”

“······”

“You read web novels for healing. “It’s like an oasis where people who are tired of this life come to rest, but it’s not good if it’s too complicated.”

……healing?

Now, a novel.

I’m not reading to learn something.

I’m not reading to get something.

Did you say you read only for relaxation?

…iced coffee.

Is that so?

Was it something like that…

Although Min Hyo-chan said this in passing, the topic left a big ripple in my heart. It feels like a large boulder has been dropped into a quiet lake.

What is artistry? What is popularity?

How should I deal with the public who ignored me but belatedly become enthusiastic when they see my surface?

I felt like an answer had been provided to my never-ending questions.

The answer was within me.

Let’s look at the essence.

What elevates the ‘artistic quality’ of a work is the desire to create a work that everyone looks up to.

This was my way.

Instead of the insignificant ‘me’, I hoped that the ‘creation’ I created would shine like a star and illuminate the whole world.

Conversely, it is my hope that people will admire me and look up to me.

So this is a selfish wish.

However, what raises the ‘popularity’ of a work is the desire to create a work that everyone can enjoy.