Right, I had a feeling that he'd be 'Zhu Bajie' from the beginning. However…. Just in which aspect was he anywhere remotely 'Pigsy'?
[A small portion of the audience cannot comprehend the outer appearance of Zhu Bajie.]
[A small portion of audience members are complaining that this is an insult to the original work!]
[Judge, 'Meihouwang', argues that this doesn't even make sense!]
It seemed that there were some members of the audience with a similar train of thought as me. And then, in the next moment….
[The majority of the audience welcome the choice of the current Zhu Bajie.]
…..Ng??
[Number of votes obtained is increasing greatly!]
[Fable chamber's ranking has increased greatly!]
….Could it be?
[Judge, 'Cleanser of Altars', is satisfied with his outer appearance.]
Those in the know should already be aware of it – this 'Cleanser of Altars' was Zhu Bajie's Modifier.
[Judge, 'Cleanser of Altars', is deeply satisfied by the casting of his role.]
[150 additional points have been awarded!]
As Yu Jung-Hyeok glared at me with his trademark piercing eyes, large letters slowly floated up before my eyes.
~ Episode 2. The Conquering King, Zhu Bajie ~
[Congratulations! Your Fable chamber's ranking has broken into the top 100.]
Han Su-Yeong looked at the message floating up before her eyes and scrolled to the next page with a wry grin on her face.
The folks inside the panel screen were acting according to the plot she had cooked up. She pushed up the horn-rimmed glasses on her nose that didn't have any lenses and muttered to herself.
“…..These kids' sucky acting might cause me a heart attack at this rate.”
Fortunately, though, her Fable chamber broke past the 1000 voting points mark and had entered the upper ranks. There was a knock coming from the door behind her, and Yi Su-Gyeong stepped into the room.
“I've brought some fruits.”
“If you bothered to even knock, you should at least wait for an answer. Or don't knock at all.”
“How is everything going?”
“…..About as I expected. That Fei Hu's rank is way too high and it's not as easy as I thought to catch up.”
Yi Su-Gyeong confirmed Han Su-Yeong's Fable chamber ranking over the latter's shoulder and spoke. “It's only been a couple of days, but you're already so high up. Amazing.”
“Compared to my heyday, this sort of achievement is nothing, you know. Besides, we don't know what'll happen next.”
Han Su-Yeong bit into the apple as she fiercely burned the torch of determination. She could see the dumbfounded face of Sun Wukong within the panel screen. “….From here onwards, it'll depend on how well that Sun Wukong does his job.”
“You're right. I'm Sun Wukong.”
Yu Jung-Hyeok heard my reply and glared at me with questioning eyes. Right afterwards, his right eye glowed in the golden light.
[The usage of 'appraisal skills' isn't allowed within the applicable scenario location.]
Due to the worldview's restriction, his [Eye of Sage] didn't activate. Since I had already expected that to happen, I wasn't even remotely surprised by it.
“Looks like you wanted to shoot lasers from your eye,” said I with a refreshing grin on my face.
Whatever the case might have been, Zhu Bajie was fated to become my underling, according to the original story.
“Shin Yu-Seung! What are standing around dazed for?! Quickly defeat this guy!!”
Yi Gil-Yeong, still dangling in the air, began to thrash about frantically.
She glanced at him as if it was none of her business, and asked Zhu Bajie, instead. “Even if you like dumplings that much, how could you build a factory and use people like slaves? And why did you kidnap women in the first place?”
While listening to her yell, I studied our surroundings.
⸢Zhu Bajie was a demon king of lust and gluttony in the original 'Journey to the West'.⸥
If you thought about the original's storyline, then the episode we were currently experiencing wasn't a complete impossibility.
However, even if she detested Yu Jung-Hyeok, Han Su-Yeong wouldn't have stuck this closely to the original. She even changed the 'Ways of Survival' to that minute degree, didn't she?
Besides, even if she wrote such a scenario, Yu Jung-Hyeok wouldn't have agreed to….
“I didn't kidnap these women.”
His words quickly prompted the surrounding ladies to yell out.
“That's right! We weren't kidnapped at all!”
I studied their expressions. Not one of them looked to be under the mind-control spell.
Meanwhile, Yi Gil-Yeong yelled out in response. “So what?! Didn't you enslave people to make lots of dumplings so you can eat them all??”
Right, that's what the slave in the factory told us. However, there was one thing that I couldn't understand.
Yu Jung-Hyeok really liked [Murim dumplings]. It was verging on obsession, even. But, would someone like him ever touch dumplings mass-produced in a factory?
Chapter end
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