Animation Producer in a Fantasy World

And so, on the morning after the airing of the first episode of “Sky of Destiny” ended.

I was sipping coffee while feeling truly delightful.

Although I’ve been reincarnated into a fantasy world, as someone whose roots are in civilization, I originally very much prefer drinking coffee in the morning, but.

The taste of the coffee I was gulping down today felt especially distinctive.

The reason was simple.

Because I could roughly guess what kind of chaos would have occurred by now due to the first episode of “Sky of Destiny” that aired yesterday.

“Hehehehehe.”

That’s right.

As I had forewarned the staff, I produced the first episode of “Sky of Destiny” with full intention.

First, I put a scene at the end of the first episode where the protagonist, Yuri, is killed helplessly and feebly.

Although it’s somehow causing discomfort from a man’s perspective – with a female junior coming to make him meals every morning, or an incomparably beautiful classmate acting strangely friendly for some reason – Yuri is still the protagonist of this work.

For such a protagonist to be suddenly killed by someone out of nowhere, without any signs or foreshadowing, how bewildered must the viewers who were watching it in real-time have felt?

And the person who killed the protagonist was none other than Chris, the hero of the Federation summoned to this world through the ‘Full Moon Ritual’.

He killed Yuri for the sole reason that this ritual, which should be carried out in secret, was witnessed by someone unrelated.

They weren’t fighting in some deserted place, but in the middle of the academy where there could be plenty of people unrelated to the ritual, yet he immediately killed Yuri for witnessing the scene.

This alone was enough for viewers watching the animation to see Chris, the hero, as a psychopath, but.

I didn’t stop there and made Chris utter a few lines.

They were none other than:

“…It’s ridiculous. Calling yourself a hero while taking the life of an ordinary person who knows nothing.”

“But it can’t be helped. I’m now serving a new master. Then as a warrior, I just follow orders.”

Look at this.

No matter what reason is given, killing a person can never be called a right thing to do.

Yet Chris is justifying his own actions by making exceedingly shabby excuses for killing someone.

Isn’t it too jarring to be the behavior of a great hero who remained in history?

Well, the Empire’s citizens were much more likely to not care at all whether Chris killed someone or not, but.

Among the Federation people who consider Chris a hero, there must have been a huge uproar by now because of the first episode of “Sky of Destiny”.

Probably, it wouldn’t be strange at all if an entry for [Ragna Tersion/Controversies and Incidents] was added to Namuwiki.

Let’s see, it should be about time for someone to visit at this point…

Just as I was anxiously waiting for someone’s visit while glancing at the clock.

Knock knock.

“…Um, Director?”

Liz knocked on my door, then opened her mouth in a very careful tone.

“Um… a visitor has come to see you, Director.”

“A visitor? What kind of visitor?”

“Well… it’s the ambassador of the Silgea Federation… He says he has something to say to you regarding the first episode of ‘Sky of Destiny’ that aired on the weekend…”

Hearing Liz’s words, I inwardly cheered.

As expected, has what was bound to come finally arrived?

Well, it would be stranger if the Federation side stayed quiet after seeing that yesterday.

A mere baron nobody has turned their country’s hero into a simple psychopathic murderer in an animation.

How could they not be pissed off after seeing that? Huh?

Just as I was smiling with satisfaction like that.

“Director! Director Ragna!”

The Federation ambassador, whom I had met once before to discuss which hero to include in “Sky of Destiny”, walked into my room with large strides.

He had come to find me so hurriedly that his uneven breathing was extremely rough and his face was completely flushed red.

A state that was clearly totally pissed off to anyone in the world who saw it.

As expected, he must have come to protest about the development of “Sky of Destiny”, right?

“Ahem, it’s been quite a while. What brings you here so early in the morning? Ambassador?”

As I looked at the ambassador with a detestable expression as if I had no idea what was going on.

The ambassador stared at me blankly with his face turned red, then soon approached me and-

“Director…! I believed…!”

Thud.

The ambassador suddenly fell to his knees in front of me, then opened his mouth in a moved voice.

“I was moved. I never imagined that Director Ragna, who could be called a foreigner, would portray our country’s hero so perfectly in this animation…!”

“…?”

What on earth is this person saying now?

“To be honest, I was a bit worried until I saw the first episode of ‘Sky of Destiny’. But after watching what aired yesterday, I realized that my worry was just a groundless fear!”

The ambassador spoke in a somewhat excited voice.

“Chris-nim who appeared in the first episode of ‘Sky of Destiny’ that aired yesterday was exactly the Chris-nim we had been thinking of. It was truly perfect. That was the very image of the true great hero we had been thinking of!”

“Excuse me?”

Naturally, I couldn’t understand his words at all.

So, what happened to what?

Did this person really watch the animation I made?

How can he leave such an impression after watching the first episode that aired yesterday?

“Um… Did you not get any other feelings from watching the first episode that aired yesterday?”

“…? What kind of feelings do you mean?”

“Well… like I might have distorted history through the anime… or if not that, then like I might have tarnished the honor of hero Chris…”

So I tried to subtly shift the topic of conversation towards emphasizing the crimes I had committed, but.

“Hahaha! How could that be! The Chris-nim I saw in the animation yesterday was truly incomparably perfect. The appearance of having heroic magnanimity while at the same time possessing the ruthlessness to cut down even a friend if it’s something he must do, was worthy of being called a true great hero!”

The ambassador said, laughing heartily.

“…Are you saying you got such a feeling even though hero Chris brutally murdered the innocent protagonist in the first episode?”

“No, isn’t that entirely the protagonist Yuri’s fault?”

As if he truly couldn’t understand my question, the ambassador blinked his eyes and said.

“Director Ragna, you’ve learned magic to some extent so you know well. The fact that mages will stop at nothing to protect the knowledge and secrets they possess. So isn’t it stranger to let someone who has witnessed a ritual that can grant any wish live?”

Saying that, the ambassador clicked his tongue.

“If you’re going to hide, hide perfectly, or if not that, then run away without seeing anything. If you do neither and just watch everything there is to see without doing anything, it’s not strange at all to be struck down on the spot. Isn’t that right?”

“…..”

For a moment, I felt my words getting stuck as I listened to the ambassador’s words.

No, what the hell is this?

Even so, the protagonist died.

No, actually he’s scheduled to be revived in episode 2 and I did drop some foreshadowing for that at the end, but…

Even considering that, the protagonist died at the hands of your country’s hero in episode 1!

And the impression of that is ‘He did something deserving death so he died, what’s the problem?’? Is this response really correct?

Huh? Really?

“This is great. Thanks to Director Ragna, weekend evenings for the next few months will be very enjoyable. It would have been even better if the citizens of my home country could have shared this joy in real-time, it’s a bit regrettable.”

“…Well, come to think of it, televisions haven’t been officially distributed in the Federation yet, right?”

So in the Federation, they’re watching animations by playing recorded versions stored in artifacts in public places, or so I heard.

Well, actually, even in the Empire, televisions were distributed nationwide because of the airing of “Machine God Chronicles”, so I’m not in a position to say anything about that, but.

“But don’t worry too much. If a red revolution happens soon, our Federation will also become a country that guarantees viewers’ rights no less than the Empire.”

“…Excuse me?”

For a moment, I doubted my ears.

So now… what’s going to happen where?

Seeing my expression full of bewilderment, the ambassador shrugged his shoulders and answered.

“Ah, I recently had a chance to talk with a young man named Hikardo. After talking with him, I found he was an extraordinary young man making quite remarkable claims. To guarantee the right of viewers from all countries to watch anime…. He was such a smart fellow that I couldn’t understand how he had failed the art school entrance exam.”

“…..”

I agree with that too.

That bastard would have made the world more peaceful if he had just gotten into art school.

“That friend told me this. For our Federation’s citizens to be guaranteed the right to watch anime, a revolution is absolutely necessary, he said. And when he offered me the position of second-in-command of the Soviet, I accepted without declining. Haha, isn’t it a truly wonderful thing?”

The ambassador who says such things to me while laughing haha.

But I didn’t feel like laughing at all as I listened to his words.

Soviet…. Second-in-command position….

“…Ice pick.”

“Pardon?”

“Just in case… be very careful of ice picks from now on.”

“…?”

The ambassador showed an expression as if he couldn’t understand what I meant at all.

But I didn’t explain any further to him.

Because even if I explained, it would be something the uncivilized people of the fantasy world couldn’t understand anyway.

In any case, I warned him in advance just in case.

So I’m not at fault at all.

Understand?