The Rise of Otaku
chapter-223

Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation

The comic “assassin” had already passed 100 issues, it was at the 100th issue, that the decision of the live-action movie adaption was made. And at that time, they even hosted a lively ceremonial party. The penguin company has been looking forward to the future of assassin, and its popularity has also been growing steadily.

However, Zhou Yu suddenly decided to stop drawing the comic “assassin”, this was undoubtedly a big thunderbolt from the blue, scared Liu Gongcai almost unable to stand steadily. He hurriedly called Zhou Fu to confirm the authenticity of the information. If this was a belated April fool’s joke, then... How nice that would be!

“Old Zhou, what is the matter? When did he tell you that he would stop releasing the comic “assassin”? Why didn’t you give me any heads-up?”

On the other end of the phone line, Zhou Fu was also a bit anxious, “he just said it today, but I also don’t know what’s wrong with him. When I saw him early in the morning, he just said very lightly, that he was going to stop releasing the comic assassin, and he wanted me to tell you. I also want to ask you, did someone offend him or something? Why does he want to stop releasing it all of sudden? Will it affect the live-action movie? I am very confused. Xiaobao is still shooting the movie. Normally, he would not do something like this...”

The comic “assassin” also brought Zhou Yu a lot of profits, especially the film, from which he also received a great deal of money, so Zhou Fu was also very concerned about this. Especially when the underground city project had already started planning, and it needed a lot of money, it was natural that he did not want anything to go wrong.

Liu Gongcai thought carefully, but he also could not figure out why Zhou Yu wanted to do this all of sudden. And who would offend him? People would not even dare to complain about anything when the request of asking him to make the movie theme song was rejected by him.

As for Zhou Yu’s strange temperament, who knows what he was thinking.

“Old Zhou, you talk to him first, I’ll be there soon!”

Hurriedly, Liu Gongcai explained the situation to the upper management, and then rushed to Luhua village.

In the amusement park, Zhou Yu was walking with his chicken leisurely by the pond. Following closely after him and imitating how Zhou Yu walked, the mighty Diandian was like his loyal minion, from time to time, it would run into the water to catch a small fish, it made people wonder if Diandian was really a chicken or not.

Being a famous star in the Colosseum, its imposing manner was naturally very extraordinary.

It was just that right now the colosseum was not the most important thing, the most important was the comic. No one knew what was wrong with Zhou Yu, and why he had to axe a comic series that was very popular at the moment. It was very hard for a comic series to be adopted into a movie, and now it was a great time to promote the comic series. What he did was clearly self-destructive.

They had already told him the impact and the consequences of this decision many times, however, Zhou Yu only replied impatiently “Impermanence’s enemies have already been found, and the main plot has come to the final chapter. This is the normal ending of ‘Assassin’. What’s the point of dragging the story? It will be too awkward to scrape together another villain.”

Impermanence was the protagonist of the assassin. In every mission, he would dress up as Black and White Impermanence. When he was the White Impermanence, he would bestow fortune to people and leave survivors, when he was the Black Impermanence, he would seek justice and punish the evil, leave no survivors. When people see the Black Impermanence, it means that their lives have come to an end.

And as the most important plot of the storyline, which was the massacre of the impermanence’s family, Zhou Yu noticed that the real murderer had been found in the latest chapters, what was left was the final fight on the Heart lodge island in the final chapter. After this chapter, the assassin would be considered as a complete story, and it was actually not a bad ending at all.

Of course, Zhou Yu could also make new enemies keep popping up like other popular comics to drag the series longer, but for Zhou Yu, it would become meaningless. It would become a commercial comic, meaning that the author just drew the manga for the sake of money.

Originally, Liu Gongcai was still very worried, but after he thought about what Zhou Yu said, he could not help but ask, “what did you say? The enemies of The impermanence have been found? It can’t be. Isn’t the latest chapter just revealed the discovery of something bigger behind the massacre?”

Liu Gongcai was the editor of “Assassin”, so naturally, he was very clear about its story progress, the so-called the fight in the Heart lodge island, he had never heard of it, the enemy had also not even appeared, so why was he talking about the final chapter?

“Ah, oops, I have a stockpile of the chapters that have not been released. The story in the currently released chapters, indeed, has not come to that part of the story.”

Indeed, the speed of the comic studio was very fast, even after hiring the fast-hand Wang and it started to produce much higher quality of comic, the studio could still maintain the speed of releasing one chapter in three or four days, so if Zhou Yu had some more chapters available, he basically stored in the computer, and he would only send to Liu Gongcai every other week.

If he calculated it correctly, there were more than a hundred chapters left on the computer.

Hearing that there were actually more than a hundred chapters left, Liu Gongcai heaved a sigh of relief. These chapters should last a year or so and it would not affect the live-action movie. It was just that such a big hit comic series, it was really a shame to end it within 200 chapters. Liu Gongcai, of course, wanted to persuade Zhou Yu not to give it up so quickly. If he continued to produce more chapters, it would become more popular.

“Is it because Mr. Wang lost inspiration? It doesn’t matter, since we still have so many chapters, he can have a good rest. We, the penguin company can arrange a trip or something for him, whether it’s the domestic or the overseas tour, we will pay for it.”

Liu Gongcai’s intention was very clear. He wanted to find out the real identity of the fast-handed Wang. It would be much better if they could establish a closer relationship with him during this trip.

Unfortunately, in fact, the fast-handed Wang was currently standing in front of him, but he would never be able to see him.

“You’ve lost your inspiration! The old man, I have just eaten the fruit of creativity. How dare you curse me at the time when my ideas are gushing out like spring?”

Angry, the fast-handed Wang was waving his sword, hacking, poking and stabbing Liu Gongcai on top of his head, however, Liu Gongcai could not feel anything.

Zhou Yu refused directly, “that’s the decision that was made by the fast-handed Wang himself, there is no need to persuade me. There’s no need to drag the story longer when it comes to the end. He’s currently thinking of a better story, it is definitely going to be much better than the assassin.”

The studio has been upgraded and was currently working on the outline of the new work. Based on the experience of the animation base, the upgraded studio would definitely be able to produce a comic that was higher than the tier-3 comics. Coupled with the help of the fruit of creativity, Zhou Yu was very looking forward to this new work.

However, Liu Gongcai did not know about this. The assassin’s reputation was gathered over a long period of time, and the Penguin company has invested countless ads in it. It would be a waste to end within a year when they have just started making a profit.

Besides, no one knew if the next comic book would still be that good, and many famous comic artists only had one good comic, and then they would disappear from the public view.

Unfortunately, no one could change Zhou Yu’s mind after he made the decision.

Liu Gongcai could only leave the amusement park with disappointment, but in disappointment, he still had hope, maybe the next work of the fast-handed Wang would be really very good.