Chapter 196
"Thank you very much for watching today
Shining Studio Dramatic Masterpiece Show performance
《ファウストラストカンタータEnd of the Last Cantata』』
Today's stage play performance has come to an end - according to the broadcast announcement inside the theater, Fujimaru Ritsuka found a seat in the center of the last row and sat down, waiting for the official start of the last batch of performances.
"Faust" - Although this work is named after the scholar Faust, for Fujimaru Ritsuka, she is probably more familiar with the devil "Mephistopheles"... Although the devil "Mephistopheles" is not a human, he is not a devil either, let alone the devil who made a bet with God in Goethe's "Faust".
——Although I don’t want to admit it, it is true.
One day, in the library of Chaldea, no one knew why it suddenly turned into a conversation similar to a meeting between the author and the characters in his works - but among the contents heard by Fujimaru Ritsuka, many people said the reason why writers were allowed to rewrite their own life experiences.
——Most of the protagonists in these novels are at least related to the Magic Association of that era.
——The Cave King has offended the Holy Church.
——Well, to put it simply, at that time they were all involved in the mysterious side, and our instinct as writers made us chase the story...
——Then you are still delaying the submission of the manuscript?
——Procrastinating and finding inspiration are two different things!!!
——Can a writer’s work be called procrastination?
——Watson never procrastinates.
——Drive them both out.
——My coffee is out, please give me a refill... I will give you magic prisms as a reward.
The Cave King of Phoenix Chaldea, when not constantly preparing for battle, became an automatic coffee machine shared by the writers and the Lord of Heroes. Although some people would go berserk when the coffee ran out due to the lack of caffeine to stimulate their brain cells, some people would become more autistic.
After a period of confusion in the library, the writers brought the discussion back to the original topic.
——In short, it can be likened to the symbiotic relationship between different species.
——They provide the stories, we adapt them, and ultimately make ordinary people ignore their abnormalities.
——Like Dr. Frankenstein who never leaves his house, there is a connection between him and Mary.
——Magicians of that era would not have close contact with ordinary people, let alone Dr. Frankenstein.
——Yes, so Mary was actually the first generation magician born in an ordinary family. Dr. Frankenstein treated her as an apprentice or something, and he kept in touch with her through letters. But their contact was interrupted after Frank was born.
——Strictly speaking, Fran was not awakened at that time, but was directly sealed by the magician, who then used a letter to warn his students...
—Ah, that was the birth of Frankenstein.
——Holmes just brought Watson with him, which is not a normal type...
——Another example is Alexandre Dumas, right?
——Ah, we don’t get along with that guy. Changing a tragedy into a happy ending is not in line with my aesthetics. Besides, if the ending is Haidee!!! Is his protagonist a narcissist or a pervert! ? !
——If you say this to the Lord, she will think that you and Dumas are slandering the Count of Monte Cristo.
The discussion that day was quickly interrupted by Carol - and until today, Fujimaru Ritsuka has never encountered such an opportunity again.
But that didn’t mean she wasn’t curious about the relationship between writers and their characters—and she finally got her answer from Leonardo da Vinci.
——The purpose of that kind of adaptation is indeed to ensure that the mystery remains unknown. After all, humans are creatures with insatiable curiosity.
The magician with the face of Mona Lisa paced back and forth in his workshop, sighing as he answered the questions of his master.
——Although the story adapted into a hit seems to have nothing to do with secrets, ordinary people will not pay attention to the content related to mystery. Just like they see The Count of Monte Cristo as a revenge drama, while the Templar Church and the Magicians Association will focus on the Treasure of Monte Cristo... The person in your shadow should have dealt with the Templar Church before his death, after all, it was Father Faria who told him about this place.
——By diverting people's attention to a more conspicuous place, you can hide the content that you don't want them to pay attention to. Although I think the Cave King himself doesn't want them to be distracted by his real name. By the way, the reason why I don't need to rewrite the story is that I am famous myself!
In short, in order to hide the true content, writers usually only retain the character names and some relationships in their adaptations of these stories - the rest is selectively retained, and then adapted into a story that is attractive to humans based on appearances alone.
For example, Faust is actually a magician - a magician who creates artificial life like Einzbern, Frankenstein and Paracelsus.
Mephistopheles is an artificial life form created by Faust himself. Unlike Dr. Frankenstein, Faust did not realize that he had created a monster. Of course, it is also possible that Dr. Frankenstein, who was a little behind in the completion time, learned from Faust's experience. In short, although Faust named the artificial life form Mephistopheles and loved him very much...
But in the end, he was betrayed and killed by an artificial life form that could not understand emotions.
However, "Faust", which has been passed down in human history, is just a gamble between the devil and God.
Even if it is adapted again, it cannot deviate from the original model left by Goethe.
Green flames erupted from the dim stage. A demon emerged from the flames and jumped in front of the old scholar who wanted to commit suicide by taking drugs.
"Thank you for choosing this contract!
In that case, let’s act quickly!
Get ready to sign the contract now! 』
On the stage, the devil, who had already obtained the scholar's consent, jumped around happily, turned around and took out a yellowed parchment contract from his clothes.
Just like an opera, the scholars and demons on the stage used a song to express the formation of the contract - because it was the last batch of plays on the last day, Fujimaru Ritsuka also took a rare break from his work and relied on communication in the chat room to comment and rate the plays he had not seen.
Ritsuka Fujimaru has decided to stay in the theater today to watch the performance of "Faust".
Faust signs a contract with Mephistopheles and regains his youth - just like the story written by Goethe, the devil and the scholar are connected by the contract and then start to act together.
Under such circumstances, Faust met his disciples and young scholars.
Faust's disciple - Wagner.
Marquez, a young genius scholar who is as famous as Faust, is the prototype of the murderer in the script of "Elementary" that Fujimaru Ritsuka participated in.
Faust, who had successfully regained his youth, borrowed the name of the devil when facing his disciples, so that Mephistopheles, who arrived late, could only use the name of Faust when introducing himself to the two young people - but it was obvious that the devil never felt embarrassed and only enjoyed it; and the overly upright disciple's thought was only "Sir, you and my teacher have the same name."
Then the one who suffered was Faust himself.
The scholar was so shocked by his disciple's upright words that he coughed and could only speak in a rather cold and stiff tone:
“What a wonderful coincidence.
It is such an honor to have the same name as the current hot topic.
You mean it? Another Faust.
Unlike the poetic drama that is a representative work of the European Enlightenment in the history and literature of ordinary people and is therefore full of content related to the liberation of human nature, the Faust adapted by modern humans - the identity of a scholar clearly appears in the two characters. The old Faust yearns for the warmth between people, but the young Marquez, in order to explore academic subjects, touches upon the forbidden area belonging to the gods.
Immortality - for the members of Chaldea, although it is only a byproduct of the third law, it is now the main usage of all Chaldeans.
However, in the final analysis, magic is something that cannot be achieved with current human technology, so it belongs to the realm of God.
The devil on the stage tricked the young scholar into exploring taboos with a reason that no human could do.
So the young scholar took the initiative to separate the soul from the body - and then the young man who was his best friend appeared on the scene. In order to regain Marquez's soul, Wagner also signed a contract with Mephistopheles to use his soul as a reward.
"The price is your soul, you know?"
"If you can bring back his soul."
"Then, when this is all over, I will come and take your soul."
The devil has turned the characters' lives upside down—but his gamble with God isn't over yet.
——There are no believers in this world who are so devout. Faust, who was highly expected by God, had already turned to the other side the moment he chose the devil, not to mention Marquez who took the initiative to touch the taboo and Wagner who took the initiative to find the devil.
The theme song of this play is called "Fucking Man" - and the official name of the whole play is "Fuckman's End of the Last Cantata".
"Ah, it's just like the story of the savior - at the end of everything, along with the disaster comes judgment, and in the end the savior saves humanity and the entire world." Fujimaru Ritsuka watched the lights on the stage light up again, and the devil sat high up to judge Faust's soul. "The devil seems to have won a great victory, and the souls of the contractors have all been taken by the devil."
“However, as long as the subject is works from that period, the beauty of humanity will not be denied.”
At the end of the trial, God appeared from a high place on the side of the stage and forgave Faust's soul, which was about to be completely possessed by the devil.