Became an American Retro Novelist - Chapter 231



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231.

The main character of ‘Kung-fury: Novel’, ‘Joe’, was actually close to being a complete character.

When he immigrated to America, met Shifu, and took on a new identity as Kung-Fury, he had no hesitation in his actions. He used his powers for money and a stable life, and he gradually accepted the changes he experienced as he met Sodapop, Star Chaser, and people from government agencies.

Was it because he had no special feelings or thoughts? No.

This was because it was a problem that everyone had already experienced and had come to their own conclusion.

In the latter half of the work, just before the final battle with Nin-Zero.

Kung-Fury recalls his old memories.

『An ordinary boy accidentally participated in a national experiment and became a super soldier. He went to Vietnam and fought in numerous battles, becoming a war hero who widely demonstrated the glory of his country. If he could just win this war, Joe was guaranteed great honor and reward.

But as time passed, he felt a gap between the promised glory and reality.

As he gained courage from him and saw others dying everywhere while trying to follow the war hero, Joe realized that he was just being used by the state. And he felt so disillusioned by this fact that Joe increasingly wished for his own death.

And ironically, he couldn’t even die.

But after experiencing countless deaths and being resurrected each time, repeating the same things over and over again, Joe suddenly realized that he could at least fix the reality in front of him.

From that moment on, Joe changed.

They began to make desperate efforts to protect their people and return them to their homeland.

It was the birth of a true war hero.

After the war, feeling that it was enough to hear thanks from those he had protected, Joe gave up the glory that was guaranteed to him and immigrated to the land of the free.

I dreamed of living a life as normal and quiet as possible, but I couldn’t.

Life has always been a battle, and he finds this situation truly ironic, becoming a hero once again.

A hero who takes action, not just a symbol.

It’s the message, not the messenger, that matters.

Instead of worrying about yourself, do what you need to do now.

That thought has not changed even now. Don’t be swayed by your own conflicts or other people’s beliefs, just do the right thing you can do now.

Among them, I believed that saving people was the right path, and at the same time, I tried to promote the kung fu dojo and improve my own life in the process.

Some might criticize this appearance as disgusting hypocrisy.

One could say that it neglects the problems of reality and only serves to support state power.

Of course, Nin-Zero had pointed that out. But that didn’t mean Joe thought Nin-Zero’s way was right. He was just venting his anger.

That’s why Kung-Fury planned to stop Nin-Zero.

No matter how brilliant a scientist Zero was in every field, he could not continue to fool the U.S. government.

The government recovered the satellite they had launched into space to detect Zero’s movements and began preparing countermeasures in earnest. Kung-Fury, Star Chaser, and other heroes who had gradually regained their abilities decided to join the operation after learning of Zero’s true identity.

And Zero was also aware of this fact, so he prepared for an all-out war.

He increased the number of android ninjas he could control to the limit and began to dispatch them to key locations across the United States to carry out sabotage operations before the US government could carry out the operation.

Then he moves to the Pentagon to steal the nuclear weapons, which was the ultimate goal of the plan.

Finally, the indiscriminate destruction by the android ninjas begins, and Kung-Fury is dispatched to the scene to fight them and protect the citizens.

The android ninja, created to be able to take away the powers of superheroes, was so powerful that even the police and military could not deal with it.

But it was entirely possible for Kung-Fury.

Nothing like ‘super power’ could stop him.

Having gone through countless lives and deaths, Kung-Fury learned how to counter each of Zero’s abilities and defeated the android ninja more efficiently than anyone else.

The agency knew this too, so they considered Kung-Fury as a last resort to deal with Zero, and as soon as they heard about the Pentagon attack, they had ‘him’ join Kung-Fury.

It was Star Chaser.

“That being came down from the sky like a god.

He smiled brightly, revealing his face, and he looked like a great hero and an innocent boy at the same time.

He was definitely the superhero that represented America.

Star Chaser.

He looked up at the night sky and asked.

“Would you like to ride?”

“Where are you going?”

“To a place where you can fight to your heart’s content.”

“Okay. Instead, can I take one more person with me on the way?”

“who?”

“A superhero who fought Nin-Zero and didn’t have his powers taken away.”

“That······ Ah.”

Star Chaser immediately understood what Kung Fury was saying and chuckled.

Certainly, she was one of the superheroes who faced Zero and survived and continued to function.

Star Chaser asked Kung-Fury why he was called Nin-Zero, holding him in one arm, and Kung-Fury vaguely replied that there was a good reason for it, before walking over to Sodapop, a superhero who was busy rescuing civilians on the other side of Los Angeles.

But at first, they didn’t recognize her properly because Sodapop’s suit had returned to its original mint and blue design, rather than the red and black.

She seemed quite embarrassed about the fact, and when Kung-Fury asked her to go with him, she let out a long sigh and started spouting out random facts that he hadn’t even asked about.

“I’ve decided to break my cola advertising contract because of you guys. How can I continue working with guys who ask me to be careful not to get scratched while wearing a cola bottle costume? I get covered in dirt and dust just by getting down on my knees to help someone up. ······So, where are you going?”

“Pentagon.”

“Pentagon······? Wait, am I supposed to fight Zero again?”

“Okay. I need your help.”

“Ha, I want to curse my fate.”

Despite what he said, Sodapop quietly surrendered himself to Star Chaser’s arms.

So the three of them fly to the Pentacon for the final battle.

‘Kung-fury: Novel’ was a work that twisted the clichés of typical superhero films.

In the perception of readers who have encountered the genre, ‘superheroes’ were symbols of nobility. They went through repeated troubles and wanderings, but eventually got up and saved people and defeated villains.

However, the novel portrays the marriage of society and superheroes as having some flaws in itself.

It was natural.

Because real people can never be completely and perfectly noble.

That’s why, in order to exist as ‘superheroes’, superheroes pretend to be perfect. Star Chaser hid his race, and Sodapop tried to smile brightly in front of people. But inside, they were torn between the gap between ideals and reality.

And then Kung-Fury appeared before them and said this.

‘Me too, what.’

He still handed out kung fu dojo flyers to people. Not long ago, he even secretly criticized Fujiyama Kung Fu, saying it was old. It was not fierce or fierce… It was a really pathetic reality. I thought I would pee in front of Fujiyama Kung Fu.

But he didn’t feel particularly miserable or strange about himself.

He didn’t want the glory of being a ‘superhero’, he just did what he wanted to do.

Comic book nerds who read ‘Kung-fury: Novel’ couldn’t hide their thrills.

The subject of a superhero’s ‘qualifications’ has been mentioned in various comics.

Is vigilante activity right? The conflict between those who doubt the truth, mainly government figures, and superheroes has been an interesting topic that has been brought up several times.

But God completely changed the situation.

A superhero promoted by the government.

The inner psychology of each character suffering in such a reality.

That’s why the scene where the characters who finally overcome that conflict fight against Nin-Zero, a being that denies the government and superheroes, was bound to be thrilling.

The three people who flew to the Pentagon in one breath neutralized the defense line and blocked Zero’s path as he infiltrated inside, and soon a fierce confrontation between the heroes and villains began.

Zero had brought nearly twenty android ninjas with him in order to steal the nuclear weapons from the Pentagon. While they may not be able to use all of the superpowers they had stolen like Nin-Zero before, the machine ninjas, with their various superpowers, were practically an invincible army that could handle almost any situation.

But the three superheroes who work together are no less effective.

With the tag-up of the three, the android ninjas began to be neutralized one by one.

It wasn’t just happening inside the Pentagon.

Across America, each superhero worked together to continue to take down the android ninja. Little by little, the chaos was quelled, and Nin-Zero seemed to be getting closer to failure.

But there was something that no one, not even the superheroes, knew about.

That is, as the number of Android Ninjas decreases, the power of Nin-Zero, who controls them through electronic communication, grows stronger.

When his plan was foiled by the intervention of superheroes, Nin-Zero self-destructed all of the android ninjas, leaving only himself and Kung-Fury to collapse the Pentagon’s entrance.

And then they tried to launch a nuclear missile that had been decoded and hijacked.

“Fury!”

“I’m fine, go and stop the launch!”

“Okay······! Sodapop!”

The computer was somehow resisting with the antivirus program, but even in the midst of all this, the cyborg ninja’s brain continued to attempt hacking. Star Chaser and Sodapop, who were outside the collapsed entrance, ran to somehow stop the launch of the nuclear missile.

And Kung-Fury knew what he had to do.

The goal is to somehow stop this guy, and if that doesn’t work, to make sure he can’t focus on hacking.

It was a task very familiar to him as a war hero.

“Nin-Zero.”

“Kung Fury.”

The two men looked at each other’s faces.

One is a hypocrite, one is a hypocrite.

One is resurrected, one is dying.

One is a kung fu master, one is a ninja.

Their fight has begun.』

This part had to be ‘deliberately’ exaggerated and different from the actual historical facts.

Even if the material was based on reality, in 1986, when the Cold War was still not over, it was common to distort and exaggerate the depiction of nuclear weapons as much as possible.

······If not, the CIA or FBI might come looking for us. It was a kind of tacit agreement.

Anyway, the drama of ‘Kung-fury’ became much stronger due to the unrealistic situation production.

As the fear of nuclear missile launches still dominated the era, readers felt even more terrified by the existence of Nin-Zero who could hijack it, and could not help but root for Kung-Fury in the ensuing battle.

At the same time, the tension continued as scenes of Star Chaser and Sodapop trying to stop the nuclear missile launch were shown side by side.

Kung-Fury, who tries to do good no matter what his position is.

Because of this, Nin-Zero’s goal was a failure. The fight itself was advantageous to Nin-Zero, but there was virtually no enemy that could defeat a superhuman who could come back from the dead multiple times and know his own cause and deal with it.

Finally, Kung Fury’s fist pierced Nin-Zero’s chest.

『Kwajik-!

With a sharp cracking sound, machine parts and oil flew out. Kung-Fury, who collected his fist while being hit by the falling particles, saw that Nin-Zero’s red eyes were slowly fading out.

It’s the end. The siren that signaled the launch of the nuclear missile has stopped, and he has finally succeeded in stopping everything.

At that moment, Nin-Zero’s arm reached out and grabbed Kung-Fury by the neck.

“Ugh······?!”

Light was etched into his eyes again. Nin-Zero tightened his grip and tried to interpret his super power. Kung-Fury resisted fiercely, but felt the strength gained from the experiment slowly disappear.

At the moment of crisis, smoke suddenly leaked out from Nin-Zero’s arm and he fell down, grabbing his neck.

A voice crackled from beneath a metal visor with flashing lights.

“What on earth are you? In the end······ I couldn’t figure it out.”

“······.”

“What on earth was I? In the end······.”

“You are nothing, Nin-Zero. You will remain nothing to us.”

Kung-Fury spouted out cruel words, thinking that there was no room for sympathy when he thought of the people who had been sacrificed because of him. However, for some reason, he thought that Nin-Zero was smiling when he heard those words.

Then, a word followed.

“I am Nin-Zero. I will burn the world. This is not the end, no······.”

And with those words he fell into complete silence.

Kung-Fury took a deep breath with a blank expression after releasing his arm from around his neck and flopping down on the seat.

Kung-Fury’s super power that Nin-Zero couldn’t interpret. Of course, it refers to time travel.

‘Why of all things.’

Someone had just noticed this ability that he had thought he alone had in this world. But that being had just died.

Kung-Fury smiled bitterly, realizing that he was once again left to carry this burden all by himself.

But I wasn’t completely alone.

“Fury!”

“Kung-Fury!!”

Two voices were heard outside the closed entrance.

They were ‘comrades’ who shared their hearts as ‘superheroes’.

“······hmm.”

A man was sitting in a dark room reading ‘Kung-fury: Novel’.

The white man, who looked to be in his mid-30s with black hair sticking out here and there, read the epilogue that followed quickly and put the book down on the desk.

On the desk were scattered books by the new author, starting with ‘Mother’ and continuing to the present. I had just finished reading all of the new author’s novels that were available on the market.

On the wall in front of the desk hung a poster for the movie, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.

The man stared at the movie poster for a while without saying anything, put his feet up on the desk for a moment, then put them down. He went over to the side and turned on the television, but without really watching it, he thought about it again amidst the noise. Then, he turned the television off again.

‘That’s interesting.’

The conclusion has just been reached.

‘I want to try.’

I had a good piece of work and a concept in mind.

After making up his mind, the man immediately went out of the room and called Michael Bender of Warner Brothers, who had made the offer to him.

Thump, thump······.

[hello.]

“Michael, it’s me. Tim.”

[Ah, team······. It’s dawn now······.]

“I’m sorry. I’m calling to ask you about a job.”

[Work? What, work······?]

“There’s this movie I’m making. There’s this one called ‘Mother’ that I found really interesting.”

[Oh, okay······. Okay, let’s call tomorrow······.]

“Yes, yes, I’m sorry.”

The man, who hadn’t checked the time, glanced outside. It was already midnight, and his stomach was growling. After realizing that he hadn’t eaten in over a dozen hours, he headed to the kitchen, wishing there was a machine that could make meals like Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.

Tim Burton.

Two years after directing “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” the director who would go on to hit the jackpot with “Beetlejuice” took an interest in “Mother.”