Na-me’s Broadcast was what you might call a frequent magnet for aggro.
All happy families are alike; unhappy families are unhappy in their own unique ways, they say.
Banned viewers ended up in the prison for a colorful array of reasons.
Manager 2, known as “Hellmon” under the nickname “hells 몬스터,” mercilessly cracked the whip at the prisoners.
“So, what’s your crime?”
“Uwaah! I’m sorry! I only spammed words that start with ‘농’…!”
“Joke, farming, countryside, trick, juice, concentration? How the heck did this guy evade a permanent ban! Hey, why don’t you filter properly, machine?!”
[Unknown Prison]
[Current inmates: 474]
The identity of ‘Unknown Prison’ is the Forced Exit Release Request Room.
In other words, the viewers who got permanently banned have been ‘executed’ like the prisoner whose head just got whipped off, and currently don’t even count in the population.
[Permanently Banned: 1194]
“See? This is why we need to hire more managers! Don’t you see all these foreigners chopping into our alternate accounts?”
Zing—
If you look closely, Manager 3, whose entire body is cyberpunk-themed, detached her hand, and a laser shot out from her wrist piercing the heart of a prisoner.
After neglecting the prison management for a while, those who should’ve been executed long ago were raising hell.
Behind the scenes, a 14-year-old young girl was putting in tireless effort to shield the evils of the world.
Finally, Manager 4, Kaonashi, swallowed the corpses whole, wrapping up the first round of filtering.
[Under Entry]
[NoName has entered]
“I hope only model prisoners get caught.”
Manager 1, ‘Daehagwonsaengsalryeo,’ muttered, worry etched all over their face.
Crazy people are truly everywhere in this world.
*
[Blocked Message: What does the tattoo on your pelvis look like? 7 times.]
“Tattoo? What are you talking about?”
“No, no, no! Just permanently ban that guy!”
Kariri covered my eyes and forcibly hit the Exit button.
– Hahaha!
– Goodbye~
– This wasn’t even the abyss! What about the ones who got perma-banned?
– Nothing is off-limits for a middle schooler!
– Everyone, let’s act like gentlemen!
Names of crimes floated up beyond the iron bars of each prison cell. Their crime was reckless teasing in the chat.
Truly, as a sign of repentance, those who bowed deeply as I passed by the hallway read out their apologies with a heart of goodwill.
[Forced Exit Release]
“Hope you can live well from now on.”
“Yes! I will turn over a new leaf! Thank you, NoName!”
“I’m sorry, but you have to go back inside.”
“Huh?”
– Hahaha!
– Lol!
– Didn’t they just watch the stream?
– It’s not ‘Neim,’ it’s Na-me! Hahaha!
The man, like he was being swallowed by a black hole, was led back to prison. His screams echoed for a moment before gradually fading away.
In an instant, releasing those who sided with the malicious viewers due to a wrong judgment caused more empty cells to appear.
They weren’t permanently banned, but those who hadn’t returned to the broadcast were slowly increasing.
The time they got banned was quite a while ago now.
[Wow, if you manage to attract aggro here, you’re never escaping, huh? Haha!]
Based on the timeline, it seemed like I cleared Part 1 of Wagal.
In the end, this person probably wouldn’t see the moment I cleared it.
– Yeah, I cleared it eventually! Haha!
– First 10/10/10!
– Looking back at the guide, it’s just too cute!
As I thought there were no more people, feeling a presence, I continued forward, leading Kariri along.
And those in the last room of the prison were:
“Managers? What are you doing over there?”
“Ahhh!”
“gag, gag, gag! gag! gag!”
“I told you to keep a better watch!”
“I didn’t expect you to come this far…!”
It was the sight of managers tormenting a prisoner who had tape wrapped tight around their mouth.
*
“Hey, let me go! Isn’t it time to be honest, NoName?!”
The man shook off the managers who were tightly gripping his arms and walked forward.
“I mean, I acknowledge that NoName is smart! I might not be good at math, but everyone says they’re clever, so I thought, ‘Oh, maybe so.’ But isn’t it a bit much to just erase the past?”
“Seems like it’s just simple aggro; should we ban him?”
I decided to quietly listen to the man a little more.
“You were smurfing in LoL, right? I heard about it in the news recently, remembered you from the documentary on Delete four days ago, right? My memory is pretty good.”
With a meaningful expression, the man grinned widely.
It seemed he thought I was taken aback by his words.
“Honestly, I wasn’t trying to investigate. But digging deeper revealed more than a couple of suspicious points. Tell me, NoName, did you hack?”
The dull question seemed to resonate with both me and the viewers.
– I thought something was up, but it was just a hack joke!
– Your tone sounds a bit old, so you’re from the computer generation?
– There can’t be hacks in virtual reality, grandpa!
– Such a waste of time; just ban him already!
“Or maybe you lied about your age.”
Heh—
The man’s added remark made Kariri next to him start hiccupping in surprise.
The man, filled with confidence, let out a short chuckle.
“Didn’t you say you were an orphan? But the shutdown law says that those under 15 need guardian consent—did you not think that far? And somehow, an eight-year-old is ignoring the shutdown law and playing games for 16 hours a day, and coincidentally, a 14-year-old bug occurs that allows the full progression of Wagal’s Nightmare. Really, is that for real?”
– Oh, really? If there’s a shutdown law, how did that happen?
– Something feels off; plus, even if you say you have a guardian, it doesn’t make sense to let a seven-year-old game all day long.
– Wearsoft even mumbled about the bug!
“Honestly, just admit it. You’re not really 14, are you? Where are you selling drugs? Even if you claim you are 14, that just makes you a hacker who broke into the gaming company, right? Hahaha, is this what you’d call a dilemma?”
I felt that rather than him thinking I pierced the shutdown law or the firewall of Wagal, he was completely misjudging my age.
In fact, at the press conference, I had argued that creating a similar ID could easily allow for account swaps, systematically countering the viewer’s opinions one after another.
– But true, NoName was famous as a troller!
– What does it mean to have played LoL when you were seven?
└ NoName was once rank one in games!
└ For real?
– If it’s just trolling, it can be brushed off as a child’s prank, right?
└ Exactly! It’s wrong to be mad just because you got stuck with elementary schoolers on a team!
– Is NoName really not 14 but an adult?
└ That cannot happen!!!!!!
└ But honestly, they look over twenty; it honestly felt hard to believe they were in middle school!
└ So I wasn’t the only one thinking that!
– NoName is cracking down on chat a lot, but there’s a lot I want to ask!
– From the start, Kariri is at NoName’s house, what are you talking about?
└ Honestly, I don’t trust Kariri after watching all of this so far!
“So what’s the reason for coming back to a banned account after months and saying all this on my broadcast?”
The man had been banned in September last year.
Long before managers were chosen, he was one of the first to receive a one-month ban, despite my usual reluctance to ban.
Looking at why he’d come here, it looked like his intention was solely to mess with me.
“People need to live honestly! Hey, some people are out sweating buckets in the sun to make money; is it good to make money while shutting your mouth? I don’t expect much. Let’s just confess all the truth and see if the viewers still stick around NoName!”
His nonchalant demeanor exuded jealousy.
“What if they do?”
“Huh?”
“I’ll be watching to see if you can say the same thing tomorrow. I won’t be banning you; it’s to make you realize your situation.”
*
What meaning is there in giving a name to the nameless?
The name is certainly mine; strangely enough, it’s probably used far more by others.
But even so, I can firmly claim the name as mine because, at some point, I feel a peculiar satisfaction when someone calls my name.
People begin relationships with names, and they conclude relationships with names.
[You’re not nameless. You have the beautiful name Na-me here.]
Inside the prison which had no name, I received the name Noname.
From that moment on, I had an obligation to live on as Noname. I was bound to the world. I had the foundation to form relationships with others.
[Proud of our daughter Na-me.]
Maybe achieving recognition (立身揚名) for my parents is also along these lines.
To repay the grace of being given a name, there may be no other way than to make my name known.
My small heart raced for no particular reason.
Even I, who proudly claimed to have been through thick and thin, felt a unique thrill at the finals of the competition.
[NoName (Asteria)]
As I gazed for a while at the name on the electronic panel, I probably kept thinking about Seol-ah.
‘I think it’s a pretty name too.’
A gentle northwesterly breeze blew in.
