Chapter 184

The broadcast of Name was a room that often attracted aggro.

It was said that all happy families are alike, while unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way.

The banned viewers entered the concentration camp for a variety of reasons.

Manager 2, known as ‘Hellmon’ with the nickname ‘hellsmonster’, mercilessly wielded the whip toward the prisoners.

“So what is your crime?”

“Ugh! I’m sorry! I only spammed words that start with ‘농’!”

“Joke, farming, countryside, trickery, juice, concentration? How the hell did this guy avoid a permanent ban! Hey, can you even filter properly?”

[Unnamed Prison]

[Current number of detainees: 474]

The identity of the ‘Unnamed Prison’ is a forced expulsion release request room.

That is to say, viewers who have been permanently banned are not even counted in the current population, just like the prisoner whose head was just whipped off, they are executed.

[Permanently banned: 1194]

“I told you we need to recruit more managers, right? Don’t you see foreign users constantly trying to invade with alternate accounts?”

Zziiii-

Manager 3, a woman made entirely of machinery with a cyberpunk concept, detached her hand, and a laser shot from her wrist pierced the heart of a prisoner.

After neglecting the management of the camp for a while, those who should have been executed long ago were causing chaos.

Behind the scenes, efforts were being made to prevent a young girl of 14 from facing the malice of the world.

Finally, Manager 4, Kairiki, swallowed the bodies into her stomach, seeming to conclude the first filtering.

[Entering]

[NoName has entered]

“I hope only model prisoners get caught this time.”

Concerned Manager 1, ‘Save Grad Student’, murmured.

Because there are really crazy people in this world.

* * *

[Blocked Message: What does the tattoo on your pelvis look like? 7 times.]

“Tattoos? What are you talking about?”

“No, no, no! Just permanently ban that guy!”

Kairi covered my eyes and pressed the forced expulsion button.

– Hahahahahaha

– See you~

– This isn’t even the abyss hahaha, what are those who got permanently banned?

– There’s nothing you can’t say to a middle schooler.

– Let’s all behave like gentlemen, everyone.

Through the iron bars of each cell, the charges emerge. Their crime was the reckless teasing in the chat.

As a sign of true repentance, those who bowed deeply until I passed by the hallway read out apologies with a benevolent heart.

[Forced expulsion release]

“I hope you live well from now on.”

“Yes! I will turn over a new leaf with a new heart! Thank you, No Name!”

“Sorry, but you have to go back in.”

“Huh?”

– Hahahahahahahaha

– Hahahaha

– Didn’t you just see the broadcast? Hahaha

– It’s not Name, it’s Name! Hahahahahaha

Like being pulled into a black hole, the male was led back into prison. The sound of his screams echoed, gradually fading away.

In an instant, having pardoned those who sided with the malicious viewer due to a hasty judgment, the increasingly empty concentration camp began to grow.

They weren’t permanently banned, but those who have not returned to the broadcast.

The moment they were banned was now quite a thing of the past.

[Ah, stubbornness is so strong here, there’s no way to break aggro here hahaha]

Looking at the timing, it seemed to be when clearing part 1 of Waloa.

In the end, this person must not have seen the scene where I cleared it.

– Yeah, I eventually cleared it hahaha

– First 10/10/10

– The backseat gamer looks so cute now.

Just as I thought there were no people left and was about to turn back, I felt a presence and continued forward with Kairi.

And those who were in the last room of the prison.

“Managers? What are you doing there?”

“Ah!”

“Mmm, mmm, mmm! Mmm! Mmm!”

“So I told you to keep an eye out!”

“I didn’t think we’d come this far…!”

It was a scene of managers tormenting a prisoner, who had tape wrapped around his mouth.

* * *

“Hey, let me go! Isn’t it time to be honest with No Name?”

The male shrugged off the managers who were tightly holding his arms and walked over.

“I admit that No Name is clever. I don’t know much about math, but everyone says they are smart, so I figured maybe it was true. But to brush off the past as if it didn’t happen at all, isn’t that a stretch?”

“Sounds like just simple aggro, should I permanently ban you?”

I decided to quietly listen to the male’s words a bit longer.

“You’ve been smurfing in League, right? I heard you on the news recently and thought I’d heard it somewhere, and it was you who appeared in Delete’s docu on the fourth day, right? My memory is really good, you know.”

The male smiled meaningfully, as if he thought I was flustered by his words.

“To be honest, it wasn’t to investigate. But as I delved in, there were numerous questionable points. No Name, tell me. Did you use hacks?”

The dull question seemed to resonate among both me and the viewers.

– I was doing something but it turned out to be just hack talk hahaha

– You can hear the old man vibe in the way he speaks, was he from the computer generation?

– There can’t be any hacks in virtual reality, grandpa.

– What a waste of time, just ban it.

“Or did you lie about your age?”

Hik-!

At the male’s added words, Kairi, who was next to him, started to hiccup in surprise.

The male chuckled with a growing confidence.

“Didn’t you say yourself that you were an orphan? But since the shutdown law for those under 15 means you need parental consent, did you not think through that? And what about a seven or eight-year-old ignoring the shutdown law and playing games for 16 hours a day, coincidentally causing a bug to progress through the Waloa Nightmare? Come on, that’s ridiculous. Those who believe this are the real idiots.”

– True, how did that even happen with a shutdown law in place?

– There’s something weird about it,;; and even if a guardian exists, it doesn’t make sense for a seven-year-old to play games all day.

– Wearsoft was also ambiguous about the bugs.

“Be honest. No Name, you’re not 14, are you? You must be somewhere selling drugs. Even if we assume you were really 14, you’d be a hacker who hacked the game company, right? Haha, isn’t this what they call being between a rock and a hard place?”

Rather than thinking he believed I bypassed the shutdown law and hacked through the Waloa firewall, he was in fact under a serious misunderstanding about my actual age.

Instead, he was the one contradicting point by point the viewers’ opinions, claiming that I had authenticated in the press conference that it was entirely possible to trick using similar account IDs being created and swapped.

– But it’s true that No Name was famous for being a troller.

– What do you mean playing League in the early hours? You played League at seven?

└ No Name was once ranked number one in the game.

└ Really?

– You can let trolling slide as a child’s play.

└ So it’s the person who gets mad because they teamed with elementary schoolers in a normal game who’s in the wrong.

– Is he really not 14 but actually an adult?

└ No way!!!!!!

└ But he looked to be over twenty, it’s honestly hard to believe he’s in middle school.

└ I guess I’m not the only one thinking like this.

– No Name severely suppresses the chat, so there are lots of things I wanted to ask.

– Speaking of which, Kairi is currently at No Name’s house, what’s that about?

└ Honestly, based on Kairi’s actions so far, I really don’t trust him at all.

“So why are you coming back to an account that hasn’t logged in for months and saying such things in my broadcast?”

The male had been banned around September of last year.

Long before managers were chosen, he was the first person to receive a one-month ban, even though I generally try not to ban people.

Given the reason for his waiting until I came here, it only looks like he wanted to annoy me on purpose.

“People should live honestly, right? Someone is out there sweating in the sun, working hard for money, is it good to silently earn money like that? I don’t expect much. Just confess everything honestly, and let’s see if the viewers will still be by No Name’s side then.”

His nonchalant attitude exuded jealousy.

“If they stay?”

“Hmm?”

“Let’s see if you can say the same tomorrow. I won’t ban you. Just take it as a lesson to realize your situation and leave.”

* * *

What significance does giving names to those without names hold?

A name is certainly mine, yet strangely, it is used much more by others.

Nevertheless, the reason I can firmly claim a name as my own is because I feel a strange fulfillment when my name is called out by someone.

People begin relationships with names and end them with names.

[You don’t lack a name. You have a beautifully cute name called Name.]

Having gained the name Noname while being locked away without a name, I became obliged to live on as Noname from then on. I was bound to the world. A foundation through which I could build relationships with others was formed.

[Proud of our daughter, Name.]

Perhaps standing out (立身揚名) to honor our parents may also be framed in this context.

In order to repay the grace of having given me a name, the only way would be to let the name be known.

My small heart thumped for no reason.

Even having gone through all kinds of trials and tribulations, I found the exciting flutter of a tournament final to be remarkably delicate.

[NoName (Arsteria)]

While staring at the name on the electronic panel for a while, I probably continued thinking about Seol-a.

‘I also think it’s a beautiful name.’

A gentle northwestern wind blows.