NaeMe’s daily routine took the breath away from those who observed her.
First, as soon as she woke up at 7 AM, NaeMe shook off her drowsiness with mint-flavored clean magic.
Then, she activated the hologram projector and opened dozens of PDF windows of her major textbooks simultaneously.
NaeMe sat in a creaky rocking chair, organizing her thoughts for hours until lunchtime arrived.
Usually, on weekends, around the time the second hand and the hour hand meet at the very top of the clock, Saetbyeol would crawl into the living room lazily.
Saetbyeol would lie down on the sunlit living room floor, enjoying NaeMe’s eccentric antics until she woke up.
With her expressionless face, occasionally sticking out her pink tongue whenever she pondered, one could wonder if she was planning to grasp all the knowledge in the world with that little head of hers.
Bored, Saetbyeol furrowed her brow and began her interference.
It started lightly, as she approached NaeMe from behind and hugged her. In reality, it was more like a choking act.
Every time NaeMe remained indifferent, Saetbyeol would braid her hair or pinch her cheeks, gradually increasing the level of her pranks.
However, that day, NaeMe was the first to grab her wrist and speak.
“Saetbyeol, come here. Let’s play word chain.”
“Word chain? Out of nowhere?”
“I’ll start. Sea cucumber.”
“Game.”
“I surrender.”
“Huh? It ended too suddenly!”
“You won.”
“What the heck is this supposed to mean!”
The rocking chair moved back and forth once more, and a title of a paper popped up.
[Critical Discourse Analysis and Reflection on Game Disorders/Addictions Research]
“This much can be written in two days. Let’s go prepare lunch.”
“Can’t you just ask for a normal word that starts with ‘sea’?”
“I was debating between genome, guerrilla, gauge, game, and gauzelshaft. I’ve run out of topics I thought of long ago.”
“How about ‘gettorai’?”
Saetbyeol looked at NaeMe with weary eyes.
NaeMe, who usually skipped breakfast, largely didn’t eat much for lunch either.
The only ones who knew that half a bowl of white rice, two bites of braised pork, and three spoonfuls of steamed egg would turn into a magnificent paper were Professor Cheon and Saetbyeol.
After eating lunch, NaeMe entered her room to start serious thesis writing.
Five hours later, NaeMe emerged from her room with a much paler face, staggering.
“Are you okay, sister? Please take it easy.”
“Don’t I look okay?”
“Yeah. Feeling anemic again?”
“It’s just simple orthostatic hypotension. It’s because my lower body muscles are weak. Just help me to the kitchen.”
“I’d rather just carry you. Hup!”
Saetbyeol knew the reason why NaeMe was so fervently writing her thesis.
Setting aside her grand plan to create a reflective paper by taking the first letters of each thesis, Saetbyeol thought there was something much more important.
[It’s because I usually don’t want to think about my past lives. I’ve forged many precious connections, but I can’t live forever buried in the past, right? If I accumulate various knowledge in this life, maybe the past will become a bit more blurred.]
Oblivion is a blessing bestowed upon humanity by the gods.
Even when great pain and trials come in life, time naturally resolves them.
Oblivion grants humans the strength to rise above the past and the strength to live for tomorrow.
But NaeMe was born with a curse of never being able to forget.
Saetbyeol could never truly understand what that felt like.
Should one remain silent about the unspeakable?
Various worries tangled like a complex knot in Saetbyeol’s mind.
“Ugh… my head…”
NaeMe, nestled in Saetbyeol’s arms, mumbled.
Peeking down slightly confirmed that NaeMe was breathing in a soft, hot rhythm.
NaeMe was a child who naturally needed a lot of sleep.
It was no wonder she was tired, forcing herself to cut back on sleep while overworking her brain.
“Shall I brush your hair…?”
“Hehe. It seems I liked brushing other people’s hair even in my past life.”
Saetbyeol chuckled and turned back to her room.
‘If it’s like this, she won’t be able to have dinner anyway, so maybe I should wake NaeMe later for some late-night snacks?’
As she gently placed her on the bed, NaeMe mumbled in her sleep once more.
“Do it again from the beginning… Adella…”
“Huh? Are you awake?”
“…”
No answer came back.
NaeMe was still in dreamland.
However, on NaeMe’s face, there was a peaceful smile.
* * *
[V-Tube]
[Step to Poison – The Massive Reflective Thesis Launched by NoNaeMe / First-Ever 9-Person Relay Broadcast]
[※Real-time – 0:20:14]
[The Frog Dictionary (3.41 million subscribers) · 63,000 viewers currently]
“Today, I could briefly explain the background situation in which this reflective paper, or rather thesis, was born. Now, let’s momentarily forget our past situations and contexts! We will have a time to uncover these 8 treasures that you have been eagerly waiting for with our experts.”
With over 3 million subscribers, The Frog Dictionary was a current affairs-related V-Tuber in South Korea.
Abbreviated as ‘Frog’, the channel planned content to easily explain the significance of NaeMe’s papers to the public.
Right now, there was competition among academic societies to gain attention.
Amidst the chaos of media articles pouring in simultaneously, this was undoubtedly the optimal broadcast.
In just 20 minutes of streaming, the real-time viewer count surpassed 60,000.
It was going to be a collaboration longer than five hours, so controlling the tension was of utmost importance.
-If each person takes 30 minutes, that’s 8 topics, so 4 hours.
-If it drags on, it might take over 5 hours.
-8 consecutive relay broadcasts are a new concept, haha.
-They could have just blazed through content for a week, but they’re filming it all in one day.
-As expected from Frog.
-Let’s not send the guests home either.
“Let’s welcome Professor Jin Hee-cheol from Sejong Science & Technology Institute for the ‘I promise I won’t do it again’!”
Frog knew it would be a very difficult topic to tackle.
How long they could maintain this viewer count was entirely up to his abilities.
“Professor, including myself, our viewers in the room get headaches, feel tightness in the chest, have digestive issues, hair loss, sexual dysfunction, depression, and brain fog when difficult content is presented. I would really appreciate it if you could explain as simply and briefly as possible, hitting only the core points.”
“Sure, please don’t worry too much.”
-We’re not that bad, you jerk!
-Sexual dysfunction, haha!
-Help! Feed me small bites!
-How can you make this simple…?
-Let’s get started!
[The Impact of Trichloroacetic Acid Tertiary Regenerative Therapy on Oxidative Stress Induced by Temporal Lobe Epilepsy]
“Epilepsy, also known as seizure disorder. The average death age for epileptics is 50. For cancer patients, it’s 70, and for dementia patients, 85.”
“That’s extremely low, isn’t it?”
“Then why is it so low? The survival rate for surgery is similar to that of cancer.”
“Indeed. Perhaps it’s more lethal when young.”
“That’s not entirely wrong, but for now, they cannot get the surgery. Nationwide, the schedules for epilepsy surgeries are fully booked.”
“Oh.”
“The crux of the paper is this: The patients can gradually treat their epilepsy. They improve their symptoms while waiting for their surgical turn.”
“Is that possible?”
“Yes, it is. Why? Because tertiary regenerative therapy can be used without a medical license! Are you starting to get it?”
“Wow…!”
-This is brilliant!
-Isn’t this insane?
-Why isn’t this important stuff on the news?
-It’s much more amazing than you think!
-NoNaeMe is insane!
-The circuit representing chlorinated organic compounds with secondary regenerative treatment is ridiculously complicated to the point of immensity; the tertiary one? Even if you put 100 people into it, you can’t do it.
-Tertiary is closer to aura than magic.
-NoNaeMe must have thought that she would definitely create a tertiary one since she doesn’t have a medical license herself.
-How did she even do that?
-But if this was solved in a thesis, what about the patent?
-No patents?
The broadcast, filled with gasps and shock, had only just begun.
* * *
[Complete Structuring of Optic Nerve Connectome and Stereotactic Radiation Surgery Methods for Optic Neuropathy Treatment]
“If you injure your eye, you can get an artificial eye implant, but if your optic nerve is damaged, it’s over. But how did NaeMe solve this? She created eyes and nerves from nothing!”
“Like a god?”
“Yes, like a god. I can proudly say it now: Humanity has conquered vision.”
* * *
[Research on Teaching Methods for ‘N’ Shape Autoblastic Mana Circuits in Primary and Secondary Education]
“It doesn’t carry the same considerable meaning as two in front of me, but at least in a magical country like South Korea, I think there’s a lot to gain! Do you know the name of this mana circuit, Frog?”
“Oh, I learned this in middle school, but it’s a bit informal to say, so I hesitate to bring it up, but isn’t it usually called the ‘Niami Circuit’?”
“It’s the Autoblastic ‘N’ Shape Circuit! 45% of mana users in the first year of middle school struggle with this N-shape circuit, and NoNaeMe pointed out insights and improvements that were surprisingly sharp. Let’s take a closer look!”
* * *
[Proof of the Andersen-Kahaly Conjecture, Centered on Landau-Ginzburg Obifolds]
“Have you heard of string theory? The hypothesis that the universe’s smallest particles are not 0-dimensional but 1-dimensional strings. A lot of research has been done based on the assumption that string theory is true, but the actual proof of string theory has never been established. However, the Andersen-Kahaly conjecture is one of the five cornerstones supporting this string theory. And NaeMe has resurrected one of those.”
* * *
[Philosophical Interpretations Encased in the New Moon and the Exploration of Mediators as External Manifestations]
“I suggest anyone capable of performing this action should challenge the external manifestations of aura. I assure you it will be possible within ten years.”
* * *
[Exploration of 8-circle Magic Dimensional Descent via ‘Rulsepilein-Bestial-Gerunum-Harayetreika’]
“Until now, only America casting ‘Horizon’ has succeeded in 8-circle magic, right? To be honest, I didn’t think anyone else would succeed in the future, but if any country does, wouldn’t it be Korea?”
* * *
[Improvements to Hadoop Distributed File Systems for Quantum Computing Open World Data Processing Beyond Yottabytes]
“Thank you for the invitation. But wasn’t I supposed to be the last one?”
“Oh, the guest who signed up said they were stuck in traffic, so we switched the order.”
“Anyway, where was I? Data processing in the open world is crucial in games like FPS. The downside of the Hadoop distributed file system is the slow response time, but it was a groundbreaking idea.”
* * *
[Critical Discourse Analysis and Reflection on Game Disorders/Addictions Research]
Frog expanded the chat window to observe viewers’ reactions.
The remaining seven papers required at least a graduate-level understanding or above, so they couldn’t be easily tackled.
However, the only paper written in a way that was “readable” boasted tremendous view counts on the archive.
Viewers who had been repeatedly shouting during the four-hour broadcast instantly transformed into experts.
-I wholeheartedly agree with NoNaeMe’s opinions.
-Guarantee the self-determination of young people!
-It gives me chills just thinking about how they uncovered all the distortions in the Ministry of Gender Equality graph.
“There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
-Flipping the Y-axis was a mistake…
“Oh, I’m sorry. There was a traffic accident ahead, so my car got a bit stuck. I’m sorry for being late.”
“Welcome, Manager Shin. The last session today might be a bit challenging…”
Frog expressed concern.
The viewers’ expertise matched NaeMe’s to a considerable degree.
However, Sang-Jin Shin from Riot Korea wore a puzzled expression.
“What’s so difficult about it? Isn’t today a time for mocking the government while looking at NoNaeMe’s paper with the viewers?”
-Haha!
-No, this person seriously came to have fun.
-Yeah, really!
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