I Couldn’t Afford to Buy Mana, so I Started Streaming

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“See you next time, NoName player! Let’s do our best at the National Exchange Tournament, yay!”

“Yes, I’ll definitely win… well, not really. I’ll just mess things up in three rounds, hehee.”

“Everyone, please give plenty of support and encouragement to NoName!”

Maha-bam was coaxing responses from everyone until the very end.

The impromptu talk show that lasted for an hour and a half concluded successfully.

Puchiiiiiik-

“Whew!”

I jumped into the fluffy bed after emerging from the capsule.

“Cool…”

It was already the third day, and Saetbyeol was struggling with jet lag.

I snuggled up next to her and opened the broadcasting station window with a hologram.

[Why does NoName player team up with someone like me? So what? Is it annoying? I’m someone worthy of that, you know!]

Maha-bam said that and played a video from the past.

[This player, I can assure you, will get the National Exchange Tournament champion title within six years! Absolutely! No, we don’t even need to wait till 16! 14 is enough! Youngest champion!]

It seemed that this was something I stated right after winning the Academy Competition.

There wasn’t absolutely no public sentiment toward that at the time.

However, most viewers judged it was too much due to the innate weight class difference.

In that sense, Maha-bam’s insight was quite good.

Yet still…

[‘NoName’ donated 10,000 won!]

-Isn’t the difference between 10 and 14 a bit too big?

I accomplished his prediction four years early.

Maha-bam read the donation in embarrassment.

[Isn’t it a bit too big? Damn! Anyway, if it’s accurate, it’s accurate. What’s with the fuss… NoName?! Ah, are you still watching? Haha, hahaha…]

[‘NoName’ donated 300,000 won!]

-I’ll go straight to the next content without a break~

-Kya

-Big Na-me lololol

-What a thorough follow-up

-Ikweikweon~

-A streamer doesn’t need breaks, they gotta work!

-Playing around with Na-me isn’t even work lolol

-Maha-bam, you need to roll around more!

I was planning to keep watching Maha-bam’s stream for about two hours and coax Saetbyeol to go to the pool with me when she woke up.

Ding ding-

At that moment, a call from manager Lee Bo-reum came in.

“Hello? Yes. Huh? Really? The construction is finally finished?”

Excited by the good news, I stretched my legs to bounce up quickly.

Thud-

Suddenly, something hard caught my heel.

“Uwaah!”

Saetbyeol screamed as her shin got hit properly.

“Oops, sorry. Did it hurt?”

“Ghh… Wh-what?”

“It was a mistake, go back to sleep. Cool cool.”

“I woke up because it hurt! Wuhh…”

Shaking with emotion—

With a pout, Cheon Saetbyeol rubbed her shin under the blanket.

‘Did I hit it too hard…?’

I turned over with worry to check her leg.

It was possible that I had mismanaged my strength due to too much recent training.

“Sorry. I should have been more careful. Where does it hurt?”

“Right now!”

“?”

Cheon Saetbyeol suddenly wrapped my body up in the white blanket.

“Nyaha! You totally fell for my act! Now, become Na-me Gimbap!”

“What? Was it a prank? I’m glad you’re not hurt.”

“Oh ho, it seems you still don’t grasp the situation. Attack coming through?”

“What attack— ugh!”

I felt a poke on my left side.

An involuntary thin moan escaped my lips.

“Pokey pokey pokey.”

“Gah! Stop it! Didn’t I warn you?”

“Then, hurthtow!”

Before the playfulness escalated further, I had to escape, kicking and flailing.

Bang bang bang-!

And at the moment a third stabbing attack came in unexpectedly.

Thud-

“Eh?”

I grabbed her arm and flipped the blanket over her head.

“Phew.”

I shook out my messy hair.

“No-name Unni, I surrender! Unconditional surrender! Kekek!”

Squish—

With my legs tightly binding her waist from behind.

Because I wasn’t strangling her neck with the blanket, she could immediately tell it was an act.

‘How do I get my revenge?’

The thoughts didn’t take long.

“Let’s see you perform the cringiest act in the world.”

Being true to your role is a virtue of an actor.

Thus, Cheon Saetbyeol should be able to deliver lines like ‘Let’s go, baby’ or ‘Do you like me?’ anytime, anywhere.

‘I wonder if you can do it, Cheon Saetbyeol?’

Gulp-

“Okay, I’ll give it a shot.”

“Yeah.”

“Humans killing each other is a natural thing.”

“?”

Cheon Saetbyeol composed herself and dramatically acted.

Is this cringeworthy dialogue?

It felt more like it belonged in a thriller than a romance…

“But saving humans is also a human thing.”

“Damn it!”

“If you call me Demon King, then go ahead and call me that all you want! Kya-ha-ha!”

I locked in a rear naked choke.

Thud-

“Saetbyeol?”

Cheon Saetbyeol, who had passed out just like that.

Her body flopped down.

It seems like the technique worked properly.

* * *

[Republic of Korea Tongue GOAT]
(Last year’s Academy Competition commentary Merong Na-me.gif)
(Last year’s Merong Na-me Ceremonial Training Stream.gif)
…
(This year’s 2D Cafe Stream Merong Na-me.gif)
(This year’s Luxembourg Stream Merong Na-me.gif)
(This year’s Norway Stream Merong Na-me.gif)
(Real-time Merong Na-me Maha-bam Collaboration.gif)

That right there was NoName-rung~

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[Comments]
-I’m very interested in the teacher’s tastes bb

-Wow… this is a bit scary

-This is just pure perverted behavior lololol

-Na-me is cute so it’s Panda-lalchu

-Na-me has surprisingly done a lot of Merong lololol

└ Kids’ special: If you do Merong first, you win

└ Na-me’s occasionally popping out childlike emotion is really cute

[Switzerland’s first reveal of the immigration amount they proposed to NoName ㄷㄷ]
“Our country’s money slightly exceeds 1.03 billion won.”
1.03 billion won, insane lololol

What the heck is this Swiss intelligence agency doing?
At that time, Na-me only had the titles of ‘Proving a Mathematical Conundrum’ (a field I’ve been running in ASI for the past 10 years) and ‘Survivor of the Valpurgis Terror’ (only special in Korea, which was a clean country from terror, but it often occurred abroad).

The news came out in July 2051, so it’s before the Academy Competition took place ㄷㄷ

[Comments]
-Wow lololol

-Not 10 billion…? 100 billion?

-That’s insane

-Do you think that’s all pittance?
└ That’s right lololol

└ For real, with twin champs before the downfall, a billion should be expected lol

└ This is ridiculous lolol

-Already at that time, they were calculating their worth at a billion

-Swiss military intelligence agency is unexpectedly competent. They were the first to issue evacuation orders for embassies during the civil war.

[Summary of NoName’s capsule life story (tear-jerking)(short)]
∙I played 20-23 games of LOL a day. During event season, around 15-18 games.
∙It seems there were cash-like assets on the capsule account. My mother raised me while saving money for a year.
∙I was so afraid of dying if I didn’t stick to my routine that I kept strict sleep/wake times.
∙I viewed news articles or academic papers indirectly from archive sites. But as my situation felt increasingly disconnected, I stopped looking them up.
∙After I came out of the capsule, I actually got a mental illness. I couldn’t speak properly for several months outside the capsule.

Ahㅠㅠㅠ Every time I see this, it breaks my heartㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Na-me, you have to be happy for sureㅠㅠㅠㅠ

[Comments]
-So she didn’t just immediately eat rice from the startㅠㅠ

└ It’s not a thought someone trapped in a capsule would just come up with

-The gradual decrease in money must be terrifying…

-The fact that she kept strict sleep/wake times is heart-wrenchingㅠㅠ

-If I could use the internet, couldn’t I send out a distress signal somehow?
└ I’m not sure, but if the language module broke, I wouldn’t be able to access communities or V-tube at all. It just had comments.
└ Access to V-tube (X), traces of someone downloading V-tube videos (O)

-That’s why LOL is problematic. If it were Wagal, she could have requested help even in sign language.
└ If so, LOL wouldn’t have been accessible either.
└ Yeah, it’s a game with low freedom, which is why she could even manage to eat rice.

[Hey guys, did you know? Na-me’s mother’s columbarium construction has been finished.]
Yesterday on Maha-bam’s broadcast, Na-me talked a lot about her past.
I was relieved to see that she overcame her painful memories, and then this happened.
(Janjeol Memorial Park finally opened after 9 years… Equipped with the best facilities for bereaved families)

Apparently, ‘Janjeol’ invested in the construction that had been stopped by the Seoul city in the past.
Honestly, I wondered if they were just satisfied with indoor remodeling.
Finally, Na-me realized her long-held desire, congratulationsㅠㅠㅠㅠ

(Article attached photo: Columbarium.jpg)
Seems this is the room where Na-me’s mother is placed! Doesn’t it look neat and beautiful?

[Comments]
-Wow, the park landscaping is really insane lololol

-How come the sponsor for a columbarium is a pill manufacturer GOAT?

-They used a whole room for it. Na-me’s mother deserves that.
└ If you gave birth to a goddess, that’s just ㄷㄷ

-So Na-me must be relieved now too, hehe

-Can ordinary people also visit to pay their respects?
└ (Author) They said it would only open for a day a week!

-She was born in 2022?!
└ (Author) Who?

└ It’s written on the center urn. [No Seol-ah: 2022. 2. 21 ~ 2045. 6. 11]
└ (Author) Whoooaa!!!

Originally, it would have attracted attention for a moment and then faded from everyone’s memory as a community post.

However, with No Seol-ah’s birthdate being revealed, quite a few people were taken aback.

The aftermath was certainly not small.

[NoName’s mom was born in 2022?]
If she were still alive, she’d be 32 years old now.
She’d be younger than me…?

[Comments]
-Why so young?

-I’m a repeat freshman, and when Na-me was born, she was my age ㄷㄷㄷ

-I thought she probably passed away around thirty.

-This is the most shocking thing I’ve heard this year.

[So Na-me’s mother was kidnapped by Valpurgis]
And locked in a capsule with her newborn baby daughter,
In a hopeless situation where external communication was completely impossible,
She figured out how to survive by buying potions with what little she had,
Sacrificing her life just to pass on the remaining potions to her daughter,
And that was all done when she was just 21?!

[Comments]
-Wow…

-I didn’t expect she’d be so young.

-She might have been more desperate to save her daughter since she was younger.

-This is quite something.

-I find myself thinking how she managed at my age.

[This person suspected to be Na-me’s mother No Seol-ah looks familiar to me]