WeTried Translations

Translator: Coughing Baby

Editor: Coughing Baby

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Chapter 151: Unread Messages

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「MoronlympicGold : Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!」

「まつみん : Poooooooooop!」

<> : まつみん-nim’s emotional state is excessively unstable, so the 「Teletype」 function is not operating normally.

「まつみん : Shit! Poop! Poop! Shit! Pooooop! Poop! Poop! Pooppooppooppoop! Pooooprrrhhhhbitterrrrrkssshitshitshitshitshit#ErrorCode_0xc00000fe9_High_pitched_emotional_excess#Region_Japan#(Control AI) An error occurred in Teletype due to emotional excess. The connection will be terminated to protect the user. If the problem is not resolved, please contact the system administrator.」

「AekDda : Matsuming broke again lolololol This time it’s worse than before lolololol」

「MorningChamIsul : What did that Japanese line say? It looked like some kind of error message.」

「Slow Wagon : I... shall explain...」

「YeminROCK : Ah, fuck! You bastard host! You castrated bastard! How do you flip over a table already set for you!」

「Saebom : CIA agent! Strong, capable noona! Pitch-black suit! Black stockings! My type! Uwaaaaah!」

「Stockings : Saebom knows a thing or two. Stockings conceal the flesh while revealing its outline, so they contain a contradictory charm. The beautiful coexistence of concealment and exposure... This could be called a materialized metaphor for eros. In that sense, I strongly condemn the atrocities of host Han Gyeoul. That cruel boy trampled a single flower of art blooming in a gray world. Ah, how could this not be sorrowful?」

「ProBacksoo : Heard the humanities nerd mouth-breathing loud and clear. Now please bring out the STEM idiot.」

「Nuclear Power : There are no idiots in STEM. The humanities are the source of all idiot energy in this world.」

「TasteZoomLaw : Yep, irrefutable, humanities are useless trash, right~ They’re asshole studies that won’t help the economy at all, right~ Even if you get in, the department’s getting merged and abolished, right~ Even if you graduate, you’ll just become an unemployed loser, right~ No effooooort, just blaming the country, blaming talent, blaming silver spoons, excuses going way too fucking hard, right~ lololol To all the hyung-nim and noona-nim who read this and got salty, can we admit you’re living locked up at home, scratching your balls and tits, draining your mom and dad’s spines dry like Drogba? Yep, I admit it, totally fucking admit it~ Fact bombing boomboomboomboom, ah, feels goooood~」

「King Sejong : Hear me. What is this pitiful, wretched commoner saying? Why do his speech and letters fail to communicate with each other? How did the language of this nation become like this?」

「KimJongUnIsABastard : This is all because of Kim Jong Un. Bang bang bang! Drive guns and blades into the chest of the North Korean puppet regime!」

「HalfHome : King Sejooooong appears lolololol Living up to that username, Oh-some lolololol If it’s Oh-some, is it Oh Ji-myung?」

「Cashmere : Don’t make Oh Ji-myung jokes, you HalfHome bastard.」

「Slow Wagon : Teletype is... a thought-to-text module with enhanced security...」

「ProudPrincess♡ : Ah... The mood was so good... I was synchronized with Kowalski... What a shame...」

「AppGirl : Whew. I’m sighing. Our Gyeoul is so charming, but being too charming is its own problem.」

「doomchitdoomchit : I’m gonna burst! That fucking host! What kind of hosting is this? This isn’t even false hope anymore. If this were a scripted drama, I’d cut the writer bastard’s head off!」

「Tunguska : TT」

[Tunguska-nim has gifted 1 star.]

「doomchitdoomchit : What kind of lunatic gives a star in the middle of this? We should be getting refunds, if anything.」

「BigBuffetBoy86 : Uh, is it really ending like this? No twist?」

<> : A viewer quest has been assigned by BigBuffetBoy86-nim.

『Viewer Quest: Ready to take a chance again.』

『BigBuffetBoy86-nim’s message: Hey, don’t leave! Turn around! Turn around and say you changed your mind! Be honest with your instincts! Good for you, good for me! It’s the path that makes the whole world happy!』

『AI Help: The objective of this quest is for user registration number B-612 Han Gyeoul to have sexual intercourse with Shannon Kowalski. There is a 5-minute time limit based on in-world time. Upon objective completion, 1,227 stars will be paid to the world setting host.』

<> : Han Gyeoul(host)-nim has rejected BigBuffetBoy86-nim’s viewer quest.

「BigBuffetBoy86 : Dejected...」

「richdog : Han Gyeoul is still a hard no lololol In a way, I like how consistent he is.」

「Wilma : Ever since I started watching this, other channels somehow stopped being fun... so even when I have complaints, I still watch, but... At this point, isn’t the host abusing his power over us? He has no idea what consideration for viewers means. Either he doesn’t know whose money he’s making, or he’s so full of himself he’s lost his mind. One of the two.」

「conservative_extremist : This is the only channel I subscribe to in Afterlife Insurance... My patriotism... is drying up...」

「Don't_NickPun : Fine, whatever, for the people who came in later, but what’s with the people who’ve been watching from the start throwing a fit? You know the host has trauma, don’t you?」

「Slow Wagon : It materializes the connected user’s thoughts... as text and outputs... or transmits them... and the medium is text... because in the encrypted transmission process... enough speed...」

「AngryNeeson55 : Trauma? Hmm, did something happen?」

「Don't_NickPun : I heard something like that happened before the host died.」

「AngryNeeson55 : Oh, that is unfortunate. Dying so young is sad enough already.」

「AngryNeeson55 : If something like that had happened to my daughter, I would have found them and killed them for sure.」

「Wilma : Oh, right, now that you mention it, that did happen. I forgot. But a lot of time has passed.」

「Wilma : Isn’t that the kind of thing you forget after a month or two? lol」

「doomchitdoomchit : It’s because he’s mentally weak. Bastards who kill themselves are usually like that. If you’ve got the courage to die, use that courage to make up your mind to live somehow. Wait, did this host bastard kill himself too?」

「SnowyFox : You speak very carelessly for someone who doesn’t know the circumstances.」

「doomchitdoomchit : Fox bitch, you’ve been pissing me off for a while. Acting all nice, fake as hell, aren’t you?」

「SnowyFox : ...」

「SnowyFox : I keep thinking that maybe the reason the world became dark beyond repair at some point was because there were more people like you. Though it may have been the other way around.」

「SnowyFox : I’m glad the host isn’t watching this conversation.」

[SnowyFox-nim has gifted 3,000 stars.]

「Slow Wagon : This is to secure... Since the data volume has been minimized... during transmission and reception... the burden on the firewall is low...」

「SweetMocha : But doesn’t it sound partly right? I find people who kill themselves pathetic. Who isn’t having a hard time these days? Everyone lives by overcoming it. The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller. It’s a quote I like.^_^」

「BlackCat : Oh, what a cool saying, chat. I think so too, chat. If you flip suicide, it becomes let’s live, chat. It all changes depending on your mindset, chat. Once you know that, it’s nothing much, chat.」

「Cthulu : Ahem. Suicide is the choice of people who need more courage to live than to die. Telling them to live with the courage to die means you do not understand their pain at all.」

「Cthulu : Those people may have gone through horrifying experiences you have never suffered. Yes. For example, they may have witnessed something that would drive you mad just by looking at it...」

「Tsathoggua : Gyaaaak, guwaaak!」

「doomchitdoomchit : A lot of people are talking shit to me today.」

「storm224 : Ha... The host really is leaving. Looks like he’s going back to his room. At this point, it’s amazing. If my synchronization is normal, he’s really heated up right now, so how is he holding back? Trauma or whatever, I have to acknowledge his mental strength. Just noticing his own condition already makes him unusual.」

「JoseonDynastyWiggle : Yeah. I got chills watching earlier. Totally fine. That makes me want to taste him even more.」

「IsMugujeonggwangGreat : Yeah, emotional satisfaction is important in sex too. I’m frustrated he can’t do it right away, but as a tradeoff, I feel like it’ll be really satisfying when he finally does someday, so I’m looking forward to it. I’ll think of it as food that gets tastier the longer you wait. Men are simple, so they probably don’t understand this kind of thing.」

「Slow Wagon : Although on the surface... it is no more than text expression... the reading of the Teletype module... actually performs TOM Reading in parallel... and even the domains of emotion and the unconscious are... targets for reading...」

「groseillier noir : I checked just in case, and seventeen relay rooms for this channel got blown up. Hasty Koreans. As someone said earlier, good food requires a long wait. :)」

「PooDongDong : Hya. If it’s seventeen rooms, how many people is that?」

「UnderBlanketParkDanger : What a waste. He kicked away his chance to really make it big.」

「UnderBlanketParkDanger : As far as I know, he’s the only case in recent years to make it onto the Afterlife Insurance portal main page with only Vanilla... So I was looking forward to seeing whether, if things went well, reaching Grade A, or even Grade S, might not be impossible...」

「PooDongDong : Other star streamers feel like they’re just rolling over debt, after all. Yep.」

「Владимир : Hmm. What does rolling over debt mean?」

「PooDongDong : To get popular, you need something that sets you apart. But almost nobody is born with talent like this Han Gyeoul bastard. So what can they do? They spend like crazy on world settings and DLC. You know, to secure new content for their streams.」

「Don't_NickPun : It’s a typical game of chicken. Since all the competitors are doing it, they have to spend even more. Preparing a new love interest every single day too.」

「Владимир : As expected, written reports and reality are very different. Are you Koreiskies satisfied with this kind of service?」

「conservative_extremist : What do you want to hear? In the end, the person just has to make an effort, doesn’t he?」

「Владимир : Hm.」

「Slow Wagon : The higher the aptitude... the deeper the meaning Control AI reads... Conversely, in ordinary cases... if there is too much unreadable information... out of concern that a Trojan horse may be included...」

「doomchitdoomchit : This Han Gyeoul bastard is just spoiled. For the viewers’ sake, he should have at least tried to overcome his trauma or whatever. He had plenty of time, didn’t he? Whatever the reason, I don’t think there can be any such thing as a producer who only unilaterally ignores consumer demands. That’s just obvious in a capitalist society. Where is there even room to deny it?」

「KILL : I don’t think that’s right.」

「IngrownToenail : Oh, Namsan Tower rapist. You were so quiet I thought you weren’t here.」

「KILL : I’m ignorant, so I can’t say complicated things. But that... consumers and producers... relationships between people... I don’t think they can be defined by just one thing... It feels like violence, too... and like you’re trying not to see people as people...」

「Don't_NickPun : You’re saying something admirable. You, of all people, who were yelling sex sex louder than anyone.」

「KILL : Well, I mean... It’d be nice if it happened. Being naked in the arms of a woman I can trust and rely on... being caressed slowly and gently, and quietly finishing... I do think about that. But I’m not as desperate as I used to be... I just get more tired as time goes on. No drive either... I’m exhausted...」

「KILL : I miss Yura. I want to hear Yura’s voice. I want to smell Yura’s scent. I think I’d feel good if Yura smiled at me. I would be Han Gyeoul, not myself, but if I could be loved by Yura even in a form that wasn’t me, I think I would be happy. The way she always tried so hard was charming.」

「KILL : I really should meet the host once. I should put in a visitation request. No putting it off because it’s a hassle.」

「FullTimeJessica : What the hell is this change lolololol It feels like yesterday he was yelling about raping Namsan Tower lolololol」

「まつみん : Hing. Is the stream over? It’s dark even though I came in.」

「FullTimeJessica : Oh, Matsuming is back.」

「Grade-9 Civil Servant : He fell asleep a little while ago. No, that sounds weird, saying he fell asleep. It’s only an action inside the world setting. Anyway, I guess that’s it for today’s stream.」

「BeenToDolce : Japanese unni lololol Why did you go so berserk earlier?」

「まつみん : (o´Д`)=з」

「まつみん : Gyeoul-ssi’s face came right up in front of me... In that moment, it felt so regrettable. Missing the chance to sleep with Gyeoul-ssi was part of it, but more than that, I felt sorry that Gyeoul-ssi had no choice but to stay composed even in that situation... and that made me angry. (´・ω・｀)」

「Slow Wagon : Due to security concerns... a temporary access block... is carried out under the pretext of user protection...」

「DongmakgolSmigol : Ban the gimmick freak.」

「まつみん : It’s a feeling that has grown stronger lately, but if I can see Gyeoul-ssi sincerely smiling at the end of this stream, I think I’ll be happy too.」

「Владимир : Personally, I’m looking forward to it as well. I have some confidence in my eye for people, and Han Gyeoul seems like a fairly decent talent. He’s also someone who has shown both the naked face and the possibilities of Afterlife Insurance. I’m grateful that he has provided a stream that is useful beyond simple enjoyment.」

[まつみん-nim has gifted 300 stars.]

[Владимир-nim has gifted 5,471 stars.]

============================ Author’s Note ============================

#Viewer

Joara is truly terrible at its job. I checked after seeing the comments, and the viewer was a mess in all kinds of ways.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that it still can’t display enclosed characters even after the update is really... When I saw blank spaces where enclosed characters should have been in the polyamory section, I was at a loss for words. A company that does business with text can’t even display text properly...

Come to think of it, nothing ever came of their claim that they would respond to the mass text-file leak and copyright issue. In the end, were they only making a big show on the surface to get through that moment...?

#Q&A

Q. jiriro-nim: @What happened on September 26, 1983?

A. The current Russia is like this too, but the Soviet Union at the time had a fully automated nuclear retaliation system. They had prepared a means to destroy the United States for certain even after a first nuclear strike wiped out everyone who could issue orders. Its official name has never been revealed, and it is generally called the Doomsday machine.

This machine malfunctioned several times, and the most serious incident was on September 26, 1983. Information was transmitted from a surveillance satellite saying that the United States had launched five nuclear missiles.

The officer in charge at the control center at the time was a man named Stanislav Petrov. Even though there was no definite proof that the system had made an error, he judged that it probably was an error and stopped the counterattack.

If not for him, full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union would have broken out that day.

There is also a documentary film called The Man Who Saved the World, so it might be worth looking up.

Q. shadowx-nim: @Will the protagonist overcome his trauma and escape being a eunuch before the ending? I don’t care much about H-scenes or romance, so I’m not dissatisfied with the current situation, but the protagonist’s life is so pitiful that I got curious.

A. This novel will end with a happy ending. Really. I can swear on childlike innocence. I said this once before, but nobody believed me.

Q. Kxino-nim: @Congratulations on chapter 150.

A. Thank you. :)

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