WeTried Translations

Translator: Coughing Baby

Editor: Coughing Baby

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Chapter 243: Unread Messages

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「Wilma : Wasn’t Park Jin-seok that asshole who always acted kind of prickly? His face is dripping with defeat. I’m looking forward to the next broadcast, huh? We’ll probably get the details then.」

「HellExpert : What’s there to look forward to when it’s obvious without even watching? LOL. The Koreans must have done what Koreans do while Han Gyeoul wasn’t there LOL. What else would you expect from the people of the Hellfire Peninsula? They’ll burn bright LOL.」

「HellExpert : When he talked to that boomer department chief before, that Baek San-ho or whatever started with land speculation, didn’t he? LOL. In the end, even if everything collapsed and they had to start over, Koreans can only make Korea LOL.」

「conservative_extremist : They’d be lucky if they even managed to make Korea. That’s why an extraordinary leader matters. If our country hadn’t had President Park Chung-hee, the state of the nation would’ve been a real sight. Always starting riots. Always full of complaints too. Where else would you find a country this good?」

「HectopascalKick : Aww, is our little bug excited?」

「conservative_extremist : Hey, fuck, am I wrong? Look at the Gyeoul Alliance too. Han Gyeoul is an impotent bastard and an annoying meddler obsessed with pretending to be nice, but since he still holds things together as a leader, they don’t end up like the other refugee gangs. Fuck, isn’t this exactly the difference between Korea during industrialization and other developing countries?」

「richdog : Yeah, okay, we get it, so please shut up.」

「conservative_extremist : Yeah, shut up, you Jeolla bastard.」

「RetiredInMy20s : Long live His Excellency Takagi Masao of the South Korean Workers’ Party, hunter of independence fighters, coup commander, and father of the Republic of Korea’s great leader, whose aura shone like a hundred fluorescent lights!」

「YeminROCK : Let Korean people preserve Korea forever- The Taegukgi flutters, flutters- The bug munches, munches-」

「conservative_extremist : Are these bastards commies? I heard people are connecting from Pyongyang these days.」

「PooDongDong : For real? Pyongyang got turned into a sea of fire once before. Is there anything even left there?」

「conservative_extremist : Commies don’t die easily by nature. Cockroach-level tenacity, yep.」

「Wilma : Tenacity? Aren’t you in no position to talk about someone else? LOL.」

「ProudPrincess♡ : LOLLLLL what do we do LOLLLLL the Ilbe bug is talking about bugs LOLLLLL」

「SweetMocha : That can happen if you don’t usually look in the mirror, I guess, hehe.」

「MoronlympicGold : Maybe he wouldn’t know even if he did. His brain is udon noodles.」

「conservative_extremist : Shut up, you assholes.」

「doomchitdoomchit : There are a lot of people trashing Korea online these days. Kids who are nothing in real life, and don’t have the will or ability to do anything, just running their mouths. They should be grateful they weren’t born in Africa.」

「NitrogenPack : Agreed. Fucking hopeless idiots who think bashing politicians makes them look cool.」

「Blair : Koreans truly love each other. So patriotic too.」

「groseillier noir : Aren’t these the kind of people Russian Владимир would like? They seem about the same level.」

「Владимир : Level, you say... Would you perhaps like to measure the depth of the Baltic Sea at eye level?」

「groseillier noir : Oh, you were here. Sorry. ;-)」

「BigBuffetBoy86 : Before I watched Afterlife Insurance broadcasts, I thought only we Americans had no manners!」

「OldSpice : Humanity united through sex and mother insults!」

「AekDda : This is some serious national embarrassment.」

「ElectronicBracelet : It’s okay. It’s a disgrace to humanity.」

「TeamLeaderKimMi-young : But if I get serious for a second, that was kind of sad. Koreans can only make Korea, huh.」

「Mustafa : Isn’t it obvious just looking at the bastards here? That’s all people amount to by nature.」

「GrapesOfWrath : This has to be acknowledged. No, there’s no choice but to acknowledge it.」

「IngrownToenail : The other old star-streamer broadcasts are like that too. If it’s the 「Days after Apocalypse」 setting, there are no exceptions lol.」

「MorningChamIsul : What are they like?」

「IngrownToenail : I told you, they’re all the same. No matter where the starting point is, refugees are all motherless swine bastards LOL. Any group that seems halfway decent, regardless of nationality, either doesn’t last long or gets corrupted LOL.」

「IngrownToenail : It’s not just 「Days after Apocalypse」 either. The hosts probably bear some responsibility by default, but when every setting that reconstructs the past is filthy, I think the theory that human nature is evil is right.」

「HellFlavor : What’s the theory that human nature is evil?」

「FullTimeJessica : It means people are evil by nature.」

「HellFlavor : ? Isn’t that obvious?」

「LendMeYourStrength : LOL.」

「Doochi : LOL.」

「Slow Wagon : I... shall explain... the theory that human nature is evil means... damn it.」

「adolfheitler : A kid like Han Gyeoul should basically be considered a mutant. Yep.」

「HardGay : The weird thing about this broadcast is, you know, if you keep watching, it isn’t 「Days after Apocalypse」 anymore LOL.」

「Mustafa : Come on. They say the settings for rich Grade S subscribers have starting countries that don’t collapse until the end. If you’re Grade S, you have no reason to show your life, so nobody’s actually seen it, and in the end it’s just hearsay, but... the odds are high, right? They’d probably start as presidents or tycoons.」

「storm224 : If you look at it that way, this broadcast channel is fucking Grade S content, huh? LOL.」

「UltraCutie : That’s why our Gyeoul’s popularity keeps going up T_T His ranking keeps rising too T_T More broadcast channels every day T_T Older sister knew Gyeoul would succeed someday T_T」

「DongmakgolSmigol : Honestly, I don’t like it.」

「Grade-9 Civil Servant : What are you upset about this time?」

「DongmakgolSmigol : It’s annoying that a kid who doesn’t listen to viewer requests for shit is doing so well. It feels like I’m losing. Is it just me?」

「DongmakgolSmigol : On top of that, he’s talented, and he makes more money than me too. Annoying.」

「AekDda : Bit late for that now. Giving up makes life easier. I keep watching because it’s fun and realistic.」

「BillyHarrington : Correct. As long as it is fun, that is enough. Whether the cat is black or white, it only needs to catch mice well, and whether it is a man or a woman, does it not only need to taste good?」

「MarkIsGood : But there is no sex in that fun...」

「NationwideSlaveShowoff : And there never will be...」

「AppGirl : Probably not happening...」

「DongmakgolSmigol : Tsk, tsk. You swine bastards.」

「Aristotle : I ask you. Would you become a happy pig, or an unhappy human?」

「Tunguska : A happy pig!」

「activeXfuckoff : I will install ActiveX and attack Japan.」

「HardGay : You crazy bastards LOLLLL」

「Nuclear Power : Because this channel is getting popular, the boomers who were hosting 「Days after Apocalypse」 are quitting their broadcasts. The original star-streamer Park Woo-cheol is thinking about quitting too. He was openly cursing Han Gyeoul.」

「Saebom : Cursing him? Saying what?」

「Nuclear Power : That young punk doesn’t know business ethics LOL.」

「Saebom : What the hell LOL. If you’re going to get old, age gracefully LOL.」

「BlackCat : He was probably desperate, so the words just spilled out, meow. The grandpa and grandma broadcasts feel like rolling over credit card debt, meow. If their broadcasts fail, there are tons of people who’ll be disposed of, meow. It is a little pitiful too, meow.」

「WhatAreYou : Credit card debt rollover? What do you mean?」

「BlackCat : You don’t know, meow? DLC used for public broadcasts charges fees based on the number of viewers, meow. Even if they have a lot of viewers, if those viewers don’t give stars, the broadcast has no choice but to fail, meow.」

「doomchitdoomchit : Good. It’s time for incompetent old people to go. They only burden the younger generation.」

「Meussiel : But what makes me a little anxious is, how much longer can Han Gyeoul even last?」

「Meussiel : Hasn’t he almost died several times by now? Honestly, the fact that he isn’t dead yet feels like luck.」

「PizzaIsObviouslyLarge : FR. Like Park Jin-seok said, if he doesn’t start acting selfish from now on, he’s probably going to keep walking on thin ice. He should cut down on the useless meddling too. Why the hell is he shielding death row inmates? What if he gets on the division commander’s bad side? They’ll be a headache to manage even if he’s told to manage them.」

「LendMeYourStrength : Hmm, did he say something like, an execution doesn’t mean you can just kill them by any method? Is that supposed to be words or a fart? They committed crimes worth dying for, so they’re getting killed. Why does the method matter? He can’t be serious, right? It’s just an act, right?」

「まつみん : Gyeoul is not putting on an act. He just has a kind heart.」

「StraightFacts : Tsk, tsk. A heart isn’t something you’re supposed to use kindly.」

「まつみん : Why?」

「StraightFacts : Because the more kindly you use it, the faster it wears away.」

「まつみん : Oh...」

「conservative_extremist : A bastard who says he uses his heart kindly must not think about the victims’ hearts at all, huh?」

「conservative_extremist : I’m letting it slide because this is Virtual Reality. If it were reality, I’d seriously punch him in the face.」

「groseillier noir : I think you’d lose if you fought him.」

「conservative_extremist : What is this European Chink saying?」

「100MillionDEBT : I hate agreeing with a bug because it makes me feel like I’m becoming a bug too, but that part is right. I don’t understand why they keep death row inmates alive. Not just in the broadcast, but in reality too. Feeding them and housing them while whining about human rights. What a joke of a country. Only the dead person suffers unfairly.」

「AngryNeeson55 : I agree as well. If someone killed my daughter and still lived just fine, I think my stomach would turn. I would probably find him myself and kill him.」

「BeenToDolce : I seriously hate feeding and housing bastards like that with the taxes I pay. Aren’t human rights rights that only humans have? What human rights do bastards who aren’t even people have? Besides, aren’t most prisoners foreign workers? Filthy, uncivilized dick-carriers. -_-」

「UltraCutie : But they say there might be a one-in-a-million case where someone is innocent...」

「AntiClique : Then if someone is definitely evil with no room for doubt, doesn’t that mean it’s okay to kill them?」

「UltraCutie : ...Is that so? But what if everyone thought they were definitely evil with no room for doubt, but that wasn’t actually true?」

「AntiClique : Then there was room for doubt!」

「UltraCutie : How many things are that certain, though? Wouldn’t it be meaningless?」

「AntiClique : ...Is that so?」

「NationalBreadDuty : These kids are playing so cutely LOL.」

「Don't_NickPun : If I say this, people will call me a fake scholar or an explainer again, but carrying out executions does not necessarily lead to tax savings.」

「LMAO : Hey! Fake scholar! Doing explainer stuff again today?」

「Don't_NickPun : Executions have to be carried out only in truly certain cases, just as they said, but then death row inmates also have to be given enough chances. Who would receive a death sentence and not request a retrial? Even if there’s no chance of winning, they’d want to drag the trial out and live even one second longer. Whether they’re innocent or someone who deserves to die.」

「Don't_NickPun : The problem is that the state bears that cost. Where would they have money? In the end, the harder the state works to carry out the sentence, the more taxes go out. Hiring lawyers is expensive. Judges and prosecutors have to show up for every trial too.」

「UltraCutie : Whoa...」

「AntiClique : That fucking sucks.」

「Don't_NickPun : I understand how you feel, but that’s just how it is. The principle of law, from the beginning, is that even if a hundred criminals go free, it will not create one innocent victim.」

「HalfHome : Ahh- the spirit of the law is great, and if it’s great, is it Oh Ji-myung?」

「LendMeYourStrength : This damn Oh Ji-myung villain never dies. Apologize to Oh Ji-myung.」

「conservative_extremist : This is frustrating. Too idealistic. I think even if one person is wronged, we shouldn’t let a hundred criminals go free.」

「yourmom : What if you become that one person?」

「conservative_extremist : Then you have to try not to, try. Getting driven into an unfair situation happens because you didn’t try hard enough. Try always keeping your wits about you. Will random shit happen then?」

「Mustafa : Is that something effort can solve...?」

「RetiredYouth : No, well, fine, let’s say that’s true. But the bastard Gyeoul tried to save is a different case, isn’t he? He confessed himself that he killed his whole family.」

「まつみん : He saved the children.」

「まつみん : He did commit an irreversible wrong, but he also seemed like someone who wouldn’t have committed a crime if the situation hadn’t been so bad.」

「Don't_NickPun : Matsuming is right. We’ve seen this several times in this broadcast too, but people are heavily influenced by their environment. Society bears some responsibility for every crime. That is why there’s a duty to reform criminals.」

「NitrogenPack : Are you some professor or something?」

「Don't_NickPun : No.」

「NitrogenPack : You’re not even a professor, but you sure act like you know everything.」

「NitrogenPack : HalfHome, shut up.」

「HalfHome : That’s too much...」

「KILL : ...」

[KILL has gifted 10,000 stars.]

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

#All-Nighter

I pulled an all-nighter because it had been a while since I wrote. Not because of this episode, but because Naver said they wouldn’t accept manuscript submissions from Thursday at 2 p.m. until Monday due to an internal company event...

I considered asking for your understanding and uploading everything later in one batch, but I decided to push myself a little.

#Q&A

Q. Calpis: If it didn’t even take a year to reach Major, he’ll become a general within two years, huh? What kind of child abuse is this? I need to report... Who are you people! Mmph mmph.

A. Minister-level ranks are on a different level, after all. It’s the same reason Rogers’s promotion to major general was called exceptional.

Q. rumen: @Lieutenant General Rogers -> Major General Rogers

A. Fixed. Thank you. :)

Q. Tarniss: Making a living with novels... Is that possible?

A. I think I was lucky. Making a living with my debut work...

Q. Jamei: Were you a full-time author? If you’re full-time on Noblesse at Joara, you should go to Munpia or Kakao, or at least Premium here.

A. Because of my Noblesse serialization, I can’t enter Kakao Page, but it is being uploaded to Naver, Ridibooks, and Bookcube. Thank you for worrying about me.

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