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

Teaching is a far more sophisticated act than learning.

If learning is merely about opening your mouth and gobbling up the knowledge served to you by others, to teach someone, you need to digest that raw knowledge, chew it up, tear it apart, and deliver it just before it gets swallowed down.

It’s a rather dirty analogy, but the essence of what I’m trying to say remains the same.

However, if I lacked talent in teaching, I couldn’t help but swallow the ultimate dish. gulp

“Seriously, this is my limit… I can’t do it anymore…!”

Gasping for breath, Adella spewed out her complaints.

While her talent in taking down Ballum seemed quite impressive, I couldn’t help but suspect her willpower was rather weak.

-“Is this really right? Haha!”

-“The cat is putting on the show, but the cash is going to Kanp!”

-“Oh, you’re giving treats, huh? Haha!”

-“Correction, it’s not treats, but ‘treat flavor’!”

-“Hahaha!”

-“Down with the tyrant boss!”

To correct Adella’s bad habits, using the treats and carrot strategy was half successful.

Put differently, the other half could certainly be considered a failure.

I wondered if there was a problem with having designed the treat as a means of positive reinforcement and the carrot as negative punishment.

When I used to teach Klaus swordsmanship, I had actually wielded a real whip, so perhaps the intensity of punishment was too weak.

But now, it was too late to change methods.

Little by little, she was clearly showing improvement with each cycle.

“Struggling? Can’t do it?”

“Hah… It’s hard, alright!”

“Is it really that tough? You can’t even stand up?”

-“Hahaha!”

-“This brings back PTSD from training centers!”

-“Cadet 145121, lift your legs higher! Do exercise number 8!”

-“Aargh!”

-“Adella can bite NoName without punishment, right? Haha!”

Watching her express gloom all over her body, I felt it was best not to push any further.

Master Maria always considered me a cold-hearted individual, but look at how warm-hearted and affectionate I am!

-“Let’s leave Adella behind! T_T”

-“No way! Save Adella!”

“She’s definitely getting stronger, right?”

“If this continues, she’ll end up being totally smashed by Chronicle.”

“Seriously, the way you’re teaching seems utterly pointless.”

While Adella took a break, I turned to the chat window. Noticing I was reading, the chat speed doubled and tripled.

“There’s a reason behind how I teach.”

Humans are complicated beings, but that doesn’t guarantee perfection.

Attach a ‘model hand’ to your arm and hide your real hand away; even just sensing an impact on the model hand makes our brain feel pain. It’s a type of phantom pain.

In the same way, Adella and I connected the most basic and useless sense in battle, ‘taste’, minimizing her opportunities to interfere with her senses.

By injecting her with feedback like “delicious” or “not delicious,” I tricked her into believing that my decisions were judgments made by her alone.

Habits in battle don’t change overnight.

Even if you know it in your head, failing to act promptly when an emergency arises results in nothing.

[‘Walgunable’ donated 1,000 won!]

-“Honestly, if it seems ineffective, thumbs down! Haha.”

“Hey, come out for a sec.”

Enduring unsolicited advice was tolerable.

But gathering supporters opposing my opinions crossed a clear line.

Pause. The game shifted to a black-and-white world, and without a second thought, I clicked on the account of the recent donor.

[Walgunable (Currently Spectating)]

To spectate means that they are currently inside the capsule and executing Wagal.

I generated a battlefield in the open plains and immediately entered his ID.

[Inviting: Walgunable]

-“Wow, no freaking way!”

-“So jealous! Hahaha!”

-“This is a one-on-one?!”

This was definitely not a good thing, yet everyone seemed so excited.

It was time to show what’s what.

*

Na-me remembered the spectator ‘Walgunable’ because of her excellent memory and his notoriously bad behavior while watching the broadcast.

With frequent small donations of a thousand won, he often grated on Na-me’s nerves, not shying away from excessively inappropriate comments in the chat.

He was just lucky not to have been caught by the managers.

But considering what was about to happen, I had to suspend judgment on whether he was truly lucky.

[Walgunable has entered the user-customized game.]

“What the heck?”

-“Silver, Hahaha!”

-“Wait, was this guy giving advice?!”

-“Legendary, for real Hahaha!”

Na-me threw a sword identical to the one Adella used at him.

“Here you go.”

“Uh, thanks!”

-“Suddenly so serious! Hahaha!”

-“Turns out he was just a room fortress warrior?!”

-“This chat is so filthy, just ban him already;;”

-“How has he not been banned yet?”

-“Seriously, what a sight! Hahaha!”

On the other hand, Na-me remained empty-handed.

Before the invited spectator could voice any questions, Na-me’s mouth opened first.

“If you defeat me, you go on the blacklist; if you lose, you go on the whitelist.”

“Isn’t that backwards…?”

“Nope, that’s right.”

“Why am I going on the whitelist if I lose?”

“Because of the color of the lawsuit.”

“Oh…”

-“Hahaha!”

-“Wow!”

-“Wow!”

-“Even if I win, I’d be at a loss with the court! Hahaha!”

-“This is true education right here!”

-“Life is real-world training!”

-“NoName is really dishing out life lessons! Hahaha!”

-“The term ‘whitelist’ sounds terrifying.”

-“I’d rather be on the blacklist a hundred times over!”

“By the way, if you’re going to sue me, it’s not for defamation but for the ‘Protection of Minors’ laws, so I hope you try your hardest!”

-“Let’s go for the real deal!”

-“With so many female streamers, how did you pick NoName to get caught?”

-“So he’s a minor for real? Hahaha!”

-“As long as it’s not me, I’m good~~~~~~~!!!!”

-‘Why is this so funny when it shouldn’t be? Hahaha!’

-“I’ve been struggling lately, but thanks to you, I can’t help but smile!”

-“Walgunable, your sacrifice will surely be remembered…”

-“Hahaha!”

The man with a mundane avatar trembled, his face paling to the point of losing all color.

“I’m really sorry… Can’t you just let this one slide…?”

“Nope, you’re not allowed to apologize right now. You can say that later.”

“If you could just let me off this one time, I promise I won’t come back to this broadcast again. No, I will delete my Wagal and Twish accounts! Really…!”

-“Don’t let him off!”

-“True education! True education!”

-“He’s Silver, so what’s the point of deleting it? Haha.”

“It’s simple. I will stab Walgunable’s heart. I will only attack once. All you have to do is defend that one attack. Then I’ll put you on the blacklist.”

“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you…”

-“Wait, you’d let him off?”

-“If he tells me everything, how could he not block? Haha.”

-“I almost witnessed a leveled lawsuit; that was close.”

-“Honestly, if you just report it to HQ, his Twish account might get raided too!”

A user-customized match to avoid a lawsuit began.

In the end, Na-me didn’t wield a weapon.

Her resolve to fight bare-handed shone through.

Walgunable sighed in relief as he saw NoName charging him from the battlefield’s opposite end with astounding speed.

She was likely just pretending to intimidate him. Overall, this match had too many advantages in his favor.

She wasn’t wielding a weapon; she was granted dual swords in a one-on-one. Lastly, she had limited both her attack path and frequency herself.

Even if he objectively assessed his own skills, NoName was akin to a newbie, having no experience beyond story mode.

While some praised her talent as being up to Challenger levels, his thoughts were quite different.

“Just because of lucky hidden routes…!”

He took a deep breath and straightened his stance.

It was simple. There was no need for him to attack. She had clearly declared she would just aim for his heart, so he could simply cross his two swords for defense.

As the distance closed to strike, the two of them.

Walgunable leaped and easily jumped over her height.

Walgunable’s stance contorted.

He had thought an attack would come straightforwardly from the front.

Just because she was aiming for his heart didn’t mean it had to be from the front.

However, even while he prided himself on having decent reaction speed, he spun around 180 degrees and shrank back down.

Through his arms, Na-me’s ominous vision glinted sharply.

At that moment her arm was filled with aura. Shoulders turned first, and her body followed.

But the center of gravity was distinctly higher. Not at the heart, but towards the head. More accurately, her opposite arm was flying toward his neck.

‘It’s a trap…!’

Having watched the broadcast, he recognized the familiar attack.

An hour ago, when Adella almost perfectly defeated Ballum, she showcased the incredible movement.

And just like when Adella ruthlessly pierced Ballum’s carotid artery, NoName too was prepared to smash his head.

“You’re not keeping your promises…!”

In that moment,

Na-me’s fingertips pierced through the gap of Walgunable’s subconsciously lifted arm and exactingly stabbed his heart.

-???

-You block your head?

-You go, then!

-Hahaha!

-Didn’t she tell you even if she showed you? Hahaha!

-Is this Silver level…?

-The future of Wagal looks bleak.

An accurate blow buried into his heart.

Even though Walgunable’s attack had flown towards his neck, he was left dumbfounded as to why his heart had been penetrated.

“No… What is this…”

Na-me withdrew her hand and produced a file and pen from her private space.

“See? Changing a person’s habits is really this hard.”

Humans are intricately designed to block life-threatening attacks at unexpected moments.

Even if it could endanger their own lives.

Na-me smiled with satisfaction as she validated her hypothesis through experimentation.

-Didn’t see that coming!

-Wow, it exists!

-Oh my…!

-The lawsuit ending, hooray!

“Good job!”

*

-(Manager 5): Um, Walgunable?

“What’s up, ‘Go Yang-i Gyo-mi Ga Jeil Joha’?”

-(Manager 5): Could you just call me manager…? Besides, isn’t there another name written in that blacklist, not just that human? Please don’t tell me my name is one of them?

“Well, I don’t know. Can’t say for sure, Go Yang-i Gyo-mi Ga Jeil Joha-nim.”

-(Manager 5): What do you mean, ‘I don’t know’? Are you saying I’m actually on there?! You’re not suing me, right?

The sudden appearance of the whitelist caused the cat-perry girl to question uncertainly, which was quite an amusing affair.

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