Ch.233228 – Public Opinion Awareness

It’s much easier to replace people than to change the system.

An American company never installs air conditioning in their warehouses despite workers collapsing from dehydration and heat stroke every summer.

It’s simply more convenient and economical to hire another healthy person instead.

For the same reason, investigating the truth behind the Walpurgis incident is an extremely difficult and complicated task.

There was no information about how they entered Korea, why they kidnapped innocent people, or what experiments they conducted.

But there was a turning point in the case.

The UN directly expressed regret, admitting that some high-ranking Walpurgis officials escaped investigation due to the leadership’s and military’s incompetent response.

The public was understandably outraged.

Is this why we called in UN forces?

Didn’t they cause a national disaster with the Banghwa Bridge tragedy by unnecessarily provoking terrorists?

“If they had good intentions, I could understand, but they even tried to hide it? You’re all dead. The President should resign first!”

The Blue House’s desperate attempts to maintain approval ratings manifested in various ways.

One was disciplinary personnel changes—cutting off the tail.

The current Deputy Chief of Staff of the ROK-US Combined Forces Command and the Army Training Center Commander were the first to be dismissed.

But the media is quick-witted, and the public isn’t stupid.

It was discovered they were merely removing people who were already in insignificant positions or had been demoted once before.

After much deliberation, the bickering political parties agreed to sacrifice their cherished figures as scapegoats.

Cheon Jeong-ho, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Chief, often criticized as the Republican Party’s political prosecutor.

A rising dragon quietly biding his time to secure the position of Prosecutor General.

The Republican Party elders decided to shatter his dragon orb to solidify their own positions.

[Breaking News) Cheon Jeong-ho, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Chief, “demoted” to Research Fellow at the Judicial Research and Training Institute.]

Unfortunately, he was a man of great pride.

[Cheon Jeong-ho, Judicial Research and Training Institute Research Fellow, resigns]

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-The loyal dog of Lee’s dynasty got greedy… tsk… and ended up being made an example of!

-He’s literally a psychopath lol. Apparently he knew about NoName’s rescue since last year?

-Not giving citizenship to a terror victim and dumping her in a remote orphanage would make even Satan cry.

-Cut his pension and make sure he goes to prison.

It’s a situation where your head could roll for breathing wrong.

The media enthusiastically portrayed politicians as even more demonic, and the public gradually began to feel fatigued by it all.

This too was the reaction the political sphere wanted.

[What’s so great about NoName that everyone’s making such a fuss?]

She’s just an elementary school kid, I’m tired of all this coddling about “terror victim” this and that;;

How long do we have to keep consuming these emotional news stories?

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-She’s not just some ordinary elementary school girl lmao

-Times’ 25 Most Influential Teens, BBC Person of the Year nominee, #2 on Switzerland’s Great Generation List… and you think NoName is nothing?

-She’s simply an unprecedented genius. There’s no explanation other than human experimentation by Walpurgis.

-Watch the Korea University episode on VTube and you’ll shut up real quick.

* * *

[NoName Official]

[Korea University Law Dept. vs Million-Subscriber VTuber] [1.08M views · 7 days ago]

“So she finally uploaded it…”

It was a video that had been previewed to be released as a VTube short.

This wasn’t a simple “versus game” but an actual match conducted according to formal rules.

Shin Yeon-ho from the Theoretical Magic Department, immortalized on Name’s VTube, was sighing deeply while rewatching the duel video.

“A duel?”

Ban So-wol, sitting across from him, put down her Americano cup and tilted her head.

“I had a no-hands rule duel with Name before. I lost though.”

“Loser. Weakling.”

“I may be a loser, but I’m not a weakling.”

“Then you enjoy losing to women?”

“When you say it like that, people will misunderstand!”

“Am I wrong?”

“I’m really not, so please believe me!”

*slurp*

The bitter coffee traveled through the straw into Ban So-wol’s mouth.

“Name hates when people go easy on her.”

She said calmly.

Ban So-wol had once deliberately lost an arm-wrestling match and paid the price.

She slowly stroked her forearm, checking the muscles that still hadn’t recovered from the aftermath.

“I know. Instead, I took a handicap. I completely sealed off my direct attacks.”

“Men and their excuses.”

“…”

“Sorry, don’t get discouraged. Keep talking. So you’re saying you did your best despite the handicap but still lost. Am I right?”

“I did my best, yes… But I wonder if my punch would have reached Name if I had thrown it?”

“What do you mean?”

Shin Yeon-ho slightly lowered his head, deep in thought.

That final punch that broke the rules and sent Name flying to the wall.

Why was he so confident that Name would be able to dodge it?

There were many signs during the duel.

Several times when Name requested close combat, Yeon-ho’s shoulder unconsciously turned for a counterattack.

“Hard to believe, but Name was prepared in advance for every position where I could extend my fist.”

If the opponent had come in with a right hook, Yeon-ho would have immediately broken their left ribs.

Of course, given who his opponent was, Yeon-ho didn’t do that.

But thinking back to Name’s posture at the time gave him goosebumps.

“After throwing a hook, she was already leaning her upper body back in anticipation of a counter, while firmly maintaining a guard position with her left arm. Is this even possible at an instinctual level?”

Yeon-ho’s eyes widened with evident bewilderment.

As the man’s thoughts deepened, Ban So-wol scooped up a spoonful of carrot cake and handed it to him.

“Name beat me at arm wrestling too. It’s entirely possible.”

“What?”

Beat Ban So-wol at arm wrestling?

That would be impossible unless she had gone easy on Name.

This woman was called the “Iron Person” for perfectly controlling her aura at the mere age of 17.

She grabbed Yeon-ho’s hand as he was about to put down his spoon after eating the cake.

“Let’s stop talking about other women now. Do you know why I like arm wrestling?”

“Uh…? No, I don’t know?”

“When I hold hands like this, I can see the other person’s face well. Can you feel it?”

“No?”

“Then how about this?”

“Whoa!”

A thin thread of aura that climbed up Yeon-ho’s hand glowed gray.

The thread spread out very thinly and widely enough to cover the man’s entire face.

This is how Ban So-wol detects others.

When she removed her hand, the gray threads lost their strength and disappeared in mid-air.

Ban So-wol calmly finished the last of her drink.

“But is it okay to just grab any man’s hand like this…”

“You don’t mind.”

“Huh?”

Yeon-ho’s face brightened, wondering if this was the green light he’d only heard about.

“Yeon-ho, I thought you didn’t like me?”

“Pfft! Hack! What?”

“That’s what Name said. She said you asked for my number because you liked someone.”

“That little brat…!”

‘No matter what, how could she go and tell everything to the person involved?’

Between this duel incident and now this, Shin Yeon-ho vowed to get revenge for all of this someday.

* * *

Name’s Q&A broadcast on the seven challenges she selected received worldwide acclaim.

It was completely different from the vague and unique expressions she had shown on VTube.

When Name explained using actual expressions used in the mathematical community, they had no choice but to acknowledge it.

This proof was very likely to be real.

Even mathematicians who had been skeptical picked up their long-abandoned textbooks and belatedly jumped into the frontlines of modern mathematics.

But at some point, people started grabbing their necks and coughing up blood one by one.

[So how exactly did she prove the convergence of the Demon King sequence?]

[Why is the Stirling approximation on the left side always greater than the integral term on the right side?]

Name’s method couldn’t be considered a rigorous proof written by an experienced mathematician no matter how you looked at it.

To prove A, you need to prove B, and to prove B, you need to prove C.

She somehow linked theories that seemed unrelated into a long chain, making them circle around from the answer.

And when they diligently untangled the thread, what they ultimately faced was a broken chain.

The last puzzle piece to complete the beautiful picture couldn’t see the light because of the damn 1+1=2 proof or the construction of a regular 17-sided polygon.

‘Why doesn’t she finish the proof?’

Humans always look for answers from the past.

Sometimes there are eccentric mathematicians who refuse awards or abandon follow-up proofs.

Most of the time, it’s because they have some grievance.

A fellow mathematician stole their paper, or they were mistreated by their country.

Wondering if NoName might be such a case, they looked into it, and sure enough:

[I don’t feel like talking about it in Korea. Maybe because Korea abandoned me…?]

Just as expected.

Based on the testimonies of outraged mathematicians, media articles appeared in an instant.

They needed to appease her as quickly as possible.

Only then could they escape this maddening labyrinth.

The public opinion, which had barely been calmed by bold personnel measures, boiled over again.

[QBS News]

[Talent abandoned by Korea… already being eyed by other countries?][2.3M views · 2 days ago]

-Hell Joseon is hopeless lol. Leaving for a developed country seems right for the child’s future.

Voices with already resigned tones telling her to leave Korea, and:

-Japan next door created a specialized national-level nurturing program as soon as the Swiss documents were released, but what is Korea doing? How long will we keep losing talent? If you don’t even seem interested in keeping her, it’s right for her to leave at this point.

Voices that still had some affection for their country but were still outraged, telling her to leave Korea.

But reality is always more cruel.

Who could have known that a journalist playing paparazzi at Incheon International Airport would capture photos of Name’s departure?

[Dispatch]

[Star Spotted) NoName boards flight to Frankfurt]

[ThesePatch=Reporter Kang Hwa-ryeong] NoName, the sole survivor of Korea’s Walpurgis eradication operation, is departing for Frankfurt, Germany through Incheon International Airport in Jung-gu, Incheon on the afternoon of August 2.

[Best Comment]

-Why are you really leaving? [Likes: 4.4K]

One of the main routes to Zurich, Switzerland happened to be through Frankfurt, Germany.