Chapter 21
Chapter 21
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 21
Chapter Title: Proxy Cheater Caught Like a Dog LOL
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Infinity Games, the developer and operator of the world's hottest online game Teamfight Arena, Korea Branch.
The marketing team had to stay on top of every issue in the gaming world.
Especially anything related to Teamfight Arena.
"Victory declared some insane rookie his rival?"
Section Chief Park's eyes lit up.
Sensing a massive hit.
One superstar could generate untold economic value.
Victory, the idol of every gamer with his invincible legend, was exactly that kind of superstar.
Not just a golden goose—a golden eagle at least.
His golden eggs were so huge they could stuff the entire industry to the brim and still have leftovers.
And the name constantly popping up alongside that Victory.
Jeon Jeonseol.
If the rumors were true, she was at least a chick from the same golden eagle.
Raise her right, and she'd be a powerhouse feeding livelihoods left and right.
"Deputy Choi. Dig into this properly."
The marketing team sprang into action to make contact with Jeon Jeonseol.
And when they checked her info...
"Account's brand new. Clean slate, no prior registrations. But... gender's listed as female?"
"Just a wrong check box?"
"Phone verification doesn't let you mess that up. Wrong gender, no auth."
"Stream voice is definitely male."
"Plus, tastes run to big chests."
"Hmm."
"Gotta be identity theft, right?"
"I'm out. What if it's transgender or whatever? Super sensitive these days."
"On the flip side, they approve gender corrections no problem now. Not like the old days where someone transitions male-to-female but the records stay mismatched or whatever."
The real issue was how perfectly the disease was hidden.
The mysterious illness Seol-ah and Seol-yoon had suffered—gender swap syndrome—was locked down tight to protect patients.
Even most doctors had no clue it existed.
Occasionally someone would stumble onto the truth and spread the word, but they'd just get dismissed as urban legends or crazies.
Unaware of that rare disease, the marketing team jumped to the far more common transgender explanation.
There were plenty of those cases.
And they were always blowing up into scandals.
Simple math: odds of signing up with mom's phone versus some tangled gender identity mess.
Obviously the former crushed it.
But Section Chief Park didn't want to touch even a one-in-a-thousand chance.
"Games have to be fair. That's non-negotiable."
"I'm tapping out. You sort it with the GM team."
Deputy Choi couldn't bail over some slim odds.
Games had to be fair.
You had to fight fair under your own banner, your own name.
Deputy Choi headed to the GM team.
To right any wrongs.
Like slapping a temp ban on some shady guy streaming off a woman's phone-verified account.
Of course, only after thorough verification.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ [Current Viewers: 4,196] Too many viewers the problem?
Was I too careless?
Way off from the original plan.
Never dreamed the game company would watch me this closely.
Blame Victory and Wild.
Those two are huge, so eyes turned my way too.
And the result? Account suspension.
They decided it wasn't really mine?
'What a pain.'
💬 Live Chat — Viewer Proxy cheater BANG! Proxy cheater BANG! Proxy cheater BANG! Proxy cheater BANG! — Viewer With skills like that, wonder how much boosting he bought. Mad jealous lololol — Viewer Peanuts compared to pro first-string salary lol — Viewer Infinity doing great~ Infinity doing great~ Infinity doing great~ Infinity doing great~ — Viewer Why crawl out into the light if you were hiding in the shadows? — Viewer That jealous of Victory, huh — Viewer For real lol Not a single fact out there, but somehow in everyone's heads, I'm already the trash proxy booster who got greedy for the spotlight and tried laundering his identity.
A few sane ones popped up here and there—<Stay neutral>, <Should at least hear what happened?>—but the toxic trolls' spam buried them.
'Just wanna vanish.'
Reason for pretending to be a guy? Simple.
Real life girls hitting on me nonstop, sick of it.
Didn't wanna deal with that in-game too.
Wanted a clean online life, at least.
Careless signup as female? Also simple.
Never expected to blow up this fast and get famous.
I just wanted to aspire to being a streamer, not actually become one.
Aspiring aspiring streamer, let's say.
If I'd capped at 2-3 viewers, would this have happened?
Even 20-30, probably not.
200-300 maybe safe?
Probably.
Infinity's a massive company.
Not like they're bored salarymen monitoring every rando.
Wild and Victory way bigger deals than I thought, drew the crowds.
And now the game company's eyes on me too.
— Viewer 나 (Me) — Viewer 락 (Hell) — Viewer 해 (Ex-) — Viewer 명 (plain) — Viewer 해 (Ex-) — Viewer 해 (Ex-) — Viewer 명 (plain) — Viewer 락 (Hell) They switched up the spam pattern—one letter at a time, endless "Explain!" and "Hell!" flooding in.
Deep down, zero interest in explaining.
But rethink it: not just me.
Already blabbed about being friends with Wild and Victory.
'Can't be a nuisance.'
Better to be the weird kid hiding as a guy than buddies with proxy scum rotting the fair game world.
By now everyone's clued in, but Victory and Wild are just online game pals.
Only ties left for a loner whose real-life connections all shattered.
Phone contacts? Family and hospital, that's it.
These guys are my everything.
"I can explain."
─"......" "Pretty sure I know why I got suspended too."
— Viewer Spill it then — Viewer Let's see the pathetic excuse — Viewer Hell hell — Viewer lolololololol I minimized the game client on stream and dragged the voice effector—tucked away on another monitor—to center screen.
— Viewer ??? — Viewer What're you doing — Viewer What's this "This setting's the voice I'm using right now."
I cranked up the pitch.
Reverted the modulated voice to my real one.
"Ah, ah, ah."
Pitch alone doesn't turn a girl's voice into a guy's.
The voicing techniques are totally different for each gender.
I relaxed my throat—forced tense till now—and let out a far more natural, comfy voice.
"Not a proxy. Truth is, I'm a girl. You monitoring? Any ops here?"
— Viewer ???????????????? — Viewer Gasp — Viewer Wtf insane — Viewer What the hell is this — Viewer Jeon Jeonseol's a girl??? — Viewer Don't talk crazy, how can someone that good be a girl — Viewer Good girl gamer? Proxy duh — Viewer Voice mod what even — Viewer Victory's rival turns out to be top-tier S-rank campus beauty? — Viewer How girl play TFA good lol girl can't play TFA good lol girl can't play TFA good lol — Viewer Kieeeek — Viewer Real talk??? ─"What? You're a girl?" "Told you to call me bro, you punk."
— Viewer Wild didn't know either? — Viewer lololololololololol — Viewer Beauty hiding her identity ㄷㄷ — Viewer No face, why call her beauty — Viewer Cuz the voice is beauty tier — Viewer "Call me bro" eyes... too charming... heung... — Viewer So why pretend to be a dude — Viewer Bull, won't believe till facecam kekeke — Temp banned & deleted message —
"You, get out. Fuck."
This is exactly why I hated revealing I'm a girl.
If no ban, I'd never have.
Ban or not, if it wasn't tangled with Wild and Victory, I'd have ghosted.
"Voice faker begging for voice trust? Yeah, no."
— Viewer Cam? — Viewer Face reveal?? ㄷㄷ — Viewer I believe just from the voice eyes ㅠㅠ — Viewer Pretty voice + god gaming sis = insane — Viewer Victory's one true rival is a girl???!!! — Viewer How know you played it yourself Crazy if I'd do face reveal.
Don't even have a cam setup.
Never planned voice mod from the start.
Switched stream to phone, filmed my hand.
Pulled out a ruler.
"Palm base to middle fingertip: 13cm."
— Viewer Short af? — Viewer Baby hand wtf — Viewer Just measured mine: 22cm — Viewer Female avg's like 15cm? — Viewer Hand too pretty lol ⭐ Top Comment — Viewer Just confirmed: I was born to marry Jeon Jeonseol — Viewer Eyes take me — Viewer Losing it over a hand, you psychos "Gonna game with this hand from now on."
— Viewer Woah — Viewer This stream is peak history — Viewer Account's banned tho? "Magical Fight, obviously."
— Viewer Ah — Viewer lolololol — Viewer Mafite ghost — Viewer What Magical Fight mean for Jeon Jeonseol — Viewer Oh yeah you're big-boob faction, Venus fan right "Venus is the best, yeah. Love big chests, so what."
— Viewer Omg — Viewer Lesbian vibes... — Viewer Wait, magic girl anime's for girls originally right? — Viewer What!? Magic girl anime for girls!?!? — Viewer (Shock)(Terror)(Chaos) — Viewer Go to girls' middle school, all my friends love Magical Girls Chronicle