Hello,
This is Ashbeck. Finally, “It’s Not that kind of Malicious Broadcast” (hereafter referred to as ‘MaliciousBroadcast’ due to its mention on a certain wiki site) has come to an end.
Starting from the upload of Chapter 1, “I’m Just an Ordinary Viewer” on May 22, 2023, to the upload of Chapter 263, “I’m Just an Ordinary Streamer” on May 22, 2024, it was exactly one year… which felt much longer than just a year.
Every day after finishing my main job and coming home around 9 to 10 PM, I managed to sit in front of the computer—or write on my phone while commuting and upload till I got up at 6 AM the next morning—all because you readers came to enjoy each bite of my writing, left your reviews, and even paid more than enough for it.
Before saying anything else in my epilogue, I would like to start with sincere thanks.
Thank you very much.
Even though I mentioned this in the final chapter, it’s not enough no matter how many times I say it. This novel reached this point entirely thanks to you.
Thank you truly.
This epilogue is going to be quite long. It’s like a mountain of rice. So long that I couldn’t help but think that if I have this much time, I should be writing more of the novel instead. Therefore, let me give you a three-line summary in advance.
1. Side Story: There’s a poll in the comments. If you’re interested in the side story, though it’s a trivial matter, I would deeply appreciate it if you could vote in the comments.
2. Settings: I plan to reveal some (unreleased) settings here and there.
3. Q&A: I will select some appropriate questions from the comments on this epilogue and post answers within a week.
I believe an author should tell stories through their novels. Thus, I’ve always tried to avoid writing long notes.
However, typically, authors are those crazy people who uphold the unbearable burden of creative work just to share their stories with countless unknown individuals. And at least for me, I have a lot to say.
Having refrained until now, I plan to fully express myself this time.
It was tough.
And… just a side note, but (probably like many authors), I crave reactions to my stories. So, in celebration of the completion, I gathered as many reactions regarding the novel from all sorts of keywords on Google.
Honestly, I wanted to do that even while the series was active, but I endured by telling myself to spend that time writing even one more character instead. Instead, I read the comments a few times. They were a great source of strength.
This is what they call ego-searching, and I found it enjoyable because I could see a lot of honest responses mixed with some curse words. Thanks to that, I can reflect the thoughts and responses of readers who left comments elsewhere in this epilogue, which is honestly delightful.
The only regret is that I should have included a bit more distinct words in the title.
Using terms like ‘malicious’ or ‘broadcast’ was too common in the real-world internet broadcasting scene and made searches difficult.
There were few who used ‘broadcast’ as is.
Interestingly, I could find a lot while searching for ‘RogueRogue’.
‘DojakDojak’ is the best.
Now, let’s get on with the epilogue. As I mentioned, it will be long. Very.
For me as well, I need the process of saying goodbye to MaliciousBroadcast and Lee Yena.
As an author, I hope you think of this epilogue as my farewell to Lee Yena.
# 1. Side Story?
Since the most important aspect of a completed novel is the side story, let me start by discussing it.
I had conceptualized five short stories, each consisting of 2 to 5 chapters. However, there’s one crucial point.
While I might have written this novel, I believe that the way to enjoy it belongs entirely to the readers.
In other words, I shouldn’t impose a specific way to enjoy it… nor give a mistaken impression of a particular way to enjoy it and then obstruct or prevent that enjoyment. This is entirely within the readers’ rights. At least, that’s how it is for me.
In my personal opinion, given the nature of web novels, the ‘ending’ particularly adheres to this. I wanted to provide the promised enjoyment in the ending, and I didn’t want to throw something unexpected. If the promised quantity or quality of enjoyment was insufficient, that’s my shortcoming, but in terms of direction, it should follow the promise.
And I believe that the ending of “Evil Broadcasting” adhered to the direction I showed and promised since the beginning of the novel. It was the most fitting ending for Lee Yena and GetDevoured. If you disagree… it would make me sad, but it was still my best effort.
The issue is… sometimes, side stories can feel like endings.
Thus, the following principles apply to the side stories of “Evil Broadcasting.”
While it might not satisfy everyone, these are measures to satisfy as many readers as possible.
1. All side stories are “IF” scenarios. They are not canon and take place in parallel worlds.
2. The order of writing the side stories follows the number of recommendations (I.e., the side story with the most recommendations is written first, followed by those in descending order).
3. Side stories with the most dislikes will not be uploaded, regardless of the number of recommendations. For example, if the recommendations/dislikes are | 60/30 | 50/30 | 40/10 | 30/1 |, then the first two (60/30 and 50/30) are rejected. In this case, the third side story (40/10) would be uploaded first, and then the fourth (30/1), concluding the side stories of “Evil Broadcasting.”
4. Side stories with more dislikes than recommendations will not be uploaded. If all side stories have more dislikes than recommendations, none will be uploaded (e.g., if the counts are | 30/31 | 80/140 | 20/40 | 30/30, then only the one with equal recommendations and dislikes (30/30) would be written).
5. There will be no 19+ (adult) side stories.
6. The voting tally will be taken 72 hours after the upload of this epilogue.
7. While sponsorship is greatly appreciated, it has no effect on the voting/side stories. The precious heart of those who sponsor is always deeply appreciated, but the order and the existence of side stories will be decided solely by the number of recommendations and dislikes without any writer’s intervention.
Under these principles, you can recommend the side story you want to see among the following five. If there’s a side story you believe would diminish your enjoyment of “Evil Broadcasting”, feel free to dislike it.
Below are the titles in alphabetical order:
### 1. Night of the Knights: Game Possession Side Story
– What if Lee Yena lived in the world of KoK instead of the modern world? This short story shows a year of Lee Yena, with overwhelming physical prowess, adapting and rampaging in that world.
– The profession will be Holy Knight.
– The content will revolve around a round of KoK, from conscription to victory (or defeat).
– It is highly likely that characters from the main story will not appear.
### 2. To My Ark: Ark Side Story
– This story deals with the relationship between Lee Yena and Ark after the end of the main story.
– It may include a glimpse of the past, showing why Lee Yena started targeting Ark before the main story (currently undecided).
– Some scenes might be portrayed as if they were omitted from the main story. However, do not misunderstand; they did not actually happen.
– There will be romantic elements with Ark and Jinhee.
### 3. Because You’re My Star: StarPork Side Story
– This story deals with the relationship between Lee Yena and StarPork after the main story.
– It may feature aspects of Lee Yena’s broadcasting career post-main story (currently undecided). Again, it’s just an IF scenario.
– There will be romantic elements with StarPork and Ahri (possibly less compared to other side stories).
### 4. It’s Okay to be Crazy: Revan Side Story
– This story deals with the relationship between Lee Yena and Revan after the end of the main story.
– Some scenes might be drawn as if they were omitted from the main story. Again, do not misunderstand; they did not actually happen.
– Revan had a romantic element with Shihoon.
(5) Lost Kite : Hopeless Side Story
– It covered the period immediately after Lee Yena’s possession, before the start of the malicious broadcast.
– Everything else was the same as in the main episode, but this was a story of Lee Yena in a world without KoK and its related characters, making it a bleak story.
– Contrary to the main episode that started six months into the possession, this began on the third day of the possession. In other words, this side story dealt with the starting point of a more traditional gender-bender genre, where she had not yet come to terms with her gender change.
– It had either a bad ending or an open ending. Creating a hopeful ending within five episodes in a bleak story was beyond my capabilities. It was probably going to be an open ending.
I also knew well that conducting such side story choices in a voting format could invite intervention from people who did not enjoy the novel. While there were ways to restrict participation by requiring correct answers to simple quizzes about the novel’s content, I did not wish to create a higher barrier to entry than making this notice appear as a Plus serialized post.
Nevertheless, I earnestly requested that only those who genuinely desired or disliked a particular side story cast their votes. These side stories were prepared after much contemplation to provide greater enjoyment to those who cherished the novel.
Regardless, I planned to write all the side stories as time allowed. The only variation would be whether they would be uploaded.
I kindly asked for your precious opinions if interested, though it might be inconvenient.
The start time for side story serialization was undecided, and it was non-regular. Unfortunately, due to delayed main job and other scheduled matters… it might take some time until I began writing. However, once I started writing each side story, I intended to approach it with the same responsibility as the main story, so please do not worry too much.
That being said, the interval between side story serializations could be a bit long due to my schedule.
This was why the order was important.
2. What kind of game is KoK?
KoK was inspired by various games. Cyphers, dark and Darker, league of Legends, for Honor, dark Souls series, chaos, and even Duel Gate, which you might not know… I couldn’t pin it down to one game. It was a game with quite detailed settings.
However, the malicious broadcast was neither a game development story nor a game fantasy genre.
And because readers who wanted to see detailed explanations about an unknown game in a TS live broadcast material were rare, I boldly omitted parts that revealed the settings.
As a result, reactions like “I don’t know what this game is” existed, but I was satisfied with the reduced reactions of “There’s too much explanation, I won’t read this.”
If I were to post the brief settings that I considered notifying before serialization, they were as follows:
In the context of the story, KoK was a slightly modified game of the AOS (MOBA) genre, represented by Dota, loL, chaos, hoS, and Aeon of Strife (in alphabetical order), etc.
For those unfamiliar with AOS, it’s a game where uncontrollable minions for each faction are automatically generated and march toward the enemy faction. When enemy minions are killed nearby, the player character gains resources such as experience/money, ultimately aiming to destroy the enemy’s main base. Another added element is neutral mobs in neutral zones that stay quiet until hit, but once hit, they hit the nearest opponent regardless of the team.
Three main points differentiated it from the (maybe) familiar AOS games.
Firstly, traces of Faraday Games originally being a small company making indie rogue-lite (not rogue-like) games were evident in the underground (jungles/creeps). The underground had one of eight maps randomly applied. Skilled KoK underground players could identify which map it was within 30 to 40 seconds of starting the game.
Although it was the first season in the context of the story, making little difference, four underground maps changed every season.
Secondly, neither neutral mobs nor minions gave gold or items, only experience. The only ways to acquire items were either (1) using a random tier coupon given at level 6, 9, 12 (max level) or (2) opening treasure chests underground. (1) could provide up to rare items, while (2) had no item restrictions.
However, to reduce luck-based game elements, the tiers of the ‘random coupon’ given at level-up were the same for each team. Thus, if the blue team got three normal coupons, two magic coupons, and one rare coupon at level 6, the red team characters would receive the same coupons at level 6.
Who received which tier coupon within the same team was random. Exchanging items after receiving them was allowed.
This was also the source of many “go-to-hell” comments.
Thirdly, the combat mechanism was more complex than expected.
Generally, aOS simplified combat within the context of the entire game to make it more enjoyable, focusing on skills and movement.
If a game like KoK made combat complex akin to soul-like or For Honor, the game would fail.
However, KoK gamers in the world where Lee Yena lived controlled combat directly with body movements thanks to highly developed VR, making control easier and more intuitive compared to controlling characters with a keyboard/mouse… And they were collectively hypnotized to think it’s alright.
(To be continued)
Looking at it now, it seems like it would have been okay to post this notice. However, as the plot of the novel unfolded, focusing more on Lee Yena as a person and her human relationships, these content elements were omitted.
In particular, the part related to the exchange tickets had entirely disappeared from the setting. There was a considerable amount of storyline related to this… It’s somewhat disappointing.
3. Why were there no tags?
Now that the novel was concluded, I could confidently explain why there were no tags. Quite simply, because “Malicious Broadcast” didn’t perfectly fit into any specific tag, I feared that those who might misunderstand by looking at a tag would feel betrayed.
If you recall the contents of the novel after reading through to the end, I believe some of you might agree with me. Labeling “Malicious Broadcast” as “No Romance”, despite the emotional exchanges with Revan or Ark, felt inappropriate… The same goes for the other tags.
And attaching “Full Romance” would be even more nonsensical.
Looking at the aim of the novel, I thought it was a traditional TS sly fox “No Romance”, but I’m not sure if such a category even exists. I deliberated on whether to post an announcement regarding the tags, but in the end, I didn’t upload the old notice. Here is an excerpt from it:
Among the comments, there were quite a few remarks about future developments. There were requests to definitively announce the progression through tags as well.
I always listen to the voices of the readers. However, in this case, if I were to announce the progression through a single tag, it might cause even greater misunderstandings as each of you have different interpretations of the tag’s meaning. Therefore, I wanted to clarify this part so that readers who enjoy this novel could read it comfortably without any misunderstandings.
It is a rogue, pure love novel.
That was a joke, but I believed that the main character, Lee Yena, was somewhere between a rookie idol and a cam broadcaster.
In other words,
Regardless of gender, anyone can fall for, admire, or harbor feelings of affection towards the protagonist, and that will happen.
However, the protagonist is the protagonist, Lee Yena—so the focus would remain on the protagonist.
Additionally, an idol/broadcaster can plummet with just a single scandal.
Thus, by the completion of this novel, the protagonist will not enter into a serious romantic relationship with mutual feelings, regardless of gender.
However, having lived as a man their whole life before becoming a woman, the protagonist’s natural (or efforts to appear natural) distance and behavior might unintentionally cause misunderstandings for those who see the protagonist as an attractive woman.
Please understand this as a genre-specific characteristic of the TS setting.
And (though there are no confirmed developments yet), the protagonist’s personality might induce some of these reactions from those around. This could be either intentional or unintentional on the protagonist’s part, so it’s up to readers to enjoy interpreting it as they see fit each time.
This is understandable as part of the setting in “Such an Malicious Broadcast.”
As for why I didn’t post this announcement… At that time, I felt that posting it would lead to more backlash.
Honestly, it still feels that way now. Nevertheless, isn’t an afterword better than an announcement?
4. Why end it now?
Gratefully, some readers expressed their regret at the conclusion, so I wanted to add a note. To hear such remarks before the conclusion is a great happiness for a writer. Even the regrets expressed by those wanting to see more are precious gifts, just like the words of those congratulating the conclusion.
However… the timing of the conclusion was something I had already decided before starting the serialization of the novel, so changing it was difficult.
This novel could only end when Yena, who started her life as GetDevoured, accepted her life as Lee Yena. In fact, if I were to show how she continued to live as Lee Yena, I could endlessly depict her life. Whether she does advertising broadcasts, plays various games, gives one-point lessons to the pro team KoK, or becomes a famous player who even inspires the motives for skins… many materials were prepared.
However, that would be a different novel from the “Malicious Broadcast” you’ve known.
I wanted to conclude the “Malicious Broadcast” you all loved exactly as it was. I hope that you, dear readers, feel the same.
Incidentally, this novel was originally intended to conclude around Chapter 100-120. Even though the manner and scenes of the conclusion were already planned, the story unfolded much slower. Lee Yena’s psychological healing and personal growth were too slow. So, by the time the bare minimum of growth was achieved, the story had already surpassed 200 chapters.
Along the way, it even surpassed 250 chapters.
So, in truth, the current conclusion is much later than initially planned.
If I hadn’t predetermined the content of the conclusion, I might have concluded it around Chapter 150, after the afterparty, or Chapter 180, after winning first place. I endured with the thought of depicting a healed, happy Yena and turning off the camera… Looking back, I think it was good that I held out to do so.
Another tidbit: this novel was planned from the conclusion backward. Motivated by the ‘completion’ of a favorite TS broadcaster I’d loved for the umpteenth time, I vowed never to leave a TS broadcaster series incomplete and began planning this novel. Thinking back, it’s a bit of a sad motivation.
Anyway… because of that, there were two scenes prepared from the very first planning stage of this novel: the protest scene in the second illustration and the conclusion scene in the third illustration. The ending image of Yena smiling brightly, uploading a thank you letter, and then appearing again with an intentional typo in the notice for a faux? apology was the endpoint.
I’m somewhat proud to have been able to portray the conclusion I always envisioned.
5. Next project
The next work was under planning. However, the possibility of it being a TS live broadcast seemed very slim. For now, it was because I had already told all the stories I wanted to within the TS live broadcast.
If I ever came up with too many scenes and episodes that I wanted to write, to the point of it being hard to hold back, I might write it as the work after the next one… For now, if there was such a story, I thought I might write it as a side story for “Malicious Broadcast” instead of the next work.
To me, one lazy innate evil heroine, Lee Yena, was enough.
Now, I would visit other tteokbokki places as a customer. Recently, there was one place that I really, really liked, but I was afraid to recommend it in case it might cause a nuisance.
6. Lee Yena?
Since all side stories were IF, I planned to briefly talk about how the canonical Lee Yena would live in the future.
I believed that the scenes shown to readers in a novel were akin to briefly shining a camera on a person’s long life. Even when the camera turned off, the characters would continue living— and dying—in their own ways. Lee Yena was no different.
She might return to school or date someone, get married, and have children. Who that someone might be would remain unknown since the camera would no longer capture those moments.
Two settings I could definitively confirm were, (1) the personality of ‘Lee Yena’ you saw in “Malicious Broadcast” would not disappear or turn into a man, and (2) Lee Yena would end up promising eternal love at a wedding about 7 years later with someone from somewhere.
7. Question and Answer
Finally, although most of the curiosity might have already been resolved through this epilogue, if there were still questions, I planned to conduct a Q&A session for four days from the date of writing this epilogue.
I intended to answer as many questions as possible candidly, but I asked for your understanding if, depending on the case, a response might not be provided (such as intentionally ambiguous parts, or questions that would hinder others’ enjoyment of the novel). I would appropriately curate the questions, so readers could freely ask whatever curiosity they had without worrying about “Is it okay to ask this?”
However, I politely declined questions about other novels/authors. It was because I did not want to cause any inconvenience to other authors.
In that regard, let me answer a question I expected would surely come up—
I am not a madwoman.
I would address everything I wanted to say here, so I kindly asked to refrain from mentioning it in the comments on this epilogue. Please.
I had a lot to say about this… but it was hard to know where to start and where to end.
Due to a bug showing hidden comments on Novelpia, the comment I left on the serial of the author Jumagugo’s “I Am Not a Madwoman” around 2021 was exposed—thanks to this bug, I could clear the suspicion of having a secondary account. If it weren’t for this bug, I originally planned to show you a captured image of this comment at the end… but I felt relief that it was naturally revealed.
I also wanted to see episode 251.
The author Jumagugo’s “I Am Not a Madwoman” was my favorite novel in the TS live broadcast genre. And as it often goes with favorite works, it surely influenced me. Having been a fairly heavy reader for a long time since a very young age, there were several other novels I loved (which I couldn’t mention by name here for fear of causing trouble), and they must have also influenced me significantly.
I had no intention to deny such influences.
Separately from this, the story of a lazy, evil-natured, 4-dimensional heroine wreaking havoc was a preference formed from the old romance fantasy novels I consumed when young. In fact, the sequence for me was more like, “I liked ‘I Am Not a Madwoman’ because it fit my taste”—rather than the other way around. While my favorite novel was separate, if asked about my favorite protagonist, I still chose Nord and Hyejin without hesitation.
However, I absolutely disagreed with the idea that Nord and GetDevoured were similar. This was not an explanation to address plagiarism allegations—it was just about the character I liked, nord.
If I organized my thoughts on Nord’s character and principles of behavior, I could write a text longer than this epilogue.
GetDevoured was a character with a completely different personality, a completely different principle of action, and a different mental ailment (or previously had one) than Nord. It was something I could assert more clearly as a fan of “I Am Not a Madwoman”.
One piece of TMI, the broadcaster whom Lee Yena mumbled about being her favorite during the interview with Ark was indeed Nord. When the novel was conceived, the world Lee Yena lived in before the possession was a world where Nord was broadcasting. It was a backstory I hadn’t planned to disclose because I didn’t receive permission from the original author, but too many people had guessed correctly, so I decided to reveal it in this epilogue.
Honestly, I was surprised.
By the way, the third favorite Russian broadcaster of Lee Yena was a fictional character. Originally, Lee Yena was supposed to conquer the Russian server too, but due to various circumstances, the storyline was entirely deleted and remained a mere MacGuffin.
Also, the reason Lee Yena disliked the warrior was not because of Nord. There wasn’t a great reason (it might be revealed in a side story, but it hadn’t been decided yet), but it was unrelated to Nord.
So then, if reading “Malicious Broadcast” brought as much joy to the readers as reading “I Am Not a Madwoman” did to me, then there would be no greater joy for me, and with that, I would conclude the related discussion.
8. In closing
Lee Yena’s story was ending here for now, but she would return in a side story someday. So I intended to send her off with a farewell, not too grievously.
I was happy while writing “Malicious Broadcast”.
I hoped Lee Yena’s story brought a small joy to you all as well.
Goodbye, Lee Yena.