This work presents a relational reinterpretation of Hawking radiation within the ELD (Emergent Local Dimensionality) framework. Instead of arising from vacuum pair production near the event horizon, the radiation is shown to emerge from surface entropic relaxation of the black hole’s frozen relational boundary. In ELD, spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from relational density; thus the “quantum vacuum” near the horizon is not a fluctuating field but a region where relational structure approaches zero. This model removes the need for negative-energy particles, avoids the trans-Planckian problem and firewall paradox, and provides a natural mechanism for thermality. A unique, testable prediction follows: black holes in low-density relational environments (cosmic voids) evaporate faster than those in dense regions (galactic centers).