Chapter 121 – 121. Our Date

1Round schedule
Week 1
DRK (Dragon Knights) VS BA
DKA (Dongkwang Anarchy) VS BA

Week 2
HC (Hercules Blackforce) VS BA
MLG (Mad Lion Gaming) VS BA

Week 3
SS (Shooting Star) VS BA
NM (Nami Marines) VS BA

Week 4
CPC (Costume Play Cats) VS BA

This was the matchup of the tournament, which was held twice a week for 4 weeks, about a month.

The days of the week where matches are played are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and the only days that overlap with the first division, which is played on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, are Sunday.

In other words, fans who like Arena matches could watch the Challengers League from Monday to Wednesday, the Challenger League from Thursday to Saturday, and enjoy both the second and first divisions on Sunday.

The game format was best of 3, best of 3 matches.
That’s perfectly fine.

Let’s take a quick look at the characteristics of each team.

The first opponent DRK, Dragon Knights, was the No. 1 team last spring season.
It’s a game that I think will be difficult to win.

It wasn’t that there were any outstanding players or that they showed flashy teamfights, but as a team with solid fundamentals, the teamwork is also great.

The Dragon Knights, who are determined and defensive, are difficult to break even for the first division teams.
I think the game will end in such a way that the gap with our team slowly widens from the laning stage, and eventually the gap becomes unmanageable.

The second opponent, Donggwang Anarchy, is a team that finished the spring season in 4th place, and is a team with Nam Do-yoon, a childhood friend of Han Yuna, in the jungle.
The style is backwards compatible with Dragon Knights.

‘Our current team is also a team worth rubbing against.’

As long as the weight difference isn’t pushed back, it’s worth doing.

However, Hercules Blackforce, who we meet in the first game of Week 2, is a team with the opposite style.
He believed in the so-called rising star, a player with a physical monster, and had a style of boldly opening a fight.

‘Was he a one-deal genius player?’

It is famous for being pathetic and showing more and more outstanding skills in the second half.
Thanks to that, despite being a 2nd division player, there were quite a few fans.

Many analysts predicted that when Stove League started, it would receive love calls from many first division teams.

But what about the Hercules Blackforce team itself minus the Genius players?

‘It’s worth doing.’

Hercules Blackforce is the team that finished second in the spring season.
Obviously, it was forbidden to be careless, but considering that the presence of the genius player was great in that stake, if you set up a good strategy, you might see the possibility.

Besides, isn’t Ryu Seo-yoon, a genius one-dealer, on our team?
I was pretty sure it was worth doing.

‘Then… ‘

Second match of week 2.

It was Mad Lion Gaming, the brother team of my own team, Mad Tiger Gaming.
Last season, it could be said that the team had a slightly disappointing finish by finishing in 5th place.

There were quite a few players I was close with, so there was a time when I sent a text message of consolation.

It’s a pity for them, but they thought that our team would overwhelm them by the time the actual match took place.

It was a team that often scrimped recently, but the win rate that was pushed back in the early days was gradually getting closer.

‘Because the world of competition is cold.’

Afterwards, the first team to meet in the third week is the shooting star team that survived the 2nd division promotion match.
8th place team from last spring season.

If you think that the original scene, which was the 7th place team, has similar skills, it is safe to say that our team, which won the original scene 3-1, still has the upper hand.

The second match of the third week after that is against the Nami Marines, which belongs to Red Pepper, whom we just greeted.
As a third-place team in the spring season, it was never an easy opponent, but like the other teams, it wasn’t a very difficult team either.

And the team to meet at the end of the first round was the Costume Play Cats.
It is a team that does not have a particularly good player in the 6th place in the spring season.

However, the peculiar thing was that at the time the team was established, players who liked cosplay and games were the main axis, so that color still remains.

Most of the sponsors were otaku-related companies, and there were many old fans who liked cosplay.
Thanks to this, the size of the fandom was not large, but it was also famous for having many extreme fans.

‘Did you still show a simple cosplay performance in every game?’

Not all players did cosplay, and Abyss, the only female support player on the team, usually took on that role.

Because of that, there was an atmosphere of being criticized for paying too much attention to non-game performances, but that was also the reason for its popularity, so it seemed that it was still maintaining that way.

“Coach! Filming is over!”

Around the time I looked at all the teams in the 2nd division, White White approached me from afar and started talking to me.

It seemed that the long and long filming was finally over.
As I stretched, I stood up and looked at the players who had gathered before I knew it.

“Then shall we go play now?”
“Yes!”

The last break given before the start of the second division.
We got in the car and headed to the nearby aquarium.

It wasn’t a very large aquarium, so there weren’t many animals to see, but it was more meaningful to spend time among ourselves.

Still, since they were players who only played games in the corner of the house all day, they were excited and took pictures of trivial animals.

After that, we ate and went to a small amusement park right next to the aquarium.

I couldn’t play for a long time because it was time, but I had a good enough time with that alone.

Even the children who showed off their physical abilities by performing all kinds of acrobatics in virtual reality games were helpless against the 360-degree roller coaster.

“Coach, how can you not shout once?”

Baek Ha-yan asked me, who always calmly rode the rides.

I just shrugged his shoulders and said.

“It’s less scary than director Jeong Pal-soo’s face that I see every morning.”
“……”

And the end of our short vacation ended with the ferris wheel that appears at the end of any amusement park.

There is a limit of 4 people on one Ferris wheel.
Our party consisted of 7 people, so we had to assume we split into groups of 3 and 4.

“……”
“……”

The players give me a strange notice and sneak closer.

It was unimaginable even half a year ago, but before I knew it, the team members reached the stage where they even started a war of nerves over the seat next to me.
I couldn’t openly appeal because I had my own eyes, but I couldn’t hide my desire to sit in the closest seat to me.

I enjoyed the situation without saying anything.
Kang Yul then stepped in and began to calm the strange war of nerves.

“… Me, Sook-hee, and Yuna will ride separately.”

If that happens, 3 and 4 people will be clearly distinguished.
Only then did the other children nod their heads as if they were satisfied.

“Next people! Please board!”

I heard the voice of the guide staff.

I proudly entered the Ferris wheel with the three girls while receiving the attention of the people around me.

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“There…Aren’t you Carrie Woman?”

The situation after the coach and three girls have left.
Kang Yul, Han Yuna, and Heo Sook-hee were left standing in the waiting line waiting for the next ferris wheel.

Then, one of the men behind me spoke cautiously.

He had been snooping around this place for a while, making a worried face, but in the end, he seemed to have plucked up the courage and decided to ask.

Kang Yul nodded her head and stepped forward.

“Yes. You’re right.”
“Ah! I didn’t know you dyed it… I’m really enjoying the game! Just a signature if you’re not rude…”
“All right.”

Still replying with a blunt face, Kang Yul picked up the paper and ballpoint pen that her man held out to her.
However, having been with her for a long time, I could notice that her Kangyul was quite excited.

‘Whoop whoop… Even the blunt leader seems to feel good when the fans recognize him.’

After a while, Kang Yul’s autograph ends and her man smiles brightly.
The man who then approached Han Yuna and Heo Sook-hee.

Hanyuna put on a worried expression.

“I… Are you Luna and Neto? Maybe sign…”
“Yes, yes! It is possible!”

Hanyu I instantly felt her heart swell.

These days, she’s obsessed with looking up fans’ reactions on the internet.
But like this, she has a fan who recognizes her offline and even gets her her autograph her?

‘This… This taste…!’

Han Yuna finished her autograph, feeling her heart flutter.
It was a secret she couldn’t tell anyone, but she secretly practiced it in case anyone outside asked for an autograph.
Thanks to her her, she did n’t have an autograph, so she was able to avoid writing her name her.

Han Yu-na tried to keep her poker face her, suppressing the corners of her mouth her that rose without her subjection.

Kang Yul and Heo Sook-hee also seemed to be in a good mood, but she seemed calm, as if she was going through something that happens often.
But couldn’t she be excited by herself and show her her reminded appearance of her?

‘Ha… I feel so good… I wish I could be more popular… ‘

Perhaps she will be able to enjoy this kind of popularity in the future if she stays with Battle Angels… ?
Hanyuna swallowed her bitter expression and looked at her receding man.

“Next people! Please board!”

The voice of her staff was heard.

Han Yuna stopped her thoughts for a moment and she got on the Ferris wheel.

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Heo Suk-hee couldn’t understand.

‘What the hell is that person like that everyone sticks to?’

Not just one or two, but everyone on her team seemed to have a crush on her coach her, except for herself.

‘Can this be?’

I know that she is a scary person with a back stomach, but other than that, I don’t know what kind of charm she has.
From the time she joined the Battle Angels until she was promoted, she was confined to the gaming team and was brainwashed.
It also openly crosses several legs, without showing any complaint or dissatisfaction.

‘I don’t know…’

For now, I had no place to go, and I believed in the coach’s ability to incredibly improve the form of players who were at the level of waste, but I thought it was right to transfer if the opportunity presented itself.

No sensible person would want to stay long on a team where the coach and players have an overtly inappropriate relationship.

Heo Suk-hee glanced at the two women who were riding her Ferris wheel with her.
Even though there must be something tremendous going on in the ferris wheel that the coach is currently riding on, they had a calm expression.

‘Really… I feel like I’ve landed in Wonderland.’

Eventually, after several tens of minutes, the Ferris wheel returned to its original position.
She had a moment of silence, and Sook-hee Heo, who had stepped on her land her, turned her head to look for her coach her and the girls who had disembarked first.

They were sitting on a bench to one side and resting.
With a flushed face and rough breathing, it was clear that he had done something to anyone.

‘Look! You did it!’

However, no one responded to Heo Sook-hee’s dissatisfied expression of her.
The coach got up from his seat casually and said.

“Let’s go back now.”

Only Heo Sook-hee followed him with an expression of incomprehension.