Chapter 123 – 123. I Liked It First (2)

After filming the title video, we resumed our daily lives of immersing ourselves in practice.

Meeting and getting to know people from various teams on set made it much easier to schedule and coordinate scrims.

In any case, our team is a rookie team that has just entered the second division.
Other teams must have been fed up with each other in tournaments and scrims, so they would rush their schedules to see us, who were no different from an unknown team.

Thanks to that, we had to spend busy days without a bird to open our eyes.

And it was around the time we had dinner after the scrim in the afternoon.
Excited Ryu Seo-yoon suddenly rushed at me.

“Coach! Have you seen the behind-the-scenes video of this opening title?”

I couldn’t help but ask back at the voice that felt absurd emotions.

“What’s going on?”
“Under… Well, the Nami Marines guys… “

Ryu Seo-yoon was so excited and talked incoherently that I couldn’t figure out the proper situation, but what I roughly understood was that the Nami Marines guys were belittling our team in the behind-the-scenes video.

Responding by nodding her head, I patted her on the shoulder and let her calm down.

“Let me check. Let’s go eat first.”
“Under…Really…”

What did he hear that made Ryu Seo-yoon so angry?

Before entering the main game, there was an atmosphere of mutual understanding as it was a frequent trash talk showing the war of nerves between the teams.

Nevertheless, if Ryu Seo-yoon was offended, it was clear that her remarks her were quite spicy.

‘I’ll check it out for a moment before we go out to eat.’

I quickly opened my laptop and entered the New Tube site.
And I could see the ACK Challengers opening title video on popular videos and the behind-the-scenes video of the title video shooting.

I first clicked and watched the opening title video.

Coo kung…

Title video starting with low music.
And first, the players of our team, Battle Angels, appear.

Girls posing and standing against the backdrop of ruins.
In the case of Baek Ha-yan or Ryu Seo-yoon, who have cute looks, I didn’t feel charisma, but they had their own visual beauty.

And in the meantime, the new face of our team, Heo Sook-hee, also shows his face.

[B.A. Neto]

Only after the nickname, one player, and one single player scene are all out, it moves on to the other team’s appearance scene.

After the brief introduction of all 8 teams, the highlight, group scene.

‘Certainly, our team has a lot of capacity.’

The group scene was a picture of team members lined up in a fan shape with their arms folded and staring at the camera.
At the center of the fan shape is a composition with the championship trophy of ACK Challengers.

Our players stood out quite well even in the group scene.
This is because she is one of the few female players and she is pretty, but it was also because there was a lot of intention in the movement of the camera that was framed to make our players look good.

‘Other than that, it’s normal.’

It was not much different from the title video I filmed in the first division.

Comments under the video also talked about the newly joined Battle Angels, but there was little response that the title video came out well or was good.

Anyway, I’m going to skip over this.
I found a behind the scenes video and played it.

Then, I quickly flipped through the video and found the scene of the problem Ryu Seo-yoon mentioned.
In the middle, there were many scenes related to our team, such as Han Yuna’s birthday party and the appearance of the Battle Angels, but nothing particularly noteworthy.

“They look like those Battle Angels.”
“Ah… A team made entirely of them?”

As Ryu Seo-yoon said, behind-the-scenes talk started with the remarks of two Nami Marlins players, Oil and Tiyong.
It was probably like watching our team having a birthday party and talking to each other.

“I don’t look like that.”
“A birthday party?”
“Uh. When I look at it, it always seems that only that team gets special treatment.”
“It doesn’t.”

The fire started from a small dissatisfaction grows in earnest due to the cameraman’s question.

“Does the Battle Angels get special treatment?”
“… I guess so. In fact, it’s just a second division team that came up from the promotion stage, and it’s headlined as if it had accomplished something great. That is very funny.”
“Hey. Say what you have to say.”
“It is not so? To be honest, I’m interested in it because it’s a women’s team. What a great thing that is.”

At first glance, it seemed that jealousy and resentment were hidden in their conversation.
I was also a pro gamer at one time, so it was an understandable feeling.

Some people have to prove it with pure skills, while others are highly evaluated just for being born as a pretty woman.

I tried playing the video over and over again.

“Look at that too. You know that they are the main characters.”
“Let’s show the bitter taste of the second division.”
“Of course. In Nawabari, we have to get rid of the tears and runny nose.”

Obviously, the outside was in the form of trash talk, but I was able to notice the sincerity in it.

It had a slightly more stimulating and primal taste than regular trash talk.
Ryu Seo-yoon saw it and was angry.

At that point, the video moved to another scene.
I turned off my laptop and got up.

It wasn’t that I wasn’t angry, but that didn’t mean I was going to run amok.

Anyway, you just have to prove your skills in this game.
All of these problems were caused by our team being more popular than our ability.

‘Because a bigger event than that is waiting. There is no need to lose strength from now on.’

Just two days before the start of the second division.
Today, in preparation for him, scrims were tightly held all day.

And in the evening scrims, we finally face off against the very team we’ve only heard the name of so often.

It was Han Yuna’s childhood friend, Donggwang Anaki, with Solar.

‘This is a good opportunity to see if Han Yuna still has feelings for her childhood friend her.”

She did not yet feel that she had completely severed her relationship with her childhood friend her.
Because the feelings I had so far just by cheating on her beside her were disappointment.

‘But all discord begins with a small misunderstanding.’

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There was a rather spleen atmosphere in the practice room.
Lately, I’ve played a lot of scrim matches against second division teams.

As a result, the position of our team, which we figured out, is only in the middle or lower ranks of the 2nd division.

It was a shabby result for winning the promotion match with enthusiasm.

But to be honest, I thought it was more than I expected.
They say that their skills have improved a lot compared to the past, but the reality is that they are still lacking because the starting point was so shabby.

The mid-line in particular is devastating.
Even if his skills improve day by day, he still has a long way to go before becoming a mid laner at the level of the second division.
Because of that, the intensity of selling was slowly increasing, but it still seemed like it would take more time.

“Ruler. Get your scrim ready.”

When the time came, he looked back at the players and said.

The players, each resting comfortably, moved slowly and entered the capsule.

I also went into the capsule and talked to Donggwang Anarchy’s coach.

[BA Battle: Are you ready?]
[DKA Rule: Yes. I’m ready. Take good care of me.]
[BA Battle: Yes, thank you.]

After a brief greeting, the game begins.

Our team’s mid laner this time was, of course, Han Yuna.
When I glanced at her face at her ban-pick stage, I could see her frozen while watching her opponent’s formation of her.

He seemed to have thought that he would meet his childhood friend his one day, but he never thought that he would meet as an enemy in a situation where only one of them could survive.

Of course, the reason she became a pro gamer was simply because she wanted to be with her childhood friend her.
Having made such an important decision without the slightest hint of her professional seriousness her, in a way, she was getting the karma paid back.

While I was lost in my thoughts, the ban pick started.

There was nothing special about the ban/pick aspect.
Anyway, the purpose of scrims is to compare our strength with the opponent’s strength.
Thanks to that, there were many cases where I intentionally started with the main pick or OP pick, so I didn’t attach much importance to it.

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Hercules)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (cockatrice)
MID: BA Luna (Gumiho)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Helios)
Support : BA White (Gabriel)

Team Dongkwang Anarchy
Top: DKA Satellite (Dokkaebi)
Jungle: DKA Solar (Baekho)
MID: DKA Skylife (Oni)
AD Carry: DKA Gastel (Sagittarius)
Support: DKA Meteor (Tinker Bell)

However, Han Yuna, who is in the mid lane, caught a nine-tailed fox who has been practicing hard lately.
She couldn’t do only defensive picks her whole life, so she was a character that I had to play from time to time, but it’s still ambiguous to say that she’s good.

Once the pick and ban was completed, the game began.