Chapter 17 – 17. Nucleosphere Debris Guillotine Match (2)

“What are you doing at this late hour? It’s a competition tomorrow, aren’t you going to sleep?”

As soon as she saw her, her nagging her poured out.
When she was whipped, she awkwardly twisted her hair in her sweats.

“That is… I can’t sleep…”
“What if I can’t sleep? You should still sleep.”

She spoke in a deliberately cold tone.

For a coach like me, condition on game day doesn’t matter too much, but the players were different.
No matter how well you do in practice matches, if you don’t perform on the day of the match, you’re out of luck.

Even though she couldn’t sleep, she had to sleep somehow.

“It was always like this the day before the competition. I just can’t sleep.”

But she didn’t seem to have any intention of stepping down any time soon.
Even if she goes home anyway, she won’t be able to sleep.

Scratching my head, I took a step back.

“Come in. If I do something, I’ll get some sleep.”
“Yes. Thank you.”

What should I do so she can sleep well?
After selling, you have to do sleep therapy… At this point, being a coach is an extreme job.

After entering my room with her, I pointed to the bed of her.

“Try to sleep here.”
“Isn’t that Coach’s bed?”
“Yes. I will sleep next to you.”
“… Sleeping in the same bed? I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep any longer.”
“Then go to your room.”
“That’s all right.”

Ryu Seo-yoon, who was grumbling, went into the blanket.
Sitting next to her, who kept her face out, I opened the strategy notebook again.
It wasn’t long before a question came in from her.

“What are you doing?”
“We are reviewing the contest tomorrow.”
“Isn’t the coach sleeping?”
“I’ll just do this and sleep.”
“Yes”

And the silence that followed.
I can finally focus.
But without fail, Ryu Seo-yoon speaks again.

“Coach.”
“Why again”
“Isn’t it annoying?”
“What’s bothering you? Go to sleep.”
“Hmm… “

It’s a relationship where I get scolded and even punished by me every day, but it’s amazing to see him lying on my bed casually.
Ryu Seo-yoon’s groaning continued.

“Even when I was on the last team, I always couldn’t sleep the night before the competition.”
“……”
“There weren’t many days when I played as a starter, but I was excited because I expected that I might have a chance if I wasn’t in good condition on the day of the first team one deal.”
“……”

Even though I didn’t respond, the conversation continued.

“Maybe because of that, I couldn’t show my skills even though I was given a chance to play.”
“……”
“…Of course, it was also because Artemis was banned.”

Widely.
I set her ballpoint pen down on her desk and made eye contact with her lying on her bed.

“It will be different this time.”
“…”
“Because you worked hard to broaden the range of characters. It doesn’t matter if Artemis gets banned.”
“…Right.”

The atmosphere is somehow strange.
Ryu Seo-yoon had a subtle smile.
A slightly relieved expression.

I thought I knew why she couldn’t sleep every night before her competition.

Looking at her, I also remembered the first time I participated in a competition.

Tension.

Especially since I made my debut right away in the most popular first division league, I played my first match on a stage where many people were watching.
I couldn’t fall asleep the night before because of the anticipation and trembling.
In the end, the match was played in the worst condition, but it was not difficult to win.

“Do not be sleep.”
“Yes?”

I told her in her grave tone.

“If you’re not sleepy, don’t sleep. I also played through the night when I played her debut. There are emotions that can only be felt right now, so you don’t have to sleep.”
“I know… But I’m not debuting, right?”

Bean. And hit the night.
She laughed at her bash.

“Do you want to see my debut?”
“Coach’s debut match? See you!”
“There will be nothing.”

She went out to the living room and brought popcorn.
And I adjusted the lights in the bedroom, leaving only her mood light.

Lying next to her, I opened my laptop and looked for a video from the past.
Virtual reality game, Arena’s first competition in Korea. The first game of the opening game of that historic start.
That match was my debut match.

The match between Mad Tiger Gaming (MTG) and Extreme Korea Telecom (XKT).

XKT is a game team that was created with the sponsorship of Korea’s largest telecommunications company, and has been famous as a gaming company since the past.

“Is this the coach? Dark circles are no joke.”
“I couldn’t sleep either at this time.”

Except for the debut match, there were hardly any cases like that.

“You are sharing a historic moment! Arena Championship opening match! I will do it now!”

The video was skipping ahead to the beginning of the game.
Ryu Seo-yoon is looking at the screen with half-closed eyes.

As I picked up some popcorn and ate it, I turned around when a hand tapped my arm.

“Give me too.”

Ryu Seo-yoon opened her mouth.
Tired of moving your arms?

What’s the job of a coach when you have to feed the players popcorn?

She put a piece of buttered popcorn into her mouth.
Her red lips moved as she sucked in the popcorn.
I looked at it as if I was possessed by something.

“……”
“……”

For some reason, the atmosphere calmed down.
My heart was beating cautiously, and my heart began to melt.

Suddenly she closed her eyes.
You say you can’t sleep like that, that you fall asleep like this?
No matter how much I thought about it, it couldn’t be.

It was a sign of something.
I tried to ignore it.
Yet, yet It seemed that if I accepted her here, she would no longer be able to sell her.

“Ah, Coach.”

When I didn’t respond, her little girl came into my arms.
No one was curious about how my pre-debut progressed anymore.
I would have won anyway

“You’re not interested in me are you?”
“No way.”
“These days, during the feedback session, I don’t talk like I used to.”

Clearly, the frequency of selling has decreased compared to before.
It was unavoidable because there was no time and there were many players to care for.

“Would you like to say something more?”
“… Sometimes.”

I burrowed into her arms and hugged her tighter as she confided in me.
She didn’t say anything
I also just stayed still.

After a while, I felt her quietly falling asleep.
As I kept embracing her tenderness, her shady desire reared her head.

‘But I’ll have to solve it alone.’

I was the one who reassured her that it would be okay if she didn’t sleep, but it was troublesome if I really made her stay up all night.
She had no choice but to leave her sleeping soundly and headed to her bathroom.
I was going to turn off the fire and continue working.

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Even Ryu Seo-yoon could not understand her feelings of her.

He is a coach who is so hard on himself.
If he were a sane person, he would have been so out of touch that he would have hated to look at him.
But she was a little different.

Could it be because of her environment that she had no one to depend on since she was a child?
Or is it because of the breadth of her character that she is gradually expanding?

The reason may not be simple, but what is certain is her growing reliance on her coaching her.

‘Will it cure my insomnia?’

She had another problem with her.
She said that on the eve of competitions, she always couldn’t sleep and upset her condition.

Because of this, her former team her, Cosplay Cats, also showed mediocre results.
And this time she couldn’t sleep without fail.

Ryu Seo-yoon had no choice but to head to her coach’s room her.
It was too much for her to ask her coach to put her to sleep, but she could n’t help it because she could n’t guarantee her condition her tomorrow if left as it was.

And she somehow ended up laying in the coach’s bed and sleeping with her.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t ashamed, but somehow a sense of security came to her.
The feeling of being protected by someone.
The fact that my whole side is by my side.

Perhaps her father’s arms her, which she had never felt before, were like this.

It wasn’t too difficult for her to pamper the coach she’d seen.
In the end, Ryu Seo-yoon hugged coach Kim Jeong-soo and fell into a deep sleep.

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“Is everyone ready?”

Half an hour before the competition, she gathered in the Venus room, looked at the players, and brought her out.
The players silently nodded her head.
Everyone had a tense expression on their faces.

I made eye contact with each player one by one.
In particular, I spent a little more time looking at Ryu Seo-yoon.

It was also fun to look at her shyly avoiding her eyes, wondering if she remembered what happened yesterday.

Game setup is all done. Now all you have to do is go inside the capsule and wait until the game starts.
The matches before us have already been finished. Now it was our turn.

[Battle Angels Team! You should now enter the game.]

The host’s voice came through the headphones he was wearing.
After answering briefly, I looked at the players.

“Then let’s all fight.”
“Yes!”

Starting with the lively white answer, one by one they enter the capsule.
Since I joined, it was our team’s first official match appearance.
My hands sweated from the unbearable tension.

After weeks of practice and selling, the players’ skills were on track.
Not to mention Ryu Seo-yoon, and his partner His, Baek Ha-yeon, was also trolled less and less often.
Especially since she gave her ‘mission’ to her jungler Jihye Lee, she actively started practicing her her.

Today is the strongest day for our team in history.
Will definitely win

I cast my eyes on the monitor panel, which spreads wide to the left and right like the cockpit of a spaceship.
The broadcast screen of the streamer, Haek-gu, being transmitted in real time, was floating.

“Ruler! Did our nuclear bugs wait a long time? The game is coming soon!”

The commentary is Happy Life.
Caster was in charge of the nucleus.

“Third match! Are you watching Battle Angels VS Nuclear Sphere? Team. Start now!”

[Let’s go~ Let’s go~ Let’s go~]
[Hyeji team annihilation, Hyeji team annihilation, Hyeji team annihilation]
[Let’s go, nuclear worms]
[Sheeeee do!]

The chat window goes up at an insane speed.
Because it was our team that was like the incarnation of noise marketing, the number of viewers was also peaking before we knew it.

“Coach. What is your win rate?”

Director Jung Pal-soo, who was watching the screen next to me, asked.
I said it for granted.

“I win unconditionally.”

It wasn’t empty talk.
Anyway, the opponents were five ordinary people.
You can’t beat a pro who lives in a camp, eats and plays games.

The director also nodded at my firm answer.
And I went into the capsule too. In order to pick and ban, I also had to be connected to the game.
The manager, Palsoo Jeong, could also have participated in the banpick, but he was unfamiliar with the game anyway, so I decided to log in.

Our first official competition has finally begun.

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After taking her profile picture of her, Lee Ji-hye’s attitude of her changed surprisingly.
It was a natural result since she caught money as bait for the child who needed money the most.

#2, #3, #4 in the mission description.
Don’t be late, play at least 3 solo ranked games a day, do your best in practice games.

Just by faithfully following the mission, Lee Ji-hye surprisingly improved her skills in her.
It was a part that showed how much she had been playing the game.

If the AD dealer was the position responsible for the second half of the game, the jungler was the position responsible for the early and mid-game.
It was a line where there was no opponent in the laning stage, so it was necessary to have a sense of leading the entire map and coordinating the team.

A jungler who could n’t read the flow of the game was useless no matter how good his physical skills were.
Across the vast map, being where the team needs it most.
It was one of the important virtues of a jungler.

In that respect, Lee Ji-hye could be seen as an excellent jungler.
It was something she had felt before, but Lee Ji-hye had excellent insight in reading the flow of the game.

The main order of the team is top laner Kang Yul, who is the most veteran and captain, but the order that sometimes pops out of Lee Ji-hye’s mouth was to the extent that everyone followed it as the first priority.

And just as the content of her game her has changed, so she has her her attitude her towards her team her.

The key to this was mission number 8, ‘talk to team members at least once a day’.
Every now and then, when I look into the practice room, I see her talking to her teammates differently than in the past.

Missions 9 and 10 were for improving the relationship with me.

First of all, Mission 9, ‘Constantly reading the meta report given by me’, was confirmed by occasionally asking for the contents of the report.
She has a very good understanding, and has grown to the point where she can easily understand my advice and even add comments to it.

Her 10th mission of her, ‘Report unconditionally in case of her outside activities of her’, was faithfully followed by receiving text messages from her.
For example, when she went to university class, she received a short text message saying ‘University class’, and when she was working part-time, she sent a similar type of text message.

That alone gave me a rough idea of ​​what kind of day she was having.
From morning to dawn, it was a more diligent routine than a monk.
Thanks to her, she learned how intense her life was her and why she had no choice but to accept the mission.

‘I have to make her some time first.’

What to propose to her next pictured in her head her.
Are my players taking their time outside the game?
I couldn’t stand this.
As a coach, I had to deal with it.