Chapter 21 – 21. New Selling Method (2)

The round of 16 of the guillotine match at Hackball was quite controversial on the internet.
In the first place, he was also a streamer with a lot of talk from the organizers, but this time, it was more because of Battle Angels, a team made up of only female gamers.

At first, it was an object of ridicule.
There have been quite a few all-female teams in history like this, but not once has they produced a convincing result.
I thought Battle Angels would be no different.

No, the prevailing opinion was that it would be worse.
When the profiles of participating teams were released, it was because of viewers who, without fail, searched for players’ ranked game records.

There was no way that Battle Angels, which had the lowest average tier among all teams, could advance to the round of 16.
The original dealer, Ryu, was at the top of the master tier, but other than that, there’s nothing worth watching.

Even their opponents in the round of 16 are looking at the nuclear sphere, which is a higher tier among the participating teams, right? It was a team.
For the Battle Angels to advance to the quarterfinals, it was possible only when something more than a miracle happened.

But are you watching Battle Angels and Nuclear Sphere? After the team’s game, viewers realized that their predictions were wildly wrong.

In the first game, Ryu’s hard carry was right, but in the second game, even the weight difference between the two teams was felt.
No matter how much the aftermath of the first game remained, it could not be denied that there was a significant gap throughout the game. As if the average tiers were reversed!

[Battle Angels? When is the next game there?]
[Hyeji team’s delightful uprisinghaha]
[Still, they did the basics. I support you now.]
[The nuclear team just didn’t do well.]

Public opinion on Battle Angels has also changed favorably.
It has been upgraded from a team that only boasted about being a pretty woman to a team with some level of ability.

With the arrival of coach Kim-soo, the fate of the Battle Angels, which was just a team for noise marketing, was changing little by little.

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The day after giving Lee Ji-hye a mission.
After a long time, I headed to his office at the call of director Jeong Pal-soo.

“Ah, are you here?”

The coach’s office also existed on the same floor as the players’ practice room.
The director’s office was a structure that had to be entered through the reception room.

When I first entered the reception room, five people in black suits greeted me.
Those who were resting freely, such as lying on the sofa with their feet on the table or sitting on the desk, hurriedly stood up and bowed their heads when I entered.

Even today, the hierarchy is so certain that it is burdensome.

“Please be comfortable with me. Are you in the director?”
“Yes. My brother is in the supervisor’s office.”

Are you a brother?
What is the identity of these self-proclaimed attendants?
And do they have nothing to do in broad daylight?

I had a lot of doubts, but I didn’t express them. Still, as an office worker, I would do anything.
I lightly bowed my head and entered the supervisor’s office.

“Are you here?”

Inside, a rice cake stand dressed in a suit greeted me.
It was directed by Jeong Pal-soo.

The director, who had been looking at the small picture frame on the desk for a while, looked at me as I entered.
In the picture frame that I glanced at, a child who seemed to be a daughter was smiling happily.

“I heard you called.”
“Yes, that’s right. I have something to tell you.”

Director Jeong Pal-soo took out several pieces of paper.
After reading it slowly, I nodded my head.
What was written on the paper was a proposal for a ‘scream’.

‘They’re not famous teams.’

Although coach Jeong Pal-soo knew nothing about the game, externally, he was in charge of the role of manager of Battle Angels, so it seemed that a scrim proposal had come to him.

“Since I don’t know much about it, I thought it would be better to talk to the coach.”
“Yes. Well done.”

The place where the scrim proposal was given seemed to be a meeting of the 3rd division teams.
It seems that about 20 teams preparing for promotion to the second division have gathered, exchanging information, scheduling scrims, and helping each other.

Our team only showed one game externally, but since it is a good meeting to secure as many teams as possible, it seemed like they sent an offer to us as well.
There seemed to be nothing wrong with signing up.

However, seeing that it was not difficult to sign up, I thought I should focus on being able to scrim with professional teams preparing for the 2nd division in earnest rather than expecting great exchanges.

“You accept it.”

After briefly speaking and returning the paper, director Jeong Pal-soo nodded.

“All right. And I will give them the contact information of the coach.”
“Yes. Please do so.”

It was a short stop before going to practice in the afternoon, so the business was finished there.
When I got up, director Jeong Pal-soo followed suit.

“It seems that the team’s awareness has risen a lot thanks to the recent tournament. There is a good response from the front as well.”

The front desk for our game team was in charge of the parent company, Phone Company.
Until now, the front desk had been thinking of the game team as an experimental business, so they didn’t expect much.

Moreover, since I, the son of the president, have settled down, it will be all the more so.

But maybe it’s because I’m starting to see signs that something is going to come out while I’m participating in this tournament. It seemed that there was only a little bit of hope.

This wasn’t too bad for us either.
I was going to go to the first division anyway, so it was nice to receive more support with expectations on my back.

“Then do your best.”
“Yes. Take care.”

I said goodbye to coach Jung Pal-soo and headed to the practice room.

The players who arrived first were seen entering the capsule and warming up.
I approached Ryu Seo-yoon, who was waiting outside.

“Are you ready for today?”
“Yes. Anytime.”

The woman who was reading the meta report replied.

“What is your character today?”
“Hydra.”

The 9-headed Hydra, which emits poisonous smoke, has been a popular pick in the current meta.
She nodded.

“I think we can finally go 5-0 today.”
“Climbing.”

Her confidence was not without foundation.

The score her with her, who gradually improved her skills her, had reached a dangerous stage. If you don’t play a new character, you might really lose 5-0.

Moreover, Hydra is a character that has often played mirror battles, so today was the biggest crisis.

‘That doesn’t mean I won’t be able to play a character worth losing forever.’

I used the physical coaching buff (small) through the sales coach system.

“Come in.”
“Yes.”

I created a custom game, chose Hydra, and waited for Ryu Seo-yoon.
Soon after, she entered the game.
I started the game after seeing her choosing a hydra.

One round, two rounds, three rounds…
The mirror match with Ryu Seo-yoon is over.

And when it got to the fourth round, I realized.
Hydra could no longer defeat her.

The score came out 4-0 with the last minute left.

I felt both proud and sad.
Her growth was something I had hoped for, but it also meant that I had really become obsolete.

‘I thought this day would come… Am I finally being punished by her?’

However, the fifth edition started to go a little differently than the previous editions.
She, who had always been pressuring her from the beginning with her overflowing confidence her, somehow played passively.

My doubts turned to certainty after a while.

She wasn’t doing her best right now.

Is it an insult to me who has been mercilessly swearing and verbally punishing me?

In the future, you should continue to sell, but if you are humiliated in this way, it will be difficult to sell with authority any longer.

She’s been teaching her new character for a few days, and if she’s beaten 5-0 and even punished, she might look down on me.

I was focused on not losing by a big margin.
Even if they were to no longer be able to play mirror battles with Hydra, they had to maintain their authority for the last time.

But then she made an aggressive exchange of deals with me.
It was an unreasonable attack even though there were more creeps on my side.
I lightly dodged her clumsy attack and counterattacked.

As expected, losing the match, she began to back away.
It continues to pursue her running away with a poisonous smoke every time she moves.
Soon after, she met her death her as her stamina her ran out.

“……”

There was a bitter aftertaste.
If it was her usual her, no, there would have been no mistakes like this in the other four mirror matches except for this one right now.

I could be sure of this without thinking too deeply.
She deliberately chose to lose.

The reason was unknown.
To save my authority?
Or is this a real insult?
If that’s not the case…

The thought bites its tail.
However, after coming out of the capsule, I could guess the reason by looking at Ryu Seo-yoon’s face his.

She looked at my expression her in case she noticed her rout her.
It was by no means that he took on defeat in order to humiliate me.

I approached her and spoke to her.

“They said it was finished today, but in the end I couldn’t finish it.”
“……Yes. I made a little mistake at the end… It’s a pity.”
“As expected, you… “

If the score had been 5-0 today, we might have never played the mirror again.
There were still more characters that could take her down, but I couldn’t avoid being punished in reverse according to the promise.
It was only right that the mirror match would end, as it would become a relationship of giving and receiving corporal punishment.

I didn’t know the exact reason, but I knew that she didn’t want to end the mirror fight with me yet.
If that’s what you really think, I’m willing to hang out with you a little more.

I put my hand on her head her.
Round eyes looked up at me.

“As expected, you will be abandoned. A bug that can’t do anything without my education. How many mirror matches is this now, and you still can’t beat me?”

She bows her head.
For a moment, I felt uneasy, wondering if my expectations were wrong.

It turns out that he lost on purpose to play with me, but maybe I got it completely wrong?
If so, there is nothing worse than this. You don’t know that you lost and you’re not good enough and you’re acting like you’re doing something…

Then came her suppressed voice of her.

“Right…Now I can only grow with the coach’s education. Please teach me more.”

She was the one who spoke in a whisper, in case the other team members heard it, but only I, who was closest to her, could hear the voice of her.

I let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it seems my prediction was correct.

“Come to my room tonight. From now on, let’s change the rules for mirror matches a bit.”
“Yes. Okay.”

[I sold Ryu Seo-yoon. Growth rate increases by 20%.]

[Ryu Seo-yoon’s obedience has increased by 10.]

[Acquired 2 selling points.]

Is it because he planted a perfect hierarchical relationship in his head while constantly punishing him?
Or is it because he actually experienced an increase in his skills due to maintaining a high growth rate?

There could be various reasons, but one thing that was certain was that Ryu Seo-yoon was completely submissive to me.
I looked at her with her head down and smiled at her subtle smile.

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“I gave up all my part-time jobs. And today, I heard a compliment from Ha-yeon unnie once and apologized to Kang Yul-unnie and Han Yu-na unnie.”

It was dinner time.
When I was eating at a restaurant, Lee Ji-hye, who was sitting next to me, said.
The players and I used to eat at the cafeteria of the phone company in the building next to the practice room, but Lee Ji-hye did not eat here no matter how delicious the menu was.

It was because she was paid even though it was a cafeteria.

But today, perhaps because of a mission that required me to stay with you for more than 10 hours, I followed you to the restaurant.

“I checked.”

There was no need to say this or that.
I coldly cut off the conversation and focused on my meal.

“Are you going to stay in the practice room?”

About the time I was picking up the stir-fried squid with chopsticks, she started talking to me again.
I nodded.

“I will be there until 0:00.”

Since I’ve been with her since 12:00 AM, the mission can be completed by 10:00 PM.
When she checked my schedule, she shut her mouth again.

Looking to the side, she saw a mountain of stir-fried squid piled up on her plate.
A while ago, I deposited about 4 million won, but it seems that I am still living like a bad person.

“Have you thought about the tenth mission?”

I asked.
She put down her chopsticks for a moment. However, she soon raised the spoon.

“I have a rather large family.”

The tenth mission was ‘living in a dorm with her family’.
Currently, only me, Ryu Seo-yoon, Baek Ha-yan, and Kang Yul lived in the two lodgings.

Excluding her second sister her, who is hospitalized, she and her family her total three.
The hostel, which has three spacious rooms, could fully accommodate them.

“And I’m sorry to the rest of the team.”

Lee Ji-hye said that and looked at me sneakily.
That’s the superficial reason, but the real reason seems to be with me.

She wasn’t the kind of person who would notice other people if she could save money.
Maybe the real reason is that she hates having a psycho coach approach her family her.

“Where you live now. It was like a place on the moon, wasn’t it?”

A place where old houses are gathered on a high and steep hill due to indiscriminate development in the past.
It was the house where Lee Ji-hye lived with her younger siblings.

“It must be quite a distance to get to the school from that area, but the security is not good.”
“……”

She must have sympathized with the need to get out of the lunar neighborhood.
Changing where you live can dramatically improve your quality of life.
The convenience you experience will change drastically just by moving from living in the lunar neighborhood to a newly built accommodation.

“…I’ll think about it.”

However, Lee Ji-hye spoke coldly and she stood up.
Her plate her was clean and empty.

… You mean you’ve already eaten all that fried squid?