Chapter 223 – 223. Offseason (1)

Udangtangtang.

As I was still lying on the bed, I heard a sound like strong stamping on my feet outside.

“No, I told you not to eat the ice cream in the fridge!”
“Oh, when! I didn’t say that!”
“No, I made it clear! But you can’t stand it and eat it up?! If you are really caught, you are dead.”

I wonder if this is how parents feel when they have older siblings.
As if it were a peaceful Sunday afternoon, two sisters who still hadn’t taken off their lunch break were often fighting.

It’s peaceful.

If I had a family, would it feel like this?

‘Actually, my father is still alive.’

I lifted my heavy eyelids and got out of bed.
Then, Kang Yul, who was next to me, naturally follows.

“Good morning.”

A yellow light shines through his black hair.
Her hair her, which had always been short, had grown so much that now it was more black than gold.

I reached out and stroked her cheek.

“Sleep more. Nothing else to do this morning.”
“Um… I need to exercise…”

As for sports, I did a lot last night.
But since she suffers from her anxiety disorder if she doesn’t work her muscles out for even a single day, the events of last night didn’t seem to matter.

Me and her got out of bed and headed to the bathroom.
Between us, what can we hide now?

Sometimes they wash each other like lovers, and sometimes they go about their errands like a married couple.

We’ve already gone beyond being in love and sharing everything.

After lightly drying myself, I left the room.
When I came down to the first floor, Ryu Seo-yoon and Han Yuna, who had just been running around noisily, were playing console games.
It seemed to be a kind of game where you race in a kart.

“The one who loses becomes the opponent’s dog.”
“Whoop whoop… There will be a cat today.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at how fun it was.

I shrugged and sat down at the table.
The kitchen door opened quietly, and a tray of food swept in.

It was the work of Wooreonggaksi, who had lived together for several months, but had never even seen his face.

I took the food from the tray and set it on the table.

“Let’s eat.”

After having a late lunch with Kang Yul, I took a rest on the sofa again.

Oh, i’m happy

Right in front of them, Han Yuna and Ryu Seo-yoon were noisily playing games, and outside through the glass, I could see Heo Suk-hee and Baek Ha-yan exercising.

I heard someone coming down from the second floor, so I turned my head and saw Lee Ji-hye and Lee Ji-ah holding a notebook and having a long conversation.

Jiah Lee, who is now in her third year of high school, is about to take the CSAT, which may be the most important milestone in her life.

She had already made up her mind to become a pro gamer, but she was also pursuing her studies because of her greed for wisdom.

All of this was a paradise I had created.

With the promotion round over, we had no more matches to play.
I took a very long vacation, at least until next year.

Even when I was at Mad Tiger Gaming, everyone was busy going home during the off-season.
He would do that, too, because spending half a year in a lodging where he ate, slept, and was cheap was not an easy task unless he liked the team as much as he could.

Of course, I didn’t have a home at the time, so I just stayed at the hostel all day.

Anyway, that’s a common case.
Teams like ours, which are really like family, are a little different.

In fact, Lee Ji-hye and Lee Ji-ah, who are holding a separate house next to the dorm, naturally lived in the dorm, and Ryu Seo-yoon, an orphan, and Baek Ha-yan, who were runaways in their their own way, were also staying at the dorm because they had no home to return to.
Kang Yul, Heo Sook-hee, and Han Yu-na, who are very loyal to me, have not returned to their home, probably because the other players have not left.

“Shall we practice now?”

And when all the other teams are resting, it’s time for our team to develop.

I gathered the players one by one and headed to the practice room.
Since we practiced at the same time every day, there were many players who were already preparing.

The practice room has become crowded again.

In the last few days, there was a system introduced for proper practice.
It was a new rule for so-called selling.

First of all, I introduced the players to today’s opposing team.

“Today’s game is Philippine United in the Philippines.”

As mentioned earlier, there were many off-season teams in Korea, so there were limits to the scrim pool.
Fortunately, it was not difficult to find a scrim team thanks to our team coming up to the 1st division.

In fact, emails from overseas teams asking for scrims were piling up even when I was still.

“It’s not a very strong team, but if you don’t want to become today’s lady-in-waiting, you have to work hard, right?”

Players nodding their heads.
In their eyes, I could see their will to avoid being the last.

I nodded too.

To be honest, today’s opponent, Philippine United, was not a very good team.
Our team, which has advanced to the first division of Korea, where cruel dead people have gathered, is not an opponent to feel threatened.

I want to ask teams like Mad Tiger Gaming or Extreme Korea Telecom, but I can’t catch a scrim opponent in the first division of Korea every time.

That’s why the penalty system introduced this time was today’s handmade as I mentioned earlier.

“Let’s proceed with the ban pick.”

As he entered the capsule, he said that to Kang Yul.

Nodding her head, she too goes inside her capsule.

And the ensuing banpick.
I crossed my arms from the back and watched the players talking to each other.

[BA Battlewoman: Since the opponent takes a good initial character, let’s go with a counter combination. Wisdom does the cockatrice.]

The players prepare for the game under Kang Yul’s command.
Finally, the game starts and the content is more one-sided than expected.

Our players show off a play that puts so much pressure on the opponent that they feel sorry for them.

In the end, the game is over after 30 minutes.

True to its name, our team has also risen to the ranks of the strong teams.
Of course, compared to the Korean teams in the 1st division, it would not be enough to say that they are a strong team.

[Victory]

I first came out of the capsule and waited for the players.
The players also appeared out of the capsule one by one.

Kang Yul and I took turns giving advice on gameplay.

And the next scrim that follows immediately.
We will continue our match against Philippine Unite, who just scrimped.

The final score thus obtained was 3:0.
In a way, it was a natural result.

After I exchanged greetings with the opposing coach through the messenger, I turned my head and looked at the players.
My players averted my eyes, like students in school before homework checks.

Now, after covering up the wrongdoings in today’s scrim, it was time to select the lady-in-waiting.

“Hmm… Sook-hee wasn’t bad today.”

A slight smile forms on Sook-hee’s face at the light compliment.
She’s like a puppy that’s been praised by her, even if she’s pretending she’s not, she can’t stop her tail from wagging.

“She kept her usual aggressive tendencies well, but I liked the way she was sarcastic when she was sarcastic.”
“Go, thank you.”

She nods her head.
She didn’t usually give her compliments often, so her encouragement her must have felt like the first rain of a drought.
Moreover, since she said good things on the outside, it could be said that her chances of becoming today’s lady-in-waiting were greatly reduced.

Next up is Jungle’s Jihye Lee.

“It didn’t work out as well as I thought, did it?”
“……”

The overall play wasn’t bad.
However, Messiah Steel in the last set was fatal.

“In the case of Messiah Steel, it cannot be said that it is only the jungler’s fault, but it is also true that the jungler’s fault is the biggest if we are to ask for responsibility.”

If you look at the in-game play in detail, Jihye Lee’s fault becomes a little clearer.
Even though she didn’t have a bash spell, she attempted a messiah try and ended up absurdly missing her opponent’s global ult.

“Yuna and Seoyoon were okay.”

After that, it was the mid laners and one dealers who did their part.
Yuna has yet to be seen crushing her opponent to the point of being called a weight difference in line battles, but she shows her strength her in joining fights while maintaining a very stable CS supply.

On the other hand, Ryu Seo-yoon is overwhelming in both the laning and teamfighting stages.
However, if there is a problem, it is that it is weak in the role of laying the board.

When Jihye or Whiteyi opened the initiation well or when a gap was created, they used to eat the opponent with their monster-like physicality, but when the teammates couldn’t do anything, they didn’t play their role equally.

Still, he was still like a monster when he was against a relatively weak team like he is now.

“The white one wasn’t bad either.”

Last but not least, support Baek Ha-yan.
Unlike when I was only a utility supporter in the beginning, I had a diverse character pool, and I was able to easily digest any combination.

One regrettable thing is that it does not show impactful play as much as it is passable.
The frequency of the super play, which is often seen by supporters, was low.

“Next time, try to play a little more boldly. If you only pursue stable play, you won’t be able to create variables.”

When the team was winning, it was a good play style, but when the team was losing, it was the number one contributor to making defeat inevitable.

“Still, the rest of the team couldn’t even call it a mistake.”

It was a little disappointing play, but I didn’t do anything that felt like a negative factor.
Except for one player.

“Lee Ji-hye.”

As her own name her was called, her wisdom her nodded in her dark face her.
No matter how cool she is, she does n’t seem to be indifferent to her future fate her.

“Today you are the maid.”

I said that and pointed at the maid uniform hanging on one side of the practice room.
At that, the other players let out a sigh of relief, and Lee Ji-hye smiled bitterly.

[I sold Lee Ji-hye. Growth rate increases by 20%.]

[Lee Ji-hye’s obedience has increased by 5.]

[Converts to her her growth rate her due to her her Obedience imprint her.]

[Acquired 2 selling points.]

How much she hated being her handmade her, just being selected increases her her growth rate her.

I smiled softly.
Obviously, today’s scrim opponent was a team that was far from warming up, but even in the middle of it, they forcibly found a point to pull out and succeeded in selling it.

‘Let’s just go like this!’

There are about four months left before the start of the first division spring season.
If you train like this until then, it won’t be too difficult to compare yourself with the teams in the first division.

Although they somehow managed to get promoted in an overwhelming manner, the rest of the teams in the 1st division would never be able to take it easy.

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A lot of things have happened since the World Championship started.

First of all, the most important thing is that our team and the Dragon Knights succeeded in advancing to the first division.
Since the beginning of the Arena League, the door to the first division, which had not been penetrated for about four years, was opened for the first time.

The second one was related to me, and it was that my father’s company, Phone Company, was facing a major crisis.

[Korea’s largest AV company, Phone Company, receives social criticism due to the death of a famous actor…]
[How much are the labor rights of workers in the AV industry protected?]
[The boycott of the phone company began to spread nationally. Does it play a role in self-purification?]
[The phone company’s stock price fell 10% compared to the previous day. Rebound is impossible unless the image is restored.]

Issues that pop up every day as if someone had put a hand on them.
Including the sudden death of a famous AV actor during filming, a whistleblower complaint about labor law, tax evasion issues, and the frightening growth of competitors are taking place.

‘Something is strange… Can I continue to be spawned from now on?’

Father’s business was crumbling as if the heavens had forsaken it.
Just looking at the speed at which the stock price is falling, it is renewing the lowest point every day.

‘What… He’ll do well on his own.’

However, I decided to bury my worries about my father deep in my heart.
It was because doubts about him had not yet disappeared.

It was obviously regrettable that the company he might inherit in the future would go bankrupt, but it was too early to judge rashly because he was a father who did not know what kind of dark heart he might have.