Chapter 261 – 261. Escape (4)

After the boys returned, the atmosphere at the table changed 180 degrees from before.
Somehow, the number of times he attached her words to Heo Suk-hee increased.
No, it would not be an exaggeration to say that practically all the boys only spoke to Heo Suk-hee.

“Sook-hee. Isn’t it fun here? Shall we go somewhere else?”
“…Really?”

“Hey, Sook-hee? Feel free to call me brother too. What is the honorific between us?”
“Well. I am more comfortable with this.”

“My Sook-hee, you drink well! Would you like something more expensive?”
“Aren’t you going to drink now?”

Heo Suk-hee didn’t know why her attitude toward her suddenly changed, but somehow she wasn’t in a good mood.

She honestly wasn’t having fun.

How to say, while she’s talking, she suddenly massages her ass, calls her a lousy toilet, or makes fun of another woman while answering questions in a casual way.

‘Of course, that wouldn’t be common. Cuckoo… ‘

Heo Suk-hee smiled a little as she realized deep down how unbelievable the treatment she normally was going through was.

Seeing that, the boys around her were even more upset.
She wondered if any of the countless appeals she threw without thinking had worked.

However, Heo Sook-hee’s subsequent answer was very cold.

“I’m thinking of going soon.”
“What? No, that’s not possible!”
“Why are you leaving already? Isn’t this a bit harsh?”

The boys jumped up and down as if they had been burned.
Since she had already treated Heo Suk-hee as if she had her other girls while working on her work, she had to see that if he left her, she would have nothing left.

However, Heo Sook-hee resolutely got up from her seat and bowed her head.

“There is a curfew. Then I’ll go. I do the math.”
“Uh, uh uh… “

Her panicked voice came through, but she couldn’t stop her any longer as she had called her own waiter and held her card.

Heo Sook-hee leaves her seat as if suddenly.

Han Tae-seok quickly jumped out of his seat and grabbed her arm as she walked down the street.

“Ah… “
“M-I’m sorry… “

Caught her stumbling, he stammered her voice.
She wouldn’t have been an alpha until she knew who she was, but she was different now.

Isn’t the opponent a girl who is more popular than most celebrities?

“That… When we first met, he asked for my number… I guess I haven’t given it yet… “

He brought her to the point cautiously as she looked up at him with her sullen expression.
Heo Sook-hee let out a small sigh and held out her hand.

Han Tae-seok held his cell phone with a bright face.
It was hard to contain her delight as she entered her number.

“Then, I’ll call you later.”
“…I might not be able to take it because I’m busy.”

Even this was an admirable achievement, although she received an answer that was tantamount to refusal.
In the future, whenever the topic of arena comes up, there is a story that can be solved with confidence.

Afterwards, Han Tae-seop waved her hand until she disappeared from her sia.

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Heo Sook-hee, who had a crazy night yesterday, got out of bed around noon as usual.

However, the surroundings were a different place than usual.
Because the place she spent her night was a motel near the main street.

Even around the bed, the evidence of yesterday’s frenzied feast remained intact.
It was a box of leftover chicken.

‘This is sex.’

He gets a room by himself and orders a chicken to eat.
This was pretty good for a prize he gave himself.

She smiled and headed to her bathroom.

Since she had no interest in anything other than games, she was not good at decorating.

That’s why the time to get out of her bathroom was also very fast.
She checked out of the motel wearing the same clothes she wore yesterday.

‘Shall we go to WM Winners now?’

It was quite late, so she took a taxi.
When she arrived in front of the winners’ office building on Boulevard, she found a building soaring high on the land of gold dust in Seoul.

She pressed her intercom and went inside.

“Welcome!”

One of her women greeted her with her bright smile.
It looked like a front desk clerk.

Heo Sook-hee followed her up to her practice room.
It was less flashy than the old practice room of Battle Angels, but the assortment was definitely there.

As I entered the practice room following the guidance, I saw people gathered on one side.
It was supposed to be a monitoring room, so you could quickly recognize that they were the players, the manager and the coaches.

“Oh! Welcome! I was waiting for you!”

Upon entering her room, one of her men greeted her with a bright smile.
As a result, other people’s eyes are also directed at her.

Looking closer, I could make out their faces.

The first team members of WM Winners were Astro, Pado, Warlock, Han and XYZ.

It was only then that she realized that she could really go to another team.

“Hello everyone. This is God Dog from Battle Angels who came for an interview today.”
“Hello!”

An awkward greeting came back from them.
Heo Sook-hee also awkwardly bowed her head and greeted her.

“Welcome to our team! It’s probably better than being under that bad coach.”

Then, the master coach, who knew that there was a war of nerves with director Kim Jeong-soo at the time of filming the promotional video, also welcomed me.

She gave her awkward smile this time and nodded her head.

‘It’s not that the rice is tasteless… ‘

Of course, it is true that I left because director Kim Jeong-soo did not agree, but I was not very happy when the words of criticism came out of someone else’s mouth.

Heo Sook-hee secretly twisted the corner of her mouth.
Meanwhile, the Master Coach continues.

“Then sit in that chair over there for a while. It’s still scrim feedback.
“Ah yes.”
“And… “

The master coach, who was silent for a moment, gave a meaningful smile.
And as if warning, he opens his mouth in a cynical tone.

“Our team’s feedback is a bit intense, so don’t be intimidated. Still, good players are treated the same way.”
“…All right.”

Heo Sook-hee, who recalled the intense feedback in her head, swallowed her saliva.

Indeed, how hard is the feedback coming and going if the words come out of the coach’s mouth directly?
Even though outsiders are watching, are they even treating them like dogs, while treating them like a dog?

However, the feedback that followed was the exact opposite of her thoughts.

“Hey, Astro.”
“Yes…”
“Damn you, why are you messing around here? Did you really think you could come out alive? This is why the team is not in danger!!”

The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as shouts come and go.
The master coach watched one scene and yelled at the same repertoire for about 10 minutes.

The Astro players who were scolded naturally lost their spirits and became to the point of crying.
Only then did the satisfied Master take a deep breath and finish.

Even after that, there were steady scenes that deserved feedback, but it felt like I was simply pointing it out, perhaps because I had exhausted my stamina with the grunting.

It was the feedback from WM Winners that I saw for the first time today, but I couldn’t avoid thinking that it was really inefficient.

Even when I was on the Neotrans team, I didn’t see such ineffective feedback.

‘Is this just a coach relieving his stress?’

Should I say I’m lucky?
After the feedback, as if there were no other scrims, each player went to individual practice and her interview started right away.

Interviews with pro gamers were very different from those of regular office workers.

There was also the exchange of basic questions and answers while facing her face-to-face, but more important than that was the practice called the entrance test.

And it was different for each club.

Some simply looked at one-on-one physicals, while others teamed up with their starting members for inside scrims.

In WM Winners, it was replaced by a mix of 1st and 2nd teams, and even academy players.

As a result, Heo Sook-hee’s opponent became Astro, the main top laner of WM Winners.

And the ensuing scrim result was an easy victory thanks to Heo Sook-hee’s performance.
It was literally just one match, but he succeeded in proving himself perfectly.

“Yes, this is… That’s it… “

When I came out of the capsule, I saw the master coach with a thrilled expression on his face.
Heo Sook-hee scratched her head for no reason feeling a little embarrassed.

In Battle Angels, she finally got the recognition and praise she hadn’t received.

‘But… I’m not in a good mood.’

Maybe it was because she was accepted too easily, or maybe it was because she wasn’t the kind of person who really wanted to be recognized.
What was certain was that I wasn’t as proud as I thought.

“So what? Will you join our club?”

The position of the coach and the player was reversed before I knew it.
The master coach also showed a very different attitude than when dealing with players on the same team, probably because he wanted to recruit Heo Sook-hee.

“…”

However, despite the master coach’s efforts, Heo Sook-hee could not easily open her mouth.

Is it the right thing to do to leave Battle Angels and go to another team?
Her experience was brief, but when she competed under the name of the WM Winners, she didn’t feel her heart beat one bit.

She didn’t feel like playing with her teammates who believed in her, she didn’t feel like taking on a challenge at every moment, leaving behind someone who was testing her.

In the end, she gave a subtle answer.

“…I’ll think about it some more.”