Chapter 315 – 315. Inferiority and Respect (1)

“Big Brother Disaster!!”
“How did you get to the 4th set and break down here?! Mad Tiger Gaming!!”
“Of course, there is still a chance of a comeback, but it is also true that it is in the early stages and it has been hit too hard. The Battle Angels aren’t a team that can’t roll a snowball, so it’s not easy to start with such a huge loss.”

The commentator exclaimed in excitement.

A big accident occurred from the start in a match that could be the last game, or could be a signal of a reversal of Mad Tiger Gaming.

‘Almost there. I just need to work harder.’

Now, there is really only one step left to win.

How many years has it been since you stepped into the finals of the ACK League as a player?
Even right before his retirement, he was always in the waiting room watching his teammates play.

‘But it’s finally winning again.’

Even though it was not as a player, but as a manager, he couldn’t compare to the time when he waited on the bench and only showed his face when he lifted the trophy.

The players I raised myself won the championship with a strategy put together by an old friend.
It can’t be that it’s really impressive for me.

“What if I look like I’ve already won?”

As I was casting my eyes blankly forward, Hwang Ji-yeon secretly approached me and started talking to me.

I shrugged her shoulders, pretending not to, but she already saw something interesting.

“It’s only five minutes into the game, but I have to watch it nervously. Ah… Anyway, what do you say during the interview?”

While she puts on a smirk, she taps her notebook with a ballpoint pen.

The mischievous appearance brings the mind back to reality.

Han Yuna, who had a triple kill in the beginning.
Mad Tiger Gaming was not able to play aggressively even in the laning due to a series of defeats and catastrophes.

In addition to joining fights, they often chose to yield by rolling their tails in confrontations surrounding objects.
When that happened, it was Beyond, the jungler, that had a hard time growing up.

Lee Ji-hye, who was confident of Ka-jung, would enter her opponent’s jungle and eat her sentinels without any delay.
Since she had already started with 3 buff control in her early days, the growth difference between her jungles as well as her movements were all figured out.

When I had a lot of time, I ate a whole camp, and when I was in a hurry, I ate only her big one with a bang and disappeared.

Still, when she gave strength, she definitely gave it strength.

When the buff sentinel in the upper jungle of the blue formation that she had decided to respawn, she goes deep into the jungle with dignity, accompanied by Han Yuna in the mid and Kang Yul in the top.

“If you give this up, the level gap between the jungles will gradually widen!”
“You still have to give it. If I fight 3-on-3 with my upper body right now, I will lose 100%.”
“You seem to be thinking of giving Mad Tiger Gaming as well, right?”

The opposing team, rather than having an uncomfortable fight right now, turn their concerns over to the future.
Thanks to this, Lee Ji-hye, who ate not only the Buff Sentinel but also the surrounding jungle camp until her stomach exploded, returns as if satisfied.

It wasn’t long after that that the incident broke out under the intense pressure of our team.

The bottom line of Mad Tiger Gaming, which was the least successful among all lines.

Han Yuna and Lee Ji-hye settled between the opponent’s 1st and 2nd turrets and caught all the creeps along the line.
Then, only our creeps pushed down to the opponent’s tower, and a dive composition was created naturally.

Belatedly, Beyond players came to cover, but it only produced the worst results.

The 4-person dive has already gone in very neatly.
Thanks to that, Beyond couldn’t help but be unable to cover her line, and she had no choice but to wait and watch from a distance.
I’d rather go around one more jungle camp at that time, it would have reduced the difference in her growth even a little bit.

“If this is the case, the game is really broken.”

Hwang Ji-yeon’s voice murmured softly.
As she said, it was safe to say that the game was broken.

Just in time, good news came from the tower.

[Gwan-wu → Lü-po]

It was a long time of humiliation and persecution.
Thanks to his passive tendencies, he was often beaten by most top laners, and he was often referred to as one-tool for a soup-style character.

However, no one can say that her line transfer is as weak as this moment when she killed Carrie Man, who is said to be Korea’s best top player.

“Did Battle Woman solo kill Carrieman?!”
“This is devastating news for Mad Tiger! I was going to tell you that even if you don’t, the Carrieman who caught Yeopo, a knife character, should do something!”
“The entire line is behind! Has Mad Tiger Gaming ever been in such a crisis in a multi-premise system?!”

On the monitor, Kang Yul’s Solkill scene plays again.

The carry man, who felt threatened by her 4-man dive at the bottom, jumped out and challenged her to a fight.
A head-to-head confrontation between two top sellers!

Unlike the lower line where many things happened, the top was relatively quiet.
As a result, the growth gap between the two players is almost non-existent.
However, as in the first level, the more he fought, the more Carryman’s health decreased.

It was a scene that could not be explained beyond the difference in ability no matter who saw it.

“You did it! You did it!”

Hwang Bo Ji-yeon also congratulated her on her skill with a child-like pure smile.

She was so immersed in her practice that she forgot the time to eat and sleep with Heo Sook-hee.
In the end, she produced her victory with her relentless practice and her monstrous stamina.

Since then, the game has become one-sided violence.
In the usual Mad Tiger Gaming, they used to show a sharp appearance even in the middle of being pushed, but now they were lethargic enough to believe that they were a team in the 3rd division that had lost momentum.

“…Looks like you’ve given up. I taught you to do it until the end… “

Hwang Ji-yeon smiles bitterly.

It seemed that I had mixed feelings because I was on the verge of destroying the team I had dedicated my life to with my own hands.
I can’t help but feel subtle emotions too.

In any case, it was a team I worked in in the past, and it was my colleagues who even won the World Championship together.
Even though I couldn’t step on the stage with them, the image of me worrying, laughing and chatting together remained in my head.

‘Now that I’m at this level, Ji-yeon must have more bland feelings.’

“Well, okay. I am now the Battle Angels’ coach.”

As I looked at her with her worried mind mixed in, she smiled as well, perhaps conscious of my gaze.

“We should focus more on the future than the past.”

Then she quietly holds my hand.
Just in time, our players entered Mad Tiger Gaming’s base and were conducting a final siege.

The moment when the attention of the audience, league officials, and even the cameras are focused on the players.
She cautiously approaches me and kisses her cheek lightly.

Side.

“Please take good care of the World Championship.”

At the same time, along with cheers that seemed to resonate in the stadium, the cheery voices of the commentators continued.

“GG!!”

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“…”
“…”

A chilly silence hung over the waiting room.
The players packing their bags were silently concentrating on their work.

“Good work everyone. The runner-up was also good. Starting tomorrow, it will be off-season, so let’s take a good rest and run hard again.”

General Manager Park Seong-pil tried to speak in a strong voice, but it was not a very encouraging word for the players who just played a bad game.

In particular, the atmosphere between Carrieman and Psychic was no different from the middle of cold Alaska.

Should I say that it is fortunate that there will be no games for a while after today?

‘It’s a pain in the ass. No matter how much kids fight, they grow up… ‘

Park Seong-pil worked hard on his head, but couldn’t come up with a good way to reconcile the two.
In the end, like an old man, he decided to use a very classic method.

“Let’s see me for a second.”

After taking the two boys to the smoking room, he lit a cigarette and started his long speech.

“There was a time like that when I was a pro gamer too.”

At the nagging that started with a boring old story, the two boys exchanged tired glances, forgetting that they had fought each other.

Although the relationship between the two boys unexpectedly improved, the latte talk of director Park Seong-pil, who did not notice at all, had no intention of ending.

“When I think about it now, they are all memories, and they were the driving force behind my development. If you guys have had a broken heart, don’t just feel it hard, just think of using it as a stepping stone to move forward… “

When will this pain end?

Psychic twisted his body in boredom, then accidentally looked away.
It was a smoking booth made up of glass windows, so I could see the two men and women walking outside holding a cup of coffee.

“Director. I’ve been holding back from wanting to go to the bathroom since that game. A little bathroom… “
“Restroom? I should have told you earlier, go quickly.”

Carrieman’s cold eyes touched him from behind, but it was good if he could get out of here.

Psychic, who opened the door of the smoking booth as if in a real hurry, quickly headed to the place where the two men and women he had seen earlier had disappeared.

Originally, there would be interviews with the players and officials right after the game ended.
However, the finals move on to team interviews after a short break for advertising time.
The psychic player who had won last season knew better than anyone else.

‘What the hell did he crawl out to do?’

A psychic chases after a man and a woman who disappear into a back alley.
And soon I could see them kissing in a dark alleyway.

He stood for a while as if he had turned to stone, then stepped forward with a determined look on his face.