Chapter 9 – 9. Hwang Ji-Yeon

Mad Tiger Gaming.
The team of the 1st emperor of the arena in name and reality.

Last year, in the first division, he recorded an overwhelming score and firmly kept the first place.
And the national competition that followed, the victory achieved at the world championship!

Thanks to this, countless gamers around the world were enthusiastic about Mad Tiger Gaming (MTG) and became fans.
MTG’s popularity was soaring that there was nowhere else to soar.

The beginning of this spring season was not much different.
This is because none of the players who have won the World Championship have transferred.

Usually, after the season ends, there are many players who transfer in the Stove League because the ransom of the winner of the previous season skyrocketed naturally, but MTG gave incentives worth hundreds of millions of dollars and caught the players, so there was no transfer issue.

In the end, MTG had a spring season win streak to date.
It is a powerful figure that makes you wonder if there is a team to stop this team, and because of that, many fans are expecting to win the 2054 World Championship, although it is a bit early.

“Coach, no, now the coach! Director, do you know about Jung Soo-hyung?”

Mad Tiger Gaming’s AD, Psychic.
His cool features were handsome, but he was a little short.

The boy was giggling and talking to a woman.

It was Hwang Ji-yeon, director of Mad Tiger Gaming, a woman with long straight hair.

“Kim Jeong-soo? What are you doing?”

Director Hwangbo had a benign impression, but she looked at Psykick with sharp eyes and asked.
Psychick raised the corners of her mouth and made a strange expression.

“What. Director, are you still interested in Jung Soo-hyung?”
“.. Up until the previous season, he was a supporter of our team. Aren’t you curious about what you’re doing?”

When her teasing mood got in, she dismissed it with her flat words.
Psychic shrugged his shoulders and looked like he wanted to make fun of me more, but he knew the director’s personality well, so he didn’t argue anymore.
He had a puppy-like appearance, but his personality was nothing like a fucking dog.

“I just asked him because he usually has no interest in anything other than games, but when he talked about Jung Soo-hyung, he responded well. Jung Soo-hyung, it seemed like he left here and became a coach for another team.”
“Coach? Jeongsoo is coaching?”

‘Also… ‘

Hwang Ji-yeon was surprised and asked back.
Sure enough, Psychic bit his lip at the reaction, which felt more selfish than usual.

‘It seems true that he still has feelings for Jung Soo-hyung.’

The blunt woman didn’t seem to know what she was feeling, but as she watched from the side, it was not difficult to notice the kick.

Between interest or affection, the stage in which love begins to sprout.
Psychick secretly clicked her tongue.

‘It must be because it hasn’t been long since Jung Soo-hyun left. I’m sure he’ll become indifferent after a while.’

After confirming her heart like this, she felt that her efforts for the past few days were futile.
Kim Jeong-soo, I was even humiliated by the fact that I was out of interest than a man whose face I hadn’t seen for months.

‘Anyway, it’s a waste that’s no longer worth seeing. Just keep playing in the 3rd division.’

Psychic didn’t seem to care much, but he read the article with a tone that clearly made him laugh.

“Pink Angels, a 3rd division league team, was renovated into ‘Battle Angels’ when they recruited ‘Battle’ Jeong-soo Kim as their coach. Jung Soo-hyung became the 3rd division coach.”

It was Hwangbo Ji-yeon who cut her own duo Kim Jeong-soo, who had been matched for years in her past, with her own hands for her gaming team.

To her, her 3rd division was something she was not interested in!
It is the realm of indifference, just as the tiger and the lion show no interest in the ants fighting.

“Okay?”

I don’t know if it’s because she wants her former colleague to do better, or if it’s more than that, but she looks pretty disappointed.

If it was her third division coach her, it would be a position where she would never see her forever.
It has really become a southerner now.
Hwang Ji-yeon’s eyes, which had been outstanding, became a little colder.

‘I’m more disappointed. That older brother is a better person than you think. My sister has me Noona likes people who are good at games.’

Psychic hid his true intentions and spat out words as if it was nothing special.

“Pink Angels? No, it’s Battle Angels now? Looking at it, all the players are female, but seeing that the name was changed to Battle Angels, isn’t Jung Jung-hyung selfish?”

Kim Jeong-soo’s nickname in the past as a player was ‘Battle’, so Battle Angels was a team name that could be interpreted as Kim Jeong-soo’s angels.

Director Hwang Ji-yeon’s eyebrows twitched. This attack had a reaction.
The psychic, who was delighted inside, continued to speak. This time, it was towards Carrieman, the man who was looking at his phone his next to him.

“Hey Carrie. Do you know who the top laner of the Battle Angels is?”
“…I don’t know”

He is tall and has manly features.
Carryman, MTG’s top laner, a man with a fairly reliable and firm build, replied in a dry tone.
Since he usually has a calm personality, Psychic didn’t pay much attention to his blunt reaction to his.

“Around the time you debuted, there was a fake. It’s called Carrie Woman. He’s on this team Hey, you’re still not retired. It’s really great. How long are you going to live a professional life with someone else’s nickname? If you were like me, you would be embarrassed and stop.Hehe.”

Psychic showing a cell phone with a smile.
Carrieman, who saw the picture of Kang Yul of Carriewoman and Battle Angels he showed, turned his face without changing his expression.

“Sheesh. Not fun.”

For Psychic, who was expecting a more dramatic reaction, to be exact, ridicule of the Battle Angels, it was disappointing.

But his strategy seems to have worked to some extent.
Hwang Ji-yeon, who heard his story and looked up Battle Angels on her cell phone, had a cold expression on her face.

‘Done.’

If that’s enough, I’m sure I’ve lost a lot.

I remembered what director Hwang Ji-yeon used to say.
It’s a sin that pro gamers can’t play games!

A cold-blooded man who doesn’t even pay attention to pros who can’t play the game. She was a woman who gave her all to the game.
So, the coach of the 3rd division, Kim Jeong-soo, will soon disappear from her attention forever.

If that’s the case…

Psychick took advantage of Hwangbo Ji-yeon’s focus on her cell phone and scanned her body.
She had a look and body that made it impossible to focus on anything else when standing next to her.
Perhaps the reason he became so good at games was because of her presence.

Winning the World Championship earned him money and fame.
And now, no matter who sees it, you will get a girlfriend who is envious.

Psychic was a man who never gave up on what he wanted.

‘I’m sorry Jung Soo-hyung… I’m not a woman suitable for her older brother.’

His longtime supporter and team leader. Kim Jung-soo’s face passed by.
My body flinched when I thought of those sharp eyes, but isn’t it a person who has nothing to see anymore anyway?
Psychic brushed his hair to send the fear away.

And after that, he began to think about how to turn Hwang Ji-yeon’s attention to himself.
There was still quite a bit of time left on the contract.
Until then, I will have to seduce her.

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Hwang Ji-yeon. When she was a pro gamer, her nickname her was Peace.
At the time, she was a nickname that matched her her and her her duo her, Battle Kim Jung-soo.

My first meeting with Kim Jeong-soo was during Arena’s beta test, on the North American server.

[I think you are Korean, right?]
[Yep]
[But why not?]
[You can’t fucking do it either]

The relationship started with Kim Jeong-soo’s provocative chat.
That became a fate, and we played games together, sparing no effort to improve each other’s skills.

And when Arena officially started its service, he and her duo became famous both domestically and abroad.

Arena quickly gained popularity in Korea as well.
Thanks to this, there were requests for simultaneous recruitment from numerous pro game teams in her infancy, and he and she came to join the team by matching nicknames.

Their first team was Mad Tiger Gaming (MTG).

The battle and peace bot duo also worked well on the international stage.
Before anyone knew it, Mad Tiger Gaming had become a team famous for its bottom carry.

And the Arena’s first World Championship held.
Receiving great expectations, the two advanced to the final as players representing Korea.

There were many twists and turns in the process, but the two men and women carried the team with the combination they had been working on for a long time.

Her heart her still swells whenever she thinks of that time.

Reliable team members.
Managers and coaches who believe in themselves.
People’s support for you and your team.
Gifts and love letters from fans pouring in every day.

And even his one-dealer, who can tell what each other is thinking just by looking at each other’s eyes.
It really felt like a dream.
It seemed like it would never fail.

But the final stage.
Mad Tiger Gaming suffered a shocking 3-2 defeat.

“……”

The main reason for that loss was the bot duo.
The guarantee check that is always responsible for the team’s carry has collapsed.

And Hwang Ji-yeon knew all too well what caused the bottom duo to collapse.
Kim Jeong-soo, who holds the one-deal position where the most physical is important.
Because he was in the worst condition.

She noticed right away because she had been supporting him since the time she was an extrovert.
Kim Jeong-soo’s face was contemplative even before the game started.

[MTG Peace: What’s up? What’s your condition like?]
[MTG Battle: No. Nothing happened.]

It was just too frustrating for her.
The game was completely tilted by Kim Jeong-soo, who was unable to show even half of his usual skills.

Mad Tiger Gaming and Bottom Duo have completely become enemies in Korea.
There is a saying that second place is also great, but in the end, second place was not the main character.
Support for the team turned to hatred.

The feeling that seemed to be in the heavens was plunged underground in an instant.
From then on, she hated players who couldn’t play.

Unable to deal with the constant criticism, she announced her retirement and took over as a coach at Mad Tiger Gaming.
She and she went through a major team rebuild.

First of all, her duo her, Battle Player, who had been a one-dealer for a long time, was converted to a support.
And after a few years from that, he was demoted to the second group.
It was all done with her own hands.

‘I am not wrong. It’s the player’s fault for not playing the game.’

The act of demoting a professional player with poor performance.
Although there had been affection for several years, the coach was not to let the team get caught up in personal feelings.
She needed to make a decision more calmly than anyone else.

At the time, I remembered the face of Kim Jeong-soo who heard her notification of her.
A sharp, indifferent-looking face.

She had been with him for several years, and she was well aware of her caringness hidden under that impression.
Kim Jeong-soo accepted the 2nd Army line without any change in expression until the end.

Since then, Mad Tiger Gaming has been all over the red carpet.
It wasn’t because Jeong-soo was sent to the 2nd team, but coincidentally, the team marched high and eventually won the world championship.

The victory you so longed for.
Although she did not achieve it as a player, her team her, which she raised, lifted the trophy.

But why? She wasn’t happy at all.
While all her players and her officials let out cheers of her joy her, she watched the expression her on her own bottom duo her, Kim Jeong-soo.

“……”

And I realized
That I can no longer read his thoughts the way I used to.
Looking at the championship cup with an expressionless expression, is he happy, regretful, or…

I wonder if she resents her for pushing herself into her second team and not allowing her to lift the trophy herself.

Hwang Ji-yeon did not know.

‘……Battle Angels.’

She scrutinized the article on her cell phone her.
If you look at the Battle Angels as a coach with a world championship-winning career, it was a team with no hope.

The level of team members was lower than that of amateurs. No matter how good the coaching ability was, it was impossible to bloom flowers in a pot without seeds.

‘There will be nothing to see in the future… ‘

She bit her lip hard.

What are you thinking?

Are you happy to be able to join a new team, even if it’s in the third tier?
Or is he getting angry at himself for being shabby compared to his past glory?

She still couldn’t figure out what Kim Jeong-soo was thinking.