Chapter 17: The Struggles of a Returning Gamer.

Awkwardness is inevitable when doing something after a long time.

That’s why athletes who are already at their peak never neglect training, and why the reserve forces system binds veterans.

Muscle memory – the skill that the body remembers – also comes after time and effort are put into reviving that memory.

No matter how good you are at something, if you do it after a long time, your skills will inevitably decline due to dulled senses and movements.

Therefore, what I was experiencing now was a legitimate event in accordance with the laws of nature.

My mouse aim seemed to be slightly off, and because of that, one of my skills missed, forcing me to win a fight that I thought I would definitely win with difficulty.

I had to use spells on skills that I could have avoided with movement if I had reacted just a little faster, and my sense of judging the pros and cons of actions sometimes felt slightly uncertain.

As a result of those small things piling up, I had to play my first comeback game in a less than satisfactory manner.

In the parallel world memory, there was a professional gamer who returned to the professional scene after resting for about a month, but I wondered how that person overcame this feeling.

I didn’t like my current state.

Contrary to my initial thought that I could withstand any criticism, my sparkling mood had shrunk again due to a Diamond player’s incisive remark filled with great confidence directed at me.

I know that if people who are enlightened in life and strictly manage themselves were listening to me now, they would give me sincere advice: “Then why don’t you just quit the game completely?”

It is certain that continuing to do the work you enjoy is a more productive direction if you find labor fun and enjoyable.

All eight people who played the game with me just now would nod in agreement.

Except for one person, since they weren’t human and wouldn’t understand.

However, the result I obtained through 7 minutes of agony while queuing for the next game headed in a slightly different direction.

….

‘…I have to raise it.’

It was like finding a woman more beautiful and radiant than your first wife, setting up a new home while forgetting your first wife for two months, and then discovering your first wife living in rags while taking a walk alone while the new wife was visiting her parents for a while.

A lot of emotions poured out.

The new wife still felt more precious, but the very human thought that it was hard to see the first wife, who had once shared her life with me, in such a miserable state came to mind.

‘…I’ll leave my main account alone and raise a smurf account, I guess.’

And it also happened that the new wife (EunSiyu) suggested playing together with the old wife, the game.

I had a feeling that I should take some time every now and then to make my first wife look pretty.

It was a decision to live a two-house life intermittently.

EunSiyu’s broadcast started about three hours after I started my rehabilitation exercises.

Since my wife had returned from her parents’ house, I hurriedly returned home.

I stopped the queue I was holding, closed the game, and displayed EunSiyu’s broadcast screen on the monitor.

After checking that I was logged in with an account with manager privileges, I took my hand off the mouse and waited for the sound.

It was about 5 minutes later, when about 600 viewers had gathered, that I heard EunSiyu’s voice checking the microphone volume.

Confirming the viewers’ enthusiastic cries that the volume was appropriate, EunSiyu lowered the waiting screen and raised the chat window and character illustration.

“Hello~!”

When the greeting I had heard for the past few months flowed through my ears, I could definitely feel that the broadcast had started.

EunSiyu was also doing research for a better direction as she started broadcasting in earnest, and from a few weeks ago, EunSiyu was gradually moving away from the previous disorganized daily broadcasts and establishing a framework for the broadcast.

EunSiyu had recently started doing what is called communication before starting the game.

It was the act of reading and answering the words conveyed through chat or donations and having direct or indirect conversations with the majority of viewers.

As is the case with general conversations between people, communication on Internet broadcasts also usually has different topics depending on the situation and characteristics of the time.

Let’s think about today from the viewers’ perspective.

Today was the day after EunSiyu’s regular day off, who broadcasts 6 days a week, and it was the day the first video was uploaded after the official YouTube transition of EunSiyu’s fan channel.

Under those conditions, I already knew that the YouTube story could not but come out.

A donation message containing the expected content appeared 3 minutes after the story began.

It was a question about the official YouTube opening.

“Ah, YouTube! I was going to talk about it anyway. Originally, there was EunSiyu’s fan channel… You all know it without me even mentioning it, right? Anyway, there was a really grateful person who edited my videos, and I’ve invited them to be the official channel editor this time…!”

“Since the fan channel has been converted as is, you probably don’t have to subscribe again! If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do so even after the broadcast! The channel name is EunSiyu!”

After completing the promotion, EunSiyu even wrote and posted a small message on one side of the screen asking people to subscribe to the official YouTube channel, and then resumed the story.

“Oh, right. So, regarding YouTube, I met the editor yesterday, on my day off. It was the first time I’d met them in real life in a long time, and it felt really good…”

Listening to EunSiyu’s words, I sensed that a group of animals consisting of about two or three people would soon come running.

“Huh? You’re asking if the editor is a man? Is that important…?”

Crazy Unicorn.

“You’re asking me to tell you about yesterday…? I have no problem with it, but shouldn’t I get the editor’s permission?”

For permission to exist, communication must be conveyed.

And right now, I was watching the broadcast with an account that didn’t chat, but had a knife floating next to my name.

So that anyone could tell just by looking at the top of the chat window.

I don’t know if EunSiyu knew, but from the moment the words “I think I need to get the editor’s permission” came out of her mouth, I had no choice but to give permission.

If a person is talking and stops, saying, “Oh, I shouldn’t say this,” that person becomes the main culprit of inciting anger, but if a person is talking and says, “Oh, I think I need to get someone’s permission for this,” then the anger flows towards that someone if they don’t give permission.

A difficult situation arises if I refuse.

EunSiyu would be fine, but the viewers, who have now grown to 800, wouldn’t be fine.

The first chat I wrote with the Sole account was permission to tell the story.

Well, I thought it wouldn’t have a bad effect.

If you cut it out and use it as spare video material, it might have some promotional effect.

Unicorns are hated when viewed as enemies, but when they become allies, they become cavalrymen who stand at the forefront and lead many people.

It was about 2 minutes after EunSiyu started talking that I realized one fact.

I need to correct something I was wrong about.

I should have added one person to the list of people who would have been in trouble if I had refused EunSiyu to tell the story of yesterday.

EunSiyu began to unravel yesterday’s story like a deaf person shouting the king’s secrets in a bamboo forest.

As if it was something she really wanted to talk about, her voice was energetic and her smile was beaming.

“There is an episode before I first met the editor, but I can’t tell you about that, so I’ll skip it… I was really surprised when I first saw you standing in front of the restaurant.”

“Everyone, in your school days, didn’t you have one girl in your class who didn’t talk much? But she was also very pretty, and the atmosphere was somehow benevolent and innocent… Hey. You must remember at least one! Am I a weird person? Anyway, after that, I went into the restaurant…”

EunSiyu, who continued the story by adding MSG unique to storytelling broadcasts, began to unravel her thoughts at the time, omitting the story about our detailed contract conditions and work process.

EunSiyu was describing me as someone great.

She helps me decide exactly how to make videos in the future, and she thought I was only cute in reality, but I felt incredibly reliable.

“Oh. Everyone. And the editor is also very good at LoL. They say they’re Diamond. Huh? Didn’t I usually call them ‘Dia trash’? The editor is an exception!”

EunSiyu’s story broadcast, which was not so calm, ended by mentioning one thing during the last conversation at the cafe.

Once again, the screen changed, and the matching started to return along with the sound I had been listening to until just now.

The viewers, who had obtained the best result of having their curiosity satisfied as they had hoped, were also smiling and boarding the sightseeing train to the canyon.

The number of viewers had increased even more in the meantime, growing to about 1000.

‘Haa….’

Not the average viewership, but the peak viewership is 1000 a few weeks after starting the broadcast in earnest?

I’m sure that there are less than 30 people in the Internet broadcasting world who have set this kind of record without a cam.

It’s a series of unbelievable things.

To maintain the current upward trend, I have to keep my mind focused and work hard.

The Favorite Editor.

To make the determination more certain, I rolled the newly acquired precious title in my mouth.