Chapter 33: How did you live like that?

Half of the season is over.

ST3’s record is undefeated.

It’s an impeccable record.

“True, you won the last match of Round 1, do you have anything to say to the fans?”

At the announcer’s question, I smiled brightly and opened my mouth.

“I don’t know about other teams, but I think I put in a little more effort to catch Milky Way.”

As I said that, I tapped the logo on my uniform with my fist, and a thunderous cheer came from the audience.

“Come to think of it, True, you were a fan of ST even before you were a prospect, right?”
“Yes. So, it’s refreshing to meet Milky Way again after a long time and play a game again.”
“…After a long time?”
“Oh, no, that. I met Milky Way’s FiloDog in solo queue before, and I think today is an extension of that in a way. I don’t want to lose anything related to Milky Way. I would appreciate it if you could understand it like that.”
“Ah. Yes. It’s a very True-like answer, who is sincere in every game!”

That was close.

This should have been the first time I faced a team using the team name ‘Milky Way S’.

“Then let’s move on to the next question. Who do you think will be the Player of the Match today?”
“Me.”

There’s no need to worry.

In one set, I did a one-man show, and in the other set, I delegated brainpower to Ox and did laning and teamfights.

If I don’t get it, I’ll go to the broadcast booth and cry.

“You don’t even hesitate?”
“Yes. I’m curious if it will be unanimous or not, but I don’t expect that because I think one or two votes from the analysis desk or the observers will go to Ox.”

As expected, the POM—Player of the Match—that came out soon was me, and two votes went to Ox and Fluke, respectively.

“As far as I know, you get extra pay if you receive the POM or win, True. Now that all the games in this round are over and you’re on break, where do you plan to spend that money?”

My teammates next to me looked at me with a look of subtle anticipation.

It’s like picking the bone marrow of a flea—though it’s true that I make a lot of money.

“…First of all, we have to have a team dinner.”

At that, the teammates next to me cheered, let alone the audience in front of me.

I’m glad they didn’t hug me.

“And the rest, I’m going to give it back to the ST fans among my viewers in the form of goods.”

For reference, it’s true that I’m doing this because I have money to spare.

Actually, I had nowhere to spend money after entering the dorm.

I didn’t eat late-night snacks in the first place, and the only thing I spent money on was high-end alcohol, but if I eat that with this body, I’ll be cut from ST.

And, ST goods aren’t cheap.

Honestly, if my allowance wasn’t generous, it would take general students several months of allowance without spending a penny to buy one uniform.

“Now, then, the last question for our players, what are your plans for this break?”

Normally, only the player who received the POM would be interviewed, but today, since it was the last day of the round, all the members of the winning team were still on stage.

“I’m going to go see LOCK games, and I’m thinking of turning on the stream more often. Of course, I won’t play other games, only LOCK.”

At least I won’t play horror games. Horror games.

After a moderate answer, the microphone was passed to Ox.

“I have to keep playing LOCK.”
“You have a lot of passion, don’t you?”
“No, it’s also that, but. Eunseol…no. Never mind. Anyway, please look forward to the next round.”

When I smiled brightly and looked at him, Ox immediately lowered his tail.

“Now…ah! Then next! Shall we move on to Fluke?”

The veteran announcer naturally passed the microphone to Fluke along with the laughter of the audience.

“It’s not over until the season is over, so I want to maintain my senses.”

If you only look at that guy’s interview, he’s already a veteran.

“Now Strike?”
“The coach told me that if I want to challenge Jiseok with concepts, I should raise my rank first, so I’m going to play solo queue all day.”

At that, the coach held his head.

Considering that Fluke and I weren’t there last season, I can imagine what the team’s condition was like.

“Ah, am I not supposed to say this?”
“You, let’s see each other at the dorm later, Bongil.”
“Ack.”

So while the coach was messing up Strike’s hair.

“Lastly, Bell?”
“I also have no intention of resting. I have to be higher in rank than the spoon.”
“……”

I think our team takes out the filter in their brain and talks in interviews, except for Fluke and me.

Bell, that guy, gives the necessary orders just fine in-game, but his voice gets louder when it comes to the AD Carry.

I guess the number one priority for our team during the break is not doing other things, but taking classes on interview skills and public speaking.

Anyway, that’s how the interview ended.

“Shall we go eat?”
“Shall we eat meat?”
“Then Bongil, you go first and grab a seat.”
“Why me.”
“You were very good at going first with Kai’Sa earlier.”
“……”

As expected, you have to raise the AD Carry strongly.

—Go away, you LOCK maniacs who are crazy about flame wars

└Worship
└The god who came to end the f*cking bait…
└?? : Master League, you guys are noobs
└True wouldn’t say that…
└lololol She can’t say she won’t, she just won’t say it
└Honest fan is True average lol
└1 tank = 3 high school girls, so a middle school girl would be scarier
└lololol
└But is it right to eat the gallery with an undefeated Master League, not anything else?
└If you’re jealous…you know?
└If you’re a Milky Way fan who’s pissed off because you got beaten, give me a like lol
└???? : Our team is the strongest because we scraped together all the promising players
└It was actually just a slop bucket~
└lololol

└Damn
└ST fans shaking
└What What
└She just takes down Envy there
└Didn’t she call the hunter to take it down, so it’s invalid?
└It’s the idiot who used Flash to try to catch him without even knowing where the opponent’s hunter was
└lololol
└But if you look at that movement, it’s really desperate movement
└Pretending to be flustered after getting hit by the chains, and then immediately charging back is cool
└It’s luck
└Didn’t you hear the in-game voice
└It’s all planned lol

No fabrication. 100% True True
└lololol
└The fact that True talks rudely to that weightlifter is legendary
└Actually, if someone else said it, they would have been folded already
└lololol
└It’s possible because it’s True…
└But it’s really amazing that a middle school student says that there
└She tells them to pick, saying she’ll do everything
└It’s not chill to explain in detail why Kindred is good here<–Not Chill
└Then fold<–Concise. No need to explain
└lololol
└Fact) She really did everything
└It was a game that made me feel a new that if you delegate the brain, you raise your tier by 2
└Ox, lol, was it really your first time playing Kindred???
└Then do you think Ox has the intelligence to do that?
└(Ox_highlight_from_last_season)
└?????
└He catches it with amazing physicals, but why does he go back to the tower and get hit two more times
└lololol
└Skill distance control is amazing, but tower distance control is lol
└Ah lol There’s no tower in the Twisted Treeline lol
└It’s amazing that True made that a person

—Please hurry up and get out of here to any 1st division team (somewhat fabricated).
└As expected, blurring the clear water is True average lol
└But I think the coach will go crazy
└Considering that the ban-pick was countered, Milky Way’s kids did pretty well, but they were just overwhelmed by True from the mid-game
└It’s really absurd that that’s a rookie who debuted this season
└The coach who messed up the ban-pick should leave first, don’t say bad things
└Um
└??? : I didn’t know that even Kindred could be delegated
└The coach is frustrated
└lololol

—Organizing Ox’s path + telling the gank timing + carrying teamfights + catching vision + checking the entire map + cleaning up the mess made by the throwing AD Carry, etc.
└True’s mom, how did you live like that
└It’s even more today than other days…
└It seems like it’s more because the hunter is Kindred
└Is this what a carry roll is
└There’s a reason why True, even though she doesn’t say it well, is most affectionate to Fluke among the ST3 teammates
└lololol
└Ah lol He earns on his own without intervention lol
└Honestly, if even the top lane was in the state of last season, True would have thrown and gone to Milky Way
└lololol

—FiloDog.
The guy who could have been the only savior of Milky Way S…
└If you lowered your score a little by playing ranked games moderately and got matched with True once in advance
└lololol
└ST snatched it away while you were worry about this~
└If FiloDog hadn’t been solo killed by Fraud at that time…
└What
└Are you now cursing Milky Way’s legend FiloDog, who gave Fraud his first kill in his LOCK debut match in the first set
└Um lol
└If you’re this kind of guy, give me a like for the worst
└lololol

—?? : Let me enjoy the last one too
└lololol
└Okay…if that’s it
└Noona is smiling in the end
└A really smiling face is so pretty
└What will happen if someone throws a lot of shit in the finals and loses 5 games, but True, who carried them, cries
└Capital punishment
└It’s capital punishment
└Die
└Just die
└Just die
└lololol
└Don’t even worry lol
└You can’t go out to the arena and you’ll be torn to pieces
└It’s all a joke, but this seems real…
└The guy who messed up has to pack his bags and flee to the overseas league
└The only way to survive lololol