Chapter 37: The Road to the Finals.

Team Crinex was being evaluated by the majority of viewers as the team that would win in the quarterfinals.

The reason why such an evaluation came out was largely due to the result of 3 to 0 that Team Crinex and Team Smega, the two teams that met in the quarterfinals, had achieved in the scrim right before the preliminary round.

Even in my view, the power of Team Crinex, which EunSiyu belonged to, was in a higher place than Team Smega, who was their opponent in the quarterfinals.

Team Smega was a team consisting of one Challenger and balanced, moderately high tiers when the team was first formed.

On the other hand, Team Crinex was evaluated to have put strength very greatly on the carry line by forming a team with two Challengers, one Master, and two low tiers at first.

But it is different now that the finals are in front of us.

The Master of Team Crinex had become stronger by about 300 rank points, and the Mid laner, who was Silver, had sharply raised her skills at once and was now in a state where she had the skills of about the lower Platinum tier.

It was at the level of committing a score fraud.

If Team Smega is staying in the class at the time when they composed the team according to the score limit, Team EunSiyu has become a team that composed the score limit higher than other teams by dozens of points.

Really various factors are involved in what decides the victory or defeat of a war, but what occupies the biggest part is the amount of money that can be poured in.

You can apply the law that the guy with a lot of money wins even in a tremendously complex reality, so it is even more certain in the case of a much simpler game.

‘It’ll be smooth.’

While looking at the ban pick of the quarterfinals, I could draw the aspect of the game that would follow soon.

You can’t win against five tanks even if you make a near-perfect tactic with five infantrymen.

In the current case, it was not that Team Crinex, who was occupying the position of the tanks, did not have any intellect either.

The strategy in the ban pick, which seemed to have been carved out with great care by Younggiron, who used to be a professional gamer, was working quite well.

They took the picks they had been enjoying using with synergies that weren’t bad.

I didn’t feel like they would lose.

If the victory prediction using channel points had been opened on EunSiyu’s broadcast, I would have thrown the hundreds of thousands of points I had as they were on the victory side.

There was no change in the game result.

When two games had been played, the side that had obtained the right to advance to the semifinals was Team Crinex.

In the case of the quarterfinal game, it was not conducted with each of the broadcaster’s personal broadcasts turned on.

Extracting the main scenes from the game, which lasted about 30 minutes, was a very easy task.

I’m not going to add subtitles to the words of the commentators who are relaying the finals game, and there is nothing I have to do other than cutting it out to fit the flow.

In my case, I did add the personal screen that I had personally asked Yu Sieun for to the editing.

It was a method of putting the personal screen from that time in some of the moments where Yu Sieun’s play stood out among the main scenes.

In the case of AD Carries, there are many times when they are showing off flamboyant controls in complex skirmishes than what is seen on the spectator screen.

Things that are good to show with a personal screen.

Looking at the comments on the quarterfinals video that had been edited and uploaded about an hour ago, there were stories that they didn’t know when they watched it on the spectator screen, but seeing it by looking at it from a few minutes and a few seconds had a detail that was really alive, or that she was doing much better than they had imagined by seeing it directly, that were being created one after another.

I closed the window where the video was floating, feeling a sense of satisfaction that it had gone as I had intended.

And, that floating feeling soon disappeared.

It was because I realized the fact that there was already nothing to do, even though it was only 1 PM.

In the case of Team Crinex, who had played on the first day of the quarterfinals, there was a gap of one day until they played the next game, the semifinal match, now that they had confirmed the victory.

In other words, there is no game today.

There was no way to create work to do if there was no video source. It was also impossible to pull the semifinal that will be held tomorrow from the future.

‘Hmm….?’

I ran Legacy of Legend with the thought of playing solo rank or something for the first time in a while.

It was almost the time when being demoted due to inactivity was precarious, and the Grandmaster cut was also slowly rising, so I had to win a few games in order to maintain the tier.

While I was continuing to spin solo rank for several hours like that, the EunSiyuSieun account had been online in my friend list all along.

With the status message saying that I can’t receive contacts because I’m preparing for the tournament.

Sometimes, the sign that I had entered the private room also popped up.

I thought that she was preparing hard.

I also felt something lonely in the fact that I was not in that preparation process, and that Yu Sieun was working hard in a place that I didn’t know about.

‘Hmm….?’

It was a little surprising.

It doesn’t matter to the video editor what the YouTuber is doing, and in the memories of the few years I had worked, I had never cared about the life of my employer other than her broadcast.

But to be feeling this way now that I don’t know what she is doing for a moment when she is preparing for the platform tournament, which is her main job.

Since what was overflowing for Ha Eunsol, who had nothing to do, was time, I ran the room-bound philosopher mode, which I had completely sealed up for the past few months, after a long time.

The fact that I discovered at the end of that contemplation was natural and concise.

Therefore, it came intuitively.

What human time contains is life itself.

The things that have been done and the episodes containing the memories, and also the relationships with others are all contained within time.

The 5 years of time that had disappeared.

The things and episodes that had been done during that time were things that I didn’t feel much emotion even if they were erased.

But there were a few people in my memory.

Even though I had a life where I didn’t go out of the house at all, a few friends in the same industry tend to arise if you work for a long time.

For example, the people who had been sitting together when I told the story that I would change my employer if I could go back in time at the drinking party in the past.

It is impossible to recover the bonds that had been built with those people.

The Ha Eunsol who knows the people of the future and the past me in my memory are different, and the ultra-pretty girl Ha Eunsol and the Ha Eunsol who was moderately handsome at that time are different.

Since the starting points of thinking of each other will be different, even if it is a precious connection from the past, it could not be the same relationship as before.

In the first place, it is also unknown whether they will do video editing work again now that everything is already changing.

Therefore, Yu Sieun was the only connection that the current me was building.

The new and only person in all my memories now that the connection has been erased and cannot be built again.

I wouldn’t know if she was a bad human, but I couldn’t help but like her since she was the person who converges to the most angel among the people I have seen.

To the point where I would become a slightly clingy person.

‘Haa….’

Sometimes, when I roam the Internet, there are posts that say, “How about a phone call to a precious person?”

One phone call to a precious person.

The contents of the post, which I would have passed by without even looking at usually, come to mind without even being read directly.

Isn’t it because I suddenly realized that such a person has come to be, that I’m going further beyond the relationship of a YouTuber and an editor?

I recalled one good thing that was becoming an everyday routine.

The memories of dividing the work of the day while talking intimately before going to sleep when it’s the time when we have finished each other’s work.

The evening call usually starts with Yu Sieun calling me first.

I had been waiting for a phone call to come first until now since there might be a situation where she can’t receive it when I call first because she is cleaning up after finishing the broadcast after all.

But there was no broadcast today.

I had the feeling that I should call first today. When it becomes a time that it is certain that the practice has ended a little later.

A few hours later, I confirmed that Yu Sieun’s Discord status had changed from Do Not Disturb to Online and then called her.

Yu Sieun, who received the phone call, had a slightly excited voice, as if today’s practice process had been good.

Should I say that a gentle smile was dwelling in the sentences?

The start of the call was different from usual, but the contents were similar.

A conversation about what we had done today.

In my case, since the only thing to talk about among today’s time was solo rank, I mainly listened to Yu Sieun’s story about preparing for the tournament.

The story about the team carving out the ban pick as a group was interesting.

When I heard the story that they had brought in a former pro Challenger AD Carry who was Younggiron’s acquaintance to practice the bot structure, I felt a little jealous, which was funny.

As time passed like that, at the end of the conversation, I conveyed my cheer for Yu Sieun for tomorrow’s game.

“Good luck on tomorrow’s game, unnie.”

“Yeah. Thank you. I’ll definitely win.”

When Yu Sieun was answering me and ending the call, her voice felt much brighter than the phone call last time.

That was the next day.

Yu Sieun kept the words she had said last before cutting off the call with me.

Semifinal victory.

[Ah, Team Crinex… is really strong! They don’t give any openings! Team Crinex is advancing to the finals by ending it with consecutive victories up to set 2!]

While listening to the commentators giving their evaluation of the game that had just ended, I thought about the finals that would be coming up next.

The operations side of LoL-TCup put a rest day after the semifinals, making the finals be held on the weekend.

Saturday 7 PM.

It was a time when people who are finishing the weekly routine and resting at home can watch the live broadcast with delicious food or alcohol, if I were to say it nicely, and realistically, it was a time when there would be many people watching the Treech broadcast.