Chapter 47: Why is the sky

Home, sweet home, after a long time.

“Oppa. Get me some playoff tickets.”

Seeing her younger sister, who doesn’t usually call her Oppa, suddenly act so friendly, Envy, the mid laner of Milky Way, felt a sense of fear for some reason.

“Why are you asking me for a favor for once?”

Envy, who didn’t even think of his younger sister’s admirable heart to cheer for her Oppa—actually, it wasn’t—looked at Eun Chae with a look of suspicion.

“No, a friend plays there. I want to go see it, but all the tickets are sold out.”
“Already sold out?”
“Yeah. I just logged in and saw that there were two thousand people in the queue, so I just gave up.”

Except for the finals, all Master League games are held in arenas with a capacity of around a thousand people.

With a queue of two thousand people, it was right to say that it was impossible to get one.

“But what friend?”
“Eun Seol. You know, True.”
“……ST’s?”

The world is small, and it’s harsh to abandon your older brother and cheer for your friend.

“Yeah. ST’s mid laner.”
“Then why don’t you just ask her, why me.”
“Well, because Eun Seol is preparing for the playoffs?”
“Aren’t I preparing?”
“Hey, it’s different from talking like this at home. And I’ve been indebted to her recently, so it’s a bit…”

It seemed like the right words, but they were subtly off, and Envy just sighed.

“No, then you’re saying you’re going to cheer for ST. Why should I get you a ticket?”
“You know me. I’ll cheer for both. And I’ll wear the Milky Way uniform you gave me inside.”
“You’re not going to wear an ST windbreaker, are you?”
“……Maybe?”

Seeing that subtle silence, I didn’t want to get her a ticket anymore, but as sibling fights usually do, everything ended with my parents’ traffic control.

“I don’t know. Just don’t wear anything bright red in the Milky Way seats…”

Of course, although the arena is superficially all neutral seats, according to the unspoken rules of the fans, each fan is usually concentrated in a specific area.

And since a few seats in such an area are assigned as complimentary tickets for pro players, the complimentary ticket for ‘Milky Way’s mid laner Envy’ is, of course, in an area where there are many Milky Way fans.

“But there’s nothing I can do. Eun Seol is better than Oppa. I like to cheer for the winning team. Still, thank you for cheering for me because you’re my Oppa.”

I saw that last time, more than 70% of the people were cheering for ST.

As a member of Milky Way, ST’s eternal rival, it was inevitable that Envy would be scratched by those words.

“Agh. I’d rather not give you the ticket again.”
“Then I’ll tell Mom.”
“……”
“Anyway, I’ll pick up the ticket myself when you contact me. I’m going?”

The damn younger sister ran outside as if she was going to hang out with her friends as soon as she got a definite answer.

And the saddest thing.

I couldn’t refute those words.

Usually, scrims are held with teams that have not finished the season, that is, teams that have advanced to the playoffs, that are relatively unlikely to meet, and that are as high-class as possible.

“Just push. They can’t stop me.”

And the teams that meet those conditions are currently KTT and DS Gaming, and since we’ve already played a game with DS Gaming and sized them up, today’s scrim was held with KTT all day.

[The enemy team surrendered with 5 votes in favor and 0 votes against.]

And unlike games, scrims, which are practice itself, can end the game at any time.

“They surrender so quickly.”
“…If you do that with Kassadin, the data won’t be accumulated well.”
“It’s not like I can go easy on them.”

Besides, this game was because KTT’s engagement concentration was low in the river and I picked up a triple kill in that chaos.

Even if it’s me, I can’t rampage from the beginning with Kassadin if I do it normally.

“But come to think of it, why do KTT guys do so much against value so much.”

Scrims usually have no ban-pick time and are separately decided by the coaches to try out ban-pick strategies.

However, KTT demanded that we give them value picks when facing us.

“They think they’ll win against DS Gaming, and they need this if they meet Milky Way.”

Actually, KTT is a strong team from the perspective of other teams, even though a strange meme was attached to the internet community because I won with Teemo.

As such, there is a high probability that they will smoothly defeat DS Gaming, and the opponent in the final advance match—4th round—is highly likely to be Milky Way.

We won’t lose and will go straight to the finals, so it was more so.

“Then, in your opinion, do you think KTT will beat Milky Way?”
“Not really.”

This is not because I overestimate Milky Way, but because it is true.

Why would I overestimate those guys for anyone’s good?

“For now, there’s a difference in class in other lanes, and the mid difference seems to be big these days.”

Scrims can’t be watched, but I have a spy chance.

Eun Chae said that Envy is spending all day in the practice room to beat me recently.

In particular, based on those words, I watched solo queue, and certainly, the form has risen compared to the regular season.

Of course, I know best that solo queue is not a criterion for judgment, but still, when you watch it, there is something called a player’s feeling.

“But according to your words, you’re saying that you’re going to face a guy who’s at his peak?”
“My condition is a bit off, right?”
“……What?”
“I think it’s about half, though.”

I had to improve my form to face that guy Fraud again.

Envy is like a promising player from my point of view, so I have nothing to say.

“Jihwan, it’s the scariest thing that I can’t tell whether she’s bluffing or not.”
“Eun Seol doesn’t lie about Lock. It’s her judgment, so it’ll be right, I guess.”
“It’ll be easier to not worry.”

Bell sighed and stretched.

It’s a virtual space, so I don’t know why he’s doing it even though he can’t feel his body stiff.

‘Come to think of it, when was that…?’

It’s about time my stomach started to hurt.

“Okay, guys. It’s time to try the combination we prepared this time.”

At the coach’s words, I shook off my thoughts and focused on the scrim again.

ST vs KTT: 18 wins 14 losses
Milky Way S vs DS Gaming: 20 wins 6 losses
└How did you leak this?
└The author is 100% a related person somewhere
└lolololol Be careful not to get sued by the team
└It’s scrim, so they definitely played against guys they wouldn’t meet each other
└True lol
└But ST’s scrim performance is not good
└It seems like they did experimental picks
└The first few losses seem to be like that, but if you look at the date on the whiteboard, from four days ago, they lost all but one or two games?
└Um…
└That’s true
└How will this turn out
└Thumbs up if you’re excited milk dogs
└lolololol

—If this happens, can we try it because ST’s form has also fallen?
└Envy was originally the king of the Master League mid
└?? : True is hateful…
└lolololol
└They’re both good mid laners
└It’s not bad to not be blown up in the laning phase against True
└There are a truckload of guys who can’t go according to the composition when they face True
└But aren’t those words basically made up by the author with his own imagination?
└No, this guy is a related person
└How do you know
└There’s also a certified photo of him entering the Milky Way office that only related people can enter
└Oh
└Then it’s legit
└True lol

The Lock maniacs who reside in the Lock gallery, who are crazy about Lock, are meticulously bringing up even the stories of the lower leagues like a 누렁이 even when there are no LOCK games.
(Note: 누렁이 is a Korean term for a yellowish-brown dog, often used to describe a stray or mixed-breed dog. Here, it implies someone who is persistent and resourceful in digging up information.)

“Coach.”
“Why?”
“Is this scrim record real?”
“What. Who leaked this.”

Looking at the coach’s reaction, Envy put more weight on the fact that not only his team’s scrim record written on the whiteboard photo but also ST’s was not a lie.

“Sigh. First, let’s catch the person who leaked it later, and I told you to stop looking at the community.”
“It’s fun to watch.”
“You’ll have a mental breakdown.”
“I already had a mental breakdown once by my sister, so it’s okay.”

Originally, words thrown by family are more painful than colorful swear words of beasts you don’t even know.

“I don’t know if you have a strong mental or none.”
“Well, I don’t know about anything else, but I feel like I can try something this time.”

You can only know the win/loss of the scrim, but Envy realized.

The reason why the all-powerful ST, even though it’s a scrim, repeats losing streaks is only one.

‘True’s condition isn’t good.’

It was clear that the team was collapsing because the mid laner who held the center was shaken.

In the first place, no matter how bizarre the combination is, even in a game, if ST, who won after taking out Mid Teemo, lost, there was only one reason.

‘…This time, for sure.’

It doesn’t suit my personality to not win even once throughout the season.

Just once.

Even if it’s not True’s full power, if I can win just once, that’s enough.

However.

As always.

“No, you said your form is not good these days!”

Life doesn’t go as planned.