Red Shoes Again?
The gallery was already buzzing with excitement.
—Has the gallery owner appeared on a stream? [32]
—I was gonna stay quiet but that one really got under my skin [21]
—Lmao lmao lmao the gallery owner is hilarious [12]
—What stream is that? [16]
—Hmm, maybe I should check it out. Any good? [16]
—Stop going viral you fucking NCX bootlickers [19]
—The more I hear the gallery owner talk, the cuter she seems lololol [14]
That one post became the spark.
A massive wave began to roll in.
Almost immediately, the entire gallery was flooded with threads all sharing one common target—
The so-called murder step.
It was the act of deliberately pointing out coordinates of someone they didn’t like and inciting a full-scale raid.
And they did it blatantly.
Less than thirty minutes after the stream had started.
Their own twisted little “game” was about to begin.
—Alright, time to launch the full raid.
—Stop going viral, dipshit.
—Alright~ let’s go~
ㄴ(Rolling dumpling cone)
—Lololololololololololololololol
—Alright, let’s kill this Twitch streamer CloudySky!!!
—Aigoo lol these little Celt gallery brats lololololololol
ㄴLet’s go~~
ㄴ(Rolling dumpling cone)
—Wearing those red shoes again?
ㄴWhat are the red shoes?
ㄴThe shoes that make you dance till you die.
ㄴShe’s stepping on the murder step again ㅇㅇ
—This bastard is straight-up begging to be killed lololol
—Is this guy an anti of CloudySky? He’s bloodthirsty.
—The gallery is getting dizzy with all these kills lol
—You shall pay for embracing the gallery owner… (entering the link)
—Doing it so intelligently lololol
—Pure evil lololol
—How many times are you gonna spam, dude
—What the hell is this nonsense?
—There were only ten Challenger demonic swordsmen at the time, you fucking idiot.
—This guy looks like he’s never even played the game?
—Ah, it’s that fandom again?
—Looks like they’re all flocking in.
—These bitches don’t know shit about the game but still try to bury people with half-assed game knowledge. It’s honestly pathetic ㅇㅇlol
—So transparent. So damn transparent.
—Real talk?
—Lmao I’m heading out to save our gallery owner right now, you son of a bitch.
—She was acting like that toward our gallery owner? Immediate deployment lol
—She was part of that fandom too? No wonder her face looks like it.
—I just went and her reaction was actually pretty good? Isn’t this malicious editing?
ㄴAh, I knew something was off—turns out it was another murder step? Lololol
ㄴGood thing I’m not gay or I might’ve fallen for it lol
—You dare touch our gallery owner? You’re done for.
—I was bored anyway, perfect timing.
—Alright~ let’s go~
ㄴ(Rolling dumpling cone)
—Red shoes tap dance activated immediately.
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!…! [14]
—Real-time GIFs of CloudySky giving the gallery owner massive attitude [16]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [21]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [15]
—Ah lol I was bored anyway, you came at the perfect time [13]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [8]
—Real-time GIFs of CloudySky giving the gallery owner massive attitude [33]
—Lmao this guy keeps changing accounts just to spam [14]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [23]
—Is CloudySky’s Challenger rank honestly just a water rocket? [11]
—Looks like he just wants to kill our gallery owner [24]
—‘That fandom’ put the red shoes on again lololol.......[23]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [18]
—Is CloudySky’s Challenger rank honestly just a water rocket? [23]
—Real-time GIFs of CloudySky giving the gallery owner massive attitude [9]
—When someone begs this hard, the polite thing to do is raid them ㅇㅇ [10]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [21]
—!!!!!!Hey guys please don’t raid CloudySky’s stream!!!… [6]
—This kill is packed full of malice [11]
—Did these guys get beaten up by CloudySky back in school? [28]
Ha Yunseo had many enemies.
She herself had no idea, but if you looked around even a little, it was easy to find sharp, hostile glares aimed in her direction.
They came from fans of NineStar—Heo Jaeyeon—or from users in the Celt gallery who were sick of all the trolling.
Of course, Ha Yunseo herself hadn’t actually done anything that terrible. She had simply played the game a little too well and spammed the gallery a bit because she wanted to do some 1v1s.
But reality moved on regardless of her intentions.
[Cockroach Slayer: Goro is indeed an overpowered hero.]
[Cockroach Slayer: However, Lulu is a hard counter to that Goro.]
[Cockroach Slayer: The plays Goro can make against Lulu are extremely simple and easy to predict.]
[Cockroach Slayer: Right now, it would be a miracle for Goro to even shave off half of Lulu’s health.]
—Huh…?
—This person sounds serious.
—Real talk?
—Lololololololololololololol
—Lulu is what to Goro?
—Lololololololololololololololololol
—Is being a Lulu main listed as a requirement for the regular attack build or something?
“…Lulu is… Goro’s hard… counter?”
CloudySky fell silent for a moment, lost in thought.
Normally she would have immediately denied it and argued back, but something about the statement nagged at her.
An inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
For some reason, she couldn’t bring herself to refute it.
She tried to move her lips, but they wouldn’t budge.
She recalled the 1v1 match from last time. In her mind she replayed Lulu’s movements and reaction speed that had seemed to read every single one of Goro’s actions.
……Maybe.
Just maybe, it could be true.
CloudySky found herself thinking exactly that.
But she couldn’t possibly admit it so easily.
Especially since Goro was currently the strongest hero in the game.
While Lulu was a bottom-tier hero, like a jellyfish sunk at the bottom of the deep sea.
“…May I ask why you think that?”
[Cockroach Slayer: First of all, a lot of people misunderstand this—Goro is not a character that deals damage with skills and basic attacks.]
[Cockroach Slayer: Goro uses basic defensive stance, the mid-length sword, and the passive ‘Deflect’ on Overthrow. That brief parry window lets him deflect enemy attacks and stack the short sword wakizashi.]
[Cockroach Slayer: He needs to quickly build up five stacks of wakizashi before he can output enough damage to kill Lulu in the early game.]
[Cockroach Slayer: But Lulu doesn’t give him any deflect angles. Unlike other characters, she uses all her basic attacks in the air and only lands the final hit. So he can’t use Deflect very often.]
[Cockroach Slayer: Plus, all of Goro’s attacks have obvious paths and timings. Lulu can block them extremely easily. The only way for Goro to beat Lulu is by using bug-like plays and exploits instead of standard methods. And even those will stop working once they become well-known.]
“………….”
There wasn’t a single thing wrong with what she said. In fact, even CloudySky herself had only barely managed to win by using those bug-like plays.
If those plays hadn’t existed, she probably would have lost by an overwhelming margin.
Still, CloudySky believed that those plays were also part of one’s skill. Calling them nothing but “exploits” didn’t sit well with her.
“…But even so…”
The moment she tried to offer her own counterargument—
The full-scale invasion began.