Chapter 95
Chapter 95
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 95
Chapter Title: Who Gains and Who Loses?
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Who really came out ahead, and who took the hit?
The prize for first place in each match was a whopping 4 million won.
That's 1 million won per person—a pretty sweet payout for a one-day casual tournament.
But even with Embot on our team, the guy with the monstrous aim that's the talk of the town, snagging first place wasn't going to be a walk in the park.
Every enemy team had at least one top-tier Battle Lounge veteran lurking in their ranks.
💬 Comments — Viewer Yo Hangover bro, if you set a mission like that, this troll queen's gonna mess it up again!!! — Viewer We're screwed — Viewer Super virgin screech!!! — Viewer "Make Embot curse" <- That mission would've been an easy clear. — Viewer For real lol — Viewer Uh oh, cult leader's movement got weird — Viewer Twitch twitch twitch twitch — Viewer Just stay lying on the floor, plz — Viewer Scared she's gonna sudden accelerate — Viewer True, but staying still means no mission clear lol — Viewer Endure it? Can you endure this? — Viewer I'd fire without holding back ㅇㅇ. ...Don't get the wrong idea.
I'm not saying I'll intentionally troll to clear the mission.
I'm just saying I'll act a bit more boldly to clear it.
To get praise from Embot, after all...
I have to do something that's actually helpful to the team, right?
No more sloppy floor-kissing.
I stepped out from cover, gun raised high, scanning for enemies...
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Ugh, Ex, ugh, Ex."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ 'E-Zia520' has been knocked out by 'ParyPery''s SSR. 💬 Comments — Viewer Aw man, told you not to leave cover lolololol — Viewer That's why Excal sis said deep kiss the floor — Viewer Just stay still plz lololol — Viewer Fr, staying still = full player contribution here — Viewer Hmm... but she's a streamer. Endure this? — Viewer Throw it awaaaay ...Couldn't endure it.
I hadn't done a thing, but four DMR shots to the head and I was down.
[Ugh, you again, Lee Jia?]
💬 Comments — Viewer PaintHam lolololol — Viewer He's starting to heat up lolololol — Viewer Endure Lee Jia trolling, difficulty LV.99 This was my second knockout.
And now Paint was straight-up talking down to me without honorifics.
I'd gone down outside cover—a spot so dangerous that smoke was essential to revive me. Paint popped two or three smokes right away.
Meanwhile, Embot and White General pinned the enemies while Paint revived me.
Thanks to that flawless teamwork...
I came back to life.
"Ah, thanks..."
Bang!
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ 'E-Zia520' has been knocked out by 'ParyPery''s SSR. "Guhk."
[Ugh!!! Even talking's getting old now!]
Unfair.
This was some next-level unfairness.
I was quietly using a medkit inside the smoke, not messing around—and bad luck, another headshot.
The snowball rolled big.
Paint overextended to revive me again...
And ended up knocked under enemy focus fire.
Seemed like every team around was piling on us.
This time, Embot and White General showered us with smokes and saved our asses.
Embot, Paint, White General.
Those three together could wield the firepower of at least five players.
The fastest path to victory would've been ditching me clean and fighting the enemies.
But since this was a streamer tourney, not a ranked match, they burned smokes every time I hit the dirt to revive me.
The result?
[I'm out of smokes.]
[Ugh, Lee Jia!]
[...Me too now.]
They'd burned through every last smoke grenade.
If you had to pick the most OP item in Battle Lounge, it'd be smokes hands down.
They create cover out of thin air, even on open plains.
No need to explain how crucial they are.
And those precious smokes...
Were all gone because of me.
[...We're screwed, right? Might even come last.]
Embot muttered, and Paint and White General fired back.
[Yeah. Total bullshit circle luck. No smokes, we're done.]
[30 seconds left. We gotta body-block into the safe zone no matter what.]
"Heh."
Listening to my teammates, I grinned.
💬 Comments — Viewer Laughing? — Viewer She's insane — Viewer Team's losing and she's laughing!!!! I had to laugh.
Because right now was...
The perfect chance to earn Embot's praise.
I declared boldly to my teammates.
"I've got four smokes! One for each of you."
To fulfill my role as the level 4 bag, I'd packed grenades and smokes instead of ammo.
Paint lit up and replied.
[Oh, even worms roll when they have to! Nice one, Jia!]
"..."
💬 Comments — Viewer PaintHam lolol — Viewer PaintHam can't hold back — Viewer Back to polite speech lolol [Toss us the smokes, Jia.]
Toss them?
Not hand them over...
But toss, right?
I double-checked with Embot.
"Toss them? All of them? Where?"
[Yeah, all of them. Right in front of me...]
"Yep."
Tick.
Tick.
[No, w-wait! I meant hand them over, not toss...]
Whooshshshsh.
Whooshshshsh.
Tick.
I'd tossed two smokes and pulled the pin on the third when...
I paused at Embot's panicked voice and replied.
"Why?"
[Ah.]
[...We're fucked.]
[...Embot, that's on you.]
"...?"
I had no clue.
He said toss them.
I tossed, and now the vibe's all weird.
Whooshshsh.
The one in my hand went off too.
Soon the smokes started enveloping us.
I said to them,
"This makes me worth one full player, right?"
[...]
[...]
[...]
No idea why.
But none of them answered.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ First match.
Final rankings.
1st: Team 3
2nd: Team 4
3rd: Team 9
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10th: Team 7
A disastrous result.
Even with bottom-tier 3 Lee Jia on board, Team 7 was the top contender.
Bad circle luck aside, last place was inexcusable.
Team 7's downfall boiled down to two things.
First.
The other teams tacitly allied to gang up on us openly.
Teaming was fair game in this no-holds-barred tourney, and we were the strongest squad.
Getting dogpiled was inevitable.
Second.
Team 7 had Lee Jia.
Smokes wasted because of Lee Jia.
Ammo wasted because of Lee Jia.
Visibility wrecked by Lee Jia's smoke bullshit.
Embot, blaming himself, said,
"Paint hyung, White General hyung, and... Jia. Good work, everyone. Shame we lost."
[What a shame.]
[Still fun though. Pure entertainment? This place takes the cake.]
Despite last place...
Paint and White General were grinning ear to ear, buzzing with excitement.
Simple reason.
We lost because of Lee Jia.
But the stream blew up thanks to Lee Jia.
She was a collab cheat code for broadcasts.
Every word and action during the game was pure gold for content.
Team 7 snagged the most relay threads on the community boards.
Her stellar noobery doubled—tripled—average viewers.
So Paint and White General were all smiles despite the loss.
It was fun too, sure.
But viewership and fun aside, Embot—who lived for Battle Lounge—couldn't just laugh it off.
[Ughhh...]
He hemmed and hawed.
[Sorry...]
Lee Jia mumbled an apology.
Embot waved it off.
"No, I was the worst. You did great, Jia."
Courtesy words, empty flattery.
But partly true.
Embot's fault for not realizing pre-game how utterly godawful Lee Jia was at Battle Lounge.
He figured viewers hyping her as subhuman were exaggerating or trash-talking.
They weren't.
His fault for ignoring viewer advice through gritted teeth.
That final smoke fiasco? Embot's poor wording.
Who to blame?
Of course, if Lee Jia had any common sense...
Even with bad instructions, she wouldn't have tossed smokes like that.
Tossing ahead in the direction of travel, not where you're standing—that's basic.
But she wasn't human.
...Yeah.
Embot's fault for not clocking she wasn't human.
So he kept force-feeding her praise.
He was a VTuber mask-breaker pro, but not rude.
Match over—no need to sour the mood.
As he force-praised her...
[Oh, that praise just now counts, right?]
"..."
Lee Jia came at him with the mind games again.
Embot recalled getting mentally bodied by her earlier.
No upside to clashing psyches with her.
Trembling, he finally spoke.
"...Yes."
Embot's white flag.
[Aigoo, Hangover lost 1 mil...]
Snip.
Lee Jia's mic cut late.
[Mission cleared?]
[Looks like it. Something like 'Get praise from Embot.']
[Lmao, that was hilarious.]
[Right? Jia's a riot. Oh, not human, yeah?]
Lee Jia: Nabbed 1 mil mission prize.
Gain.
Paint & White General: Viewership and fun, double win.
Gain.
Embot: Lost the game, lost the mind games, mask intact.
Loss.
Overwhelming loss.