The Bet That Could Cost Me Seven Days Off and a Female Cam Day

I was confident about this bet. After all, I was good at games. Of course, since I was currently in a state of Great Misfortune, I had to avoid any luck-based games at all costs.

Unfortunately, the Gojadan didn’t take the bait.

“Tsk. Then what game do you want?”

A decent idea popped up in the chat.

“Predicting placement tier? That sounds good.”

“I’ll pick first. Gold for me.”

As soon as I claimed first pick, the Gojadan started hurling insults. But I had no intention of changing my mind.

“If you’re mad, pick faster.”

The divination said I had the skill to reach Gold. The viewers probably thought the same and were planning to pick Gold too, but I was quicker.

“Hurry up and choose. I’m not changing mine.”

The viewers’ opinions gradually narrowed down to Silver. Not Platinum, not even Gold—just Silver? Were they seriously underestimating me that much?

“Just wait. I’ll show you what I can do.”

I immediately queued up and picked the overpowered character known as Reyna.

“Seven days off, here I come~”

I slammed the Ready button. And the result was…

“Aaaaaaaaagh!!!”

It was brutal. The problem wasn’t me. My teammates were absolute dogshit. Their aim was garbage, their skill usage was constantly off, and their map awareness was on the level of a blindfolded toddler. And then they had the nerve to turn on their mics just to flame…

It was a complete shitshow.

“Does it matter that I’m a girl?! Shouldn’t you be trying to win the game?!”

The viewers, finally sensing my genuine rage, started laughing.

I never expected Great Misfortune to affect team luck too. ‘Fine. I’ll just crush them with my overwhelming physical ability…!’

But that was nothing but arrogance.

“Aaaaaaaaagh!!!”

I had no idea what the problem was. I clearly ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠tried my hardest! So how the hell did I get two braindead teams in a row?!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

I forced down the boiling rage and swept my hair back.

“I can still get to Gold, so just wait.”

I said that, but I was starting to feel uneasy. Like in soccer, no matter how good your individual stats are, if the team collapses, there’s nothing you can do. So this match had to be a win. For that, I needed to make a big decision.

My mouse cursor moved from Reyna to Jett.

“Who do you think I am? Obviously I’ve been grinding her off-stream.”

The viewers spammed more hate messages, but I ignored them and focused on the game. First round of pistol play. I casually got two kills and won the round. After that, I kept slaughtering enemies with Jett. Her mobility was just too good. Even when the score reached 6:7, I had never dropped below half health.

This time, two enemies were coming toward me.

I used the smoke to block their vision and escaped. Time passed, and the score reached 12:12. Fucking overtime. Luckily, unlike the previous two matches that were complete stomps, this one was a fierce dogfight.

I planted the spike and died.

“Please, please…!”

I put my hopes on the remaining teammates. Unfortunately, they betrayed every last one of those hopes.

“……”

The enemies couldn’t find the spike. In the end, the defending team failed to locate it before time ran out, and the attacking team won.

“Phew… I thought we were gonna lose.”

All strength left my body as I leaned back in my chair. For a second I really thought we were done, and cold sweat broke out. I hadn’t even been this nervous during my head-on fight with the Demon King. This was the most desperate match I’d ever seen lmao

The viewers who wanted the female cam day, of course, were rooting for the defending team’s victory. Ungrateful bastards.

“It’s not going to go the way you want, everyone.”

There was no way in hell I was going to dance and act cute for the Gojadan. I was going to win no matter what!

The game started again. I moved to the rooftop and started picking off enemies. Thankfully, this match everyone on my team played well, so we won comfortably. Because it snapped our losing streak, the victory tasted especially sweet.

Having burned through a lot of stamina, I leaned back in my chair. My vision gradually darkened.

“I still have to do this two more times?”

The Gojadan made tempting offers, but I lightly ignored them.

“No thanks. I’ll start the next match right away.”

I wasn’t the kind of person who would fall for that. In my previous world, I had received all kinds of tempting offers from various countries. When it came to patience, I had confidence.

This time I picked Sage again and quickly cleaned up the enemies. Unfortunately, team luck was bad this match too. Seong-a was left speechless by her teammates’ pathetic performance.

“Fuck, is it that hard to get a single kill when I’m not around…!”

I felt like quitting the game right then and there, but I held it in. I had no idea how it was possible for the average KDA to be 7:8 while one person was sitting at 2/15/0.

“It’s probably not a smurf.”

Just in case, I checked if any of my teammates were smurfs from the start, but there weren’t any. At least not on our team. It really was just my luck being at a despairing level.

‘If this keeps up…’

I had no choice but to use every ounce of my ability.

‘Two enemies on the right curve.’

‘Two on the left.’

‘One planting the spike.’

I quietly approached them from behind and unloaded bullets into their backs. Call it cowardly if you want, but I didn’t care. I really, really didn’t want to do the female cam day.

The clueless viewers were busy being impressed.

But even if I was doing a one-man carry, it was useless.

“Goddamn it! Dead again!!!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

I smashed the shotgun again. Looking at these idiots’ aim, I had no choice.

“Sigh… Yeah, that’s true.”

My teammates were braindead, but the enemy Sage was also insanely good. The Sages I met in rounds one, two, and four strangely never targeted me and only went after my teammates. It was definitely a smurf.

I closed my eyes for a moment and divined who this bastard was.

‘The second I find out, I’m banning them…’

Then a familiar username floated into my mind.

“…Chairman?”

It slipped out of my mouth before I could stop it.

For a moment I wanted to deny it. This was the person who solved half my donation income. There was no way…

“If the Chairman is watching the stream right now, could you please answer me?”

The moment I asked, Sage’s movement stopped for a second.

“……”

‘Of all people…!’

Since the sniper was the Chairman, banning him wasn’t going to be easy. Plus, the one time I did ban ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠him before, it caused a ton of trouble with the full-donation full-rebroadcast thing. ‘Now that I think about it, isn’t this all because of the Chairman…?’

Right now, I resented the Chairman more than anyone. If he hadn’t brought up the female cam day, I could have just done a hole-in-one or karaoke stream.

I barely held back the rage boiling deep inside me.

‘Hoo, calm down, calm down…’

I currently knew the location of every enemy. No matter how trash my teammates were, I could still win. I mercilessly slaughtered the enemies, and in the end, with a one-man show, I led our team to victory in the fourth match.

“Hoooooo…”

I leaned back in my chair again. My stamina was steadily dropping. Doing all this nonsense just to avoid seven days off was chipping away at my mental strength too.

“……”

The root cause of this entire situation was sending me a million won while saying something like that. It was ridiculous.

In the end, I pressed Ready without saying a word. No matter how much of a Chairman he was, he couldn’t force me to do a female cam day. I gave it my all again this match. As expected of Great Misfortune, team luck was still terrible, but I hard-carried with another one-man show. At least the enemy team besides the Chairman was also terrible. And the result was…

We entered overtime five times in a row.

‘Ugh, I’m so sleepy…’

I rubbed my eyes, but my eyelids kept getting heavier. It had been so long since I needed to concentrate this hard. I just wanted to go back to bed and lie down. As my vision gradually darkened and my movements slowed…

Sage → Jett

“Huh?”

While I was spacing out, the Chairman attacked me from behind.

“N-no! I put the spike in the hardest place to find so we can still win…”

“……”

With the message the Chairman sent, the game came to an end.

“I-I’m definitely not Silver!”

I dropped around twenty kills every match. How could I possibly be Silver? That absolutely couldn’t happen. I closed my eyes, clasped my hands together, and prayed.

‘Please, at least Gold!’

I had lived without religion until now, but from today on I would be a devout believer, so please…!

After finishing my prayer, I clicked the mouse and carefully opened one eye.

Silver I 99

“……”

Seeing the number 99, I had no choice but to lose my mind.