Shall We Try It? Let's See What Happens
Honey Eos's stream title had changed to Let's Duo in Rul with the Employee Who Caused the Broadcast Accident!
[What are you doing, Yeon-ha? You haven't introduced yourself to the viewers yet!]
“......”
And my name had somehow changed to Yeon-ha as well. What was this? A bug? I didn't recall submitting any name change request recently.
“What?”
They were telling me to cause another accident today? If I did that it would mean full-on breeding or debut, no question.
Personal tax independence? The moment I even breathed the word “independent” they would confiscate my internet and smartphone on the spot. The breeding would just be extra.
“Hmm……”
In my heart I wanted to just vanish offline, but if I ran away any further it felt like I would end up ruining Honey Eos's stream for no reason.
I logged into League Up Legend. The game everyone simply called Rul. I typed into the chat.
Calling myself the youngest employee wasn't exactly wrong. After all, Star Live hadn't hired a single new person since me. The preparations for the third generation had been half-cancelled, after all.
Even if I caused an accident and debuted, it would never be as a third generation. The CEO had personally declared that I was absolutely fourth generation. So it would be best for these damn troublemakers to give up on a gen-three debut.
Honey Eos, who had been quietly watching the situation, finally stepped forward to move the broadcast along. But then—
Honey Eos's fandom, the Honeyz. Seeing the viewers—who were commonly called “bees” on the community—venting their desires, her eyes flipped instantly.
Matching in progress...
The matching screen began spinning again as if refusing to allow any further chatter.
Thanks to the line Honey Eos threw out to satisfy her fandom's needs, the chat atmosphere completely flipped.
This was it. As I'd said before, our fans loved it when the members played around together. Their specialty was melting the Arctic. Their nickname was Polar Bear Killers.
“No, do these bastards not have jobs?”
Chats that clearly crossed the line kept popping up here and there, yet they were all still alive and well. Or was the censorship on this platform much looser than I thought? While pondering whether I should raise the intensity level on the next project plan because the moderation policy here differed from what I expected──
Matching has been found.
The match was found. Naturally the position was bot duo. Honey Eos would be the carry, I would be support.
Honey Eos saw the ID “EOYUSI” locked in as blue team’s first pick and asked urgently.
Hyeji? Grab? Sapa? ……What a joke!
It might sound arrogant, but I had plenty of confidence. The basis? This wasn’t my rank bracket anyway.
Honey Eos was a typical FPS player. Her mechanics were quite good, but her vision was extremely narrow and she couldn’t read teamfight setups at all in this AOS genre. She was basically trash. Thanks to that, even though she had played League Up Legend for quite a long time, her rank was only Iron 1. Compared to reaching the celestial realm in FPS, it was the reverse celestial realm.
On the other hand, even in seasons where I barely played I was at least Gold. If I actually played a bit I could easily hit the lower end of Diamond. If I went even a little serious, I could even aim for the rank commonly called Master.
If we had duoed on our main accounts there might have been some variables, but the account I was using now was a level 30 account the company had obtained through a promotional contract with the game company. Its rank was only Silver 4. Even if the queue matched us to my account’s tier, it was still well within the range where I could stomp.
“Lucian?”
The black dual-pistol character, Lucian. A short-ranged auto-attack dealer who had to pressure enemies quickly from the early to mid game to generate leads. Due to its skill structure it had great synergy with the so-called “Hyeji” supports that simply sucked honey from the side, and it was famous as the character bus drivers loved……
Asking our brainless Eos to carry with that position was a luxury. She was definitely going to become the unstoppable bus that led the team straight to defeat.
Still, from a streaming perspective that might be correct. It wasn’t that our Eos couldn’t stream; she just couldn’t play Rul. Let’s trust that streaming sense. We weren’t here to win anyway, right?
Ding!
What Honey Eos picked was Nami. A character that was literally a mermaid no matter who looked at her. A difficult support often used as Lucian’s partner even in pro matches. Among Hyeji champions she still required some mechanical skill.
Honey Eos struck a smug pose, apparently thinking she had looked quite cool herself. But my thoughts were a little different.
Yuumi. The pinnacle Hyeji champion, the insane cat bitch who climbs into the ADC’s dream and refuses to come back out.
After I picked Lucian I traded with the Nami Honey Eos had chosen.
The portraits switched and the system message rose.
“Huh?”
Before I could even tilt my head at the sudden provocation flying in from the jungle──
The top laner with top-lane syndrome twisted his body somehow to accept that.
They must have searched Honey Eos’s record; even the mid laner was agreeing.
Well, our Eos’s record really was trash but……
……But this I could not agree with. No, if it was a combo that had to win lane, didn’t that mean you had to keep watching their back? The game was supposed to be won where we were strong! You deep-sea bastards!
Ehey! Stop! Eos! Hold it in a little! You’re the face VTuber of Star Live! If you’re going to curse, do it with your mouth, not in chat!
No, you crazy bitch! Just yank out the Enter key! Don’t play along with them like you belong in the deep sea!!
“……This is driving me crazy.”
I had planned to adjust my skill level moderately to match Honey Eos’s stream, but the situation refused to leave me alone.
The mission the CEO had given me today was to cheer Honey Eos up.
“Haa……”
It was obvious at a glance that she was genuinely furious. Even if I didn’t go to one hundred percent full power, I would probably need to bring out at least eighty percent.
League Up Legend. An AOS game played on a canyon divided into three lanes—top, mid, and bot—where the first team to destroy the enemy base wins. Unlike the one-on-one top and mid lanes, bot lane is uniquely played two-on-two.
The reason was to stably grow the weak early-game auto-attack carries known as AD carries by attaching a support to them.
In other words, [You know? Bot lane is entirely on the support.]
In the early two-on-two bot fights, the support’s ability mattered more than the ADC’s. And I knew exactly how to win those fights.
The enemy bot, as expected from the deep sea, was Vayne and Blitzcrank overflowing with carry greed. Unless they got pulled by the grab that yanks the character every cooldown, even if Nami played with her feet we would win──
Whoosh──!
“?”
The moment our eyes met—hello! Blitzcrank’s grab shot straight toward me.
Swoosh── Was it the specs of a typical TS girl? Every single frame of the Blitzcrank hook flying toward Nami was clearly visible. So clear I could distinguish each individual frame.
“This much is……”
I lightly moved the mouse to dodge Blitzcrank’s grab.
Grab!
……The hook caught Nami’s body.
“Huh?”