Chapter 77
Chapter 77
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 77
Chapter Title: It Feels Like She's Seeing a Different Screen Alone? (+ Clarification Materials)
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Not everyone who's good at games goes pro.
Even some people who want to make gaming their career end up not doing it.
What else can you do instead of going pro?
The first thing that comes to mind is becoming a streamer.
Ones was pretty satisfied with the career path he'd chosen.
Objectively speaking, anyone could see he was a successful streamer.
In a blame-the-others game where not raging while playing would be weirder—a "disease" game that the WHO classified gaming as, yet somehow leads to constant win streaks—the world's most successful game, Teamfight Arena, had that kind of notoriety shadowing it like a dark cloud.
The game's structure was like that, and human nature was too.
It's hard to recognize your own mistakes, but blaming others? That's easy.
Anyone who plays Teamfight Arena and never rages even once deserves to be called a living Buddha.
In fact, if you watch streams of TFA players, nine out of ten, ninety-nine out of a hundred—you'll see them unleashing their rage multiple times. It's a ridiculously high rate.
Of course, there are people who don't rage.
But those are mostly low-tier players, people who don't care about rank, or those who've given up on it.
I mean, if you're trying your best to climb and your teammates keep dragging you down, who wouldn't get mad?
That kind of person is rare as hell, whether in games or real life.
That's why Ones was special.
A skill powerhouse who'd held the number one rank for quite a while.
Yet he had this living Buddha streaming style—no blaming others, no cursing, barely even getting angry.
It was special enough to pull in an average of 20,000 viewers.
For a ridiculously long time, he'd turn on his stream and instantly claim the top spot in viewer count for TryIt TV's Korean broadcasts.
Lately, he'd been losing first place more often and settling for second.
But what's there to say? It was all because someone even more special than Ones had shown up.
Jeon Jeonseol—a supernova who'd been a hot topic from debut, with no downtime to call her "Hakko."
All things must pass; the living will die.
Prosperity fades; what flourishes will eventually decline.
Buddhist teachings.
So, did this living Buddha streamer accept his decline gracefully?
'This time it's that guy's friend?'
Turning his rage into power,
"Victoryyyyy!!!"
he was slamming weights at the gym.
He had to vent the stress periodically, or he'd explode on stream.
Where's a living Buddha now? He wasn't about to become one of the new Five Saints or anything.
Even after a solid workout, his anger didn't fully subside, so he ran 12 laps around the neighborhood, showered, and crashed.
Why didn't Ones go pro?
To understand that, you have to look back at the past.
The past when he'd felt an insurmountable wall even before debuting.
Before Victory debuted as a pro, Ones had never once ranked above him.
It wasn't a despair unique to him.
No one had ever stood above Victory.
Earlier, I said Ones held rank one for a long time, right?
But anyone in the know was aware.
That period was when Victory had abandoned solo queue to prepare for pro matches.
Pros like high ranks, sure.
But tournaments come first, always.
If you have to focus on one, you bet everything on the tourneys.
Only a handful of hardcore Ones stans insisted that even if Victory had tried hard, Ones still would've taken first.
Even Ones himself didn't think that.
He'd felt a wall he couldn't overcome.
But he succeeded anyway.
He became the top dog on the streaming stage.
No need to force his way into the pro scene, right?
It's like weight classes in martial arts.
If you can't be number one in unlimited, taking first in middleweight ain't bad.
If you've carved out a solid spot as a streamer, that's success.
Looking at Wild solidified that mindset even more.
Who was Wild?
Probably the second-best TFA player in the world.
And yet, he got mocked every day as "Murda."
Why? Perpetual second place. Always second.
There's even research showing silver medals bring less satisfaction than bronze.
How must someone feel who's second their whole life?
A life blocked by one genius, forever denied gold.
Ones had been content with that.
Comforting himself that way all along.
But now, another wall had appeared before him.
Jeon Jeonseol.
At first, he thought it was just a temporary hype wave.
But she was like an onion—peel one layer, and another weird weapon pops out.
Before he knew it, Jeon Jeonseol's stream had firmly established itself, claiming first in viewers every time she went live.
Still, it was fine.
Five days a week.
Just four hours a day.
Even if he lost some viewers during overlaps, it was okay.
Once she logged off, they all swam back to his stream like salmon.
But now? It wasn't okay anymore.
Five days a week.
Eight hours a day.
Double broadcast time event? What the hell?
Is she trying to kill off all the small streamers?
And that wasn't even the end of it.
It wasn't just eating up the streaming pie anymore—she was showing up in Teamfight Arena too.
Ones was rank 7—a solid rank for a skilled player.
Up until now, they'd rarely met because Jeon Jeonseol's rank was low.
But after she declared her number one run and cracked the top 50, they kept running into each other.
And after facing her, he felt that same wall again—the one he'd felt against Victory.
Is this what they mean by "no paradise in the place you flee to"?
[Anonymous donated 1,000 won.] ─"How the hell do you get over 80% win rate in a 5v5 game? Everyone else is ranking too, but she's two tiers above." Three losses in a row against Jeon Jeonseol.
A devastating blow that dropped him from 7th to 9th.
And in the midst of that, getting a donation that sounded like it was praising the enemy—Ones nearly lost his mask.
The living Buddha mask he'd forcibly maintained through all his efforts.
But he had to keep it on.
Why do viewers watch this stream?
For the clean, skill-focused content.
"Yeah, there's definitely something different about her. Guess the number one run declaration wasn't for show."
💬 Chat — Viewer Ones is washed up now lol, time to switch to Jeon Jeonseol's stream One chat that stabbed him right in the eye.
He felt like he was going insane.
Of course, switching to a more entertaining stream is natural— he could understand and accept that.
But why rub it in the chat before leaving?
To tell me this sucks?
What the hell did I even do wrong?
[Anonymous donated 100,000 won.] ─"Not blaming teammates and acknowledging enemy skill? That's so cool, Ones-nim. Always enjoy your streams." — Viewer Fr, that respect is respectable — Viewer He's holding back on team blame lol — Viewer His face says it's killing him — Viewer But he held it in, right? — Viewer Tuna mayo The timely financial therapy and chats barely kept him from hitting rock bottom.
Yeah, with fans cheering him on, no need to crumble over a few trolls.
He barely clung to his mentality and started approaching it from another angle.
'But if two people can do it, doesn't that mean others can too?'
Ones had felt a wall before.
He thought Victory was a genius, and he still did.
And now he'd felt another wall.
This time against Jeon Jeonseol.
Victory's rival, the one he'd acknowledged.
But unique and one-of-two feel different, right?
Having just one versus having two changes the vibe.
What if the answer was out there somewhere, and he'd just gotten scared and given up prematurely?
'A game with 10 players in 5v5. There's a limit to what one teammate can do. So what makes those two have such overwhelming win rates?'
Physical skill?
Sure, they're monsters.
Victory and Jeon Jeonseol.
Dodge everything, land everything, and yeah, you win—that's obvious.
But that's 1v1 talk.
In 5v5, there's a limit to how much physicality alone can carry.
You're just one out of ten, one out of five teammates. That alone can't pull those win rates.
The other players aren't all idiots.
They're all top-rankers, inches from the peak.
So, brainpower then?
What the hell do you have to do to win like that?
What's so different?
That question got somewhat answered in the next game when they ended up on the same team.
[Jeon Jeonseol requested support] Jeon Jeonseol: <ColdAlcohol-nim, come eat this and rotate out right away>
Ones had deliberately avoided watching Jeon Jeonseol's streams.
He figured it'd stir up ugly jealousy and a mess of emotions.
Victory's a pro, so it's fine.
I'm a streamer in a different lane, so it's fine—he'd told himself that.
But what now that a whole other league of streamer shows up in his lane?
Wish she'd just go pro or something.
But that was loser thinking.
If you don't face them, you won't even know what they look like.
If you want to be better than yesterday.
If you want to move forward instead of running.
You have to look ahead first.
No matter how scary or hurtful it is.
[Jeon Jeonseol requested support] [Jeon Jeonseol is heading over] [Jeon Jeonseol requested support] [Jeon Jeonseol requested support] [Jeon Jeonseol requested retreat] 'She gives orders non-stop. But the accuracy is insane. Like she's got map hacks or something.'
It felt like she was looking at a completely different screen from everyone else.
That's the impression Ones got.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ 📰 Clarification Recently, Seol-ah has been dealing with malicious rumors claiming she's got a childlike body, flat as a cutting board, AAA cup, etc. The cover illustration just shows her without underwear, so there's a bit of a gap. If you bulk up like everyone else and pose, you get those curves. Absolutely not a childlike body, right? Hope this clears it up. Thanks to Leutte_37-nim for preparing the clarification materials.