The Beast Girl's PVP Coaching

I really don't get this guy's standards at all...

These days, New Dimension is crawling with heretics. It's all because I let things slide too easily, and the heretics in Lekton Town ended up founding the World Tree Church. Thanks to that, logging in means I barely have time to breathe.

“Hmm...”

Should I call it lucky? Or unfortunate? I'd logged into New Dimension, but there was nothing visible around me.

The chat had been flooded with calls for the “Golem Challenge” for a while now. It was a trending event where players competed to see who could defeat the newly discovered field boss monster, the “Super Giant Golem,” in the Rias Empire region the fastest.

The Super Giant Golem was a boss with an absurd amount of HP and ridiculously high defense and magic resistance. But it had a weak point system, so once you fully understood the patterns, it became surprisingly manageable.

...Of course, mastering those patterns was the hard part. Still, it wasn't impossible, which was exactly why the Golem Challenge had caught on.

“I'm not doing the Golem Challenge today...”

The chat was obviously trying to provoke me. But I wasn't falling for it. I'd already decided what I was doing in New Dimension today from the start.

“Today, I'm going to do some PVP for the first time in a while...”

“Sorry, but it's not ranked games...”

“It's not normal games either... I was thinking of doing a custom match...”

“Um, well... that's not it. I was originally planning to go to the guild, pick up a quest, and do something with an adventurer vibe? But there have been a lot of requests in the Lene Gallery for PVP lessons lately...”

It had been a while since I'd done any PVP, yet the requests kept coming. Well, I guess it made sense. The foundation of my stream really was PVP, after all.

But honestly, until recently I'd wondered if I even had the right to teach anyone. That changed a bit after I started helping the Sirius team as a play coach. The fact that a pro gamer team called me in as their play coach and their skills clearly improved because of my help was undeniable.

In other words, I had an incredible talent for teaching...!

Idiot, moron, blockhead... countless malicious slanders had tormented me until today, but that ended now. The Lene fans would be left in awe by my perfect coaching.

Of course, I'd given something like a PVP lecture before... but back then I'd just reviewed my own videos and explained them to the fans. This time I'd be watching their PVP live and giving direct feedback, so it was completely different.

Well, what I'd taught the Sirius team wasn't PVP but AOS, but still.

“Hehe...”

Just imagining them realizing they'd misunderstood me all this time, apologizing, and praising me put me in a good mood already.

“So I'm thinking of giving one-on-one lessons to any Lene fan who wants to learn PVP from me...”

“There are no conditions... First come, first served. The first person who joins gets one match. You can only participate once...”

“Wait a second.”

“Rainel? There's no chat that says anything like ‘How dare a mere Ede try to teach anyone?’ right...?”

“I'll forgive you just this once. I won't let it go next time.”

I was cutting him some slack because he'd been watching since my second stream. If it had been a recent fan, I would've temp-banned him.

“Hmph.”

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...Huh? Now that he mentioned it, I did feel like something similar had happened before. Must be my imagination...?

“Anyway, I'll create a room, so anyone can join...”

As soon as I said that and created a custom PVP room, a Lene fan joined in less than ten seconds. His nickname was TerraStCandy. I was curious what it meant. His class was Hunter, and true to the Hunter archetype, his weapons were a shotgun and a single-edged saw. Depending on the skills chosen, it could vary, but in PVP the shotgun was usually the main weapon more often than the saw.

“Hmm...”

While I was pondering how best to teach him, the spectator count filled up completely. I hadn't finished thinking yet... but I guess we could just start.

“TerraStCandy, what would you like to learn...?”

Bad habits, huh.

“...From what I've seen of shotgun players so far, they usually have one common bad habit.”

“Th-the habit of stepping backward while firing the shotgun...”

I slowly shook my head at his question.

“Shotguns usually let you equip an additional one-handed weapon, right...? Like how you're using that single-edged saw right now, TerraStCandy...”

“Then obviously using both together would be better...”

Why didn't he understand something so simple? Given the shotgun's characteristics, damage increased at close range, so if you knew that, shouldn't you naturally try to close the distance?

“Plus, opponents will naturally back off because they don't want to get hit by the shotgun at close range...? So the distance maintenance happens naturally...”

“Why can't they keep up?”

“Why are you assuming you'll get hit by the opponent's attacks?”

“I-I'm the one teaching here... so everyone stop interrupting...!”

Why did they keep butting in and ruining my perfect theory? I wasn't even saying anything wrong. Shotguns deal more damage up close. Shotguns can equip an additional close-range weapon. Therefore you should obviously fight while sticking to the opponent. The opponent, knowing the threat, will back off on their own, maintaining distance naturally. If they try to close in while taking hits or aim for the reload window, you just dodge their attacks. Simple.

“Y-you guys don't know anything...”

I was the one teaching Ga-eun as his play coach. ...No. I shouldn't get worked up. They just hadn't seen the real thing yet. All I had to do was prove how perfect my theory was in actual combat.

“...TerraStCandy. Do you use any other weapons...?”

“Then please use the rapier for now, TerraStCandy. I'll show you how to fight properly with the shotgun and saw...”

Time to show them. This was how you were supposed to use a shotgun.

...Huh?