The Pure Idiot GOAT
Ah… Just a pure idiot GOAT.
Now it feels oddly familiar, but when I think about how I've never really done anything wrong on stream… something feels off. Of course, forgetting to turn the stream on during the successful raid could be considered my fault, but it's not like I can stream every single thing I do. People forget things sometimes. Is it really worth this much outrage just because I didn't stream the Albion raid?
“Ah, hello…. Phew….”
Even so, I decided to love these Lene stans anyway and opened my mouth with a smile.
“Mmm. Everyone. This afternoon, I cleared the Albion raid without the World Tree's Tear…”
“…Ah. The World Tree's Tear is, um… the World Tree's Tear.”
“V-V-V-VTuber? I-I don't know what that is…. Ah, are you perhaps talking about the VTuber Lene who has the same name as me…? Everyone, that person and I are different people…. So please don't cause any trouble for her later…?”
After calming the chat down to some extent, I tried to move on to AOS mode, which was the main reason I turned the stream on today.
Those kinds of messages caught my eye.
“I-I didn't record it. I forgot….”
Since I couldn't lie, I honestly told the truth.
Because this time it was 100% my fault… there was nothing I could say.
Unable to withstand the Lene stans' pressure, I eventually opened Notepad and slowly typed a message in the corner of the screen.
I am an idiot who forgot my promise to the Lene stans, cleared the Albion raid without streaming, and didn't even record it separately.
“Th-There….”
It was the punishment I received for forgetting to stream and record. Thanks to that, I had to stream for the rest of the day with this displayed in the corner of the screen.
“Everyone's being too much….”
“Haa….”
Of course, I admit it too. I can admit that my knowledge is a bit lacking. In my previous life I was a middle school dropout, and even while attending middle school I couldn't study properly. But that's just a lack of knowledge—there's absolutely no way I'm lacking in common sense. This time I just forgot to stream and record… Do I really deserve this kind of treatment? I thought the Lene stans were being too strict.
“Now I can really start AOS mode, right…?”
But I knew that no matter what I said now, they wouldn't listen, so I sighed and connected to AOS mode.
Jaehun, the general manager of Sirius—an MCN and esports organization—had an internet stream open. If someone saw him, they might call him a salary thief, but in reality, watching internet streams was part of his job.
No matter how much she had rejected Gaeun's offer, Lene was still the top recruitment target for every New Dimension esports team. Finding even slightly better conditions that she might accept was part of his role.
And to be honest, Jaehun thought it would be fine even if he couldn't recruit Lene as a player. No—he had completely given up on the idea of recruiting her as a player. After investigating her early streams and everything before that, he realized she had no qualities of a professional gamer…. More precisely, there was no one who could control her.
In a game genre like AOS, team composition is extremely important. A single mistake in building the composition can lead to defeat no matter how big the skill gap is. If the opponent were amateurs it might be fine, but in the end, Sirius's opponents were also proper professional gamers. Yet she absolutely refuses to accept a priest on her team, and if the enemy has a priest she goes straight for them. It's the worst play that should never happen in the pro scene.
‘Lene? Hmm….’
But what if they built the entire composition around Lene's playstyle from the very beginning? What if they implemented a strategy that invested everything in Lene, tailored only for her?
‘I should just be honest.’
That alone would become a clutch play, and her mere existence would surely make her a game-changer like Gaeun. For Sirius, who had to maintain first place no matter what, that was something that absolutely must not happen.
Of course, just because Lene was on the opposing team didn't mean Sirius would lose. But as the team's general manager, Jaehun couldn't allow even the slightest bit of anxiety to remain.
‘Well, she did say she'd never become a pro gamer…’
Of course, if someone heard Jaehun's thoughts, they might laugh and say he was worrying too much—especially since Lene had recently lost to Gaeun in PVP.
‘Still, if we can get her, we should definitely get her.’
But after hearing what Gaeun said that day, Jaehun thought she absolutely must not be left as an enemy. Gaeun was someone who always believed he would win no matter what promising player he heard about. The fact that Gaeun acknowledged an opponent and reacted like that… was definitely not a light matter. If Lene were to debut in the same mid position as Gaeun and beat Sirius…. It would be the worst scenario Jaehun didn't even want to imagine.
That was why Jaehun couldn't give up on recruiting Lene. Of course, it would be as a streamer rather than a player. In other words, watching the stream right now was part of that plan.
“Top, I suppose.”
Jaehun answered Lene's voice coming through the earphones without thinking. According to her match history, all of her recent positions had been top. But the next words from Lene were enough to surprise Jaehun.