The First Lesson: It's a Team Game

The two of them had been giggling for quite a while before finally calming down and suggesting we start the stream.

"Ah, ahaha……."

The Jireongis urged us to start broadcasting already. I forced an awkward smile, turned on the stream, and pulled up the PPT I'd made while chatting for the past hour.

"H-here, I uploaded the PPT to screen share!"

"Akari-nim was late, so I made it during that time……."

Feeling bad for hurting her feelings, I told her it was just a joke and wiggled in front of the PPT to check if I was properly on camera. Both of them said it looked good and that they liked it.

"Ahem…!"

Embracing my nervousness, I revealed the rather plain-looking PPT since I hadn't had much time to prepare.

"…Ah, th-that sounds good."

"Her skill isn't sloppy." Yeah, writing that down is definitely a good idea. After giving a thumbs-up to the genius-level Jireongi, I quickly hit edit and added the note. The finished PPT had a white background.

"Th-then I'll begin the lecture…!"

Receiving cheers from Yeon-a and Haram, I smiled proudly while sweating nervously and flipped to the next slide.

"F-first of all, um… they said to call this the first lesson…? Uh, uh why?"

"Th-this is the first lesson… um, Kits-nim, could you… r-read it for me?"

"Good job."

Smiling at the people cheering me on, I began explaining the game EoW.

"Eo-EoW is… currently the most popular AOS genre game."

"Ahem!"

Clearing my throat, I explained the basics just in case there were people who didn't know. First point.

"EoW is a 5v5 team deathmatch game…!"

Sighing at the identical chat messages appearing, Yeon-a confirmed it was indeed a team game. Meanwhile, Haram had completely blended in with the viewers. Wondering how to make people understand it was a team game, I asked Yeon-a and Haram about their tiers.

"K-Kits-nim, what tier are you?"

"What about Akari-nim?"

Concrete evidence.

"Everyone… d-did you see? You have to at least recognize it's a team game if you want to climb even a little higher……."

Just as I was feeling proud that I'd gotten the point across, a rather serious voice rang out.

"Eh…?"

Haram started apologizing for real, sniffling. She must have thought she'd gotten on my bad side. I quickly waved my hands and told her to calm down.

"C-calm down…! It was just a joke."

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"Yes, I like you, so stop now."

Amidst the laughing people, I cleared my throat again and continued explaining the game.

"Anyway… yep, and EoW is a game where you win by scoring 50 points……."

"Just score 50 times on the enemy team… yes, that's right, so it's easy."

"It's easy."

A death game where you win by scoring 50 times on the enemy team. Of course, you also have to level up in the process, and there's a lot to do.

"And neutral monsters… aka monsters appear."

The people saying that and roughly naming things. I smiled awkwardly and ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠nodded.

"Th-they did name it pretty roughly."

Haram agreed with me. Leaving her behind, I continued the lecture.

"Anyway… the key is to hunt these creatures to level up early on. Of course, you also get experience from killing enemies, but… the efficiency isn't great."

Questions flying into the chat. Yeon-a repeated them as if reading them aloud.

"Ah, good question… yep, when you hunt creatures or get kills, coins come out, and you can use those to upgrade your stats."

Yeon-a was asking questions to the best of her ability even though she already knew everything. Her effort was both touching and funny, and I couldn't help but laugh.

While everyone was laughing, a rather serious voice rang out.

Haram's shocking level of common sense. With that level, she could achieve the feat of getting the lowest tier in her first placement. I almost let out a gasp of admiration but barely held it in.

"D-didn't they teach this in the tutorial?"

"……."

I once again felt how terrifying Bronze could be. No, lumping Haram together with Bronze might actually be rude.

"…L-let's just move on."

Completely flustered, I said that and hurriedly flipped the slide.

Next came explanations about creature hunting methods, early-game skirmishes, and late-game teamfights. To summarize briefly since it was a bit long: early-game skirmishes require a lot of caution. If you grow by hunting creatures, all team members will have their basic skills unlocked around the 2-minute mark, and that's when skirmishes become possible. From the mid-to-late game onward, you have to group up as much as possible and fight teamfights against the enemy team.

"…In the early game, spawn locations are different so it's hard to group up, right? In the late game, you have to stick together as much as possible."

Haram asked while saying that.

"…Supports can choose which ally to drop with before the game starts."

"……."

Haram blamed Yeon-a. Flustered, Yeon-a protested that it wasn't her fault.

While the two cats were fighting over territory, I blankly stared at the chat to catch my breath.