Chapter 10 – 10. Selling With the Body (1)
5 to 0.
In other words, it is called the Five Great Rice Cakes. It was a score that occurred when a 1v1 mirror match was played with a character other than Artemis.
“……”
Ryu Seo-yoon, who came out of the capsule, said nothing.
It was an unbelievable gap compared to how she almost scored 0:5 with Artemis until yesterday.
“Ryu Seo-yoon.”
“Yes…”
When I called her, she closed her eyes tightly.
Because now you know what’s going to happen.
Just yesterday, even when the score came out 1 to 4, I couldn’t avoid my selling.
But today, the score came out 5-0, so it was obvious what would happen to him from now on.
And she was right.
There was no way I would miss a perfect selling opportunity like this one.
“It sucks. I hope it will be like this…”
“……”
“It’s really at the level of bugs except for Artemis.”
“Bur, spoiled… “
“Do you speak now? It’s a pity that I didn’t think about practicing except for Artemis, even though the situation was at this point.”
“……”
“If you have a mouth, make an excuse.”
[I sold Ryu Seo-yoon. Increases her growth rate by 15%.]
[Ryu Seo-yoon’s obedience has increased by 5.]
[Acquired 2 selling points.]
Ryu Seo-yoon opened her mouth with a moist voice.
“Ah, because Artemis couldn’t do it… Because I can’t do it, I keep not doing it…”
“Ugh! Where are you talking back?”
“……”
Let her speak and ask her to talk back!
Gaslighting, which is most commonly used in Korea, shined again this time. Ryu Seo-yoon’s expression darkened a little.
“Is Ryu Seo-yoon still a pro gamer? If you’re not going to try, she’s a pro gamer, give up.”
“…That’s not okay.”
“Then what are you going to do? There isn’t much time left before the tournament, but at this rate, thanks to Ryu Seo-yoon, it looks like we’ll be eliminated without winning.”
“I will practice right now.”
“Practice is natural.”
Is it because of the continuous selling over the past few days?
The atmosphere within the team was becoming natural for Ryu Seo-yoon to be sold.
This may be because the intensity of selling is still at a spicy level.
I gradually thought that it would be okay to sell at a high level.
“I don’t think this will ever happen.”
He glanced at his teammates and said.
“I tried to lighten the mood with a little respect if you showed yourself to be improving… “
Was that something you respected?
Embarrassed emotions were shown on the faces of the team members, but they continued to talk while ignoring them.
“At this rate, let alone the 3rd division, we will not be able to reach the level of amateurs. From now on, I will treat you more harshly. First of all, I will use short words for you. I’m the eldest anyway, so you won’t mind, right?”
“Yes.”
There was no answer other than white, but it could be considered as an agreement.
If you speak casually, the contempt the other person feels is doubled.
That means that the effect of selling is multiplied.
“Ryu Seo-yoon.”
“Yes…”
The tone was definitely colder than before.
Ryu Seo-yoon trembled and lowered his head.
“Now you know how much of a dick you are.”
“……”
“If you do it this way, there will be no contract like I said before.”
“That, that… Yes… All right.”
“Let’s do it well”
Tuk-tuk.
She patted her on the shoulder and then she got up.
[I sold Ryu Seo-yoon. Growth rate increases by 30%.]
[Ryu Seo-yoon’s obedience has increased by 5.]
[Acquired 3 selling points.]
And the desired reward came.
Again, the power of half words.
Her blushing cheeks made it clear that Ryu Seo-yoon’s sense of contempt had intensified as she bowed her head.
After that, I went to team practice.
###
The corporal punishment time came without fail.
Ryu Seo-yoon came to my room again this time in comfortable sweats.
Sticking her hand through her sweatshirt, she cast her gaze at the cane on her desk.
“…I can’t.”
“What?”
“I can’t because it hurts.”
She said in her voice.
I snorted.
“If you think it will hurt, you should have won today.”
“How can I win when I can’t… “
“That’s right.”
I got up and walked over to her.
Her eyes met mine, and she averted her gaze.
“You can’t win because you can’t. Bugs, trash, lack of skills, even bad character.”
“……”
[I sold Ryu Seo-yoon. Increases her growth rate by 10%.]
[You have acquired 1 selling point.]
Ryu Seo-yoon bit her lips tightly.
She could tell how she felt without looking into her heart.
The area around her large eyes gradually began to turn red.
“Isn’t that too harsh? I work hard on my own, so I can cheer you on at least once.”
“……”
It seemed that her true feelings were gradually being revealed.
In fact, she is probably the most frustrated by her not improving her skills.
On top of that, the guy called her coach always swears and beats her, and her teammates are only unhelpful guys, so the loneliness and despair she must have felt was beyond imagination.
I put her cane down and made her sit in her chair.
And after serving her a cup of tea, she took a seat opposite her.
“One month.”
“…?”
“Just wait for one month.”
She threw a questioning gaze at my words, which I couldn’t understand.
“If you do as I say, your skills will definitely improve.”
After several days of continuous selling, her growth rate was consistently above 50%.
Thanks to that, among her stats today, her mental, cooperative, and judgment stats all rose by 1.
“Does this really improve your skills? How can you believe that…”
But she can’t help but feel insecure because she can’t see her stats.
A drop of her tear fell down her cheek.
She, who had been resolutely enduring until now, showed her weakness in the end.
I wanted to hug and comfort this poor girl, but I held back.
“I will wait for you.”
“……”
“Until you grow up. You will always be my player.”
Seoyoon Ryu answered while lowering his head.
“You said earlier in the afternoon that there would be no contract if you did it this way… “
You mean you remembered that?
I was taken back for a moment, but I worked hard to figure out a way to get out of her head.
“I was talking about a case where you didn’t follow my words. You said you’d do what I say. If you don’t work hard, I have no intention of keeping the contract either.”
“……”
“But I believe it won’t happen.”
Ryu Seo-yoon quietly nodded his head.
I thought I needed to give her a little more of her faith in her.
While she was doing team practice, she was giving feedback, she was analyzing the meta of the game, she was doing my job, but more than that, I needed a reason for her to believe in me and follow me.
Until then, I will continue to have doubts about why being sold leads to an improvement in my skills.
“Or are my words unreliable?”
“Oh, no. It’s not…”
“Okay. Maybe once in a while I’ll need to put my faith in you.”
I got up from her seat and approached her.
Her eyes began to widen little by little.
“I’ll tell you with my body.”
“Yes, yes?”
“Connect to the game. Let’s play a duo.”
“……”
I pointed at her capsule, which was on one side of her, with her back her blushing.
She let out a deep sigh and rose from her seat following me.
###
It was a first for her and her bot duo her.
Her tier her is around Master 900.
Considering the number of Arena users in Korea, it was an awesome-inspiring figure.
Even if it doesn’t match the tier value other than Artemis.
On the other hand, my tier was diamond 1.
That’s just about doing chin-ups.
Of course, at the level of ordinary people, the diamond tier 1 was also a monster called post-human level, but compared to the pro level, it is rather inferior.
Because thinking about it, it was a fitting story that Master Tier’s Ryu Seo-yoon should thank her for daring her to return her duo to her, but now I’m rather in the position to teach her.
[Altemanham: I’ll catch the cue.]
After confirming my tier, Ryu Seo-yoon’s voice sounded a little excited. Sensing the subtle difference, I smiled a little.
Maybe it’s because he’s still young, but the way he expresses each emotion right away is pure and cute.
[Altemanham: What does the character do?]
Queue was caught after quite a long time.
She asked in a whisper.
I answered him
[MTG Battle: Pick Hunter Atalante.]
[Altemanham: Atalante?]
Atalanta.
In Greek mythology, a girl raised by Artemis.
I don’t think there could be a more suitable character for Artemis, the one-character Chung, to choose next to her.
Soon after, when her pick order came, she appeared in the form of hunter Atalante.
Above her head her was her ID her.
‘Altemanship’
Alte is short for Artemis.
It was not a very sincere ID.
In the tournament, it was a national rule to use a nickname including the team name, but this was not the case in general servers.
I also picked a character, thinking of unifying all nicknames for general servers from now on.
The character I chose is Unicorn.
A legendary horse with horns, it is mainly used as a support in arena games.
And as a standard supporter for the so-called ‘one-deal carry’, the one-dealer riding the unicorn in the late game was no different from the formula leading to victory.
[Don’t come to the top: What is it? Is our team one-deal Altechung?]
Then someone’s voice was heard.
Since character picks had already been completed, all of the members of the team were exposed, so we could see who they were.
He was the top laner who picked ‘Palgye Jeo’ from Journey to the West.
He looked at Ryu Seo-yoon and said.
[Don’t come to the top: It’s a famous artechog. Altena Haji, why are you doing it for the first time?]
[Altemanham: I can do this too.]
[Don’t come to the top: Ha. Why do you do weird things only when you’re with me… ]
Despite her vigorous excuses of her, the game eventually dodges.
Dodge refers to a situation in which the game is destroyed by forcibly ending the game in a character pick situation.
Players who dodged will receive a small penalty, but they could save rank points by using it when it seemed impossible to win even before the game started, when something urgent happened, or when they did not catch the pick they wanted.
It was a possible technique because dodge dropped less points than lost.
In the current situation, the first case would be the case when it was obvious that you would lose without even looking at the contents of the game.
[……]
Ryu Seo-yoon was silent for a moment.
You’ve probably been through quite a lot.
This was one of the reasons why One Character Chung couldn’t easily challenge other characters.
Especially since information about one character Chung, who was in her top tier like her, spread widely among her few top users of her.
Thanks to this, many top-tier one-characters had to dig out alts and practice other characters.
I quietly took the cue again.
And after a few more dodges, I was able to start the game.
