[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 217

SY Practice Room.

“Hoo……”

Ryu Jin-hyuk, having finished the game, leaned back in his chair and exhaled a deep breath.

Even though it was an easy game, he had focused more than ever, so he felt drained as if he had played a match.

‘……’

Ryu Jin-hyuk, who had been lying half-reclined in the chair, slowly lifted his head.

It was because something had been bothering him throughout this game.

‘……That can’t be.’

Even as he tried to deny it, Ryu Jin-hyuk couldn’t help but be doubtful of the Outlaw’s strange behavior in this game.

‘Why, though?’

Why did he play like that?

Of course, as a result, they won the game very easily, so it could be seen that the Outlaw followed the game's flow as he usually does.

However, Ryu Jin-hyuk thought that even if the Outlaw had played like he usually does this time, there wouldn't have been much difference in the outcome.

‘…Perhaps, is he broadcasting now?’

The hypothesis that came to mind.

Although the Outlaw hasn't been broadcasting recently, he had just succeeded in being promoted to the 2nd League not long ago, so it wouldn't be strange if he turned on the broadcast.

‘…Should I check?’

Ryu Jin-hyuk briefly had that thought, then shook his head.

‘What……’

Ryu Jin-hyuk had tried hard to avoid making any misunderstandings.

He couldn't tear down the tower he had built in a single day.

‘Moreover… because of me, he might suffer any damage.’

Ryu Jin-hyuk still remembers the incident where the Outlaw was exposed to an illegal gambling site because of him.

Of course, that illegal gambling site is gone now, but there's no guarantee that a similar thing won't happen again.

‘Let’s just play the game.’

It wasn't long ago that they lost to SCV, and that SCV suffered a crushing defeat in MSL.

In that situation, if he were to watch internet broadcasts with such a carefree attitude, how would his teammates see him?

Ryu Jin-hyuk, who was about to queue up, felt a strange sense of incongruity.

‘What is it?’

Rainbow and Outlaw are friends with each other.

A long time ago, Ryu Jin-hyuk sent a friend request to the Outlaw to apologize for the illegal gambling site issue, and that status has continued.

Of course, until then, there weren't even any special greetings, and they were just friends.

Because the Outlaw on his friend list hadn't queued up, let alone been online for a while.

‘What is it?’

He wouldn't have thought it was strange if it had been normal.

It wasn't that unusual to take a light break after playing a game.

Or maybe he had other busy things to do.

But…….

Ryu Jin-hyuk thought differently.

‘Is something going on? Hmm, right. I’ll just check that. I don’t know what’s going on, do I?’

Ryu Jin-hyuk needed an excuse called reason, and he had just found one.

An excuse to rationalize himself.

“……”

Slyly, slyly.

Ryu Jin-hyuk, who glanced around the practice room, stealthily accessed the RedTV homepage like a cat burglar.

RedTV broadcasts are basically listed in order of viewers.

Therefore, the broadcast with the most viewers was naturally at the top, and it wasn't difficult for Ryu Jin-hyuk to find the Outlaw's broadcast.

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[ON AIR] [Outlaw111]

-Solo queue after a long time

[Current Viewers: 110,132]

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110,000 viewers for a normal solo queue broadcast…….

Even Rainbow, who has countless fans around the world and comes to his personal broadcasts, couldn't help but be surprised by that number.

‘…At this rate, he’s a walking Red Cup.’

Of course, it would be less than the actual Red Cup viewers, but apart from that, one could tell what kind of position the Outlaw had in the Legend of League scene right now.

In other words, if Ryu Jin-hyuk were to watch the Outlaw’s broadcast a little, there would be nothing strange about it.

The number 110,000 was a number with enough power to lead the non-mainstream into the mainstream.

‘Hmm.’

Nevertheless, Ryu Jin-hyuk looked around twice, three times, and after confirming that his teammates were all focused on their solo queues, he cautiously clicked on the Outlaw's broadcast.

In case someone from the team discovered him, he was ready to minimize the window at any time.

[Loading……]

Finally, after the broadcast started, what greeted Ryu Jin-hyuk first were countless chat messages.

-Did he run off?

-Did he run off?

-He said he was a name

-Who?

-You, aren’t you?

-?

-Eh?

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Perhaps...

-The average level of Soonyang ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Did he run off?

What exactly did he run off with?

Ryu Jin-hyuk's eyes, slowly reading through the chat, stopped.

-His level is really at Soonyang level lol

-Those guys who stan runners-up, as expected, what lol ㅋㅋㅋ

-Rly ㅋㅋ

-He probably went to charge up

-Without a word?

-? If he ran off, he ran off, why are you bashing the team? Does winning the Red Cup twice look like a joke?

-ㄴ Soonyang is so upset ㅋㅋㅋ

Ryu Jin-hyuk knows who the Soonyang the viewers are talking about refers to.

That was a given.

The Soonyang that the viewers despised and ridiculed was none other than SY, which was an insulting term for the Soonyang fans.

So Ryu Jin-hyuk couldn't hide his uncomfortable expression, but he rolled his eyes to slowly grasp the situation.

‘What exactly happened?’

There is a saying, "Watch for three days."

In short, Watch-three.

It means that when you encounter something new, rather than jumping in and asking questions, you should first get basic information by watching for three days.

And…….

Ryu Jin-hyuk, who practiced Watch-three, soon learned about what was happening in the Outlaw's current broadcast.

Why the term "ran off" came up.

Why the Outlaw showed such strange play.

‘Because he was… watching my back by force. That was because of a mission related to my kill.’

Ryu Jin-hyuk, upon learning that fact, felt as if he wanted to hide in a hole in the ground.

Because he felt embarrassed thinking about the doubts, or rather, the delusion, that Ryu Jin-hyuk himself had just had.

‘No……’

Ryu Jin-hyuk shook his head.

Because feeling embarrassed wasn’t the problem right now.

In the end, he had once again caused harm to the Outlaw.

Even though he had been so careful, and again careful, it had ended up like this.

Of course, strictly speaking, there is no moral responsibility for Ryu Jin-hyuk to bear in this situation.

So, this was purely an emotion stemming from Ryu Jin-hyuk's own discomfort.

“……”

Ryu Jin-hyuk logged into RedTV.

* * *

……He ran off with this.

-Sister, don’t cry ㅜㅜ

-It’s so cute how he’s getting flustered ㅋㅋ

-Rly

-Not queuing?

-ㄴ He’s in a state of mental weakness, don't touch him ㄴ

-But, if he's a big company like Outlaw, isn’t 3,500 easy?

-ㄴ He says his back is breaking from maintaining the team

-Ah...

-Is this... the owner's burden?

-Gather funds from Soonyang and fill 3,500 quickly

-Rly ㅋㅋ Fill it quickly

Of course, he hadn’t never been scammed on the broadcast, but that was only when the person who gave the mission wasn’t verified.

That someone verified by cross-validation of viewers would just run away…….

It was shocking in many ways.

‘Damn it.’

While I was distracted for a moment, the viewers who felt sorry for him poured out their Moon Balloons.

『‘Sister, I'm going to die.’ has gifted ‘100’ Moon Balloons.』

『"Cheer up, Sister"』

『‘Gangbuk Building Owner’ has gifted ‘500’ Moon Balloons.』

『“ㅜㅜㅜ”』

『‘I’m a Baby Water Buffalo’ has gifted ‘1,500’ Moon Balloons.』

『“Aeng-ae, I'm a baby water buffalo”』

.

.

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『‘[SY] Rainbow♥’ has gifted ‘1,000’ Moon Balloons.』

『“It's not an SY fan who runs off”』

Moon Balloons were accumulating one after another.

As a result, the Moon Balloons earned due to the scam were more, so it was in a way a profit.

But…….

‘Still, it’s annoying.’

When he was about to put him on the blacklist, his hand didn't reach, thinking that he might come later and shoot Moon Balloons.

That’s how a person’s heart works.

“…I can’t help it. I'll queue up right away.”

Just as he was about to brush off the matter of the scam and start solo queue.

『‘Prism0705’ has gifted ‘3,500’ Moon Balloons.』

『“I apologize on behalf of him”』

Moon Balloons exploded.

Exactly, 3,500.

-Oh

-Why isn’t the guy who gave the mission shooting them ㅋㅋ

-Shi- ㅋㅋ

-Is Soonyang fans on the move?

-Awesome and amazing

Rainbow fan?

Even if they are a fan, they would shoot the balloons of a mission from someone else…….

‘Huh?’

But, the ID Prism.

Familiar.

So familiar.

‘Could it be……’

I’ve known Rainbow for quite a long time.

Soon, I often played other games except for Legend of League, and one of the nicknames Rainbow used as an account name for the other games was Prism.

Rainbow himself said that he got it from the principle of how prisms make rainbows, but in fact, it was almost like he was copying my nickname.

In other words, the one who is shooting Moon Balloons at me now might be Rainbow.

‘Eh, it wouldn’t be.’

Even so, it’s too much of a guess that Prism who is shooting Moon Balloons now is Rainbow.

‘…The numbers at the end are familiar, though.’

Shall I try and test the waters?

“I─”

I was about to say something, but the viewer had already left my broadcast.