[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 81

"Ugh, I can't stand this."

The inside of the YSG dorm was as hot as ever.

If it had been the heat of practice like other teams, it would have been ideal, but unfortunately, the source of that heat wasn't so positive.

"Why are you going blue over there? You should have caught them all if you backed them up. You see those low-health enemies?"

"That's just a result-oriented argument, and the judgment to go for the jungle camp there was correct, right?"

Legend of League is a team game.

Of course, it wasn't unusual for teammates to blame each other while playing, but the problem was that YSG was a pro team, not just an amateur team.

"And why are you pushing top there? Shouldn't you be thinking about joining with Teleport if you've taken the initiative in pushing?"

"...The situation was already bad. It's better for me to get some benefit than to join there."

Since YSG is a pro team, it's better for the coach or the manager to lead the feedback as much as possible.

Of course, it's not bad for the players to lead the feedback, but that's only when the feedback flows in a positive direction.

"Ugh... When the heck did I get screwed over? Do you even know the situation in the bottom lane? That's why you're still a 'Madak-i' (a derogatory term for a low-skilled player)."

"That damn 'Madak-i', 'Madak-i'. It's hard to raise your tier in solo queue from top in the first place, you know? You try it. Those spoon-feeders who don't do anything are always like that."

The reason the coach and management team should lead the feedback was simple.

Players are generally young and inexperienced.

If those players become the center of the feedback, it will naturally become a demand for explanation and attacks on what happened, rather than constructive feedback.

There's no problem when the team is doing well. They'll overlook anything said in a positive way. The problem is when the overall team atmosphere is down, like now.

Soon, this naturally damages the atmosphere within the team as well.

"Ugh... I shouldn't have spoken."

"Just get out of here. I don't even want to talk."

That was the reality unfolding in the YSG practice room right now.

'Ugh.'

Coach Park Tae-hyung was not unaware of the team's problems.

But by the time Coach Park Tae-hyung was hired, everything was already too late.

"Come on, guys. Calm down a bit."

"You heard it too, Coach, what that jerk is saying."

"What, you jerk?"

"Just stop it."

Only when the voice of Coach Park Tae-hyung, who usually doesn't get angry, calmed down, did the players' voices soften.

"...Okay."

"Go in now. Everyone, take a break today. Understand?"

"Yes."

Coach Park Tae-hyung, who barely calmed the players down, knocked on the door of the manager's office, who didn't seem to think about coming out even in this situation.

Knock knock-

"It's me."

"Come in."

The first thing Coach Park Tae-hyung saw when he entered the manager's office was the manager, who was grooming a golf club.

He was so proud of going with the CEO the other day...

"Manager, are you going to leave it like this?"

"Huh? Ah, I thought it was something else... Those kids of the same age are all like that. Isn't it good instead? I heard that the other teams don't even fight at all. If you look at it that way, isn't it good to be young? Hahaha."

It's not wrong.

When you listen to the atmosphere of the bottom-ranking teams, they don't even talk to each other, let alone fight among the team members.

But there is a law that everything has a limit.

"...This can't go on any longer. The atmosphere within the team has become very harsh. If this continues, there will be players who go astray. Some of them are already doing so."

"So? What do you want to say?"

"We need time to reorganize. If we proceed with the schedule excessively in the current state, nothing will come of it."

"No."

"...Why?"

"So, you mean to stop scrims and everything now and consolidate the team's internal strength. Right? But can that even be done in our team's situation now? There are not just one or two teams that don't want to scrim with us. Why? Because it doesn't seem to be helpful. Do you know how I arranged those scrim schedules?"

"I know the manager is suffering, but..."

"And how will my position be if the team is already faltering from the start of the season?"

Ah, I knew it.

This is probably the real reason.

"Anyway, try to coax them and see. You know we have a game the day after tomorrow, right?"

"...Yes. Understood."

"Go."

Coach Park Tae-hyung, who left the manager's office, let out a deep sigh.

At that moment, another coach who was watching this approached and patted Coach Park Tae-hyung on the shoulder.

"Coach? Don't try too hard. The kids will get through it well, won't they?"

"...Yes, thank you."

The current situation of YSG was, to say the least, a total disaster.

A manager who is only concerned with politics and maintaining his position.

Incompetent coaching staff without enthusiasm.

The front office that is more interested in promotion, etc., than performance.

Coach Park Tae-hyung was not enough to face all those unfavorable conditions alone.

'They'll blame me or someone else if we ruin the season like this. Obvious.'

YSG's performance last season was 7th place.

It was the result that Coach Park Tae-hyung had obtained by struggling in the messy team atmosphere.

If you look at it positively, you could say that there is still room to improve, but Coach Park Tae-hyung honestly felt that it would be difficult within this year.

'ManGi's form isn't good these days.'

YSG ManGi, Kim Man-gi, who is the current team captain and the oldest member, has declined a lot in ability recently.

So much so that his solo rank tier has fallen below 100 points in Master and he is in a situation where he has to worry about being demoted to Diamond.

Pros speak with their performance.

The state of the oldest member and captain, who should hold the center of the team, was like that, so it was natural that the already faltering team couldn't function properly.

'This won't do. We need a new wind. New….'

YSG was also training 2nd team players like other teams, but the problem was that there were no players who met Coach Park Tae-hyung's standards.

In a way, it was natural.

Coach Park Tae-hyung's standards were objectively quite strict, and the promising players who passed those standards all wanted to go to good teams like SY or SCV, which have a systematic academy system and high reputation, and they wouldn't want to go to YSG, which has a bad reputation and the system or team atmosphere is a mess.

"Sigh."

Then, Coach Park Tae-hyung's smartphone rang.

[Arrived now. 1st floor.]

'...Oh, right.'

Come to think of it, he had offered a test to an amateur who seemed to be a promising player a while ago.

He had completely forgotten about it because of all the ups and downs lately.

[Yep, you can come up by the elevator right away. It's on the 9th floor.]

Originally, he wouldn't go out to greet a prospective trainee who was coming to take the test, but Coach Park Tae-hyung went out of the office to get some fresh air.

It was too suffocating to just wait in the practice room like this.

'O'ne.' (Korean word for "coming" or "here")

Coach Park Tae-hyung, who was standing in front of the elevator, stared blankly at the elevator numbers.

-1st floor.

-2nd floor.

-3rd floor.

.

.

.

-9th floor.

Slowly, the elevator door opened, and

Coach Park Tae-hyung felt his breath stop for a moment.

Neatly braided silver hair.

Red-brown eyes that felt natural because of the unique atmosphere, even though it wasn't an ordinary color.

An exotic appearance, or rather, an appearance that felt unreal to the point that he wondered if it was the same person as himself.

"Hello."

Coach Park Tae-hyung, who had been staring blankly at the figure, was momentarily stunned by the voice like a jade.

And then he naturally looked around.

Strange... There's only me here?

"...Me?"

"Yes, you're Coach Park Tae-hyung, right?"

You know me?

How?

"That's right... But, um... Why are you here...? Oh, are you one of our players' family members? Please come in first."

"It's not that... I, um... I'm here to take the test."

"......Yes?"

Coach Park Tae-hyung was momentarily stunned and then nodded as if he understood.

"Ah, you've come to the wrong office. The 9th floor is the office of the YSG Legend of League pro gaming team, and as far as I know, the shopping mall office is on the 27th or 28th floor."

Coach Park Tae-hyung felt a strange sense of incongruity immediately after saying this.

It was because Outlaw, who had supposedly arrived on the 1st floor a moment ago, was still not coming.

The elevator, which should have been moving, was also motionless.

'Wait a minute... Didn't they know me just now? Did I hear it wrong?'

The moment he realized that fact and faced the front again, the lips painted with a light pink color slowly opened.

"I came here correctly. I'm Outlaw, who contacted you."

"......Yes?"

Coach Park Tae-hyung couldn't help but utter another foolish question.

What did I just hear?

Outlaw?

That person who was supposed to come for the test today?

"...You're Outlaw-nim?"

"Yes."

"Ah... Just a moment. So, you're here to take the entrance test for the Legend of League YSG pro team, right?"

"Yes, yes."

Coach Park Tae-hyung, holding onto his disappearing sanity, continued.

To be honest, he didn't even know what he was saying out loud right now.

"Um... Please come in first."

So, he postponed his thoughts.

Coach Park Tae-hyung was experiencing such a great confusion right now.

'Outlaw is... a woman?'

Strictly speaking, it's not that there are no women with high tiers.

But that's also true, it's rare.

In fact, there were no female professional gamers in the domestic Legend of League.

'I know that there are some in the overseas side...'

It was only at the level of entertainment teams or sub members organized for promotional purposes, and female professional gamers who could compete in the real main competition had not yet appeared.

Since the situation was like that, it was, in a way, natural that Coach Park Tae-hyung didn't ask about the gender while conducting Outlaw's test.

'...Still, the skill I saw was real.'

Coach Park Tae-hyung had discovered Outlaw purely by chance.

He happened to see Outlaw as the opponent while watching Kim Man-gi, the team captain's solo rank.

A play like Prisoner.

Of course, it couldn't really be Prisoner, but that's how good they were.

Coach Park Tae-hyung, who was fascinated by the play, immediately sent an offer for the test.

Although the tier may not be very high right now, Outlaw's abnormal win rate seemed to say that the tier was only a matter of time.

'......They weren't Prisoner. No, they couldn't have been Prisoner.'

A 100% win rate.

Thanks to that magical number, he wondered if Prisoner, who had disappeared in one in a thousand, had created a sub-account and appeared, but if Outlaw's identity was a woman, that couldn't be possible.

"Did you have any trouble getting here?"

"No."

A brief answer.

Although the reasons were different, the conversation ended there.

'For now... I have to do the test properly.'

He couldn't just send them away after calling them, after all.

'And...'

It's unlikely,

It couldn't be possible,

Just in case,

One in a hundred million.

'If that skill is real...'

A superstar that has never been seen before in the Legend of League scene will be born.