Gwanjongcheonma’s Game Broadcast - Chapter 19

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Chapter 19

When Steven from ‘Sadam Hussein’ landed a combo with parrying,

the atmosphere in the chat window couldn’t have been more hostile.

-Damn, you’re playing like absolute shit

-Asking to see it once and then passing ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ makes me sick ㅉㅉㅉㅉ

-As expected of Orange Rank. Not a single normal person in that group of psychos, right?

Look at this bastard doing an orange belt downward strike thinking this is his moment lol

-Guy above is probably Yellow Rank with high probability

-For real lololol

-Please stop slandering Orange Rank!

-Ugh, disgusting. Does he really need to go that far against a Beginner Rank kid?

-You’re gonna mess with them, right? lol Just like with ‘Rheumatism’ before, how could we not mess with a super beginner who entered the tournament?

-Damn it, don’t they screen the participants? Where the hell did they bring such a filthy bastard from?

Joint briefly turned off the capsule screen and glared at his manager.

His manager smacked his lips and shrugged his shoulders.

Unless they were streamers, there was no way to know these gamers’ usual behavior.

At best, they could only filter out IDs that had been disciplined for unsportsmanlike conduct.

But there was nothing they could do about participants who suddenly changed like this on broadcast.

‘And honestly speaking…’

Villains who drew aggro like this became a necessary evil for the tournament’s success.

Just look at the chat window going absolutely wild in real time.

‘Let’s just watch for now.’

Joint turned the screen back to the game.

Gwanjong Cheonma had been knocked down after taking a national combo.

As soon as he got up, he charged straight at Steven.

-Whoa whoa. Calm down!

-You’re going to fall for the same trick again?

-If you don’t know parrying, just buy time! That motion is fucking hard to distinguish!

The viewers thought Gwanjong Cheonma would be toyed with by parrying once again, but,

‘…No.’

Joint’s thoughts were different.

Having been beaten countless times in Street Fighting, he could tell.

That guy was absolutely not the type to charge in like a moth to flame.

Rather, he was a guy with a heart so cold it sent chills down your spine.

“Hot-ha!”

When Steven excitedly attempted parrying once more, Joint unconsciously let out a sigh.

“Stupid fool.”

Then he gave a self-deprecating sneer.

Because he too had fallen for that pattern in Street Fighting.

“…?

Gwanjong Cheonma didn’t use Bung-ta.

He gave a fake with the casting motion, then approached within range of ‘another attack’.

The name of that attack was,

‘Grab’.

Snatch!

“Kehek!”

A choking sound burst out from Husiddin.

Steven floated up, grabbed by the neck by Full Phoenix.

His feet flailed pitifully in midair.

“Let’s get serious from now on.”

With those words, Full Phoenix slammed Steven down.

Crash!

“Kehek! Kek!”

-Oh what was that just now?

-He grabbed? Not Bung-ta?

-Anyone could see that was Bung-ta movement though?

-It’s a fake you idiots!

-Whoa! I was 100% sure it was a bot. But it’s not using any skills ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

-A ghost fake when you’re just a beginner? Seriously lmaooooooooo

-Wasn’t this something only Orange Rank or higher could do?

-Damn! That psychological warfare was sick!

-I think I’ve seen this somewhere! Didn’t Zangief do this too?

-Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I saw it too last time

-Attention-seeking Heavenly Demon, now I see you’re not One Punch Man but a master of psychological manipulation? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

What Joint had intuited happened once again.

Pretending to use a skill while setting up psychological warfare, then a grappling skill.

Actually, it’s a common deception pattern you can see in all fighting games.

Yet the reason people still fall for it is,

‘Even seeing it again, that was clean movement. If it wasn’t for the memory of being caught by it before, I would have been fooled too.’

Deception shines brightest when it looks real.

Explosive momentum.

Lightning-fast body movement.

Down to the subtle expression of the person using the fake.

The more all of those things seem ‘real’, the easier it is to be deceived.

This is why the same fake works on some people but not others.

And Gwanjong Cheonma,

‘He’s naturally gifted at using fakes.’

Joint was able to catch those exceptional movements.

This was possible because he had even made it to the national team with this game.

However, he couldn’t understand how such a thing was possible.

Gwanjong Cheonma was, at most, beginner rank after all.

* * *

Hae-rang slammed Steven to the ground and was certain.

‘It works.’

It was the same with Joint, and the same with ‘Sadam Hussein’.

His false strikes were working here too.

This came from the countless battles he had experienced in his previous life.

The numerous sword techniques and martial arts that Hae-rang had practiced contained true strikes and false strikes.

Simply put, real attacks and fake attacks worked in harmony.

Since this wasn’t actual reality, Hae-rang had been half-doubtful whether such false strikes would work.

But seeing Steven’s body stiffen rigidly, Hae-rang could now be confident.

All the applied movements from Murim worked here too.

‘Then…’

Hae-rang left Steven rolling on the ground for a moment and opened his skill window.

“Oh. It’s there.”

What Hae-rang found was Full Phoenix’s ‘flowing’ technique.

It was parrying.

“Is this how… you do it?”

He placed both palms in front of his chest and swept them diagonally downward.

In a way, it looked like directing a reversing car with ‘all clear’ signals.

Since it was his first time doing it, it inevitably looked clumsy.

The problem was that both ‘Sadam Hussein’ and the viewers were witnessing all these movements.

Swoosh.

Swoosh.

-Hahahahahahaha what are you up to now?

-Here it comes! Learning skills mid-battle!

-I’ve seen this somewhere before!

-Hahahaha for real, you’re saying it’s not an act? That you learn new techniques by looking at the skill window during a tournament?

-That day, Joint remembered. The terror of Zangief flailing his arms in the sky!!!

-Hahahaha They really see the other person as a complete asshole.

-Get it together Gwanjong Cheonma! Parrying is a really difficult technique. The timing has to be perfect, and you need to read all the high-mid-low judgments!

-But somehow, it feels like Gwanjong Cheonma might actually pull it off?

-For real. Maybe it’s because I saw him during street fighting, but somehow I feel like he’s actually gonna succeed lol

-Look at Fucidin’s face all scrunched up lol does that get reflected in the game too?

-It’s a huge humiliation. Practicing parrying commands right in front of him during a match

Swoosh!

Swoosh!

Cute hand movements that didn’t match his appearance.

The more Full Phoenix used ‘parrying’ repeatedly, the more tension built up in Sadam Hussein’s neck.

‘This bastard is disrespecting people beyond reason…’

It was the same with ‘Rheumatism’, and the same with ‘Sadam Hussein’.

When playing fighting games, you see gamers who enjoy ‘despising the weak’.

Joint’s bullying broadcasts could also be seen as following the same path.

The thrill of ruthlessly toying with those who don’t know this game well or are inexperienced.

They rationalized that such thrills were justified given how much time they had devoted to this game.

However, Hae-rang was directly denying such gaming conventions.

“This bastard…!”

Sadam Hussein’s character, Steven, stepped forward like lightning.

Meanwhile, Hae-rang’s Full Phoenix was still repeating the cute parrying technique.

-Mister! You’ll die at this rate!

-Damn it, stop practicing and fight properly now!

-Are you going to parry all day!

The watching viewers were expressing their anxious feelings first.

Steven, who had closed the distance in an instant, thrust his right fist with all his might.

‘Let’s see you try that fancy new technique you learned.’

His confident thrust aimed for the lower abdomen.

It was impossible to perfectly master parrying on the spot, but even if that were the case, it didn’t matter.

The parrying that Full Phoenix could flow with was only ‘high’ and ‘low’.

Skills with ‘mid’ judgment like this one couldn’t be deflected.

‘If parrying fails, the damage received becomes even greater.’

He would destroy him with a combo following the mid attack.

Just as Steven’s gloved fist was about to touch Full Phoenix’s lower abdomen.

Pang!

A heavy vibration.

That’s what ‘Sadam Hussein’ felt.

However, it was definitely not the sensation he had expected.

‘This is…?’

It wasn’t the vibration from successfully landing a devastating technique.

When the opponent blocks your attack.

It was that dull vibration you feel only in such moments.

‘That means…?’

Absolutely.

If Full Phoenix had used parrying, this result shouldn’t have occurred.

Sadam Hussein widened his eyes and stared at the end of his fist.

At the end of his gaze, he saw Full Phoenix’s thick forearms crossed in an X-shape.

“…!”

The sensation at his fingertips wasn’t wrong.

Full Phoenix had actually chosen ‘defense’ instead of parrying.

After moving his hands restlessly like an amateur, he had executed perfect defense the moment an attack was attempted.

“This…!”

Naturally, the bigger the technique that gets blocked, the more disadvantageous it becomes for the attacker.

Even if you want to prepare for the opponent’s counterattack, your body becomes forcibly stiffened.

In the eyes of ‘Sadam Hussein’ struggling desperately to move his body, a fist as large as a watermelon appeared.

Kwaang!

Full Phoenix’s basic attack.

A ‘Heavy Punch’ landed squarely on Steven’s face.

“Gweheeeek!”

Sadam Hussein let out a piercing scream as his upper body bent backward.

-There it is! The attention-seeking demon’s ‘basic attack’ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-The most powerful skill in this world. That’s right, the fundamentals!

-Why learn skills? Aren’t Heavy Punch and Light Punch enough?

-No way. I got fooled too. I thought he’d use parrying, but what’s this?

-They’re totally playing around with Fucidin lol

-But why is his reaction like that from just one Heavy Punch? Is it because it’s Full Phoenix?

-Stop being such a drama queen ㅉㅉㅉㅉ Anyway, all these bastards who pull dirty shit are always this loud and obnoxious

-Steven’s back arched like a bow lololololololol

It was an obviously excessive reaction.

The majority of viewers either laughed at or mocked Hussein’s screaming.

Just one person.

Except for Joint.

‘Fuck. You guys just haven’t been hit by it.’

Others might not know, but Joint understood perfectly.

He too had been hit by Gwanjong Cheonma’s ‘Heavy Punch’ in Street Fighting.

That was fundamentally different from Heavy Punches from other characters, or other gamers.

It wasn’t like a coffee shop vibration bell, but like someone hammering a sandbag held against your face.

Moreover, the impact transmission of ‘Iron Fist’ is applied more realistically than Street Fighting.

It wasn’t for nothing that ‘Rheumatism’ got disconnected from just one Bung-ta.

‘It’s the same technique, but when that bastard uses it, it’s more painful and destructive.’

Where in the world could such unreasonable conditions exist?

While Hussein was clutching his nose after taking one ‘Heavy Punch’,

Hwaaak!

Gwanjong Cheonma input a command once again.

It was the movement needed to use Bung-ta.

“Eek… Fuck!”

Hussein gritted his teeth and prepared to parry.

Then he immediately turned pale.

‘Oh no, it’s a fake!’

He had faked using Bung-ta, closed the distance, and used ‘Basic Grab’.

Getting fooled like an idiot once was enough.

With that thought, Steven canceled his parrying motion.

At the same time,

flames erupted from Full Phoenix’s right fist.

“Ooh-ah!”

“?!”

Kwaaaaang!

A clean hit.

Just like ‘Baki’ had in the tutorial,

a large speech bubble and exclamation mark appeared above Steven’s head.

【!】

-Oh! It appeared!

-Wow, a beginner rank pulled this off!

-A Smash appeared!

The exclamation mark attacks that had turned Baki’s brown face completely white.

At the same time, Steven’s body shot out like a missile.

“Kwaaaack!”

【K.O.!】

【Full Phoenix WIN!】

Steven rolled on the ground before sprawling out spread-eagle.

White steam rose gently from the fist that had landed the Bung-ta.

“Hoo.”

Like extinguishing the smoke rising from a fired gun.

Hae-rang blew air to clear away the smoke.

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