Gwanjongcheonma’s Game Broadcast - Chapter 62
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Chapter 62
Da-hong recalled the memories of that day.
2040 World Virtual Game Championship (WVC: World Virtualgame Championship).
The greatest gaming tournament on earth, which Gamers call the Capsule Cup.
“It was a good match, Da-hong.”
The Italian gamer called the blue-eyed warrior.
Alberto with his stylish regent cut extended his hand.
Korea had suffered a crushing defeat, so she wasn’t really in the mood for it,
but Da-hong shook hands with good manners.
Then,
Swoosh.
Alberto pressed his head close to Da-hong’s shoulder.
Then he whispered quietly.
“Kiroi has a weakness.”
“…!”
“You must have felt it too. How our team actively used lateral movement today. All of Kiroi’s main skills have trouble dealing with lateral movement. It has the disadvantage of being difficult to delay catch, but we’re professionals who decide matches with one or two frames, right?”
Chu.
Alberto pursed his lips in a circle and made an air kiss.
Da-hong slapped his cheek without hesitation.
Smack!
“Oh! Jesus!”
“Da-hong caused trouble!”
“Losing the match and then violence! What is this!”
“Losing in skill and losing in manners too!”
Da-hong faced the crisis of receiving a suspension penalty.
However, since there were many cameras watching, Alberto’s excessive behavior became a hot topic and he faced backlash instead.
Da-hong received a thousand dollar fine, Alberto received a three thousand dollar fine.
There was no suspension penalty.
Da-hong was furious.
Not because of the money, but because of the information about Kiroi.
“Like an idiot. I was confident about my main champion, but didn’t even know it had weaknesses….”
What overseas players knew, domestic players didn’t.
Da-hong was angry at herself, and disappointed that no one on the Korean National Team had figured it out.
‘Because our level is so low, we can’t perform in international matches no matter what game we play.’
What Singularity,
what National Team.
Korean Gamers need to awaken.
Including herself.
That was Da-hong’s resolution after finishing the WVC.
【K.O.!】
【Full Phoenix WIN!】
And now.
Da-hong felt exactly the same as back then.
No.
Perhaps it might be an even bigger shock than back then.
As soon as she came out to the Game Waiting Room, Da-hong urgently asked Hae-rang.
“Did you know?”
“Pardon?”
“Kiroi’s weakness. At some point you stopped guarding and only used lateral movement, right?”
“Hmm. That’s right. As I fought against it, lateral movement seemed more effective than guarding.”
“Then, then. You realized it during the game?”
“Yes. Is there some problem….”
Hae-rang’s innocent face asking if there was a problem.
Right.
That face right there is the problem.
Da-hong swallowed a hollow laugh.
‘It wasn’t discovered from a strategy post, but found the breaking method in real time?’
The weakness that Korea’s Singularities couldn’t find despite hundreds and thousands of battles?
Da-hong felt hot and cold emotions simultaneously.
What came first was a coldly frozen sense of defeat.
Next, hot excitement took its place.
For the first time, a gamer with the same insight as foreign national representatives had appeared.
In this South Korea that only suffers consecutive defeats in international matches!
Knock knock knock.
While Da-hong was breathing heavily with a flushed face,
Joint knocked from beyond the capsule glass wall.
“Are you alright? You look hot. Even from here I can see your face is flushed.”
“I’m fine. And I’m sorry. I said I would control it so it wouldn’t overclock, but I ended up fighting with full power without realizing it.”
“Haha. I understand. That guy originally has the ability to provoke people’s fundamental nature. But please be careful from the next round.”
“Yes. I’ll try to keep checking myself.”
After saying that, Da-hong selected Kiroi once again.
From the character select screen, Da-hong asked Hae-rang.
“You’re hot right now too, aren’t you?”
A question that would be perfect for misunderstanding if someone else heard it.
But Hae-rang understood perfectly.
“Yes. This machine seems to have overclocked as well.”
“I’m sorry. Since I was drawing out everything I had, you must have had no choice but to match that level.”
“Since Brother Joint said it’s fine, there doesn’t seem to be any need to apologize.”
“Thank you for understanding. By any chance…”
Squeeze.
Da-hong put full strength into her clenched fist.
Then she asked in a voice that was barely audible.
“If the opponent fights mainly with lateral movement, how should I play Kiroi?”
“Pardon?”
“If there’s a gamer who counters Kiroi like you do, I don’t know what to do against them.”
“Hmm.”
Hae-rang fell deep into thought.
Da-hong wanted to crawl into a mouse hole and hide.
A Singularity asking for advice from a regular gamer!
If her companions knew this fact, they would have pointed fingers with dumbfounded expressions.
‘Did they hear?’
Da-hong peeked her head out slightly and looked beyond the glass wall.
If Joint or the staff had heard by any chance, it would be utterly embarrassing.
Sure enough, Joint’s loud voice could be heard all the way inside the capsule.
“Is that true?!”
Beads of sweat formed on Da-hong’s forehead.
Joint was even taking off his sunglasses while raising his voice about whatever he had heard.
“A one-plus-one event for Ssanghwa Tea at QU? What are you doing! Hurry up and go buy some. Hae-rang said he wants to drink it!”
“…”
Fortunately, the situation she was worried about didn’t happen.
Though she was somewhat annoyed for some reason.
“Hmm.”
Hae-rang, who had been lost in thought for a moment, opened his mouth.
“How about grabs?”
“Pardon?”
“If someone knows Kiroi’s weaknesses, they’ll definitely use lateral movement habitually.”
“That’s… right?”
“Keep pretending to continue with strike skills, while mixing in grabs. Grabs can’t be avoided just by using lateral movement.”
“Ah…!”
Da-hong let out a short exclamation.
Then she quickly turned her thoughts.
‘Right… I never once…’
Mixed in grabs.
She had only thought about somehow succeeding with strike skills.
While it looked like flashy combo attacks on the surface, it could actually be considered monotonous in pattern.
“The higher the opponent’s level, the more effective it will be. To avoid Kiroi’s attacks with lateral movement, you need to use frames in units of one or two, and dealing with grabs in that process is extremely difficult.”
Da-hong got goosebumps.
She remembered what Alberto had said at WVC in the past.
[We’re in a profession where we decide matches with one or two frames, aren’t we?]
Had he seen that far with just this one match?
Da-hong felt thrilling excitement and chilling fear at the same time.
‘I was wrong.’
She had thought he might have similar skills to Singularity.
But that was a huge misconception.
Hae-rang’s current skills and insight transcended Singularity.
At least for ‘Singularity Da-hong’, that was the case.
“C-could we try it one more time?”
Da-hong’s voice suddenly grew louder.
She couldn’t contain herself at the thought of being able to play Kiroi even stronger.
Seeing this, Hae-rang showed a barely visible smile.
‘When a martial artist discovers a new secret manual, they make exactly that kind of voice.’
He’d heard she was someone who had already achieved a lot.
Yet she was still desperately pursuing skill improvement.
That attitude felt quite familiar to Hae-rang.
Relentless effort toward the peak.
There was nothing cooler than that in this world.
“Yes. Let’s try again. Since this is a process of diversifying attack patterns, overclock doesn’t seem necessary.”
“Ah, I know. This time the capsule won’t overheat.”
Da-hong blushed and touched her cheek.
Joint, watching this scene, was dumbfounded and speechless.
‘What kind of situation is this?’
When Joint first heard about it, these two’s purpose was supposed to be a ‘duel’.
Each proving their skills to the other.
A duel to confirm which side had the upper hand.
-This is closer to a martial duel than a regular duel.
Hae-rang had said something strange in the middle, but whether it was a duel or martial duel, the purpose was the same.
‘But…’
What was happening now was, how should he put it.
Rather than a duel, wasn’t this closer to ‘teaching’?
Da-hong was seeking advice from Hae-rang,
and Hae-rang was providing appropriate answers.
It looked more like ‘education’ than a ‘duel’.
That was definitely not Joint’s imagination.
Crash!
“Ah…! The technique came out wrong.”
“You’re inputting the command too hastily, so a different skill is coming out instead of a grab. When you think the opponent is using lateral movement, you need to grab them like lightning.”
“Is that… possible?”
“I’ll demonstrate for you.”
Look at this.
Who would think this was a duel?
Kind instructor Hae-rang was teaching Iron Fist to student Da-hong.
To none other than ‘Singularity’ Da-hong.
‘If people heard that Singularity was getting tutored by another gamer, what would they say?’
They’re saying all kinds of crazy things to get attention.
The viewers would definitely respond like that.
‘In many ways, it’s a shame this is private.’
Joint was witnessing a truly rare scene.
Even watching a WVC game live wouldn’t produce this kind of dopamine.
Squeeze.
On the other hand, he also thought this.
Could I improve my skills if I got coaching from Hae-rang too?
But Joint soon smiled bitterly.
‘Education only works when skill levels are similar. I can’t do it.’
He had confirmed the gap with Singularity enough during multiple National Team Selection Tournaments.
He had even felt it ten minutes ago.
Both time and confidence had long since weathered away to grasp onto past regrets now.
While Joint was lost in his own thoughts,
Grab!
Finally, a fragment of growth was visible in Da-hong.
Thud!
Against Full Phoenix using lateral movement, Kiroi had successfully landed a grab.
“I-I succeeded, right? Just now?”
“It seems so. Even I had no way to counter that just now.”
“Haha… Hahaha!”
Da-hong burst into raw laughter, forgetting about people’s gazes.
Like a tomboy student might have laughed in the classroom back in her school days.
“Thank you so much. Actually, I was wondering whether I should use Kiroi in international matches or not. Iron Fist 9 is one of the WVC events at the end of this year.”
“I see. If you keep repeating this training, you’ll definitely be able to make a breakthrough.”
“This is all thanks to you, Hae-rang. But it’ll take a while to get used to it. I attacked hundreds of times and only landed one grab, right?”
“That’s because it’s me. If you enter the tournament, your success rate will be much higher than that.”
It was an arrogant statement that anyone would find distasteful.
But Da-hong didn’t feel annoyed at all.
She thought Hae-rang’s words were one hundred percent true.
“I want to use all the remaining time for this training.”
“Let’s do that.”
In a way, it was time where Hae-rang had nothing particular to gain.
But he gladly accepted the training.
It reminded him of when he taught the direct disciples at the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult in the past.
And there was one more reason.
“That’s really amazing. To react to this grab…!”
“Hae-rang, you seem like someone born for capsule games.”
“How can you move so nimbly? It feels like I’m facing a ghost, not a person.”
“You’re really the best! I’m so glad I met you and asked for this!”
“These few hours of training with you, Hae-rang, seem more valuable than the past few years.”
Praise pouring down like a storm.
Once her mouth opened, Da-hong showered Hae-rang with exclamations of admiration whenever she had the chance.
That made Hae-rang’s heart dance with joy.
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