Living in a Room Becomes Easier When You’re Handsome - Chapter 98

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What have you been doing?

They said the interview order was random, but honestly from what I could tell.

‘They’re just going by broadcasting weight class, aren’t they.’

It seemed like the more popular you were, the later they put you.

Because I was second to last, and Lera was last.

I’m not sure about the others, but their interview order also seemed to follow broadcasting weight class.

‘It’s similar to how the main act goes last on music shows and such.’

It was blatant yet showed effort to revitalize the beginner tournament.

After doing interviews one by one in that order, when my turn came.

“Ah! Mungi! If we’re doing this kind of tournament again, it has to be Mungi, right? Perfect control! Could you tell us what strategy you’ve prepared?”

“I decided to trust my physical skills and charge in. This… Teulta turned out to be much harder than I thought.”

I smoothly continued the interview right away.

Actually, it was such a short Q&A that it was embarrassing to even call it an interview.

“Understood! Then we’ll really look forward to Mungi’s performance this time too!”

They really only asked a few things before moving on to the next person.

Crack.

“Hmm, but now that I think about it, I didn’t do any scouting.”

– What scouting

– All of a sudden?

– What’s this talk about scouting right after the interview ends

“No, I mean I should have roughly checked what builds other people were practicing, but I didn’t consider that and only focused on what I was doing.”

– But that’s normally right for beginners

– For real

– If you can modify builds and change strategies in real time just from knowing opponent builds, you’re not a beginner

– If a beginner can do that, they’re really an experienced newcomer

– That’s just cheating lol

– Everyone’s busy doing their own thing

“Now that you mention it, that’s true.”

That’s how beginners normally are.

Just like how low-tier gameplay always looks like that in game videos.

Incomprehensible and impossible for even the players themselves to explain – that was low-tier play.

“Just do your own thing well, that’s it.”

I cleanly erased thoughts like “know your enemy and know yourself” from my head.

“But who are the championship favorites then? Me and.”

– “Me and” what bullshit

– Why do you automatically think you’re included

– But Mungi did grind the practice room like crazy for a week

– You should grind ladder

– Is ladder ranked matches?

– Yeah

– Mungi did play a lot of ladder too

– He played everything since you never know what map will come up

– But since the tournament uses ladder maps anyway, why did he really play custom games

– Just for fun lol How can a person only eat rice

– It’s weird, in female streamers’ rooms they praise you just for playing StarCraft

– Gasp

– Gasp

– You’ve realized it, come to Mungal

“Hmm, but just thinking generally, would it be right to consider the male participants as championship favorites?”

– Don’t know

– We don’t know

– Everyone’s a beginner so yeah If we’re going by experienced players it’d definitely be males but really hard to tell

– Surprisingly it might be Lera

– But Lera probably practiced similarly to you, 10 hours of Teulta a day wow

– By the way Lera’s race is alien

– Easy and strong! Alien imba

– Isn’t it human imba?

– For a beginner tournament alien imba is right lol Just rush and you’ll win

While communicating moderately with the viewers like that, I waited for my tournament turn.

What I had to do in the meantime was commentary.

I really wanted to do some lively, exciting commentary.

“Wow… what the, I really think I might be a championship favorite?”

– You’re similar dude

– This is exactly how we felt when watching you

– You definitely can’t properly see your own play

– Don’t you know why our master always had a towel on his forehead?

“This is similar to me? I at least do some unit control, don’t I?”

– Your resources are idle though

– There’s a saying that whenever Mungi plays Teulta, 2000 money always piles up

– I really love this saying

– Mungspeed 2000 money catastrophic resource management

– Just give it to me so I can buy fish bread

Watching the miserable level of other beginners made my heart ache.

I thought maybe they all had the same mindset as I did in the beginning.

Teulta, they approached it with a light heart.

But there were more things to worry about than expected, and it took up a lot of broadcast time.

It felt like homework, and the entry barrier was tough.

‘But still, if they couldn’t find the fun of beating opponents in that complex process… that would be sad.’

I felt like I had to save them.

Rather than everyone being this sad.

“I should bestow the salvation of elimination. Everyone looks too miserable.”

– Crazy bastard

– What do you think you are?

– If it’s Mungi, it might be possible

– It finally happened, Mungyi can see Boi ㄷㄷㄷ

I’ll make you quit Teulta.

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The Teulta beginner tournament, though it was only the round of 8, was a tournament that ended in a single day.

It progressed so quickly that if you went to do something else for a moment, one match would already be over.

And there were two people responsible for the speed in that tournament.

– Wow what’s with Mungi

– He must have polished Forward Barracks like crazy

– He’s really good at Cheese Rush?

– Three years old lol hahahahaha

– He really made it to the finals with just Forward Barracks

– Is this cheese strat?

– It’s also funny that they can’t stop it

– Of course they can’t stop it, his Control skill is pro level

– Mungi’s teacher Go Hyeon-cheol’s official statement: His Control is similar to or superior to my prime

– For real?

– Of course lol

– But Go Hyeon-cheol doesn’t say empty words

Mungi and.

– Lera is unexpected

– Really an unexpected star talent

– Legend legend

– Our Lera’s hard work is really so touching

– This is human victory lol

– The Build is one thing, but the early Sim City is too beautiful

– This can never be pierced with a nail file, no way

– Humanity seems impossible

It was Lera.

As a result of the two who seemed least likely to do it practicing like crazy.

Their play came out at an otherworldly level among beginner tournaments.

Since they were at opposite ends of the bracket.

“Ah, this means Mungi and Lera will meet in the finals!”

“Lera who reached the finals through solid management! And Mungi who has never once! played a proper macro game, the Rush Build master! This is really exciting!”

“Actually, looking at it this way, yes, it’s right to see Lera winning. He used too many Rush Build strategies.”

“That’s right. This only works big when the opponent doesn’t know about it, right? But now that it’s all been figured out, it’s over.”

The commentators continued to heat up the tournament atmosphere by filling time with stories about Mungi and Lera.

‘But how did a mega corporation and a fairly established corporation end up remaining?’

‘Right, those two should be the busiest, yet it’s interesting that they practiced the hardest.’

Usually in tournaments like this, broadcasters with some weight class can’t practice intensively due to scheduling conflicts.

With both of them making it to the finals, the tournament itself could be considered a huge success.

The sad part was that Lera and Mungi’s individual broadcasts had more viewers than the main tournament broadcast.

Well, this kind of thing was unavoidable, so they just resigned themselves to it and moved on.

Anyway.

“Now then, everyone’s been waiting and waiting… the long-awaited finals! Oh, I’m really excited!”

“That’s right. What kind of result will we see? Honestly, Lera feels like the favorite, but you always have to see the results!”

“Exactly!”

While the commentators were chattering, the finals preparations were completed.

Without delay, the tournament began immediately.

The first and second sets that started this way were.

“Huh.”

“Ha.”

Over at super high speed without much to commentate on.

But it couldn’t be helped.

“In the first set, Lera let her guard down… she didn’t prepare much for the Forward Barracks strategy, you know? She thought ‘surely he won’t do it again? Coming all the way to the finals and doing it again? He’ll do it again?’ thinking…?”

“But he did it again. Mungi did Forward Barracks again… surpassing 3 consecutive wins, with just one strategy all the way to the finals, he achieved 4 consecutive barracks!”

In the first set, Lera couldn’t block Mungi’s early All-in Strategy and lost.

Conversely, in the second set.

“But he tried to do it again, you know? 5 consecutive barracks? But as if she wouldn’t allow 5 consecutive barracks, Lera blocked it perfectly.”

“That’s right. She thoroughly blocked the entrance and just shut it down with the alien race’s excellent Energy Turret.”

“Two Zealots proudly blocking the entrance and the Energy Turret behind them, this was basically over.”

“The positioning was also bad. The key to early strategies is that the distance between the two players’ bases needs to be close, but it was too disadvantageous being at opposite ends of a 4-player map.”

“Right. There was too much time to prepare, wasn’t there?”

Lera quickly adapted and blocked Mungi’s attempt to end it early again, forcing a GG.

– Is it real that we reached the 1:1 finals final set before 10 minutes of ramen could cook according to the recipe?

– It’s real

– The speed is really fucking fast

– There’s a 5-minute wait time after each set, but two sets finished in less than those 5 minutes lol

The viewers were also surprised by the incredibly fast match progression.

But the actual parties involved, Mungi and Lera, were very calm.

Rather, they had a feeling they knew this would happen.

“I think he’ll probably do the same thing in the third set too.”

“Lera, do you think so?”

“Yeah, I um… know Mungi pretty well, you know? He’ll probably do the same thing, 6 Consecutive Wins, so… I think he’ll just push through with one strategy from the quarterfinals.”

“Then this time too, you can set your strategy to block the entrance.”

Lera calmly decided to go with not modifying her strategy.

Since I’m going to do an early rush anyway, I’ll use a strategy of firmly blocking the entrance.

And on the other side, Mungi’s side.

“Mungi… are you really going to do this?”

“I have to. There’s no rule saying I can’t, right?”

“Ah…”

“From now on, I’m a monster user.”

Contrary to Lera’s expectations, he had prepared something completely new.

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There’s no rule that says you can’t change races during a tournament match.

‘That’s why I asked.’

It wasn’t just that it wasn’t written down – it could have been one of those unspoken rules that you’re not supposed to break.

But when I asked the tournament organizers, they said it was completely fine.

‘Then I have to do it right away.’

Recalling that answer, just before the final set of the championship match began.

I quickly switched my race from human to monster.

Of course, she might notice.

But thinking about it from the opposite perspective, she might not know either.

‘Once you enter the game room, coaches can’t intervene… and beginners have narrow vision, so she might not notice the race change.’

This was just a simple intuition, a kind of conviction.

Even when novice drivers need to concentrate 100% on driving.

They cause accidents for truly absurd reasons – mistakes that are only possible because they’re beginners.

‘I’m betting on that.’

Of course, it wasn’t an all-in strategy based entirely on her not noticing the race change!

It wasn’t that kind of strategy, so even if she found out, it wouldn’t be a big problem.

‘But since I’ve been hitting her with similar methods, there’s a high probability she’ll block the entrance again.’

For the first and last time while playing Teulta, I decide to actually think.

Even if she notices the race change, she’ll think I’m going to keep doing early all-ins.

Then I’ll use that against her.

The only monster build I secretly practiced for emergencies, abandoning my teacher – Ultra Fast Mutalisk.

A strategy that makes the opponent lose more the more thoroughly they block their entrance.

Tap tap tap tap.

My hands move quickly.

The fingers that were terribly disobedient when I was just practicing builds.

Now that I’m thinking about getting an easy victory and toying with my opponent, they move smoothly as I want.

‘Still, I should pretend it’s an early all-in… I’ll make a few Zerglings and let them die on purpose.’

If there’s one worst-case scenario, it would be Lera finding my main base in one go.

– Oh what

– Mungi succeeded with One Search lol

– Looks like Lera failed?

– Until the overlord found the opponent’s main base, this side wasn’t discovered? Keep missing shots

– But aren’t the spawn positions somewhat fixed

– Seems like they forgot since it’s the final set? Or got nervous

Instead, I found them first, and since Lera couldn’t find me, all variables completely disappeared.

The position was also extremely good.

I was at 11 o’clock and Lera was at 1 o’clock.

It was really a short straight distance, so all the conditions were perfectly set for an early all-in.

“Alright, let’s go finish this.”

The moment my carefully gathered 5 Mutalisks made their screeching sounds and grouped up.

I charged straight toward Lera’s main base along with my Zerglings.

Of course, my build got exposed in the process, but it didn’t matter.

How much could really change between beginners just because a build gets exposed?

– Wow, the cloud Murari control ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– His control is really pro-level

– Hit and run, hit and run ㄷㄷ

– After grouping the Mutalisks, he’s hitting one at a time and just wiping out all the workers

– They’re mainly producing Zealots so they can’t properly counter Mutalisk rushes ㅠ

– gg

– Mungi’s first victory using his brain

Perfectly demonstrating the difference in build and control.

: gg

: Mungi, I didn’t know you could do this kind of thing?

I received Lera’s GG.

: Lera, you’re lighter than I thought haha

I also ended with a reply filled with respect and courtesy.

And so the Teulta beginner tournament came to an end with my victory.

The first place prize money was a whopping 1 million won.

It seems like I’ve become a prize money hunter at some point.

‘Should I get some ice cream after a long time with this, maybe a half-gallon?’

Ice cream after victory is the best after all.

‘Ah, right.’

But winning is winning, I should mention that thing.

< Lera

> Yes?

< But when are you going to return that hoodie you took?

> This is really stretched out in the chest area and has too much of my scent on it, so I can’t return it right away ㅠㅠ

> I’ll just buy you the same one instead

?

‘No, why does the smell cling so much.’

What did you do, you.

I couldn’t bring myself to ask.

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After the Teulta beginner tournament finals ended, while Mungi was doing his winner’s interview.

“It’s about time we do it again, isn’t it?”

“Come to think of it, didn’t GTA 6 get delayed again and pushed back to November?”

“That’s right, originally we were really torn about whether to open the server because of that.”

Several broadcasters gathered together and continued their discussion about the GTA Server.

Originally they were going to wait for GTA 6 to come out and then make their estimates.

But since it kept getting delayed endlessly, they decided to just reopen the GTA 5 server.

And they decided to try something new this time.

That was.

“How about we designate Mungi as a first-wave invitee and give him a… position?”

They would invite Mungi from the start and give him one of the leadership positions among the factions that would exist on the GTA Server.

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