Chapter 16
1.
To understand why Bullet's viewership increased, we have to go back a little.
『Jibjik Gallery』
[General] The aloe gel I used to masturbate—my older sister put it on her face. Should I tell her?
(Dog Hammer's stream. A Notepad file says they're scrimming Aura's team.)
Sorry, I baited you into clicking just to show you this... Is the fight between Aura and Dog Hammer for real? This really is a clash between the strongest in the universe...
Is that really the Aura team that used to be such losers? My heart's swelling with pride.
[Upvotes: 495] [Downvotes: 10,483]
-Fuck, that title was bait;; I got tricked, damn;;
└But kinda hot;;
└???
└(Not human ㅠ emote)
-But they are losers? A team with a 3% win rate, lol. What are you talking about?
-A showdown to see who's the weakest in the universe;;
-World War just dropped ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ
-Battle for last place lololol
-Fights between scrubs are the most fun, yeah;; Gotta watch this one lolol
[General] So who do you think is gonna win?
I think Dog Hammer's team of five guys who'll lay it all on the line like real men will win. Upvote.
No, I think Aura's team of five women, with hacker Bullet, will win. Downvote.
[Upvotes: 3,545] [Downvotes: 35]
-Fandrall upvote lol
-Shamelessly fishing for upvotes;
-Fine, just this once...
-This guy just said upvote!!!
-Guess we'll have to wait and see how they do against the Pizza Beer team in their scrim later?
[General] Why is Bullet so good?
(A clip of Bullet tearing apart the Pizza Beer team with Odin.)
She's controlling Odin's recoil and melting the tank outright? Her calls seem decent too???
-Whoa, that's fucking insane;;;
-She's so fucking good lolololol
-Is she hacking?
└Beep...!?
-Eight Gates: Open!!
-Bankai...!
└It's Half-kai, dumbass.
[General] Game Over
(A stats screen showing Bullet's overwhelming damage.)
(The defeat screen, with Bullet's dismayed virtual face.)
Pizza Beer team wins...!
-Pizza Beer takes it with their solid team play~~~~
-You think Nova Syndicate is a joke!?!? Where do you get off thinking you can win just by being the only one playing well?
└For real lol Trying to carry is pretty damn cheeky~
└This is a team game!!!
[General] Bullet: We're losing because there are five women
(A clip of Bullet saying, ‘We're losing because there are five women,’ the team's biggest problem.)
5 Girl's Can't Win has entered the chat lololol
-Holy shit, she's got no filter lololol
-What a crazy bitch lol She's a woman herself, what a joke lol
└But she has a right to be annoyed, yeah. Bullet's fucking good;; Judging by her aim alone, she's probably in the top 0.1% of the tournament
└Is she hacking?
└Yep, she is
[General] Is Aura's Team Okay Like This? has entered the chat lol
Is Aura's team okay like this? has entered the chat lol They're gonna talk about each other's problems in an anonymous chat room, yeah
-Now you care whether Aura's team is okay? Isn't that a little late???
-Lost the cow, the chicken, the pig, the horse, and the goat, and now they're trying to fix the barn;;
└Fix it already, damn lol You're gonna bankrupt the whole family
└Fact is, they didn't just go bankrupt—they've already got red seizure notices on the door...
└Running away in the middle of the night really seems like the only answer now, yeah;;
[General] The Girly Duo is bawling lololol
(A clip of Momoru and Harumong crying. The anonymous chat is filled with insults too vicious to look at.)
Look at those vicious insults ㄷㄷㄷㄷ Is this the viciousness of women???
-So vicious—
-Is this really the Aura team that used to laugh and joke despite having a 3% win rate? My heart's swelling with pride...
└But that really was ridiculous, damn;;
-Guess they'd been silently bottling everything up;;
[General] Bulletcrates has entered the chat lol
(A picture of Bullet proudly posting Socrates's quote while crying.)
Quote of the century just dropped lololol
-Bulletcrates, damn lol That name's fucking cool
-She's bawling like that and still posted it? What a fucking psycho lol
└So what, you think the bitch who made up dead parents mid-scrim and disappeared saying she had to go buy tofu at 2 a.m. is normal???
└Seeing it laid out like this, yeah, she's really not normal...
[General] Bulletcrates is crying ON lolol
(Bullet is crying, and Socrates's quote appears.)
The tables turned on her, damn lol
-??? What is this? Why's she suddenly fucking crying?
└She started crying when she got insulted?
└(Gobsmacked~~~~~~~~ emote)
-She's so fucking cute, damn lol Her attack is insane, but her defense is paper-thin
-What is this, instantly paying for her karma;;
[General] Bullet and Harumong are switching roles, apparently
Harumong used to play DPS, so she's fucking awful at support. Bullet says she'll play support instead, yeah
-Wait, was it okay to switch roles?
└Yeah, there isn't a rule against it
-Isn't that a huge loss? Looking at Bullet's aim, she's better suited to DPS than support...
-Hmm...
***
The scrim between Aura's team and Dog Hammer's team.
Most people expected Dog Hammer's team to crush them. But the result they saw was the exact opposite.
[General] What the hell is this...?
(A screen showing both teams' crystal mining progress. Aura's team is at 100%, while Dog Hammer's team is at 0%.)
Aura's team absolutely stomped Dog Hammer's team???
-?????
-What happened...?
-Huh??? They won by that much???
-What the hell;; What happened;;
They dominated.
And it was Aura's team that dominated Dog Hammer's. The biggest underdog upset ever just happened.
[General] So how did they do that?
I only watched from Dog Hammer's team's perspective, so I have no idea how it ended up like this;; All I could feel was how fucking frustrating they were to watch, yeah
Anyone watch from Aura's team's perspective???
-I watched Dog Hammer's team's perspective too;;
-There probably aren't that many people who watched Aura's team, right??? Their viewership plummeted because they got their asses kicked day in, day out lolol
└For real;; I used to root for Aura's team too, but once their win rate dropped into single digits, I started watching other teams entirely...
└People in this gallery also beat the shit out of anyone rooting for Aura's team, calling them idiots, so they've all left the gallery by now, yeah;; Probably why there aren't any clips
└Ah, fuck;;;
The problem was that almost nobody had properly watched Aura's team's matches.
Most viewers watching Aura's stream left as soon as the scrim started, and even the few who stayed got tired of the public ridicule and fled to the fan cafe instead of the gallery.
Nobody wants to watch the streamer they root for get insulted. And honestly, they really were bad enough to be hard to watch.
[General] Heard Dog Hammer's team is having a real-life fight?
(A clip of Dog Hammer and one of the teammates insulting each other.)
(A clip of Dog Hammer storming off-screen, followed a moment later by the front door slamming shut.)
Apparently they're gonna settle it in a no-holds-barred fight at Exit 8 of Gangnam Station, yeah. Anyone interested, go watch lol Probably won't turn on the stream???
-Holy shit lol A legendary incident just happened
-A no-holds-barred fight with your own teammate, damn lol
-Never thought I'd see this;;
Meanwhile, news that Dog Hammer's team was going to throw hands slightly diverted attention from the team.
[General] Upvote if Dog Hammer's team are fucking idiots lolol
They used to insult each other to their hearts' content, saying “We don't hold grudges,” “We're a fun team,” and all that bullshit, but apparently they'd been bottling it all up this whole time;;
How are five guys even pettier and more underhanded than five women, damn lololol
-Aura's team, though, really aired everything out in an anonymous KakaoTalk chat, yeah;;
└That was fucking hilarious lolol
-They're even more pussy than the pussies;;;
The gallery was full of talk about Dog Hammer's team, but that didn't last long.
They don't even stream fights in the first place, and fans of Aura's team flooded the gallery to spread the word after their first win in ages.
[General] How did Aura's team become a strong team???
Anyone who's watched even one of Aura's team's scrims knows this team has a shitload of problems, but the biggest one was Harumong « this bitch
This bitch played over 500 games as DPS, then suddenly came out as support and caused every kind of fucking problem, yeah
(A clip of Bullet telling Harumong they should switch roles.)
Bullet realized what was going on, immediately suggested switching roles, and then said she'd take over shot-calling too, yeah
The whole team looked unsure, but their win rate was only 3% anyway, so they decided to try it. And the result?
(A clip of Aura's team completely crushing Dog Hammer's team.)
Dog Hammer's team got completely shut out without mining even 20% of the crystals...
(A picture of a frog with a question mark over its head.)
But switching just one role was enough?
Of course not.
So what was it that made them strong?
(Clip 1 of Bullet shot-calling.)
(Clip 2 of Bullet shot-calling.)
The answer is Bullet's shot-calling, yeah. The team changed completely once she took over as main shot-caller.
The calls themselves aren't anything especially fancy. But they're pro-level. She knows all the enemy skill cooldowns and calculates them perfectly, yeah
(A clip of Aura assassinating an enemy.)
She tells them how many seconds are left on each enemy skill's cooldown, how much ult charge they have, and where someone's setting up an assassination. With all that info, there's no way the team can lose, yeah
And maybe it's because Bullet has more charisma than you'd expect, but she's really good at taking charge of the team, yeah
(A clip of Bullet talking like a total loser.)
Of course, once the game ends, she goes right back to being the same loser as before, yeah;;
So what's the conclusion? Bullet « this bitch is the reason their form has gone absolutely insane
(A clip of Bullet saying she'll make the team great again.)
So there's no time to hesitate anymore!!!
Support Aura's team right now!!!!! They've been reborn as a team with a 100% win rate, yeah yeah yeah yeah
-Make Aura great again—!!!
-So this was just a recruitment post lolololol But now that I've seen this, I'm actually kinda curious???
-Is she hacking?
└Looks like she is?
└No way this isn't hacking lol How the hell can she calculate skill cooldowns and predict ult charge like that?
└(Are you a psychic? emote)
└What a shitty emote, damn
-That's insane;; Damn;; Maybe I'll watch Aura's team again?
└After seeing this, I'm thinking about checking them out too
-Fuck;; Don't watch Aura's team after seeing this. If you're gonna watch anyone, watch some stream besides Bullet's, damn;;
└Why??? Seems like watching from this bitch's perspective would be the most fun;;
└This crazy bitch is actively trying to drive viewers away!!!!
└Uh, what???
2.
“I-I'm feeling overwhelmed, so could everyone please leave…!”