[Hey Lily, when are you coming?]
Author: LilyLily
(5 days ago, Lily announced her break)
Didn’t Lily say she was taking a break for 5 days? Shouldn’t she show up on day 5?
Plus, no updates or anything, just chilling…
Today is the DCK finals, and there’s no news about her tuning in.
It’s getting hard to live, damn it, my life is lacking Lily.
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─ Hahahahaha
─ Check Newtub, Lily’s videos keep coming up.
└ I’ve seen them all. I even watched the live stream, so of course I did.
└ Just watch the full video, lol.
└ Yeah.
─ A 5-day break is too much, lol.
└ For real, haha.
└ I want to see her…
─ Is Lily dating a guy or something? Seems like she’s been too close with a lot of guys lately.
└ For real, with the Devil and Black too, she even treated Minoa to some skewers when they first met.
└ Whoa.
└ Stop joking around.
└ Yeah~ No way.
└ The boys are splurging with money, haha.
└ Eww.
└ Lily hasn’t received sponsorship for over two months now?
─ Lily’s right next to me, so don’t bother her.
└ What are you saying? She’s next to me.
└ Lily is my girlfriend, so hands off.
└ She’s mine, you crazy guys.
└ How many boyfriends does Lily have, damn it, haha.
─ Fact: Lily likes girls more than boys. This is exemplified by Leo and Yena, debates welcome.
└ Isn’t Leo just treating her cutely? Like a puppy.
└ But that puppy is a person?
└ Yena is absolutely a queen.
└ Being a lesbian isn’t a bad thing.
└ ?
└ Agreed.
[So who do you think will win the finals?]
Author: OhWowC
(People gathered in front of the stadium)
People are already crowding the DCK stadium, who do you think will win between CO and WoW?
Led by the spear god, the team’s ace, pillar, and the face of the team, Choco, the current win rate of 85% CO will take the win, upvote.
Nah. Is Baekseol at the edge of level 90 nothing to you? WoW wins, downvote.
Oh, of course, I hit the upvote button, lol.
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─ It’s definitely CO, haha.
─ Just shut up, CO. Choco has been insane lately; they’re guaranteed to win.
└ No, Baekseol will win~
└ Baekseol’s form has improved a lot lately too, you know?
└ But still, Choco has a higher ranking, right?
└ Pro competitions and ranks don’t affect each other, haha.
─ Fact: CO and WoW have similar win records with CO at 11 wins and WoW at 8 wins.
└ Fact 2: WoW’s 5 wins were before Choco awakened. Since then, it’s been a total disaster.
└ Fact 3: And Baekseol has won 3 more times since awakening, right? It’s pretty even now, huh?
└ Hahahahaha.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└The fact is that CO is dominant, but it’s just that there are some variables since it’s a team game like WoW.
─But who decided that the God of Spear is a thing?
└For real, the God of Spear got completely wrecked in Liligi’s pores, lol.
└I totally agree.
└Lily is out of the equation, though, haha.
└Yeah, right? Lily’s totally weak, right? If you’re mad, turn on the broadcast and prove it.
└That’s also correct.
└For real, lol.
─But isn’t Lily going to show up at the Stadium? There are loads of cosplays.
└No way.
└Lily would never do that; she’d only show up at the Deoen Stadium, at best.
└How would anyone even know if she shows up in the first place, haha?
■
On the day of the DCK finals.
I got dressed to go outside for the first time in a while before meeting Yena.
“Um.”
Let me correct that.
I didn’t exactly get fully dressed.
I wore a black cap over my conspicuous blue hair and put on a black mask.
Right now, it’s late summer, as summer is winding down.
I wore a white short-sleeve T-shirt and a black jacket over it.
With black pants on, it totally gives off the vibe of ‘I’m a celebrity, and I’m hiding!’
Of course, it’s not like I’m hiding at all.
“Should I cut my hair?”
It’s a bit tousled.
But there’s something holding me back from cutting it, so I decided to endure it.
Click.
“Miss Lily, all set…”
“Yes, I’m ready.”
“…You really look like a celebrity.”
Is that so?
It’s not a wrong statement.
Originally, I wanted to tie my hair back and tuck it under my hat, but since it’s so long, I can’t keep it in there for long.
“You look good too, Yena.”
“I put in a bit of effort!”
Yena twirled around proudly, showcasing her fully made-up look.
With outfits and makeup like that, she actually looks quite pretty.
At this level, she’s probably around 0.7 Deoen Yena, right?
“…I feel a bit weird about this.”
“No way.”
Yena in the Deoen world is outstanding; it’s not that reality Yena is lacking.
That’s just an unavoidable difference.
“How are we getting there? Taxi?”
“Oh come on, are we really going to treat our Lily like that?”
“?”
Yena twirled her finger proudly.
A small white car key was hanging from her finger.
“Today, I’m Lily’s personal knight.”
■
Following Yena to the apartment parking lot, I immediately spotted an expensive-looking sports car.
A two-seater sports car with doors that open upwards.
The car was white, and it matched Yena’s cool outfit quite well.
“Oh…”
“Get in!”
“It looks incredibly expensive.”
“I wonder how much it is?”
As I sat next to Yena, the door closed automatically.
Yena reached out, opened the shelf, and took out a pair of black sunglasses to wear.
Then she turned to me, lifted one side of her sunglasses, and smiled sweetly.
“1.1 billion.”
“Wow.”
That’s more expensive than my apartment.
“It’s super pricey, right?”
“That’s more expensive than a house.”
My apartment is worth 700 million, but the car is worth 1.1 billion. I heard that house prices dropped since Deoen appeared in this world, so why hasn’t the car price changed?
“Why has the house price dropped but the car price stayed the same?”
“…Maybe it’s because cars are stylish?”
“Hmm… that does sound plausible.”
Unlike homes, which are deeply connected to people’s basic needs, sports cars are rarely bought based on cost-effectiveness or ‘necessity.’ Most people probably buy them to show off or because they can afford to buy them casually.
‘After all, no one buys a sports car to race on regular streets.’
Vroom!
The engine’s sound thrummed in my ears, totally different from a regular car.
It definitely feels worth the money; the driving experience is fantastic.
“Actually, I didn’t buy it. To be precise, it was sponsored… Due to my job, I don’t really use it that often.”
“…A sponsored car worth 1.1 billion?”
Isn’t that a bit too much to be a sponsorship?
As I tilted my head in confusion, Yena chuckled and pressed a button, causing the ceiling to slide open and the car to transform into a convertible.
“Let’s go!”
Yena’s car leaves the parking lot.
A cool breeze brushes past me and Yena.
It’s not some special ability or wind from flying; it’s just the feeling of wind experienced in reality.
‘Not bad.’
I think driving occasionally might be nice.
“Lady Lily, you might not know since you don’t do ads or anything, but this kind of sponsorship is just a starter. If you do an appearance or promotion for them, there’s places that will offer something bigger. I heard someone was even offered a building.”
Rankers are like celebrities.
Not just regular TV stars, but famous people whose exceptional abilities can influence the political climate of Deoen.
Companies are also gradually settling into Deoen, so if rankers promote a company, it would definitely bring many advantages.
Yena naturally steers the wheel.
For someone who hasn’t driven much, she’s quite skilled.
“Oh, of course, that kind of sponsorship only applies to a tiny minority, and I can’t get that kind of thing now.”
Back in the day, she was famous for that…
With that said, Yena turned her head with a bittersweet smile.
If you’re getting a sponsorship for a 1.1 billion car, you’d at least have to be among the top rankers in Deoen.
I guess I should be at least in the upper ranks.
Yena once stood in that position, but now she’s quite far behind.
“You’ve just gotten famous again, you know.”
“Pfft. It’s just a has-been… well, not a has-been, but still, it’s true.”
“I heard your ranking went up again.”
“Yeah, it did.”
Yena’s current rank is 19th.
She made it into the top 20, but matching up in the upper rank war is horrendously tough.
Even if she does get a match, if she faces rankers who can wipe her out in a finger snap…
“But everyone has really improved. Even the player who made it to the finals… Ugh. Every match is intense.”
“It was Baekseol, right? The one from Choco’s team.”
“Yeah. I saw her briefly in the dungeon.”
After deciding to watch the DCK finals, Yena showed me the list of players from the teams in the finals.
Team CO, led by Chota Choka Chuka Chip, is a strong title contender.
And Choco is actually the main character of my student, ‘Candy Star,’ who ranked 4th and had a spear duel with me in the mock siege.
“And then it hit Yena hard.”
Yena was cleanly retired with the roar of her heartfelt dagger.
The opposing team is Team WoW, led by a player named ‘Baekseol.’
Team WoW, with a mage as a core member, has an incredible five mages out of its eight players.
Especially, Baekseol is known as a powerful freeze mage, currently ranked 9th.
For reference, Baekseol had also made a brief appearance in the Black World Tree dungeon.
“Honestly, in a 1v1, Choco would have the upper hand, but Baekseol has an excellent team play… so I don’t know how it will turn out.”
“Team CO has a better win rate overall, though, right?”
“At the moment, yes, but looking at the recent win rates, it’s almost 50/50…”
No matter how great you are, you can’t win without your team supporting you.
Some sports types require solo performances where you can’t carry the team at all, and in that situation, WoW would have a slight edge.
“Speaking of, we’re almost there…”
Yena and I looked around.
Cars tightly packed on the road.
And there, the gigantic stadium appeared along with countless people standing outside the stadium.
Among the crowd…
“…there was no need to hide, I guess.”
“Lady Lily has more than 10 people.”
There were over 10 people cosplaying as ‘me.’
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