[TS] Obsessed Gamer: The Ultimate Return – Chapter 117

“…….”

No answer came back.

Only a storm-like minion wave marched forward in response.

“Ah.”

It was then that Li Zhi-Xuan realized the grave mistake he had made. He hadn’t included a subject in his question.

What a ridiculous oversight, even to himself.

[All][qq7785dd55(Yasuon): hey outlaw]

[All][qq7785dd55(Yasuon): who are you?]

Li Zhi-Xuan asked again, but unfortunately, there was still no reply.

“…….”

Why isn’t anyone replying? Did I say something wrong?

‘…Can’t they speak English?’

No, that can’t be it.

According to Coach Jang Seok-Hwan, Korea has English as mandatory education throughout elementary, middle, and high school.

It wasn’t complex business English, just everyday conversation level—there’s no way they couldn’t respond due to a language barrier.

So, what could it be?

‘Did they turn off all chat?’

That was quite a possibility.

It didn’t have to be turned off, since it was a public chat, but it also didn’t have to be on either.

‘Should I add them after the match? But what if they don’t accept?’

In the midst of all these thoughts, Li Zhi-Xuan noticed that his game was slipping away.

‘Could they be hoping for this?’

…No, that’s just too far-fetched.

Li Zhi-Xuan focused back on the game, but it was hard to turn the tide after that mistake.

Even if this game had been in his favor, could victory really be assured?

‘…No.’

Li Zhi-Xuan was suddenly shocked to find himself negating that possibility.

The Mid Laner of GRS, seen as unrivaled in the league.

He had the ambition to repay all the resentments of the past and bring home the Red Cup this year, but here he was, showing such weakness in a solo rank game?

‘First, I need to win this game.’

Li Zhi-Xuan fixed his eyes on the minions.

*

What was that? Why are they asking that out of the blue?

It wasn’t just me who was flustered; the audience reacted similarly.

-???

-Suddenly?

-Isn’t that GRS Nightmare?

-No way?

-The Red Cup runner-up, wow!

-Is there really someone who can make the Red Cup runner-up curious????

-For real, haha!

-Breaking news: Red Cup runner-up immediately feels the wall, jungler screams.

-Don’t tell me it’s a recruitment offer?

-No way, right?

The viewers offered various theories, but I already had an inkling.

‘It’s not that I’m completely clueless…’

I had received an offer to join GRS once before.

It might have been one of the best offers I’d ever gotten to this day.

What that meant was that GRS had viewed me in quite a positive light, and even though some time had passed, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for them to remember me.

Especially since Nightmare, the Mid Laner for GRS, had played quite a few games with me.

‘Of course, I have no intention of answering.’

The game continued.

The situation had overwhelmingly tilted in our opponents’ favor, and all that was left was an easy 4 dragon team fight.

The opponent had two choices left:


Either give up the dragon soul and hold out for as long as they could, or commit everything to this team fight.

Their choice was the latter.

Though it was dubious to call it the right choice.

-You killed an enemy!

-Triple kill!

-Legendary appearance!

-Finish!

After a slaughter that was embarrassing to even call a team fight, our team marched straight to the enemy mid and bot.

Fire dragon soul.

Two inhibitors down.

One twin turret.

Baron on the way back.

That was what we obtained from that team fight.

Now, what remained was simple.

With Baron buff, Jason should pressure lightly at the bot lane while the rest of us push the top inhibitor and end the game with three lanes of super minions powered by Baron buff.

Feeling that was too tedious? Then we could just roll into mid and bot with the super minions buffed by Baron.

It might increase the risk a bit, but would surely let us finish the game faster.

Did I sense the game would end soon?

Once again, the chat popped up.

[All][qq7785dd55(Yasuon): Outlaw]

[All][qq7785dd55(Yasuon): Who are you]

Why is this guy so persistent?

-Is the host not responding?

-Breaking news: Nightmare reached 0 confessions and hit 3 times loool!

-Ah… ah…!!

『‘World’s Best Jungler Jjuhsim’ has gifted 10 balloons.』


『“Please respond to this poor soul.”』

“…….”

No, whether I respond or not isn’t the real issue…

‘What do I do?’

In the past, I could’ve just ignored this and finished the game.

Sure, I would get a friend request, but I could ignore that too.

But…

『‘Real Man Boy’ has gifted 10 balloons.』


『“Answer.”`

-Res

-pond

-Now

-Answer

Why are they all so united over something so trivial?

Thinking of the wind as a gentle breeze, I openly ignored it, but soon, that gentle wind became a storm.

‘…Sigh.’

In the end, my choices were limited.

“Do you want an answer to the question of who I am?”

-Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

-Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!

-I’m a Red Cup runner-up, but ignoring it was a bit much…

-You’re damaging the country’s reputation!

-What does national dignity even matter, old man?!

-For real, haha!

“Ugh….”

I reluctantly placed my hands on the keyboard.

*

Defeat loomed.

Li Zhi-Xuan didn’t feel particularly hopeless.

Defeats were something pro gamers always faced, and especially in solo ranked matches, it was even more common.

But still, the existence of Outlaw made him uneasy.

‘The game is lost already. Let’s just try to add him as a friend after this.’

Just at that moment of resignation.

[Outlaw(Eku): I■ ■■TV■■ ■■■ a■ ■■ BJ ■■■■■. I ■■r ■.]

An answer came.

However, regrettably, it was in Korean, so Li Zhi-Xuan could decipher only a few letters.

Although he had been studying Korean recently, he was still only at a beginner level.

In a rush, Li Zhi-Xuan called out for Coach Jang Seok-Hwan.

“Coach Jang Seok-Hwan!”

At that shout, Coach Jang Seok-Hwan, who had been slumped on the sofa, half-asleep from fatigue, bolted up.

“What, what?! What happened?”

“Hurry! Quickly!”

Li Zhi-Xuan fumbled through his recently learned Korean as he urged Coach Jang Seok-Hwan.

“What does this say?”

Coach Jang Seok-Hwan looked at the somewhat frantic appearance of Li Zhi-Xuan with a puzzled expression.

“What is going on?”

“Let’s discuss that later. Just read what this means first!”

Reluctantly, under Li Zhi-Xuan’s earnest demand, Coach Jang Seok-Hwan shifted his gaze to the monitor.

He looked a bit taken aback.

“Uh, um….”

“What? What does it say?!”

“…It says it’s Outlaw from Korea and that he’s a Red TV BJ, and he’s advertising himself.”

“…….”

Li Zhi-Xuan was left speechless.

Wait, so that means…

“……He’s an internet broadcaster?”

“Looks like it, yeah.”

It wasn’t entirely strange.

The popularity of internet broadcasters in China is enormous.

Certainly, there must be many in Korea too.

However…

Still, I thought someone of Outlaw’s caliber would surely be a pro, or at least someone related to the Prisoner.

‘…No, that’s not definite.’

While something felt off from what he expected, Li Zhi-Xuan didn’t back down.

What mattered right now wasn’t what Outlaw was doing at the moment anyhow.

“Coach, can you get into Outlaw’s broadcast for me?”

“It shouldn’t be too difficult now that you’ve given me the platform, but… alright. I’ll check it out after this game ends.”

“Thank you.”

And not long after, the Nexus exploded.

[Defeat]

It was a clean defeat that had been predicted long ago.

Of course, that was that, and Li Zhi-Xuan didn’t hesitate in sending a friend request to Outlaw.

As expected, there was no reply.

‘Well, that’s that.’

I never expected him to accept my friend request anyway, so Li Zhi-Xuan passed the turn to Coach Jang Seok-Hwan.

“Coach.”

“Got it.”

With the VPN already turned on, it wasn’t hard at all.

Search for Red TV.

And…

“Is this it?”

Eventually, he found a stream he suspected to be Outlaw’s.

Since Red TV was a platform that Coach Jang Seok-Hwan had often watched, it wasn’t a problem.

-C1) Ranking #1 No-Stream, working hard again today.

But as he briefly previewed the cam, Coach Jang Seok-Hwan’s mouse came to a halt.

“…Isn’t that it?”

What exactly did I just see?

Though only a glimpse from the preview, it was unmistakably a woman’s cam displayed in the lower right corner.

“What’s wrong?”

“Uh… I just got a bit confused. We can just check it out after entering, right?”

Indeed, since there was no other stream using the nickname Outlaw, Coach Jang Seok-Hwan clicked on that stream.

After a brief advertisement…

“Wha?”

“What’s up? …Huh?”

Both Jang Seok-Hwan and Li Zhi-Xuan’s faces turned to disbelief and shock.