[What are you doing right now?]
[Surprise comeback broadcast ㄷㄷ]
[Why is this person suddenly getting hit?]
[The combo is insane, who are they up against?]
[Looks like a practice arena]
[Su Ah, who has become a dummy for combos]
As the broadcast started, the viewers expressed their confusion.
Without any explanation, the game had already begun.
It was a stark difference from Su Ah’s usual broadcasting style.
If it were regular times, Su Ah would have answered those questions diligently, but the situation was not favorable now.
“You need to focus.”
“No, does doing this really improve your skills? Wouldn’t it be better to practice aiming?”
“You just have to trust me completely.”
Mollu swung her sword while saying something that sounded like it came out of a drama.
Gritting her teeth, Su Ah managed to block the sword.
Clang—
With a sharp metallic sound, she was pushed back.
She was lucky.
A parry that would succeed only one in ten times.
Su Ah still couldn’t grasp the timing.
It was overwhelming to keep up with Mollu’s dazzling sword movements.
When she first requested a training broadcast, Mollu asked what she wanted to learn.
While the overall game skills were essential, Su Ah was curious about something else.
The sniper and swordsman had now completely established themselves as Mollu’s identity picks.
Su Ah chose the swordsman.
As she improved her overall game skills, she also expanded the range of agents she could handle.
In theory, it was perfect.
But it looked like this at the moment.
Su Ah thought she at least had a minimal understanding of the swordsman.
Not just the swordsman, but a minimal understanding of all agents existing in Eo War.
Things like skill mechanisms, entry timing, and at what timings they were strong or vulnerable, etc.
These were things she learned naturally while playing Eo War for years.
She had only tried the swordsman a few times, but she was confident.
She had become interested after facing Mollu and watching her broadcasts.
That’s why she had said she wanted to learn the swordsman.
But while receiving formal training from Mollu, Su Ah realized.
Her idea of ‘understanding’ was different from Mollu’s ‘understanding.’
She felt it from the moment Mollu toyed with her.
The player named Mollu was on a completely different level from regular users.
She grasped everything in detail, from basic skill comprehension to the unique motions that only that agent possessed.
“The swordsman’s left movement has less area for body movement than the right. That means the motion is shorter. You probably grip the sword only with your right hand, so the center of gravity seems to lean to one side. In a sense, you could say it’s a good representation of the material.”
“…How do you know something like that?”
“I just figured it out as I went along.”
Did she analyze the graphics frame by frame or something?
[Crazy grappling skills ㄷㄷㄷㄷ]
[Mollu-sensei, is it?]
[There was a reason why sensei focused on left movement when playing the swordsman.]
[Is it okay to share this in the broadcast?]
[Even if you tell her, she won’t be able to follow it ㅋㅋ]
[Is this an educational broadcast today?]
[Teaching something strange, how will Su Ah follow this?]
[It seems like a mismatch in teaching methods.]
[Ah, ㅋㅋ teacher, please adjust to the student’s level.]
In the chat room, they were talking about grappling skills, but Mollu showed how to actually utilize them appropriately.
It’s a subtle detail that arises when an agent’s understanding reaches its peak.
Su Ah frowned as she focused on the swordsman’s movements.
After hearing the explanation, it felt like there was indeed less fluttering fabric in left movement, just as Mollu said.
“I feel like I can see something…”
But applying this in practice, recognizing that such motions exist, and even having such thoughts herself.
Su Ah was not confident.
How could she do that?
Before her eyes, Mollu moved her body here and there.
The training ground’s bots attacked her indiscriminately.
She dodged incoming projectiles with movement, and for those she couldn’t evade, she parried them.
The sight of her seemed as if she had merged seamlessly with the swordsman, leaving Su Ah with no argument to make.
She could only swing her sword at Mollu with a sense of regret.
“Your basic physical ability isn’t bad at all. You might be losing in psychological warfare. Don’t get fooled by fakes, and make sure to judge the motion all the way through. You should also be aware of the opponent’s skill cooldown.”
“Teacher, my head hurts…”
<Suwon Abduction has donated 1,000 won!>
[You’re expecting too much from Da-Dak! ㅋㅋ]
While Su Ah couldn’t agree with being called Da-Dak, it was true.
What kind of diamond plays a game like this?
Su Ah thought that if such a diamond existed, they must be using a smurf account.
Geniuses do not understand the ordinary.
It’s an old saying.
Ordinary folks can’t comprehend the ‘obvious’ things mixed into their play.
If they were to demand an explanation, it would seem odd.
Mollu was a genius.
However, she wasn’t a good teacher.
It all started from dragging the student to the training ground and using education as a guise for violence.
What kind of teacher teaches a student this way?
Unfortunately, it was unavoidable.
Let’s just be satisfied that Mollu accepted the apology.
Let’s just be satisfied that she hosted a broadcast together and shared the viewer pie.
Su Ah thought that way, but she didn’t know.
Change had already begun.
*
Humans instinctively enjoy boasting about what they know.
Beyond mere chatter, education that unravels known knowledge is also enjoyable.
The educational broadcast was fun.
Teaching someone was such a delightful thing.
And naturally, with the joy of teaching, there was joy in learning.
The joy of learning is also an innate pleasure for humans.
Su Ah was a student filled with the desire to learn, a taste for teaching.
“Can we take a little break? I’m too tired.”
“We just took a break.”
“I had to go to the restroom urgently…”
“Let’s rest for just 10 minutes.”
While her low stamina was a flaw, it was the educator’s duty to properly assess the student’s condition.
I stretched and turned my gaze to the chat window.
[Poor Su Ah ㅠㅠㅠ]
[What did Su Ah do wrong?]
[Ah ㅋㅋ she did do wrong.]
[It’s all in the past, don’t slander our Su Ah.]
[Repetitive and emphasized education makes Su Ah anxious.]
[Teacher, please take care of our child.]
[What is this… teacher?]
[Lions raise their cubs by dropping them from cliffs. Sensei is trying to make Su Ah a lion right now.]
[Humans d*e when they fall from cliffs, you know.]
[I just feel like you’re only hitting her a lot.]
[Violent teacher ㄷㄷ]
While viewers sympathized with Su Ah and criticized me… No, this was the chat from the viewers.
No matter how easygoing my personality might be, I couldn’t completely disregard that.
Is this the hardship of being an educator?
I didn’t think there was a problem with my teaching method.
Su Ah was a talented student.
Mainly in physical aspects.
Her reactions were quick, and her eye coordination was excellent, making it easy to comprehend skill motions.
But because of that, her playing style became fixated.
She usually attacked, dodging whatever she could, and if not, she got hit.
When she could score a combo, she was great, but when it came time to defend, she withdrew completely.
She forced fights when she didn’t really need to.
Was it because of her hasty personality? She often took risks.
Basically, she would initiate battles indiscriminately and would take advantage of them.
But on the flip side, if she ended up losing in a fight, it would be just the end.
It might have worked until now, but it wouldn’t be the case moving forward.
As the tiers got higher, more users with outstanding physical skills emerged.
There were specific teaching methods suited for such users.
Right now, I was in the process of erasing the practiced play embedded in Su Ah’s body and reverting her to a blank slate.
For a disobedient dog, the best way to teach was to give them a good whack when bad habits emerged.
That didn’t mean I was calling Su Ah a dog.
Through that process, I assertively had no ulterior motive.
I was just quietly training Su Ah, like a machine going through the process of fairness…!
…Actually, I was a bit excited.
It was amusing to hear Su Ah scream every time she died, and her attempts to rub against me with her considerable physical skills were cute.
Since I wasn’t charging her any training fees, I figured this much was fair.
With that in mind, I approached Su Ah, who was trembling.
“Don’t come any closer, you monster!”
“Even for me, that hurts a bit.”
“Ugh… I don’t want to anymore.”
Still, when I made an attacking motion, her quick reaction to raise her sword left an impression.
Clang—
Sparks flew from the point of contact between our swords.
It was a parry.
There were results from the training.
See? My teaching method wasn’t wrong.
Su Ah seemed flustered as she waved her sword after what she had done herself.
“Parry… Parry? How?”
“After getting hit a bit, you start to get the timing, right?”
“No, uh… I think so, yeah.”
[How is she awakening from just taking hits, it’s not even martial arts.]
[Sensei is a martial artist, you guys ㅋㅋ.]
[This actually works ㅋㅋㅋㅋ.]
[Isn’t this just a fluke?]
Well, now that the training was over, it was time to test her in a real match.
“Shall we head to rank games now?”
“Finally…”
She could be freed.
I glared at Su Ah, muttering the same thing in resentment.
No, you enjoyed it too.
