Chapter 10
Translator: Aafkee
Proofreader: ChaiTea
Mu Wanwan has a depressed expression on her face when she walks out of the examination hall.
Lin Jiu asks, “Why the long face?”
“I think I’m going to flunk this,” Mu Wanwan lets out a drawn-out sigh, “I’ll probably be beaten to death by my mum.”
Lin Jiu pretends to be fed up with her, “Top students like you sure are annoying, always saying that you’re gonna flunk.”
“It’s real this time,” Mu Wanwan flips through a few pages of her tutorial book, “I got this wrong, too… This is all because of streaming!”
“Why didn’t you say that it was because of streaming when you were receiving presents from your fans?”
Mu Wanwan let out a yawn, “I’m going back now. How about you?”
“I’m going back, too. I promised to start today’s stream earlier.”
“Aren’t you streaming too frequently nowadays?” Mu Wanwan creases her brows, “Your throat is even hoarse.”
“It was only because I didn’t really drink any water during the exam.”
“Let’s go.” Mu Wanwan zips up her backpack.
“Where to?”
“There’s a pharmacy next to the school entrance. Let’s buy some lozenges to soothe our throats.”
Mu Wanwan got herself a few boxes as well.
Her voice hurt from just talking, unlike the streamers like Lin Jiu who focuses on entertainment.
There are still exams the next day, but her contract with BattleCatTV requires her to meet a certain quota every month.
Mu Wanwan can only brace herself and do it.
With her tutorial book in front of her.
[Why is the streamer so silent today?]
[She’s a university student, isn’t she? There are exams recently LMAO.]
Mu Wanwan has a lollipop in her mouth, the candy causes her cheek to bulge.
When she hears that she has entered a game from the audio, she merely lifts her eyes to confirm her position before looking down again.
Since she is too focused on studying, she does not realise it is time for her to choose her champion until she hears the audio for the countdown.
Seeing that she only has ten seconds left to decide, she locks onto Jinx without even looking at her team composition.
[Jinx again, that’s great, I’m specifically here for a Jinx live demonstration.]
[Although the streamer is pretty good at playing Jinx, shouldn’t she choose someone else with this team composition?]
[She didn’t even pay close attention to the team composition before she chose.]
Only then does she realise the opponent’s team composition: Rengar, Zed and Riven.
These three champions are abbreviated to Team “It’s considered my defeat if I can’t chop you to death”.
And she chose Jinx, who does not have any movement skills in her kit. It is, indeed, extremely disadvantageous to her.
The key point is that the support in her team has chosen Sona, an extremely squishy champion who may not even be able to protect herself in team fights. Her support skills are not as impactful as Lulu’s or Janna’s.
“It’s fine, all I have to do is hide behind.” She mumbles as she edits her rune page.
And when she enters the loading screen, she is dumbfounded.
LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch.
…The number of people in this rank is too few, so she can easily get into a game with her “acquaintances”.
Clearly, there are viewers who were here last time, too. Her comments keep flowing in.
[That’s the ADC from last time hahaha!]
[…Sigh, I realised this Sona is streaming as well.]
Mu Wanwan is not in the mood to read the comments. As the game is still loading, she quickly sends a message to Lin Jiu.
Wan: “I got into a game with UltimateMeowMeowPunch again…”
Lin Jiu: “Oh, cool. Troll her to death.”
Wan: “My viewers are going to report me if I troll again.”
Lin Jiu: “Alright, but you need to be mentally prepared, that bitch is very noob.”
Mu Wanwan did not comment on that. Judging from her previous game with UltimateMeowMeowPunch, her skills seemed to be decent. Although there were mistakes, she would not consider her a noob.
Without Lin Jiu being the conductor beside her this time, she could not be bothered to get in a tangle with UltimateMeowMeowPunch. She merely wants to finish the game as soon as possible.
Taking advantage of the time the game takes to load, Mu Wanwan looks at the comments.
[Someone else is playing instead of you, right?]
Someone else is playing instead of her? What do they mean?
She can not comprehend, so she chooses to ignore it. Given how she has flunked her exam, she is really not in the mood. She is even talking less than usual. She completely ignores that comment.
When the game starts, she focuses on her last hits, only to see Sona’s Q killing two soldiers which she had already damaged until they were left with a bit of health.
A target can not be specified when using Sona’s Q. If there are no champions nearby, the skill will land randomly on the soldiers so Mu Wanwan does not think much of it.
Until a minute later, when Sona steals three more last hits ー with her Q and an auto-attack.
She can understand if Sona accidentally last hit with her Q, but using her auto-attack is unduly it*.
(T/N*: The support usually never takes last hits. As explained before, Sona’s Q is random, so it is difficult to control what she hits, especially when she is trying to harass the opponent. However, using an auto-attack for the last hit is most likely intentional, which explains why Mu Wanwan feels that way.)
Is she taking revenge on her for taking her last hit last time?
Forget it., It was her bad in the first place.
Mu Wanwan does not want to get into any unnecessary arguments, so instead, she focuses on this long journey of competing for last hits with her support.
At level six, Mu Wanwan can judge from her opponents’ movements that the enemy’s jungler is probably somewhere near them for a gank.
She walks back a few steps as she pings on the map to indicate for Sona to retreat as well.
However, Sona obviously does not seem to understand her as she continues to be led by the enemies to make her try to wear down on the enemy’s ADC.
【DepressedPrince: 3333333】
3* means to retreat.
(T/N*: 3 has the same pronunciation as the word ‘æ•£’, which is directly translated to ‘disperse’. In this context, it means to retreat.)
Sona pauses.
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: ?】
【DepressedPrince: Their teammate is here.】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: No they aren’t here. Can’t you see my ward at the river? 0 0】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: Don’t be such a cowardFFFFFFFFF】
And just like that, there is an extra symbol from the enemy’s Rengar on top of Sona. Before she even has time to run away, she is immediately hooked by Thresh, who is followed up quickly by Rengar pouncing on her.
Since she was typing, she could not press F to flash away in time, giving away this game’s first blood.
Sona has broken the 0 - 0 status quo.
Mu Wanwan shakes her head lightly, finding it quite weird. Previously, when this ID was playing Tristana, their game sense was pretty good. Every time the enemy’s jungler came, Tristana would always be the first one to retreat first.
Why is their map sense so bad today? They even refused to retreat when she asked them to.
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: It was because you insisted on typing that I didn’t have time to use flash TvT!】
【DepressedPrince: ???】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: Speechless.】
She’d blame her for this?
Mu Wanwan does not speak another word. She returns to the base, purchases her equipment, and goes out to her lane again.
After Sona revives, she goes straight to the top lane and never returns.
What does she mean by this?
She is playing Jinx. This champion does not have any movement skills so if the support is not here with her, she can forget about taking a single last hit.
But it’s fine, that is other’s Jinx, not hers.
She is happy to take all the experience herself. Not long later, she is already a level higher than her opponents. Since Thresh only aims at her position when he tries to hook her, it is relatively straightforward so she can avoid his hooks without too much trouble.
She wonders how Sona got hooked just now.
【DepressedPrince: Jungler, come bot for ganks.】
Their jungler is Jarvan. She has played a couple of games with him before so she is familiar with his ID. The other party replies immediately with an “1111”* as he goes directly to the bottom lane.
(T/N*: 1 is a commonly used internet slang to represent the person’s affirmation.)
Mu Wanwan intentionally exposes herself. After receiving two auto-attacks from the enemy’s ADC, the enemy’s bottom lane duo immediately wants to dive the tower* to kill her.
(T/N*: The tower deals high damage to the enemy. It is usually safer for you to stay near your tower as it will prioritise hitting an enemy champion. Diving the tower means ignoring the tower and going for the kill anyway.)
In the end, Jarvan jumps out the moment they are in the tower’s range and traps them under the tower.
With the tower and Mu Wanwan’s damage, they secure a double kill with no challenge.
【DepressedPrince: I have enough money, you can take this wave.】
【Jarvan: Sure thing.】
Just as Mu Wanwan returns to her base, she sees the system notification on the top of her screen.
The enemy’s top lane has solo killed their top lane’s Gangplank and Sona.
【Gangplank: Sona, what are you doing here instead of going to the bottom lane? Now I’m a level lower than the opponent because I have to share my experience with you. How do you expect me to fight from now on??】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: …...QvQ I lagged for a bit so I couldn’t use my ultimate.】
【Gangplank: AD, if you’re gonna carry her through ranks, can you at least manage her properly?】
Mu Wanwan finds it unfathomable.
【DepressedPrince: I don’t know her. Can’t you see that she’s not coming to the bottom lane anymore?】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: I’ll play properly so please don’t fight anymore.】
Mu Wanwan would have rolled her eyes if she was not on live stream right now.
Probably because Jarvan had a good gank just now at Mu Wanwan’s lane, he has been helping Mu Wanwan with ganks at the bottom lane very diligently.
Good thing she does not disappoint either. They will almost always get some kills every time the jungler comes down to gank.
This time, even the middle lane comes down to help. They get a double kill from the enemy’s bottom lane once again.
Mu Wanwan presses on the button to return to her base as she starts browsing through the shop when she suddenly hears a sound effect of someone using a skill near her.
She closes her shop immediately. Just as she expected, there is a symbol cast on her by the enemy’s Rengar.
Her health point is pretty low at this point. She will definitely die if she receives a full combo from Rengar so she begins running backwards with no hesitation.
[Are you silly? Why not just put down your traps and trap him? At most, it’ll be a one for one.]
Mu Wanwan finally opens her mouth, “Who wanted to one for one with him? Definitely, not me.”
She runs all the way to her second tower without stopping. She looks backwards, “Where do you think he will pounce on me from?”
There are thousands of different answers, but Mu Wanwan continues to talk to herself, “I bet it’s here.”
She moves towards the right side of the tower, placing the traps at the edge.
Before her viewers could mock her, the trap has already caught Rengar in an instant.
Mu Wanwan uses her W to slow Rengar down before she kills him by auto-attacking. Fully content with her achievements, she presses B again to return to her base.
Indeed, successfully pulling off a good counter-attack definitely improves one’s mood.
“Although I didn’t read the comments, I’m sure you guys are praising me with 66*...”
(T/N*: In case you guys have forgotten: 6 and 溜 have very similar pronunciations. Therefore, 溜溜溜 is often replaced by 666. It is a very commonly used slang to describe someone doing something extremely well or very proficiently. It is almost always used with positive connotations.)
She is dumbstruck before she even finishes her sentence.
ーHer screen has turned grey!!
Stupefied, she closes the shop window, only to see the enemy’s mid laner entering the bush again as he disappears in their side of the jungle, hiding again.
And the system notification of her death quickly follows and appears on the upper side of her screen.
…
Mu Wanwan stays silent for a short while before she says, “... Let us pretend nothing happened.”
[666666666]
[Are you reading the comments now? Hahahahahahahahaha]
Mu Wanwan’s mood becomes worse after their team fight.
She would just let it be if this Sona is merely not skilful.
But she has not once gotten a heal from Sona’s W during the team fight!!!
It is important to understand that all of Sona skills can not land on specific champions ー for example, her heal, W, will land on two random teammates who are the nearest to her or to the ones who have the lowest health.
This is why it is not difficult to use this champion at all. All you need to do is to smash on your QWE keys non-stop.
But every time there is a team fight, Sona is always 1000 miles away from her, not giving her any buffs at all.
She wouldn’t believe it if the Sona says that she’s not doing this on purpose.
She can not endure it anymore after dying by the enemy’s hands once again.
【DepressedPrince: Forget it if you can’t catch the enemy’s assassin with your R, but you won’t even heal me at least once during a team fight?? Don’t you even know how to smash your keyboard beside me?】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: All of them want to kill you so I’ll die very quickly if I stand beside you. I’m not that silly~】
(T/N: For those who are not familiar with LoL, it is normal for the main damage to be focused by the enemy team due to their high damage output aka they are the most dangerous. It is USUALLY better to sacrifice the support rather than the carries because they can easily turn the game over with their high damage output so this UltimateMeowMeow is being a complete idiot here.)
Mu Wanwan can only feel her eyelid twitching non-stop.
She tries her best to restrain her impulse to scold people. Instead, she grits her teeth and says, “Don’t those people feel guilty for carrying girls up the ranks?! They are merely ruining other players’ game experience!!”
No comments:
Post a Comment