Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 125, Section 122: The King of Smashing Noobs - Island Village
That evening, after watching the game live, the CFO and his entourage returned to the hotel together and went to their respective rooms to rest.

No further training was conducted.

Whether it's ranked matches or practice matches.

On this day, Coach Chawy's instructions were: "We don't need to practice anymore. What we need now is rest and a better adjustment. Don't let today's defeat to HLE affect our mentality."

"TES's current situation serves as a cautionary tale for us. Mentality is really important when playing matches."

So, without doing anything, everyone simply chose to enjoy their own pure sleep.

But after returning to the hotel, Shimamura Yuna was so excited that she couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

This is my chance to prove myself.

She had a strong intuition that TES was definitely experiencing internal conflicts.

Moreover, it is highly likely that these are internal conflicts that cannot be resolved in the short term.

They have now lost all their matches except for TL, and only one match against CFO remains on their schedule.

It's fair to say that for an LPL team like TES, achieving such a result at this World Championship is a major failure.
Now, with only this final match left, their mentality must be on the verge of exploding.

At this point, it should be said that if even KC beat TES, it would be inappropriate for the atmosphere to be different if their CFO couldn't win.

That evening, Shimamura Yuna even unusually opened her Bilibili account to see what was going on.

As a result, the first thing she saw when she opened Bilibili was a bunch of comments so innocent that they touched her.

Many of them sent their blessings for her recent development.

[Yuna, your performance at the World Championship really made me, as a devoted fan, so proud. Watching you grow from your early days as a streamer has been so moving. Even though you don't stream much anymore, I'm still willing to renew my contract as your Admiral, and I'm willing to wait for you to come back.]

[Yuna, it's been a long time since your last broadcast, but I've been able to keep up with your news and see you shining on the field, which makes me really happy. You're currently a player named Shimamura Yuna, but I'll keep waiting. I'll wait until the day streamer Oni-King Yuna returns, even if it's just a limited-time comeback.]

[Unnie, I hope one day I can see you holding that trophy on stage, even though it feels like it's a long way off.]

Seeing these comments, Shimamura Yuna couldn't help but feel a little touched.

The name "Yuna" is something she hasn't heard in a long time.

Because nowadays people online like to call her "Shimamura-nee".

Actually, logically speaking, the name Shimamura-san doesn't sound as pleasant or easy to pronounce as names like Yuna or Yuna.

But people still shout it like that.

why?

Because a certain popular Bilibili streamer likes to shout like that.

The fans of that popular streamer all like to mimic their idol's speech, so over time, the whole world started calling her "Shimamura-nee" (older sister Shimamura), and it became their default nickname.

This has led to names like Yuna and Youna, which sound better, seemingly disappearing from the internet.

At this point, only her past fans and her loyal original supporters still insisted on calling her "Sister Yuna".

Although it seems to have no meaning.

But when she saw these heartfelt blessings from her fans, Shimamura Yuna still felt somewhat touched.

In fact, she is someone who pays very little attention to her fans and rarely empathizes with them.

To put it bluntly, she's a bit selfish.
She always focuses more on how to realize her self-worth, how to improve herself, and how to pursue her goals.

She also cares about the people around her, such as her older sister, Akari Kujo, and Rei Inoue who takes care of her every day.

But she was generally indifferent and uncaring towards everything and everyone else.

But at this moment, after seeing these fans' sincere comments, she suddenly felt a little guilty.

feel
The feelings that fans have for you are completely disproportionate to the feelings that you have for them.

Although I can't say I've let them down in any way, well, how should I put it?

It seems I've never really taken them to heart.

Thinking about this, she felt the expectations placed upon her increased, and the feeling of having to win and repay the attention and expectations of others became even stronger.

but
She didn't turn on her phone today to see this.

The reason I opened Bilibili today after a long time is because I had some speculations about public opinion and wanted to verify them.

With that in mind, she opened the sorting by time option.

Sure enough, once sorted by time, my old post immediately attracted a number of comments with somewhat peculiar styles.

[Shimamura-san, now that even your defeated opponent KC is buying TES spinning tops, it would be really unreasonable for you not to.]

[Shimamura-san, I can't wait to see your match the day after tomorrow! I want to see you hang up your piss and beat it!]

Let's go for it again, Shimamura-san!

[TES played so disgustingly, I've completely given up on supporting them. Right now, I just want to see Shimamura win, I just want Shimamura to beat TES, so TES can be completely wiped out tomorrow.]

If even their own comment section is like this, I don't even want to think about what it's like in other places.

With that in mind, she casually refreshed the homepage.

Sure enough, the first time I refreshed the page, I saw a video.

[TES suffers a humiliating defeat against KC, showing no shame whatsoever; will CFO become the only team LPL viewers truly support?]

The comments below were even more extreme.

There were all sorts of personal attacks against TES, and they especially liked to compare Shimamura Yuna with the TES players.

The prevailing opinion now is "support CFO to crush TES".

but
Shimamura Yuna, however, was not particularly happy about it; instead, she felt a bit stressed.

She knows that the reason why the audience supports her like this is simply because they are using her as a tool to create a contrast with TES.

They want to belittle TES by praising themselves.

She may seem to be praising herself highly now, but she knows very well that this is because, for these people, she is currently an outlet for their emotions.

Everyone hopes to use themselves to highlight TES and make TES seem worthless.

But if I fail to beat TES, the public opinion will immediately turn against me.

It might turn into comments like "CJB is useless, he can't even beat TES" or "He's a disappointment".

If one's individual performance is good, there might be fans defending them, while the focus of criticism is placed on the other team members.

However, if I perform even slightly worse, it could lead to a reversal in public opinion.

Those viewers who expect to be used as tools to criticize TES, as well as those who are already TES fans, will take this opportunity to kick them while they're down.

Given my mental state at that point, I might really have to quit the internet permanently.

Thinking about this, her feelings became somewhat complicated.

Although she herself was quite looking forward to beating TES, the current public opinion is completely that "it's no longer possible to win against TES."

After all, so many teams have already tried to get this spinning top, it would be really unreasonable for you not to try it, right?

If your spinning top can beat this spinning top, then it would be really surprising if you couldn't beat it.

Ugh.
Although I felt some pressure, I felt that such high expectations were actually putting me under pressure.

However, upon further reflection, I think...
Actually, as long as you win, everything will be fine.

Is that so?
Yuna Shimamura lay alone in bed, staring at the ceiling for a long time with her eyes open, without resting.

Akari Kujo, who was lying next to her, noticed her condition.

Realizing she seemed to have something on her mind, she asked softly and gently, "What's wrong? Why aren't you asleep yet? You have a match tomorrow."

"Is something bothering you? Are you still upset about losing to HLE today?"

Yuna Shimamura shook her head: "No, that's not it. It's just..."

Just what?

She was a little unsure how to express her feelings to Akari Kujo.

The other party was not an insider in the League of Legends community, and could only listen to what he was saying with a rudimentary understanding.

Just when I didn't know how to start a conversation with her.

Akari Kujo took the initiative to speak.

"Don't think too much about things outside of the game."

"The more you consider the benefits of winning and the consequences of losing, the more concerns you will have."

"But once you've embarked on the path of a professional player, there's only one thing you need to consider from beginning to end: winning."

"You must win, fight with all your might to win. With your victory, all the problems that seem like problems at this stage will no longer be problems."

There's nothing particularly special about what Akari Kujo said.

These are all simple and obvious principles.

But it actually awakened the current Yuna Shimamura.

Oh, I see.

That's right, don't play the game with the thought of "what will happen if I lose".

Instead, you should have the mindset of "I must win".

They didn't consider the consequences of losing.

Ignore those unfounded rumors.

All you need to think about is "winning".

Thinking of this, from this very moment on, Shimamura Yuna suddenly felt less hesitant and cautious.

There was a feeling of sudden clarity.

She turned to Akari Kujo with some gratitude and said, "Thank you. I'm so glad you were with me during this competition."

Kujo didn't say anything more.

She just smiled calmly: "Let's not talk about those things. Just focus on the game."

"Right now, only winning is meaningful to you."

"For your own sake, for your fans' sake, for my sake, and for everyone who still has expectations for you."

"you need to."

"Keep winning."

The next day arrived. There were no TES matches scheduled for this day.

Instead, a CFO vs TL match was held.

Compared to tomorrow's main event, CFO vs TES, today's match seemed somewhat uninteresting.

The only significance of this match for the audience is to test the CFO's abilities before tomorrow's main event begins.

Let's see if the CFO has any chance of winning against TES, who are in terrible form.

If TES, that spinning top team, can beat TL, then your CFO can't possibly lose, right?
In the end, these viewers were not disappointed.

The CFO is indeed no match for HLE.

However, when facing teams like TL, the top lane protection strategy centered around Yuna Shimamura still seems to be incredibly effective.

The core of their strategy is that if your laning skills aren't up to par and your team's stats aren't good enough, you can't stop Shimamura Yuna.

This is especially true when there is a significant difference in skill level between the top laners.

Therefore, it is fundamentally impossible to crack the CFO's tactics, allowing the current CFO system to be implemented with almost no obstacles.

However, once your hard skills exceed a certain limit and the team's collaborative ability reaches a certain level, the CFO's tactics will become useless.

Typical examples are the two matches against HLE.

However, it's clear that TL isn't the kind of team with high raw strength stats that can directly break through CFO's defenses.

Thus, in two more matches where the outcome was almost a foregone conclusion, Shimamura Yuna won the MVP award.

After three best-of-three series, everyone has figured out what's really going on with Shimamura Yuna's CFO.

If I had to say something, this team hasn't escaped the wildcard nature of the Pacific Division.

The problem of low personnel strength and generally weak capabilities remains unresolved.

While their operational capabilities are decent, it's not enough to fundamentally reverse the problem.

The reason they seem so strong now is because of Shimamura Yuna.

Yuna Shimamura's presence significantly raised the team's potential.

But the result is that they completely bully the weak and fear the strong.

In other words, when facing teams whose strength is inferior to one's own, or even close to one's own, one cannot possibly lose; there is simply no angle from which one can lose.

Teams like TL and KC are clearly this type of team.

However, when facing a truly strong team like HLE, they also seemed somewhat helpless.

Well, now comes the problem.

As a team, does TES belong to the former or the latter?
If CFO is a strong team detector, can TES pass the test?
This has generated a lot of anticipation among netizens.

[Damn it, it seems like Shimamura is really going to go overboard with her attacks on weaker opponents. TES is really in trouble tomorrow. With their current form, they're really going to be in big trouble.]

[Shimamura seems to be a real stomper on weaker opponents; she's so tough against these European and American noobs, it's impossible to see how she ended up losing.]

Stop showing off in Europe and America, tomorrow it'll be LPL's turn.

[The king of crushing noobs, Shimamura, is here! My legs are shaking just from peeing!]

In summary, CFO has completed three group stage matches with a record of 2:1, and has now essentially secured their advancement.

Now, all they have left to do is one thing.

That is to defeat TES in the upcoming final match, fulfilling the ultimate expectation of countless netizens.

(End of this chapter)