Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 133, Chapter 130: Yuna, let's start a game!

The more Shimamura Yuna read these comments online, the stranger her expression became.

As she looked at it, her face turned bright red.

Akari Kujo, who was standing to the side, was not asleep either, but was lying down with her eyes closed, resting.

When she accidentally opened her eyes, she saw that Shimamura Yuna was not asleep, but staring at her phone with a flushed face.
For a moment, she had some bad thoughts.

'Is he looking at something weird?'

But then she felt it was unrealistic.

The match is tomorrow, and given Shimamura Yuna's focus on the game, she shouldn't waste her energy on such abstract things at this time.

So, she became a little curious.

What are you looking at?

The sudden question startled Shimamura Yuna.

She quickly put away her phone and shook her head repeatedly, saying, "No, no, I wasn't looking at anything."

Her reaction only made Akari Kujo even more eager to get to the bottom of things.

Wait, what is this guy thinking?

What are you doing?

Thinking this, she rolled out of bed and moved closer to Shimamura Yuna's bedside, then leaned her head over to look at the contents of her phone.

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'It doesn't seem like anything's wrong?'

From her perspective, at least, it was just a Bilibili video comment page.

But seeing that Shimamura Yuna immediately took the phone away again, forbidding her from looking at it, she felt...
'It seems the secret lies in the content.'

Thinking of this, Akari Kujo smiled subtly, then crawled back into her bed and opened Bilibili on her phone.

It should be noted that, as a person with a strong learning ability, Akari Kujo also started learning Chinese in her spare time in order to keep up with the pace after Yuna Shimamura began to develop in the Chinese-speaking world.

Although this wasn't the most important thing for her, she didn't allocate a lot of study time to it.

But now she can still understand some of the simplest Chinese words and some frequently used e-sports terms.

With the help of translation software, she can understand most of the information about Yuna Shimamura on the Chinese internet.

Currently, matters concerning Yuna Shimamura aren't generating particularly much buzz on Japanese online forums.

The reason is that, although the recent media coverage of Yuna Shimamura made her quite famous.
But the real sensation wasn't the competition, it was just Shimamura Yuna.

On the one hand, not many people watch the games, so the speed of information flow is limited.

On the other hand, even if some new viewers come to watch, they may not quite understand why Shimamura Yuna has become a viral sensation online today.

Shimamura Yuna's victory over TES is something that those in the know understand, but for most Japanese viewers, it's hard to grasp the significance of defeating TES and LPL.

This might have to wait until tomorrow.

It might take until the Japanese news media react tomorrow and come up with some news like "Japanese e-sports beauty defeats China's super professional team" to attract attention before the information spreads.

Before that, you can first look at online reports from China.

Akari Kujo spent a long time searching on Bilibili for information about the Vanguard Tournament and Yuna Shimamura, which was rather obscure.

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Then, after a very difficult Chinese reading comprehension exercise, I finally managed to roughly understand what everyone was saying.

Furthermore, she also knew why Shimamura Yuna had blushed earlier.

'Oh, so that's how it is.'

After understanding everything, Akari Kujo couldn't help but find it a little funny.

She never expected that such a popular topic would be discussed on the Chinese internet.

She actually had some difficulty understanding the references to "old woman" and "start a game".

She even consulted the AI ​​software on her phone, asking the AI, "What do '开一局' and '女老头' mean on the Chinese internet?"

At first, the AI ​​didn't understand much either.

She asked several times before the AI ​​finally found the relevant information online and provided an answer.

Then she knew.

The term "old man" is similar to the Japanese term "papa-katsu" (father's life).

Because they were photographed as women, they added "woman" before their names, making them appear as an old woman.

After understanding this meaning, Akari Kujo suddenly found it very interesting.

Do they think I belong to that category?

Later, when she tried to understand the origin and meaning of the "start a game" meme, she found it even harder to stay calm.

After reading through all these memes, she thought, "How come Chinese netizens are so creative?"
How did they come up with these memes?

Because she found it so interesting, Akari Kujo immediately started studying the Chinese pronunciation of the word by watching the original video of the ad.

Because she was afraid that Shimamura Yuna would hear her, she spoke very softly, basically just a whisper like a mosquito.

After she felt she had learned enough, she glanced at the bed next to her.

At that moment, Shimamura Yuna was blushing and covering her face with the blanket because she was shy.

After confirming that Shimamura Yuna was not asleep, a strange smile appeared on her face.

Suddenly, she called out loudly to Shimamura Yuna, "Yuna!"

Upon hearing the sound, Shimamura Yuna peeked half her face out from under the covers, looking somewhat confused, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Akari Kujo, in a somewhat quirky manner, said to her in a strange-sounding Chinese accent, "Let's start a game."

Shimamura Yuna never dreamed that these words would come from Kujo Akari's mouth.

She felt her brain was overloaded with information and remained stunned for a while, unable to react.

After she gradually processed the information and understood what was going on, her face began to heat up rapidly.

If you want to fit the scene better, you might want to add a sound effect.

Something like "Warning, warning".

"What are you doing?!" Shimamura Yuna's sense of shame instantly soared to the heavens.

She yelled at Akari Kujo, "Where did you learn that?!"

Seeing Shimamura Yuna's blushing face and her embarrassed and indignant expression, Kujo Akari really found it both cute and interesting.

So, I couldn't help but burst into laughter.

She explained, "Haha, it's nothing. Judging from your attitude just now, I guessed that there was some content online that you were concerned about, so I spent some time searching for it on the Chinese internet."

"After learning about it, I felt it was a very interesting meme, so I gave it a try."

Shimamura Yuna blushed and complained, "You...you've already done...you know...harassment!"

They found fun and provided emotional value.

She also saw the cute expression on Shimamura Yuna's face as she blushed.

Akari Kujo felt that she had gotten everything she wanted, so she stopped trying to push her luck.

Instead, she gently warmed Shimamura Yuna's hair and smoothed it down.

Choose to slide to your knees and say: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I went too far, I won't do it again."

Shimamura Yuna was the type to respond better to gentle persuasion than force. Seeing Kujo Akari kneel down so quickly, she didn't press the matter further.

She just huffed and said, "Um... don't joke like that with me again."

Akari Kujo nodded repeatedly: "Mhm."

And so, the two of them lay on their beds in silence for a while.

After sensing that the temperature had dropped sufficiently over Shimamura Yuna's area, Kujo Akari spoke up again: "That, Yuna."

"Hmm, what's wrong?"

"Exactly, I think it's not really a good idea to let online opinions run rampant right now?"

Upon hearing this, Shimamura Yuna sighed: "What else can we do? Isn't it just that responding to these things will only make things more complicated?"

"It's better to just leave it alone. It doesn't affect my game anyway, so I can just pretend I don't see it."

Akari Kujo then said, "I think, instead of letting the rumors spread, why don't we take the initiative to refute them?"

As she spoke, a somewhat sly smile appeared on her face.

Time flew by and it was now March 15th.

To reiterate, the schedule for the Pioneer Tournament is unprecedentedly tight.

The group stage has just ended, and now they're about to play back-to-back knockout matches.

Playing in the knockout stage is one thing, but instead they finished the semi-finals in just two days.

After the group stage, the four teams that advanced were ranked as follows: #1 HLE, #2 CFO, #3 KC, and #4 TES.

According to the rules of the Pioneer Tournament, #1 and #4 will play against each other, and #3 and #2 will play against each other.

In other words, TES vs HLE, KC vs CFO.

Both of these matches will be played today.

After the teams that will compete in the finals are determined today, the final battle will officially begin tomorrow.

Before today's match, everyone felt they had little expectation for it.

These are two matches that are likely to be decided by little suspense.

CFO's team was clearly the best under HLE in this Pioneer Tournament, and it was a particularly standard team that served as a quality inspector for strong teams.

They haven't lost a single match against any team other than HLE.

However, when facing HLE, they couldn't even win a single game.

Their performance is so consistent, it's like they're playing like robots; that's determined by their style of play.

KC is clearly inferior to CFO in terms of raw strength and tactical reserves, which makes the game less suspenseful.

The other match, aside from CFO vs KC, felt strangely predictable and almost predictable.

It was supposed to be an epic China-South Korea match that everyone was watching and the whole world was waiting to see.

It was clearly the battle between the first and second divisions that everyone had been paying close attention to every year.

But even before the competition started, everyone had already assumed that one of the two teams was a complete scoundrel.

So nobody cares, nobody is concerned.

To put it bluntly, there's nothing to look forward to in the game.

Whether it's CFO vs. KC or HLE vs. TES, the outcome is pretty much a foregone conclusion.

If there's anything that interests people, it's actually the off-stage parts.

Before the match officially started, there were several main opinions circulating outside the venue.

The first.

There are doubts about the significance of TES reaching the semifinals.

To be honest, it's pointless for TES to have made it into the semifinals. I don't believe they can even beat HLE once; they're probably just spinning tops.

I want to watch TES get thrashed by HLE again, it'll be so enjoyable.

The thought of this trash team getting spun around for three more rounds makes me anxious.

Unfortunately, TL suffered a shocking defeat to TES; otherwise, they would have been eliminated from the fifth-ranked region.

The fourth region is more powerful than the fifth region; JKL defended the dignity of our LPL.

That's about it; people are more concerned about TES's ugly behavior than the outcome of the game.

Some people felt embarrassed, while others just found it amusing.

Everyone had different opinions, but none of them thought TES could win.

Meanwhile, in the CFO vs KC match, the bigger fun was happening off the field.

After yesterday's match, the most heated discussion wasn't about Shimamura Yuna winning, but about her and Kujo Akari being photographed dining alone at a high-end Japanese restaurant.

Many people, based on what happened during her previous live streams, speculated that Kujo Akari was the "old woman" she was back then, and then wondered if Shimamura Yuna had played a game last night.

Therefore, the topic has now taken the following turn:

[Will Shimamura still have the energy to compete today? She probably only played one game last night; will she repeat Huanfeng's performance in S10?]

[Old man, please go easy on me. Don't wear out my strength.]

To be honest, if this kind of thing happened before a match and it was a different guy, the controversy would probably explode, right? It seems like most people are just watching for fun.

[Shimamura-san has already made it to the semifinals and the World Championship, far exceeding expectations. What's there to say? Shimamura-san can reward herself if she wants; as fans, we can only offer our blessings.]

There's not much to say, really; it's just a matter of different expectations. But if Shimamura really wasn't in good form today and didn't perform well, there will probably still be some criticism after the match, just not as extreme.

[Oh, Shimamura-san, this is unacceptable! The first World Championship isn't even over yet and you're already doing this.]

Do you guys really have any evidence that Shimamura played a game last night? I have a feeling it's just a rumor.

[Upstairs, you're too naive. Why would this woman come along if we weren't going to play a game together?]

Yes, regarding the CFO, everyone is talking about whether Shimamura's game last night will affect his performance.

Although Shimamura has never actually opened, this is a complete fabrication.

However, for some reason, everyone assumed that Shimamura Yuna had already started a game.

Then, today, more than the match itself, everyone is more concerned about how much of Shimamura Yuna's strength she can still maintain after starting her game.

As some have said, if an LPL player were to get crushed in a game before the match, the controversy would probably explode.

But because this person is Shimamura, a woman, and a Japanese girl, people don't really feel anything special about her.

Aside from some well-meaning viewers who expressed a sincere desire for Shimamura to finish her match before the show started, there were also some who felt that the show was not going to start until after Shimamura's match.

Everyone else thought it didn't matter much, and they all thought, "If Sister Nai wants to open it, then let her open it."

Anyway, you've already beaten TES, and you're the first female player in the world, so it doesn't matter how the rest of the matches turn out. You can do whatever you want.

This kind of public opinion is really hard to control.

Even the CFO's team members looked at Shimamura with strange expressions the next day.

Junjia, who was quite familiar with Shimamura, even took the initiative to ask, "Was it really open last night, Shimamura-nee?"

Shimamura was so angry he laughed.

She glared at Junjia and the other team members: "No! Stop spreading rumors!"

(End of this chapter)