Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 146, Section 143: Give Shimamura-nee back to me!
"Your performance was already very poor in this match. Even if you go on, you probably won't achieve the results you want. On the contrary, if you don't win this match, your performance will be completely ruined and you'll never be able to recover."

"You need to understand that when a person is overexerted, their recovery speed is much slower than normal. If you leave the court now to rest, you might be able to play two more games after you've replenished your energy. But if you don't leave the court now, you definitely won't be able to play the next game after this one."

"We need to win at least two more games, and we need you to be at your best for the upcoming matches."

"Don't act irrationally because of a momentary surge in popularity or your inner anxiety."

After the coach's words of advice, Shimamura Yuna calmed down.

indeed
Even if I were to go up and fight now, I wouldn't be in full condition.

Moreover, if you are physically exhausted, it will take longer to recover.

Taking a break for a few tens of minutes before your condition completely collapses is definitely the right thing to do.

One should not act impulsively.

To win, one should choose a more rational approach.

And
Rest, he can win too, right?

My abilities have limits.

'As a human being, I have significant flaws.'

But all I could do was trust my teammates.

There was a certain expectation in Shimamura Yuna's eyes.

With that thought in mind, she stopped worrying about it.

Instead, he simply nodded and said, "Okay, let's do it that way."

And so, the decision was made.

For a team like CFO, let alone winning the championship, just winning a single game against HLE would be something to be very happy about.

At this moment, whether in the live broadcast room or at the scene, the atmosphere was as if the CFO had won a championship.

It's easy to imagine that even if HLE wins in the end, the atmosphere won't be any more enthusiastic than it is now.

Because HLE's victory was a given.

Even if the CFO only manages to secure a small victory, it still exceeds people's expectations.

Everyone enjoys stories of the underdog triumphing over the strong, especially stories of a beautiful young girl achieving victory against all odds.

As for Zeus?

I wish him happiness.

However, before the second match even started, a piece of news came from the commentary booth that shocked the audience.

Almost all the commentary stations in every language in the world received this message at the same time and relayed it to the viewers in the live stream, in different language styles.

"Um... We just received news that Shimamura, the CFO player, will be replaced in the next match due to exhaustion. Shimamura will be taking a break for a while."

Upon hearing this news, everyone's first reaction was, "Huh???"

I felt a little incredulous and couldn't quite understand it.

After all, according to common sense, you can't just replace someone after winning a game.

Moreover, even the CFO himself has never been replaced before.

【Seriously, can we please not do this kind of fancy trick now?】

[Holy crap, what's going on? Why am I running out of energy at this point?]

[The starter was substituted halfway through the game???]

Can you please stop?

At first, no one could understand this decision.

Ultimately, although there had been rumors about Shimamura Yuna's physical exhaustion, no one could say for sure how badly she was physically exhausted.

But in any case, everyone felt that it was probably due to a decline in physical condition towards the end of the game, resulting in a lack of stamina.

Many older male athletes do this.

The further the game progresses, the worse I play, the more confused I get, and the more frequently I make basic mistakes.

But no matter what, these old men can still manage to finish 5 rounds.

We've never seen someone leave the game halfway through due to exhaustion.

At first, no one could understand it.

But at this moment, the director's camera focused on Shimamura Yuna, who was lying on the sofa in the lounge with her eyes closed, resting.

At this time, everyone else in the training room was seated, including the team leader, logistics staff, and other personnel.

Only Shimamura Yuna was curled up on the sofa in the corner, seemingly asleep.

At this moment, it was impossible to tell whether she was asleep or not.

But the little one, curled up on the sofa like a cat or dog, resting with its eyes closed, looked genuinely tired.

At this moment, Akari Kujo saw this scene through the official live stream and took the opportunity to explain to everyone: "She has always been like this. If I remember correctly, when she first started live streaming, you guys always said she was lazy and ended the stream early. But actually, she really couldn't keep up physically. Haven't you noticed that she doesn't talk much in the latter half of each live stream?"

"Competing in a match is definitely more difficult than streaming. She can't even play a few games on stream, so competing in a match is definitely more tiring. You Nai played so well in the match, so she's probably really exhausted both mentally and physically now and needs to recover a bit."

"I hope everyone can understand."

As the person closest to Shimamura Yuna, everyone assumed that what Kujo Akari said must be true.

Soon, Akari Kujo's words reached all the live broadcast rooms.

After that, no one questioned why Shimamura Yuna had intervened.

Instead, they started to worry.

[Is this company really capable of having a CFO like Shimamura? I feel like without her, they have absolutely no chance of competing with HLE.]

To be honest, the mid laner and bot laner on this team are both decent, especially the mid laner, but I don't know what's going on with the top laner.

[I've watched the league matches, and to be honest, she's nowhere near as good as Shimamura. Otherwise, they wouldn't have kept playing her.]

In short, the vast majority of people are not optimistic about REST.

For REST himself, this was also a competition with immense pressure.

Among CFO's three top laners, he was arguably the lowest ranked.

Compared to him, Driver is younger and has more potential. Although his hero pool is relatively niche, and he mainly plays tank heroes, overall, he plays the heroes he is familiar with quite well.

Shimamura goes without saying.

Her prowess with damage-dealing champions is unparalleled, and her laning ability as a world-class star is also incredibly impressive. She is arguably the most outstanding player in the world right now, and no one can compare to her.

In comparison, REST is just a mediocre old thing.

The advantage is that there are many heroes, you can play a lot of them, and they can help fill the hero pool.

But apart from that, it has no advantages, only disadvantages.

His condition has improved compared to last year.

However, compared to the most mainstream players in the world championships, they are clearly still far behind.

At this point, with Shimamura Yuna's outstanding performance in her first start, the pressure on him was even greater.

How can I avoid holding the team back?

'I could never match Shimamura's level of success, could I?'

He felt a great burden about it.

This is the kind of pressure that comes with being on the same team as a star player. It's especially true when you're their substitute.

In other words, you will always be compared to that star who performs well and has a great career by fans, and your every move will be magnified.

Your mistakes will get you flamed.

Your highlights might even be downplayed.

Even under such pressure, REST still took to the stage.

Not for any other reason than to be worthy of the team and to be worthy of myself.

That's a fair assessment of Shimamura Yuna.

As an aging veteran, REST actually has nothing to fear anymore.

"This is what I should do."

Like a fearless martyr, REST steps onto the stage.

To be honest, the CFO's side didn't really want to win this game.

Or rather, they felt they couldn't win.

Therefore, their primary objective was to burn through the hero pool, with winning being secondary.

It sounds like a somewhat negative game, but that's only in terms of a single game.

They wanted to do this from the perspective of the entire best-of-five series.

Therefore, in this game, the CFO deliberately released most of the heroes that were previously banned, allowing the opponent to choose them.

Ultimately, both sides brought out the characters of Crocodile and Quesanti respectively.

The character of the crocodile is arguably one of the characters that Shimamura Yuna fears the most.

This character is a mainstay in competitive play. They are strong in lane, play a significant role in early-game skirmishes, and become useful in the late game if they have the right items.

It's a role that perfectly fulfills the functional requirements of the competition.

However, this character's poor late-game curve makes it crucial to make sure things go well in the early game when playing this hero.

This is very unfriendly to Shimamura Yuna.

She can play Camille and try to be more aggressive in the early game, just like she did in the last game; she can do it.

However, the premise is that she mentally believes that "Camille is also useful in the late game," so she feels that it would be best to achieve results in the early game, and it would be fine if she couldn't achieve results in the early game.

But if she plays a champion like Renekton, she will have a sense of urgency about time, feeling that she must do things urgently, and if she can't, she will lose the game.

This psychological pressure makes her very uncomfortable.

This leads to numerous mistakes when playing characters like the crocodile.

To put it bluntly, Shimamura Yuna can try to be more effective in the early game, but the characters she plays cannot be without a late game, otherwise she will not be able to maintain her composure.

She makes many mistakes when she's eager to get things done.

Crocodile, a character under time pressure but exceptionally strong in competitions, naturally became her biggest challenge.

Normally, they are either released for others to choose from, or they are banned.

In the first two games when Shimamura was playing, CFO kept banning that character.

In this game, let's take advantage of REST's appearance and quickly release this character, regardless of who picks it, so that we don't have to ban it later.

Thus, the lineups for both sides were finalized, and the match officially began.

Although the CFO's tactical setup in this game wasn't designed to guarantee a win, the main objective was to deplete the hero pool.

Winning is an accident, a pleasant surprise.

But losing is to be expected.

To put it bluntly...

These few people might pick five heroes they don't want to play, then enter the game not to win, but just to prolong the fight. They'll avoid team fights if they can, and give up resources if they can, just to prevent you from pushing their towers.

In any case, for the CFO, the fundamental purpose of this game is to drag it out as long as possible, so that Shimamura Yuna in the backstage can rest for a few more minutes and recover her energy.

They can't do that just because they don't allow passive play.

But deep down they still want to win; they don't want to lose.

So, once we got into the game, everyone played very seriously.

Rest, in particular, really wanted to prove himself.

However, sometimes, the outcome of things will not change the objective facts because of idealistic will.

The fact is, the current CFO has a huge vulnerability after implementing REST.

Let alone being comparable to Shimamura Yuna.

Even compared to the other top laner on the same team, Driver, who is currently an emergency substitute and cannot play, his Quesant is playing almost inhumanly.

Actually, his true strength isn't that bad.

However, having been out of action for too long, coupled with the fact that Shimamura Yuna first dominated Zeus before coming on as a substitute, these two debuffs combined caused the veteran to have some mental issues and make some rather obvious mistakes in his gameplay.

No, it can't even be called a flaw.

It's practically abstract.

Not long after he went online, he was attacked at level two and lost a lot of health, and his health was already in a state of collapse in terms of trading blows.

Then, after only 4 minutes in the laning phase, he was playing Quesant and was instantly killed by Zeus's Renekton who flashed in and used a Death Flash before dying.

In the previous game, Shimamura Yuna completely dominated Zeus in the lane, forcing Zeus to be tower-dived under his tower.

As a result, when the substitution came in, everyone's expectation for him was simply to stabilize the game.

But not only could he not hold on, he was also killed in a one-on-one fight.

The contrast was so stark that it made fans and supporters a little overwhelmed.

What's going on?

[Oh my god, let's bring Shimamura up here, this Rest is just like the one in the main area.]

[Shimamura can easily defeat Zeus, and so far she hasn't been outmatched by him, but this Rest is just a one-sided affair against Zeus. The difference in skill is obvious.]

[While I understand that Shimamura-san can't play well, this is just too weak. Couldn't she have played a little better?]

It's not just about laning.

After that, Rest's performance in team fights was a complete mess.

After joining the group, Quesanti was like a spinning top, kicked to death without any chance to fight back, which even looked a bit comical.

Seeing this, everyone really couldn't hold back anymore.

More and more comments started appearing, such as "Give me back Shimamura-san" and "Bring Shimamura-san back."

The director also showed great inspiration at this moment.

After the team fight ended, a special shot was shown of the CFO's backstage lounge.

In the lounge, everyone, including the coach, was frustrated by the team's performance, slapping their thighs in frustration.

Only Shimamura Yuna lay far away on the sofa behind, her eyes closed, without making a sound.

Then the comments section started flooded with messages like "Is Shimamura-san dead?", "Is Shimamura-san still alive?", and "Can anyone save Shimamura-san?"

It's hilarious.

(End of this chapter)