Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 186, Section 183: The Hero Arrives (Part 2 of 4)
on the other side.

Dolan can feel the pressure.

He could feel the pressure of time.

He could feel the pressure of Shimamura Yuna getting stronger little by little, while he himself was completely powerless to stop it.

Whether it's the commentators, the audience, or the players on the team.

Everyone knows that as long as things continue to develop, there will be no time pressure on the CFO team.

T1 needs to capitalize on the CFO's weaknesses in the early to mid-game to gain an advantage and snowball the lead.

But what about the results?

The mid lane was severely suppressed.

They couldn't gain an advantage in the bottom lane either.

They suffered losses in small skirmishes time and time again.

My top laner simply trades health with the vampire for minion waves, which is already considered a barely balanced lane.

But when he tried to do something for the team on that basis, he found that he couldn't do anything at all.

What can a piece of rotten meat like myself do to Shimamura Yuna?

The moment I chose this role, I could no longer impose any restrictions on Shimamura Yuna on myself.

The moment you choose this character, it means your teammates can no longer rely on you to suppress Shimamura Yuna.

They felt that "good enough is good enough".

You can't blame your teammates for this.

After all, objectively speaking, his performance in the first two games was indeed unreliable and not worth expecting anything from.

Instead of trying to "put pressure on Shimamura Yuna," you end up getting crushed in lane and then playing a damage-dealing champion that can't catch the ball in the late game, which is completely useless.

It's better to just play a tank and wait for your teammates to carry.

After all, even if Shimamura Yuna develops comfortably, it's still better than watching her directly take money from Doran, right?
All he needs to do is honestly pass the ball to his teammates and let them control the direction of the game, letting them be the captains of the T1 team.

However, unfortunately, in this game, the other teammates were unable to hold on.

The other teammates failed to deliver the winning performance they should have.

Under these circumstances, even if Dolan wanted to do something, he was completely powerless.

Even if he were given possession of the ball, he might not be able to do anything.

It's possible that, like the previous two games, it will simply head down into the abyss.
However, watching your team headed headlong into defeat is certainly an unpleasant feeling.

But what can he do in a situation like this?

Compared to the other four players in T1, Dolan is definitely the one who wants to win more and wants to prove himself more.

The other four members have already won two championships, and ZOFGK has proven that they are the best five-man team in the world.

With Zeus gone, he has almost no way to prove himself better than Zeus.

He could only try his best to prove that he was a decent alternative to Z in ZOFGK.

he knows.
No matter how bad Zeus's current situation may seem.

No matter how weak Zeus may seem now.

T1 fans will always believe that Zeus is the best one.

Don't misunderstand.

T1 fans do indeed hate the current Zeus; they genuinely resent Zeus's betrayal.

But to them, no matter how Zeus betrayed them, no matter how treacherous he was.

No matter how outrageous Zeus's actions may seem from their perspective.

Even if they really wished Zeus would die immediately, and they really wanted to see Zeus living a miserable life, they wanted to use every detail to confirm their idea.

Even so, in their hearts, ZOFGK is still the best five-man group.

The deeper their love for the five members of ZOFGK, the angrier they will be at Zeus's betrayal.

The T1 fans' curses against Zeus and their malicious attacks on him are more akin to the mindset of an ex-boyfriend after a breakup.

The better Doran is compared to Zeus, the more T1 fans can convince themselves that "it's not a bad thing that Zeus left, and Doran is no worse than Zeus."

But even after saying all this, it doesn't change the fact that Dolan was Zeus's meal replacement.

The excessive adoration and defense of T1 fans is based on the premise of wanting to use him as a tool to criticize Zeus, rather than on their genuine liking for him.

He felt extremely anxious because he was constantly being compared to Zeus from the previous year.

He wanted to meet the expectations of T1 fans.

He wanted T1 fans to feel that "I can do it too, I'm definitely no worse than Zeus."

He wanted to fit into the team's atmosphere and into T1's fan base.

But before winning the championship, no matter how well you perform, it can only alleviate the anxiety, not cure it.

For example, during the playoffs.

At that time, he had an unprecedented burst of talent, leading the entire T1 team into the World Championship.

He was really happy at the time.

He saw T1 fans praising him online, and he saw people who didn't believe in him before now praising him.

He saw those who had initially seen themselves as Zeus's substitute meal gradually come to genuinely feel stronger and experience joy for themselves.
All of this made him happy and excited.

But
He knew that such a thing wouldn't last.

No matter how well I performed this year, no matter how dazzling I was in the playoffs.

But as long as we don't win the championship this year, as long as we don't achieve the same results as last year.

So, T1 fans will still lament, "If only ZOFGK were still here."

They may not have any ill intentions towards me.

but.
They do indeed see themselves as inferior beings.

A kind of contempt and disdain without any malice.

Dolan wanted to break free from this feeling.

He wanted to get rid of the suffocating pressure.

So he kept trying to make himself better.

He wanted to win more than ever before in his career, and he worked harder than ever before.

Only through continuous effort and recognition can he alleviate his anxiety and unease before reaching the final destination.

But is it really possible?
There's still a long way to go before the World Championship.

We are still a long way from winning that world championship.

However, he himself became the team's weak point at this MSI.

All the recognition he gained in the playoffs will be negated by his disastrous performance in this BO5 series.

'As expected, that guy's only at this level.'

'That performance was just a sudden burst of form, right? It's impossible to maintain that level consistently, isn't it? If it were possible to maintain that consistently, it would be too unrealistic.'

'If he had always maintained this level of skill, he wouldn't have needed to unleash his full potential so late.'

Stop fantasizing; he's simply not that level of player.

He could guess what this series of denials of himself would mean, and he could guess what the online public opinion would be like.

'But...I also want to accomplish something.' I feel powerless.

Powerlessness, a powerlessness that runs deep into the bones, yet is completely unchangeable.

The gap in last-hitting ability between him and Shimamura Yuna continues to widen.

The resource groups are still spiraling out of control, wave after wave.

The economic gap between the two sides continues to widen.

Shimamura Yuna's own injuries gradually changed from not feeling any pain at all at the beginning to a point where she dared not let him hit her for too long when the minion wave was too long.

As Shimamura Yuna returned home every few minutes to replenish her equipment, the threat to him grew.

And he is still a tank, a tank that has built a lot of magic resistance items.

As for his teammates who lacked resistance, he could already imagine how devastating Shimamura Yuna would be once she joined the group.

My teammates couldn't gain an advantage in their positions, and I wasn't the special one, not the savior.

The result seems to have inevitably led to a very poor defensive line.

'I wish it could be like the playoffs.'

'I wish I could be in playoff form.'

He fantasized like that.

But that's impractical.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, as many viewers have said, he simply experienced a sudden breakthrough into a feeling he had never felt before.

This is a state that is neither sustainable nor can it be maintained.

I might actually play better after that than in the first stage.

However, to say that I can always stay at my peak, that's something I really can't do.

Or rather, even if he were at his peak, could he defeat Shimamura Yuna in front of him?

'She has no flaws.'

'She is not like Zeus.'

My self-confidence is crumbling little by little.

My belief is becoming fragile little by little.

The outcome of the match is inevitably heading in a bad direction for him, right now.
He could sense that he was only one step away from an ending he could not accept.

Yuna Shimamura had no idea what Doran was thinking.

She didn't know what kind of mental state the entire T1 team was in right now.

She can only perceive what she can intuitively feel.

She felt that Dolan wasn't playing as passively as in the first two games; she felt that Dolan was consciously trying to limit her performance with reasonable play.

However, such restrictions can sometimes seem rather useless.

It's somewhat ridiculous that a weakling like him would try to control a vampire without any teammates.

She just felt that she had a lot of fun and that this game was very easy.

Don't think too much, don't overthink.

Just follow your own pace, farm, lane, and handle details that are simple for you but unique to your personal abilities.

And so, the balance of the game tipped in favor of the CFO.

This feeling
'It's truly refreshing and invigorating.'

She likes this feeling.

I like this simple feeling.

I like the feeling of not having to shoulder too much responsibility.

To put it bluntly, that's exactly the kind of contestant she is.

A player who is more of a fighter than a team leader.

Let her return to her comfort zone, and simply enjoy a refreshing brushing experience; that's the most comfortable rhythm for her.

However, what she didn't expect was that even when the opponent was a Tier 1 team, her teammates still managed to give her the same treatment as a Dota carry.

Since her teammates have created a stage for her, she has a strong obligation to make a dazzling appearance and end the game.

And now, that's the time.

"Shimamura's equipment seems to be unstoppable now. If she enters a team fight with this equipment, she can melt the entire enemy team!"

"The damage this snake woman inflicts is completely incomprehensible at the moment."

"Oh my god, how do I possibly lose? I don't understand at all."

"Now it's not enough for T1 to just play well to turn things around. It requires CFO to make a huge mistake, and Shimamura and the Cassiopeia to make a huge mistake together to allow T1 to reverse the situation."

"And let me tell you, one wave of sacrifices won't work; you need at least two. Because the CFO lineup itself is valuable, and at this point in time, their lineup should normally be at a disadvantage, you understand?"

"But they have the advantage now, so even if they send a wave back and become the disadvantaged group, that's only natural, I'm telling you."

"The CFOs can't see any way they can lose right now. They've already won the game 3-1."

Longshen kept saying how unlikely it was for the CFO to lose and how unlikely it was for T1 to win.

The comments from Shimamura Yuna's fans were getting really angry.

[Can you please stop cursing my Shimamura-nee? You jinx!]

[If you cursed Shimamura to death, I'll make you pay with your life!]

[We could have won, but after you said that, you jinx, it feels like Shimamura-nee can't win anymore. You're a real jerk.]

[Fuck your mother, can you shut up?]

Some people in the comments section seem to care a lot about and take seriously things like "anti-milking" or "reverse jinxing."

So, one by one, they all told the Dragon God to stop talking.

It seems that Dragon God has to keep saying "T1 is going to win" and "CFO is going to lose" for the outcome to develop in the direction they want.

but it is not the truth.

The world operates objectively.

A team that can win will win, and a team that can lose will lose.

So-called metaphysics is nothing more than a forced coincidence.

Facts will prove this.

Even with Ryujin so strongly insisting that "the CFO will definitely win," the outcome didn't see any major reversal.

So far in the game, Cassiopeia and the bot lane have been working tirelessly with the jungler, widening the economic gap with the opponent through neutral resources, plating and tower resources, kills, and minions.

Meanwhile, despite her teammates being essentially playing a 4v5 situation, Shimamura Yuna continued to level up on her own, leveraging her laning advantage and Doran's Ring to support her teammates at opportune moments, thus gaining a significant gold lead in her lane.

The advantage is accumulating little by little, and T1 seems to be holding on for now, but this balance will crumble once the gap reaches a certain point.

T1 fans will always hold onto the hope that the outcome will eventually turn around until that moment truly arrives.

However.
That moment finally arrived.

A thousand prayers and ten thousand supplications ultimately failed to change the course of fate.

With Shimamura Yuna, who had spent the entire game playing without much support for her teammates, finally making her appearance, that fragile balance was finally broken.

Enter the hero.

(End of this chapter)