Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 65, Section 63: Can we go to the World Championship?

On that day, Shimamura Yuna was streaming her ranked match as usual.

Since she has already decided to wait until next year's transfer window to consider playing in competitions, she is currently in a very calm state of mind, and she is neither in a hurry nor slow in her daily live streams or ranked matches.

Don't be obsessed with scores; treat rankings like daily physical exercise, focusing on identifying and addressing weaknesses.

The main criterion for choosing a hero in each game is not whether you win or not, but to think about "how else can this matchup be handled" based on the opponent's lineup and the hero you are laning against.

She has now realized that she is not good at playing traditional heavy armored warriors and tanks.

It's not that I can't play them, but maybe my thought process just isn't suited to playing these heroes, so no matter how skilled I am, there's just something off about playing them.

It's a problem with the approach, not the execution.

So her solution was to take an unconventional approach and try practicing some less conventional heroes to see what unconventional characters would suit her.

This is what her viewers always complain about: "The classic scenario is that you enter the game and then find a hero to play on the mid-lane page."

When facing the same hero, she will try to use many different, even somewhat strange, methods to test the effectiveness in the laning phase.

But naturally, there are reasons why some heroes don't appear in the top lane. As a result, her win rate has dropped significantly recently, and her ranking speed has also slowed down.

However, she wasn't in a hurry.

She plans to take a long time to gradually fill her hero pool so that she can have more counter cards in hand before going on the field.

'To play a match, we'll have to wait until at least next summer.'

That was originally my idea.
As a result, when she checked her Bilibili private messages as usual after the live broadcast ended that day, an unexpected situation occurred.

Normally, her private messages mainly consist of three parts: "fans going crazy", "business cooperation", and "club invitations".

Her recent routine of checking private messages was mainly aimed at sifting through the overwhelming stream of messages from her fans to see if she could find any valuable collaboration opportunities or sincere offers from clubs.

It was under these circumstances that she received a private message from someone named "the cutest little Qing in the world".

Hello? Ms. Yuna, do you live in Osaka? Is your home near XXXX?

Upon seeing this private message, Shimamura Yuna was greatly startled.

Wait, why would someone come and open their own box?
It's not surprising that they could tell I was from Osaka, since my Kansai accent is quite distinct, even among Osaka natives, I have one of the more prominent accents.

But knowing where you live is a little scary.

So, Shimamura Yuna immediately replied with a "?".

The other party immediately realized that their statement might be misunderstood, so they provided an explanation.

【Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to unpack you. I just feel like I've seen you in real life, and we can barely be considered acquaintances, so I wanted to confirm.】

Hearing what the other person said, Shimamura Yuna felt a little less nervous, but she was still confused.

Who is this person? They speak Chinese and even came to Bilibili to chat with me, claiming to know me?
Have I ever met any Chinese people in my life?
So she replied: 【May I ask who you are?】

The other person said: "L&V Internet Cafe? You know about it?"

Then, Shimamura Yuna suddenly realized what had happened. She immediately remembered the woman who had let her use the computer at the internet cafe for free that day—a Chinese woman who looked to be in her early twenties and was rather lazy.

At the time, that person even lent me their account to play. I checked their background and found that they were a very stereotypical female player, whose stats were all as support characters, and their highest historical rank was achieved through duo queueing.

The person who came to find her was named "The Cutest Little Sunny in the World," a very stereotypical female ID.

Then it goes without saying who this person is.

She guessed that it was probably because she played a vampire, and her voice and Osaka accent made the landlady recognize her.

Thinking of this, she immediately replied politely: "Hello, boss lady."

Excuse me, is there something you need? Or do you just want to chat?

The other person said, "Of course I came to see you for something. Otherwise, based on our previous meeting, I wouldn't want to bother you."

That's right.

After that, the two spent some time communicating on Bilibili.

At first, Shimamura Yuna thought that the proprietress had suddenly discovered that someone she had met in the past was now a big star on the internet, so she wanted to get closer to her.

Otherwise, why would she, who runs an internet cafe, need to contact me? What could the two of them possibly have in common?

However, to Shimamura Yuna's surprise, after the actual conversation, it turned out that the other party was not trying to get close to her, but genuinely had something to ask her.

Moreover, they came to me to ask me to play professionally.
According to the other party, one of her college classmates is a rich second-generation who runs a professional esports team in Japan. This year, that classmate really wants to try to qualify for the World Championship in the Pacific LCP region, but because they are always short of players, he asked her if she had any candidates to recommend.

Then, after watching Shimamura Yuna's live stream a while ago, she thought of contacting Shimamura Yuna to give it a try.

However, it was clear she didn't have high hopes. After explaining her situation, she said, "You're a big streamer now, you probably make a lot of money. Playing professionally in Japan is actually quite low-level, so don't expect to make much money. I was just asking casually."

The other party's idea is correct.

Indeed, in Japan, neither the money nor the attention one receives while playing professionally is of much interest to Yuna Shimamura these days.

She's the kind of person who wouldn't even go to a bottom-tier LPL team and would rather retire, so how could she possibly go to the LCP, a bottom-tier league, to play professionally?

Rather than playing professionally for such a team, she would rather stay home and do live streams to earn money, at least to improve her and her sister's lives and make her sister less stressed.

Therefore, after listening to the other party's explanation, she originally intended to politely decline.

However, just as she was about to send the message, "Sorry, I don't plan to at the moment," a thought suddenly struck her, and she realized something.
'Wait a minute, although the LCP region is indeed not very good and doesn't get much attention.'

'However, the fact that the LCP region can participate in the World Championship does garner attention. Compared to the LPL or LCK, is it easier for the LCP to qualify for the World Championship?'

"If I simply use the LCP as a stepping stone to gain attention and successfully qualify for the World Championship, wouldn't that be more direct and effective than streaming from home?"

P.S.: I will try my best to update once at noon and once in the afternoon from now on.

On the one hand, I need to maintain a stable update frequency; on the other hand, I need to adjust my work and rest schedule and, incidentally, stockpile drafts to prepare for a surge of updates upon release.

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