Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 98. 95. LCP Finals! (First of three chapters today)

Let me give you a brief overview of the situation.

First, after the LCP regular season ended, Karsa's team, Talon, ultimately took first place in the regular season.

In fact, the skill levels of CFO and PSG are very similar, and their scores are not much different.

However, because CFO was a newcomer in the mid lane and hadn't practiced enough in the first half of the season, his performance was inconsistent, which led to the loss.

So before the playoffs started, TALON actually seemed more capable than the CFO.

After all, there are a lot of LPL players who have left the league, and many of them have achieved some success, such as Karsa, so it's normal for them to seem more impressive.

However, the regular season is not important in general.

The playoffs are the most important, because only the playoffs can determine who will have the sole LCP spot to go to the first World Championship this year.

CFO and TLN, two Taiwanese teams, practically fought their way through the playoffs.

Then, on February 23, 2025, LCP's Grand Final will be held.

This match attracted a great deal of attention.

There are two reasons for the high level of attention it has received.

First, this match will determine which team, CFO or TLN, will actually make it to the World Championship.

Everyone is naturally looking forward to CFO making it to the World Championship. After all, if CFO makes it to the World Championship, it would mean that the world's first female player to win a league title will be born in the history of LOL.

But that's not all.
Will Shimamura Yuna really play in the vanguard match?

It's been a month since the first BO3, and Shimamura Yuna has remained completely out of the public eye. Although there have been rumors that she's been training recently, no one knows why she hasn't played.

Does depression take this long to manifest?

Why am I depressed now, instead of earlier or later?
Is this reasonable?

This leads to the second reason why this competition has attracted so much attention.

That is.
CFO staff have confirmed that Yuna Shimamura will definitely play in the LCP finals.

The news immediately attracted a lot of attention, making viewers who had lost interest in the CFO competition very happy.

[Holy crap, Shimamura-san is finally going to take the stage!]

[It's been so long. Finally.]

[Won't it cause problems if he plays directly in the crucial final?]

[The rumor seems to be that REST and Shimamura will rotate, similar to how REST and DRIVER are currently rotating.]

When this news was released, the whole world felt that "our LCP's ratings are saved."

Yes, it has such a positive impact.

However, the CFO's decision was not entirely driven by a desire for attention and viewership.

It's simply because Shimamura was due to play at that point.

They plan to test the viability of the dual top lane rotation strategy between Shimamura Yuna and REST in this final and most important LCP match.

That is, let REST play the forward role and let Shimamura Yuna play the gatekeeper role.

After all, you can't just spend a whole season developing a system only to have it used again in the Vanguard tournament, right?
On the other hand, Riot Games is also putting some pressure on them, and the CFO and other senior executives also want to capitalize on the popularity of Yuna Shimamura.

However, the coaching staff insisted that "we are doing this for better results in the Pioneer Tournament," which is why they forcibly prevented Shimamura Yuna from playing.

Revealing the news in advance at this time is also to give Riot Games and the CFO's investors an explanation.

As a result, on the day the competition started, the live broadcast room was immediately packed with viewers due to the leaked information.

There are also a lot of pirated live streams on Bilibili.

Even Ryushin, who doesn't have LCP rights, declared a day in advance: "I'll end my stream early today so I can watch Shimamura join FS tomorrow."

After the last inexplicable and shocking reversal, the Dragon God suddenly changed his persona, from mindlessly fighting against Shimamura Yuna to mindlessly fawning over her.

The level of licking is comparable to that of Brother BIN and Brother TIAN.

The main focus is on filial piety.

On the day of the live broadcast, it was possible that no one in mainland China had the LCP copyright and therefore no one cared, or it was possible that the LCP side wanted to gain popularity and intentionally told Bilibili not to interfere.

In short, Longshen simply typed "Reported" in the center of the screen and then openly began pirating the LCP finals.

The live stream title was "Yay, I've seen a ghost. Come watch CFO vs TLN, support Shimamura-san."

With its already large fan base, Longshen's live stream room naturally became LCP's official live stream room in mainland China.

Before the match even started, the number of viewers in the live stream had already exceeded 10,000, and it will obviously be even higher later.

As soon as the broadcast started, Ryujin expressed his full affirmation of Shimamura Yuna: "Ah, I've been waiting for so long, and finally Shimamura-nee is on stage. Shimamura-nee's condition has finally improved, and I've been waiting for so long."

"It's alright. Actually, having Shimamura play in a tournament of this caliber is a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I guess she'll just be showing up today. We'll see how Cursed Katsuki beats Cursed Katsuki later. Today we'll just watch casually."

Compared to his previous attitude of either biting whenever he saw her or keeping it a secret, Ryujin's direct and intense licking of Shimamura Yuna has left the audience a little dizzy.

【? ? ? ? 】

Are you talking about yourself?

【filial piety】

It seems that Brother Shen is about to have another new "father" besides Brother Ma, Brother Xu, and Brother Bin.

[Is Shimamura your horse?]

After waiting for a while, the competition finally officially began.

During the live broadcast of this competition, for the first time in a long time, everyone was able to see Yuna Shimamura walk into the venue with REST.

The Taiwanese commentators were quite moved: "Oh my, it's been so long, Shimamura-san! It seems that Shimamura-san's depression has improved, so she's finally back on stage! Everyone has been waiting for so long!"

"That's right, you could say we're eagerly anticipating it."

Even after many days, Shimamura Yuna still looks as cute as ever.

Although it's clear she didn't dress up much, only wearing light makeup out of courtesy.

But Shimamura Yuna herself had a good foundation.

This light makeup provides just the right amount of coverage without being overly glamorous.

It perfectly matches her cute personality.

So, just like when she first appeared, the live chat was flooded with comments about how cute she was.

At this point, the audience's expectations were still very high.

But that's it.
When the first game started, REST was back in the starting lineup, and Yuna Shimamura wasn't playing.

Everyone got angry.

【Why aren't they playing again?】

【Wait, everyone's here, the list's been submitted, so why aren't they on stage yet? Is this a scam?】

I wasn't a conspiracy theorist before, but now I'm starting to have my doubts.

What's going on? Will he play or not?

That's right, after waiting for so long, we finally confirmed through rumors that Shimamura Yuna would be playing.

As a result, when they arrived, they didn't see Shimamura Yuna.

This made everyone a bit angry. Even the Dragon God said directly, "Who the hell came to see trash like you? Hurry up and bring Shimamura up, okay? TLN is trash, Shimamura can easily crush him! Stop pretending!"

"Call Shimamura-nee up here!"

However, no matter what these people say, the CFO side won't be in a hurry to take over.

The reason why the audience is anxious now is because they do not yet know the CFO's strategy of making Shimamura the last general, and they do not understand the CFO's current tactical intentions.

Everything will become clear once the game begins.

And so, the first match officially began.

In this match, both sides selected Quesanti, Vi, Alora, Ezreal, Alistar, and the other team, Wolf Mother, Maokai, Corki, Ashe, and Leona.

As for the specific details of the match, they are not important to those who follow Shimamura Yuna.

The key is
Thus, Quesanti and the Wolf Mother became banned characters.

As for the game content, there's not much to say.

It was just a typical LCP match, with both top laners being of standard LCP level.

These two teams have played a lot of matches, both in training and in actual games, so it's normal for either team to win or lose.

only.
This game clearly happened to coincide with the CFO being in poor form.

The winners chose the blue side, but were immediately defeated by a shocking score difference.

At the end of the game, the score was 5-18, which can be considered a complete rout.

Although CFO knew in his heart that the two sides' strengths were not that different, this game was just a bit of an unexpected performance. They were snowballed in the early game and couldn't stop. This score is just a result and doesn't mean anything.

But the problem is that the audience doesn't care about all that.

Yuna Shimamura didn't play, and they even lost the first match.
The pressure was so intense that even the newly launched REST team felt a bit sweaty.

After finishing this game, he said directly, "How about we let Yuna play next time? I feel like I'm not up to the task."

Coach Chawy hesitated at this point.

He knew that the pressure from public opinion that the contestants were facing at this time was indeed unprecedented.

This is the price of being on the same team as celebrities; you get more attention than you can handle.

but.
Finally, after thinking it over, he stretched out his neck and decided to be stubborn and carry out the initial tactic to the end.

"No, keep playing. After this round, you'll be out of the game no matter what, win or lose. Just do as we said at the beginning, don't make any changes on the spot."

"Anyway, you can't see the chat room now, so what's the rush? As long as Shimamura comes up and wins, all the public opinion issues will be resolved."

"You have to believe that Shimamura will definitely win."

And so, the game moved to its second round.

It's still a RESTful release.

The CFO's chosen lineup is: top lane Renekton, jungle Xin Zhao, mid lane Sylas, and bot lane Miss Fortune and Leona.

TLN's lineup consisted of Jayce top, Sejuani jungle, Taliyah mid, and Varus + Poppy bot.

At this point, the CFO's tactical objectives have been largely achieved.

Firstly, Shimamura Yuna doesn't really like using the three characters: Crocodile, Wolf Mother, and Quesanti, and she's afraid that if the opponent picks one that counters her, she'll get eliminated.

Secondly, some junglers and mid laners who pose a significant threat to the top lane and are played well by TLN, such as Taliyah, Sejuani, and Maokai, have also been added to the ban pool.

While there are other systems available for the next TLN, the threat is relatively smaller.

Moreover, most of the characters that Shimamura Yuna excels at, such as Yone, Gwen, and Weapon Master, are still in the pool, except for Jayce.

Based on CFO's experience, when playing scrims against TLN, once you get past the first two games, the opponent will start looking for heroes to play among a bunch of weak tanks.

And this is exactly the scene they wanted to see.

Now, the best environment has been created for Shimamura Yuna to make her appearance.

However, as expected, the comments section became a bit impatient after seeing REST appear again in the second match.

Dragon God even exclaimed in the live stream: "Can you stop showing us this trash?! Can you let Shimamura-nee come up and beat these useless people up already?!"

The comments section was also full of people who shared his sentiments.

After all, people don't really care about the outcome of the LCP; they just care about Shimamura Yuna.

It's easy to imagine that if REST loses this game, it will be driven into a corner in terms of public opinion.

Fortunately
We won this round.

CFO played well this game, and the lineup achieved the desired effect.

After winning this game, REST breathed a sigh of relief.

On the one hand, he successfully took on the task of being the vanguard and burning down the enemy's hero pool.

On the other hand, winning the second game brought the score to 1-1, preventing Shimamura Yuna from having to come back from a 0-2 deficit to win 3-2.

If he needs to come back from a 0-2 deficit to win, then regardless of whether he wins in the end, his mother is probably doomed.

All I can say is, thankfully, everything turned out for the best.

And so, after the first two matches, the third match finally arrived.

During halftime, the LCP's official commentators announced some exciting news: "Okay, we've received news from backstage. The CFO has confirmed that Shimamura will play in the next match, replacing REST."

Another commentator immediately chimed in: "Oh~~ We've finally waited for this moment?"

At this moment, the audience finally breathed a sigh of relief.

They initially thought, "If REST wins, they won't just let REST win forever, will they?" That was their concern.

They even suspected that the CFO's side was actually ostracizing Shimamura Yuna.

It wasn't until everyone saw Shimamura Yuna actually take the stage that their doubts were finally dispelled.

Finally, it's time to take the stage!
Everyone was excited when they saw Shimamura Yuna come onto the field with the team and start setting up the equipment.

One month!

Do you know how I got through this past month?

[Shimamura-nee, I've been waiting for you for so long!]

[It's surprising that Shimamura was only brought on for the crucial game in the finals.]

Is Shimamura's depression getting any better?

[Go, Shimamura-san!]

The atmosphere in the comments section changed almost instantly from being extremely aggressive to praising Shimamura unconditionally.

All I can say is that for many viewers, if you let us watch Shimamura, then you are our good brother.

But the problem is
That's true for the audience, but not for TLN.

As a team that frequently plays practice matches against the CFO, they know more about Shimamura's inner workings than any other team in the world.

They knew perfectly well what it meant for CFO Ueshimamura.

TLN's top laner AZHI's face darkened upon hearing the news: "Shimamura, she really played?"

(End of this chapter)