Chapter 111: Golden Road (Complete)

“Eun-seo!”

Choi Eun-seo responded with a smile, watching Seino run towards her, waving from afar.

“Now you’re a big-name singer, no time to see my face? You’re a star, a star.”
“Aw, Eun-seo is always busy too… And Seo-ha is super busy, right?”
“You’re saying that about Ray, who’s called the Queen of J-Pop?”
“No time for this, let’s go quickly!”

Led by Seino’s hand, the place they arrived at was the Tokyo Dome.
The venue where this year’s Worlds finals would be held.

“Wow, it’s really big, isn’t it?”
“Right? I’m… nervous.”
“Come on, you performed at the Olympic stadium last year. That was almost 50,000 people too.”
“Chigau! It’s Tokyo Dome! Tokyo Dome! Performing here is a huge stroke of luck? For an artist, you know.”
“Really? But it’s not your solo concert anyway, it’s the Worlds finals opening, isn’t it?”
“…”
“I’m kidding. Out of all those J-Pop singers, who else but Seino would perform at the Worlds finals?”

As Choi Eun-seo said that and comforted her, Seino finally looked happy again and started explaining the greatness of Tokyo Dome.
However, there was no room for that information in Choi Eun-seo’s mind.
After all, the protagonist of today’s Worlds finals was…

“You’re here?”

Choi Eun-seo’s gaze turned towards the woman standing leaning against the waiting room door.
Her waist-length hair was neatly cut at the front and sides, as if to commemorate a special day.
She was wearing a uniform adorned with logos symbolizing the team and numerous sponsors, indicating the team’s popularity.
Despite the seemingly cluttered attire, her beauty was not hidden.

“It’s been a while.”
“You haven’t been contacting me, saying you’re busy. I almost felt hurt.”

The person who had reached the finals, wearing ARK’s uniform, was Yoon Seo-ha.

‘She’s cool.’
Certainly, when they first met, she thought of her as someone who slept in class, but who she could still talk to about League of Legends.
Seeing that Yoon Seo-ha was challenging for a Worlds championship, even her second championship, stirred Choi Eun-seo’s emotions.

“I won’t say much. You can win today, right?”
“Who do you think I am?”

Those words were enough.
Promising to talk more after the match, she returned to the stadium and sat down.
After Seino’s performance, which had improved even more than last year, the players entered.

[Challenging for the Golden Road! Introducing the five players of ARK, who are, or can be called, the greatest team in history!]

LOL Gallery

[Title: Worlds Finals Game 5 Result]
After a fierce battle, ARK defeats the revived VXG and achieves the Golden Road.

–Congrats congrats congrats.
–Yes yes yes yes.
–VXG had that feeling since the qualifiers; I thought they were going to be like ARK last year.
–Seriously, it was scary.
–Seriously, our bot lane was clearly just a utility bot, but they suddenly brought out Jhin and Kai’Sa and we almost lost because of bot.
–In the end, Caster proved himself by shredding Spread ㅇㅇ…
–Prove? Himself? Three consecutive? Solo kills…?
–Just line up the 4 members besides Para and hit them with a bat ㅇㅇ
–The bus didn’t crash, so have a drink.

LOL Gallery

[Title: Para’s Promise for this Yearㅋㅋㅋ]
(Photo of Para grilling Bungeoppang (fish-shaped bread) with her cosplay in front of the ARK headquarters after last year’s Worlds finals.)
Last year it was Ahri cosplay and grilling Bungeoppang.
This year?
What else is needed? It’s simply Cosplay Part 2 and Bungeoppang Part 2 ㅇㅇ

–The Great Seo-ha.
–What are you cosplaying this year?
–Yone.
–Gasp.
–Wow.
–Nice.
–She’s my wife.

LOL Gallery

[Title: Para’s Tears After Winning]
(Photo of Para crying in front of the trophy after winning last year’s finals.)
Actually, it was last year sorry.
This year, perhaps because she just massacred them, she seems more composed.

–Spring Summer and even MSI MVP, she probably doesn’t feel much anymore.
–Spring Summer MSI Worlds MVP and Spring Summer First Team All-Pro, what kind of insane career is that?
–Para just took everything this year, I guess.
–Saying Para took it is too hot.
–Please hold your breath.

LOL Gallery

[Title: Today’s Rating Updated to Legendaryㅋㅋㅋ]
These are the ratings from a Chinese website that come out after every match, but something is strange.
It’s obvious that Para’s rating is 10 points, but the one-line comment is a bit weird.
Let’s translate it.
[Please marry me Para]
[Be my wife]
[Beloved]
[Does the Worlds Finals MVP get married?]
It seems they basically want to marry Para… Let’s stop here.

–The Great One.
–Even the Great Ones know… that Para isn’t just good at LoL, her beauty is also insane.
–The Great Ones didn’t get sued, so they were cursing Para fiercely last year. Why are they like this this year?
–Ah lol, if you play well, they’ll praise you.
–Because she’s pretty.

[ON AIR] para (Hello)
Just Chatting
Viewers – 20,000

It hadn’t even been 10 minutes since I turned on the stream, but I could already see a massive number: 20,000. After waiting for about 5 more minutes, I removed the “Preparing Broadcast” screen and displayed my camera feed.

“Ah, can you hear me well?”
[Yes yes yes yes yes yes]
[The Great Seo-ha.]
[Upvote if you want to marry Para.]
[She’s my wife.]
[Golden Road congrats congrats congrats.]
[The Great Seo-ha is she the god of League of Legends? The Great Seo-ha is she the god of League of Legends? The Great Seo-ha is she the god of League of Legends?]

As soon as I spoke, the chat scrolled up non-stop. I had no choice but to switch to subscriber-only chat for a moment, then greeted them again and checked the chat. As expected, the main topic was…

“That’s right. We did it after all. The Golden Road.”
Most of the messages were congratulatory for winning the championship in the finals a few days ago and achieving the Golden Road.
Winning just MSI or Worlds is a huge celebration, so it wasn’t strange that the attention was focused on that, having won both.
However, while talking about that topic was good, I wanted to talk about other things too since I hadn’t streamed in a long time, so I said we’d talk about the Golden Road later.
But then.

[ㅇㅇ (user) sponsored 1000 won]
Video Donation
[The Golden Road, I will do it.]

[Pya!]
[You know about the Golden Road, it’s super easy.]
[I’ll stop it, I’ll do it.]
[She just does everything by herself.]
[She does all the beauty by herself too ㅇㅇ…]
[Para-hwang is so cool.]

“Uh… um, you can play this. Anyway, the teammates played it throughout Worlds in the dorm.”
That was the teaser video filmed for the LCK Summer finals after winning MSI.
I had accepted the camera director’s suggestion that such a line would be okay since winning Summer would allow us to challenge for the Golden Road.
But no matter how I think about it, I shouldn’t have done that.

[History of manufacturing cringey moments is the Para-pyeong clan ㅋㅋㅋ]
[It’s okay because she’s cute.]
[She’s my wife.]
[Will you stay with ARK next year?]
[My life changed 360 degrees after becoming a Para fan…]
[What was the atmosphere like after the Baron steal in the Game 5 finals?]
[Seriously, in Game 5, it was tear-jerking watching her single-handedly wield the log while the other 4 took turns throwing…]

“When Baron was stolen? Honestly, everyone was expecting it to happen.”
[Gasp.]
[Lesser <<< Clearly based on mechanics, he carried games to the finals, but he got stolen from throughout Worlds.]
[When Lesser uses Smite, does someone hit him from the side?]
[As expected, Lever-ji (Lesser + beom-ji – a term for someone who carries consistently) carried at MSI, have a drink.]

“For the Worlds skin… I and the other teammates haven’t decided yet. I think only Jin-hwan oppa has decided? I think he said he’s going with Maokai this time.”
[Following Ornn, Maokai ㄷㄷ]
[The National Tank Union supports the greatest top laner of all time, Caster-nim.]
[His girlfriend said she doesn’t like carry champions, so he abandoned K’Sante and Gwen for Ornn and Maokai ㅋㅋㅋ]
[Real man.]

As I was streaming, a donation came in.

[ㅇㅇ (user) sponsored 10000 won]
Para-nim, how long do you plan on being a pro?
I’m asking because there are pro players who retire after winning Worlds.

[No.]
[Leave.]
[Ugh, you old-timer.]
[Why ask such a question?]
[But quite a few people retire after winning Worlds.]

Reactions to the donation asking about retirement varied.
From those who questioned why such a useless question was being asked, to those genuinely worried about my retirement.
The latter group refers to what’s commonly called ‘ascension,’ worrying that I might retire now that I’ve achieved everything there is to achieve, having even accomplished the Golden Road.
Since I started as a streamer anyway, and being female, it wasn’t entirely strange to expect me to retire.

“Retirement… huh.”
In my past life, I only started contemplating it after experiencing ten failures.
However, in this life, I had already engraved my name on a trophy twice, and it was clear I had achieved something others couldn’t.

[Seriously, why ask a useless question?]
[Retirement is not allowed…]
[Streaming is fun, but she’s coolest when she’s working (playing professionally).]
[Seriously, why are you hesitating;;]
[No no no no no.]

It was fun to watch the chat explode as I showed a moment of contemplation. Still, they were my fans, and I didn’t want to tease them too much, so I looked at the screen and spoke.

“Retirement? I’m not planning on it yet. Perhaps… I’d have to miss winning ten times before I consider it?”
Certainly, I had achieved many things.
But it wasn’t enough yet.
The international trophies I had obtained so far were only three. In my opinion, that was nowhere near enough.

“And as long as all of you continue to support me, I think I’ll keep being a pro. So, please keep supporting me.”

[The Great Seo-ha.]
[Understood agreed.]
[Golden Road next year too Go go.]
[Golden Road repeat, let’s go~]

It’s common knowledge that reaction speed increases when you become TS, right? The End.