Peak Condition

 

On the day of the BB-bic & Continental MOL Tournament finals.

Unlike the previous day when she was staggering due to her period, perhaps because she had slept deeply—

-Clench

When Ara clenched her fist while lying down, she felt that the strength was extraordinary.

She could clearly hear the second hand of the clock hung on the door moving, and could see small dust particles floating in the room.

“… Hmm.”

Her condition was too good. Truly at peak form.

Whenever Ara was in this condition, a major incident or accident would occur—

“No, Ara. What if you break your chopsticks while eating..!”

“…Ha, ha our daughter. Are you throwing a tantrum because you don’t want to eat… maybe? Hmm?”

Um.

Mom mistakenly thought that my breaking the tableware was a silent protest that breakfast wasn’t tasty.

I had to explain to my mom with cold sweat before I could finally get my breakfast.

Ara thought to herself while eating.

No matter how good her condition was, this was the first time her energy overflowed to the point that she couldn’t control her strength.

Just as she finished thinking, “Is something big going to happen today?”—

-Snap

“…Mom. This—”

“You girl!? If you don’t want to eat, just say so, why break the chopsticks wastefully? Just don’t eat, you brat!”

She broke the chopsticks once more, unable to control her strength while thinking mindlessly.

‘…Fuck.’

In the end, Ara had her rice bowl taken away by her mom. Not only was she prevented from eating breakfast, but she was also banished from the living room.

After being expelled from the living room, I walked up the stairs to my room.

I didn’t want to lie on the bed since it was morning, and my body was itchy from the start.

I blankly stared at the kalkal—bamboo sword—leaning against the wall.

‘….’

-Tick, tock, tick, tock

Ara watched the kalkal for about 3 minutes, listening to the sound of the second hand passing.

After organizing her thoughts for a moment, Ara turned her steps toward where the kalkal was.

It had been quite a while since she wielded a sword in the real world, and due to her inability to control her strength to the point of breaking chopsticks because her condition was too good.

It was to release the overflowing energy by swinging the kalkal.

“Whew—”

As soon as she grabbed the handle of the kalkal, she closed her eyes and regulated her breathing.

As the hero Kang Ara. As the dragon slayer Kang Ara.

Swordsmanship swung with the determination to cut down all enemies blocking her way.

While swinging like that—

-Crack!

…?

Hearing a sound that shouldn’t be heard, she slowly opened her eyes that had been closed.

Very slowly, with narrowed eyes, she looked at the source of the sound.

-Crumble..

“…Um.”

She was stunned at the sight of the terribly pierced wall and debris falling to the floor.

─ “Ara! What’s going on!”

─ “Daughter! Are you okay!?”

Was it because of the loud noise, or the vibration caused by the impact to the house?

My parents called out to me loudly as they came up the stairs.

“…I’m fine!!”

I told my parents with a trembling voice, and used mana to restore the broken wall debris to its original state.

“Whew, whew—”

Crash, bang. A turbulent morning.

Instead of moving her body to relieve the overflowing vitality—

She just stayed still, doing nothing, sitting cross-legged on the bed, meditating and controlling her mind and body as time passed.

Ara, who was meditating so intensely that one might wonder if she would go into a trance if someone touched her.

[17:15]

As soon as it became that time, she opened her eyes and got up from her spot—

‘Ah, ouch… leg cramp… shi—’

Um.

Anyway, she grabbed her tingling leg and dragged her feet to the capsule.

About 15 minutes left until the start of the tournament.

To say it one more time!

-Lucy’s live has started!

[Here to win]

Ara was in peak condition.

♦♦♦

[BB-bic & Continental MOL Finals!]

[“Nice to meet you, everyone! BB-bic and Continental. Continental and BB-bic. I’m Caster Danso, who will be in charge of proceeding with the MOL tournament finals jointly held by the two platforms!”]

Starting with Caster Danso

[“I’m commentator Lee Hyun-o, who will be responsible for the finals commentary. And—”]

Commentator Lee Hyun-o.

[“I’m TG toplaner Lee Jae-won, who joined the commentary team from the semifinals. Nice to meet you!”]

Finally, with the introduction of Moldcup champion toplaner Lee Jae-won, they announced the beginning of the finals.

— hihihi

— Finals will be super fun lol

— Chicken preparation complete.

— Go Luwingman!!

— Gabriel, kill him, Lucy noona!!

— Wow, there are so many people OMG

Despite the broadcast having started just a few minutes ago on the official channel, nearly 70,000 viewers had gathered.

This was the number of viewers watching on the BB-bic platform, not the combined number from both platforms.

Including viewers from Continental

A total of 130,000.

The tournament officials who received this news all had happy expressions, as if the corners of their mouths had no intention of coming down.

It was 130,000 from the start, but if the finals began and <Luwingman> and <Devil Slayer> had an exciting match, 300,000 viewers wouldn’t be a dream.

So the tournament officials prayed that both teams would compete all the way to the 5th set.

[“Now the introduction of both teams that have reached the finals is over.”]

— Is it starting now?

— Anyway, Lucy will win. That’s the right result.

— Devil Slayer!! Kill the devil-bitch-Lucy!!

— Lucy, show us!!

While the officials were having their prayer time, the introductions of both teams, <Luwingman> and <Devil Slayer>, ended.

[“Haha. Everyone, calm down. Please calm down.”]

[“We also desperately want to see the match between these two teams! Before that—”]

[“Let’s first see the Trash Talk of both teams interviewed by the officials before the tournament starts!”]

The commentators calmed the raging chat window while proceeding with the broadcast step by step.

Although viewers wanted to see the match between both teams quickly, as soon as they heard the news that Trash Talk from both teams was prepared.

Most of the viewers watching the broadcast.

Stopped their fingers that were tapping the keyboard and focused on the monitor.

So with the chat window that had momentarily subsided.

-Blink.

The screen showing the commentators

[“Hello. I’m Lucy.”]

Showed Lucy, and.

[“Gabriel? Isn’t that an angel’s name?”]

As she made a grand provocation

[“…Ah. Um. I’m sorry about that?”]

She announced the proper start of the tournament.

♦♦♦

[“Uhahaha. Wow, Lucy is crazy!”]

[“Gabriel? Are you an angel? Pfft—”]

[“…Wow. It doesn’t feel like someone else’s business, so I can’t laugh…”]

[“Puhh—Ret oppa also experienced something like this. Different victim, same perpetrator—mph.”]

Team members—excluding Ara—laughing and chatting while watching the Trash Talk on the official channel.

[“But it feels refreshing.”]

[“Agreed. After the game ended yesterday, he ran his mouth too much, so this is payback.”]

Ground Duck and MK, who caught their breath after laughing for a while, saying it feels refreshing.

“What happened?”

Ara, who couldn’t grasp what was funny and what was refreshing, expressed her doubt to the team members.

[“Ah. Lucy doesn’t know, I guess. We listened to the MVPs’ interviews after the second semifinal match yesterday—”]

Hello Hello kindly answering Ara’s question.

After hearing the facts Hello Hello was telling, Ara—

“Hmm… I don’t think what he said is wrong?”

She said that Gabriel’s statement in the MVP interview wasn’t incorrect.

[“…….”]

[“…….”]

MK and Ground Duck fell silent when Ara said that. And not just those two.

[[“”…….””]]

Everyone in the Tiscoord room shut their mouths tightly.

The atmosphere that was noisy suddenly became quiet.

Ara, who felt they were like a pot, looked at the official broadcast screen.

And on that screen

─[“….You don’t know me…?”]

There was Gabriel, with a bright red face and trembling lips.

[“Pfft—”]

Ground Duck couldn’t hold his laughter at the sight of Gabriel.

[“Look at his face hahah—isn’t that a complete tomato?”]

[“No! Lucy is making Gabriel that bastard super mad, but what did I do!!”]

[“MK, don’t set me up. Even if Gabriel doesn’t play hard, you’re going to get your ass kicked anyway.”]

[“You want to die, Lee Sang-o?”]

With his laughter as the starting point, the quiet atmosphere became noisy again.

♦♦♦

Contrary to <Luwingman>’s atmosphere of laughing at Gabriel’s appearance.

“Fuck!! Championship. We’re definitely going to win the championship.”

[“…Sigh”]

[“Why is he so angry?”]

The atmosphere of <Devil Slayer>, <Luwingman>’s opponent, was beyond hot—it was about to explode.

“Angry? Fuck, when the opponent disrespects like that, how can you not be angry?”

[“…I think she really didn’t know and said—”]

“That’s even more infuriating!!!”

Gabriel was extremely displeased.

In his MVP interview, he had said that <Luwingman> was nothing special except for Lucy.

He had made a respectful statement about Lucy, who had led such a team to the finals, but.

Why?

Why was she dissing him…!

“…Whew—everyone get your minds straight. If we don’t win today, we all die together… Okay!?”

[“…No. We don’t particularly want to die—”]

“Shut up! When one team member is ridiculed, you know. Are you even teammates?”

As Gabriel started to make a fuss, to prevent the team atmosphere from gradually darkening due to his behavior, the supporter Raphi moved.

[“Baek-hap. Don’t you forget that you dissed everyone else except Lucy first? You haven’t done anything great either, so shut your mouth.”]

“….Hyung… I asked you not to call me by my real name!!”

Gabriel. Real name Kim Baek-hap.

[“I understand, so shut up. If you make noise one more time, I’ll call you Baek-hap instead of Gabriel, okay?”]

“….Okay.”

He greatly disliked his name.