Chapter 79: The end of the century canyon is hell

Very few people thought Summer would achieve her New Year’s goal.

More people believed Summer’s song would enter the Melon Chart Top 100 within 3 months than believed Fall wouldn’t be late for 3 months. That says it all.

It was understandable.

The modern Korean music market is already a red ocean.

A song released by an unknown singer with no history in the entertainment industry almost never reached people’s ears.

However.

[ChaTRPG_Rozy: Released the test version of ‘Saving Yoo Da-hee’ on Steam! Create your own story~]

Crazy… The game is f*cking fun.

Is it true all the streamers are playing this??

No, Summer LOL How the hell did she clear this in 1 try LOL It’s f*cking hard??

Info) Summer also grinded hundreds of tries in the ChatRPG version.

The game Summer played on stream caught on in the streaming community.

[Looking for a song, f*cking urgent]

Why can’t I find the song Summer sang midway through the Saving Yoo Da-hee stream no matter how hard I look?

That too, but the song playing as BGM in the ending scene is more urgent. Someone please find it.

Listening to the voice, it sounds like Summer and Winter sang a duet?

Isn’t it that one? The new song Summer was making at the end of the stream.

Not only did the song gain traction through word of mouth and become a hot topic.

[Cosmo_Youngjun: @CosmoLive_Summer has released a new song.]

[Cosmo_Youngjun: Listen to ‘Because I Hate Seeing You Hurt’ and ‘Summertime’ now on the music site, ‘Melon’.]

It’s out!!

Kya~ The song is crazy!

Summer was talented.

Since the song itself was so good from the start, it managed to proudly secure a spot at the very bottom of the domestic music site ranking Top 100.

Because of this, the Seasons members’ group chat was properly on fire.

[Fall: Wowowowow!! Yeoreumi, huge congrats on charting!!!]

[Fall: Not just one song, but two…!!]

[Fall: (Chick cheering cone)]

[Summer: Thankyouthankyou~]

[Summer: This is my class~ Nyahahahat!!]

[Spring: Summer unnie, congratulations. The song was so good.]

[Spring: Listening to it after watching unnie’s stream made me even more choked up.]

[Summer: Uhahahat!! I dedicate this glory to Jina Mama~]

[Summer: Ah, and Winter-ssi who featured also worked hard~]

[Summer: (Cat thumbs up cone)]

[Summer: …Winter-ssi? Are you alive?]

[Summer: @Winter Hey! Don’t tell me you’re sulking because I provoked you?]

[Spring: Come to think of it, Winter unnie hasn’t been seen in the group chat since yesterday or the day before, right?]

[Fall: Winter unnie is busy playing League right now]

[Summer: League??]

[Fall: They say today is the last day of the season?]

[Summer: What, Winter-ssi still hasn’t hit Master?]

[Spring: Isn’t there only 30 minutes left until the season ends? What’s Winter unnie’s tier?]

[Fall: She’s Diamond 1, 99 points right now]

[Summer: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Kya~ Winter-ssi is a streaming genius LOL]

[Summer: Ah LOL The season’s final Master deciding match, can’t miss this LOLOLOL]

[Summer: Gotta go watch Winter’s stream LOLOLOL]

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Current time, 11:30 PM.

Time remaining until the Summoner’s Rift season ends, approximately 30 minutes.

And Winter’s current tier was.

Diamond 1, 99 points.

“This is… ridiculous…”

Winter covered her face with both hands and gently tapped her forehead against the desk.

“How did it come to this…!”

According to the plan, she should have achieved Master tier before February and properly scheduled the collab with Jina.

At first, the games were going so well that she thought she might hit Master not in February, but in January.

But the moment she entered Diamond 1, something started to go wrong.

As if refusing to let her reach Master easily, malicious players began to target Winter properly.

Their goal wasn’t the victory or defeat of the game.

It was to piss Winter off somehow!

To make Winter blurt out ‘Yabal’! (Curse word)

Solely for that one purpose, they targeted Winter with fire in their eyes.

Naturally, the games couldn’t possibly go well.

After almost two months of repeating wins and losses, her tier ended up stuck in the same place.

‘I intended to hit Master before Winter (the season) left.’

‘Winter (the season) was unusually long this year.’

If she could have at least cursed freely, her mentality might have been somewhat managed.

But unfortunately, the condition ‘Don’t swear’ was attached, so stress piled up day by day.

Playing games while in a ‘fresh seaweed’ (tilted/mentally broken) state naturally increased the frequency of mistakes.

And so, Winter became unable to escape the Diamond swamp.

Indeed, Summoner’s Rift is a mental illness-inducing game.

Unable to bear it, she secretly played off-stream, but there were always one or two stream snipers mixed in every match.

The ‘time billionaire’ unemployed stream snipers are not to be underestimated.

Eventually, she changed her ID to a barcode and repeatedly played one game off-stream then stopped, somehow managing to get right to the brink of Master.

…But when she came to her senses, it was already the last day of the season.

There was no place left to retreat.

[SongiSongi has donated 100,000 won.]

[Streaming Genius Kim Winter]

“Ah… SongiSongi-nim, 100,000 won donation, thank youuuu…”

Winter, in her MAX stage of seaweed state, muttered in a dying voice.

“Songi everyone… Please just let me get to Master… Please? I beg you… I really want to do a collab with Mamaaaa…”

Winter pleaded tearfully.

But currently, it wasn’t just ‘Songis’ in Winter’s stream.

(Live) Last Day of Season, Final Master Climb

Seasons_Winter

Viewers: 29,507

All sorts of malicious trolls, League veterans, and end-of-season griefers flocked to Winter’s stream.

[-Alright~ Season’s final last game let’s go~]

[-Ah LOL The stream is too delicious LOL]

[-Breaking News) Buster Call dropped on League gallery]

[-Streamers are also going crazy trying to snipe Winter right now LOL]

Adding fuel to the fire were her family-like Cosmo Live peers and seniors.

[Seasons_Summer has donated 1,000 won]

[Heard there was a fire next door, so I came~ Is this the funeral… no, the festival? Nyahahaha!!]

[Astra_Cherry has donated 1,000 won]

[Queueing up to snipe Winter hoobae!!]

[-Funeral LOL Summer youuuu LOL]

[-CherryCherry-yah… How can an Iron snipe a Master…]

[HanAri has donated 1,000 won]

[Winter dongsaeng, still Diamond?]

[HanAri has donated 10,000 won]

[Sorry! Um, not trying to provoke… M-mission required… Anyway, fighting!!]

[-?? What, is that the real Han Ari?]

[-Shameful Han Ari!! Don’t use the mission as an excuse!!]

It was a broadcast where everyone except Winter was happy.

Youngjun, dancing the ‘sword dance’ (stirring up trouble) more diligently than anyone in the chat, was also grinning. That says it all.

At this moment when all viewers and Summoner’s Rift users were ganging up on Winter.

[jina_na has donated 100,000 won]

[Winter-nim, good luck on the last game. It’d be a waste if we can’t use the collab model I went through the trouble of making, right?]

“Jina…!”

Only Jina gave Winter strength.

“…Yes! For the collab with Mama, I’ll definitely win this game!!”

[-Arctic Emergencyyyy!! Polar Bear Down!!!]

[-Kraaack! M-my heart! My Johnson wants Winter’s victory!]

[-???: It’s okay! The zoo is my home!!]

[-Choice Zone: Watch angry Winter vs. Debut Mama]

At Winter’s bright smile, the chat window began to catch fire.

[-Quickly start the queue!!]

[-Time’s gonna run out at this rate!!]

[-Not a chance, immediate -troll-]

Of course, for the specters mad about League and the griefers, couplings and whatnot didn’t matter.

-Ah~ Top lane!!

-Not mid LOL

-Dodge… maybe?

It felt ominous from the start.

To think that in such an important game, she’d get her secondary role, Top, instead of her main role, Mid.

“W-well, at least it’s not Support…”

But not getting her main role was just the beginning.

[Krug: Did the Winter snipe succeed???]

[Gromp: Don’t tell me you’re a sniper too?]

[Krug: Yo, you too?]

[Gromp: Yo, me too!]

[Krug: LOLOLOLOL]

Confirming that two suspected snipers were matched on Winter’s team, the chat window was flooded with laughing emojis.

It didn’t end there.

[GrumpyToad: Who’s Winter, you 10 weebs]

[Gromp: ?? Did this saekki just swear?]

[Krug: You don’t know the Goddess of Diamond, Winter? You need some culture, real 123 loser, stop just playing games]

[GrumpyToad: What are these **s?]

[Gromp: Did you just swear? Reported gl]

[GrumpyToad: Yeah~ Report me~]

Watching her teammates start fighting even before picking characters, Winter felt like she was going insane.

“Haaa… I want to dodge…”

The problem was, Winter had already dodged twice today.

If she closed the game one more time here, she’d get a queue time penalty, confirming Diamond for good.

[-If she hadn’t dodged, she’d probably be Master already LOL]

[-Seriously, end-of-season is hell…]

[-Meanwhile, Winter who still hasn’t sworn once is a Bodhisattva]

Contrary to Winter’s wish that someone would dodge, the game started anyway.

Following that, the 10 IDs displayed on the loading screen.

[-7 out of 10 are either snipers or streamers LOL]

[-The ID blatantly sniping Winter is so tilting LOL]

[-Isn’t the top Jax laning against Winter that perma-Diamond guy??]

[-Mid looks like Sun Wook hyung?]

[-Why is Chanhap-jwa here LOL]

“Why… are you doing this to me…!!”

Winter wanted to cry.