University Battle

Cheek kiss.

If you just think of it as a kiss, it can be burdensome, but if you think of it as a cheek kiss, now you just think of it as a greeting.

If I had given or received a cheek kiss in the past, I would have been like, ‘Ugh, what’s wrong with you.’ But now, a cheek kiss is nothing.

It’s because I’ve done it a lot while living as Arang-i.

It’s been a while since I’ve been living with prosthetic arms and legs, but I’ve spent much more time without limbs.

How would I greet or have light skinship with my family without arms and legs?

There’s hugging, but I can only be hugged.

Since I have no arms or legs, even if I hug, it’s not a hug, it’s just sticking together.

So, what I ended up doing was a belly kiss.

It started with a belly kiss.

When I was first Arang-i, I lived in a virtual world except for a few cases.

To be in the virtual world, you need a connector, of course, and I’m wearing a connector.

But the connector I’m using isn’t a simple choker-type connector, but a large connector that blocks all senses.

It’s about the size of a large bed, so the connector I’m using is combined with a hospital bed.

When I use the connector, my whole face is covered, and during that time, I always gave belly kisses when greeting my family.

Because my face is covered by the connector, and I don’t have hands to kiss the back of my hand, and if I don’t have arms and legs, what’s left?

Only my torso is left. The only place on that torso where I can kiss without feeling burdened is my belly.

Going up is a little weird, and going down is very weird.

Since I had no choice but to get belly kisses for a long time, my aversion to kisses disappeared, and now I feel empty without them.

Of course, I still don’t like it unless it’s my family or someone very close to me.

My aversion to kisses disappeared, and after a long rehabilitation and exercise, I was able to wear prosthetic arms and legs well, and as the use of the connector decreased, I stopped doing belly kisses.

The method for doing a belly kiss requires me to be lying down, my face to be covered because I’m using the connector, and to be wearing clothes that make it easy to expose my belly, which are very difficult conditions.

If I’m standing with prosthetic legs and want to do a belly kiss, it’s hard enough to kneel down since I’m already short.

So now, even if I try to hug instead of a belly kiss, something was missing. Eventually, it changed to a cheek kiss, and I started giving cheek kisses to my family and Pinku-nim, Baedeopgae-nim, and Sunchu-nim when I met them.

Vita-ssi is someone I’ve only known for three days, but for some reason, even though her game skills are bad, I have a very high level of inner intimacy.

Moreover, the consideration I feel when she hugs me from behind? Should I say that? It was clear that she was used to knowing someone like this because she had a younger sibling of a similar age to me.

Thanks to that, I was able to comfortably be in Vita’s arms, and as a result, Vita-ssi became comfortable, and without realizing it, I kissed Vita-ssi on the cheek to cheer her on.

,Eh?

Vita-ssi seemed flustered and covered the right cheek that received the cheek kiss with her hand.

,How is it? Do you feel more confident?

,U-Uh.

,Then go quickly and win.

,A-Alright!

==

Even after Vita-ssi entered the game-only room for the first match, the silence was maintained.

Originally, before entering a match, we would all gather together and shout fighting or put our arms around each other’s shoulders to give energy, but just now, it was an atmosphere where we couldn’t say such things.

,Ahem.

Hyeoksu-ssi cleared his throat and opened his mouth.

,Yeongo-ya, freeze Vita-ssi’s chat, check the full cam, turn off the electronic sound, and check the whispers.

,Okay.

It’s a mini-university, but as much as there’s a lot of money involved. Even in these matches, we set up various things to prevent any future words from coming out.

After all those settings are done.

,Vita-ssi! One, two, three!

,,Vita Fighting!!!,,

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Vita-unni’s skill level is about gold.

If you look at the overall ratio, she’s good… but by my standards, she’s not.

The good thing is that Space University has tiers set for each skill level. Instead of mineral grades like Leore, they are set as number tiers, and these matches are usually between the same tiers, so as much as Vita-ssi is bad, the opponent is also bad.

In particular, Vita-ssi is Human, and the opponent is a monster race like me.

Humans are advantageous in terms of race matchups. Of course, race matchups don’t mean much at the gold level, but it’s still slightly advantageous, which is big.

,Susu-ssi is using a 12-hatchery build. Arang-i, what do you think of the current situation?

The opponent is 12-hatchery. Vita-ssi is blocking the big entrance and taking the hatchery build.

,If you apply it according to your skills here, wouldn’t it still be 50/50?

,Ah, you already know the game of the low tiers?

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Arang-i got annoyed while helping Vita-ssi

-Arang-i mastered the low tier in just 3 days ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Bang!

,Ah, this is Vita-ssi’s problem.

Since it’s not an early build anyway, but just a running fight of who grows well, there’s nothing to comment on, so I end up saying anything.

Usually, in the old Space War tournaments, expert casters. Commentators either talk about the win rate on this map, the relationship between the win rates of the two pro gamers playing the game, or just have a big talk show.

Because it’s to keep the viewers from losing interest.

While we were also saying anything, Vita-ssi’s worker scouted the opponent monster’s main base and died before long because she was distracted.

,What? Vita-unni killed another worker? Seriously, isn’t that too much!?

The monster’s basic unit is a melee unit.

If you put your mind to it, you can scout the monster’s main base for 5 minutes without dying.

In any RTS game. No, in all multiplayer games, the opponent’s information is very important.

In a multiplayer game, not a single-player game. Also, in a 1v1 game, knowing the opponent’s information is very, very important to win the game.

Therefore, you need to perfectly understand what the opponent is doing and what intentions they have.

You need to see with your own eyes whether the monster has decided to take the next tech during the 5 minutes or whether they will do an all-in strategy, abandoning the future in the early stages, to lead the game advantageously.

But that important worker dies in 3 minutes? This is a mistake that deserves a spanking.

,I emphasized last time to never let the worker die until you see Hirariden or Murarifier by 5 minutes, but you killed it? Are you unable to control it because you don’t have arms like me orㅡ

,A, Arang-a!?

Hyeoksu-ajussi urgently blocked my mouth.

Not only Vita-ssi but also Hyeoksu-ajussi blocked my mouth, so I glared at Hyeoksu-ajussi.

,Let’s calm down for a moment. Huh?

Seureuk.

Hyeoksu-ajussi carefully removes the hand that was blocking me.

,I didn’t even swear, what’s the problem?

,Arms and legs are forbidden. Arms and legs stories are absolutely forbidden!

,Eing. Okay. Then what should I talk about? There’s nothing to talk about in particular.

,I heard Arang-i decided on Vita-ssi’s build, is that right?

,I didn’t decide it alone, I decided it with Yeongo-ajussi.

,Really? Then can you explain the build you prepared this time?

,Yeongo-ajussi would be better at explaining the build.

,People would want someone like Arang-i to explain it more than an ajussi like that, right?

,Aha.

This time, Vita-ssi’s build is none other than blocking the entrance and BattleShip. In other words, it’s a build that draws combat cruisers.

I saw Vita-ssi preparing several builds, but I couldn’t see the answer.

By my standards, I was frustrated even if I kept practicing, so I came up with a build that just locks the entrance and secretly gathers combat cruisers with only the main base and hatchery resources without doing anything.

Monsters are the most vulnerable race to getting information about the opponent’s main base among all races.

Humans have a scam skill called Scan, and alien races can get some information with stealth air units, but monster races can’t do that.

Instead, they have excellent control over the rest of the map except for the opponent’s main base.

I’m going to use that to secretly gather combat cruisers and do a surprise combat cruiser build.

This doesn’t have good or bad. It’s just a very simple build that starts smoothly in the early stages and then just throws all the resources into combat cruisers from the middle.

You really can’t do this? You can say it’s a clicker build at the level where you shouldn’t even play the game.

I think even elementary school students can follow this right away.

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The moment four of Vita-ssi’s combat cruisers gathered, they started going to the opponent’s base.

The opponent used a build called Crazy Monster.

It’s a build that draws Ulari as quickly as possible, and it’s a fairly strong build in the low tier. And the combat cruiser build sniped that build.

Because Ulari can’t hit the air unit, the combat cruiser.

,Wow, what kind of cheesy build is this?

Hyeoksu-ajussi was dumbfounded by the combat cruisers that were just giving attack commands without any control and were devastating the opponent’s main base.

This kind of build is actually a build that would never work even if you were just a diamond level player. That’s why it was a build that didn’t even exist.

But at this gold level?

I just think it’s the strongest build.

If the opponent doesn’t know this build, that is.

The opponent drew air suicide bombers to kill the combat cruisers, but the combat cruisers’ attack power is quite strong.

The monster’s air suicide bomber is one-shot, one-kill.

If you upgrade the defense, you can withstand one hit, but there’s no way for the low tier to know that.

In the end, the Gling and Ulari, who kept drawing, all attacked Vita-ssi’s main base, but they easily blocked it with 3 bunkers blocking the entrance and the combat cruisers piled up in the main base, and received the GG.

,Ooooooooo!

,Wowwwww!

There was a slightly uneasy feeling in the beginning, but Vita-ssi, who did well as I and Yeongo-ajussi told her, easily brought the first win of the university battle.

As soon as Vita-ssi came out of the stadium-only room, she ran to me and lifted me up.

I was very pleased to see Vita-ssi, who was sincerely happy to win.

,The coach feeling is fun too.

A student who had to play the next game suddenly approached me awkwardly.

Looking like they were hoping for something.

I glanced at the chest of the student standing in front of me.

,I’m worried.