I’m The Only Master - Chapter 7

 

7.

Eating is important.

It has been 10 days since my new life began.

Finally, there was a special change to my life!

It would be great if I could say this, but I am still leading a life as a game addict.

“I have no choice.”

I have to be at least a master to be able to apply to the pro teams.

My current tier is diamond 5.

The pace of ranking up has been rather slow these days.

Is it the end of my potential?

No, it is not because of my skills.

It’s just because every step got bigger in the upper tiers.

Every step in diamond is higher and tougher than bronze, silver, gold, and platinum.

There is a concept of mmr on websites like.

The difference in mmr in lower tiers are at most 100mmr.

On the other hand, in diamond, the mmr difference goes up to at least 200.

In other words, it requires double the efforts to climb than before.

And ultimately, there is a one big reason.

-Who are you to give orders?

People usually think that they will not be trolls in diamond tier.

People perceive that players will give orders and cooperate together to win!

They often misunderstand that they will be able to play proper games here.

But no, it’s not true.

“Just a bit more and we could have won. They just don’t listen..”

Every match that I play frustrates me.

And they have this useless pride of belonging in the top tiers.

So they go against the player if he/she just give some feedback.

I can handle this now, but I’m sure its reaching my maximum.

Of course, it’s not that this happens in all the top tiers.

It gets better in master and grandmaster.

I mean, they have their own problems, but at least it gets really better.

And hence, I’m working hard to reach the extreme top tiers.

-Chogart’s yumyum shooters/

You have been dropped to diamond 5.

“Seriously?”

I got held back by the guards of the diamond tier. (players who maintain at certain rank and interrupts other players from going beyond the tier.)

They p.i.s.s other players off very easily and they don’t listen at all.

Diamond 5 have never changed.

It will still be the heaven of trollers in the future.

I can go up faster if I can ever escape this tier.

Taking a deep breath, I tried to control my mind to be positive.

I always know that I should not be too emotional, but it’s really hard to do so.

Of course, I also tried playing with Remu as a duo.

-Who are you to give orders?

-Ok I’m trolling.

I don’t think I should play with this guy.

I will struggle in diamond if I continue to play with him.

I’m one match away from diamond 4, and Remu was in diamond 2.

There was no way I can play with him, who can potentially troll in the future.

I decided to leave Remu for a while and play alone.

Things get way harder, if my teammates have an extremely bad temper in diamond 5.

Not that I’ll never ever play with him again, but for a while.

He gets helpful once in a while as he doesn’t lack talent nor skills.

Just until the rank where the games get much cleaner.

“It’s not like he can control his own temper.”

And the match now that I’m playing is very important.

I must never lose this match.

I will reach diamond 4 this time and go on further.

My condition was great too.

I was the third person to pick, so jungler or mid shouldn’t be hard to pick.

But there was another big problem.

There was no way that I can hide that I’m just a match away from diamond4.

-5thpick has one match to go lol

It’s not simply because of trolls that I have been losing.

In diamond 5, there are bunch of players like this.

But now is the time to contain my tears and work hard to see the sunlight..

AT last, I had to start with a bad first loss by the players who trolled.

But fortunately, I won another 2 matches in a row and got into diamond 4.

The one loss became a fuel to award me the next 2 wins eventually.

The result was not so bad after all.

After playing, I looked at the clock that ticks to 6.

It was a perfect time to go for a jog.

It was also the time when I met the stray cat.

I often go jogging at this time these days.

A habit that I just made just a few days ago.

I had never met her since the first time I met.

But she was the motivation for me to step out of the house and exercise.

Well, that’s not too bad then.

‘Hoo..Its still pretty warm for 6 O’clock.”

As I jogged, my body was heated up.

But I felt a sense of satisfaction that I have completed the whole course.

I decided to sit on the bench and have some break.

I did not notice that there was someone sitting next to me.

“Get lost.”

I heard a voice of a young woman.

I wondered.

And stared at the person sitting beside me.

She was wearing a hoodie, hot for this weather.

Her outfits were different, but surely, she was the stray cat.

“Why is she wearing this that I cannot even recognize her..”

I could only see her face as she was wearing the hoodie.

Maybe I saw her all along but didn’t recognize her.

But that wasn’t the point.

Familiar voice.

Familiar rudeness.

Unless she has a twin sister, it was definitely her.

“Get lost, you smell really bad.”

I guess it’s really her true personality.

I have met a variety of people before, but she was special.

It’s so sad that she is so rude with such a beautiful face.

What could have possibly happened to her?

“She may have her own story.”

It’s not that I’m understanding her because I’m nice.

I just had a little interest towards her.

She was exceptionally beautiful.

It’s the middle of the strike zone.

Let’s just say that it is the nature of men.

“I don’t want to move?”

No matter how beautiful she was, I didn’t want to listen to her.

Girls like bad boys, don’t they?

I answered in a rude tone back.

And her reply was beyond my expectation.

“It’s not my business. This is my place.”

As if she had a contract to possess the bench.

She seemed like a spoiled child from a rich family.

She was way too much.

Is this the first time that we met?

It may be a ridiculous thought, but I thought that she and I were in bad terms even before our reincarnation.

I could only explain this situation through such silly idea.

Maybe I forgot about it and I’m making a big mistake now.

“Get lost.”

Obviously not.

Such possibility was 0 since the beginning.

Why am I behaving in this way?

At this point it’s not surprising if I scold her even if she was a girl.

I put myself in deeper thoughts for a while.

And Made my decision.

“Can I exchange contacts with ya?”

“You crazy?”

It was a bad idea, indeed.

But if she said no, I would have just walked away.

The fact that she didn’t quite reject me made me curious.

I pa.s.sed her my phone with the keypad on the screen.

“..Shut up and just leave it there.”

She seemed p.i.s.sed off really badly.

I could sense it despite her being covered mostly with the hoodie.

Wait, she accepted?

“Then go away.”

“You’re so consistent aren’t ya?”

It may one of those fake numbers that girls use.

I decided not to be happy for this.

But you know, it may be her real number.

Whichever it is, the situation was very interesting.

It interests my life that has been boring all along.

Why is she always in bad mood?

And why is she so rude?

I made my way home having complicated thoughts about her.

“I feel like drinking alcohol. Although I don’t have anyone to drink with.”

That’s probably the reason why I had interests on the stray cat.

I have no money, neither do I have friends.

I can hang out with my old friends if I really wanted to, but now isn’t the right time.

I had many worries in my life when I was 27.

And I felt so free and empty after returning to 21.

And indeed, I was jobless as well.

But I have a bigger dream for my future, and that’s fine.

Ultimately, it’s the matter of my mood.

I don’t want to contact my friends yet.

At least after a while, after I have become an official pro gamer with my first month of salary.

It’s hard to meet any friend when you are jobless.

What is worse is when all I do at home is playing video games.

“But I guess we’re all in similar situations after all.”

And I will be a better man in the future.

And I guess that’s what my friends will think too.

Recalling the past, I smiled unconsciously.

I initially thought of going to the convenient store to buy some snacks and beer but I didn’t.

I scanned around the store carefully, but there weren’t any good things to buy.

Actually it’s kind of reasonable to be in that way.

After 6 years from now, there will be ma.s.sive advancements of the convenient store.

But stores now are still worse than a typical supermarket.

It will take at least 5 years to get better.

“The only things that are fine in convenient store is just Changyeol Food.”

It’s one of the notorious companies that sell packaged food.

It was really a bad option for the buyers to eat such products.

It’s never worthy t eat their food to be honest.

They are actually in compet.i.tion with another company that sells nitrogen and gives potato chips as an extra. (A form of sarcasm, saying that the potato chips have more nitrogen than the chips.)

But after time pa.s.ses, thing will change.

Haeja lunchbox is one of the famous food products that are sold in convenient store 6 years later that is the complete opposite of Changyeol Food.

People say that the history separates between the time before Haeja lunchbox came out and after.

Now is the history before Haeja lunchbox came out.

So it was kind of a waste to buy Changyeol Food at the store.

I had to save every penny in my pocket.

And there is food that I can eat whenever I have to save money.

It’s the street food.

They sell Ddeokbokki, sundae, and fried foods at a reasonable price.

They were great compared to the price they were sold at.

One thing sad is that, the price of street food will rise after 6 years.

Convenient store become more compet.i.tive with Haeja lunchbox, and “Yeopki Ddaeokbokki” will become extremely famous.

The start of this has brought many changes in the industry.

Other shops and restaurants that have been selling ddeokbokki will increase their price as well.

And ddeokbokki becomes more expensive than it really should be.

“It’s just ddeokbokki with Korean spicy noodle sauce and cheese. And how is that the same price as fried chicken?”

Now that I think about it, there is no Korean spicy noodle now as well.

The ramen that was simply spicy, but made the whole world to love it.

I ate it too occasionally, although my stomach ached.

Anyways, I could eat spicy rice cake, sundae and fried food at a cheap price instead of Changyeol food in the convenient store.

I decided to keep the sundae in the freezer to stir fry it with a spicy sauce and rice.

Spicy rice cake and fried food will be accompanying my beer today.

I made a small party at home with 2 beer cans that I bought from supermarket.

I also waited for the stray cat’s reply, with an excited heart.