Vol 2 Chapter 3 (2/2)
Before I could even say 'no wait', Yeonji's stocking-clad legs wrapped around runts
… Yeonji had been using all sorts of new techniques to torture me ever since she realized that pure physical force wasn't doing too well for her Not only was she a natural-born sadist, she orking hard to improve herself as one I was terrified
”S-stop I, I can't breathe! I'll do anything, so stop it!”
”Anything? You just said you'd do anything, right?”
”N-no not anything, but whatever I can do for the club”
Even withYeonji to do 'anything' for her Yeonji gru off of me
And she still had the gall to say, ”Then play a game with me!”
”Ga at Yerin I guess? It was out of nowhere, regardless ”Hey, didn't you tell ood for the club? What do you ame?”
”Hmph Don't be so quick to look down on it! You'll knohen you see ame”
Yeonji dug through her backpack Soon, she had a gaa Twelve 2012'
”Winning?!”
I was shouting before I realized it a Twelve-- usually shortened as the 'Winning' series-- a widely known soccer gareat hit that it had undisputably becoame had teams from every country with hundreds of professional tea you to play as players froiven as such so that the player can act as the 'spiritual twelfth player of the tea like that
Anyway, it struck airls usually that interested in sports to play a sports game? Not only that, Yeonji was an otaku, so her demand felt very weird
And so I asked ”A Winning game do you really like soccer?”
”Yep”
How unexpected!
”I've been watching 'Plas soccer ever since then”
”Oh, come on!”
Such miserable words did not fit her cute face
To add, 'Plasma Eleven' is an animation series about soccer For reasons I couldn't tell, there was a huge female fanbase behind it Still, the idea of 'soccer' in that show involved fla around the field, and all kinds of superhuman maneuvers, so I wasn't sure how much I could trust Yeonji to like the real life soccer
As I stared at her in disbelief, Yeonji coughed and began explaining herself ”Nya-heoals of the Clotaku Club by playing this game”
”What did you just say?”
Winning Twelve helps otakus infiltrate our society soot me curious
”Fufu, it's trivial I quickly investigated yesterday, and it turns out that this Winning gaely popular in this country! I even heard that it's one of those games that can iood at it”
”Well, I guess so”
Winning was so popular that our internet cafes werewhensessions But, how did that help us at all?
Yeonji confidently answered ”So, Winning is a game title that's very familiar to all the norame noe'll be able to understand the normies' et closer to them!”
”Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!”
Right as I expected, her reasoning quickly went nowhere Using our ga with normies was… okay, sure, let’s say that’s co to an internet cafe with friends only to end up not playing anything well But how does that let us understand the mindset of normies?
Yeonji shoved the ga to find out! Quit your bickering and start playing!”
“Ugh”
Nope As far as I knew of that game, there was no exploration into theto control Yeonji in the uishable as le blade I reluctantly nodded at her
With reement, Yeonji became even et off ofthe PX”
“”
Please be a little nicer when you’re asking people of things! I’ and I’m not even involved in the conversation!
Unsurprisingly, Yerin did not appear to be too fond of Yeonji’srude with your requests? If you must deny me of my anime to use the television, should you not do so with the appropriate manners?”
“Huh? Who cares about manners? Go talk about your stupid manners somewhere else!”
“Kyaa--?!”
With a rude coirl’sinto Yerin as she had done to me before I suppose that was exactly what the old idiom, “the fist is faster than words” s as I watched Yeonji boldly use violence as her earliest solution to any problems
“Yeonji Drill Breaker----!”
“Kyaa-! Wh-what do you think you’re doing, you peasant?! Get away fro me there…”
“Touch where, hmm? I can’t listen to you if I can’t understand you! Gimme the television, I want the tele--”
“Argh, fine! Okay! I understand, so please, get off of me!”
Yerin quickly caved into Yeonji’s demands after she shaled around Yerin screamed and ran away from Yeonji and turned the anime off
Yerin was usually quite confident when dealing with anyone else (ely couldn’t deal with Yeonji Maybe she eak against pure, relentless assault that Yeonji constantly did upon others Her act was being a high-class lady, after all
I sighed for Yerin in syrated to the couch to escape Yeonji’s oppression I asked, “Hey, if it’s not too much trouble, why not play the PX with Yeonji? I can sit out, no problem”
“Hame about soccer? Why would I desire to be a part of such a brutish sport, even in a virtual world? Pff… you peasants can enjoy your game by yourselves”
Says the person who got scared away by a peasant Yerin had already recovered and continued her high-class act
I only asked her because I was sorry for stealing her television (20) and because I was afraid of having to play Winning with Yeonji (80) I had no choice since Yerin didn’t want to play
That aside, calling soccer a “brutish sport” wasn’t very nice I was, after all, a Korean high school boy Whether it was soccer, or a game about soccer, I had to like it I couldn’t help but to feel offended by such a blatant bashi+ng of my favorite sport
I felt that I now had the responsibility of showing her the true art of soccer With that thought, I grabbed a controller and began a ga Twelve with Yeonji…
“Eightfold tackling formation--------------![2]”
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What a brutish sport
In five ree with Yerin that the gaery that had no equals in the world of sports Back when Yeonji and I had just sat down, I had aYeonji how to control the players and how Winning is played-- but I really should have knoould have happened next She only asked a couple of questions-- “How do I shoot? What about a sliding tackle? Sprinting? Player switching?” And she dove straight into a match
I naturally chose our country-- the national team of South Korea
And Yeonji’s choice was the English Preue team, Manchester United-- usually shortened to Man U In terame statistics, it was a team that was on a completely different level than the South Korean teaood tea worse!”
I was still confident at that point that I was going to win My opponent was a complete newbie The abilities of the player were far more important than the numbers put into the player stats, so I was sure that Yeonji wasn’t going to beata better team
However--
I should have kno she was going to play the ga tackle’, ‘sprint’, and ‘player switch’
“Diiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee---!”
Crack!
[Uaarggghhh--!]
With a battle cry that a tackle at round I could almost feel his pain-- he let out such a pained, terrified scream
His na[3], a player of our national soccer tea tackle was an accident to the referee, was also Park Jaesung, wearing the Manchester United uniforame allowed duplicate players to exist when two teams with the same player face each other
Yeonji was very pleased with the result “Alright, I defeated him!”
“‘Defeated’ him?! What are you, crazy?!”
This isn’t a fighting ga my players!
“But, that guy-- doesn’t he look exactly like one of my team’s players? I can’t leave that alone! I have to kill him”
“Don’t kill people just because they look the saers!”
I knew there was so tackles at my player, even when the positions weren’t appropriate!
Yeonji rin and chuckled quietly “Fufufu, it’s a really nice feeling, destroying someone with another who looks exactly like him! I think I can understand how evil overlords feel when they pit heroes against each other in a colosseum”
“What a nasty thing to enjoy”
In her case, it wasn’t just about understanding evil overlords-- she was al the Spring and Autumn period of China, she would have been the one to prove that humans are inherently evil
After a brief moment of rest, theofinjury, and Yeonji’s Park Jaesung received a red card and left the s were eliame
“Hey, what’s the deal? Why is he getting kicked out? What a stupid referee, kicking people out for petty reasons!” Yeonji shouted at the virtual referee
Petty reasons? Is there even a bigger reason than tackling hard enough to break soreater harame?
“Nyuu- That’s strange, this never happened in Plasma Eleven Hmph, whatever! I can win perfectly fine with ten players I never needed Park Jaesung in the beginning”
“You Apologize to hiame”
I really had to show her what it truly ame of soccer I felt bad that I was blatantly attacked at the start of the game
Froan at the halfway line, I coe kick, and passed, and passed, and passed
“Uhah! Whoa-! Nnngh! Oorah! Kyaa---!”
Yeonji grunted and shouted incessantly as she sent erous tackles towards ed and weaved between Yeonji’s players with short passes From the noises sheWinning or soame
I advanced the ball towards Yeonji’s goal, dodging her pitifully predictable tackles, and finally reached her team’s penalty area Two players on defense were in the way, but they were still controlled by Yeonji I predicted the obvious tackles co pass, but--
“Nngh… Niyaa… Kyaaa------!”
With Yeonji’s battle cry(!), players of Manchester United simultaneously threw tackles from all directions
“?!”
Yeonji had quickly spa tackle’ button, causing every single player of Manchester United to slide in the rough direction of ed to take out two innocent midfielders ere nowhere near the ball
Seeing one of her players receive a warning frohed in relief and wiped a drop of sweat off of her forehead “Alright! I ed cut the opponent’s offense short!”
“The only thing you cut short is my team’s health---!”
What happened to sportsmanshi+p?! Who attacks players without the ball like that? What an outrageous play!
“But I was going to be down a goal if I didn’t do that!”
“If you don’t think you can defend on your own, then trust the goalkeeper!”
“Haoal with just a yellow card, so it ell for ht?”
“Wow”
Her teaame If it were real life, they all would have been barred frole soccer and football association I was alame
Yeonji, meanwhile, casually asked, “That aside, that was pretty awesohtfold Tackles tactic that I was looking for How does that sound?”
“When you say ‘tactic’, if you ’, sure…”
And please, don’t ask forsense sucks as always!
--Of course, I couldn’t actually say any of this Yeonji was left free to sle
I continued the game with Yeonji, afraid of the sure future of s breaking, fracturing, and ripping apart…