Chapter 15: Human Butcher

If a person is startled enough, their mouth moves on its own.

When the 5 million won mission for reaching Master was set, I was so shocked that my neck trembled and I let out a scream.

“Huh? Huh? Huhhhhhhh! Eek!”

It didn’t feel real. Yes, there’s no way this is real. It can’t be real, so I asked if it was a mistake or a joke.

SilentAction: It’s five million, accept it

But the person who set the mission said it wasn’t a mistake or a joke, and it was a 5 million won mission, not 50,000 won or 500,000 won.

Then is it a dream? I pinched my cheek as a test, and it hurt solidly.

I know very well that there are many rich people in this world whose economic sense and way of thinking are on a different level from mine. I have a throbbing headache from it.

But I didn’t know such a person would watch my stream. Aren’t those people supposed to be partying with celebrities and idols in some strange club, doing drugs and having
? Do some of them actually watch internet streams?

‘5 million won if I reach Master.’

When I thought that 5 million won was really on the line, my back stiffened from the tension, forcing me to straighten my posture.

‘Can I do it? Of course I can. It’s definitely possible.’

My highest rating was Diamond 1 60 LP. But there was no Master tier back then. In the days when there was an infinite wall of lament between Challenger and Diamond 1 99 LP, 100 LP. My score at that time was 700th place. In other words, it’s practically the same as Grandmaster now.

The goal this time is Master. One tier lower than Grandmaster. So there’s no way it’s impossible. There’s no way I can’t do it. There’s no way it’s difficult.

“Thank you in advance for the 5 million won!”

With a smile reaching from ear to ear, I turned on the game and started streaming. My tier was already Platinum 1. I only needed to climb five steps to reach Master.

“Since today is the first day of the challenge, I’ll start by lightly reaching Diamond.”

Thanks to the tier I raised quickly from Silver 2, my MMR is skyrocketing. I can easily win 4 games in a row to get into a promotion series, and then win 3 out of 5 games to get promoted. In theory, if I win 7 consecutive games, I can be promoted to Diamond tier.

“Hmm……..”

Since there’s a 30-day time limit on the 5 million won, I really have to do my best in every single game.

‘I don’t want to do this, but since there’s money on the line.’

After much consideration, I switched my first choice from top to mid and my second choice from mid to jungle. And I started the queue.

NationalTryndamereAssociation: Teacher, have you decided to abandon top lane? HawaiianPizzaLover: Traitor traitor traitor traitor traitor

-MorningRice: ???: Top is a trash lane, it has nothing to do with the outcome of the game

-JungleIsHell: Please jungle please jungle please jungle please jungle

-GimbapHeavenSweetRadishKillerKimJeongYeol: This is not the real Ruffian!

-Rurururu: Give us back our Ruffian! Give us back our Ruffian! Give us back our Ruffian!

LastLightOfNation: Ruffian means thug, so isn’t she just going back to her original place?

TopOnlyPlayer: Was I the only one who was serious? You weren’t serious about top lane?

“Well, it’s true that top lane isn’t very good for controlling the whole game.”

Jungle is definitely the number one lane for carrying, mid is number two, and the rest are just trash lanes that get swayed by the results of those two.

So if you’re confident in your skills and really want to win, it’s natural to set those two as your first and second choices.

‘But I hate jungle.’

These days, there’s a lot of talk about supports being ‘honey-sucking’ or ‘tools’, but that’s actually fake hate.

Only those who have played jungle for more than 100 games know. The only lane that receives real hatred is jungle.

If a support is like Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, suffering from fake victimhood and fake injustice, then a jungler is like a gladiator slave from 82 BC, experiencing a truly terrible and miserable life.

If the top laner gets solo killed, it’s the jungler’s fault for not ganking without any awareness. If the support dies in the bot lane, it’s the jungler’s fault for not helping the bot lane when it’s struggling. If the mid laner gets cut off while roaming, it’s the jungler’s fault for not joining.

The jungler, who was born with original sin, is the root of all evil in this world and is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the game. Of course, it’s not really the jungler’s fault, but everyone just blames the jungler first.

Their nickname is ‘butcher’, which says it all. It’s not like there aren’t any customers who call them ‘Mr. Kim’ and get meat service, but most of them say, “Hey Mr. Kim! What are you doing, bring the meat quickly!” with contempt.

In short, it’s such a terrible lane that playing it makes you so angry that it shortens your lifespan, which is why my jungle stats decreased in later seasons.

‘But there’s 5 million won on the line.’

The win rate of my main account, Ruffian’s, top champions is close to 50%, but my jungle win rate is close to 65%. There’s a huge difference in the number of games played, but even so, I can be sure that I’ll climb if I play jungle.

Because it’s such a painful lane, the number of people who set jungle as their first choice is the lowest among the five positions. If I put the most popular mid lane as my first choice, there’s a good chance that I’ll get my second choice, jungle.

‘Mid lane if possible.’

Mid lane is not as free as jungle, but it’s also a lane that can influence every part of the map. Its carrying power is not much different from jungle.

It’s not called the ‘royal’ lane for nothing. If you want to dictate the game, mid lane. That’s just common sense.

The game was found, and I accepted. I checked my lane. Instead of my first choice, mid, I got my second choice, jungle. It’s truly an unpopular trash lane.

“I’ll play seriously.”

-JungleIsHell: I’ll play seriously (picks Master Yi)

-GimbapHeavenSweetRadishKillerKimJeongYeol: That’s our Ruffian! That’s our Ruffian! That’s our Ruffian! That’s our Ruffian! That’s our Ruffian! That’s our Ruffian!

MorningRice: The character you pick when you’re playing seriously is Master Yi ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

HawaiianPizzaLover: A woman who’s crazy about backdooring ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

“It’s not backdooring, it’s split pushing, a strategy that’s used all the time even in tournaments, okay?”

-NationalTryndamereAssociation: Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd? Mom, why did you abandon Trynd?

-Rurururu: Teacher, they don’t pick Master Yi in tournaments

“Don’t you know that you should play champions with kill resets in lower tiers?”

Originally, when you’re playing in a tier lower than your actual skill level, it’s better to play champions that can reliably perform a carry role, even if their performance is somewhat lower.

You can overcome the lower performance with skill and utilize the carrying power to the extreme.

-nadang: Isn’t Platinum 1 – Diamond 4 your natural habitat, Teacher? LastLightOfNation: ???: (pretending to be on a sub-account) This tier is disgusting, seriously

“No, I’m really not someone who should be here, okay? I’ll show you. Now.”

LikeAFlower: What Master Yi,

KimchiButcher: Dodge please

While that was happening, the game’s pick/ban phase chat, like the stream chat, started to get messy.

“Seriously, these people who don’t even know anything about Master Yi are starting baseless hatred again?”

LetsDoBusinessAndSurvive: Your stats have a good win rate, so I’ll trust you

LikeAFlower: All those stats are from top lane? Why are you suddenly playing jungle? Do you even know how to play it?

ThrowUntilChallenger: It’s a sub-account.

I didn’t lie. It’s my third account. It’s just that the other two are in the Yeti, so it’s all the same.

“They need to get rid of all those stats websites. They didn’t even exist in the foundational Season 2, but these days, people are all like
, checking stats from the pick phase, saying we should dodge this, we need to dodge this, please dodge this. If you want to dodge so badly, you do it! It’s really disgusting.”

-MorningRice:
? Is this LGBT hate speech? You get suspended for hate speech on Switch

HawaiianPizzaLover: Season 2? Foundational? Teacher, how old are you?

-Rurururu: Old

“Okay, jungle lesson starts.”

I quickly went to defend against the invade at the start of the game and typed in the chat.

[00:23] ThrowUntilChallenger (Master Yi): Mid, please ward the raptors before the minions come, deep enough to see if they go for red

[00:25] ThrowUntilChallenger (Master Yi) requests assistance

[00:30] Shashou (Ahri): Ok

-MorningRice: Wow, it’s the first time I’ve seen this person type something other than blaming others and fighting

-JungleIsHell: ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

-nadang: I just looked at the chat, why is it so funny ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

GimbapHeavenSweetRadishKillerKimJeongYeol: This is not Ruffian! This is not Ruffian! This is not Ruffian! This is not Ruffian! This is not Ruffian! This is not Ruffian!

“Hey! I wouldn’t be serious if 5 million won wasn’t on the line, okay?”

DesirableGirl: So you’re admitting that you’ve been trolling on purpose until now?

“Top has its own sincerity, and jungle has its own sincerity.”

After getting a leash and taking the red buff, I checked the status of the enemy bot lane. They came late, and the support’s mana was depleted, which means the enemy jungler started blue and got a leash.

My blue buff isn’t in danger yet. I planned a full clear route, and around the time I was taking the raptors, Lee Sin was spotted on the ward near the enemy raptors. The time was 2 minutes 17 seconds.

“Lee Sin was spotted, but it’s too fast for a full clear, right? Since he used Q on red and flew in, it’s a 3-camp route of blue, gromp, and red. Lee Sin’s Q is strong, so jungling is fast, and it’s easier to take the single-target gromp, and gromp also restores health when killed, so he must have taken that.”

Economics101: Intelligent noona analyzing
-MorningRice: Is it a different person when she plays top??? She seemed to have no thoughts when she played Trynd ᄏᄏᄏ

“Hey, Trynd’s crit is based on probability. How can I calculate that? Am I supposed to be like AlphaGo and say, the win rate is 40 percent, so I’ll pass, this has a 67 percent win rate, so I’ll go for it?”

MorningRice: I don’t think that was the problem?

While managing the stream, I thought. It will take him about 2 minutes 35 seconds to finish eating red. At that time, I will have finished wolves and be level 3 with half the experience bar left, with blue and gromp remaining. I’ll be level 4 around 3 minutes 10 seconds when I finish taking blue and gromp.

In the top lane, our Sett and the enemy Camille are facing off in the middle of the lane, both with almost full health and at level 2.

In the mid lane, Ahri is pushing unilaterally. It’s natural since the opponent is Zed, a melee champion. But since Zed has a Doran’s Shield, there’s no significant damage. If you try to trade aggressively against that, you’ll take minion damage and lose. The two champions are level 2 now, but they’ll reach level 3 around 2 minutes 40 seconds.

When Zed reaches level 3, he can slow with his shadow for gank setup. Lee Sin will probably try to gank the pushed Zed lane rather than the ambiguous top lane.

But the ward that mid placed near the raptors at 1 minute 20 seconds lasts for 90 seconds, so it will provide vision until 2 minutes 50 seconds, allowing us to check that movement one more time.

As expected, at 2 minutes 40 seconds, the still-active raptor ward spotted Lee Sin approaching mid.

[02:42] ThrowUntilChallenger (Master Yi) pings TF SIXBLADE(Lee Sin)

[02:43] ThrowUntilChallenger (Master Yi) pings for assistance

[02:45] ThrowUntilChallenger (Master Yi): Lee Sin mid gank

Lee Sin was hiding in the bush next to mid, so he didn’t even see Ahri’s ward near the raptors expire. He didn’t realize that his movement had been exposed.

“Ahri is pretty smart. She’s shaking her
as if she’s going to get ganked, but not really. She baited Lee Sin. This means I took a full clear without any losses, right?”

-Economics101: Shaking her
?

-DesirableGirl: Ahri noona, hehe

It’s 3 minutes 10 seconds, and the scuttle crab will spawn in 5 seconds. We both have double buffs, but I’m level 4 and Lee Sin is level 3. Even if the early fight was 50/50, if I’m 1 level higher? It’s over.

I pinged for assistance near the scuttle crab and moved, attempting an early fight. Lee Sin realized that his team’s Zed was pushed in the lane, so Ahri would arrive first, and that he himself was 1 level lower than me, making it unreasonable to fight, so he ran away to his jungle.

“Okay, full clear and scuttle, cut. The opponent still has three camps left. This is practically a victory, right?”

What’s there to hide when we both know each other’s movements. I confidently crossed through mid lane, pretending to go for the scuttle crab, and then went deep into the enemy jungle and stole the wolves. Since Ahri was pushing the lane and I knew their jungle path was blue-gromp-red, I was sure that the wolves would be left. It’s not like our bot lane is losing.

If Lee Sin comes to the wolves after taking his stone crabs and raptors, he’ll be disappointed to see an empty camp. Imagining that scene made the corners of my mouth curl up.

“Two scuttle crabs after full clearing? If I were Lee Sin, I would have left the game. This is what you call a class difference, right?”

-Rurururu: Isn’t it just because your laners are all doing well?

“Even if the enemy gets a solo kill, it’s still the jungler’s fault, so even having no one like that is a blessing, but if I’m doing well, can’t you just say I’m doing well? That’s disappointing.”

Why do they have to be so
?

-JungleIsHell: Getting a solo kill and blaming the jungler? Are you perhaps introducing yourself?

“No, what I’m doing isn’t blaming the jungler, it’s really jungle diff, okay? There’s a situation and a story behind everything. I’m frustrated.”

-nadang: Is she a crazy
ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

I want to clear up the frustration, but I have to keep playing the game.

After recalling and buying items, I did another full clear and neatly reached level 6. It’s very good that I reached level 6 even before the second red buff spawned.

“A Master Yi who reached level 6 before the enemy jungler without any incidents. You can’t stop this.”

-JungleIsHell: How can a champion’s name be Master Yi ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

-nadang: Ruffian Can’t Be Stopped~

If Lee Sin couldn’t do anything in the early game and is even lower level than Master Yi, that game is over.

I, who had truly become an unstoppable Jax, rampaged through the game and even got a pentakill in the last teamfight.

<Pentakill!>

How long has it been since I heard that sound. Anyway, that message that makes you feel good started a fire in the stream chat.

LastLightOfNation: The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian! The ruler of the jungle, the human butcher, Ruffian!

-JungleIsHell: This is jungle? Then what have I been doing all this time?

-MorningRice: Ruffian! Ruffian! Ruffian! Ruffian!

DesirableGirl: Unnieeeee I’m dyiiiing

HawaiianPizzaLover: Insane

“Carry.”

But in the results screen, I didn’t receive a single commendation sticker.

The bot duo were sucking up to each other, and the top and mid were praising each other.

And then, that top laner suddenly criticized me.

KimchiButcher (Sett): Master Yi is such a kill stealer

“You
.”

I’m getting angry.

But jungle is originally such a lonely lane. It’s connected to everyone but understood by no one, a lonely and sad lane.

‘It’s fine as long as we won.’

Anyway, I was happy about the satisfying victory and the pentakill, when suddenly the chat started spreading strange rumors.

-MintChocoRejectorKimJeongYeol: But how do we know this isn’t account sharing? She doesn’t even have a cam?

-NamBongRe:
Yeah, what if her boyfriend is playing for her, we wouldn’t know, right?

-EunZan: That’s true ᄏᄏ Doesn’t she have a part-time job as a cam girl?

“Hey, how would I even know how to find an account sharer? It’s not like I could have predicted that such a big mission would suddenly be set. Stop making up ridiculous lies.”

Are those guys resident
from the art gallery?

I thought the chat was clean for someone who had a lot of them, but it turns out they were just waiting for an opportunity to tear me down.

-g254351: Turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam turn on the cam

RamenIsAlwaysShinRamyun: Now that I think about it, that’s true. How are we supposed to know if she’s just voicing and someone else is playing ᄏᄏ

That’s not true, that’s a
lie.

“I don’t even have a cam in the first place. How am I supposed to turn on something I don’t have? But you can tell by watching me play, right? It’s obviously me, right? I’ve been streaming like this the whole time.”

-JungleIsHell: Not pushing the inhibitor when it’s a free win and just backdooring, that’s definitely Ruffian

Me:
ᄏᄏ That’s the human butcher Ruffian alright~

MorningRice: It’s obviously her, stop the forced argument

There were people who shielded me, but,

-GrandmaKillerKimJeongYeol: How are we supposed to know if there’s no cam?

IAmFromRuriweb:
She got a mission, so she should provide some credibility

-NamBongRe: It’s not that hard to turn on a cam ᄏᄏ If you don’t have one, just buy one and turn it on ᄏ

There were many more
who were trying to force me to turn on the cam.

‘I should just ignore them.’

Are
like this every day? If I just ignore them, they’ll quiet down on their own. But,

[SilentAction donated a whopping 200,000 won!]

If you don’t have a cam, buy one with this

The chairman who set the mission gave the order. Turn on the cam.

“Wha, Chairman. 200,000 won. Uh.”

The internal conflict didn’t last long.

“I’ll buy one right away and turn on the cam starting tomorrow. But please let me proceed without the cam just for today. It’s late at night today.”

If the chairman orders it, I have to do it. This is a capitalist society. What if the chairman cancels the 5 million won mission because I don’t have a cam?

So I decided to turn on the cam.