Chapter 5 : Savior of the Canyon

The reason I’ve always been on edge is because I’m easily scared.

A weak dog barks more.

In an unfamiliar environment, a small and young dog experiences much more stress than a large dog.

This is because beings that a large dog could easily dismiss pose a threat to the life of a small dog.

My heart was already in tatters.

It’s been bitten so many times, I don’t want to be poked anymore.

So, I bite first.

Do I bite to chase others away and protect my heart?

No.

I know that it won’t be protected that way. I know it’s irreversible. I know very well that I’m already broken.

The reason I bite others first is not to protect my heart, but to accept it.

When I offered my goodwill to others, I couldn’t bear it when it came back as malice.

So, if I offer malice instead of goodwill from the beginning, I can endure it even if malice comes back. That’s only natural.

So, that’s why.

Not to avoid being hated, but to become someone who deserves to be hated, I bit others.

It was a little comforting, and it was lethargic to the bone.

I gave up trying not to be hated by others, trying to be loved, and settled down.

I sat down on a thorny hill that was sure to keep hurting me, and decided to lie to myself that at least my legs wouldn’t hurt because I didn’t have to walk anymore.

Actually, I didn’t want to sit on a thorny hill like that either.

But you see. I don’t have the strength to take another step.

Help me.

Even if I scream, there’s no one to save me.

I know there is no god to help me.

As always, there is no salvation.

When I started streaming, I decided to reveal my true nature without hesitation.

Old habits die hard, so how can I hide who I am?

Fortunately, the internet streaming world is tolerant of people with character flaws.

To be precise, it tends to be tolerant of those who reveal their
upfront.

If you create a good and gentle image at the beginning and your past is revealed, you’re going down.

You get hit with additional punishment for being
.

I know very well that I can’t hide my true nature, so I decided to go all out from the beginning.

“Oh, I’ll really carry this time.”

-WhyNot?: As the gatekeeper guarding the entrance to the high heavens of Diamond, it is very reassuring to hear that you will come down to the Silver ranks and carry.

-mumu3333: Definitely boosted

-JejuBreadDept: Fighting!

I got another queue, picked Tryndamere again, and went top. To prevent another unfortunate incident of being afk next to the tower, I focused on the time and minion movement this time.

“Now, theoretically, Tryndamere can solo kill any champion in the top lane.”

That is, if you push the lane, stack 40% crit, and get lucky with crits.

“So that Teemo is my prey.”

He must have picked that trash champion with the sole intention of
me off, but no Silver local can stop my God Tryndamere.

“Argh! Blind!”

However, it was true that the blind, which nullifies Tryndamere’s actual main skill, the auto-attack, was difficult to deal with.

After a long struggle, I managed to get a solo kill on the overly cautious guy and was about to go home when I heard a message I didn’t like.

<An ally is on a killing spree!>

It was the sound of our jungler Udyr sweeping up the enemies.

“Why are you on a killing spree? I’m supposed to be carrying.”

-mumu3333: Now she’s
even when carried

-PigeonPigeon: A professional bus rider?

“No, what’s the point of a free win in Silver? It’s only meaningful if I carry.”

HawaiianPizzaLover: Her mindset is extraordinary

HawaiianPizzaLover: This one is ‘real’

-DesirableGirl: How can you say that on stream ᄏᄏᄏ

-WhyNot?: I have received your sincerity well, Teacher. I respect you.

This wasn’t the sound I wanted. An enemy is on a killing spree! An enemy is unstoppable! I need the team to be in a crisis so I can carry, right? Like 5v1, bang bang bang! Huh?

“Die a little!”

I desperately prayed for mid and bot to fail and kept watching them, but every time I looked, our team was sweeping up all the kills. The kill score was already 19 to 3.

A hero can only be born in troubled times. If there’s no crisis, there’s nothing to overcome. You can’t create a crisis to overcome it, can you?

‘Wait a minute.’

It might not be possible in reality, but in LoL, you can create a crisis and overcome it.

I went down to mid, lured our mid laner into a forced dive.

Pretending to tank the tower, I survived using the ultimate’s temporary invincibility, and the mid laner, who got caught by CC instead, died.

<Shutdown!>

Alright. I stopped the mid laner’s kill streak, and after inducing a dragon fight, I pretended to go for the enemy ADC and then slipped away to farm bot CS.

Thanks to that, the 3v5 teamfight was a crushing defeat, and the dragon went to the enemy.

[16:33] VERYHEARD (Jinx): Hey Trynd

[16:36] VERYHEARD (Jinx): Where did you go during the teamfight?

[16:42] ThrowUntilChallenger (Tryndamere): Split

[16:50] ThrowUntilChallenger (Tryndamere): Rest go mid

[16:57] VERYHEARD (Jinx): Rest go mid my
[17:02] VERYHEARD (Jinx): We were in a teamfight you
[17:10] ThrowUntilChallenger (Tryndamere): Report for verbal abuse, gl

[17:19] VERYHEARD (Jinx): I won’t get banned

[17:20] VERYHEARD (Jinx): ᄏ

[17:23] VERYHEARD (Jinx): Do it

[17:30] ThrowUntilChallenger (Tryndamere): It’s not ‘do it’, it’s ‘do it or not’.

[17:37] ThrowUntilChallenger (Tryndamere): Please pay attention to your spelling.

[17:41] VERYHEARD (Jinx):
-WhyNot?: You’re really creatively ruining the team. I truly respect you, Teacher.

-JungleIsHell: Forbes’ #1 streamer who plays games just to chat

-nadang: Does the bomb collar around your neck explode if you don’t fight with your teammates?

HawaiianPizzaLover: She’s really a
The game gradually tilted in favor of the enemy team, and discord began to arise among the allies! And even the mid laner went afk! This is what a low elo game should be like!

“The stage is set. Only the protagonist’s appearance remains. Hero! Appear!”

I shouted a splendid line and started pushing bot. Trynd is a split pusher after all.

Three enemies came to stop me. In this case, I should usually tell them to take Baron and fall back. But that wouldn’t be cool, would it?

“Are you ready? Tryn? Of course! Damere!”

Right now, Tryndamere and I are one. I dodge Thresh’s grab with Flash and immediately charge with Spinning Slash, bursting Ashe’s head.

Ashe tries to use her ultimate to survive, but no chance, I instantly react with Cleanse, which I took to counter Teemo!

Surprised by that pro-level reaction, the enemy jungler Skarner uses his ultimate.

But maybe because they’re Silver, they didn’t check, but I already have a Quicksilver Sash in my inventory!

Again, I break free from the CC in 0.1 seconds and burst Ashe’s head.

Then I immediately start hitting Skarner, and when it’s time for me to die, I use my ultimate for invincibility.

I chase after the fleeing enemies.

Thresh tries to push me away with his flay, but I use Spinning Slash diagonally to dodge it, since the cooldown is already back thanks to consecutive critical hits, and then I use my mythic item, Gale Force, to close the distance to the desperately fleeing Skarner.

Spinning Slash is a decent mobility skill, but since Tryndamere is ultimately a melee champion, the more mobility, the better. That’s why I went with Navori to reduce the cooldown of Spinning Slash and Gale Force to have an extra dash.

In the end, Skarner’s head also bursts, and the lone Thresh is just a support and can’t put up any resistance.

“!”

It was a total highlight reel. I nodded, admiring my own clean play.

mumu3333 The opponents are so bad, it’s Silver after all

-WhyNot?: The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian!

-JejuBreadDept: Wow

-LastLightOfNation: The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger! The savior of Summoner’s Rift, ThrowUntilChallenger!

-JungleIsHell: She’s our Diamond alright!

HawaiianPizzaLover: Someone’s proud of smurfing in Silver ᄏᄏᄏ

“You don’t have to be too embarrassed. It’s only natural to admire the stars. Yes. Just now, I was like a shining star…”

-WhyNot?: The difficulty is too high, Teacher.

-nadang: Variation on a theme

While destroying the inhibitor, my team took Baron and got the buff. With the purple-empowered minions, I destroyed the Nexus.

“Carry.”

-WhyNot?: The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian!

-Economics101: All kill

“I hear it. The cheers of the viewers praising me. I hear it loud and clear!”

-DesirableGirl: You’re hallucinating

-nadang: I didn’t cheer?

I felt like I had a really clean play for the first time in a while, so I downloaded the replay, turned on the VOD, and rewatched the scene where I made the 3v1 highlight.

-PigeonPigeon: This is so
cringe

LastLightOfNation:
cringe?

-WhyNot?: The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian! The lofty gatekeeper of the high heavens of Diamond, Ruffian!

“More, more, cheer more!”

-mumu3333: How long are you going to
about doing well once in Silver?

“Hey, I’m someone who carries in Diamond too. I just got suspended for no reason.”

-PigeonPigeon: Getting suspended is something to brag about ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ

-mumu3333: Someone who carries in Diamond (Diamond 4 0LP)

“There’s a story behind my LP, okay!”

While I was fully enjoying the euphoria that comes after a carry, a very noticeable chat message popped up.

JejuBreadDept: Do you have an email I can contact?

JejuBreadDept: I have something to give you

“You have something to give me?”

LastLightOfNation: Someone’s getting an email through the internet

-WhyNot?: Please contact the manager for sponsorship proposals.

-PigeonPigeon: Is he trying to send a
pic?

What could he give me through email? A gifticon?

JejuBreadDept: I drew a stream thumbnail

JejuBreadDept: Use it if you like it

“A thumbnail?”

The identity of a vtuber? The avatar?

I can’t pass this up. I immediately gave him my email address.