Chapter 56 : The Return of Nayeon Queen

After the year-end tax settlement fan meeting, fans who had attended left reviews.

The most prominent place where reviews were posted was on Curry’s channel community, but reviews also appeared in internet broadcasts and communities related to LoL.

Normally, there would have been some hardcore community users who would have gotten upset about the overflowing reviews, but this time, it was an exception.

This time, ‘Flower Shop Owner’ had participated in Curry’s year-end tax settlement fan meeting for the first time.

The fact that ‘Flower Shop Owner’ was actually the streamer ‘Barcode’ became known, making it a huge topic.

Even those who didn’t know Curry or Barcode learned about this incident through posts like ‘Summary of the Curry Fan Meeting.’

A streamer as another streamer’s fan?

And it was Barcode, who had only recently started gaining attention, as the main character of the incident.

Most people who had been following either ‘Inbang’ or ‘LoL’ in any way came across this event through the community.

Because of this, Curry’s and Barcode’s YouTube channels skyrocketed in popularity.

Especially Barcode’s channel, which had 65,000 subscribers before, saw its numbers explode to 200,000 in just one day.

The first video on Barcode’s channel, which collected highlights and hot clips, surpassed 800,000 views.

The second video, a highlight from the stream with Curry, hit 1.5 million views.

The comment section was flooded, mostly with comments like “Streamer Barcode, turn on your stream!”

Barcode, who frequently appeared on Curry’s broadcasts, had these comments multiplying after the incident.

It was obvious that it seemed like Barcode wasn’t streaming because he was watching Curry’s broadcasts.

In fact, Barcode wasn’t streaming because he was watching Curry’s broadcasts.

“This is how the second in-house war ends. I feel like everyone showed skills that didn’t match their tiers, but I hope I’m just mistaken.”

[Hehehehehehe]

[Maybe they’re all ‘actors’?]

[Silver and Gold-less Silver-Gold in-house war hehehe]

[Out of four Golds, three are definitely actors]

[The team that’s bad at the game is definitely them]

[It wasn’t an in-house war, it was find the actors hehehe]

While watching Curry’s broadcast, I started preparing.

I opened the custom game room list and got ready to search at any time.

“Sigh… This feels just like last year. I’m a bit disheartened after thoroughly checking my record.”

[Got fooled last year, got fooled again this year, sigh hehehe]

[It’s like watching a part-time worker get fooled by a fake ID]

[Even a three-year part-timer wouldn’t fall for that]

[Hahahaha]

[It’s dizzying]

The issues of proxies or alternative accounts had always come up in previous years.

Of course, back then, the scale of the broadcast wasn’t as large as it is now, so it was more or less implicitly overlooked. However, in the recent Silver-Gold rank internal battle, more than half of the 10 participants showed skills that didn’t match the respective ranks.

As the influx of new viewers increased, more malicious users, who weren’t present before, appeared, and as a result, this situation arose.

“Still, it was an intense match, so I’ll let it slide.”

[If we start nitpicking now, it’ll never end.]

[This is the internal battle in Curry’s stream – the hopeless edition.]

[There was never any hope to begin with.]

[Everyone acted well, so it was fun to watch.]

[The actors did their best, so I’ll forgive them.]

[Looks like ‘that guy’ is about to show up.]

Curry decided not to address the issue and moved on to the next internal battle.

This time, it was an internal battle in the Platinum and Diamond ranks, and Curry, who had been a Master, had now reached Diamond and was participating directly.

Curry, while setting up the private room, quietly said,

“The password is 3891. Come on in!”

After typing the room title into the search bar, as soon as the private room was created, I pressed enter to search for the room. A single room with a password appeared, and I double-clicked on the mouse I had already moved and entered the password.

I typed faster than ever before, and successfully entered the custom room.

I was the first one to enter, and within less than a second, the spots in the room filled up quickly.

I glanced around and recognized a few familiar nicknames. They were likely other snipers like me.

“Sigh… this is crazy…”

As soon as Curry saw the nickname ‘NaYeonQueen’ on the broadcast screen, she let out a sigh.

She knew that ‘NaYeonQueen’ and ‘Barcode’ were the same person, so it must have been even more confusing for her.

[Is this guy still alive?]

[NaYeonQueen! NaYeonQueen! NaYeonQueen! NaYeonQueen!]

[The longest-running trash from the entrance forum.]

[Can someone kick out the sniper please?]

[Barcode is a h* inferior version. ᄅᄋ]

[Haven’t seen this guy in a while, looks like he was waiting for this moment.]

[Where’s Barcode’s girl? I miss her…]

[Look at the cold atmosphere.]

It seemed like Barcode had been active recently, and the reactions in the chat weren’t great.

In fact, there were a lot of viewers who didn’t even know who ‘NaYeonQueen’ was.

Now, even the trolls from Yellow City had started to ignore her, a long-time washed-up figure.

That was the current image of NaYeonQueen.

“Sigh… Well, NaYeon is still one of my viewers. I won’t kick her out just yet…”

Curry trailed off at the end of her sentence, then, after some thought, she continued slowly.

“…But still, we’re all here to enjoy the internal battle, so let’s keep things civil, okay?”

[NaYeonQueen didn’t type anything with ‘Why?’ in the chat.]

[Looks like she’s lost her form since she’s the longest-retired.]

[Clearly actors, do you think they’d follow the rules? ᄏᄏ]

[Balancing on the line, absolutely possible.]

If they hadn’t mistaken me for Barcode, it would have been perfectly normal for me to have been kicked out by Curry already, considering her personality.

Since we were supposed to do a real-life collaboration before the new season started, it seemed like Curry was too scared to kick me out.

If she had kicked me out, I was planning to drop all niceties and really lay into her during the real-life collaboration.

So, despite the grim (for Curry) situation, the internal battle began.

JiHye was now outside her house.

It wasn’t like she had gone out freely; she had gone to a nearby supermarket since her food supplies had run out.

Lately, JiHye had been watching a lot of cooking videos on YouTube and had gotten inspired to make a dish. The Hungarian traditional soup, goulash, was a dish she had always wanted to try.

Since she loved soup, it felt like a dream come true. Of course, since it was an exotic dish, she had already gotten NaYeon’s permission before buying the ingredients.

With the ingredients she had bought from the supermarket packed into her basket, she was on her way home.

As JiHye neared her house, she noticed an unfamiliar black car around the residential area.

Normally, cars didn’t pass through this area much.

What stood out even more was the suspicious figure sitting inside the car.

A person wearing a black hoodie and a black mask.

There was someone with a clearly suspicious vibe lingering around the house?

Thinking she might be mistaken or seeing things, JiHye decided to hide for a while and observe the black car.

“…”

Her arm holding the shopping basket began to feel numb after a while.

When she checked the time, she realized it had already been 30 minutes.

The car had been parked in a no-parking zone for 30 minutes?

There was clearly some purpose behind it, and that purpose didn’t seem to be good.

Still, it was a delicate situation where calling the police seemed questionable.

The person hadn’t done anything yet, and calling the cops in this situation might cause more harm than good.

At the very least, she decided to tell NaYeon unnie first. With that in mind, JiHye carefully started walking.

The game had started.

I wasn’t in mid lane but jungle, and it wasn’t because I’d been forced into another position.

All the team members wanted NaYeonQueen to play mid, but I actually opposed the idea of her going mid.

One of the team members was a main mid laner, and on top of that, I had practiced a jungle champion specifically to take down Curry.

The jungle champion I picked was Evelynn.

Here is the translation of the text you provided:

With a quick gank, I secured a triple kill and returned home.

Now, all that was left was hunting Curry’s Jayce.

– “I think Evelynn’s over in top…”

“Phfft!”

At the faint sound of Curry muttering to herself, I couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

I couldn’t help but imagine Curry shadowboxing by herself, and it made me smile.

It was a different feeling compared to when I tormented Curry as Barcode.

But it wasn’t an unpleasant feeling at all. In fact, it was even more thrilling than before.

That’s because Curry now knew the true identity of ‘NaYeonQueen’.

Just thinking about how Curry would react every time I killed her made me giddy.

I was already so excited and happy that it almost drove me crazy.

I ate the recently spawned red buff and headed straight to the top lane.