How Dare You Attack My Support! Chapter 7

How Dare You Attack My Support! ch7

Translator: Jhinny

Proofreader: Marcia

Editor: Ayszhang

 chapter 7

(Reminder: To read the translator's notes, hover your cursor over the words underlined with dots.)\n

Chapter 7\n

Elegant Game

Esports Club, also known as EG, owns a strong and experienced LoL

team that has entered the World Championship five times, thrice

claiming the championship and twice knocked out during the

semi-finals.\nIn the current

line-up, besides the King of Mid Lane, Gu Zixing (Game ID: Siler) who

is feared by his opponents in the World Championship, both the

jungler Qi Chen (Game ID: Deep) and support Yao Le (Game ID:

Listener) are also main pillars of the team. Together, they have made

outstanding achievements in the Championship for the club.\nGu Zixing and Qi

Chen were both part of the line-up for the three Championship titles,

while Yao Le was previously the renowned mid laner of TR, a team that

is equally matched with EG. But for unknown reasons, he gave up his

role at TR and willingly took up the role of support and vice-captain

at EG two years ago during the summer split, aiding EG in clinching

the Championship titles.\nMany have

speculated that Yao Le was completely thrashed by Siler in the mid

lane, which is why he stooped to take up the support position in EG.

This made it seem as though he would rather be scrubbing the floors

on a deluxe cruise than the captain of a (sinking) sail boat, but it

was a story that many people believed.\nAfterwards, Yao

Le was under criticism by the media and TR fans for a very long time.

Fortunately, he is one with great mental fortitude and did not let

these rumours affect his performance. In fact, it drove him to become

an even better player, bringing EG an overwhelming victory in all

three lanes over TR during a regular season game.\nBut a hero does

not wallow in his past glories. EG started going downhill in the past

few matches with the mid laner Gu Zixing making multiple outrageous

mistakes in games.\nThis was a red

alert for EG as they prepare for the World Championship.\nGu Zixing wears

his jacket and slowly walks to the meeting room with Qi Chen. Gu

Zixing walks in front, with Qi Chen frowning behind him.\n“Zixing.”\n“Hm?”\n“What’s wrong

today?”\n“What do you

mean?”\n“Everything was

all right during practice. Why the slip up during the match?”\nGu Zixing turns

around, looks at Qi Chen and says, “Why is it normal for other pro

players to make mistakes on stage, but not me?”\n“Well,

because…” you’re Gu Zixing. Qi Chen wanted to blurt that

out but decided against it after giving it some thought.\nQi Chen knows

that Gu Zixing may look calm on the outside and can even casually

play a ranked game after losing a match, but he is actually more

upset and stressed out than anyone else when they lose.\nEG has not been

performing and have fallen from first place to second in the league.

Gu Zixing has even lost some weight due to all the pressure. But he

has kept mum about it and has been silently shouldering the immense

pressure from the club, the public and the fans. Gu Zixing might not

have even said a single word about the game, if not for the close

friendship between him and Qi Chen.\nBecause he is Gu

Zixing, he cannot make any mistakes.\nAnd everyone

seems to believe this ridiculous statement.\n“Also,” Qi

Chen changes the topic, “When you speak to the manager about

that... don’t get too agitated if they do not approve it.”\n“I won’t.”

Gu Zixing continues walking and says, “Someone else will be the

agitated one.”\nBoth of them walk

into the meeting room and see Manager Ren, Coach Chen, three other

team members and two substitute players watching the replay of

today’s match. The coach, with a poker face, stares at Gu Zixing

and Qi Chen entering the room.\nThe screen is

replaying the third team fight of this afternoon’s match, the

particular one that brought the team to a complete defeat.\nIn the video,

Siler was playing Orianna where he moved away to dodge a skill from

the enemy’s ADC. But the enemy’s top laner appeared from behind

and stunned Orianna. Yao Le, the allied support who was playing

Janna, wanted to give Orianna a shield but was blocked by a wall

created by .\nEG Siler on the

red side, slain.\nThe high damage

dealing champion, Orianna, died carelessly as the first kill in this

team fight. Losing a carry prompted EG to retreat and defend the

turret, but the enemy’s jungler managed to catch EG’s ADC Tang

Xuan.\n“Double

Kill!”\nIt was too late

for the allied support, Janna, to move up and save the ADC. But the

champion took a step towards the ADC in a state of panic, which gave

the enemy support, Rakan, a chance to knock her up. As both of EG’s

carries have already been erased from the fight, the enemy’s ADC

Caitlyn did not hesitate to flash in and kill Janna with a snipe.\nEG’s top laner

and jungler, with the more mobile champions, disappeared from the

enemy’s vision and did not turn back.\nThis team fight

ended with 0:3, costing EG the advantage that they should have gotten

in the early game.\nCoach Chen is

boiling with rage, while the manager pulls a long face.\nCoach Chen’s

name is Chen Shuo. Though a coach, he is only at his early thirties

and was a pro player himself before retiring to be a full-time coach.

He is extremely experienced in the field but known for being

short-tempered.\nSilence shrouds

the meeting room as Coach Chen rewinds the video to the start of the

team fight. Gritting his teeth tightly, he taps hard at Orianna on

the screen with his finger, before forcing out a sentence, “What

kind of shitty positioning is this!”\nBefore Gu Zixing

could answer, Yao Le takes over the conversation.\n“It was my

mistake, the team fight happened too fast, I wasn’t looking at the

carry’s position.”\n“Don’t be too

eager to take the rap!” Coach Chen slaps the desk angrily and

violently points at a few locations in the jungle. “Look, look,

look! See for yourselves! Not only were there no wards in the enemy’s

jungle, your own jungle is pitch-dark! Look at how the enemy team was

doing their vision work!”\nCoach Chen

switches the perspective of the replay swiftly as he speaks, which

displays the enemy’s view. It shows that a few critical locations

of the jungle are “brightly-lit” with wards.\n“Tell me, how

can a blind win a fight against another with normal vision! How do

you expect to have an edge in the late game when you lose all your

jungle camps in the early game!” Coach Chen turns around and looks

at Qi Chen. “And you!”\n“Yes sir.” Qi

Chen lowers his head, displaying total submission.\n“Remind the

support to ward the jungle if he doesn’t!” Coach Chen points at

the screen and continues, “Count for yourself, how many of your

jungle camps have been stolen!”\n“Yes sir, I’ll

be sure to make a count,” Qi Chen nods quickly. “But Yao Le is

the vice-captain, while I…”\n“Vice-captain,

big deal? Vice-captains don’t have to place wards?! Does it mean

the captain can just AFK in the base?!” Coach Chen shifts to look

at Gu Zixing and shouts, “Huh?”\nTeam captain Gu

Zixing, who is falling asleep, jerks up straight immediately when

Coach Chen yells. He hurriedly waves his hand, “No no, of course

not.”\n“But I’d

rather you’ve gone AFK than pull this shit!”\nQi Chen finds it

hard to contain his laughter.\n“What the hell

are you laughing at? Have you finished counting how many jungle camps

you have lost?” The Coach stares at Qi Chen and says, “One

hundred push-ups for losing one jungle creep, two hundred for one

dragon!” He pauses and adds, “Five hundred push-ups for one

!”\n“But they stole two Barons…...\n                                                                                                                        \nQiao Yanzhou is

sitting in front of his computer, feeling a little unsettled seeing

that the name of “ThoseStolenBlueBuffs” darkens.\nHe’s unsure

why, but he has a very strong feeling about this.\nMaybe this ID

will never turn green again…\nAlthough Qiao

Yanzhou did not ask about his identity, eventually he is certain that

person must be quite respectable in the Esports field, even if he is

not Siler.\nQiao Yanzhou gets

up and pours water into a bowl of instant noodles before continuing

to queue for another ranked game.\nLooking at the

time, Qiao Yanzhou thinks he might stream another three to four hours

so that he can reduce the number of streaming hours in the

next few days.\nLet’s try

playing in the mid lane next. Qiao Yanzhou rubs his hands,

feeling good about himself after winning two games.\nAfter 60 seconds,

the system finds a match and grants his wish to be the mid laner.\nQiao Yanzhou

hovers his cursor over Orianna yet locks in Annie, the dark child.\nAs the game loads

up, Qiao Yanzhou gobbles two mouthsful of noodles before he enters

the game.\n“Welcome to

the Summoners’ Rift!”\n❖❖❖\nAuthor’s notes:\nDragon: There are

different types of dragons (or drake), including Infernal Drake,

Mountain Drake, Cloud Drake, Ocean Drake and Elder Drake. One type of

dragon will spawn at different times throughout the game. Killing

different types of dragons gives different boost to the team, which I

will be explaining in the story.\nBaron: A.K.A

Baron Nashor. It is extremely difficult to kill but gives very

powerful boosts to the team that slays it. A Baron can usually

conclude the game, which is why team fights break out at the Baron’s

pit as they contest for it. However, the player loses the Baron buff

once he dies.\n\nChapter 8