1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 157

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 7 Episode 10

10. Under the Mask (1)

After the online qualifiers were over, Hoya was able to leave her field after gaining the right to participate in her offline qualifiers.

And Hoya had to be called by YooA without even feeling the joy of participating in her offline qualifier.

“Hoya, you bastard! He killed me!”

As he headed towards the place where the infant whispered, he hid behind the back of Hoya, who had just arrived, and pointed his finger at Doban in front of him.

It felt like a child telling his father that his brother had bullied him.

‘Dad, this is my brother! This guy tortured me! Same thing.’

“I couldn’t help it.”

“I can’t help it! I could have let you go, you hard bastard!”

“Ummm…, can’t you tell me what’s going on? I can’t be part of the story.”

As Hoya spit out the words in embarrassment, the infant spoke in an exasperated voice.

“No, well, the doban!”

From what I heard, it seems that the two were moved to the same field in the online qualifier.

And when less than 30 minutes passed, the two of them faced each other, and the Doban persistently pursued and defeated him, who was trying to knock down the others first by separating from each other.

“Isn’t that too much! Thanks to you, I didn’t even get a proper reward!”

“I’m sorry about that.”

“It’s not something that can be passed on with such an apology, heuk heuk heuk.”

The infant covered his eyes with both hands and made an exaggerated cry.

It was clearly visible that the tears were intentional or fake tears.

“……”

“……”

“…Chit, that’s not funny.”

When Doban and Hoya didn’t respond, Yooa took her hands off his face and smiled brightly.

It felt like a dream that he had just been angry at the infant’s completely upside down attitude.

“Well, let’s pretend it didn’t happen just before. Congratulations to both of you on passing the online qualifiers.”

“thanks.”

“I’m not very lucky with the organization, so it’s like this.”

The story of the three naturally continued with the topic of offline qualifiers.

There was a story about the two offline qualifiers that YooA and Doban experienced.

What followed was the story of Doban and YooA receiving love calls from Doban and YooA to participate in the team event due to the changed rules from this year.

Of course, neither of them had any interest in them, so I declined them because they didn’t fit their personalities.

Naturally, there was a story that Hoya was recommended to.

And that soon led to a story about Erieman.

“If it’s a copy-gil, then is he the guild master of the guild he is in? He’s Korean. If that’s the case, then of course he’s on that team.”

“Yeah, there was.””As expected… Well, don’t think badly of it. That person doesn’t know the relationship between you and him.”

“I know.”

Hoya smiled at the infant’s words and nodded her head.

“And don’t fall for that guy!”

“OK got it.”

“Or should we go to the qualifiers altogether?”

“Yeah, okay…, huh?”

Hoya stopped the positive words he had unintentionally uttered, closed his eyes and made eye contact with the infant.

“What did you just say?”

“I’m going to Korea to watch your qualifying match.”

“…Is that okay?”

“What about it anyway. I’m already finished and Doban still has qualifiers left, but the US qualifiers start and end earlier than the Korean qualifiers, so it’s enough to watch the qualifiers and move on? Don’t you mind, Doban?”

“I do not care.”

Hoya smiled a little as she felt that she was thinking of her from the words of the infant.

The anger they showed when they first told the two of them about their relationship with Lee Dae-hyun is not a lie.

“How about it? Hoya, if you say, ‘I can’t stand it because I’m so nervous, please come see me~.’

“Yes, yes. I’m so nervous I can’t stand it, so please come see me, Yooa-sama, Dovan-sama.”

“If you say that, let us go specially!”

* * *

A few days later, the Goyang Gymnasium located in Gyeonggi-do was crowded with spectators who had come to watch the qualifiers for the 3rd Hero Daejeon.

And between them were a mixture of infants and dobans.

“You disrespectful bastard, you don’t even come to meet me!”

“You’ve been to the airport. And by now, you’re probably having a pre-interview inside.”

“Ah, I can’t say anything because I say that.”

Currently, all of the people gathered at the Goyang Gymnasium are Initium players or those who have a great interest in Initium, both personally and professionally.

Even though such people were wearing hats and masks, there was no way they could not recognize Doban’s unusual physique and familiar two-shots.

Rather, because of the hats and masks they wore to cover their faces, the number of people recognizing them was increasing.

“Are those two people over there, Doban and a toddler?”

“Where? Huh! I think that’s true. Shall I go and ask for an autograph?”

“Do you speak English?”

“No, but still, ‘Give Me Sign!’

“……Eh, I shouldn’t talk.”

However, because Doban’s blunt personality was very famous, no one approached them directly.

He just glanced around and looked around.

Still, there are always exceptions.

“Excuse me, do you have a minute?”

A man spoke to them in slightly poor English.

He was wearing a pure white shirt with no visible stains and black suit pants, and was wearing black sneakers as if he was going around a lot, and was impressed with the laptop bag and the camera hanging around his neck.

“who……?”

“Ah, sorry. I should have introduced myself first, but I forgot. This is who I am.”

The man opened a small pocket on his laptop bag, looked inside for a moment, then pulled out a small piece of paper that fits in the palm of his hand and handed it to the infant.

It looked like a business card, but the infant could not read it.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t read Korean.”

“Yeah? Wait a minute, give me your business card again… ah!”

At the words of the infant, the man took the business card back, checked it, apologized, and took out the business card with small English written on it from his pocket.

“I’m sorry. I gave you a bad business card. Again, this is me.”

The business card had his name, the title of a journalist, and the name of the press company he was affiliated with.

“News Sunday’s Kim… Reporter Hiban?”

“Yes, I’m Heeban Kim, a reporter from News Sunday. If it’s not rude, may I ask you a few questions? Oh, and pictures.”

Kim Hee-ban smiled at Do-ban and Yoo-a and looked up at the camera.

* * *

“Thank you for your pre-interview.”

“Thank you. Please edit.”

“Ah~, I have to send it out right before the match, so I just cut it, and there’s nothing to call it editing. Anyway, don’t worry.”

Hyeyoung Jang, one of the staff members of the 3rd Hero Daejeon Korea Offline Qualifier, greeted the contestants with a bright smile until they left the interview room after completing the interview.

Kick-, tick.

“Uh-huh, I’m going to die.”

After the interviewee closed the door and disappeared completely from her eyes, Hye-Young Jang flopped into her chair and let out her pain.

Then, Choi Young-jin, who was filming with her camera, handed him a bottle of bottled water.

Jang Hye-young, who was handed her bottled water, opened the lid without any hesitation and poured the water directly into her mouth.

“Gulp, gulp. It’s big! I think I’m going to buy some now!”

“You work hard, Hyeyoung.”

“I mean. Again, it’s unreasonable to get 32 ​​interviews in three hours. I only have three questions, but is this what humans do?”

“Yes, yes. I understand your heart.”

“Haha…… Oppa, who is left now?”

“Let’s see, there’s only one left now. Seon Hoyoung.”

“Seon Hoyoung? ……Ah.”

When Hye-young Jang checked the list Choi Young-jin was holding at the first name she had heard, the nickname written next to her real name caught her eye.

[ Seon Hoyoung (Hoya)]

“Is it because the main character appears late?”

“What did you just say?”

“it’s nothing.”

The player who receives the most attention in the current Hero Battle for various reasons.

Among the various reasons, what people were most curious about was his face covered with a mask.He would probably appear bare-faced, as he had never heard that permission had been granted to cover his face from above.

‘Honestly, if it was a face worth showing, the masked figure would have been revealed at least once.’

However, Jang Hye-young did not have high expectations for it.

Rather, she was the kind that looked at Hoya with a slightly twisted gaze.

“By the way, it’s late. It’s 40 minutes before the start of the competition.”

“It’s not late. Don’t frown too much.”

“It won’t take time to edit, though. It’s polite to come quickly!”

“It’s just an excuse and you just want to get some rest.”

“Honestly, there’s a little bit of that.”

smart-.

As Jang Hye-young was voicing her dissatisfaction, someone knocked on the door of her interview room.

“It’s open, so come in.”

“Excuse me.”

It was the first handsome man he had ever seen when he opened the door and showed his face.

It was also Jang Hye-young’s favorite face, so when she saw the man’s face, she felt the fatigue she had accumulated from interviewing her players fly away in an instant.

‘Wow…, was there such a handsome man among our staff?’

Jang Hye-young considered him to be one of her staff members.

But she had to change her mind when she saw that the badge strap hanging from his neck was blue for players, not yellow for staff.

“who are you……?”

“Hello, my name is Seon Hoyoung.”

“Hoya?!”

Jang Hye-young withdrew her thoughts that she had previously had on her own.

She wasn’t a face to show off, but rather the opposite.

“Really handsome…”

“Yes?”

“Oh, it’s nothing. Hmm, are you here for the pre-interview? You can sit in the chair in front of the camera over there.”

She wanted to get a number right now, but Jang Hye-young was a woman who knew how to distinguish between private and public affairs.

As Hoyoung sat looking at the camera, she sat down on a chair prepared by the camera.

Her gaze on Ho-young was shining brightly.

Her eyes were not for work, but with sincerity.

“It’s a short video right before your turn in the round of 32, so you don’t have to be too nervous. If you get to the round of 16, you’ll be filming one more time.”

“all right.”

“Then it’s a courtesy question, but is there any reason or reason for participating in the Hero Battle? Because you want a reward, you want to win, etc., it’s okay to answer lightly, so you don’t have to think too deeply about it.”

“Um, … I joined because I wanted to be free from the past. It’s not good for me or my family to keep being tied to the past.”

“Yes?”

“Should I tell you why?”

“No. It’s a philosophical answer, so it’s meaningful because it’s meaningful. I’m sure there will be some reactions.”

Jang Hye-young scribbled something about her on the paper she was holding, and she continued to ask questions.