Volume 1 - CH 37

Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 1: The Storm is Coming

Chapter 37

The quarter final match was much more vicious than she had anticipated.

She was on edge when she saw Xiaomi in close combat. On the other hand, Slide and Inin were isolating and double teaming the enemy.  How to describe it?  Right, insidious was an apt description. They had not only accomplished Ai Qing’s goal to “Let RAP remember SP from this battleground”, they even turned the match into an unforgettable performance in this tournament.

These five players could easily end the game, but instead they tormented the enemy, hunting them, using the slowest method possible to chip the enemy’s health down.

It was simply……

A very slow, painful death……

Ai Qing couldn’t help but chuckle.  These guys sought vengeance for the smallest slight.

Seriously speaking, the grudge between SP and RAP had nothing to do with them.  Of course, it had nothing to do with her either.  She had joined SP only a year ago and shady competition had happened almost  three years ago.

Regardless, she was a well qualified manager.  The way she stirred up the morale of the team, she was really ….. even she admired herself.

The four teams stood on the stage after the quarter final.  When they lined up to take a group picture, Inin was so excited that he started to cry......Therefore, after taking the group picture, SP’s A team created a strange scene:

Inin kept wiping his eyes with his sleeves.  All probably thought it was too shameful, so he lifted his foot trying to kick Inin’s butt.  Fortunately, Slide was quick enough to pull Inin into his arms.  He smiled with Following at each side of Inin teasing him. Xiaomi, the softest hearted of all, stood behind all four and kept sighing and shaking his head……

“Come on.  Wipe it clean quickly, don’t use your sleeves.”  Ai Qing pulled out the tissues from her backpack and passed it to Inin when he walked down the stage.

“Thank you……”  Inne, nose red, took the tissues.

The young boy didn’t feel embarrassed, rather she was the one who felt embarrassed.

“Don’t cry.  Don’t cry.”  Ai Qing touched Inin’s hair.  But she still couldn’t stop herself from laughing, so she found an excuse and ran away, “Let me get some drinks for you.”

The drinks here were free but the area was only open to the players.

Ai Qing stood in front of an array of ice boxes.  She pondered whether to get some coke or some banana milk, a special Korean product.

Someone far away was calling her name.

She looked over and found it was the K&K players who had just qualified for the semi finals.  It was 97 calling for her loudly.  She took the basket and filled it with a pile of banana milk, then she walked straight over.  She found the atmosphere at the table a bit weird.

They didn’t show any excitement from winning at all.

Grunt lowered his head, wiping his glasses with a white paper towel lightly.  It looked like he was not in good mood.  Dt saw Ai Qing come over and stretched out one hand to take the basket of drinks from her.  He put the basket down besides his foot for the time being.  The remaining two players, affected by the mood of their teammates, were hardly in a joking mood.  They just drank water by themselves, silently.