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Sweet Radish flinched slightly. Only he knew he'd flinched. The viewers had no idea, but he flinched plenty on the inside. He'd seen something that struck him.

"This is... a completely different game from before."

Orange King's strategic approach had changed entirely.

Sweet Potato, next to him, said, "Isn't that just because he got demolished earlier?"

Thwack!

Sweet Radish kicked Sweet Potato in the rear.

"Come on! You gaming illiterate! What kind of person revises their strategy over just one 9th place finish?!"

— lmaooooooooooo

— LOL

— SweetPotato still hasn't paid off that debt lmaooo

— The butt kick is always so satisfying

— Then what is it?

Sweet Radish had a strong reaction, but Sweet Potato wasn't wrong either. Players who had reached a professional level didn't completely overhaul their strategy over just one loss. Sometimes luck wasn't on their side, and things didn't come together. They simply lost. Revising everything front-to-back because of a loss was foolish.

There was always a reason behind an established strategy. Before that reason was completely refuted and dismantled, the right move was to conservatively adjust and refine the play. How they lost mattered far more than the simple fact of losing.

"Ugh, so WHAT is it!?" Sweet Potato's facade was cracking.

He couldn't understand why Sweet Radish was deliberating like this. It felt frustrating.

"It's... that he felt structural limitations."

"Ah... of course. The troll twin spirits." Sweet Potato nodded.

The viewers burst out laughing in delight.

— lmaooooo fr

— Structural limitations LOL

— They really are a wall

— Mountain lmaooo

"Their skill level is something."

"No, that's not what I mean!"

Sweet Radish grew irritated. He wasn't in a good mood and couldn't help it.

'What I thought I knew about Survival mode... is being shaken.'

Orange King had been remarkably flexible. The way he used the Vault route, how he applied runes, and composing tactics based on who was skilled and who wasn't...

"Wh-whoa!? This is WINNING!?" Sweet Potato, beside him, also felt stunned.

The first carry contract took down the first assassin very easily.

Black Tea was also impressed. "Insane! They're the same level!? What is this?"

"Was the other team just unlucky?"

Sweet Potato thought this was just luck. It wasn't. Even Black Tea could tell.

"Doesn't it feel like luck? He said that they'd run into someone before it happened."

"Wow...!?"

"He deliberately matched their leveling to that exact point and then picked the fight. Insane."

"Wow~!"

— What the

— Whoa

— GOD KING ORANGE

— The commentary reputation is deserved lmaooo

— He's so good

— Whoa

Sweet Radish added, "Choosing Ran was intentional too."

"How so...?"

"Bubblegum was originally right. Raina would have been far better for a single-carry composition, but the variable was the rune. The moment Orange King saw that rune, he assembled everything from their formation to their route."

"... Why the rune?"

"Look at the details of the Seer's Rune. It’s short, but there is a cooldown."

"... Oh, there is?"

The Seer's Rune had a one-second cooldown. It was short, but not short enough, especially for a champion like Raina.

"So, it'd be hard to use with Raina."

"Ah...!"

Raina's individual attack damage was low, requiring completing multiple combo hits to deal serious damage. A one-second cooldown was a considerable wall.

"And Raina's positioning in fights is a problem too. She doesn't stay in a fixed position and operates independently."

On top of that, Raina was typically an assassin-type carry who went in late and picked off enemy carries first. In that case, allies would never be nearby. Being separated was the baseline. The healing utility wouldn’t work.

"That's why he chose Ran."

AOE damage exceeding the one-second cooldown to maximize the heal output. Ran could stay in a fixed position to continuously refill the two tanks' health. This way, Ran could also deal consistent damage comfortably. They became each other's solution. Orange King had found that structure the moment he saw the rune.

Sweet Radish felt it.

'These are things I can't do.'

Orange King had scrapped all the agreed-upon plays in just one game and rebuilt the strategy from scratch. This wasn't something just anyone could do.

'His old reputation isn't for nothing, after all.'

Orange King's nickname from his pro days had been Jungle Calculator. Some said more than half of all currently existing jungle routes had been devised by Orange King. The jungler position was already extremely advantageous in Survival mode. He had been a great jungler because he was the creator.

Though age had dulled those once razor-sharp instincts considerably, glimpses of that great era showed through again as Orange King faced the unexpected wall of the troll twin spirits in low-rank gameplay. The light that had dimmed and been concealed through long years of commentary work was seeping back out.

'Don't tell me...'

This far in, a thought occurred to Sweet Radish.

'Did Almond intend this?'

Had Almond deliberately pushed Orange King to his limits?

Sweet Potato pointed and got excited. "Huh!? Is that BubbleSniper?"

The other members didn't seem to recognize the name.

"BubbleSniper?"

"You don't watch Bubblegum's stream?! That's a hardcore dedicated sniper! Almond took care of them in Battle Large a while back..."

It seemed BubbleSniper was a survival game enthusiast. He sniped in Battle Large and now in LIL Survival mode.

— BubbleSniper is back!

— Why is he there??

— And of all times, after they just contracted Bubblegum lmaooo

— Of all the luck;

— That person is actually quite good at the game

"Wait, the chat is saying he’s actually good at the game. How is he at this rank?"

"You think someone becomes a hardcore sniper for nothing?! He’s down here on purpose!! Tanking his rank to get them!"

"..."

Sweet Radish scratched his head. The world of major-league streamers wasn't easy.

***

Bubblegum's eyes wavered. "Insane...?"

BubbleSniper was an object of dread for Bubblegum. This person never sniped half-heartedly. They always perfectly exposed Bubblegum's weaknesses, gifting Bubblegum with a complete and total defeat. That was BubbleSniper's creed.

— lmaooooooo

— As fate would have it, on a narrow bridge...

— How did they snipe a five-person party?!

— Are they actually insane?? lmaooo

Ding.

[Speculation has donated 3,000 won.]

[Probably had a five-person party prepped for Platform War practice lmaooo! Just unlucky to run into them here.]

Even for BubbleSniper, how had he managed to prepare a five-person party? Thinking about it, needing five people to snipe had been public knowledge since the Platform War announcement. He had plenty of time to prepare.

"Wh-who’s BubbleSniper?" Orange King asked in puzzlement.

"There's a demon like that."

"So, they're an even worse demon than Bubblegum?"

"It's... a different kind of demon."

BornToB moved over. "Bro... should we just kill him?"

"We can't kill him!"

Thud.

BornToB took a punch from Iron Ball.

— LOOL

— lmaooooo

— Mini Bubblegum!

— Hahaha

— Fair enough...

"Oh! Wait~ good news!" Lemon suddenly raised her hand. "They probably don't know it's us."

Everyone looked at Lemon.

"What do you mean?"

"To snipe someone... you can't just see the game start and then click in, especially people who follow this obsessively. They use an add-on!"

"Add-on...?"

"It sends real-time alerts. The streamer you've set has started a game or entered a lobby, that kind of thing. You just play your own game and hit the queue at the right moment."

"Th-there's something like that!?" Bubblegum apparently hadn't known even after being subjected to it all this time.

Well, only snipers would use that kind of add-on. Most people wouldn't know it existed. They'd just think snipers were weirdly good at showing up at the right time. Even if it took hundreds of attempts to appear once, it just looked like someone showed up on the first try to the streamer.

"But..." Bubblegum was puzzled. "How do you know so much about this, Lemon?"

"Well... umm..." Lemon's gaze subtly shifted.

— LOL

— lmaooooo because she used to snipe Black Tea~

— She's a sniper herself

— fr lmaooo

— Why does she know though?

— Wait was she actually a sniper??

— She's the Black Tea Sniper

Lemon, as Black Tea’s fan, had always been sniping into her games to play alongside or against her. Later, Black Tea's skill had grown so explosively that even that became difficult, which eventually led Lemon to start her own stream.

"A-anyway!" Lemon waved both hands and changed the subject. "The point is, as long as Bubblegum doesn't show up, it's fine! The Red Turtle is ours."

Orange King tilted his head in confusion. "Why?"

"Because! Snipers don't succeed every time they try! Sometimes it takes dozens of attempts to land one snipe successfully. Right now, they've barely just landed in the same game."

"They know they're in the same game?"

"The addon would show them."

"Oh."

Surprisingly, Almond quickly agreed. "Seeing that, they'd play as carefully as possible until they actually encounter Bubblegum."

"So, it's a strategy of running them off?"

"Hm? Yes..." Lemon was puzzled as to why Almond was showing interest.

He seemed like he had handed over all tactical authority to Orange King and planned to do nothing himself.

"That sounds like it'll work well then."

Nobody understood why, except Bubblegum.

"Oh...! Almond is his dedicated bully!"

BubbleSniper would run the moment he saw Almond's face.

— lmaooooooooooo

— Oh

— Right

— fr lmaooo

— After BubbleSniper got used as a stepping stone by Almond, he completely disappeared lmaooo

— Dedicated bully

— He was basically wiped out after that haha

Orange King found this plausible and nodded. "The best victory is one without fighting. Then, let's move with Almond at the front. The flat health rune means he can't die in one hit anyway."

Orange King took the lead and made sure to brief Bubblegum clearly.

"If I sound the emergency siren... you need to come in immediately. Understood?"

"Okay!"

Wooooooong!

Bubblegum spun as Iron Ball to signal he'd come running anytime.

— Emergency siren LOL

— It is a siren!

— lmaooooo

— Once you hear that, you have no choice but to go in

***

BubbleSniper's team started attacking the Red Turtle. It had around 45% health remaining.

Crash!

"Huh!?"

A white shot suddenly came flying and connected with a head.

"It's Ran! Where are they!?"

"Over here~."

"Where!?"

"Here!"

Boom!

Another shot fired.

"Oh, what!?"

Only then did BubbleSniper's team properly look.

"Oh my god, they're actually right there!? Who said something!?"

"..."

Nobody on the team had said anything.

"DID THEY JUST TELL US WHERE THEY ARE!?"

"What the..."

Ran had spoken and even waved at them as a taunt.

"Long time no see."

"...?"

Almond was talking to BubbleSniper.

BubbleSniper tilted his head.

Almond could tell that BubbleSniper didn't recognize him, so he pointed to himself. "It's me, Almond."

— lmaooooooooooo

— The dedicated bully appearing!

— It’s me!

— LOL

— It's meeee~!

— Hahahaha

— Does BubbleSniper recognize him?

After hearing that name, BubbleSniper's eyes flickered for just a moment.

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