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The comments were relatively peaceful. After all, women had successfully achieved high positions in various industries over the years. Though there were few female competitive e-sports players, they did exist.
The head coach looked at the rest of the staff with a smile and said, “It’s fortunate that women have made it into the ranks of top performers in every industry over the years, so there aren’t many who question their abilities anymore when they become professional players.”
However, among these comments was a question:
Judging from her side-profile, she seems very young, though? Is she an elementary school student?’
The coach immediately replied to the message: ‘Don’t worry, our new member just took her college entrance examination this year. She reported for duty right after that.’
Then it’s fine.’
The problem was resolved easily and smoothly. All the dissent online seemed to have disappeared, and not many had raised doubts about girls participating in e-sports.
Even though the coach knew that there wouldn’t be that much opposition in the first place, wasn’t this going a little too smoothly?
Little did he know…
In New York, Alexander stretched lazily and said, “Tsk, tsk. Trending on social media when she has only just reached the club. As expected, Cherry can’t manage without her big brother!”
As he spoke, Peter, who was sitting opposite him, slowly looked up.
Differences were already starting to show in fifteen-year-old Peter and Cheryl’s looks.
Cheryl still looked cute and adorable, but there was an additional sense of toughness in the same facial features on Peter. In addition, Peter had trained in martial arts frequently over the years, so his features were more defined, and he didn’t have any baby fat. He looked absolutely dashing.
He slowly said, “You mean big brothers.”
… Fine, said Alexander.
He pulled his hand from the keyboard and said, “Write a program and keep an eye on the Internet. If anyone says things like ‘girls can’t be professional e-sports players’ again, ban their accounts! Also, Cherry’s side profile is more than enough on the Internet; all full-frontal photos must be deleted. Don’t go too soft on them. I have something on, so I’ll go for now.”
The incident was resolved quietly. When Cheryl returned to the club after she was done shopping for daily necessities, she didn’t yet know that she had trended on social media.
Her teammates enthusiastically escorted her to the room and even helped her clean it up.
When the head coach came over, he immediately saw Cheryl seated on the sofa while the rest of the team was busy with chores.
The corners of his lips spasmed.
Generally, whenever there was fresh blood in the team, everyone treated them with mild skepticism. Moreover, they were all still young and hot-blooded. The head coach had been worried that they would get into a dispute with the new member.
But from how things looked… It seemed despite having only been here for two hours, Cheryl had already become the club favorite!
However… the head coach looked at Cheryl.
The teen girl sat quietly on the sofa as she munched on a potato chip she was holding between her fair fingers. Her little mouth was moving constantly, making her look cute and well-behaved, like a little squirrel. Even he didn’t dare to raise his voice at her!
So, it was only natural that she would end up as the club favorite, right?
While the head coach was musing, a staff member suddenly came over. The man looked serious as he said, “Coach, Club JQ is so shameless!”
Surprised, the head coach asked, “What happened?”
Take a look at this!
The staff member took out his cell phone, opened up Facebook, and handed it to the coach.
Only then did the head coach realize that Club JQ, their archrival, had officially announced a new member in their team this year!
Team JQ had also welcomed a new player this year, and everyone had been guessing who it might be…
However, they had just made an official announcement, and the new member was also a well-known player in the game—the female live-streamer, Jimy.
A female player!
Well, that was some pretty hot news.
The problem, though, was that Team JQ had made a special mention of Jimy’s education when they introduced her—because she was a rare one with relatively high academic qualifications among the group!
She was an undergraduate at a prestigious university!
After the news went public, fans of Team JQ took the opportunity to create the image of a highly-educated intellectual for her…
They were clearly facing off with Club HS by doing this!
Fans of Team JQ were even starting to antagonize them on the Internet.
They outright at-mentioned Club HS’ official account and asked, “How high can your new member score in the college entrance examination?”
The head coach: “!!!”
This was an e-sports competition!! What was the point of obsessing over the players’ college entrance examination results?!
What a ridiculous way of antagonizing them!
Had they let their win go to their heads after becoming the champions just once?
They had practically come all the way to their doorstep to bully them now!
Yet…
He glanced at Cheryl.
Sensing that he was looking at her, Cheryl looked up, whereupon she saw the head coach smile kindly at her as he said, “It’s okay. College entrance examination scores aren’t everything. We don’t look at one’s college entrance examination results in this industry.”
Cheryl: “??”
Cheryl picked up another potato chip, took a bite, and then looked at the head coach. “Oh, okay.”
Then, she saw the head coach pacing back and forth in front of her as he looked at her earnestly, looking like someone who wanted to ask her something yet didn’t dare to.
… Coach, is there something you want to ask me? Cheryl asked.
The head coach coughed and said, “Um, I’m just asking about this casually. I am absolutely not insinuating anything, nor am I looking down on you! But, well, what kind of university do you think you can get into?”
After speaking, the head coach wanted to give himself a tight slap.
What was he even asking?
The teen obviously looked easily embarrassed. What if the young lady couldn’t even get into a university at all? How was she going to answer him?
The head coach immediately tried to repair the situation. “No, what I mean to say is, it’s okay even if it’s just a specialist school. Er, it doesn’t matter whether you go to university or not…”
Yes, yes, that’s right! I also think that academic qualifications aren’t important in our industry! Lionel had also seen the posts and comments on Facebook. He came over immediately to comfort her and said, “Look at me, I only attended a lousy second-rate university while these guys here went to even worse ones!”
The rest of the team also hurried over and comforted her.
Exactly, so it’s alright no matter how you score in the exams!
It’s okay even if you don’t attend university!
Haha, mutants like Captain Zac are a rarity in our industry. Nobody can ace their exams while being an expert gamer too, right?
We compete with our abilities, not academic qualifications!
…
While they were talking, Cheryl sensed that something was amiss.
The smart girl blinked a couple of times and then opened up Facebook, where she saw that someone had at-mentioned Club HS.
As she stared at her cell phone, her big eyes widened in disbelief.
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