My Computer Is Fast!

After kkOma and Park Ji-young had both left, Faker took Xu Junyan to his dormitory to arrange his accommodations.

Faker had previously shared a dorm room with Peanut and Untara. Later, Peanut left the team, and Untara had moved out two days ago as well, leaving a spot that was perfect for Xu Junyan.

The dorm was spacious. After dragging his suitcase inside, Xu Junyan glanced over the bed and found that there was not really much to unpack.

The bedding and sheets were all neatly arranged, clearly brand-new items prepared in advance. He could lie down and sleep right away.

Xu Junyan went to the wardrobe to hang up his clothes. He casually glanced at Faker, who seemed to be preoccupied, and teased, "Coach kkOma is really quite a good person."

Faker turned to look at him, taking in the meaning of those words—or rather, carefully translating the not-too-difficult English in his mind.

"Mm."

Faker nodded slightly and sighed. "Maybe the S7 loss really drove me a little mad. I've been restless ever since. Otherwise, I should have seen the coach's intentions long ago..."

He could not help recalling how kkOma had recruited him back then. kkOma had said, "As long as you come, I'll buy you a good computer that won't lag and has a clear camera."

At the time, he had been troubled by his livestream camera being too blurry, so he agreed without a second word.

From then on, SKT had gained a Demon King mid laner. From then on, he, kkOma, Bengi, and the others had gradually created a legend in the professional League scene with their own hands—the mighty SKT three-time championship dynasty!

"Actually, being a substitute for a while might not be a bad thing. It's time for me to properly sort out my feelings and completely sweep away the shadow of the S7 defeat."

"Especially now that Junyan has joined us, I need to take things seriously!"

As Faker spoke, he suddenly realized that he had been speaking Korean the entire time, which Xu Junyan could not understand. He immediately became a little embarrassed.

"Sorry, I was just talking to myself... Ah, damn it!" Faker awkwardly smacked his own head and rubbed his nose.

He had spoken Korean again!

Xu Junyan did not know whether to laugh or cry. He opened a translation app on his phone and spoke into it: "It's fine. Speaking more Korean in daily life will help my learning progress too. I plan to start studying this afternoon and try for a crash course, at least enough to handle simple conversations. Then we can mix English and Korean when we talk. Communication should be much easier that way."

Faker leaned over to read it, then nodded repeatedly. "Good, good, good!"

After finishing up, Faker and Xu Junyan made do with cup noodles for lunch in the dorm. Then Faker personally led Xu Junyan to the SKT training room.

At SKT, the training room and streaming rooms were separate. The former was one large room, while the latter consisted of individual small rooms.

Most of the time, everyone played ranked games in the training room. Like right now, SKT's starters and Untara's group, who had a match that night, were all engaged in intense scrims.

Faker brought Xu Junyan inside just as they finished their final scrim. Wolf and Bang spotted the two at once.

"Sang-hyeok hyung? Who's this?"

"A newcomer?"

The bottom lane duo wore perfectly synchronized looks of confusion when they saw Xu Junyan, both sizing him up.

Damn! This guy seemed kind of handsome! He was even better-looking than Peanut, who had joined them last year!

Wait, had the barrier to becoming a pro become this high now? If you were not good-looking, you could not play professionally anymore or what? Wolf suddenly felt insecure.

Faker showed everyone his first smile in days and introduced him. "This is Junyan. He just signed with SKT. He's Chinese."

"Chinese???"

The people who had initially been surprised by Xu Junyan's looks and curious about his signing all widened their eyes.

Chinese! That meant an LPL player?

An import?!

They were utterly shocked.

After all, ever since the S2 OGN era, their teams had never hired a single foreign import.

Then Faker had led the team to its first championship in S3. From the time OGN became LCK in S5 until now, the S8 season, they had continued to dominate the entire world's professional League scene! If that was the case, why would they need imports?

Even weak teams in the league such as JAG and BBQ would not hire them, much less a top-tier powerhouse like SKT.

That was precisely why they were so shocked. Their jaws nearly hit the floor, and every pair of eyes was full of disbelief.

"Junyan is very strong. You'll find out soon enough." Thinking of the intensity of his duo queue games with Xu Junyan, Faker's expression became increasingly expectant.

Since Faker had said so, Bang and Wolf suppressed their thoughts. The two immediately approached warmly, shaking Xu Junyan's hand and greeting him.

The language barrier did not matter. As long as Faker served well as a bridge, Xu Junyan quickly became familiar with Bang and Wolf.

Blank, Untara, and the others were somewhat hesitant, while Untara's expression was especially awful.

The instant Faker introduced Xu Junyan, he had hurriedly messaged a staff member he knew. The result was that Xu Junyan was also a top laner!

What did this mean? Bringing Thal over to rotate with him was one thing, but now they had signed another new top laner—and a Chinese import at that! Did they really look down on Untara that much?

As anger suddenly surged within him, Untara was now completely unable to understand what was going on. He did not know whether he had truly won this internal power struggle.

"Hey~!"

At some point, Xu Junyan had already walked up to them. His slightly rough shout jolted Untara, Blank, and Pirean awake.

The three looked at Xu Junyan in front of them unprepared. His build was not especially burly, but for some reason, he gave off an incredibly oppressive presence.

Was it an illusion?

Smack!

Xu Junyan slapped his ID card onto the desk, pointed at the birthdate field, flashed the three a grin, and asked, "Understand?"

Untara and the other two blankly lowered their heads to look. They could not read the Chinese characters, but the birthdate field said 1996...

As Koreans, all three understood almost instantly!

He meant for them to call him hyung?

Was he crazy?!

Although juniors on their side could never defy seniors older than them, or else they deserved to be bullied, Xu Junyan was not South Korean...

"Ah~! It's a little hot today."

Xu Junyan suddenly muttered a curse in Korean, something he had specifically asked Faker to teach him and memorized. Then he took off his jacket. Back when he had been in college and playing professionally, he had also found time to work out. His muscles were not especially developed, but they had some shape to them. At the very least, compared to Untara and the other two internet-addicted youths, he was simply far sturdier.

"Junyan hyung!"

Blank, forever the opportunist, blurted it out without hesitation.

SKT had never had a case of seniors bullying juniors, but this newly arrived Chinese import was definitely a fucking wild card!

They had to be careful!

Pirean's lips moved twice. When Xu Junyan's gaze swept toward him, he shuddered, bowed and nodded, and forced out a dry smile. "Junyan hyung."

Finally, Xu Junyan's gaze landed on Untara. This Rebellious Kid had once dared to propose making Faker a substitute. His eyes were red now, and rage surged from him. Just as Xu Junyan was surprised that this guy might actually be difficult to deal with, that he truly was not constrained by their rotten culture—

Untara suddenly stood up, grabbed his gaming chair and pushed it out, then declared firmly, "It might be hard to find a seat on your first day. Junyan hyung, sit here first and use my computer! My computer is fast!"