"Hello, donk!"
With his hands in his pockets, donk looked pretty cocky, but when he saw Su Zhe, a complete stranger, he actually seemed a little embarrassed.
"Hello, uh..."
"Arrow," Chopper prompted him.
"Hello, Arrow!" Donk smiled again and shook hands with Su Zhe.
Su Zhe was of average height, standing at 1.82 meters, and donk looked rather small beside him.
But what surprised him most was how donk acted offstage in person.
He practiced head-to-head aim duels against "donk" in the Training Simulator almost every night. In his mind, donk should have been the sort of person who came across as unruly and arrogant, like Semper.
But after only a few minutes together, Su Zhe's preconceived image of donk had already been overturned.
Su Zhe spoke first. "Your performance in matches has really impressed me. I often watch your POV to learn from you."
Donk awkwardly scratched his head, looking a little at a loss.
When Su Zhe started to wonder what was going on, chopper stepped in to help. "His English isn't very good."
Then chopper translated Su Zhe's words into Russian for donk.
Donk smiled again when he heard the translation and replied, "Thanks for the kind words. I still have a lot to learn."
Su Zhe: ...
Well, damn. He's even more modest than I am!
The two teams didn't chat for long after running into each other. They had just finished their matches and were eager to grab a meal, so each group headed back to its own team bus.
What Su Zhe hadn't expected was that some fans outside the venue happened to capture his handshake with donk.
A few months later, the photo would be posted under the title "The First Meeting Between CS2's Two Bulldozers"...
On the bus.
K0nfig curiously asked