Granted manhood, bestowed the title of -chan!

"I was hiding! Hahahaha!"

A sleazy voice suddenly rang out behind Jayce.

"!" Xiye's hands trembled slightly in shock, his eyes flying wide. "How is Twitch here?!"

Lu Chen didn't hesitate for a second. He tossed out W, Venom Cask, and chased Xiye down with auto attacks.

Xiye was already low on health, so he had no choice but to burn Flash immediately.

The next instant, Lu Chen matched his Flash, landed another auto, and detonated E, Contaminate, claiming Jayce's life.

"IG ChenYu has slain WE xiye!"

With the bounty secured, Twitch disappeared back into the river, accompanied by a sleazy "doo-doo-doo-doo-doo~"

"What happened?!"

Xiye was getting a little numb. He looked toward bot lane. "How did Twitch get to mid?"

He'd had a perfect chance to get a kill, but instead of taking a head, he'd given away his own!

His momentum was completely gone!

WE's bot lane duo had just finished farming under their turret and were preparing to recall.

"Uh, my bad, my bad," Ben said helplessly. "They shoved the wave, so I thought he'd recalled."

In truth, he was just as confused.

Come on, man. You're an ADC. Is it really okay to start roaming mid five minutes into the game?

What kind of AD plays like this?!

Mystic's expression was stiff too. "Next time he disappears, we'll call it right away."

Xiye sighed. He could only accept reality and focus on his screen, trying to find a way back into the game.

"This is such a big loss for Xiye," Miller said. "Not only has he lost both summoner spells, but the wave's going to crash into his turret too."

The number of chat messages surged.

"This Twitch plays so dirty."

"You guys haven't watched C God's streams? I can sum up his Twitch in four words: a goddamn sneaky bastard!"

"Why play Twitch if you're not going to play dirty?"

"That's C God for you. A CS lead isn't enough to satisfy him anymore. He needs kills!"

Time continued to tick by.

At the eight-minute mark.

Condi had been waiting in the river near mid on the top side for over half a minute, waiting for Rookie to push his wave forward.

Just then, Miller suddenly said, "Huh? Down in bot lane-Twitch is heading mid again!"

A moment later, Lu Chen's Twitch arrived.

Rookie finally began pushing his wave too, making it look like he wanted to shove quickly and recall to buy items.

Condi and Xiye were itching to move, a murderous glint flashing in their eyes. An opening!

"WE can't take this fight! Twitch is already level six!" Wawa's eyes widened. "Haven't they noticed? Hasn't their bot lane duo said anything?"

Yet WE really did seem oblivious.

As Rookie's Viktor pushed the wave past the river.

Condi and Xiye emerged from behind him in the river at the same time, charging toward Rookie through Jayce's E, Acceleration Gate!

Right then.

Rookie reacted decisively, using Flash to flee toward the bottom-side river.

Of course, Xiye and Condi weren't going to let him escape. Elise Flashed after him and fired off E, Cocoon.

Rookie had only just turned to place his W, Gravity Field, when he was caught.

Jayce and Elise both ignored the field and unloaded their abilities, instantly bringing Rookie down to a sliver of health!

They were just about to secure the kill!

"Hi! It's me! Hahahaha!"

A sleazy figure suddenly appeared in the river.

"What the hell?!" Condi and Xiye both stared blankly, with no time to react.

Heal flashed, keeping Rookie alive.

At the same time, Viktor's Gravity Field finally activated, stunning Elise and Jayce.

Lu Chen threw out a W, activated his Ultimate, and opened fire!

Standing off to the side, he had the perfect angle to pierce both enemies with every shot of his Ultimate!

Rookie followed up by throwing out all his abilities.

In just two seconds, Jayce and Elise were both critically low.

Lu Chen detonated his E, pocketing both kills at once!

"IG ChenYu has slain WE xiye!"

"IG ChenYu has slain WE condi!"

"Double kill!"

"Killing spree!"

Twitch was now 3-0!

"Nice!" Rookie broke into a delighted grin. "They really didn't call missing on you?"

Lu Chen raised an eyebrow. "Maybe they thought I'd recalled?"

Ning Wang took the opportunity to help TheShy dive 957, then chuckled. "Why does it feel like we've got two junglers?"

Lu Chen gave him a meaningful look and smiled. "Actually, I can jungle too."

Ning Wang's expression froze. He shook his head repeatedly. "No, don't. Please don't come steal my job."

On the other side.

Xiye stared at his gray screen and slowly leaned back in his chair, taking both hands off the keyboard. "How did Twitch get here this time?" he asked weakly.

Honestly, after that play, he was completely tilted.

Condi's head hurt too. He felt as sick as if he'd swallowed a fly. "If he disappears, at least tell us."

Their mid-jungle tempo had been completely derailed. They could pretty much forget about the Rift Herald that was about to spawn.

More importantly, they'd let the enemy Twitch get fed!

Against a Twitch that far ahead, everyone on their team would have to back off whenever he disappeared from the minimap!

Ben looked conflicted. "But I clearly saw him recalling on our ward."

At those words, they all fell silent.

Mystic looked particularly dazed, not saying a word the entire time.

Even the casters were still trying to process what had happened.

Miller spoke up. "Let's look at the replay and see exactly what happened with WE's bot lane."

The big screen began replaying the footage from half a minute earlier.

IG's bot lane duo pushed their wave into the turret, then both walked back to the middle brush and began recalling together.

"WE has a ward in this brush," Miller said, puzzled. "Didn't they notice Twitch didn't recall?"

"Wait," Rita said as she watched the footage. "This ward is about to expire!"

It had!"

Just as she said.

At the exact moment the recall rings appeared around Twitch and Braum.

The stealth ward in the brush expired, and WE's vision went dark with it.

Twitch, who should have been recalling, entered stealth a second after the ring appeared, canceled his recall, and headed straight toward mid!

"Was that..." Miller and Wawa exchanged looks. "Did he time that deliberately, or was it a coincidence?"

Anyone who knew how to play Twitch should know this recall trick.

By pressing B to recall at the same time as activating Q for stealth, he could recall while invisible.

That effectively prevented the enemy from spotting him and interrupting his recall.

"Either way," Wawa said, shaking his head in admiration, "this Twitch is playing very cleverly."

Miller added, "I feel like Xiye's mental might be completely shattered. He was laning perfectly well in mid, then suddenly got ganked twice by a Twitch. Just thinking about it is depressing."

Chat went absolutely wild.

"This is what C God brings to the table!"

"Was this part of your calculations too, C God?!"

"WE must be stunned. Getting ganked once is one thing, but twice?"

"What are those two in bot lane doing? Even if they don't use voice comms, where are the pings?"

"I won't say these two games are a bot gap, but that's the truth."

"Mystic hasn't made any mistakes. C God is just too strong."

"He can dictate the tempo even on AD?"

"This is what happens when you use your brain to play."

"Is this really C God's first time playing professionally? How is he this good?"

"C God? If he keeps playing like this, we'll have to call him C-chan!"

The LPL's highest honor: granted manhood, bestowed the title of -chan!

(End of chapter)