Chapter 145 (4)
An hour later, they arrived at the arena.
They handed over their equipment for inspection, did their makeup, and waited at the backstage for the match to begin– –Tong Yao hadn’t been playing for a while and was a little apprehensive about it. Instead of being chatty like she was on the way to the arena, she had become rather quiet.
Lu Sicheng noticed it but didn’t say anything. Right before going on stage, he held Tong Yao’s hand: “Nervous?”
Tong Yao turned to give him a look with a taut face: “En.”
Lu Sicheng: “Are your legs wobbly?”
Tong Yao: “Huh?”
Lu Sicheng: “I’ll carry you up?”
Tong Yao: “……”
Overlooking his ridicule and his slightly curved up lips, Tong Yao quietly pulled her hand away. As if she was truly worried about him carrying her to the stage by force, Tong Yao quickly jumped up on the stage and dashed to her own seat to sit down……
Once she sat down, she patted her own chest and subconsciously looked up to glance at the audience. She soon found right in front of her– –exactly at her eye level, there was a huge fluorescence supporting placard with “Go Smiling, in : )’s name” on it…… Fans lifted the sign high up in the air. Tong Yao squinted her eyes and could see under the black sign the clear smiles on the face of those girls and their eyes which reflected the lights on the stage.
They seemed to have stars in their eyes.
It was just like the promise they had given her: No matter where you are, playing or not, we’ll always be there.
Tong Yao looked calm but she could feel her heart pumping inside her chest…… She looked down at the keyboard in front of her, put on her headphones, and was ready for the ban & pick phase of the first round of match of the day.
She didn’t even notice when she had calmed down. When she listened to the discussion among her teammates and Ming god in her headphones, she was tranquil as she had ever been……
“………………The other side took Leblanc, ouch, shit. This Xiao Hua’s really something. Tong Yao, the other side’s Xiao Hua’s challenging you, see it? How can you stand it?”
“Syndra is available. Take Syndra then. I haven’t even noticed that the other side didn’t ban Leblanc……”
“Yang god has taken Kindred. Very well, he’s afraid of getting killed. Which horoscope is this then?”
“……Can you put aside the horoscope for the moment first, captain? It’s not the time to get jealous. Can Syndra go against Leblanc?”
“She can if her id is Smiling.”
“Wow, that’s some big talk. Tong Yao, you’re going to be forced by our captain to take the risk. Let’s sing ‘Song of tough guys’ together, one, two, three, go– –Big river goes to the east……”
“All the stars in the sky follow the Big Dipper!”
“You guys want to be on the best quotes montage again.”
While the lively discussion was heard in the players’ headphones, the ban & pick phase had ended– —
ZGDX’s picks: Rumble, Rek’Sai, Syndra, Sivir, Thresh.
CK’s picks: Gnar, Kindred, Leblanc, Lucian, Alistar
Both sides entered Summoner’s Rift.
The commentators were also in their places. Thundering cheers filled the arena!
The semi-finals of the 2016 League of Legends summer competition had officially started, with ZGDX vs CK.
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