Shin Yoojung (8)
Lena groaned and got out of the recovery machine.
A gooey, healing liquid dripped from her body, but something else broke her heart.
“Did I… lose? It was a fight to please God!”
She had a look on her face, ready to run away at any moment.
Shin Yoo-jung quickly blocked Rena, who had a very excited face.
“Calm down, Lena. We can still win. You can push it by force. The fighting power there is inferior compared to ours. Let’s quickly reorganize our team and push them back.”
Shin Yu-jeong looked at Point B from Point A.
Team C is slightly leading, but if they fight with their overwhelming personal fighting power, it is not a problem to occupy a base.
Although the respawn time was quite twisted due to Hobin oppa’s cunning, there is no problem if you push it in at once and make it impossible to breathe without stepping on one base.
First of all, as a team leader, it is his calling to persuade his teammates and determine the timing to advance.
She patiently waited for the last team member to spawn.
“The last team member respawned. Charge again!”
Time was a bit tight, but it wasn’t unwinnable.
But just like before, I’m just worried that Hobin oppa will use a suspicious number again.
He did an excellent job with his team, replacing his lack of power with maneuverability and ambush.
If you had a 10:10 battle on a flat ground, you would have the upper hand even if you had the power to lose.
His mercenary skills were nothing but great.
How can I deal with him comfortably and with a sense of loss?
Shin Yoo-jung slapped her cheeks with both hands to correct herself, who was a little comfy.
Do your best to win.
He will use all of his magical and tactical skills to subdue him and defeat him.
She raised her sword and charged.
The first spawned team members were protecting Point A from the wave.
“Shin Yoo-jung is out! retreat!”
The Horned Uncle maintained the offensive, saw her and Lena and ran away.
“Chase!”
Lena shouted excitedly, but Shin Yoo-jung quickly stopped the team.
“That’s what the enemy wants. Maintain the formation and win Point B. And have three people stationed at Point A. You can’t have an accident like before.”
The team quickly headed for Point B.
In the middle, sporadically, Team C’s 1st team consistently blew a check.
Hobin oppa’s chest bullets, amulets and arrows flying in a curved orbit.
They were acting as if to hold us on the ankles to prevent us from going to Point B.
“It’s a way to pass time. Lena. forcefully break through You can go ahead and block them.”
“then!!”
Lena ran with a tower shield that was harder than the broken wooden shield before, and the team followed closely behind him.
The pace was a bit slow, but it would be more than enough to win.
I thought so.
However, Hobin oppa’s strategy went beyond a well-planned level and was at the level of swearing.
As he waited for a brief respawn and delayed using traps and dead zones, it was like he knew how he had strategized.
“Does this mean that you know that it is impossible to face us head-on in the first place, and that you are going to use your tricks to overcome it somehow?”
Lena put down her shield from behind cover and wiped her sweat.
A few of his teammates stepped on a sticky trap, slowing their movement significantly, and bullets poured over their heads.
It was as if he was willing to consume as much power as possible before coming.
The bullets with the help of the wind spirit did not stop.
It was difficult to even move properly due to the precision sniper where the head would fly off immediately if not wearing cover.
If it doesn’t hurt, I’ll go with a hit, but the combination of the wind spirit’s help and old-fashioned weapon was terribly painful, and it seemed to show the power of a single sniper.
A member of the team, in full rage, shouted a whale whale.
“sh*t. We do it together with pine nuts before the simulation!”
They shouted praises and shouted, but Tan did not stop.
The circus using Hobin oppa’s bullets was not over.
Now it was time to think we were within range.
The bullet started to bend.
As if seen in an old movie, the pistol bullets relentlessly evaded cover and flew to the team members.
“Damn it. Power Charge!!”
They barely started fighting, but Hobin’s teammates seemed to be sticking together rather than fighting.
Although the respawned, squeaky stretches were pounded on the back, they held onto Lena’s waist and did not let go.
“Leave this. let go! Having fought such a great battle before, come now and do such a wretched number!”
“What Hobini told me to do, I will definitely do it! Lena is facing Sorina!”
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Jung Soo-oppa also played an inhumane scream, grabbing the ankles of two team members and playing a man who was just kicked and left behind.“I can’t finish like this. Don’t go!! don’t leave me!! Kee ee ee ee!!!”
“We never even started. Really let it go!!”
Shin Yoo-jeong jumped over them as if ignoring them.
She cut down the three people who stood in her way, but they stopped them as if they had given up on the attack and were only running out of time.
It was too late by the time the teammates had killed all those who stood in their way.
“It’s too late. Shin Yoo-jung.”
He seemed unwilling to escape.
Even when he saw the magical restraint ball flying in, he greeted him with his arms crossed.
When he used magic and swordsmanship to subdue his brother Hobin, the strategic resources of Class C had already exceeded 80%.
Even if the two bases were maintained steadily, class c would win with a 5% lead.
In every clash, the battle was almost always won, but the war was lost.
Shin Yoo-jeong suppressed Rahobin and pushed it against the wall.
After pushing her arms crossed, she asked.
“why? We definitely had the upper hand. He was ahead of his abilities and personal fighting ability. why? Why did you lose?”
He only answers softly.
“In battle, the first step is to decide what goals to achieve in war. Your goal is to secure strategic resources through our neutralization. But our goal is simply to secure strategic resources at any cost. It doesn’t matter if you say it’s rude. Backdoor, surprise based on numerical superiority, stealing resources while laying bait for distraction. The battle for dominance through force is too simple to win all of them.”
Shin Yoo-jung suppressed the feeling of drumming.
You have to do your best until the end.
He speaks as if provoking her for the last time.
“A smart rabbit digs several burrows.”
She sent her team members to Point A and pushed the team members from Point C to protect Point B.
And as Hobin-oppa did earlier, dangerous teammates were captured and made impossible to spawn.
But it was too late.
The horned deputy leader surrounded the module with spawned people and kept them inaccessible at all.
Her team failed to buzzer.
In the end, the result is 100:95.
It was her defeat.
“I lost. I did my best, but I lost.”
In the midst of many people watching, Shin Yu-jeong burst out crying as if she was about to disintegrate.
*
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Jang Moon-jung sat in the audience and watched all Shin Yu-jeong’s actions.When she was attacked, she was anxious about what to do if she was injured, and when the case did not go the way her daughter wanted, she patted her knees and watched the spectacle.
Even when many people focused on the fight between Lena and Sorina, Jang Mun-jung lamented the rapid rise of Class C’s score.
Thinking that my daughter would lose because of that, I just wanted to jump in and rip that damn module off.
Looking at it like that, I could feel one thing.
Shin Yoo-jung loved the job.
When giving orders to team members and dealing with enemies, the daughter’s expression was alive.
And in the end, when she was defeated despite her daughter’s struggle.
For the first time, she saw her daughter cry out of anger.
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Jang Moon-jung rarely saw her daughter cry.Even though she was almost exhausted from doing ballet from a young age, she smiled.
Even when she couldn’t win No.1 on the Music Bank because she was slightly pushed back by the Rainbow, she smiled saying that she should do better in the future.
Even when she won first place in a children’s beauty contest, she didn’t cry.
Even when adversity and hardships approached, even after running for three consecutive events and returning home exhausted, he smiled when he saw himself.
So, Jang Moon-jung thought that her daughter liked celebrities.
I thought it was good because I laughed.
But it wasn’t.
The smile was full of bitterness, but the daughter’s heart was filled with only emptiness…
She was the only one who misunderstood that the mother was laughing because it was fun.
She never thought that she was upset when she didn’t get #1 on the Music Bank.
It was a field that was completely meaningless to her, so she just didn’t feel the slightest bit.
Even when she won the beauty pageant, she didn’t cry because she didn’t get to the top spot where she wanted to, so she wasn’t happy.
Now, for her, that guardian job was her only high-level task.
“Oh yeah. A person called my mother didn’t even know about it until now… As a mother, I am disqualified.”
Seeing her cry made it clear.
She didn’t know anything about her until this time.
She got up and ran to the waiting room.
Obviously, she doesn’t even want to see her face, but at least I have something to say to her.
However, in front of the room where the daughter would be, two people were guarding the door as if they knew she was coming.
“You must not come in here.”
“Keek.”
There were two cadets with their arms folded like a statue of Inwang.
One was a man who was somehow familiar and wanted to avoid as an agency president, and the other was a person she hated very much.
“you···!”
“This is a prohibited area except for cadets. Please go back and leave.”
“Kee-eek.”
They stood there as if there was no compromise, so Jang Mun-jeong could not pass.
“I have something to say to my daughter. Stay away.”
“Whether your daughter is here or not, I cannot let you pass. Inside, the cadets are exuding unspent magical energy. It’s dangerous enough for a civilian, so for your own safety, you can’t let anyone in.”
“Kee-eek.”
The conversation between Moon-Jung Jang, who wants to enter, Raho-Bin, who wants to not let him pass, and Jeong-Soo, who is squeamish, became quite long and noisy.
And it was a happy face to come out after hearing the commotion.
“Mom?”
“Yoo Jeong-ah. Let’s talk for a second.”
“I have nothing to say to my mother.”
Beyond the two of them, Jang Moon-jung managed to call her daughter.
“Yoo Jeong-ah. understand it all I will never force you to dream again. Please talk to your mom. I think I’ll regret it for the rest of my life if I spend it like this. Could you please give me a chance?”
Shin Yoo-jung looked into his eyes and answered.
“After the critique is over, come to the cafe next to the main gate. You are leaving now.”
“okay. I want you to come.”
The gap where I was able to talk with my daughter for a moment was slammed shut.
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Jang Mun-jeong arrived at the cafe and drank coffee with an anxious face.It might be the last conversation with my daughter.
She barely got drunk last night and replayed the words she had prepared.
The daughter, who appeared with a face without makeup, was still wary of herself.
The daughter who ordered coffee didn’t say anything.
“did you eat?”
“If you don’t eat it, you can’t be a Guardian. I just took the recommended amount.”
The Guardian’s recommended calorie intake is already nearly double that of the average person.
If I ate like that, I would have said something about gaining weight.
Considering that she was only feeding the right amount to maintain her body shape, it was a measure of how hard it must have been for her.
Shin Yoo-jung continued to stare at the coffee.
“If you don’t have anything to say, go…”
“I’m sorry. I was wrong.”
Shin Yoo-jung looked at Jang Moon-jeong with a surprised face.
She was like a crystal of self-esteem.
Although she did not become the best in her industry, like so many people who tried to be the best, she had some pride and a sense of inferiority in her actions and achievements.
And there was no such thing as an apology in her dictionary.
An apology can only be made by those who admit their mistakes.
“I only found out today what you like. I thought you liked celebrity activities. I thought it was because I smiled every day. But seeing your actions, I know what you really want. And after realizing that you were shattering your dreams by forcing me to do what I wanted, I realized that I was becoming an ugly mother just like my mother.”
She continued drinking coffee.
“When I first said that I was acting, your maternal grandmother said what kind of acting you are. There were many things I wanted to do, and despite my mother’s reluctance, I walked the path of a celebrity. But after seeing my work, my mother… never gave me a compliment. In a way, it might be normal. Because I was only a second-rate actor who had to play well to get exposed.”
Shin Yoo-jung quietly listened to that.
The tears on the mother’s face were as deep as crevasses, and it seemed to be revealed by the nasolabial folds.
“So I guess I was trying to prove to my mother that I raised my daughter well. And when you grew up so pretty, I felt like you were not my daughter, but my alter ego. And it must have come as a burden to you. Now do what you want But can I ask you one last thing?”
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Jang Mun-jeong closed her eyes and quietly calmed her heart and said.“Can you forgive your mother for forcing you to do so much up to this point?”
Shin Yoo-jung quietly closed her eyes.
“Thank you, Mom. For understanding now. I like that people call me the guardian of the future. I don’t know, but the scrapbooks in my room are all about Guardians. It’s good to give people hope. I will forgive my mother. Of course it is. I am my mother’s daughter.”
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Jang Moon-jung quietly hugged her daughter.“thank you. Our good daughter.”
*
Shin Yoo-jung did not retire as an idol.
However, the proportion that is open to the public has dramatically decreased compared to before.
“Keek!! please turn on the broadcast I want you to take my support. Whoops.”
“More than. Be quiet and solve the problem. Before the Mondragon Award.”
As a result, the guild suffered chronic and fatal well loss, and now feared a breath-taking break just as Helchang feared muscle loss.
However, when the broadcast was turned on, Shin Yoo-jung’s expression was much more stable and her smile was natural.
It was so much more beautiful and it looked happy, so the words came out of nowhere.
The next academic calendar will be back soon.
The festival season, the flower of the Academy, is back.
In the original novel, nothing happened, but can this pass comfortably?