I Have Returned, but I Cannot Lay down My Gun

Chapter 122 – Big Sister is Watching You

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There is a word called déjà vu in the world.

In short, it’s the feeling you get when you’re in a certain situation and think, ‘I feel like I’ve experienced something similar before?’ Of course, this is not a completely new sensation but a flashback of a memory that occurred once in the past.

And this happened more frequently between Yoo Jin and Harmony than one might think—a sort of meme. Viewers who moved from Harmony’s stream to Yoo Jin’s would return to Harmony’s stream, wailing. It was a type of content, a ceremonial event.

The reasons were quite varied, but if you asked their viewers, nine times out of ten, they would say the same thing: Harmony’s terrible taste as a general game streamer subtly rubbed off on Yoo Jin. As a result, viewers would go to Yoo Jin’s stream to complain to her teacher about what she had done.

In short, the déjà vu centered around Harmony and Yoo Jin meant that Yoo Jin often learned mischievous things from Harmony—like how to train viewers with bad games—causing Yoo Jin’s viewers, who were also Harmony’s viewers, to frequently lie down and protest in Harmony’s stream.

However, this time was unexpectedly different.

– Teacher, this is your work, right!!! What did you do to Harmony!!!!!!

“…Haha.”

The video playing on the screen.

A woman with long green hair could be seen shaking it excitedly as she fired a gun. Her eyes, filled with an almost maniacal focus, glanced around. There was no hiding it—it was Harmony.

And just a bit to the side, Yoo Jin was watching the screen with a faint smile.

“Still, she does her part. It was worth teaching her.”

– Your???????part????????????

– Are you saying this is what one person can do?

– Look at that confident expression, lol

– No matter what, you won’t surpass your master~~~~~

– She looks so proud, lol

Only about a month.

But in terms of experience density, it was a realm that ordinary game play could never reach. It wasn’t just once but all day long, for weeks. Afterward, there was training to refine all the experiences she had physically learned into proper form.

If Yoo Jin didn’t see an improvement, she had to drill Harmony hard.

However, she at least produced results as much as she learned, and her progress became an unbreakable touchstone, which, naturally, satisfied Yoo Jin.

After a while, she erased the smile on her lips and added.

“Her aim is still a bit off. I need to correct that as soon as possible.”

– You can see that???????

– Harmony, dome watch champion!!!!!!

– Now you’ve done it!!!!!!

– Lol, I like it, I’m clipping this right now and sending it to Harmony lol

– Harmony, enjoying the game but suddenly given more homework lol

Of course, Yoo Jin’s remark was more than enough to blow away the supportive public opinion about Harmony in one shot, and the chat room buzzed. Soon, the clip began floating like foam. It was needless to say that it was all going to be sent to Harmony.

As always, Harmony was doomed to run away.

“Ah, now I’m starting to feel warmed up. This mode is really fun!”

“Oh, th-that, yeah…?”

“Sh-should we play a bit more then…?”

And the person involved was always clueless.

“Shall we go to the next round?”

“Oh, uh… Are you okay? Not tired?”

“Well, how many rounds have we played so far? Only three or four hours, right?”

“Haha….”

Harmony, Kim Stone, Limit, and Hotteok. In this 1:3 composition, subtle glances were exchanged. The reason was obvious, but upon closer inspection, a more complex logical flow existed.

The first to notice her anomaly was Limit.

Given that he realized the presence behind him in the first round wasn’t a newbie but a bald purple giant obsessed with splitting people in half, he could indeed be called a prophet.

Of course, as previously mentioned, if you put an awl in your pocket, it will come out. Even without Limit, it would only take one or two more rounds for Kim Stone and Hotteok to recognize Harmony’s true nature.

The time it took to reach one conclusion by skipping all the logical steps was about 20 minutes.

The flow was as follows:

‘We need to teach this newbie Harmony a lesson, right?’

To,

‘…What the hell did she do before coming here?’

There wasn’t even a gap for thoughts like ‘She’s better than expected,’ or ‘She’s quite good,’ or ‘She’s really good?’—just a rapid paradigm shift. Initially, they might have given a few empty compliments about her skills, but now, after about a dozen rounds, not a single word of praise was spoken.

It wasn’t because she was too bad; it was because they realized she wasn’t someone they could evaluate.

However, the collaboration had to continue, and it did—providing several opportunities to witness Harmony’s skills, and even creating new rounds.

She didn’t have a presence overwhelming enough to dominate a game. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary play. Shooting normally, throwing grenades, supporting as a rifleman at the right moment.

But each action carried a seasoned skill. It was as if she was participating in a real battle, not just playing a game… It was obvious what had influenced her. But strictly speaking, that wasn’t important. The result mattered more than the process.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the result—Harmony’s skill—was overwhelming.

– Yoo Jin remodeled Harmony

– Crazy, lol

– Is Harmony a carry machine!? Is Harmony a carry machine!? Is Harmony a carry machine!?

– Look at the kids’ dumbfounded expressions, lol

– Honestly, Yoo Jin who remodeled Harmony is scarier, lol

– [ISO: Complete the mission and achieve the objective. Do not let anyone who has set foot on our soil with dirty feet survive.]

The map was different, but the beginning was similar.

It didn’t take long for Harmony, who was busy following her teammates stiffly without knowing anything, to freely soar. She checked the gun’s condition as if familiar with it and inserted the magazine.

Although Hotteok was still the squad leader, no one could ignore Harmony’s words now—she wanted more skill verification, and naturally, the squad focused on seeking engagements. It was the moment when the sharpest spear point struck the enemy team.

And as Harmony’s skill was verified, Hotteok’s voice naturally grew louder—the reason was simple.

– [Notification: Entering Sector B.]

“Capturing doesn’t matter much, so focus on dealing as much damage to the enemy as possible! Harmony will take care of it all!”

“Moni, we’re counting on you!”

“Let’s charge in, trusting Harmony─!”

“Hey, no!”

Shock troops.

Simply put, it meant becoming a sharp spearhead centered around Harmony to break through the enemy’s defense line and disrupt it as much as possible at the point of contact. Whether the enemy followed or not didn’t matter. Ultimately, the opponent would suffer losses in any form.

In fact, they were now more like Harmony’s fan club than a squad.

The person most bewildered was Harmony herself. She only did as she was taught, but now, shots were hitting with accuracy unimaginable just a month ago, and her perspective on the battlefield had drastically changed.

When she took the opportunity to subtly suggest something, Hotteok would naturally respond and operate the squad, and the opposing team’s forces would be cut down like a cake—of course, considering it was a regular game, this was only natural. Even in tough situations, they could overcome it sufficiently.

Her teacher said survival was the top priority. Even if they could revive through the system, they had to engage desperately in battles—as they did in the first round. If survival wasn’t important, she would have just died then.

Variables that can only be created by staying alive exist.

– [ISO: Amazing! We have an overwhelming advantage over the enemy!]

Block infiltration, regroup, divide, and handle them one by one.

There was no need to roam endlessly around the battle zone capturing A and C and annoying the enemy like flies. If they didn’t lose in a head-on power struggle, there was no need to persistently harass the enemy. Hence, the opposing team was holed up in A and couldn’t come out anymore.

Everyone saw and felt it with their bodies.

Even the viewers, to the point where they sent donations.

– If you can’t overpower the enemy with force, think about whether you lack more strength.

“Thank you for the donation, Kereshian….”

– Reading donations even during battle, impressive

– Look at the treatment 360-degree change lol

– 360 degrees is back to where it started, idiot

– Why do I see the teacher in Harmony’s back, lol

– It’s really scary, scary lol

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– Harmony, we have a brief butt inspection to check for snake tails.

“Hey! There’s no such thing!”

In a brief lull, she tried to read various donations as much as possible, but all sorts of crazy donations kept pouring in. Butt inspection? What the hell!?

Even Kim Stone, who had finished his mechanical maintenance, sneaked up and glanced at her butt. When he started talking nonsense about finding a snake tail, she struck his head with the edge of her hand wearing Mechanix Wear gloves.

The

sound echoed crisply through the winter of New York.

These guys were making her more conscious. She cautiously touched her butt, just in case, but there was nothing but the virtual tail she had attached for her cat character concept. Visible and tangible but not so elaborate.

– Living point) If you learn from Yoo Jin, you get a snake tail.

– Pya pya lol

– Is Dice next? Hm, I’m curious…

– Blonde noble lady with a snake tail, lol

– Is it time to ban all of them now?

“Sigh….”

While thinking about that, various thoughts came to mind.

Aside from her enormous skill, Teacher Yoo Jin had an unusually large number of bizarre nicknames. The axe goddess mentioned by the pro gamer Corvus, tactical snake tail, pro gamers’ nightmare, apex predator, snake tail goddess, Ouroboros, Big Sister….

I hope I don’t end up like that. Teacher Yoo Jin has a unique character, so that must be it. Surely not….

…I’m anxious.

– [ISO: Enemy special forces have expressed their intention to surrender. Amazing! The battle is over!]

However, such thoughts quickly subsided due to ISO’s voice ringing in her ears.

Checking the UI, the words ‘surrendered’ appeared with the dazzling movement of holograms. Victory was automatically displayed, and immediately, all the nearby team members began to cheer and clap.

“Oh, what? They surrendered!”

“Of course. We didn’t capture A, but everything else was destroyed.”

“Wow, Harmony! We trusted you!”

“What the heck did I do!?”

Of course, Harmony was still at the top of the kill log. Specifically, she was second. This was because she chose to defend Sector B instead of catching all the approaching enemies in front of A in the latter part.

She had nothing to say.

Although she couldn’t completely empathize with Teacher Yoo Jin’s feelings, she somehow understood the cheers and praises she received at the end of each Preliminary Rank session—something she never imagined until recently.

But in the meantime,

<(PreliminaryRank No.1=”” Yoo Jin)=”” donated=”” 10,000=”” won.=””/>

– When firing in bursts, make a habit of anticipating the initial recoil.

– Lol

– Being evaluated in real-time, crazy lol

– A scarier person has arrived! A scarier person has arrived! A scarier person has arrived!

– Big Sister! Big Sister! Big Sister! Big Sister! Big Sister! Big Sister! Big Sister!

– Koits, you can’t play the game comfortably, lol

“…Ah, yes. Teacher….”

Scary, scary.

Despite doing well, Harmony felt a chill down her spine.