Chapter 130

Jung Yunseul didn’t even know how the victory interview was passing by.

When she was chosen as the MVP and the Broadcast Team asked her what on earth she meant by “Oppa’s enemy,” her mind went completely blank.

How could she possibly answer that?

That we’d been playing with a teammate all this time.

That he was even a ghost, so none of you could see him.

By the time the winning team’s interview was over.

Seo Dami’s face was full of excitement.

She was the one who had hyped up the atmosphere, boasting to the fans that they would definitely win.

Now that they had defeated their most difficult opponent, Kamui, winning the championship was no longer just a dream.

After filling the fans with such high expectations, Seo Dami was left alone with Jung Yunseul and said with a bright face, “I did well, right? Please praise me,” and smiled.

Looking at her, who seemed to have not a single worry, Jung Yunseul agonized.

Should she really tell her the truth?

What if Oppa…

It shouldn’t happen, but what if he really couldn’t come back for a while? The thought crossed her mind.

If Seo Dami found out, she would surely be deeply shocked.

If that happened, Super Sylph’s journey would end here.

If Seo Dami’s Mental wavered, no matter how she thought about it, winning the championship would be difficult.

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing Jung Yunseul’s expression stiffen, Seo Dami was clearly worried.

Seo Dami thought that Han Youngin had, of course, been playing at the end of the game.

So, seeing her grim expression now, she could only guess that he must have something on his mind.

“Well… it’s just.”

“……?”

“It’s nothing.”

In the end, after much deliberation, Jung Yunseul decided to continue acting as if nothing had happened for the time being.

She decided to reveal everything after the tournament was over.

Just as Jung Yunseul, thinking it was enough for her to bear the burden of Oppa’s situation alone, was about to swallow her worries, she heard Park Chaerin’s voice say, “Huh?”

“Dami. Yunseul. They’re asking for either of you.”

“For us?”

“Yeah.”

Park Chaerin, who was leading the players to a restaurant for a team dinner, handed over her phone.

“Take it. It’s the Front Office. They said they have something to ask you about a package at the Team House in Seoul?”

A package.

Was there an important item coming for her? Seo Dami, wondering this, took the phone first.

“Yes. This is Seo Dami.”

But then, what was this?

A completely unexpected voice came out.

-Dami. It’s Oppa. If Yunseuli is next to you, can you put her on?

“Hmm?”

Seo Dami pondered for about a second.

No matter how she listened, it was Oppa’s voice.

Why was it coming from the other side of the phone?

Wasn’t he with Yunseul right next to me just now?

At this moment, it never even crossed Seo Dami’s mind that Han Youngin had woken up.

She was an open-minded person.

Ah, this time Oppa must have gone inside the phone instead of being a person, she thought.

“Okay~,” she said, passing the phone to Jung Yunseul, who asked, “Me?” and took the phone just like Seo Dami had.

-Yunseul. It’s me. Congratulations on winning the match. You did really well even without me.

“Ah…”

As soon as she heard Han Youngin’s voice, tears welled up in Jung Yunseul’s eyes.

Since it would look strange to others, she wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and turned away from her teammates.

“Where… are you right now?”

-The hospital. When I came to my senses, I was completely awake.

“Oh my god!”

As Jung Yunseul gasped in surprise, Seo Dami had a ton of question marks floating above her head, and Park Chaerin asked what was wrong.

“What is it? Did someone steal the package?”

“Ah, no.”

As Jung Yunseul hastily brushed it off as nothing, Han Youngin explained the schedule going forward.

-Our tournament isn’t over yet.

“Right.”

-You have to focus. Nothing’s changed. I may be living apart from you guys now, but I can still keep doing Scouting Reports and giving advice from here via messenger.

“Okay.”

-And this is the Coach’s phone, right? After we hang up, can you call me back on your phone? Ah, do you have to go eat now? Then you can call whenever it’s convenient.

“No! I’ll do it right now!”

After getting his phone number, she returned the phone to Coach Park Chaerin, pretending that nothing was wrong.

“Is it nothing serious?”

“Nope!”

“Your voice was a little loud for it to be nothing…”

“It was nothing. Hehe.”

Jung Yunseul’s expression as she returned the phone was extremely bright.

And why wouldn’t it be? It was the news of Oppa’s recovery that she had been waiting for so eagerly.

After brushing it off, Jung Yunseul grabbed Seo Dami and quietly confessed the truth, saying it was time to call Oppa.

It was right after that that a startled Seo Dami called Han Youngin, crying her eyes out and saying she was going back to Korea.

All of Korea was abuzz with Super Sylph’s advancement to the Finals.

UA was now a globally popular game, enough to become a subject of national interest.

Until now, Korea hadn’t seen the light of day due to its lack of competitiveness in international tournaments, but now, thanks to Super Sylph, everyone was in a festive mood, thinking, “We’re conquering another sport.”

While articles about Super Sylph were all over every portal site, a small article was published in a corner.

It was a story about the recovery of a male player who had been unconscious after a traffic accident.

-Guys! Youngin recovered!

-What?

-Fr?

-An article’s out?

-Han Youngin! Fuck, you’re back!

This news was immediately delivered to the Magnus message boards, and Magnus fans were overjoyed at the news of his recovery.

-Only after the flower wilts did I know it was spring.

-Our team is ruined without you ㅠㅠ

-Come back quickly!!

-If Youngin-bro comes back, we’ll be championship contenders again, right? Right?

-Ffs; it’s time to let Suchul go.

-Fr, let’s just let Kim Suchul go now.

-How much Experience Points do we have to feed him before he acts like a person?

-He’s a no-go. His weak Mental is a chronic problem…

-But he was bedridden for so long, can he make a comeback right away?

-It’ll probably take years just to get his body back in shape.

-How old is Youngin that you’re talking about years?

-Whoa, I just realized something scary.

-What is it?

-Youngin is twenty-seven right now;;

-????

-No fucking way;

-So even if he returns to the Season right away, he’ll be 28?

-Yup;;

-Then isn’t this retirement instead of a comeback…?

-Ah, the cruel passage of time.

-Does it make sense for Youngin to retire without a title?

-Fr, looks like he’s going to retire after just playing the role of an orphanage director.

Fans who had watched the Magnus team’s games for a long time were disappointed by the fact that Han Youngin’s chances of returning were, in reality, slim.

It was a sense of regret for an excellent player who had stayed until the end and led the team, even though he could have easily gone to another team.

While the fans were reminiscing about Han Youngin and sharing stories.

The man himself was in a consultation at the hospital.

“This is a miracle.”

“A miracle?”

“Yes, sir.”

The doctor said the patient’s current condition was nothing short of a miracle.

He would need rehabilitation, but at this rate, he would have no problem returning to daily life soon.

At the unexpected good news, his parents shed tears of joy.

Having waited for so long for their son’s consciousness to return, their emotional shift was bound to be even greater.

Patting his parents’ shoulders, Han Youngin asked.

“Then… if I do more rehabilitation, would it be possible for me to return as a player?”

“Well. I can’t guarantee that, but the prognosis looks very good, so we’ll have to wait and see.”

Although he asked if a comeback was possible, Han Youngin firmly believed in his heart that he would return as a player.

Because he knew better than anyone that the Power of the Ley Line was currently helping him recover quickly.

At this rate, by next March.

He thought he could get his physical condition up to a player’s level before the Season started.

‘Returning as a player…’

His heart pounded at the mere thought.

Upon hearing the news that he had regained consciousness, his old teammates had also rushed to visit him at the hospital.

Although the Coach he had worked with before had left the team (he was fired after the team’s performance plummeted), Magnus was still Han Youngin’s number one choice for a comeback.

He was confident.

Confident that if he returned as a player, he could show the fans good matches with skills as good as before, no, even better than before.

Of course, that was just his own thought.

There was no way of knowing what the team would think.

The Front Office might not want to give another chance to an older player who would be twenty-eight next Season, one who had been bedridden for a long time.

The only good news was that a significant number of his teammates were looking forward to his return.

And that the President of Magnus had not changed.

Although the Director had changed, it was the team’s President who wielded stronger influence over the team.

It was only natural, as player Free Agent costs and team management fees couldn’t be approved without the President’s permission.

Han Jaeseung, the President of Magnus, was a man who had managed the team directly for a long time and was quite fond of sports.

In fact, in many teams, the President was a separate person from the Parent Company’s Chairman or CEO, but President Han Jaeseung also held the title of Vice Chairman of Hwaseong Group, Magnus’s Parent Company.

In other words, he was a person with real power in the Parent Company.

The fact that such a President had been quite fond of him in the past was one of the reasons Han Youngin was relatively optimistic about his chances of returning to Magnus.

‘Alright. I’ll think about the comeback issue later…’

Since it hadn’t been long since he’d woken up from a coma, no one was bothering him with issues like Re-signing for next year.

Just messages congratulating him on his recovery.

The support from his fans had piled up all over his hospital room.

With no one to disturb him, Han Youngin got a laptop and helped Super Sylph prepare for the Finals while staying in the hospital.

Although it was a pity that he could no longer watch the scene in person, he still intended to do his best for the team’s victory.

Super Sylph’s Worlds victory.

That was a goal Han Youngin desired as much as his own comeback, no, even more so.

Their opponent in the Finals was the Crusaders, a team they had faced before.

The Crusaders had advanced after defeating India’s Varuna GC in the Semifinals.

‘They’re not a team we can’t beat if we use all the cards we’ve prepared against Kamui.’

Although they had lost once in the Group Stage, that was because they were hiding their prepared cards, and now that they could go all out, they could definitely take down the Crusaders.

Han Youngin thought.

If anything, their opponent was probably more surprised.

Because their opponent in the Finals was Super Sylph, not Kamui.

A team of Kamui’s caliber could never be beaten by luck.

So, the Crusaders, heading into the Finals, would certainly not be complacent and would come fully prepared.

It was one day while he was preparing the Finals Build-up.

Han Youngin let out a small yawn while writing a document.

He was feeling a lack of sleep these days because of the frequent calls from Germany.

Until just a while ago, he felt it was natural for them to be together, but now that he had suddenly disappeared without warning, the players seemed to feel a great void.

Seo Dami and Jung Yunseul would call him at all hours to ask if he had eaten and what he was doing, but the problem was the considerable time difference between Germany and Korea.

Before dinner in Germany.

Meaning, even at 6 PM, it was already 1 AM in Korea.

Of course, even so, Han Youngin accepted the players’ calls without a single sign of displeasure.

It was a crucial time before the Finals.

Right now, managing the players’ Mental was the top priority.

‘Would it feel a little strange to see them in person…?’

They had always been together, but he felt it would be a very strange feeling to face each other.

Just as Han Youngin was chuckling to himself, imagining how he should greet Dami and Yunseuli when he met them.

There was an unexpected hospital visitor.

“You look better than I thought?”

“Uh…?”

A visitor leaning halfway through the hospital room door, her lips pouted.

Her identity was, surprisingly, Kato Mikane, who had recently arrived in Japan and taken a flight to Korea.

‘No way…?!”

In that moment, Han Youngin truly broke out in a cold sweat.

The thought occurred to him that a Kato, resentful of her defeat, might actually rush in to get revenge for the Semifinals.

But contrary to his worries, as Kato entered the hospital room, he let out a sigh of relief.

He hadn’t been able to see because half of her body was outside, but she was holding a fruit basket in her hand.

“I came after seeing the article, but if I knew it would be like this, I wouldn’t have needed to come. You’re adapting better than I thought.”

Kato Mikane looked at the Energy of the Ley Line protecting Han Youngin’s body inside and out and snorted, “Hmph!”

“You know your fast recovery is thanks to me, right?”

“O-of course. Thank you.”

This was truly sincere.

If it weren’t for the ley line techniques he learned from her, by now.

He would be sightseeing in the afterlife, let alone opening his eyes.

“The hospital room. Wouldn’t it be okay to have a bigger one…?”

“This is the VIP suite in this hospital.”

“Is that so?”

Kato, who looked around the room turning her head, took the chair next to him and sat down without even asking for permission.

“Ahem. The reason I stopped by today is to make you a proposal.”

“A proposal…?”

Han Youngin felt a little uneasy.

He had a feeling that the proposal she was about to make wouldn’t be very pleasant for him.

“Thanks to me, you saved your health, and everything turned out well. Well, it’s a good proposal for you too.”

“…Yes. Let’s hear it, at least.”

“Ahem, ahem-.”

After a brief pause, Kato wiped under her nose and handed him the documents she had prepared.

“A Coach… proposal?”

“That’s right.”

As he read the beginning of the document, Kato crossed her arms and nodded, as if to say, “How about it? You like it, right?”

“As you know, we missed out on winning the World Championship this time. Ahh, thanks to that, my prestige has plummeted. The problems are just endless…”

“……”

“Anyway, this is the decision I came to after thinking of a solution.”

Kato Mikane said.

Isn’t the reason we couldn’t win this time because of you?

So, if we bring you onto our team, all the various problems we’ll face in the future will be solved.

“How about we work together on this occasion? Of course, you’ll start as a Coach, but if you build up experience, you might even become a Director?”

For a patient who had just gotten out of bed, it was an incredibly excellent offer.

Although they had missed the championship this tournament, Kamui was still the best team in the world.

Kato, who had made such a wonderful offer, smiled brightly, anticipating Han Youngin’s answer.

It was a smile with a murderous feel to it, as if she wouldn’t let him off the hook if he refused.