ADAPTED FROM BUTTERFLY BLUE'S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, THE KING'S AVATAR
EPISODE 35
Could you ever compete with me one more time?
This time, I'd still let you win.
What happened?
-What are you doing? -Give it to me.
Did you break it?
No! How could it be me?
It's me. It's none of his business.
How much is it? I'll pay for it.
Cool. Come on.
Give me the money.
Fine.
Now what?
Your money was stolen?
Come here, you.
Come here!
I couldn't believe it.
It's my first time to see someone playing arcade games
with a fever of 39 degrees.
By the way, I'll go and buy medicine for him.
Take good care of him.
-Don't touch his favorite toy. -Muqiu.
The Transformer's arm was already broken.
I didn't touch it.
We played around together. We kept each other warm.
We went through the chaos of adolescence.
I still remember what you said to me.
"We shouldn't be too furious in early youth.
Because life is still long."
Are these the ones we broke last time?
Yes.
I bought both of them.
Why did you buy the broken ones?
I bought them
to get your lucky coins back!
Anyway, you can fix anything.
So, fix these two machines!
Wait! Come back!
Where did you get the money?
Did you rob a bank?
What I did is much better than robbing a bank.
Look!
I earned it with my talent!
WINNER CERTIFICATE, YE QIU
You won?
You can't squander your money even if you are the champion!
I was the first one to play the game. No one can compete with me.
How brazen! You even dare to boast before the national champion.
You won because I wasn't in the competition.
Come look at the Ranking List.
As long as a player is at the top of the Ranking List,
his ID's avatar will be saved as an NPC automatically.
If someone surpasses me, my avatar will be deleted.
Mine is still there.
No one has surpassed me yet.
Watch me defeat you in this round!
Get on! One more round!
NO. 1 SU MUQIU, NO. 2 YE XIU
Fool! You lost again!
He didn't want to win.
Even if Muqiu was just an NPC,
he wanted to stay with him like this for a longer time.
Much longer.
Why are you doing this?
Fine.
You won't eat anything?
I'll throw them away.
We'll eat, okay?
It's just breakfast.
Everyone, start eating.
Start eating.
Pass me the bread, please.
If you could turn to others in competitions, that'd be great.
Wait. Where is Wu Chen?
Has anyone seen him?
I haven't seen him
since the competition ended that day.
I knew it was him.
We were right not to let him compete.
He probably climbed the social ladder in Jade Dynasty.
Don't say that, Wei Chen.
How can we blame Wu Chen for Jade Dynasty?
What I said is all true.
I myself saw him with Jade Dynasty players before the match.
Nobody knows if it was him who ratted us out.
He told them that Ye Xiu was not there.
Are you sure it was Wu Chen?
Didn't someone's mouse slip out of his hand?
Besides, tell me the truth.
What's wrong with your hand?
What?
Don't make that face.
Nobody owes you anything.
"Listen to me and we'll win for sure"?
Listen!
What I hate most is someone who pretends to be better than he is.
If you are really capable, win to prove yourself!
-An Wenyi! -Stop it!
The best commander still requires good cooperation.
Go practice and improve yourself!
Cooperation?
Who was the one that rushed ahead and disrupted the entire plan?
Was that me? Never!
Why did I go to the front?
There was no main attacker at all!
Don't look at me.
Attack requires timing.
Do you think everyone else is holding you back?
But each time I do the post-game analysis, you're usually the culprit who goes rogue.
Enough.
We are a team.
Can everyone just calm down?
Yifan.
When will you start having your own opinion?
He doesn't need to.
A yes-man doesn't need to take the responsibilities for anyone!
Everyone is responsible during a match.
There's no point discussing this when we're angry.
Why are you here validating your existence?
Have you got any score?
Why don't you make a Losers' Team with Luo Ji? It's perfect for you!
Are you done?
-You won't let it go? -No!
We're not suited to build a team together!
Fine. Let's part ways then.
-Do it! -Now!
Whatever.
I don't even like it here.
Captain.
Happy belongs to everyone.
You should make your own decisions.
EIGHTH GLORY PRO LEAGUE
HAPPY
Throughout the journey,
the intense daily training and the pressure from preparations
have ignited a desire within us.
Occasional fragility and outburst
speak for the real us.
I think we all need more time
to learn from experience, to learn about responsibility,
and how to grow up.
This time,
I won't
and I don't want to
make any decisions for you.
Little Tang.
Let's go.
Look at me!
See my APM?
As fast as before!
Look at my position.
As fancy as before!
See my reaction?
Wei Chen, any new word?
Stop it!
Look at you.
You can only show off when playing PVE.
You'll absolutely be defeated by new talents in real competitions.
We retired five or six years ago.
You're not like us. You just made a comeback.
-We're not the ones they're after. -Forget real competitions.
I'm afraid a Boss would be too much for you.
Wait!
Are you provoking us?
Wei Chen, don't look down on us.
Let's show him.
I won't go home if I can't defeat several Bosses today.
-Seriously? -Stay focused!
Good job!
Hello.
Honey.
Yes, I bought it.
I'm on my way home.
There's a traffic jam.
There is no keyboard sound.
You heard it wrong.
No keyboard at all on the road.
Okay, I see.
Seriously?
-Come and fill in! -I'm coming. Let's continue.
Wei Chen.
Are you up for it?
Hello.
What?
Increasing two percent didn't work?
Okay, wait for me.
No need.
The driver is downstairs.
Wei Chen, let's take a rain check.
Something came up at work. I got to go.
See you.
What the heck?
-Next time, I'm confiscating all phones. -Exactly!
Mr. Wu, you are most reliable.
We can defeat the Boss.
Hello.
I'll be right there. I promise.
Well...
Wei Chen, I'm sorry.
My driving buddies are rushing me. We're driving to Tibet.
I thought I could play some games before leaving.
Next time.
I'll have a blast with you.
I give you my word.
Why is it so difficult to find someone to play Glory with?
Wei Chen.
You played Glory.
And you went through a lot.
It's time to let go.
Think about your future.
You are the same.
You can let anything go but Glory.
Or you wouldn't come back.
I...
I came back for the baby diapers I bought for my kid. It's here.
Bye.
Driver, stop here, please.
Pay attention to the rhythm when you play this part.
Okay.
Stop.
Tang Rou.
Let me introduce her.
This is your senior.
She is my most excellent student.
Come here.
-It has been a while. -Absolutely.
I chose to escape from here before.
But I won't do it again.
If you decided not to escape again,
does that mean you're coming back?
Think about it.
Because of a mistake I made in the competition,
I stopped playing the piano.
The old me...
thought winning the competition was my entire life.
But the new me
is not afraid of losing anymore.
I won't run away either.
Because my passion triumphs over winning or losing.
What made me understand all this
is Glory.
The price is listed very clearly.
If you're sure,
sign here.
PAYMENT FOR PURCHASING GAME ACCOUNT
Wei Chen!
You forgot the salve for your hand. I've brought it here.
SIGNATURE
You're selling your account?
Wand of Death is more precious than your life.
-Are you really selling it? -I don't want it anymore.
Don't sign it!
Get out! Go!
Go!
Are you really leaving Glory?
Or what?
I don't even have anyone to play with.
Where could I play Glory?
Return to Happy with me.
Like our old days.
We screwed things up while fighting against Jade Dynasty.
Do you think we...
No.
Do you think
I should continue working on it?
You win some, you lose some.
Moreover, that match wasn't your sole responsibility.
I'm not like any of you.
I should live like others who are my age.
What's your age?
In my eyes, you are at the age where you strive, hang out,
and play Glory with us all!
This!
This is what makes me decide that I should leave now.
Our captain has said
that only you can decide
when you should leave the competition.
Whether you're at your peak or in the trough,
and even if you're kicked out.
As long as you love Glory,
as long as you want to be in this arena,
you'll find a way to handle all your setbacks and failures.
It's a choice that we eSports players must face!
No matter how many times we start over,
we'll never change.
Sign it.
Wait for a second.
I've got another pen here.
Hurry up and sign it.
WEI CHEN
AGREEMENT TO SELL GLORY ID AND EQUIPMENT
Sir, we're about to close.
Sorry. I...
Thank you.
Why are you sitting here?
I like this intersection.
What about the intersection?
Is there anything special?
If any one of them comes back, I can see them from here.
So?
So I can hear the captain say, "All team players of Happy are here!"
What if they never come back?
They will.
I'm afraid the red light will stay too long
and the green light is too short.
The red light is really long.
But it's okay.
I'll just wait longer.
HAPPY INTERNET CAFE
I've fixed the umbrella.
But...
Something still feels off.
New rubber bands. New hair pins.
New cloth.
The material is updated.
The quality is much better.
I think the umbrella is pretty good.
No matter how good it is, it's not the one I had.
I thought
I'd get to the end with Lord Grim and the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella.
But I couldn't even do that.
Remember this coin?
If it had not been for it,
your brother would have never taken me in.
If it had not been for it,
you would have never met me.
Back then, my parents were gone.
My relatives who are living abroad wanted to adopt me.
Should we stay and live day to day,
or should he let me leave for a promising future?
Muqiu wasn't sure.
Head, let her go.
Tail, let her stay.
Because of you,
our fates changed.
You always say you were lucky to meet us.
But your appearance
was the best luck the lucky coin brought us.
Your brother never wanted to let you go.
I just happened to pass by.
And then inadvertently
helped him make a decision that had been in his mind.
But you always inadvertently helped us
to make the best choices.
Why are you quitting the part-time job here?
I'm looking for a full-time job,
which will help me make money and feed my family.
But...
What about the seminar for programming?
I quit.
Su Muqiu.
Are you really doing this?
To be a miserable brother who stops studying for his little sister?
Since I've decided to let Mucheng stay,
I'm going to do my best to give her a better life.
What is a "better life"?
Mucheng's birthday wish was to go to the Sea World.
But what I can afford now is three goldfishes.
Who said three little goldfishes
can't have their own Sea World?
The three of us were like these three goldfishes.
We didn't have a big house.
We didn't have fancy decorations.
But we were still happy.
This was the "better life."
Thank you.
You gave me the best birthday gift ever.
Thank you
for being the best birthday gift ever in my brother's life and mine.
We'll have many crossings in life.
If we were not careful enough, we'd have derailed.
The only thing I did was tell your brother
to go along one road.
There's nothing wrong with going along one road.
That was exactly how I met all of you.
And my brother could go back to school.
In the end,
the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella was born.
I got it!
Look! How about this design?
Awesome!
-We made it! -Yes!
But it belongs to me now.
It's mine!
-Come back! -I said it's mine.
I said it!
Everyone said
Myriad Manifestation Umbrella was an unpractical fantasy.
And it was a mission that could never be accomplished.
But you said
the difference between fantasy and reality was whether you believe it.
And the way to make the impossible possible is to never give up.
So, Myriad Manifestation Umbrella wasn't Muqiu's alone.
You used to help him a lot.
So now,
let him help you make a decision.
Tell us
what we should do.
No need to look.
I know what Muqiu would say.
"No big deal. Start over."
Team Treading Clouds and Happy have equal points.
But Happy qualifies for the final with their match win.
-Ms. Chen, what's your opinion? -A word?
We'll talk upstairs.
-Okay. -Please tell us the details.
Okay. Come in, please.
During the match with Jade Dynasty,
something went wrong with Captain Ye's ultimate weapon.
Will he show up in the final and compete?
All players are trying to fix it now.
Moreover, you care about gameplay more than equipment displays.
Are your players affected by the failure from last time?
Captain Ye said, "You win some, you lose some."
Everyone is in a positive mindset.
We are actively preparing.
But according to our informant,
Wei Chen has sold his account and his Silver equipment, Wand of Death.
How would you explain it?
We heard Tang Rou returned to her band and Wu Chen joined Jade Dynasty.
And your other players are currently not at Happy too.
So, with everyone's leaving, will Happy be disbanded?
I told you.
Everyone is trying to fix Myriad Manifestation Umbrella.
Captain Ye sent them to buy materials.
That's why they are not at Happy now.
Could we call them from here?
We care about what's really going on.
-Yes, call them. -Prove it by calling them.
Seems like Happy is just an empty shell. No one is here.
Who said that?
Ms. Chen.
I've got all the materials you and Captain needed.
Yifan and the others are doing well.
They'll be back soon.
This is the contract for purchasing materials.
All data are in here.
You asked for proof?
Here you go.
CONTRACT FOR PURCHASING EQUIPMENT MATERIALS
HAPPY INTERNET CAFE
-Contact us if there's any further info. -Remember it.
-Keep in touch with us. -We will.
-Bye. -Bye!
So you met with Jade Dynasty players to buy materials?
Yes.
Happy didn't have enough Silver equipments.
I wanted to surprise all of you.
Why didn't you tell us back then?
We should obey the leader no matter what happens.
Keeping you all on an even keel
is more important than me competing.
Where did you go after the competition?
To save Myriad Manifestation Umbrella.
The final was coming. Time was running out.
I visited many teams and guilds in a short time.
I managed to get some basic materials.
Hopefully, they're useful.
Do you think they're coming back?
Ms. Chen.
All professional players will face this crossroad of choices.
I've made my choice.
It's their turn now.
What we can do now is give them more space
and give Captain more time.
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