"[Victory! Maorun White]"

"[Defeat! Black Circus]"

Cho Yerin slumped to the ground, staring blankly at the holographic scoreboard displaying her team's victory.

“Victory.”

The word, something she should have grown used to as a competitor, felt strangely unfamiliar. Why did it feel so foreign, yet so wonderful?

"Heh… heh-heh…”

They did it. She really pulled it off. Although the opposing team wasn’t particularly strong, like her own, it didn’t matter. What mattered was that, in the final moments, Cho Yerin had taken charge, turned the battle around with her strategy, and led her team to a comeback victory.

If she …