章節 45: Celebrity
[Here Begins The Third And The Last Round Of The Second Day!] The mascot announced.
After a fifteen minutes break, the third round began.
Kevin glanced around the arena and asked with a curious look on his face: "Is it just me, or are there more players now?"
"You are not alone," Kiana replied and pointed her finger at the screen on the sky that showed the viewers count watching the match in the real world.
"Earlier, during the second round, the viewer count was 3 million live viewers. And now, it's 8 million live viewers," Kiana stated.
"I love how this event looked boring and flopped when they announced it. Only 400 players participated. But now, it's getting viral," Kevin scoffed.
"If it keeps getting more attention, The winner or top 10, I say. They are going to be the next internet celebrities," Kiana asserted.
Kevin opened his menu and started doing something.
Curious, Kiana peeked in and asked, "Whatcha doin'?"
"Just a minute…" Kevin muttered.
After a brief moment, he opened Ziro's social media page and showed it to Kiana.
Kiana raised her brows and asked with a creeped-out look on her face: "Why are you stalking Ziro?"
"I am not. I am just showing how savage his lifestyle is."
Kevin scrolled down and showed all the images that Ziro had posted.
"He has been on social media for around ten months, and he has posted 24 pictures— all of them with Alina. However, in none of them, he is posing or even trying to pose."
Kevin opened and zoomed in on one of Ziro's photos and said, "Look at his face; he is trying so hard to smile."
"So… what is your point?"
"He doesn't give a fuck about anyone. It's like the only thing he cares about in this world is Alina, almost as if he is living for her."
Kiana still couldn't understand what Kevin was trying to say.
"You know that Alina is like a… growing celebrity on the internet, right?" Kevin asked to confirm.
"Yeah," Kiana nodded and continued, "She has a blog channel that is super famous."
Kiana had a public blog channel where she posted stuff about games of all kinds. From Normal PCs and consoles games to virtual games. She reviewed the games honestly based on her liking and posted them.
Many of her fans waited for her review first before trying out the game. She has a massive fanbase of people of all ages.
Game companies contacted her on several occasions and tried to bribe her to give them high ratings and good reviews. Alina rejected all the offers and gave honest reviews.
When she started going out with Ziro, Alina decreased her time in playing games and focused more on her studies and Ziro so that she could stand equal to him.
Her identity was anonymous, and no one knew about her actual identity. However, six months ago, someone tried to claim that she was Alina.
That caused a huge conspiracy and created a massive internet debate.
Alina personally didn't care about that, but many of her haters tried to frame her for things she wasn't even aware of.
That angered Ziro, and he took over the internet by surprise by buying the entire website and making it private.
"Alina has 3 million followers, and her photos get millions of likes even though she has never revealed her full face," Kiana added.
Ziro created his first social media account after Alina urged him to. When Ziro first posted his picture and tagged Alina, he was swarmed by Alina's fans. And they cursed him to death.
However, he soon gained fame over his looks, and girls started Dm'ing him and sent him nudes and stuff.
Ziro had no idea what to do, so he tried to delete his account, but Alina stopped him.
Later, they came to the conclusion that Alina would handle Ziro's social media accounts.
"When I first checked Ziro's account on the day we met him for the first time, he had 300k followers," Kevin stated. "However, now he has 5 million followers."
"Crying in 5k followers," Kiana muttered.
"So, my point was: It seems Ziro is living for Alina, but in truth, Alina is the reason for Ziro's everything."
"Are you saying that if Alina hadn't asked Ziro to open the social media accounts, he wouldn't be living the same life he is living right now?" Kiana asked and continued, "Or if Alina hadn't asked Ziro to play LNA with her, his life would be entirely different from what it is right now?"
"Yeah," Kevin nodded in response.
Kiana shrugged her shoulders and said, "I doubt that. But okay."
[The First Battle Is Between Tian And Nier!] The mascot announced.
Kevin and Kiana's attention was diverted to the announcement.
"Nier did mention she was in the first queue, but I didn't know she was the first," Kiana murmured.
Kevin glanced around and uttered, "Still no sign of Ziro, Alina, or Sera. What's taking them so long?"
"If they don't come, they will miss Nier's match," Kiana.
Meanwhile, Nier glanced around the arena to look for Ziro, but she couldn't see him anywhere.
"Uh oh. She also seems to be looking for them," Kiana remarked.
Nier and her opponent Gian stepped into the ring. Tian moved forward to shake hands with Nier, but Nier ignored him and kept glancing around to spot Ziro.
Tian raised his hand and said, "I will use Scythe as my weapon."
Nier raised her hand and said, "I will use a stick."
"What did she just say?!" Kevin exclaimed.
"..." Kiana raised her brows and chuckled, 'Does the savageness run in their blood?'
Nier and Ziro were trained to use any weapons for defense so that if in the future they were in a situation where they couldn't use a proper weapon, they could easily use everyday things as a weapon.
[Three! Two! One! Go!]
The match started, and Tian dashed at Nier. He skillfully swung his scythe and attacked Nier.
Nier jabbed Titan's wrist, which caused Tian to drop Scythe. Then, Nier repeatedly poked the stick at various locations of Tian's body and pushed him out of the ring.
Everyone, including Kevin's jaw, was dropped after seeing the match.
"What just happened?" A player muttered.
[Congratulations To Nier For Breaking The Record Of The Shortest Match Of This Tournament!]
"How much time did she take?"
"No… way. She finished the match in mere 6 seconds."
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