-I am Kim Junsik, prosecutor of the First Advanced Criminal Investigation Department in the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. Before making an announcement about the investigation, I will share the data first.
Kim Junsik, the man with sharp eyes, turned his head and gestured to the woman standing behind him. The woman and a few men next to her held sheets of A4-sized paper in their hands and started distributing them to the reporters.
Then Kim Junsik read out his prepared lines word for word: -You might know it already, but I’ll explain again. As described in the distributed materials, an investigation was initiated after receiving reports that match manipulation has been taking place in the Arena Pro League. We have already obtained the testimonies of several key officials and are in the midst of collecting evidence.
At Kim Junsik’s words, the conference room seemed to come alive; it was a scene reminiscent of a market. Kim Junsik raised his hand with a subtle smile and said, -The first thing I can tell you is that the ‘brokers’, aka the forces manipulating the matches, are situated deeper and more widespread in the league than we thought.
Yeongchan turned his head and looked at the eating Hyeonu. “Aren’t you surprised that something like this happened?”
“What is surprising, specifically?” Hyeonu asked Yeongchan, feeling totally unsurprised.
Hyeonu had been a bit startled when he first got the tip but only temporarily. The world was merciless; people were nothing in front of money. It was this world that overflowed with such people.
“Think of it as a feast for the idiots who can’t recognize the goose laying the golden eggs. Or you can think of them as crazy for money,” Hyeonu told Yeongchan who looked at him without saying anything.
-...It has also been confirmed that they used huge sums of money to dazzle young players and intimidated them using physical force and the difference in status.
Hyeonu looked away from Yeongchan and focused on the television again. He hoped people like that would be swept out.
-Finally, I will say something. This is what I want to say to them personally. Please don’t surrender voluntarily. I will make sure that trash like you will never be able to set foot in Arena again.
***
The prosecution didn’t release any further information. They just launched the investigation and announced that the results were coming. Yet, in the Arena communities, there was already a line of names belonging to the people involved in the match-fixing.
[My analysis of Korean League matches in the past year has finished.]
It was posted by a netizen on the Arena Gallery. There was no exact date, but there was no problem for others to find the video. All teams met once in the Arena Pro League. Therefore, there was only one case where two specific teams met up. People who came to see the video started commenting on the post one by one. Everyone sympathized with the content of the article and admired the writer’s ability.
-From the Stars: I’ve been watching the video, and it really can’t be denied. Seriously. I thought it was strange that UK Heights lost to Big Stars once.
-Foreigner Doctor: I watched the video, and it met some of the conditions of the illegal gambling site. It can’t be denied.
UK Heights was ranked after JT Telecom in the Korean League. The championship was always decided in a match between these two teams. The winning side would win, while the defeated side was the runner-up. It made no sense that such a team would lose one game of PVP to Big Stars, the weakest team.
“It is a bit too much.”
Hyeonu also took a look at a video about the problem. Now that the issue had become so big, there were videos that compared and analyzed games between professional players.
‘Why didn’t they know about this?’
Hyeonu shook his head. His eyes clearly saw the intentions in the players’ movements—their squirming shoulders and eyes that were unable to fix their gaze on one spot. The players pretended otherwise, but their feet which had lost their direction appeared too unnatural.
‘I’m sure there will be results soon.’
It was such a poor level of manipulation that those who participated in it would soon be revealed. People united by money sometimes showed great solidarity, but most of the time, they were like grains of sand, easy to crumble.
‘It isn’t just one or two large guilds that have collapsed because of this.’
“It looks like things will be done well.”
Lee Hoon’s recruitment had passed, and the professional stage would be cleaned. He just needed to appear once it became like clean and pure water.
‘I just need to handle the Buncheonru matter well...’
Now Hyeonu’s homework was in Arena.
***
Hyeonu still hadn’t left Buncheonru. Two days in Arena time had passed since his last stream. He kept walking around Buncheonru, but the quest didn’t respond. The only thing that happened was that he pulled the slot machine handle 10 times a day.
‘Do I need to make contact with a particular NPC to be updated?’
At this point, it should be assumed that Hyeonu’s conjecture was wrong. It seemed that instead of going around Buncheonru to move onto the next part of the quest, he needed to trigger a specific event.
‘I was thinking too lightly of it.’
He had disregarded the S+ rated quest. The two days he wasted was the price for forgetting that S+ rated quests weren’t easy. Hyeonu thought about it while pulling the handle of the slot machine.
Tick... tick... tick... tick!
[Slot machine results: SAG]
[You haven’t won.]
[Current number of times remaining: 0/10]
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