Now that the replacement had joined the call and the surprise of it all had died down slightly the group began talking about their strategy of winning while they each began starting their streams.
Kanzaki in particular was surprised by the large amount of growth he was already experiencing in his follower count due to the tournament. Many people had been talking about him in the official tournament stream making many tune in to his point of view.
'At this rate, I might surpass 300k followers by the end of the day.' Kanzaki thought with excitement as he watched his follower count slowly rise a couple of times.
In his mind the more followers he had the more famous he would become and then, in turn, the more money he would make. Kanzaki didn't really care for the money personally but what he could use it for is to show his mom that he could make streaming his career with no issues.
Once Kanzaki is able to settle things with his mom he will be able to live freely without worry of judgment from her or anyone else in his family. He would be able to go at it 100% and still enjoy all the things he can in life, especially more dates with Selena.
"I just got word from one of the coordinators that the first match is starting soon." Fria said suddenly bringing Kanzaki out of his own thoughts as he was also talking with his Witch chat.
[BillyBob: It's finally time!]
[UrAverageSkeleton: KILL THEM ALL!]
[L_Darkheart: BRING IT ON!]
[Blue_Robin: Did someone see a dragon nearby?]
Lots of Kanzaki's chat started going crazy the second that the tournament starting had been mentioned. However, before Kanzaki could join them in their excitement he quickly opened up the Cord account of NotBoss413 and sent her a message.
[Mask: Hey, have you ever practiced this game at all?]
Once Kanzaki sent the message he immediately saw the bubble of Notboss413 typing before they sent their own response back.
[NotBoss413: Trust me Kanzaki. I won't bring you or your friends down.]
When Kanzaki read this he smiled as he realized that NotBoss413 also realized that he knew who she was after hearing her voice. It made him even happier to know that she had somehow prepared for the event because he had no reason to doubt her words in the slightest.
After receiving the message from NotBoss413 Kanzaki went back with his chat pumping them up as all of his team got ready for their first match. The first team they would be going against was one of the lesser teams in the tournament because according to their account rankings, Fria had looked up, the highest ranked on their team was 516th in the world. Compared to Kanzaki and Fria who were both in the top 20 these people were nothing.
"Make sure to all stay together during this match so we can take them out without issue." Fria said to the group commanding them as the leader as she normally does. Kanzaki had no problem with this considering it had worked in the many ranked games they had tried before. Some people might think their strategy is bad since they can get backstabbed from behind but with the skills and reaction time of everyone on the team they would be able to fight back before things got bad.
Everyone on all the player's streams waited in anticipation for the game to start alongside all the others that were watching from Witch's main tournament stream.
"Let the match begin!" The person commentating on the tournament suddenly said letting the game begin on both sides.
When this happened Kanzaki and his team wasted no time jumping from their starting point and making their way to a site on the map. During this half of the game, they were on the attacking side so it was their job to either kill all of the other team or destroy a specific part of the map.
"I don't see anyone yet." Samuel said to the group as he scouted his way ahead checking the site to see if anyone was there. Their entire group was walking at a very slow pace once they had gotten this close that way the other team wouldn't hear their footsteps as they walked in.
"I see one up top!" Fria shouted suddenly before shooting in the direction of a high up window. After a few shots, it appeared on the screen that Fria had killed someone.
"There's the rest over here!" Kanzaki shouted as he got sight of the rest of the team. The rest of the other team had heard the gunshots and made their way over not expecting Kanzaki and the rest to be where they were.
However, before Kanzaki and the rest could even react a bunch of gunshots rang out before the rest of the enemy team died disappearing from the map and leaving a lone person behind them who happened to be NotBoss413.
"I told you I was prepared." NotBoss413 said with a grin as the chats of not only the streamers but the main tournament chat went wild as well for this newcomer.
[NoGrass: I have never seen this person before!]
[ProbablySomeone: I wonder if they stream at all?]
[MommyIssues: Please let me be your slave!]
Many different types of messages were going but one thing was for certain in Kanzaki's mind, her skills were the real deal.
With this energy, Kanzaki and his team proceeded to sweep the enemy team with no trouble at all. In fact, the enemy team wasn't even able to win a round on them no matter how much they tried or changed tactics.
"Great job team! Let's keep this up and we can take the whole tournament!" Fria shouted with excitement as she felt the win of a lifetime was in sight.
All they had to do now was win 2 more games and they would be in the finals of the tournament potentially winning it all!
Mask:
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