"Yo, where are you going?" Butkus asked as he saw Dorian walking towards the players during the intermission.
"To see if I can help out my cousin," Viktor replied as the other three followed him with narrowed gazes.
Viktor saw Tiana waving her hands about in frustration as her teammates silently listened as if letting her vent her anger.
"How humiliating! We lost against those idiots! Just three more fucking rounds, and we could have beaten their asses!" Tiana fumed with protruding eyes.
She then saw Dorian walking over and knitted her brows, wondering what he wanted at this time.
"Dorian, we can talk later. Now I am not in the mood," Tiana said as she pressed her temples.
"Don't worry. Not everything is lost. I can help," Viktor said in a reassuring tone.
"How?" Tiana asked in a puzzled tone seeing how confident Dorian seemed. Even her teammates looked at him, wondering what kind of help he was offering for them to win.
Viktor said straightforwardly, "You guys are down by one person, right? Let me fill in that slot, or let me be the substitute. We can do that, right? Just like how there are substitutes in football and cricket teams when someone in the team gets injured or is indisposed."
Viktor heard the rules before that stated that teams could have a maximum of three substitutes. But the catch was that the teams had to register the substitutes beforehand.
Tiana was baffled, "Huh? Do you want to play as a sub for our team? Dorian, what are you even talking about? This is a tourney and not a simple practice game. I know you might be excited to play against real players and want to help us but trust me, for a beginner like you, this is not the time and place."
Butkus and the others wanted to eagerly explain what they witnessed, but Viktor stopped them with a hand gesture.
Tiana felt that Dorian didn't exactly understand that this was a professional tournament.
"I know, but still, you guys are better off with a 5th guy rather than not having one, right? Even if I am a noob, you guys can still use me as bait or use me to get in-game information, right? Didn't you tell me that winning in this game depends a lot on strategy as well? Why not use me for that? I am sure it's better than having a useless bot on the team, right?" Viktor said in a convincing tone.
Tiana and her teammates exchanged glances as they slowly nodded, thinking that his words did make sense.
Tiana, however, furrowed her brows as she said, "Okay. But even if we take you as a sub on the spot, as per the rules, the opponent team has also to agree to have you as a sub. Who knows if the Beast Men would agree to this? I am not worried about winning against the other teams even with a bot since they are not that good compared to us based on their gameplay."
"I am sure they wouldn't consider me a threat. And if they do, it would mean they are afraid of a noob like me. It would only make them look bad, and I doubt they would want that," Viktor said with a shrug.
Tiana's eyes lit up as she grabbed Viktor's hand, "Dorian, you are so clever! And here I thought….anyways, let's see if things go as planned."
And just as Viktor said, John snorted upon seeing the Wildcats come up with the request of having Dorian join them as their sub.
He clearly heard Dorian talking about how he hadn't played the game before and saw the Snow Queen teaching him the basics.
He said with a condescending smirk as he looked at Dorian, "Be my guest. In fact, if the rules allowed, I would have let you take ten of him in your team, and we would still win a 5 v 15, hahaha."
John felt that today couldn't get any better, seeing how the Wildcats were too desperate to even take a newbie as their sub in a professional tournament. It was no different than letting a five year old play as a sub in a football team for the world championship.
John's teammates also snickered and laughed as they looked at Dorian. However, Tiana had enough and glared at them before turning away, "Let's go, Dorian. Standing near these noobs can make us dumb like them."
John's laugh stifled as he glared at the Snow Queen's tempting figure and fantasized about dominating her in various ways.
'Heh, Snow Queen, you are going down today and realize that you can never win against a man like me,' John inwardly snickered.
The break was over, and the tourney resumed. Tiana registered Dorian in the tourney as well and asked him to come up with an IGN.
Viktor thought for a few moments and said, "Goodboy."
"Goodboy??" Tiana didn't know what to think and asked, "What made you think of such a name?"
Viktor thought back to how he came upon the caption that read 'Busty and Thicc teacher punishes a goodboy' and decided to take a cue from that.
Of course, Viktor wasn't going to tell Tiana about this and said in a candid tone, "My mother always used to address me Goodboy, and I wish to keep that name so that I can remember her through that way as well."
"Dood…" Skinny Jim and his friends look at Dorian with sympathetic expressions, realizing that his mother was not alive.
Seeing his bright smile as mentioned his mother, Tiana cleared her throat and said, "Alright, goodboi it is but with an 'i'. You don't mind, right? That way, it would look cooler."
"Of course, no problems," Viktor smiled while others nodded as well, thinking that the nickname suited him, especially considering his looks which could make one feel as if he was a harmless and innocent boy.
"Yo, you are so damn lucky. Having the chance to play with the Wildcats is something we guys would die for," Butkus said after making sure the Wildcats won't hear him.
"Haa...I wish I had a cool cousin like yours. Then I would have been to enjoy these privileges," Skinny Jim said with a sigh.
"My friends, you all are forgetting the fact that Dorian is like a hidden weapon here. Now I know why he stopped us from telling them about his god-killing prowess. He wants to make sure the Beast Men don't catch on before your match with them, right?" Bucky asked as he nudged his spectacles.
Viktor slightly smiled as he caressed his hair, "Well, you got that right. But let's see how things go."
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