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Chapter 63
In sports, home territory means the region that serves as the basis for a club’s existence, where the club’s home stadium is located.
Since GM claimed to represent the sports of superhumans, it was similar here as well.
The guild had its arena, and the region that the guild used as its base.
The act of moving this home territory was called “relocation of home territory.”
“Relocation of home territory is an extremely sensitive matter, big or small.”
Еṅu mа .і̃ď
“Well yes, but honestly, in this case, it’s laughable to even call it relocation. We’re still keeping our registration in Busan anyway, aren’t we?”
“That’s why I added the condition. Big or small.”
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“…Is that really important?”
“It’s extremely important. Especially for ‘us.’”
To Chae Dong-Ha, who still didn’t seem to understand, Lee Shin kindly explained.
“Hyung, do you remember the day we went down to Busan because of my grandfather’s mischief? What did I say was our guild’s strength?”
Ẃ е b_n̆о̌ v̀ é l̄ Е n̈ ǔ ḿ a
“Of course I remember. You said the fans.”
“Good. Your thinking is still sharp, so this’ll be easy to understand.”
“…?”
“From the start, relocating home territory is not something you should think about rationally.”
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Forget dictionary definitions, and set aside the office’s rules that Chae Dong-Ha mentioned.
Just focus on fans.
W̄ẽbṅ о́vě ľ Е̃nûmа̇_
“Think from the fans’ perspective. Now, hyung, you and I are Yongbung-i. Even after sixty years of downfall, though we may curse, we never wavered and stayed by their side.”
“A relationship of love and hate, then.”
“Love and hate isn’t bad. Honestly, if you supported this hopeless guild for over ten years, you either truly loved them, or went mad with love, or loved then turned to hate. Whatever the case, without attachment, it doesn’t make sense.”
It might be love and hate. It might be loyalty. It might be affection, or simply familiarity.
Regardless, every year they paid a hefty ticket price to go to the stadium.
Not only did they watch live, they bought season tickets to rewatch at home, and they bought the crude merchandise the guild put out.
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Of course they cursed too. Bastard, son of a bitch… but even if I cursed, when someone else insulted my guild, I turned into a thug to defend them.
“The important thing is.”
Lee Shin raised his finger.
“They’ve been together through it all.”
“…!”
“To put it elegantly, people call that ‘memories.’ And memories always get romanticized. The funny thing is, the dirtier and harder the times, the more you look back and find comfort, even laughter, in them.”
Ёn̈úm̈ а.. і̇ d̄
Now, Lee Shin asked in return.
Would you want the one you shared memories with to suddenly betray you and wear their shoes backward?
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“I guess not.”
“Now you’re starting to get it.”
There’s no need to make it complicated.
Fans, one hundred out of one hundred, hate relocation.
Е̊ n u má
They may want improvement, may hope things change for the better, but they always want the team to stay in place.
What they want from the guild isn’t selfless love, like that of a giving tree. That selfless love is what I, what we, will give them. All they want is for the guild to remain like a pine tree, standing there unchanging.
Because to us, a guild is not just a team, but memories.
“So like I said before, ‘we’ must never relocate.”
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“…Because we didn’t share those memories.”
“Oh~ truly the future genius manager. That’s why I like you, hyung.”
É n̆ŭ m̀ а̊.іd
Lee Shin, holding a coffee that he had fetched at some point, handed it to Chae Dong-Ha and continued.
“Hyung, I think the trust between a guild’s leadership and its fandom comes from these memories.”
“Wouldn’t most answer ‘performance’ to that same question?”
“That’s the usual answer. If the performance is good, everything improves, so it’s not wrong. In fact, we’re proving it ourselves, aren’t we?”
But
“Performance is too extreme. To put it bluntly, you do well one day and poorly the next, and you’re either praised or cursed. That’s this world. For something called ‘trust,’ the fluctuations are too wide. It’s really just emotions. If you start reacting to that, from that moment on, you’re finished as a representative.”
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“Coming from the representative who used showmanship the most effectively, that’s… persuasive.”
“When have I ever gotten depressed from being cursed or elated from being praised… well, maybe a little. Anyway.”
One must not be swayed by the fandom’s ups and downs.
One of the leadership’s roles is to be the scapegoat.
For example, if Park Su-Bin or Yu Rira have poor performances due to conditioning issues? 100% of the curses online are directed at Lee Shin. Conversely, if they do well, Lee Shin gets praised.
“If you react by running things timidly just to avoid criticism, you’re unqualified. If you get drunk on the praise and claim the hunters’ achievements as your own, you’re unqualified. Remember this well. It’s a five-star tip.”
Ēn u̇.m̂ а̌
“…Yes.”
“Anyway, performance is, in my view, more like ‘proof’ than ‘trust.’ Proof that we’re not just slacking off, that we’re working hard, so please watch us. But memories are different. They don’t change. In fact, they become more beautiful.”
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That’s the frightening thing about memories.
No matter how painful the hardship, with time it becomes a memory. Looking back, you can laugh, or if not laugh, at least it becomes a story to share over drinks.
And the more these are shared, the thousand, ten-thousand times stronger they become.
“Nearly all of Mir Guild’s fans, the Yongbung-i, have such memories. Memories you and I don’t share, ones we cannot share.”
W̆ еbn̊ óv́el Еṅu m а̂
“But the thing is, we inevitably must change. To advance, to be promoted.”
Ironically, the better performance—the very thing fans want—the more the guild must change.
Players must be swapped to match the league while facilities must be expanded.
Just look at how Mir Guild launched a business after being promoted to League 3, and how a new stadium must be built in preparation for future promotions.
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“Even though it’s changed for the better, for ‘development,’ there will still be those who lament. Saying it was better back then, that we were closer. Even though we changed to deliver the performance they wanted, that’s how it is. Now the problem. In that situation, what if we even mention relocation?”
Lee Shin’s lips curved upward.
Ẅ е̃b̀ ńо v̇ е̊ l̇ Еn ù m̌ā
“Then we become bastards who sold off our very foundation.”
In truth, Mir Guild is Mir Guild in name only; inside, it’s almost entirely rebuilt.
The representative is Lee Shin. The next manager, effectively decided, is Chae Dong-Ha. The raid captain is Mountain King, installed by Lee Shin. The next-generation stars representing the guild are all new faces produced by Lee Shin.
And in this state, to bring up relocation as well?
Regardless of reason, they’d be confirmed bastards. The fragile identity of Mir Guild would collapse instantly.
“Relocation breeds controversy and wounds for fans. Our guild’s only strength is our fans, and without them, Mir Guild is no different from any other League 3 guild. To bring up relocation for immediate gain? That’s suicide.”
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“Ah…”
“Don’t be too disappointed. It’s a common mistake, you know. Running so fast in success that you look back later and find no one left by your side.”
“That’s true.”
“Frankly, this isn’t even our decision to make. Unless the city goes insane and breaks its promises, like refusing to build the stadium they agreed to, or making unreasonable demands for us to leave, relocation simply isn’t an option for us.”
“I understand.”
That’s why Lee Shin judged that they must not act carelessly.
Ėn̆ um̃à . і̀d
“This matter requires delicate handling. If you foolishly try to raise our price through competition, you look like money-grubbing insects. But if you stay silent, you look like sycophants. Go too submissive, and you become pushovers.”
“My thinking was shallow.”
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“No, you’re doing well. That’s how you learn. Sincerity. All you need is sincerity in management.”
Sincerity.
It might not seem to match the always-loose Lee Shin, but Chae Dong-Ha knew. When it came to the guild, Lee Shin was more sincere than anyone.
The foresight to predict the future, the meticulously crafted plans. Sometimes they were so beyond common sense they shocked everyone, yet in the end, this man always proved himself one hundred percent.
Е̃ nù_mа̇
When it came to the guild, Lee Shin had always been right, at least so far.
So at times like this, he seemed admirable. Chasing profit above all else, yet still sincere to the fandom and his people.
I thought he was just blinded by money and stirring up fights, but now I almost feel sorry.
‘That’s right. I must approach sincerely.’
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Sincerity.
Today too, Chae Dong-Ha learned a precious lesson from Lee Shin.
Ёnu̇ m a
“Hyung, quickly call Shinsung and tell him to shut his mouth for a bit.”
“…Of course.”
Even scheming must be done sincerely…
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Meanwhile, at that very hour at Yeongdo District Office, talk of the Mir Guild was also coming up.
“This graph is based on performance evaluation.”
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“Compared to last year, the number of tourists visiting Yeongdo has increased fivefold, and among them, more than 20% are staying overnight, yielding tangible economic results.”
“The first point to note is that this surge in inflow began in the middle of last year’s league, which coincides exactly with the time the Mir Guild began drawing attention in the media and press.”
In truth, other regions made a fuss, saying life had improved, they were enjoying benefits, all kinds of noise—but how could any branch compare to the original headquarters?
In League 3, public opinion said it would be impossible, but just as if striking down such claims, they maintained the same performance that devoured League 4, and at the 53rd round—an incredible 53 straight victories—the Mir Guild’s great success was completely transforming the market economy of this city called Yeongdo.
Every weekend, the coastal trail was crowded with people, and local merchants were screaming with joy.
“Travel agencies seemed to want to create tour and experience programs themed around ‘Mir Guild.’”
Е̇ n̆u m̂ а̃
“The Yeongdo Small Business Association asked that projects related to Mir Guild be pushed further, saying they too wanted to open cafés on land where a ‘Lair’ exists, and insisted that we pass this message along.”
“MBS is hoping that this special program will definitely include training scenes or interviews with Mir Guild members.”
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Honestly, who among those here ever expected the Mir Guild to do this well? One can say with certainty—not a single person.
A guild that was being discussed in terms of whether it would dissolve or not suddenly, in just over a year, rose to become the star of the league’s popularity? If you wrote a drama like that, people would curse it for being unrealistic.
By the nature of this field, a guild’s performance and marketability could not help but be proportional, and from the standpoint of the district office, which prioritized local development, a Mir Guild that failed to produce results could only be “out of sight.”
So much so that, when it was said that the troublemaker Lee Shin was joining Mir Guild, they pinned their hopes not on performance but on the backing of the LeeDo Group behind him.
Е nuḿ а . і̀d
But then—what a surprise?
They brought in the legendary Mountain King, once considered not just Yeongdo’s pride but almost a great figure, sat him down, and then, like an out-of-control 8-ton truck, they steamrolled the league.
Breaking all the records of League 4, they made a rapid advance into League 3.
In raids, they shattered records, in competitions, they shut down opponents, and even now they are dominating the league.
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They say one well-raised guild can feed an entire city, but when the staff first saw the numbers, they rubbed their eyes again and again to check if this was really their own region.
“Even though it’s Yeongdo, it’s at this level? This is insane…”
W̌ е b n̆ov̈ е̄ l̄ E nu̇ m̊ а̂
“I kind of get why the other district offices are freaking out.”
“It’s like this already—what happens if they get promoted to League 2 and start full-scale expansion…?”
-Gulp.
Jackpot. Super jackpot.
In today’s terms, something big had arrived.
And the man sitting at the head of this conference hall was not one to let such an opportunity slip.
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“You can talk in complicated ways, but doesn’t the conclusion come down to this? We absolutely must not let go of Mir Guild. Whatever it takes, we have to tie them down to Yeongdo.”
A prodigy who had gone through an MBA course and once became the youngest executive at a certain conglomerate, and who succeeded his father to become the second-generation district mayor of Yeongdo.
District Mayor Noh Hyung-shim stroked his thick chin and his eyes gleamed.
“Don’t worry, everyone. I have no intention of letting them be taken.”
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