Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 95, Section 92: Publicly Revealing the Jade Syndrome (4K, Requesting Votes)
After Yuna Shimamura made a stunning impact in the first game of the regular season, the world's attention truly focused on her.

Compared to the languishing and dejected LPL, many viewers genuinely feel that watching these mainland teams play trash matches is less appealing than watching LCP's Shimamura Yuna's games.

Although the league level is a bit low.
There are a lot of bad teams, though.
But none of this matters.

What's important?
The important thing is being able to watch Yuna Shimamura's matches and shout "Yuna-nee is awesome!" along with the comments.

And then, what was the result?

As a result, Shimamura Yuna didn't play in the regular season for a long time afterward.

Yes, logically speaking, after her amazing debut, Shimamura Yuna performed very well and was very popular.

The CFO should continue to be Yuna Ueshimamura.

But she didn't go.

In a subsequent regular season game, the starting lineup did not include Yuna Shimamura, but instead featured a rotation between Rest and Driver.

At this point, people were already starting to feel dissatisfied.

No, I have Sister Nai!

Where is Shimamura?

Why Rest and Driver? Who the hell are those two?

Many people watch CFO shows and follow CFO shows just to see Yuna Shimamura.

I've already arrived, and you're telling me Shimamura Yuna isn't here?

Moreover, it would be fine if it were just one game.

The problem is that, after that, Shimamura Yuna barely appeared on the court for almost the entire regular season.

He seemed to have vanished into thin air; apart from watching the water dispenser backstage, he was nowhere to be seen on the field during the competition.

And so, halfway through the regular season, Shimamura Yuna still hadn't played.

Now, everyone was a little confused.

Not buddy
Where is Shimamura Yunato?

Did we come to LCP just to see two grown men like you?

Could you please bring Shimamura Yuna up here for me?

But the CFO insisted that only REST and Driver would play in each game, and Shimamura Yuna would not play at all.

This has sparked much discussion online.

[No, I thought Shimamura played so well in the first game, how come she was benched after the first BO3? Did she offend management?]

Is this the same as when UZI was with BLG? I remember DOGGO was also on that team back then. Will all the popular players on DOGGO's team be shut down?

[I heard that UZI isn't playing mainly because of a streaming contract dispute, which apparently involved BBC. Why isn't Shimamura Yuna playing? Is it also due to a streaming contract?]

[No way, right? I saw that Shimamura-san also has a live streaming contract with Bilibili, really?]

What many people don't know is that the CFO didn't let Shimamura Yuna take the stage, and the reason was quite simple.

The reason is that Shimamura Yuna's hero pool is too shallow. We are afraid that if she plays too many regular season games, her tricks will be exposed. We want to save her for more crucial games. At this time, we just let her practice her hero pool and maintain her form.

For the CFO, playing a regular season game is indeed not stressful, and there is no need for Shimamura Yuna to play.

However, the outside audience is unaware of these things.

What everyone can see is that Yuna Shimamura is playing and using everything on the ladder.

What everyone can see is that in the match, Shimamura Yuna played a Weapon Master and a Vampire, both of which resulted in massive kills, and she also played Jayce quite well.

Where is the hero pool issue?

Isn't this a game where you can play all types of characters, from long-range to short-range, and even mages?
No one can understand the real reason why the CFO didn't let Shimamura Yuna play.

There's even a prevailing opinion outside.
That is, the CFO is currently engaged in a power struggle with Shimamura Yuna, deliberately preventing Shimamura Yuna from taking the lead and intentionally trying to annoy her.

This caused a complete uproar in public opinion.

All sorts of unfounded rumors started circulating.

Someone said that the CFO had a conflict in the locker room.

Then someone else said that the CFO doesn't like having Japanese people in the team and wants to keep the team members all from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, so there's some internal power struggle going on.

There are also rumors that the CFO is forcing Shimamura to renew her contract by preventing her from competing, because she only signed a short-term contract for one stage. Incidentally, this is the only true piece of information, but it's only half true.

Yuna Shimamura did indeed sign a contract with the CFO only until around the time of MSI, which is around July.

After MSI ends, a new contract will need to be signed.

Shimamura Yuna even made it clear during the signing that if she made a name for herself in the Vanguard Tournament, she would leave after the tournament. Signing her to MSI was just to allow the CFO to make some money from the transfer fee, as a favor.

If I don't make a name for myself, I'll stay in CFO until my contract expires and then we'll see if I want to continue working there.

This was something that both parties agreed upon when the contract was first signed.

On one hand, they wanted to use the CFO as a stepping stone, and on the other hand, they wanted to capitalize on the popularity of Shimamura Yuna, essentially a mutually beneficial arrangement.

However, the CFO initially didn't expect Shimamura Yuna to be so strong.

When Shimamura Yuna said she wanted to use the CFO position as a stepping stone, everyone took it as a joke, thinking, "If you're so great, then show me how it works."

They all felt that since the signing fee for Shimamura Yuna was basically free, it wouldn't matter if they signed her and got some free publicity.

But now it seems that Shimamura Yuna's abilities and commercial value far exceed their initial expectations.

Therefore, they did intend to renew Shimamura's contract ahead of schedule.

However, this willingness to renew the contract is not as strong as the outside world says. It is not a deep-seated hatred like "I will bench you and kill you if you don't renew the contract" or "I will do anything to achieve my goal".

It was just a tentative inquiry: "How about you renew your contract with us until the end of the year? We've already won these past six months, what's another year?"

"Why don't you talk about leaving next year?"

That's pretty much the attitude.

Far from being as exaggerated and tense as those rumors and speculations suggest.

The CFO's current thinking is that if the contract really can't be renewed, so be it. People naturally want to move to better places, and water naturally flows downhill.

Players with commercial value like Shimamura Yuna are indeed not something a team of CFO's size can control. Being able to get CFO to play a stage for free is already a huge win.

If Shimamura Yuna really doesn't want to stay, they can sell her to another team after the first stage of the competition to earn a transfer fee, which would be a considerable income for the CFO. In conclusion, there is absolutely no conflict between the team and Shimamura Yuna; the relationship is very harmonious.

Even knowing that Shimamura Yuna would most likely leave the team after the first stage, Chawy still did his best to help Shimamura Yuna review the game.

He knew perfectly well that Shimamura Yuna would have difficulty developing tank and heavy warrior skills for the team before leaving, but he didn't tell her in a very pragmatic way, "When you're put on the field, it's to let you play carry, don't practice those useless skills."

He believed that there were some things that Shimamura Yuna might not need when she was CFO, but would be useful when she joined another team later.

What he hopes for now is that even if Shimamura Yuna achieves great success, people will remember that the CFO was the starting point for Shimamura Yuna as an athlete, and they will remember him as a good coach.

The CFO also hopes that Shimamura Yuna will remember the CFO's kindness and be able to give back to the CFO in the future, simply by generating some buzz and discussion for the CFO.
The result is now
It seems we should put aside the question of whether it's trending or not.

The CFO is being subjected to a lot of online bullying right now.

Now, almost all official CFO accounts, contestants' personal accounts, and any comment sections related to CFOs have been besieged by angry Yuna Shimamura fans.

[Should we let Shimamura-san fight or not? If not, please release her!]

[Sima, CFO, what's the point of signing players if you don't use them? Isn't Shimamura a million times better than your two VVVV top laners?]

[The entire CFO management team is wiped out; the CFO management team has no mother.]

They were bombarded with various forms of cyberbullying that exceeded the team members' tolerance.

Various conspiracy theories.
Especially CFO's two current top laners, their performances are scrutinized under a magnifying glass. If they make even the slightest mistake, they get cyberbullied, with people saying they are "not as good as Shimamura Yuna."

It's not just fans from mainland China.

Even local Taiwanese fans are curious as to why Shimamura Yuna wasn't allowed to play.

Although they may not be as vocal as mainland fans for various reasons, they generally do not understand the behavior of the CFO management.

This has caused the other two top laners, besides Shimamura Yuna, to have their mentality somewhat shattered recently.

They all felt like they were about to reach their breaking point.

Even DOGGO couldn't help but complain: "Damn, I think I've experienced something similar in BLG."

Yes, back then, DOGGO, as the man who made UZI his substitute, also endured terrifying pressure.

It could even be said that DOGGO was under even more intense pressure back then than he is now. UZI's fans complained that he wasn't as good as UZI, while UZI's haters complained that he was just taking up space and not doing anything, preventing them from having any fun.

He's completely a nobody, neither inside nor outside the family.

Faced with this situation, the CFO simply couldn't withstand the public pressure.

Yuna Shimamura didn't want to stand by and watch her teammates be cyberbullied; she didn't want Driver and Rest to come out and write "I'm guilty" in a few days.

That would really be a disaster.

So, after discussing it with the club, she decided to come forward to clarify and explain in order to protect her teammates.

Of course, while it's a clarification, we certainly can't say directly, "We didn't play in order to hide our tactics."

Hiding it for so long was pointless, and the team members getting scolded was for nothing.

So she posted this update on Bilibili.

Hi everyone, long time no see. Actually, I originally wanted to avoid using social media before the off-season to prevent it from affecting my performance, but now that things have come to this, I feel I have to come out and clarify some things.

First, please stop cyberbullying my teammates and stop spreading conspiracy theories and rumors.
I haven't been involved in any internal power struggles within the team, nor have I had any conflicts with my teammates, and there haven't been any of the rumored contract disputes. Everything here is great, and I get along very well with everyone at CFO.

My contract with the CFO is indeed short, but our communication on this matter is going very well, and there is no conspiracy theory as rumored.

The reason I haven't been playing lately is because my mental health condition has been worsening. After a follow-up examination, the doctor determined that I am not suitable to play and bear the pressure of public opinion at this time.

However, I never expected that my avoidance of public pressure would become the catalyst for that pressure to oppress my teammates. This makes me feel extremely ashamed, and therefore I have no choice but to step forward and explain.

Yes, in order not to reveal the real reason why the CFO didn't let her play, she chose to tell a little lie, saying that she was under too much psychological pressure to play.

That's not exactly fake, is it?
But that's only half true.

Later, in order to increase the credibility of her statements, she posted an update with a photo, publicly revealing for the first time her diagnosis of severe depression.

Then, she added a text to this post.

I know that the current online environment is very unfriendly to people like me who suffer from what's called "Yu Yu syndrome." I also know that if I were to disclose my condition, I might not receive comfort, but rather a barrage of ridicule. That's why I haven't proactively admitted to my condition for so long, even though you've all suspected it.

But today, I must stand up to protect my teammates; I need to refute all conspiracy theories with concrete evidence.

Once I'm in better shape, I'll play at the right time.

I just hope that everyone will stop putting more psychological pressure on me and my teammates.

I understand everyone's concern for me, but I came out today just to clarify some facts.

We also urge unscrupulous self-media outlets to stop spreading rumors.

Yuna Shimamura is right.

Actually, back when she was doing live streams in her early days, many people speculated that she might have depression.

But she has never admitted it or made it public, so the viewers in the live chat can only speculate.

And to admit it now, the timing is undeniably perfect.

On the one hand, he protected his teammates in terms of public opinion, with solid evidence on his face, which seemed very reasonable and did not appear to be coerced.

On the other hand, taking this opportunity to disclose one's illness will not be questioned as "trying to gain sympathy by exploiting depression," making it the best time to go public.

It's much better than suddenly posting a video out of nowhere, holding up a piece of paper and saying to the camera, "I have depression."

As soon as this post was published, the public opinion shifted immediately.

First, many people felt sorry for Shimamura.

Wow, I'd seen Shimamura-san often mute herself after being criticized, and I was wondering if she was crying. Turns out it really happened!

[Shimamura has always suffered from depression, but she never talked about it. She only brought it up now to protect her teammates. She's so strong.]

[Shimamura is right. In today's online environment, depression only invites ridicule and sarcasm. It takes courage to openly discuss one's condition, and I admire Shimamura's initiative in clarifying things to protect her teammates. I just hope that some shameless people will be more tolerant of Shimamura after today.]

[Impossible. Some people are like maggots. After learning that Shimamura-san has depression, they might cling even tighter, gloating over their cyberbullying of someone with depression. That's just how the internet is.]

It can only be said that public opinion reversed instantly after Shimamura Yuna publicly disclosed her illness.

P.S.: I'm in a really bad state. It just so happens that I'm at a transitional point to the next chapter, so I'll just write 8K today and 8K tomorrow too.

Take a two-day break after an 8K run to get back into shape.

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