“Ehhh… captain? Puppey?” hazarded Resolut1on, approaching the Monitor’s Bane hesitantly.
Team Secret’s captain didn’t look up from his copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of Laning. “Reso. What’s on your mind?”
Resolut1on shuffled his feed. “I, uh… well. I’ve been hearing some of the… stuff. The rumors. You have too, right? About Dota… dying?”
“What about it?” Puppey flipped a page. “Things die, Reso. All we need is to be in a position to profit from it.”
“Yes, uh… yes. You’re… you’re exactly right, captain. But I was… I was wondering. They. They say you save strats, right? Like, when Secret loses the International… they say it’s because you’re saving strategies. For the, uh, Intergalactic.”
A cruel smile played across Puppey’s face, then faded like it was never there. “They do. They do say that. And?”
“Uh… I mean, if that were… if that were TRUE, Captain Puppey, sir… I…?”
Puppey looked up, seeming annoyed. “Out with it, Roman. What?”
Roman “Resolut1on” Fominok swallowed. “What if the Dota pro scene dies before the Intergalactic ever happens?”
Puppey snapped the book shut with a sound like a thunderclap and sprang his feet. “Shit… shit! Ah, mother- alright!” He threw his desk out of the way with one hand as he marched out of the room. “Gather everyone, it’s time for a change of plans. Shit… I can’t believe that didn’t occur to me. Good work, Roman.”
Resolut1on let out a deep breath, the tension leaving his body. At least he could say he won the Aegis this year, even if there never was another one.
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