CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! Thunderous appuse ed the eadium shortly after the sed game ended.

  "Yo, this is sick!" Lars pumped a fist high in the air in respoo the audience's cheers. "It's like we're heroes!"

  "Indeed, indeed!" Vi nodded repeatedly. "This unlikely viakes for a splendid underdog story! This is a tale of the 'weakest' team triumphing over the regional champions while using an unventional lio boot!”

  "So, you’re saying this is like a TV show for them, huh." Kai shook her head a little but she still smiled like the others. After all, it was impossible to stay indifferent to the fact of this thunderous appuse.

  Teically, the audience was just enjoying a good show as they watched Stratus struggle through blood, sweat, and tears. heless, it felt good to be aowledged so much. It really drove home the fact that Stratus had just defeated the regional champions.

  In fact, this result probably earratus a spot among the "stro in the region". After all, thus far, not a sieam was able to win a game off the Leopards this year.

  "We have made history today," Vi procimed dramatically. "From this day forth, the ratus shall instill fear in the hearts of our foes!"

  "That's not necessarily a good thing," Yuel pointed out. "It means they'll start putting effort into researg us. This will make all our future matches that much harder."

  "Man, you always gotta put a damper on anything good that happened, doncha?" Luke sighed. "I mean, look at all these dudes in the audience. Do they look like a bunch of enemies nning to eat ya alive? Nah, they be g to celebrate our victory, man. They're saying we're awesome!"

  "Yes, they're saying that for now because they're a ral party in all of this right now,” Yuel said. “But, ohey return to their clubs, they'll thhly analyze everything about today’s scrimmage. They’ll check out not only the Leopards but us as well. I'm sure we'll feel the sequences of this in the scrimmage."

  "Meh, what a serial party popper." Luke shrugged.

  Admittedly, he was getting a little salty about how Yuel dowhis huge achievement. Of course, the guy’s argument made perfect sense, but there was a time and a pce for saying stuff like this and now ain't it, chief.

  Welp, better ighis dolt and bask in the glory while it's here.

  CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! The g went on for lohan usual. It’s probably because the whole thing started off as an awkward unanized mess, so nobody was sure when was the right time to stop. But, this was gud, very gud.

  Keep them ing, bois! Luke stood up and stretched his arms, striking a victorious pose. He was like a pro wrestler showing off his strength.

  Of course, this game was won by Stratus as a whole, not just by Luke. heless, he couldn't help but feel like the appuse was directed mainly at him and that he was at the ter of it all.

  But, why did he feel like Mr. Universe all of a sudden? Why, because this whole game was one giant meme! And, the biggest meme of them all was run by her than the LegendaryMemer!

  Heck yeah, I showed ya all! Luke grinned. Did you see that? I actually beat the stro dudes around with memes! I'm that good, man.

  This gotta be the pinnacle of self-expression as far as Cssmancers was ed. Luke was using the most noa stuff out there a he emerged victorious. And, he achieved that not just against some plebs but against the Leopards, the ultimate oppos!

  Gotta say, I'm gd I left soccer for this. Luke thought. Mancers is a hel tight game!

  As hard as he tried, he could never reach this level of self-expression in soccer. Seriously, soccer just wasn’t as wild as Cssmancers.

  For example, in soccer, he couldn't pick a risky meme like Dark Knight and steamroll in the early game. There weren’t any over-the-top things like that in soccer.

  Oher hand, in Cssmancers, Luke did just that and it was awesome! What’s more, the crowd’s undying appuse raising him for his creative work.

  It’s like I was born for this moment, word! Luke almost shivered from excitement.

  After enduring the long and thorny road of being ridiculed and criticized as a memer to no end, at long st, Luke grasped glory! We sent these meta sves pag, haha!

  Just by looking at the Leopards, it was clear that this game ruiheir lives and crushed their souls. It was almost possible to see a dark cloud h over their heads. It was a total Depression City over there.

  But, their depression didn't st forever. Eventually, one of the guys rose on his feet. It seemed he was the only oh enough willpower to leave his chair while everybody else was glued to their seats.

  Cp. Cp. Cp. The guy suddenly started g along with the crowd.

  "Say wut?" Luke cocked his head. Look at this guy trying to act like a tough nut, haha.

  It was clear the dude utting on an a front of the audience.

  He’s the captain, right? Luke thought. So, he’s trying to act strong for his homies, huh.

  Nobody else from the Leopards had the strength to stand up by themselves, so the captain had to pull them ba their feet via tricks like this.

  Mad respect for that mental fortitude, man. Though, your smile looks kinda fake, not gonna lie.

  But, it was uandable. There was no way the Leopards’ captain would be able to genuinely smile in this situation, not when the crowd was ily booing them to oblivion for losing to memes.

  The mental shock was surely pretty daating. It wouldn’t be toe for the Leopards to simply ragequit here.

  Getting dunked on by memes do that to a man, I know from experience. Luke smirked. So many people ragequit on me in lower ranks when I killed their teammates with memes.

  These mofos probably fmed their teammates to no end fetting killed by memes”. Aually, they just ragequit like the toxic trash they were.

  That’s the kind of power memes had over people, and Luke was one of the few masters who knew how to harhis legendary power. He was simultaneously at the top and the bottom of the food , both at once! Basically, an absolute mad d through and through.

  Welp, it looks like they're finally leaving. Luke noticed.

  After being glued to their seats for like a mihe members of the Leopards finally left their chairs and dragged their feet away. It looked like their captain gave some sort of pep talk that lifted their spirits. It robably something along the lines of "Meh, we only lost because we let uard down against that meme."

  The typical excuses, smh. Luke thought. I hope you chumps ain't gonna act like this was some kind of fluke. I mean, we won this game through and through! Ez game. And, we'll do it agai round, just you watch!

  "Hey Luke, are ya ing?" Lars called from afar.

  It turned out that the eeam has already departed from the stage. Only Luke stayed there like a scarecrow, still drunk from the appuse that already ended.

  "Ah, right! ing!" Luke dashed backstage to joihers.

  A triumphant grin stayed on his face all the way back to their waiting room. But, it might not st for as long as he thought...

  DarkestCymore