Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1119

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 4
2. A Spicy Memory (1)
King Gul had taken on the role of main MC for the funeral.
With his powerful voice and eloquent manner of speaking, he was quite skilled at hosting, and being from Tribby made him an excellent choice.
He moved about the venue, striking up conversations with the Streamers and conducting interviews.
“Oh, there. Over there. I’ll head that way. Cameraman.”
Seeing Almond and Mosol together, he couldn’t help but approach them.
“Everyone, it’s Daegam! Daaaaaegam!”
The protagonist of Seok.
Almond Daegam had come to reality.
-Whoa
-Finally
-Daegam’s here
-Ohhh
From Mosol’s perspective, he was finally about to have a conversation with Sanghyeon.
‘Huh?’
Suddenly, a man with a large head had barged in.
“Hello! Almond!”
Of course, it was loud and chaotic, and besides that—
Given who the other person was, the interview was a mess.
“My head isn’t big. It’s not.”
“Pardon?”
All King Gul managed to get out of his efforts to ask was this response.
“My head! Really! It’s! Not as big as you’d think!”
-Hahahahahaha
-Hahahaha
-Lolololol
-???: His head is big… seriously… it really is big…
-Lmaooo
-Reverse Japanese person lol
-It’s really big lol
King Gul, flustered, quickly wrapped up the interview.
“Ah, I understand! I heard you, Almond. Please calm down.”
He tried to conduct other interviews.
“Daegam! Daegam! Daegam!”
As other Streamers came over, King Gul and the Cameraman were naturally pushed aside.
“Huh?”
-Lol
-His popularity is insane lol
-Wow lol
-and it’s so chaotic
-Is this really a funeral?
In the end, Sanghyeon was practically forced to move to a table with the other members.
Along with him, streamers who wanted to be caught on the table camera practically kidnapped him and dragged him away.
“Come eat with us, hyung! Everything here is free!”
The main force dragging him away was the Knight Order members.
“Where’s Almond? Almond?”
This wasn’t something Sanghyeon said—it was Goguma who said it.
“No, I’ll just have chicken.”
“Chicken, chicken, nice! Nut Fans chicken?”
“No… just chicken.”
Hahahahahahaha
You’re just obsessed with making everything nutty lol
-Even Almond eats chicken…
hahahaha lol
Aww, how cute! haha
Kids are really young, man ㅠㅠ
And so, unintentionally, I found myself surrounded by my colleagues as we began ordering food.
‘…It’s been a really long time since something like this.’
Had I ever celebrated something with so many people like this before?
Maybe at the occasional gathering after international competitions.
But this felt different from back then.
Back then, victory was far too important to everyone.
Goal-oriented gatherings.
They ultimately walked a different path than I did.
The path of professionals, of players.
I chose the path of a streamer.
Good connections, but once that era passed, we could only go our separate ways.
“Oppa. There’s a camera here. You can just talk to the camera at the table.”
“Daegam! Won’t you have a drink with us!”
Perhaps the people beside me now….
were a kind of relationship I’d forgotten about for so long.
‘Are they… friends?’

* * *
As the night deepened, the atmosphere of Tribby’s funeral grew more convivial.
“Ahahahaha!”
Sanghyeon had clearly had some drinks.
He was explaining to the table camera how he’d come to think of turning someone into Bioyeokto.
It was supposed to be an explanation, but really it was just Sanghyeon’s excuse-making show.
“So… it’s not like he’s actually dying, right? He’s going to be resurrected anyway, right? It’s no big deal.”
Sanghyeon, having drunk quite a bit himself, shouted with some excitement.
“Exactly!”
Goguma chimed in from beside him.
“It’s just like dying for a bit and waking back up. It was the same when I worked at Aseng. You work yourself to death and literally die for a bit, then wake up the next morning. That’s how the company makes money.”
-lmaooooooooooo
-this guy kkk spent all day thinking up excuses kkk
-lolololol
-facts…
-only a corporate worker could say that lololol
Honestly, the company is really better.
-Aseng lololol
*Ding.*
[Rubisword donated 30,000 won.]
[So what was that Aseng legal department email address again…]
When Rubisword seemed ready to file a complaint, Sanghyeon answered firmly.
“No.”
-lololololololol
-just straight up no lol
-like not even explaining why just no lololol
-then what is it?
“That’s not it.”
Sanghyeon just kept repeating that one thing.
“No!”
Goguma chimed in from beside him too.
-lololol what is it lol
-goguma’s drunk lol
-how would you even know lol
Beyond that, Hong-cha continued with difficult questions, like why she’d targeted him and set fires.
It was a misunderstanding already cleared up, but she was deliberately tormenting him.
-basically Almond’s press conference lololol
-journalists, over here~!
-Almond’s so cute lololol
-Almond getting increasingly flustered lol
There were no shortage of questions that would put Almond in a difficult position, and this became content that various Streamers came to participate in, each adding their own remarks.
-Just listening to Almond stories all day would be fun lol
-Almond story paradise lol
-Look at everyone coming to hear about Almond lol
Not only the Knight Order members but also Miho and other Streamers who had interacted with them at the time came to visit.
The most peculiar question among them came from Miho.
Miho, slightly tipsy from alcohol with a flushed face, raised her hand and shouted.
“Almond~! Tell us about your first love!”
She bounced up and couldn’t maintain her balance properly, swaying to the side.
-lol this is hilarious
-She’s completely lost it now
-Wow
-How much has Miho drunk
-Almond’s popularity is insane
-First love story lol
Miho’s question was meant to get a laugh from the atmosphere while caught up in the mood.
Everyone around clearly laughed.
But even in her drunken state, she noticed it.
‘Huh?’
Sanghyeon’s laugh was quite awkward.
His eyes were trembling more than expected.
‘Does he still… have feelings?’
It seemed as though he still harbored feelings for his first love.
Whether others saw it that way or not, that’s how it appeared to Miho.
“F-first love… haha. At my age, what….”
An awkward silence fell for a moment.
It wasn’t an especially long silence.
Just a quiet moment of two to three seconds.
That brief moment felt quite long and uncomfortable to her.
Sanghyeon changes the subject.
“Ah. This is getting a bit heavy… Is there any hot broth?”
*Whoosh.*
Goguma holds out the menu.
“We have hotpot dishes.”
Goguma, unable to forget his days serving under Gobong, presents the menu as if attending to him.
“Do you have things like fish cake soup or tteokbokki?”
Sanghyeon naturally asks Goguma.
“Hmm… we don’t have that? Tteokbokki? Excuse me, do we have tteokbokki here? Or at least fish cake soup?”
The waiters shake their heads.
-Why suddenly tteokbokki lol
-When you’re drunk, you crave stuff like that
No odeng soup today ㅠ
-Sang-hyun Yu drinks well
After confirming it wasn’t on the menu.
The Knight Order members ordered seafood stew instead.
The taste was decent.
The seafood had a refreshing quality to it.
Still, something felt lacking.
“Ah, I’m going to step outside for some fresh air for a moment.”
After eating a bit more, Sanghyeon stood up from his seat.
“Yes, hyung. Are you going to smoke?”
“No, no. I don’t smoke.”
“Ah, I see. Then I’ll go with Danmuji separately.”
“Sure.”
Sanghyeon slipped through the crowd of people.
Outside the venue, I breathed in the fresh air and looked around.
Then I went into a nearby convenience store.

* * *
Early summer.
When the sound of cicadas gradually filled the schoolyard.
Under the thick canopy of leaves that blocked the blazing sun, she spoke.
“I want to eat tteokbokki.”
Suddenly craving tteokbokki.
“…Now?”
“Yeah. I want to go over the wall and come back.”
*Tap.*
Sanghyeon pressed his finger to Soyeon’s forehead.
“Did you get heat exhaustion?”
Summer was hot, certainly.
Even though archery didn’t seem to require much, it drained my energy steadily.
Still, I found it strange that Soyeon would say something like this.
I was always the troublemaker, and she was like the disciplinary committee member who stopped me.
“…!”
Soyeon’s eyes widened, then she stepped back and pulled her forehead away.
“Who, who got heat exhaustion? I just want to eat tteokbokki!”
“No, but how are we supposed to eat it right now.”
It was still lunch time.
Soyeon had mentioned she didn’t like today’s menu.
“Over the wall. Yeonwoo and Jiye went there before and came back. They showed me the route.”
“….”
I was at a loss for words.
Who wouldn’t know that and still refuse to leave?
“…We don’t have time. Hurry!”
Soyeon grabbed my arm and dragged me along without hesitation.
I was pulled along helplessly, stumbling.
Soyeon burst into laughter.
“Let’s go!”
“Alright, alright, let me go.”
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap.
With the agility befitting athletes, we vaulted over the brick wall in an instant with impressive speed and coordination.
Whoosh!
Physically, there was nothing difficult about it.
We simply didn’t leave because of the rules forbidding it.
Well, at least that was true for me.
For Soyeon, who was a bit shorter, it was harder.
“Um… hey, catch me.”
Soyeon stood precariously atop the wall, speaking hesitantly.
“You?”
“Is there anyone else here besides me?”
I looked a bit flustered.
I’d never caught someone jumping down before.
“Here I go!”
“!”
I quickly caught her, making sure to absorb the impact as much as possible.
I held her firmly in my arms.
Huff.
The scent of fabric softener from her shirt filled my nostrils.
For a moment, her feet dangled in the air.
“Hey. That’s enough, put me down.”
“Ah… okay.”
I carefully set her down.
Grin.
Soyeon broke into a wide smile.
She grabbed the collar of my white short-sleeved shirt and ran, pulling me along.
“Let’s go. Hurry! We can’t get caught.”
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!
We ran with all our might toward the tteokbokki restaurant.
The tteokbokki restaurant we loved was called National Champion Tteokbokki.
Of course, we didn’t know.
Monday was the day the shop closed.
“!”
Thump.
It felt as though that very sound had echoed from within Soyeon’s heart.
Despair radiated from her trembling eyes.
“We’re doomed!”
There were no other snack shops nearby.
‘What do I do?’
My eyes darted around, surveying the surroundings.
‘Ah.’
I seized Soyeon’s wrist and bolted toward somewhere.
“W-where are we going?”
“There’s a place that sells tteokbokki.”
“Huh? It’s too late now!”
“No, it’s right ahead.”
“!?”
What I entered was a convenience store.
Ding~
As the door opened, a chime sounded and the owner greeted us.
“Welcome… students?”
“Oh, hello!”
“My, what a handsome pair you two are.”
The two of us slipped inside without responding.
More precisely, I pulled her along.
And I grabbed a microwave tteokbokki.
“This one.”
“…Oh!”
Soyeon’s eyes widened. In them, my reflection was smiling.
Then she smiled too.
“That looks delicious.”

* * *
*Ding.*
Sanghyeon pulled out the piping hot odeng soup and tteokbokki from the microwave.
I found a spot to sit and unwrapped the packaging.
“Ah, it’s hot…”
-Why are we suddenly doing a mukbang with tteokbokki lol
-Out of nowhere?
-Didn’t you say you wanted to eat this earlier lol He really went and did it lol
-If you say you’ll do it, you do it! Akacola!
-Kya, that’s so random lol
-Guess he came out because it was too chaotic there
The viewers were dumbfounded by his antics.
“This tastes good. It’s great for settling your stomach. I drank quite a bit…”
-First time seeing someone eat convenience store tteokbokki
-This guy’s just got a different way of doing things lol
-He’s eating it really deliciously
-He did say he wanted to eat odeng soup earlier lol
With his eyes already off the chat, I gazed out the window and just shoved tteokbokki into my mouth mindlessly.
Honestly, it didn’t taste good.

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