Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 112

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 112
39. The Advertisement President (1)
When Balloon Gum mentioned teaching Almond how to reel, the chat exploded with countless hooks.
-???
-Balloon Gum’s Secret: Hooks Everywhere!
-????????
-Trying to get carried again!
-Who’s teaching who lol
Your intention to catch the bus is so obvious lol
The viewers unanimously said that Balloon Gum was trying to get carried by Almond, attempting to ride the bus once more.
Balloon Gum felt wronged.
“No, everyone. What do you mean by reeling? Huh? Even so, how could someone doing it for the first time carry me like that!”
He spoke proudly, thumping his chest.
Thump.
“I’m Silver rank, you know.”
Hahahahaha
-Sil….
Hahahahaha
Silver pride lol
Reel had rating inflation unlike Battle Rage. While Gold was debatable, Silver and Bronze were treated no differently than Stones in Battle Rage.
“Hey. Silver is still good! Right? Top 30% or something!”
His words weren’t wrong.
Surprisingly, when calculated by average rank, Silver players weren’t incompetent.
However, if someone who regularly plays the game seriously is still stuck in Silver, then they genuinely weren’t good at the game.
“Anyway. Almond. Think about it for a moment. I had fun today.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
Balloon Gum wanted to resolve his sense of injustice, but decided to wrap up the broadcast here.

* * *
After the streaming function was turned off.
Almond and Balloon Gum returned to the ‘This World’ channel.
“Wow! That broadcast was so fun! Almond!”
Balloon Gum thanked Almond once more.
“I really enjoyed doing it with you too.”
“I’m serious about doing a reel together. Please consider it. Haha!”
“Oh, yes. I was actually thinking about doing a reel….”
Just as I was about to say I was already planning to make a reel.
‘Hmm?’
A familiar silhouette entered my field of vision.
‘It’s Miho.’
It was Miho.
She was sitting on the same bench where I had parted ways with her before the broadcast started.
‘Isn’t she streaming?’
I heard Miho had a broadcast scheduled for today. So why was she just sitting there?
Balloon Gum, noticing my gaze, also spots Miho.
It would be harder not to notice that long pink hair.
“Huh? Miho. You’re not streaming today?”
“Oh. I took a break.”
Miho glanced over at us briefly, then lowered her eyes again.
Her long eyelashes covered her eyes completely, making it impossible to read her expression.
“A break? You? Why?”
Balloon Gum blinked, unable to understand. Despite her image, Miho was quite diligent.
She was one of the few true professionals he acknowledged.
“Just wasn’t in the mood.”
“Huh?!”
For Miho to take a break simply because she wasn’t in the mood was uncharacteristic of her.
“Why. I can take a break too, you know.”
Miho glared at Balloon Gum with a slightly pouty expression.
“W-well, that’s true.”
Balloon Gum scratched his head and immediately agreed.
Miho was the type to be scary when angry.
“By the way, Almond. You’re pretty good at doing collaborations.”
“Oh, yes. Thank you.”
“I thought you couldn’t meet people, you know.”
Suddenly the arrow was directed at me.
Though it was sudden, Sanghyeon seemed to understand what was happening.
‘She’s sulking.’
She was sulking because I had rejected her proposals multiple times. For a woman with such strong pride to be rejected twice by the same person—it was understandable.
Of course, I couldn’t accept her proposal just because she threw a tantrum.
Juhyeok had always emphasized that collaborating with female streamers—especially one as stunningly beautiful as Miho—was a poor strategy.
Getting unnecessarily close in the first place was unwise.
I needed to push her away.
Fortunately, I was well-practiced at pushing people away.
“Miho, you have quite the childlike side to you. It’s rather endearing.”
Pffft.
Balloon Gum burst into laughter.
It was such a gentle jab. In contrast, Miho’s attacks came across as if she were announcing “I’m attacking now~!” with great fanfare.
The contrast was impossible not to laugh at.
“….”
Miho’s face went rigid.
At that, Balloon Gum immediately shut his mouth.
Already possessing a naturally cold expression, that look sent a chill down my spine. Yet even then, she was beautiful—truly remarkable beauty.
“That’s too much. Just for one little joke….”
Despite her cold expression, she spoke almost tearfully before logging out.
Ping!
Her avatar vanished without a trace.
‘She left?’
I hadn’t expected Miho to actually leave, so I was somewhat taken aback.
“Heh. Nine-tailed fox eliminated!”
Balloon Gum immediately shouted, seizing the moment.
Seeing him joking around, it didn’t seem like a serious situation.
Does this happen often?
“I’ll apologize on her behalf. Miho is surprisingly bad at hiding her emotions.”
“Ah….”
“By the way, you’re impressive too, Almond. Is it because of your looks that you have so much experience? I honestly thought there wasn’t a man alive who could resist if that girl set her mind to seducing him.”
That was certainly a reasonable assumption.
But that was only when looking at her appearance. The way she approached the opposite sex was, as I’d said, no different from a child’s.
‘She seems too young to be good at seducing men….’
The way she carried herself made her look less like a woman and more like a pretty little girl.
I didn’t bother voicing that observation.
I didn’t know how close Balloon Gum and Miho actually were.
“Seducing…? Is that what you’d call it?”
I simply let it pass without comment.
“Isn’t that pretty aggressively seductive?”
“Ah….”
“Wahaha! You’re such a pretty boy, Almond, that everyone acts like that around you—you probably don’t even notice! Should we call it a day here?”
“Yes. It was enjoyable.”
Balloon Gum waved brightly in farewell, and I bowed respectfully in return.
Shortly after, his avatar vanished, leaving Balloon Gum alone in his This World.
“Ah….”
I lay on the bench and gazed up at the constellation bearing my face.
The constellation’s expression shifts with my current emotions—or so claims the person who created it.
The Balloon Gum within the constellation was winking with an expression of pure delight.
“It was more fun than I expected.”
At least for now, that creator’s claim seems to hold true.
Ding.
Just then, a message arrived from my manager.
“Huh?”
It was surprising news.

* * *
Hisssss──
The lid opens with the sound of hydraulics.
Almond crawled out, drenched as usual.
‘The broadcast went longer than I thought.’
Only upon seeing my thoroughly soaked body did I check the time.
It was late at night.
Including the time spent chatting in This World earlier, it seemed I’d been streaming for nearly six hours.
“Nice work. The broadcast response was incredible. You hit a peak of 14,000 viewers. You keep breaking your own viewership records.”
Juhyeok tossed me a handkerchief as he spoke.
It felt like a coach throwing a towel to a boxer stepping down from the ring.
“And Balloon Gum asked to do a reel together, right? That’s seriously rare, you know? That’s huge!”
Juhyeok spoke excitedly as if he’d received the offer himself.
Ignoring the flood of examples he was rattling off, I just rushed to the bathroom.
“I need a shower.”

* * *
The water cascaded down with a soothing rush.
Warm water washed away the fatigue clinging to my body with refreshing clarity.
“Ahh.”
Hot yet cool at the same time. Sometimes it even felt pleasurable. Wasn’t this the reason I worked so hard—for moments like these?
As I savored the end of my day, Juhyeok couldn’t contain himself and knocked on the door.
Knock. Knock.
“Hey! By the way, I never said I’d do Reel, did I!?”
“Why?”
“We didn’t decide on Reel either. I’m still choosing!”
“That’s true. I didn’t mention it.”
“Okay.”
“But what are the candidates for the next game? Reel looks good to me too.”
“….”
No response came back. He’d probably already sat down at the computer to research games.
‘Heh.’
He’s quite diligent.
That was always his nature. Even in the fiercely competitive Asung, Juhyeok was among the most conscientious talents. I knew his diligence well. Yet the Juhyeok of now was different somehow. There was something more.
‘Passion… perhaps?’
He overflowed with passion.
That was the difference from when he was at the Company.
The hours worked might be the same, but the quality was different. At the Company, Juhyeok was diligent, but he was a dead man inside. A conscientious zombie.
But what about now?
His eyes, his reactions, his joy, his anger, his cheers….
All of it was alive.
He seemed like a human whose every emotion functioned properly.
A properly functioning human….
I lifted my right arm and examined it.
Moments later, my hand trembled slightly as expected.
I made a fist.
It trembled, but the fist formed correctly. I raised it higher toward the sky.
The shadow of my black fist, obscuring the dim bathroom light, fell across my face.
‘Someday they’ll all find out.’
I made a vow.
When that day comes, I will never let Juhyeok and Jia see even a hint of resentment from me.
No matter what happens.

* * *
After finishing my shower, I emerged to find Juhyeok, as expected, compiling yet another list.
“What’s this?”
I toweled off my hair while peering at the monitor.
“Oh. This is a breakdown of the top game streamers by viewer demographics—gender, age, hobbies, that sort of thing.”
“Wow… There are that many Reel streamers!?”
For a moment, I thought I could believe this was simply a compilation of Reel players gathered together.
The sheer number of Reel streamers was overwhelming.
“Yeah. Globally, it’s insane. Even just filtering for Korean-speaking regions gives us this much. And these are all people doing better than you.”
“…Ugh.”
Boom.
It felt as though that sound echoed through my ears.
‘Is this really all of them…?’
Without the numbering on the side, I wouldn’t even dare attempt to count how many there were.
All of them were streamers doing better than me.
I realized I still had a long way to go.
“So? The world’s pretty big, isn’t it, kid?”
Juhyeok teased me, his glasses glinting.
“Hmm… Yeah, it really is. Are all these people streamers who only play Reel?”
“Yeah. Basically, yeah. They mix in other games occasionally, but it’s Reel all the way.”
“So you can pull 50,000 viewers just from Reel alone….”
Balloon Gum’s average viewership was 50,000.
That alone was enough to call him one of Tribby’s top streamers.
But there weren’t just one or two streamers in that 50,000 range.
Some were even doing better than that.
“I thought Balloon Gum was the top, but there are people pulling 70,000….”
“Balloon Gum’s real strength isn’t viewer count—it’s the advertising rate per game. His viewers have incredible loyalty, making him perfectly optimized for comprehensive game advertising. Plus, his image is extremely valuable for corporations. That’s why he became Tribby’s president. Really, he’s the advertising president. The advertising president.”
I see.
I nodded at that explanation.
Ding.
Just then, a text arrived for Juhyeok.
“…?!”
His expression turned serious.
He adjusted his glasses and suddenly grabbed my shoulder.
As if to encourage me.
“Hey. Almond. Don’t get discouraged.”
“…?”
I wasn’t particularly discouraged, but I went along with Juhyeok’s rhythm anyway.
“Why.”
Juhyeok grinned.
I showed him my phone.
“You’re going to film an advertisement together with that advertising president.”

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