Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1203

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 88
28. As Planned (3)
‘What?’
There was such a condition?
Ttok-cheong would be directing.
‘For now, I should hold my tongue.’
The opposing coach hasn’t appeared yet.
It wouldn’t be proper to act as coach first.
Danmuji notices her staring intently at the empty coach’s seat and taps his own head.
“Ah, cha-cha. Why isn’t she coming out? Haha… I’ll go call her.”

* * *
“…Ha.”
Tottia, an active coach in the Division 2 league.
He simply stood there with his mouth hanging open in bewilderment.
‘What is this?’
As an active coach, he couldn’t even fathom how he’d just lost.
Did this even make sense?
As the shock began to fade, frustration crept in slowly.
‘Who is this woman.’
I lost to someone I’d never even heard of in the industry.
And not as a player—I lost in my current capacity as a coach.
Of course, this didn’t account for other crucial coaching skills like player development or mental care.
But being completely overwhelmed in real-time command ability was indescribable.
‘Why is her expression so calm?’
What felt most alien was her expression after winning.
As if what was supposed to happen had simply happened.
In tournaments, you can usually guess someone’s feelings just by looking at their face.
That expression was one of someone who naturally expected to win this match.
Why?
‘Why was this… inevitable?’
Tottia rewound the replay once more, reviewing the plays.
There was nothing wrong.
We even won the draft.
Hwashin didn’t just use meta-appropriate champions, and there were perfect counterpicks available.
If we won against that, the opponent’s reaction should have shown some surprise.
Based on years of professional experience, it should have.
But the opponent accepted it as natural.
‘Was I supposed to lose inevitably? Why?’
It felt like there was one puzzle piece he couldn’t see.
[Hey. Tottia.]
Danmuji’s voice came through.
“Uh… what?”
[Come out. Right now.]
“Oh, just a second.”
[Come out and see. Just come.]
Danmuji knew exactly what Tottia was doing.
‘He’s probably reviewing the game.’
Even during his professional playing days, he was always diligently reviewing matches after they ended.
Now that he’s a coach, he’d be reviewing even more obsessively.
But after suffering a defeat like this, the review wouldn’t end easily.
“Ah damn… I’m about to get cursed out hard.”
Haha.
Danmuji laughed and urged him on.
[That’s why come out. Let me get some curses in. Let’s make some money too.]
Since the betting was lost, the idea was to at least make some cash from the thousand-won punch donations of people cursing out his friend.
Why?
Because the viewers were very angry right now.
-Ah damn I lost all my points kkkkk
-They lost to that?
-This is ridiculous
-What happens if a Division 2 active player loses???
-Wait, CK really is a legend in simulations. They always win matches they shouldn’t be able to win lol
-This has to be rigged?
That was it.
The streamers had bet with chips, but the viewers had also bet with points.
And naturally, many viewers had chosen the coach who was currently playing in the active professional league.
And they lost a lot of money.
All that anger had no choice but to be directed at Tottia.
Whoosh.
After Tottia was summoned back to Dis World.
“Ah… I’m sorry, everyone…”
What greeted him immediately was something.
Ding! Ding!
Critical donations pouring in through Danmuji’s channel.
[AntiSKating donated 3,000 won.]
[Cheongyeongchae at least has a unit to go back to. Where’s Tottia supposed to go?]
-kkkkkkkkkkkkk
-kkkkkkkrl
-If only he’d just stayed a soldier…
-Getting completely demolished like this
[ㅇㅇ donated 2,000 won.]
[Part 2 League… watched it well. So 20,000]
[Irritated donated 3,000 won.]
[Why ban Hipster in picks? Just go with value. Why are you trying to give liquidity from mid? Seriously asking because I don’t know]
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.
.
The donations flooding Danmuji’s channel were visible to Tottia as well, connected through the invitation.
“Sigh….”
He could only sigh, with nothing much to say.
Even if he wanted to make excuses, shouldn’t he at least understand how the loss happened first?
-Deep sigh kkk
-Hang in there…
-Single-round matches are something Danpan doesn’t know anyway kkk But losing to this year’s CK team is legendary
-This is pretty big though kkk
As a professional coach, he’d essentially lost a direct confrontation, which might damage his career.
Someone approached him and extended a hand.
It was Choi Sa-rang.
“That was fun.”
“Ah, yes….”
Tottia didn’t know what to do with himself.
Wasn’t it the way that hierarchy was established once you got beaten?
It felt difficult to face her.
‘Does she really have no professional experience?’
He found it suspicious that she had no professional background.
But….
‘There are no female professionals in the first place.’
The evidence was glaringly obvious.
She was a woman.
Female Ril professional gamers were extremely rare.
By global standards, only exactly five had ever existed in history.
All of them disappeared quickly, and there were even fewer cases of women becoming coaches or directors.
Absolutely zero.
So there was no way she had active professional experience.
Even if she were one of those five by some miracle, it wouldn’t make sense.
‘If she were one of those five, I’d know her face.’
This was a face he didn’t recognize.
It was certain she had no professional background.
‘I really just got outplayed by an amateur.’
A deeper sense of despair washed over me.
“Well, the outcome has already been decided.”
Danmuji interjected and continued the proceedings.
“Our Coach has been decided as Choi Sa-rang. Thank you to all the coaches who participated in the tournament!”
“Thank you so much~!”
Clap clap clap.
Tottia applauded with a regretful expression.
He wasn’t regretting the Coach position itself.
Coaching was his main job—what would he regret about this?
Unexpectedly, he regretted something else entirely.
A different desire had taken root.
‘I want to try again.’
He wanted to face that woman right in front of him once more.
He absolutely had to understand what this defeat meant.
Only then would he feel capable of rising to a Division 1 Coach level.
So when Danmuji asked for his thoughts, he answered like this.
“Well… there were both good and bad points. The bad part is feeling a bit ashamed of losing while still active.”
Haha, what do I do ㅠㅠ
You’re doing well in part 2 as well ㅠㅠ
-That’s because it’s Division 2 ^^
ㅠㅠ (or -ㅠㅠ) represents crying or tears in Korean text/emoticons.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 142]
A natural English equivalent would be:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 144]
T_T
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 146]
or simply:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 148]
crying / in tears
-Let’s go to Division 3~
-Isn’t he getting cut? kkkkk
-Good thing it’s not offseason kkkkk
-The team’s record is good anyway
“So what’s the good part then? Are you not going to Coach anymore?”
Danmuji asked, knowing from the start that Tottia had found this Coach position somewhat bothersome.
But instead, completely opposite words came out.
“The good part is… I want to try again.”
“?”
“I originally had no interest in the platform tournament. But now I want to do it.”
“?”
Danmuji looked confused and clarified again.
“You can’t. You’re eliminated, Tottia.”
-kkkkkkkkk no kkk
-That’s too much kkkkk
I can’t laugh hard enough
-That’s how it is kkk
-A rematch? kkkkk
-Rematch?
-Do it again?
Danmuji and the viewers had both misunderstood Tottia’s words.
He meant just one more time, right now.
But that wasn’t what he meant at all.
“Ah, no, I mean there are still many teams without a Coach assigned. I was thinking I could try some outreach myself….”
“…Eh!?”
Danmuji’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Wait, you’re applying to other teams too?”
“Yes.”
“Wow. That’s a problem.”
His tone carried a hint of reluctance.
-Is he reluctant to let go of him? kkk
-Oh…
-Wait???
-Still, he’s a Division 2 active player, so it’d be a waste if he goes to another team kkk
At first he seemed kind of unmotivated lol
“Why would you think that?”
“Because I want to face you again.”
Tottia glanced toward Choi Sa-rang.
Choi Sa-rang tilted her head with an amused expression.
“Really? Against me?”
“Yes.”
She observed Tottia with an enigmatic gaze.
Had she noticed something?
No.
Tottia wasn’t a player from that generation, after all.
-Why are you staring like that kkk
-Tottia’s avoiding eye contact kkk
-Huh…
-I’m Mosol but was Tottia flirting? I genuinely don’t know.
-Did losing today really bother him that much kkk

The thought patterns of professionals were always similar.
They had lost in a way they hadn’t anticipated.
Regret and hypotheticals would swirl through his mind.
What if I had approached it the way I envisioned?
Would that have been the answer?
“Sure. See you next time.”
If he made it through, Choi Sa-rang had no reason to refuse.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 208]
* * *
The coach selection match(?) had finally come to an end.
“Then I hope to see you all at the tournament!”
“Goodbye!”
“Loyalty~”
With Choi Sa-rang excluded, the remaining candidates disappeared, leaving only the Knight Order and her.
“….”
An awkward silence hung in the air for a moment.
Sarang was about to speak first.
“So I’m really the coach now….”
That’s when it happened.
“Thank you all.”
It was Almond.
“Since you’ve entrusted me with command, I’ll do my best….”
He’d sensed what Choi Sa-rang was about to say and quickly tried to cut her off.
-Almond’s doing it again lol
-Here we go again lol
-He came prepared for this Nut Shake
-What lol
-I thought Sa-rang was gonna say something lol
Clap, clap!
Choi Sa-rang interrupted him with applause.
“So I’m the coach now, right?”
“Yes!”
Everyone was hoping she’d give ‘that order’ right now.
‘I can’t say it now. But it was a promise.’
Hadn’t Almond come in first place in the bet after all?
He’d even gone all-in on himself and won first place.
Wouldn’t it be too harsh to revoke that immediately?
I needed to build sufficient justification first.
“We don’t have much time. Can I watch you play one match? I’ll run a survival match with team rankings.”
“Yes!”
The other Knight Order members took this as their cue and quickly disappeared.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
“…Uh.”
Almond scratched his head.
‘Tsk.’
This didn’t look good for his command authority.
“What are you doing? Let’s go. Ttok-cheong.”
“Ahem. A promise is a promise. Coach.”
“I get it. Just go in already.”
-Ah, sir! I understand! So…!
That’s a corrupted or nonsensical Korean text that doesn’t translate to natural English. It appears to be either a typo, gibberish, or internet slang that doesn’t form coherent words.
Why does it feel like I’m dealing with some kind of complaint? lol
Hahahaha, that’s hilarious!
-He called me… Ttok-cheong…
-But how does he know Ttok-cheong?
Whoosh!
Almond had no choice but to enter the game first.
With this, the first practice session since the Coach’s observation began.
Almond entered the waiting room and whispered to the viewers on a channel only they could hear.
“I need to prove it through my gameplay and show why I should be calling the shots.”
Tell her to speak confidently lol
Why are you whispering? lol
I guess it does feel awkward when it comes down to it lol
-He has a conscience! Almond!
Hahaha the whispering is so funny hahaha
“Wow, it’s been forever since team ranked.”
Hong-cha looked excited, oblivious to whatever scheme Almond was plotting beside her.
“If we go in now, isn’t it basically all streamers on the team?”
Hong-cha said it as a joke with a giggle.
But team ranked survival wasn’t exactly popular content.

[25/50]
[Finding opponent match…]
While waiting, Danmuji nudged Goguma and spoke.
“Don’t fall for Almond’s scheme.”
“Okay.”
True to form for the strategic Danmuji.
He knew exactly who to be most wary of.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 279]
* * *
Meanwhile, a few hours later, at Paprika.
They hadn’t selected their teammates through Cheese Village.
The platform took the lead in organizing votes and meetings to distribute streamers among the teams.
Since this process took a while, today was essentially the first team meeting for most.
Let Me Tank was no exception.
‘I’m nervous.’
She was only finding out today who her teammates would be.
Whoosh.
“Hello~”
“Hi.”
“Nice to meet you.”
As each person arrived, setting aside their status as streamers…
‘What is this? This is a complete ace team?’
Incredibly high-ranked players had gathered together.
‘So Paprika really did form several ace teams…’
Since this was an inter-team competition, there had been much talk that instead of balancing teams against each other, they’d create a few all-star teams and group the rest together.
Let Me Tank had been placed into one of those ace teams.
‘I thought Paprika wouldn’t include me since there are so many high-ranked players there.’
Even though she was Master tier, she hadn’t expected to be included in an ace team.
Paprika simply had too many skilled streamers.
“Wow, our team’s rank is pretty high?”
Kalchi, the former pro who boasted the highest skill level here, spoke first.
Though retired from professional play, he always ranked within the top ten.
His proficiency with the blade—fitting his nickname—had been relatively low during his pro days.
But in everything else, he displayed incredible performance.
“I’ve been assigned as the team leader.”
“Ah…”
Paprika had already decided on a team leader.
This selection too had considered rank, streamer status, and even age.
Additionally, each team’s Discord channel displayed a message window like a rulebook.
1. The team leader has been selected as ‘Kalchi’ after extensive verification.
2. Team members assist under the team leader’s direction to guide the team.
3. The team leader takes the lead in scheduling practice dates and meetings.
4. The team leader must take responsibility for finding a coach.
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.
.
And so on.
Kalchi tilted his head and read the fourth item.
“The Team Leader is going to find us a Coach…?”
My teammates murmur at those words.
“All of a sudden?”
“Where are we supposed to find one?”
I thought a Coach would be assigned to us, but it seems this is something we handle ourselves.
Everyone looks a bit flustered.
But not Kalchi.
“Well… I think I might be able to find someone.”

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