Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1237

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 122
38. The Invisible War (1)
*Whoooosh.*
King Gul and Almond emerged from the capsule.
They sat back down in front of the camera.
“Well~ we’ve completely wrapped up our field study, haven’t we?”
King Gul smiled awkwardly as he summarized the situation.
“So… do you understand Ril a bit better now? You learned a lot, right?”
-?
-…?
-What we learned: Beeeeeetch!
-Kekekekekekeke
-???
A barrage of hooks flooded the chat.
And on top of that, even donations started rolling in.
[Got It donated 5,000 won.]
[Ah, so basically you go to the vault early, contract the ADC first, then get 4-tank insurance for a full-time ADC, and then just stomp them, right?!]
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekekekekekekeke
-Real talk
-Kyaa
That’s messy as hell.
“Ugh.”
King Gul found it difficult to refute easily.
Now that he thought about it, that’s basically what happened.
He had rebuilt everything from the ground up with only the best choices in mind.
And this was the result.
“No, everyone, don’t just look at the results like that…”
King Gul tried to salvage the situation, but Almond’s viewers weren’t so easy to appease.
*Ding.*
[Don’t Just Look At Nuts donated 5,000 won.]
[Hmm… where have I seen this strategy before? Isn’t this a Meongcheong faction thing?]
-Kekekekekekekekeke
-Real talk…
-Déjà vu…
-Meongcheong Revival Good Please Explain
-King Gul is a famous Meongcheong faction member
-Don’t Just Look At Nuts Kekekeke
-Pro-Meongcheong King Gul
Now he was even being suspected of being a Meongcheong faction sympathizer.
King Gul waves his hand dramatically, denying it vehemently.
“That’s not it?! I’m a Ttok-cheong fan, not that! What are you talking about!”
-Kekekekekekekekeke
-Denying it that hard?kekekeke
-The Ttok-cheong fan frame is scary lol
Hahahahaha, that’s hilarious hahaha
-His expression lol
-But why isn’t Nut Shake saying anything this whole time kekekeke
-The vibe of “Ttok-cheong fan” is literally violent
“I….”
That’s when it happened.
Almond cuts in.
He had been delayed in joining because he was jotting down notes on paper the whole time.
“Everyone, let’s give a round of applause to King Gul for providing us with such a hands-on learning experience.”
-Clap clap clap clap
-Wow~
-ed
-Clap clap clap
-Clap clap
-ed
Countless applause sounds and emoticons flood the chat.
“Well, since you’re all clapping, we’ll be leaving now.”
“…?”
King Gul stares at Almond as if questioning whether he’s serious.
But the cursor was genuinely moving toward the exit button.
-?
-??
-Insane buildup kekekekeke
-No wait kekekekeke
-That’s not what he meant…
I want to put it between the mask and my real face and clap lol
-Insane kekekekeke
-?
-What, did someone donate a huge amount again?
“Uh uh─”
Click!
The broadcast actually cut off.
[Stream Ended]
“Huh?”
King Gul stares at Almond in shock.
“Is… is that how it’s normally done?”
“No. Usually there’s a meme where the stream suddenly goes wild when a large donation comes in. But now was the time to turn it off, so I did.”
“???”
King Gul pondered this.
‘Then it has nothing to do with the meme at all!?’
Why did he mention that in the first place?
Isn’t that just sudden shutdown?
“I attempted to employ a strategy suited to the situation, just like you, King Gul.”
He denied it.
But it wasn’t a denial.
‘That’s what we call a sudden shutdown.’
Was this a joke or serious?
“St… strategic…?”
King Gul’s gaze shifted to the notepad Sanghyeon had been holding since earlier.
At a glance, it was packed with writing.
“Yes. It’s strategy. Because if we keep sharing feedback about this match with you while the stream is on, the strategy will be exposed.”
“…?!”
King Gul’s head tilted in a peculiar way.
Ah. He turned off the stream hastily to avoid exposing the strategy?
‘What… is this a pro gamer!?’
Anyway, these things like inter-team matches and platform tournaments are all supposed to be fun.
But to turn off the stream because of strategy exposure.
This person is terrifying.
“B-but the stream should come first. Are you sure that’s okay?”
“That’s why I streamed first. There will be plenty of content to edit and upload.”
“Ah…”
Meaning there was enough broadcast footage captured.
‘That’s not what “first” means.’
He was confusing priority with chronological order.
“But I didn’t even get to say a proper goodbye…”
King Gul desperately wanted to turn the stream back on in this unfamiliar situation. He wanted to give a proper closing greeting.
But Almond had already planned everything.
“We’ll conduct a separate interview with King Gul’s closing remarks without the live stream on and upload it to OlTube.”
“Ah… y-yes. That sounds… good.”
Thud—
On the back of the notepad Almond set down was the broadcast script.
King Gul realized everything had been planned out.
‘He looks a bit different from how he appeared on stream.’
When King Gul first met him, he thought Sanghyeon and Almond were barely any different.
But seeing him now, he was definitely somewhat different.
A reverse swan, perhaps?
On the surface, he’d become a clumsy clown, yet beneath the water, he still retained his elegance.
“I actually wrote down some questions about the board earlier. Would it be alright if I asked?”
“Oh, yes, of course. Though this is all content too…”
Sanghyeon shakes his head.
“Viewers don’t really like it when we go this deep into things.”
“Ah…”
The audience analysis was already complete.
Just as expected.
‘A reverse swan indeed.’
He only showed the light and entertaining side on broadcast.
King Gul glances around the studio anew.
The photograph hanging there from the national tournament era.
‘Come to think of it… it was similar back then too.’
Back then, all the scrims were private as well.
Back then too, only the viewers didn’t know—Sang-hyun Yu behind the screen was probably like this.
Did the people gathered here know this side of him well?
‘But… who is that girl?’
As King Gul’s eyes scanned through the photographs, he discovered a girl in one of them.
It looked like an old photo.
Though she wasn’t even linking arms with Sanghyeon standing beside her, the two seemed remarkably close.
From their subtly flushed expressions, you could feel their relationship even beyond the two-dimensional frame.
“What I was curious about was… huh? King Gul? Are you listening?”
“Oh, yes. Please go ahead.”
“When you first went to the vault. While you were calculating that experience, you also designed the creep types, right? How did you know that just from looking at the map…”
“Oh, that was…”

* * *
“Damn it.”
Juhyeok burst out of the CEO’s office the moment the broadcast cut off.
“What the hell is going on?”
He peered through the glass window into the studio.
“Huh?”
For the first time in a while, Sanghyeon was asking something with a serious expression. King Gul was answering earnestly, and they’d been talking for about an hour straight.
“They’re in the middle of feedback right now.”
Bontovi explained from beside him.
“Feed… why are they getting feedback with the broadcast off?”
“Apparently it can’t be shown on air.”
“What?”
When Juhyeok made a bewildered expression, Bontovi simply shrugged.
“Why are you surprised, CEO? During the international tournament, the scrims were completely private anyway.”
“Ah…”
“Besides, according to Almond, viewers wouldn’t find it entertaining to watch that kind of exchange anyway.”
“…?”
Juhyeok noticed something odd mid-conversation.
“But how do you know that?”
“Well…”
Tap, tap.
Bontovi touched one of the monitors.
“There’s a separate internal studio equipment channel. We can still hear everything even when the broadcast is off.”
“Ah… I see.”
Had they really installed all that?
Bontovi was surprisingly serious about broadcast equipment.
You know those people who obsess over one thing and dive deep into it?
Bontovi was exactly that kind of person.
Genuinely passionate about broadcast gear.
“The ‘B’ in Bontovi doesn’t stand for Broadcast, does it?”
“No, it doesn’t.”
It really didn’t.
“Right, it doesn’t. Anyway, I’ll go prepare for the interview.”
“Interview?”
Whoosh!
Juhyeok turned his head back to ask.
“Yes. Almond asked me to separately film King Gul’s final farewell just in the studio.”
“…Oh.”
That’s actually a good idea.
Juhyeok nodded in understanding.
“That bastard… he’s even planning things himself now?”
“Right… he’s growing as a streamer. Could he actually be genuinely intelligent?”
“Don’t say scary things like that. If we hadn’t traveled together back in Aseng.”
“Ugh!”
Juhyeok spoke with a menacing chuckle.
‘But honestly… he’s doing well.’
Sanghyeon now creates small production touches on his own, befitting someone who runs a solo broadcast.
Just like people such as Jello or Balloon Gum.
‘Perhaps the experience from Seok helped?’
On the stage called Cheese Village, Almond had been forced to create and drive the narrative forward.
The way that worked out surprisingly well seemed to have blown open some pathway in his brain.
Now his mind spins quite readily toward broadcasting.
“The CEO will have less to do.”
Kekeke.
Bontovi spoke with an eager laugh.
He seemed to want to tease that Juhyeok’s role had become unnecessary.
Yet Juhyeok remained surprisingly composed.
That’s what being a CEO meant.
“Well… it’s only right that Sanghyeon takes the lead on broadcasts now.”
Juhyeok had to handle external promotions, publicity, and larger-scale planning.
He couldn’t just filter out malicious comments in the chat after becoming CEO.
He needed to help the streamer Almond shine in bigger waters, bigger events.
“Hmm. Now that you mention it.”
“?”
“This composition… it looks pretty good?”
“…What composition?”
“That. That. Look.”
Juhyeok slowly raised his phone camera.
Click! Click!
He snapped several shots as if entranced.
In the photos, Sanghyeon was captured intently asking questions through the glass.
“Ah, this should be video, video instead.”
Ding.
He recorded it all in video.
Filming with a phone camera actually gave it a sense of immediacy.
Almond and King Gul seriously discussing strategy.
“People say they don’t like this kind of thing…”
Juhyeok’s thoughts were different.
It was a difference in how you expressed it.
Sure, it would drag if shown live.
This earnest approach to the game.
What if we released it through other media?
We might get a much better response.
“Uh… we’re almost done. I’m going to conduct an interview.”
Bontovi removes the earphone he had plugged in on one side and picks up the camera, heading inside.
Bang!
He bursts through the studio door and shouts.
“Don’t move!”
Bontovi says while brandishing a toy gun.
“…What, what is this?”
“It’s an interview.”
“…What’s with the gun?”
“Our production team wanted to go with this concept.”
Click.
Bontovi hands the gun to Almond.
….
Seeing this, King Gul’s expression makes it clear he wants to leave immediately.

* * *
The next day.
Strange videos began uploading to AllTube.
[Shorts) Balloon Gum Finally Teaches Pungsna a Lesson!]
[Shorts) Enemies Meet on a Log Bridge, Pungsna Dies to Balloon Gum Again]
[Shorts) Balloon Gum Kills Pungsna Three Times]
[Shorts) Pungsna Dies to Balloon Gum Again]
.
.
.
A total of twenty shorts featuring Pungsna’s death had been uploaded.
All the Knight Order members watched these shorts and thought.
‘Wow. Is there anything that could beat this?’
‘Truly a broadcasting genius!’
‘Wait, I thought it was ten, but there were twenty!?’
The biggest beneficiary that day was Balloon Gum.
But there was an even more shocking short than that.
[Shorts) King Gul… “Almond is Smarter Than I Thought” Shocking Statement]
They had uploaded King Gul’s final interview segment as a short.
“Ah yes. I enjoyed today’s lesson as well. Student Almond is… behind the camera, he’s quite intelligent and well-mannered, more so than you all might think….”
The original was simply a scene of King Gul delivering a heartwarming closing remark in proper form.
-Gasp
-Lol
-D-don’t say that…
-Insane
-Shocking statement lol
-King Gul Nut Trillion. Show your true face!
-???: Hey, what’s wrong with me being a little smart?
-It’s just something people say lol
-Legend of overreaction lol
The real content was hidden in the comment link.
-Is this AI synthesis?
└Almond’s holding a gun next to him threatening, visible in other videos (link)
└??
└Leewae-jin lol
└??????
Following the link led to a video made by Macaron, not Jia.
[Shorts) King Gul’s Shocking Statement “That guy was smart!” What’s the truth?]
It started the same way, with King Gul speaking.
“Ah, yes. I enjoyed today’s lesson too. Student Almond is actually… behind the camera, quite insane…”
That’s when it happened.
Click.
Almond raised a dark gun barrel.
“B-behind the camera, he’s smart and well-mannered and… oh, very! Stupid! Young man, sir!! I know the truth─”
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!
Suddenly Almond fired wildly and King Gul flew away like tissue paper.
Then Almond walked toward the camera, reloaded, and spoke.
“This is lesson one. Keep the truth to yourself.”
Whoosh!
Almond blew the smoke from the gun barrel and it ended.
-Lol this is killing me
-Hahaha lol
-Insane lol
-Lol
-So Ttok-cheong’s even messing with AI now… Earth’s doomsday isn’t far off.
-Is this a joke? lol
-Creator “Macaron”
-The fourth lesson is… “Bang”
-Lol
-Why do I feel like this could actually be real… What if King Gul actually died back then and is only alive as AI?
└You’ve awakened…
-Why did the handgun suddenly turn into a machine gun lol
Here too, astonishing comments came with links attached.
-Guys, this is actually NOT AI lol there’s a behind-the-scenes video too (link)
└”Just a crazy Streamer”
└wtf why is it real lolol
└Almond really does everything for real…shocking
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha King Tangerine’s all-out effort hahahaha
It was saying that this wasn’t actually an AI video.

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