Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 138

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 138
48. Reina (1)
“Hmm? Young man. Did you come with two people originally?”
The woman bringing the blood sausage soup looked at Juhyeok and Jia with curious eyes.
“No, ma’am. I happened to run into someone I know and we sat together.”
The woman chuckled and patted Juhyeok on the back.
There was something suggestive in her gaze.
Juhyeok tried not to pay attention and finished what he was saying to Jia.
“Anyway. The revenue came out well. Thanks. I’ll pay for this.”
“No. I make more money than you. I’ll just pay for it.”
“…”
That’s right.
Jia was making more money than me now.
Juhyeok’s face turned bright red.
Jia laughed softly at that expression and asked again.
“Just let Juhyeok pay.”
“…Fine. You pay.”
Juhyeok thought he should have added extra offal too, and devoured the soup frantically.
The topic of conversation while eating naturally turned to Almond.
“I mean, how does that guy only eat that?”
Living with Almond wasn’t particularly inconvenient, but his eating habits were really hard to understand.
“He eats well enough when he does eat. Is this some kind of mental training from archery?”
“That can’t be it…”
“Ugh. I need to find another streamer soon.”
“Why are you looking for another streamer? Is it because I’m making more money?”
“Come on! Why are you like this too! If I’m busier, I won’t get annoyed by every little thing like this.”
“You want to make more money. Looks like you really want to buy me soup.”
“Argh! Let’s just eat!”
After that, Juhyeok ate through his soup like he was disposing of evidence.
“Um… actually, I have something on my mind.”
“Hmm? Something on your mind?”
It was the first time Jia had brought up a concern like this, so Juhyeok looked at her with confusion.
‘What is it? That man from back then?’
The man who was waiting in front of Jia’s door before.
It bothered me for some reason. This neighborhood’s houses were dangerous enough as it was, and Jia was clearly a woman who couldn’t protect herself.
Plus, these days ex-boyfriends sometimes make the news…
“I was trying to edit, but I didn’t know what Ril was.”
“…Ah.”
My tension deflated completely.
However, immediately after that, tension gripped me tightly again.
‘What? Damn it. Now that I think about it, I don’t really know much either….’
Come to think of it, Juhyeok didn’t know much about Ril either.
Ril seems easy to play at first, but once you dig into the details, it’s actually an incredibly high-difficulty game.
Especially siege warfare boasts the highest difficulty among them.
“I’ve watched escort missions and survival matches a lot before. But honestly, siege warfare isn’t my preference, so I haven’t watched it.”
“You know those two? Ah, you’ve watched a lot of game streams too.”
“Yes. I’m from that big spender crowd.”
Now that I think about it, that was true.
There was a time when I sponsored a huge sum under the name Seojia.
Since then, both Juhyeok and Sanghyeon had always been curious.
Life wasn’t going well, so what possessed me to throw that money away.
‘I’ll ask later.’
It was a question I was reluctant to ask for some reason.
“Now that I think about it, I should study Ril a bit. Especially since you need to do editing.”
“That’s right. So it might take a bit longer.”
“Hmm….”
Juhyeok fell into thought for a moment.
Come to think of it, Almond doesn’t know much about Ril either. Though that does fit the concept better.
Without even knowing why he won, he won’t be able to advance to higher ranks.
“Maybe the three of us should get together and study once.”
“Oh… that sounds good too.”
Just then, Jia paused and looked at her phone.
“Huh. But Almond is streaming right now.”
“What? This early in the morning?”
Jia held out her phone and it was true.
It seemed like he’d been streaming for a while already.
[Learning something new today~ Morning Ril!]
The title reeked of middle-aged man speech. Whenever I let Almond handle the stream titles, it always turns out like this.
But setting that aside, the situation unfolding right now was interesting.
-Hey, what did you do to Reina, hyung!
-Noooona come baaack!
Don’t go, noona ㅠㅠ
-Wasn’t the affinity super low?
-When you fall from a height, it hurts lol serves you right you tryhard….
Apparently the Awakened One wasn’t responding properly.
“…Reina won’t get selected?”

* * *
[Hwashin, Reina has no intention of joining you.]
“…What?”
hahahahahaha
-Almond completely shocked
-This is like the first time he’s been this surprised?
-Wow, even the popular kids have their limits~~~
-He relied on his face and acted cocky, serves him right Almond! He relied on his face and acted cocky, serves him right Almond! He relied on his face and acted cocky, serves him right Almond!
The chat window flooded with mockery.
Even so, Almond racked his brain trying to quickly understand the situation.
‘So Hwashin not being selectable isn’t just happening to me.’
The dominant chat was calling it deserved, and few people seemed surprised at why she wasn’t selectable.
Rather, there were more messages saying this was inevitable.
In other words, it was predictable.
‘Then it’s not a bug or anything serious….’
It was something that could be adjusted.
However, there was an immediate problem.
The game had to start.
“Hey, you said you play ADC. Why aren’t you selecting?”
After staying silent for a while, my teammate asks.
“Ah… Reina won’t select.”
“Reina?”
Upon hearing the name Reina, my teammate’s expression darkens, and the other teammates beside him murmur as well.
‘What’s with Reina.’
‘Ugh. Good that she won’t select.’
‘Sigh….’
That’s how Reina is perceived.
However, it didn’t really matter to Almond.
I couldn’t select her anyway!
“Just pick something else.”
“That’s… not possible?”
“Huh?”
“Hwashin only has Reina.”
“No….”
My teammate finally checks my account level.
“Level 2? Then what….”
“Do you know what to do?”
Could these teammates possibly help somehow?
“Puhaha! Reina must not like you, what method could there be!?”
“Did you do something to Reina? Serves you right Reina fan~~~”
As expected….
I was reminded once again that expecting help from Ril was fundamentally a mistake.
It was the moment Ril’s motto came to mind: “Others are hell.”
-Lmaooooo what were you thinking asking Ril for help, you newbie….
-Lololol ah, this is classic Ril
Those guys are pissed off lol
Still, someone managed to give Almond proper advice.
“If your affinity drops to rock bottom, that’s what happens…? But Reina doesn’t rise easily, and she doesn’t fall easily either. That’s strange….”
Unable to play the game because of affinity?
Almond was utterly bewildered.
“Just dodge!”
“I’ll dodge~”
Dodge means leaving during the game’s waiting period.
The term originated from leaving to avoid bad team compositions or teammates (dodge, to avoid).
Nowadays, leaving during the waiting screen is simply called dodging.
That’s what Almond needs to do right now.
“…You should dodge. Without an Incarnation, you’ll get dodged anyway.”
“Right. No point wasting time.”
Dodging prevents you from playing for about 10 minutes.
It’s a system to prevent indiscriminate dodging.
“Sigh. Understood.”

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In the end, Almond canceled the game and left.
[You have canceled the game while waiting.]
[You cannot play another match for 10 minutes.]
“Reina won’t get selected. What am I supposed to do?”
Almond shot back as if trying to argue with the system itself.
Of course, it had no effect whatsoever.
Hahahahaha so cute
-Who are you talking to?
-Ohhh nooo~
Haha, looks like you got mad.
“How do I restore my intimacy with Reina?”
-Who knows~
-King’s choice
-I have no idea?!
-Reina cannot be given to you, Almond. Did you really think you could have everything in this world?!
The viewers had no intention of telling him.
‘Even if I try to buy a new avatar from the shop, I don’t have the money….’
He couldn’t buy a new avatar either. There was no way Almond’s account, which had won only one tutorial match and one normal match, would have any money.
He considered spending real money to buy it, but in Ril, everything except skins had to be purchased with in-game currency—in other words, through “effort.”
‘To earn money, I need to play the game, but I can’t play the game… There’s no way they designed it this poorly, right?’
Ril was a game that had maintained its popularity for a very long time.
There was no way it was designed this sloppily.
‘The viewers’ reactions too. They don’t think it’s strange at all, they’re just messing with me.’
If this were actually strange, the viewers would have been more surprised than Almond and searched for answers. But that wasn’t the atmosphere here.
They were just teasing a newbie.
They wouldn’t tease him forever. If he waited, they’d tell him the answer, but Almond wanted to find out faster.
“I guess I have no choice.”
He was a comprehensive game streamer.
There was no need to keep playing Ril.
“Why don’t I just take this opportunity to do the Kingdom Age Rosenitta route──”
The moment he mentioned Kingdom, the most unpopular and niche game.
Ding.
[Demian Association donated 10,000 won!]
[Out of respect for our past connection, I’ll tell you specially. Go to the avatar management window and select ‘Interaction’ with Reina.]
[Ril Devotee donated 10,000 won!]
[Please give this game a chance! There’s a feature where you can interact with avatars. Go there!]
[Nutty from the Crown donated 20,000 won!]
[Interact!!!!]
.
.
.
Countless donations poured in.
“Ah. I see. You should have mentioned it earlier.”
-Dr. Almond the Fundraiser;
-Do I still look like Almond to you? This is Diamond;
-Almond the Broadcasting Genius;
Those jerks ㅠㅠ Why won’t they let us do Kingdom ㅠㅠㅠ
-Hahaha, crappy game “stop”
Is Kingdom really blocking it lol
[King Chiman Association donated 10,000 won!]
[You guys are too much!]
“King Chiman Association, thank you. I’ll play Kingdom someday. For real.”
After responding that way, Almond
touched [Exchange] and moved.
Hey, you’re trash lol
-Someday: In the Cyberpunk era
Hahaha, right away ‘exchange’

* * *
Exchange Mode.
It was a content system where you could exchange gifts with your owned avatars or communicate with them.
Beyond in-game play, you could build intimacy with avatars here.
[Welcome to the Exchange Plaza.]
Beneath a sheer cliff, hidden among a thundering waterfall and lush vegetation lay a plaza.
The Exchange Plaza.
In a place where forest elves seemed to dwell and wander, only a single woman sat now.
She gazed blankly at the waterfall.
Almond approached her slowly.
“Reina.”
At my call, Reina turned around slowly.
Her blue eyes seemed even colder today.
“What’s going on here?”
Her tone had returned to its initial coldness.
Had her intimacy dropped? I checked.
[Intimacy: 0]
The maximum intimacy score is 100 points.
It had plummeted this drastically. What the viewers had said about Reina must be true. That her personality was formidable.
Hahahahaha Intimacy level “0”
I’m dying laughing haha
—Ugh, look at this insider flexing~~
—But wouldn’t this normally be 0 if you don’t interact at all?
Everyone burst into laughter as Almond, who had been showered with Reina’s favoritism, was sentenced to an intimacy rating of 0.
[A user just donated 1,000 won.]
[You need to talk to her first. You have to resolve it through conversation. Reina doesn’t respond to gifts or anything like that.]
There were various ways to build intimacy with Incarnations—gifts, victories, activities, and so on.
But it seemed Reina could only be approached through conversation.
“Reina. You have no intention of going to the Battlefield?”
“If you came here to talk about that, stop. I don’t like it.”
Reina cut off Almond’s words coldly and decisively.
Hahaha, blocked with a sword.
—Ah, refreshing! This is the cold-blooded Arcane Archer!
It’s like theoretically possible to resolve things through conversation, lol.
—Time heals all wounds, I guess
The viewers chattered excitedly, their expectations confirmed.
[Demian Association user just donated 10,000 won!]
[To the user who just donated. You seem to be new to this, but raising Reina’s intimacy through conversation is incredibly difficult. You just have to wait for time to pass.]
Even a donation came through with the voice of a ridiculous otaku man.
Everyone agreed—time had to pass; you couldn’t raise it immediately through conversation.
‘Time has to pass?’
Almond tilted his head in confusion.
He didn’t think that could be right.
[Intimacy: 30]
He’d just said one thing, and her intimacy had jumped up by 30 points.

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