Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 14

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 14
6. Perfect Shot (2)
The next day.
Juhyeok and I finally arrived at the studio under Dotorimuk’s guidance.
“Alright. You can sit over there.”
Dotorimuk pointed out where I should wait.
Apart from the manager we’d seen before, there was no one else in the studio.
“Oh, hello.”
The manager offered only a greeting before quickly pulling his hat down and taking his seat.
“Hello. Wow… it’s quite spacious.”
I marveled at Dotorimuk’s studio, which was equipped with massive monitors, a Capsule, and expensive filming equipment.
‘This guy makes decent money too….’
In truth, Dotorimuk couldn’t really be called the unrivaled top-tier among comprehensive game streamers.
Yet his income seemed surprisingly substantial.
‘Just how much does Bubblegum make anyway.’
While I was thinking such thoughts, Dotorimuk fiddled with the camera and spoke.
“I’m going to start the broadcast now and begin with us greeting the viewers while showing our faces. Is that alright?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Alright. I’m turning it on. Usually about three to four thousand viewers come in at the start, so get ready.”
“Got it.”
Dojaemuok smiled reassuringly.
Then he clapped his hands.
Clap.
The streaming screen appeared on the monitor, and the broadcast began.
[Current Viewers: 10,000]
Ten thousand right from the start.
‘Wow. This is record-breaking?’
It was more than double the usual starting number. Truly record-breaking.
It meant today’s broadcast was highly anticipated.
-Yo.
-Ohhh.
-Hey hey
-Hello everyone!
Hahaha, I absolutely can’t hold it in!
True to form for a major broadcast, the chat exploded the moment the stream went live.
Dotorimuk’s broadcast had an intro track.
It was meant to give people time to join in.
He expertly looked toward the camera and conducted a microphone test.
“Testing, testing. No feedback, right?”
When Nayeon, sitting across from him, gave an okay sign, Dojaemuok disappeared and Dotorimuk emerged.
“Heyy~”
I greeted naturally while reading through the chat messages.
-Come on, bring out Almond already! Don’t drag this out!
-We didn’t come here for you.
Hahaha, acorn oppa, hi!
-Doto!
-Hello!
-Doto doto!
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
Originally, not all of Dotorimuk’s viewers knew about Almond. I was just a small-time streamer with about 200 viewers.
Everyone had learned about me through the teaser video that went up on the Oltube channel.
That video had already surpassed 100,000 views, and my current broadcast viewership was breaking Dotorimuk’s own records.
[Current Viewers: 33,000]
Only ten minutes had passed since I started the broadcast, yet the viewer count had already reached a staggering 33,000.
‘Wow, seriously? This much?’
Even Dotorimuk was nervous enough to swallow hard at this level of interest.
“Ahem. The interest is no joke, huh.”
I said with a slight grin.
Then the viewers pressed even harder, demanding I show them already.
Around the time the viewer count approached 40,000.
I finally opened my mouth.
“Alright. Come on in.”
Dojaemuok gestured toward Sanghyeon as he spoke.
Sanghyeon slowly walked in from the back.
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
-Dun dun dunnn…
-Is this really Almond?
Since Sanghyeon had never revealed his face except through the Almond avatar, no one could be certain.
They could only speculate, though rumors of a collaboration with Almond had already spread widely.
Besides, the area was so dark without proper lighting.
“Almond! We’re honored to have you!”
Whoosh.
A spotlight shone on Sanghyeon. Only then was his face properly captured on camera.
-Ohhh.
-Why is he so handsome!
-Total letdown.
-The worst streamer on earth. Almond…
-Damn… a fraud.
-I thought he’d be a total noob…
-Wow… how… he’s so handsome.
The men were disappointed, while the women cheered.
“Wow. Handsome, isn’t he? I was shocked the first time I saw him too, you know?”
Despite the endless stream of compliments, I showed no particular reaction. I’d been accustomed to praise since childhood.
Not just about archery skills, but compliments about my face too.
“Should we start with an interview, or jump straight into the game?”
-11111
-2222
-2222
-The game, duh.
-22
-Come on, show us a perfect shot lolololol
-Dotorimuk’s reckoning day.
-Honestly, I could just watch his face all day…
Dotorimuk nodded with a magnanimous expression.
“Alright, alright. Everyone, please maintain chat etiquette. Almond, could you share the Capsule optimization code with us?”
“…?”
I didn’t respond.
“Almond?”
I had no idea what that was.
“Ah… what exactly is this optimization code….”
“Huh? Capsule optimization. It’s when you calibrate it to match your brainwaves and physical structure….”
Dojaemuok made the strangest expression a human could possibly muster.
‘What the—? You’re telling me you played the game without optimization…?’
It was unbelievable. Gaming was technically possible without it, but that was only for casual players who played very lightly.
-You don’t know about optimization?
-That’s some concept lololol
-Seriously….
-That’s basically like playing in someone else’s body
-Without optimization, you’d disconnect constantly.
-Wait, now that you mention it, he did disconnect every time he died.
-Holy crap, so he really did it without optimization?
Playing without optimization was like carrying a thirty-kilogram sandbag on your body the entire time.
Pulling off those performances in that condition made me a monster.
“Y-you really don’t have one?”
“…Yes.”
I nodded reluctantly.
And from far away, I heard Juhyeok slapping his forehead and shouting, “Oh, that’s right!”

* * *
Juhyeok Kim, who had been listening to the conversation between Sanghyeon and Dotorimuk, flinched.
Nayeon, Dotorimuk’s manager, tilted her head in confusion.
“What’s wrong?”
“…Oh, that’s right!”
Juhyeok didn’t even hear Nayeon’s question and clutched his head in his hands.
Juhyeok felt genuinely guilty toward Sanghyeon.
‘The CEO mentioned something about body optimization to me…. I completely forgot.’
Now that I think about it, this optimization thing seems incredibly important.
I forgot to pass that information along.
He quickly ran over and told Dojaemuok about this fact.
“Sanghyeon really doesn’t know. I should have told him….”
After hearing the whole story, Dojaemuok was shocked.
He looked toward the camera with a helpless expression.
“Wow… I’m feeling some serious self-reproach here, everyone.”
The chat was mostly filled with viewers saying ‘No way…’
“Sanghyeon purchased his Capsule secondhand… and he’s been playing the game without even knowing what that optimization was.”
When you purchase a secondhand Capsule, the optimization process doesn’t run automatically.
The latest model Capsules will sometimes recognize when body information synchronization is too misaligned and run optimization on their own, but Sanghyeon’s was far from being a new model.
-Wait, so that’s why he kept getting booted out, right?
Among the countless messages, a chat message that appeared to be from Sanghyeon’s viewers came up.
“Booted out?”
Dotorimuk asked Sanghyeon back.
“Ah… Yes. When I die, I get booted out.”
“From Kingdom Age?”
“Yes.”
Dotorimuk was shocked once again here.
“If you get booted out every time you die, how are you even playing Kingdom Age?”
That question wasn’t just Dotorimuk’s—it was the same one everyone who didn’t regularly watch his stream had.
-lmaooo
-Kingdom Age, dying all day long.
-If you boot out that many times, wouldn’t your brain melt?
Hahaha
However, those who watched Sanghyeon’s stream knew.
-Just don’t die lolol
-Basically never died once. He just shoots an arrow at his own head and dies.
-Suicidal deaths.
The fact that Sanghyeon had never once died by an enemy’s hand.
“You truly are a genius of a different caliber.”
“…It does seem that way.”
I’m quite accustomed to being called a genius.
-Seriously so composed lol
-That’s pro-level confidence right there lol
-lololol
-For real, he actually seems to believe it naturally.
The viewers erupted in cheers at the sight. It was exactly the image of an audacious genius they’d encountered in media and imagined in their minds.
However, Sanghyeon wasn’t a fabrication—he was a genuinely living genius.
‘This guy’s the real deal.’
Dotorimuk was impressed by what he saw.
Sanghyeon was remarkably suited for broadcasting.
Exceptional skill, a character already firmly established, and not only was he young but there was something seasoned about how he interacted with people.
“So, everyone. Aren’t you curious? What happens when Almond undergoes optimization!?”
-For real lol
-Can he even get better than this?
-Does he shoot 2 bows at once? lol
-No idea lol
The viewers were naturally curious. What would Sanghyeon become after optimization, when he was already moving like he was flying even without it?
“Then follow me. I’ll create an optimization code for you.”
Dotorimuk now led Sanghyeon toward the Capsule in the back.

* * *
The optimization finished surprisingly quickly.
[Optimization Code Z-102938]
I immediately sent the number given to me via email, and now it was time to start the game.
Whoosh.
Sure enough, Dotorimuk suddenly appeared in the virtual space.
“You’re all done.”
“Yes.”
“How does the optimization feel?”
“Hmm…”
I moved my body around experimentally.
‘It’s definitely different. Did it feel this light to move before?’
The previous virtual space had already been satisfying. I’d felt it was almost identical to reality.
But this was an entirely different dimension of sensation.
My body felt far lighter than in reality.
No, lighter than light—it felt like it had vanished.
‘As if I had no body at all…’
I could actually feel that I was moving with consciousness alone.
“So this is what virtual space is really like. It feels like I have no body.”
“Yes, that’s right. It’s a world where you move with consciousness alone. The optimization seems to have worked properly, doesn’t it?”
Dotorimuk grinned widely as he continued the broadcast.
“Everyone, what do you think? Now we’ll finally see if this perfect shot actually exists, right?”
The viewers reacted hotly against his provocative tone.
-Whoa! Let’s go into the grave!
Hahahahaha
-No way something like that exists!!
-Here he goes again….
-It’s like Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expeditions.
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text as it appears to be nonsensical Korean characters and onomatopoeia (ㅋㅋㅋ represents laughter). It doesn’t form coherent words in Korean.
Since most of the viewers were Dotorimuk’s audience, they didn’t believe in the existence of the perfect shot itself. Everyone was busy mocking him.
‘Does it really exist?’
Even Sanghyeon, who had to demonstrate it, couldn’t believe whether the perfect shot existed or not.
“Alright, let’s goooo!”
Ironically, only Dotorimuk believed in the existence of the perfect shot without a shred of doubt, overflowing with confidence.
[Kingdom Age. Execute.]

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