Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 147

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 147
50. Reina’s Reason (4)
Reina’s reason was camaraderie.
Almond had guessed correctly.
-Wow! Insane 3-star route appeared!
-Scary scary scary scary scary
-They’re actually pulling this off?
-But it says to escape the battlefield?
Oh no ㅠㅠ Reina ㅠㅠㅠ This is so sad
-Is this actually possible?
The Minions were all children who hadn’t yet reached adulthood.
Among them, there were particularly young ones, and Reina had always cherished and looked after them.
The reason Reina fought on the front line was to prevent these Minions from getting hurt.
Someone had to go to the front, and if she didn’t, one of them would have to instead.
Moreover, if she could win battles from the front line with her own abilities, the Minions behind her could avoid injury.
‘The mana arrows too.’
The contradiction regarding the mana arrows was resolved here as well.
The story about gathering mana to become a Contractor had been a lie from the start.
She had no interest in Contractors whatsoever. In fact, she despised them.
She had only ever wanted to protect the Minions.
‘Calling them pathetic thugs too….’
However, she couldn’t let the Contractors or Soldiers discover this truth. If they did, she’d be dragged away and have her memories adjusted. It seemed Reina had already experienced this several times.
So normally, she treated the lagging Minions as pathetic thugs and pretended to be indifferent. Or rather, she spoke of them with almost contempt.
But when no one was watching and the nights grew cold and dark, it was Reina who cared for them the most.
Only Almond, being a Player who felt neither cold nor hunger, could observe her and know this truth. The other Minions were too consumed by cold and hunger to notice her actions.
And so, Reina had protected both her memories and her comrades.
‘It was all for her comrades.’
Reina had done well. She had always led battles to victory, and the children she cherished died less frequently in combat.
However, even she couldn’t always avoid one inevitable trial.
“Ugh… Sob….”
It was the moment when the Minions she had cherished appeared as enemies and tried to kill her.
‘Reina seemed not to know.’
Reina didn’t seem to know that allied Minions were resurrected as enemies when they died.
Not just Reina, but most other Minions didn’t know either.
First, it was rare to fight while looking at enemy Minions’ faces one by one.
Second, it was rare for Minions to be as close to each other as Reina was.
Third, it was rare for a Minion to survive as long as Reina had.
For these three reasons, it seemed only Reina frequently noticed that the enemies were actually her former allies.
And likely, Reina was caught by the Contractors at this point each time and had her memories manipulated.
Then she would live on again as a Minion maintaining this battlefield.
But this time was different. This time, I had Almond.
“Don’t cry. You need to hold it together right now.”
Almond covered her mouth and pulled her into the thicket.
“The Contractors haven’t seen us yet. But if this continues, we’ll be discovered.”
Reina nodded repeatedly, yet her tears wouldn’t stop flowing.
Since her memories were always erased at this point, she could never have imagined that the minions she cherished would actually appear as enemies.
“You….”
With a voice still trembling with moisture, Reina squeezed out her words.
“You knew, didn’t you?”
Reina’s eyes looked up at me. They were drowning in profound sorrow, yet at the very depths, a faint glimmer of hope seemed to be rising.
She moved her lips with difficulty and whispered. As if afraid someone might hear. In the smallest voice possible.
“That our memories keep getting erased….”
“Yes. That’s right.”
“And that they’ll appear as enemies… I think I somehow knew that too.”
“Yes.”
“Uuuugh….”
Reina couldn’t hold back her tears again. Both her arms gripped me tightly. She seemed like she could only survive if she held onto something.
“I was just guessing… Why don’t I know?”
“Because you would have been discovered every time at this point.”
“How did you know?”
There was nothing I couldn’t explain, but it would take too long to explain now.
“For now, we need to finish this battlefield.”
“…Okay.”
I was no longer the Almond from when the game first started, moving with only survival as my priority.
[You have discovered the clear route for Reina’s Reason (★★★).]
[Escape Reina from this battlefield!]
I had been given a clear objective.
Now I would devote myself entirely to escaping with Reina.
“Reina. Once we win this battlefield, we’ll probably have a bit more time. Let’s talk then.”
“Understood.”
By this point, Reina had regained her composure as well.
“Don’t get discovered no matter what. I’ll handle all the shooting for you.”
“….”
Reina’s eyes widened with shock.
“Are you… okay? With Theo and….”
I gripped Reina’s shoulder firmly. As if telling her to get her head straight.
“I’m fine. I won’t get discovered.”
My words were filled with conviction and confidence.
“And don’t worry about the children. If they die, they’ll just revive on our side again.”
They’re just minions, after all….
Hearing those words put my mind at ease.
Reina nodded.
“…Understood.”

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After stabilizing Reina, several more battles ensued.
In the end, victory belonged to the Blue Team.
The Enemy Sanctum lost its light, and the enemy Contractors could no longer be reborn even in death.
“Yaaaaaaay!!”
“We won!!”
Not just the Contractors, but the Soldiers celebrated loudly as well.
“Well done! Soldiers!”
Iron Mace Bart climbed atop the ruins of the enemy Sanctum and shouted.
“We’ve achieved victory through your blood and sweat!”
Though he spoke those words, I had no idea what the Soldiers would actually receive from this victory. Probably nothing.
Now that I thought about it, I didn’t know.
What would happen after this victory.
[Time passes.]
At that moment, time suddenly advanced.
[Loading…]
Unusually, loading began.
Did that mean there was a lot to prepare?
I took the opportunity to interact with the viewers for a moment.
“Originally, the story ends here, right?”
-Yeah that’s right
-The story mode normally just ends here
-So what happens now?
-Looks like we need to plan an escape!
-But how do we escape from here? Do we even know where to go?
“I have no idea how we’re supposed to escape.”
-For real how are we supposed to escape the Battlefield
-There’s no information at all
-At least they told us to escape lol where though
-Wow is this high freedom or just bad design lolol
This was the first time Reina’s 3-star clear had been broadcast. There were plenty of rumors that someone had cleared it, but it had never been exposed on video before.
-Wait, isn’t this basically Almond’s first clear?
-The 3-star clear is just rumors with no proof
-Probably is the first.
-We’ll probably see it in the Achievements later?
-At least in Korea it’s probably the first. Korean players don’t care about trash character stories lolol
Thus, among the viewers, there were many who questioned whether Almond was truly the first to attempt this. Naturally, the viewers had no way of knowing what came next.
A path no one had ever walked.
It was bound to be difficult.
“I’ll think of it as a second attempt and just give it my best shot.”
I decided to attempt it twice and push forward. But even that didn’t seem like it would go smoothly.
[Cannot Resist This has registered a mission.]
[Clear 3-Star on First Attempt: 500,000 Won]
A new mission had been registered.
A mission that would award 500,000 won if cleared on the first attempt.
-Wow, missions are hitting hard today lol
-Adding another 500k on top?
-The Powerhouse King mission is currently at 2 million won lol
-Why is everyone already talking like Almond earned the 500k? It’s a first attempt clear
Moreover, the mission bounty that had been accumulating previously had grown to a substantial amount.
[Mission: Clear 3-Star Powerhouse King Success]
[1.95 Million Won]
The accumulated mission bounty had reached 1.95 million won. What started at 500,000 won had grown as people kept adding bits and pieces.
“Wow. Cannot Resist This, thank you so much. Then I’ll do my best to clear it on the first attempt.”
-Weren’t you just saying you wouldn’t try?
-lololol Almond 5 seconds ago: I’ll think of it as a second attempt~
-The 500k got him lol
-Wow, Almond’s mission money today is insane
-The PC bang always comes through when it counts lol
While the chat mocked me for being tempted by money, the loading finished.
“Almond.”
A burly soldier with a menacing expression stood before me.
“What are you doing? I told you to hand over your weapon.”
Snap.
He extended his hand impatiently.
‘A weapon? Ah… that’s right.’
It was a system where you received weapons at the start of battle and returned them later.
‘How do I escape without a weapon then?’
Could I escape the battlefield without any weapons? I wasn’t sure, but I obediently handed over my bow.
“…Don’t just stand there gawking. Go chop some firewood.”
“Yes, sir.”
I answered half-heartedly, as if I were back at my old job, and kept my eyes fixed on where the weapons were being taken.
‘They’re heading to the armory.’
It seemed they were taking the weapons to the armory. During wartime, it would be wide open and people would even rest inside it.
Clang—
Now the armory was locked tight with thick chains and a padlock.
“Clean it all up before the next war.”
The Soldier gave the order and disappeared, leaving only a few Soldiers to patrol the area with basic surveillance.
“What are you all doing? Chop the firewood, dispose of the bodies, and rebuild the Thicket!”
Something felt genuinely off.
What kind of war was this? If you won a war, you’d seize the land and the Soldiers would either move to the next objective or return home.
But restoring the Battlefield?
It was like cleaning up a training ground after a mock combat exercise in the military.
‘This isn’t a Battlefield at all….’
Perhaps this was a mock training ground for the Contractors’ exercises.
‘If it’s a training ground, it can’t be that large. I can escape.’
Maybe escape wouldn’t be so difficult after all.
‘Let me make contact with Reina while we’re cleaning up.’
If I used the cleanup time, I could probably work out some kind of plan with Reina.

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Reina was organizing the Thicket.
She seemed to have been waiting for Almond for quite some time, constantly peeking her head out and looking around.
When she spotted Almond, she subtly kept staring at him and blinking her eyes.
Almond naturally dragged a corpse along and quietly slipped into the Thicket.
“Almond.”
The moment he arrived, Reina pulled him into the Thicket without hesitation, completely hiding their bodies.
-Romance: “Stop!”
-Hyung-nim. Even if I don’t know about adult Reina, I can’t hold back with young Reina.
-Podoli: That’s crossing the line….
-Damn Almond! Let go of that hand!
“And… me, I want to play story mode too ㅠ”
Hahaha, Reina held the hand but why is Almond the one getting cursed out haha
Reina asked, looking directly into his eyes as if she wanted to detect a lie.
“How did you figure it out? How much do you know? Tell me exactly now.”
Almond had no intention of deceiving Reina, so he told her everything he’d seen and what he was suspecting.
“Haa… I see.”
Reina didn’t look particularly surprised.
She had already suspected these things herself.
“Despair… that’s the word for times like this.”
Reina muttered while looking at Almond.
It seemed like she wanted him to empathize with her feelings.
But Almond couldn’t say anything.
He hadn’t been in this world long enough to feel despair in the first place.
“Let’s escape. Reina. We can get out of here.”
Instead, all he could do was get Reina out of this place.
I thought she might be surprised, but instead, she nodded as if she had been waiting for this.
“Yes.”
Reina even went so far as to say this.
“When you appeared, hope was born.”
“…?”
“I’ve already figured out the escape route to some extent.”
Whoosh.
Reina quietly pulled out a map etched onto what was clearly a hard-won piece of parchment.
-Wow, Reina is seriously smart
-Reina’s escape map lol
-Reina made this? Then it should be easier than expected, right?
Reina knows the route.
If that’s the case, things should go far more smoothly than I anticipated.
But one question crossed my mind.
‘Then why did the escape attempts fail until now?’
The map was flawless, without a single gap.
Reina’s memory was also intact.
So why?
“There’s just one difficult matter.”
Reina pointed to a specific spot at the edge of the map.
Beyond the place marked “Door”—a large red dot.
She took my hand and added:
“You… no, we have to kill the Contractor.”
The red dot guarding the door was a Contractor.
‘That’s why we couldn’t escape.’
-Obviously Almond has to be the one to kill them, right?
-Why’d she hastily change it to “we” lol
-Group project activated!
-The familiar scent of Campus…
-By the way, Reina keeps holding hands now—isn’t this a bug?
Please save Reyna ㅠㅠㅠ I’m tired of nuts

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[Beginner’s Tip: Minions from Top, Mid, and Bottom lanes periodically charge toward the Enemy Stronghold. Use them to destroy Watchtowers and reclaim the enemy Sanctum to secure victory!]

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