Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 232

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 232
80. Pool Party (1)
“Brother, you should share your thoughts too, right?”
Truth be told, I had nothing to say, so I just rattled off some advertisement copy to smooth things over.
Either way, Miho showed no signs of backing down until she heard my thoughts.
Sanghyeon paused to consider.
My thoughts? What are my thoughts on making it to the playoffs?
I’m not sure.
But if I interpret the word “thoughts” simply and organize what comes to mind, I should just say whatever impression struck me immediately after the playoffs ended.
If that’s what she means, I remember right away.
“My thoughts are… I just want to face Godanbaek’s team again soon.”
“Huh? Really?”
-Oh man
-As expected, that audacity is insane (his face)
-Wow~ such boldness
-So cool…! (his face)
“You suffered so much against Godanbaek. And you still want to face them?”
“Yeah. I think I can win this time. I want to meet them soon and win.”
-Almond’s provocation is crazy
-What about Mosol? Just passing?
-Mosol gets skipped lol
“Oh, brother. What about Mosol?”
“Mosol?”
-???: Was there such a thing?
-His expression like he totally didn’t expect that lol
-Did he really forget who that is?? lol
Fortunately, I hadn’t actually forgotten who Mosol was. Even if I tend to be somewhat indifferent to my surroundings more often than not, I remember Mosol.
“Ah. Mosol… I do remember them.”
“You do…?”
“I just haven’t thought of anything particular to say. Besides, we don’t even know if Mosol will make it or who else will.”
I scratched my head and grabbed a few more almonds. It seemed like I wanted to end the interview.
“Wow. Everyone, did you see? Almond brother has no interest in the world!”
-If Almond fights Mosol, will you wear a swimsuit again!?
-We don’t care about Almond either! Sister Miho!
-Hong-cha didn’t even get asked??? lol
-Hong-cha could make it too!
The interview content conducted through Miho’s personal camera ended here.
“All done~ Miyaho~!”
Miho signed off using her usual greeting from broadcasts and turned off the camera.
Miho noona doesn’t care about us either.
I’m crying (or expressing sadness/frustration)
-Don’t go!
* * *
After both Miho’s shoot and all the filming that the Trivia team had been conducting wrapped up.
“Wow, everyone worked hard!”
“Thank you!”
Cheerful farewells exchanged back and forth. I greeted people here and there in a dazed state before climbing into the car Juhyeok had brought to pick me up.
“The viewers were no joke, huh?”
“Yeah. Seems like it went over pretty well.”
I leaned against the back seat with disheveled hair and chuckled.
Even in my intoxicated state, I felt good that the broadcast had gone well.
“It seems like you got a lot of attention since this was your first drunk broadcast and your first outdoor group collaboration.”
Tap tap.
Someone tapped on the window then.
“Ah. Miho.”
“Hello! Manager! You’re Juhyeok Kim, right? I heard about you through Department Manager Oh!”
Miho greeted Juhyeok warmly and handed him something. A dessert.
“They say eating something sweet helps cure hangovers!”
“Ah… Thank you.”
“And this is gum to keep you awake so you don’t fall asleep on the drive.”
There was also a small gift for Juhyeok.
“This much… haha.”
Juhyeok hadn’t prepared anything special for today either. He hadn’t expected Miho, who wasn’t even his manager, to give him something like this.
But Juhyeok quickly realized that this barrage of gifts didn’t simply stem from a naturally affable personality.
He had a sense of what Miho wanted to say. He cautiously broached the subject.
“I heard through Department Manager Oh—have you still not found a separate manager?”
“No, haha… It’s just hard to find the right person, you know?”
Miho scratched her head and avoided eye contact.
It felt like she wanted to say something but couldn’t quite get the words out.
‘Even Balloon Gum’s company is having trouble finding one.’
A company like Balloon Gum’s shouldn’t have much difficulty hiring one more manager.
The challenge was finding someone trustworthy.
That was difficult at any company.
Juhyeok thought he understood what Miho wanted to say.
She wanted to ask him to become her manager. She couldn’t say it directly and was instead dancing around it with these small gifts.
“Ah, but…”
Miho glanced around nervously before speaking quietly.
“My contract is ending soon.”
“…Pardon? With Fantasia?”
Juhyeok understood what Miho was hinting at, but he deliberately pointed to something else to confirm his suspicion.
As expected, Miho took the bait.
“No, I’ll continue as a partner streamer. It’s a management contract.”
“Ah… I see.”
Miho’s contract with Balloon Gum Entertainment was ending soon?
Did she have no intention of renewing?
“I thought you’d naturally renew the contract…”
“I haven’t decided yet. It just means I can move at my own pace.”
“Ah.”
Juhyeok was surprised.
In other words, it meant I could exercise flexibility however I wanted.
“Department Manager Oh probably doesn’t see it that way…”
Department Manager Oh had connections with Balloon Gum Entertainment. After retiring, he was probably planning to move over there as a director.
“We’re not ending things badly, so don’t worry.”
Miho simply said that and pulled her hat down over her head.
Even with the hat pulled down like that, her model-like extraordinary proportions couldn’t be hidden. Especially with pink hair… wearing a hat on top of that just made her look more suspicious.
“I’m just going to take an autonomous taxi. Get inside quickly!”
Whoosh.
Miho disappeared in an instant.
Juhyeok awkwardly scratched his head and turned to look at Sanghyeon.
“I didn’t even offer to give her a ride. Miho is funnier than I thought…”
Only breathing sounds echoed from the back seat.
“…Are you asleep?”
Sanghyeon was already asleep.
“Damn. Lucky bastard.”
* * *
After the company dinner.
Three days remained until the playoffs.
“Today I’ll play the Wandering Swordsman.”
Sanghyeon streamed consistently for all three days without fail. As a full-time streamer, it was natural, but there was also a strategic reason behind it.
“This time the Rope Assassin? Is that right? I’ll give this a try.”
He showed on stream how he played as many mid-lane avatars as possible.
Despite them all being essentially first-game shop picks, he displayed professional-level gameplay and continued climbing his rank.
Assuming both were played well, mid-lane was far superior to ADC.
He had climbed to Diamond 1, but due to his win streak, his MMR was nearly at Grandmaster level.
As a result, he could face off against Grandmaster-level mid-laners even in regular solo queue.
“I’m definitely worse at mid-lane than ADC.”
-Isn’t that obvious?
-Stop the deception!
-You’re better than me. Almond’s trash.
“At this level, he’s doing really well though…lol”
If I weren’t an incarnation who wielded the bow, I wouldn’t have produced that level of performance that had crushed the Challenger Hong-cha.
At best, I would have been evenly matched.
At this rate, it might even be difficult to face Mosol, the Challenger mid-laner.
“Storm Ninja is still pretty decent though.”
Among them, Storm Ninja, whom I’d tried a few times, and Honryeongsa Melly occasionally managed to overwhelm even Grand Masters.
-Pretty decent = Challenger tier
-Smashing a Grand Master’s head = Pretty decent
-By Almond’s standards BR Silver Gold Plat Diamond = Not decent
-You equality obsessors, how many times are you cutting lightning anyway;
The incarnations I was familiar with performed well, while the new ones didn’t. Through this, I realized something.
“It was simply a lack of practice.”
My true skill hadn’t been displayed properly because I simply hadn’t practiced enough.
Now you realize you need to practice??!ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Almond’s only weakness: Walnut
“Acting like you’ve had some profound realization, that’s so annoying lol”
No matter how much I’d gained a blessed physique in virtual reality through ten years of imaging training.
I couldn’t perform with incarnations I’d never used before as if I were skilled with them.
Some incarnations even had skills I’d never used throughout the entire game.
That’s how inefficiently I was operating them.
This happens because I’m cycling through too many incarnations.
I knew it too. That it would be better to focus on just a few.
Yet there was a reason I chose this training method nonetheless.
And but now the range of Hwashin’s usage has increased incredibly…
-How many are you trying to do anyway. Just stick to one or two.
-Almond if you were good at everything from the start we’d all just be dead! Oh my!
Haven’t you played more than 10 avatars in two days? lol
The reactions I wanted were coming through.
Apart from the one calling walnut my weakness, it was the evaluation that I used multiple incarnations.
‘This is what Taco was aiming for.’
The opponent thinks they can stop me with bans. And that thought wasn’t entirely wrong. Hadn’t I struggled a few times because of bans?
But if I expanded my incarnation usage to a dizzying degree like this, my opponents would also have a headache.
Since I was playing every single incarnation once in solo queue, after showing that I could handle shop picks in tournaments.
[Reina, the one who makes Almond most thrilled, has donated 200,000 won!]
[Reina, please. This is hazard pay.]
Because I’d been focusing on other incarnations, there were people who missed my former main ones.
Flick.
I raised a finger heart with a motion I was quite familiar with now and nodded.
“Thank you for the donation, Most Thrilled Almond. I’ll play Reina next game.”
ID lol fucking hell
Haha, you’re so funny ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Information) This is what Reina actually said.
-You’re not afraid of the Dehaep players!?
-Even Reina’s like this… I’m getting dizzy.
[Almond, whose donations are the most thrilling, donated 10,000 won.]
Is a swimsuit party possible at the competition? Me and Mika as a set lolol
“A swimsuit party… You mean a pool party, right? It’s Miho, not Mihwa.”
I’m dying laughing hahahahaha
Clearly he has no interest in Miho at all lol
Haha swimsuit party!!! I mean a pool party!
His true feelings came out in front of everyone lol
The swimsuit party is crazy lol
“Hahaha, are you a janitor or something?”
Perhaps because my solo streams now consistently draw over 20,000 viewers.
The donation amounts were substantial.
Donations of 1,000 to 2,000 won were buried under the flood of 10,000 won donations.
“But does Ran have a pool party skin?”
-Yeah he does
“Blonde swimsuit Almond… ugh…”
But wouldn’t it be hard for Ran against Hongcha’s team? She’s too weak in the early game ㅠ
-Mosol could come up too.
-Even if Hong-cha comes up, we can overcome it with his pretty boy charm
[Almond, whose donations are the most thrilling, donated 10,000 won!]
[Wow, you’re really doing it!?]
With just 10,000 won, would Almond wear a swimsuit? lol You’d need to sponsor at least 50 boxes of Almond.
There’s no way that’s true lol
-Nope!
-Lady! Stop now!
“Hmm… This is a tough choice.”
I put on a pathetic act of stroking my chin, pretending to deliberate.
I had no intention of doing it anyway—just messing with them.
-Collection expert;;;
-Hey. Once you go down that road… You have to dance Zero Two too!
Anyway, I probably won’t do it lol
-Hmm, tough choice (for 20,000 won)
I laughed and smoothed over the situation.
“I’m not doing it. Let’s stop with these donations now.”
But the situation had spiraled beyond control.
[Almond, whose donations are the most thrilling, donated 10,000 won!]
[Mission ‘Try the pool party Ran at the tournament’ registered]
It was when the donor registered the mission.
[Mission]
[Try “Pool Party Ran” during the tournament]
[10,000 won]
Anyone could continue registering for this mission and raise the bounty.
Ding!
With the sound, the mission bounty immediately jumped to 50,000 won.
Ding! Ding!
The sounds rang out in succession, and in an instant it reached 100,000 won….
Diiiiing!
By the time the broadcast was ending, it had surpassed 1.8 million won.
“Hmm….”
This time, Almond wasn’t acting—I genuinely stroked my chin and deliberated seriously.
‘I should’ve just clicked mission failed from the start.’
My unnecessary broadcast ambition had blown this out of proportion.
“Let me at least see what that swimsuit looks like….”
I’d decide after seeing how it looked.
That was my conclusion.
Haha, you’re crazy! So you’re really going!?
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
-Yesss>~<
-Waaah! Almond in a swimsuit!!
-Hurry and clip it together and spread it!
-Now~ Player entrance~! Let's go!
* * *
And finally, the playoff match day arrived.
[Soloizebaek VS Balloon Stars]
The team that advanced was Soloizebaek, just as everyone expected.
"So, Soloizebaek has advanced after an intense five-game battle with Red Carpets."
The caster opened the commentary for today's matchup.
King Gul also picked up the microphone.
"Yes! After such a grueling advance, they face Pool Party Miho!"
"Wouldn't you say it's worth the struggle then?"
"Ah, I see! That's why Mosol was working so hard yesterday that he was practically bleeding from his nose!"
King Gul summoned a cheerful atmosphere by using Mosol as the sacrifice.
Laughter rippled through the audience from the start.
In the ban-pick phase that followed, the commentators were taken aback.
"Huh?"
"Wow!? This is clearly a provocation!"
"They're doing it like this!?"

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