Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 239

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 239
83. Hidden Card (1)
“The game~~~ is over!”
“Juju~~~!!!”
Boom…!
With a thunderous explosion, the Enemy Stronghold’s castle shattered.
An even louder roar from the crowd engulfed the Arena.
-Uooooooooo!
-Waaaaaaa!!!
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
Chants calling out Almond’s name—the star of this match—echoed relentlessly through the venue.
“Ah, Almond! The crowd’s roaring for you, and rightfully so. Absolutely insane aim, insane decision-making! This player is just insane!”
King Gul shook his head wildly as if he’d completely lost his mind.
-Almond! Almond!
-Wave your hand for us!
-Nut! Nut! Nut!
“What are all these chants coming from the crowd? What’s ‘nut’?”
The Caster asked King Gul.
An answer came without hesitation.
“It’s the ‘nut’ from ‘nuts.'”
“You really know your stuff?”
“Ah… haha. Well, anyway, this game really showed what the ADC prince is all about──”
-Waaaaaaaaaa!
King Gul’s words were drowned out by an even louder cheer from the crowd.
“What, what is it? The match isn’t over, is it!?”
“Ah. Almond is waving to the spectators! And he’s taken off his sunglasses!”
King Gul fell silent for a moment, utterly speechless.
“…As I always say. Even when I got a pentakill, the crowd never roared like this.”
“As I always say! Almond is very different from you in many ways!”
Hahahahaha, that’s too much.
-King Gul is handsome too!
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text, as it appears to be random Korean characters and onomatopoeia rather than coherent words or sentences.
“There are many differences” lol
King Gul cleared his throat awkwardly before returning to discussing the game results.
“Anyway… Balloon Stars! That was quite the comeback victory, wasn’t it!?”
“Indeed. An almost unbelievable reversal. It’s the kind of exciting play you rarely see in professional matches.”
“Yes! A series of absolutely ridiculous decisions! And the precision to execute them! Everything clicked into place perfectly, and a miracle happened!”
The Caster nodded and brought up a concern about the flow of the next match.
“Ah, but Soloizebaek. Will they be okay? If they lose the first set like this, I think their momentum will really be broken.”
The impact of the first set was so overwhelming that the casters were now trying to shift the audience’s attention toward the second set.
King Gul also responded while checking the data.
“Exactly. They lost a game they’d almost won, right? And their opponent even picked an avatar with the full swimming pool party skin just to mock Mosol! When you think about it that way—how their casual play beat Mosol’s serious effort…!”
“If you think like that, your mental state will collapse! Mosol, you need to forget all of it and treat this like your first match!”
“That’s right. After all, winning three matches is still a win no matter what!”
While the casters continued their commentary on the match.
The crowd’s chants changed.
-Gum! Gum! Gum! Gum!
Those who had been cheering for Almond were now cheering for Balloon Gum.
“Huh…? Are they cheering for Balloon Gum right now!?”
“Yes! He performed incredibly well in this match!”
“That’s right. He was the spark that started the miraculous final teamfight!”
The numbers grew one by one, and soon the entire Balloon Stars section was roaring his name.
-Gum! Gum! Gum!
-Guuuuum! Guuuuum!
Balloon Gum stood there in bewilderment, unable to even wave his hands.
But he lingered in that spot for quite some time.
For his fans, that alone was answer enough.
-Gum! You did great!
-I’m so glad I became a Gum fan! Ahhhhh!

* * *
After the ceremony(?) ended, all the players moved to the waiting room.
The casters received the damage graph.
It was soon transmitted to the scoreboard.
-Wooow….
-Insane….
-Wow.
The crowd stirred with excitement.
“Wow. Only two people really stand out on this graph, huh?”
[Mosol]
[67,000]
[Reckless Warrior]
[71,000]
“Given how intense the match was, the damage numbers came out incredibly high, right?”
“That’s right. Usually in solo ranked, 40,000 to 50,000 damage is enough to easily take first place, so this is….”
“Almond spent most of the match behind, so if he dealt that much damage, it’s truly incredible!”
Beyond that, Balloon Gum’s damage taken was remarkably high, and the casters added an explanation that it was because he got hit so much during the laning phase, drawing laughter.
“Ah. Of course, he played well. Especially his performance in that final teamfight was so good that all his early mistakes were completely forgiven, you know?”
As the caster spoke on behalf of Balloon Gum, King Gul nodded in agreement.
“That’s right! Thanks to his performance in that final teamfight! His early mistakes… ah, that was just him marking territory! We could let it slide with that in mind!”
-Insane lol
-Troll’s territory marked lol
-He flipped the table and set it back up again lol
“Oh. And we’ve just prepared a replay of ‘that teamfight’ for you.”
“Want to watch it together? During the match earlier, everything happened so fast we didn’t have time to see what was going on!”
The replay began playing. The scenes we’d missed in the blink of an eye now played in slow motion, revealing far more detail.
Especially the situation just before the teamfight—we could see exactly how Balloon Stars had orchestrated this incredible reversal.
“Ah. So Balloon Gum cleared the ward at that location while rotating, and Almond was already positioned there ahead of time?”
“Ah~ he’s been in that spot for quite a while now. That means this entire teamfight was properly designed from the start, doesn’t it?”
The most crucial element of the teamfight had been Almond’s sniper position.
There couldn’t have been a more perfect angle for a shot from any other location. Almond wasn’t there by coincidence—he’d positioned himself there deliberately from the very beginning.
Balloon Gum clearing the ward at that location while passing through was no accident either; it was a coordinated team play.
“Ah, Balloon Gum. That was quite the contribution too. By naturally clearing the ward here as he passed, the enemy team never even spotted Almond before initiating the teamfight?”
“Exactly. This snowball really did roll downhill from there.”
And then the next sequence played.
Balloon Gum rolling in from behind the enemy stronghold, signaling the start of the massive engagement—that legendary moment.
-Kyaa this is the highlight
-The birth of a legend
-Still gives me chills watching it again
“Ah. So it starts from here.”
“Balloon Gum’s initiation was pure artistry!”
Initiating—literally the act of starting something.
In Reel, it typically refers to starting a fight, and usually the tanks take on this role.
You have to engage at precisely the right moment, when the enemy doesn’t expect it but your team is ready. It’s an incredibly important skill.
Depending on how you initiate, the entire tide of battle can flip 180 degrees.
The beautiful teamfight was zoomed in and replayed once more.
“Wow! That was truly artistry, wasn’t it!?”
“Who would believe Balloon Gum pulled that off!? If you hid the ID, it’d almost look like Popcorn’s play!”
The casters compared Balloon Gum’s play to Popcorn, the current top-tier professional top laner commanding the highest market value.
But the viewers completely disagreed.
-???: That’s overstepping…
-…?
-What?
-Ah~ King Gul, you’re switching your stream to Popcorn?
“And here’s what’s worth noting—Almond still hasn’t activated his ultimate ability. He’s waiting. For the perfect moment.”
-For real
-Wow so composed lol
-If it were me I’d activate it immediately and spam it everywhere lol
“Balloon Gum’s ultimate hits four enemies. And only then does he activate it!”
“Yes. He waited continuously until the perfect angle opened up. Right from here!”
The scene of me intercepting enemies one by one as I aimed played across the screen.
With different angles and maximum zoom applied, it was directed like a scene from a movie.
“One! Two! Three! Four! Ooh~ Quadra kill!”
“The final kill was decorated by Balloon Gum!”
“A clip called ‘Pentakill’ is already circulating, you know?”
Hahahahaha
Gum-shaped ㅠㅠ
Ah… haha
Poor Pendra ㅠㅠ

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Balloon Stars gathered back in the Waiting Room.
The moment Balloon Gum encountered me in the Waiting Room, he rushed over and apologized.
“Ah… Almond. I’m sorry. I stole the pentakill from you.”
“Really, it’s fine. Brother.”
At his third apology, I scratched my head. It seemed that my unintentional silence at the time had come across to Balloon Gum as disapproval.
I hadn’t meant to disapprove at all.
I had simply been at a loss for words.
“Brother, this is a big problem. Almond’s got serious competitive spirit. Every time he killed Mosol, he did that ‘chiki-cha’ thing, right? And when he killed Mosol at the end, he definitely did ‘chiki-cha’ too!”
“Nah. It wasn’t that bad~”
“No. I’m telling you, he did it.”
“Almond, you did, right!?”
When Balloon Gum asked Miho, she looked toward me and winked with one eye.
She was asking me to go along with the lie to tease Balloon Gum.
But instead, I found myself looking flustered.
“…?”
A moment of silence fell.
I glanced away awkwardly.
‘What. Did I really do it?’
‘He really did it, didn’t he?’
Miho and Balloon Gum exchanged looks, both bewildered.
“Ahem.”
I cleared my throat unnecessarily and walked away. It was a moment when I longed for the sunglasses that had been on the swimming pool party skin.
Fortunately, the embarrassment didn’t last long.
Clap! Clap!
“Alright, alright. Since the playoffs provide separate strategy time, the breaks between sets are short. Let me just give you a few quick feedback points!”
Taco had arrived to provide feedback. His expression looked urgent. This match had plenty to review.
Losing early and then miraculously reversing in the late game was entertaining for spectators, but for the players, it wasn’t a particularly good match.
It meant there had been some major mistake early on.
With time limited, Taco focused on pointing out only the major mistakes.
“Balloon Gum didn’t control the vision here. It rolled a bit too far….”
“Miho’s inexperience as a support is showing. When she went in at that moment, she should have placed a ward….”
“Almond could have made the game smoother if he’d come down with me at this timing. The mid-laner needs to see the entire game….”
Before I could say more, a portal opened.
[Set 2 is ready.]
[Players, please proceed through the portal.]

* * *
Meanwhile, in Soloizebaek’s Waiting Room.
Not a word was being exchanged there.
Mosol sat with his head hung low in silence, while the rest of the teammates simply stared blankly into empty space.
No one knew where to begin or how to provide feedback.
‘This won’t do.’
Mosol sensed it instinctively. Things wouldn’t work out this way.
The early game momentum had certainly been good.
He felt that if he could just revive this ruined atmosphere, victory was entirely within reach.
“…Kekeke.”
He began letting out a forced laugh.
“…?”
“??”
His teammates looked at him as if he’d lost his mind, but Mosol didn’t stop.
“Kekekeke… this is fun.”
After chuckling like that for a while, he brushed back his hair and his eyes gleamed.
‘He’s actually lost it.’
‘Did he go crazy from getting hit by that skill….’
Soju and Maekju whispered to each other.
Mosol paid them no mind and spread both arms wide as he spoke.
“Brothers!”
“I’m a sister though.”
When Makgeolli interjected, Mosol quickly corrected himself.
“Brothers and sisters. I think it’s time we brought out ‘that.'”
Maekju, who had been watching for a while, asked.
“Are you streaming?”
“No.”
“Then, then what’s with that concept.”
Pfft.
Maekju and Soju burst into laughter.
Then the other teammates started snickering too.
Puhahahaha!
Soon everyone was laughing hard.
Mosol’s lips curved upward slightly.
“A concept? You know what that ‘thing’ we prepared is.”
“You were going to use it against Danmuji.”
“Given how things have turned out, we have no choice. If we lose two more rounds before using it, we’ll be backed into a corner.”
The other teammates exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.
“…All right. Let’s go with that.”
Everyone had consented.
It was time to pull out their prepared hidden card.

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