Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 247

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 247
87. Blade Against Blade (1)
After Sanghyeon entered the capsule.
The researchers began making anxious and strange remarks.
‘The synchronization rate is different from what we knew….’
‘There’s no real problem, but we should still verify….’
Their words claimed everything was fine, but their eyes told a completely different story.
“Are you sure it’s really okay?”
Juhyeok’s voice rose slightly without him realizing it.
“It’s truly fine. Besides, the user’s subjective experience is what matters most. So when Almond comes out──”
Just as the researcher spoke to reassure him.
Ssshhhhh.
The capsule opened.
Sanghyeon slowly raised his upper body.
Everyone’s eyes fixed on his mouth.
Unable to wait any longer, Juhyeok asked.
“How is it?”
“…It’s strange.”
“!?”
Juhyeok and both researchers’ faces stiffened simultaneously.
‘What? What’s not working?’
In that moment, Sanghyeon grinned.
“I can’t believe it feels this good.”
Watching Sanghyeon finish his sentence like that, Juhyeok felt both joy and an urge to punch him.
But he decided to settle for just a slightly harder high-five instead.
Smack!
“Good. Let’s win this.”
“Yeah.”
The capsule was perfectly prepared.
Now I just had to perform well in the finals.
“I’m going to warm up a bit.”
Sanghyeon went back into the capsule and didn’t come out until the finals started.
So fortunately, he didn’t see it.
[Proof That South Korean Archery Is the World’s Strongest]
This video, that is.
Juhyeok bit his lip.
‘…Damn.’
It was a video uploaded to the massive channel TimeTrouble.
With a subscriber count of 3.2 million.
Though most of them were ghost subscribers, of course.
This video apparently struck a chord with viewers.
The upload from two hours ago already had eighty thousand views.
[Presumably referring to a streamer named Almond…]
When I opened the video, as expected, there wasn’t a single piece of concrete evidence—just speculation from start to finish.
‘Is this actually a relief?’
Should I be grateful that he wasn’t inflating speculation into fact?
The video concluded like this.
[From what we can see in the video, it’s difficult to determine if they’re the same person. Besides the fact that both are handsome and shoot arrows well, there are no other commonalities. Moreover, based on my research, Almond is thirty years old. But if we calculate the age of Sang-hyun Yu in the video, he should be twenty-eight now. That’s a two-year difference.]
“…Ha.”
Juhyeok laughed at this point.
All those times I’d lied about my age—and now it was actually paying off.
Most of the comments focused on the age discrepancy.
-The ages don’t match lol
Did your ancestors steal the past 2 years?
-This guy’s a total scammer
Of course, there were still comments claiming similarity, and plenty questioning who that boy was and what he was doing now.
-The faces do look pretty similar… just coincidence?
-That guy’s way more handsome though? Current Almond is just a nut lol
-Yo. But who is that guy? If he shoots that well, shouldn’t he be famous?
Juhyeok continued watching the video.
[However, the facial similarity is hard to deny, and since we haven’t seen Almond’s ID card, the age could have been falsified. Besides, with that boy’s skill level in the video, he should have competed in the Olympics or something. But after that point, there’s absolutely no information about him.]
“Wow.”
Juhyeok genuinely admired it.
Making conspiracy theory videos isn’t something just anyone can do. This guy was pinpointing the exact weak points with minimal evidence.
“Well done. Very well done.”
Of course, I wasn’t pleased.
Why upload this video right before the finals? Right when Sanghyeon needs to focus entirely on the game.
The intention became clear soon enough.
[Whether this handsome boy in the video is truly Almond or not—we can never know for certain. And we shouldn’t try to force the answer. But! Conveniently, today is when this video uploads! You can find out! There’s a tournament called the Nanteu Championship happening, and Almond has mentioned in the past that he’ll reveal his past during the championship victory interview. Well, that’s all for this Time Trouble episode.]
The video ended there.
-Wow. The Nanteu Championship?
-He’s going to say that in the interview?
-Is that even true? How can we trust this guy when it’s basically “maybe or maybe not”
└So the conclusion is still “we don’t know” lol
└Ugh please let this channel die already lol
-You said we shouldn’t try to find out, so why make this video?
Juhyeok left a comment and hit the report button.
‘Does this even count as reportable.’
In truth, the guy hadn’t broken any laws. But Juhyeok decided to try anyway.
‘At least I can give him some grief.’
Tap-tap-tap-tap.
His fingers flew across the keyboard, moving faster and faster.
Time itself seemed to accelerate.
It was now 6 PM.
The finals were about to begin.

* * *
The opening was spectacular, but brief.
The ban and pick phase for the finals between the two teams began immediately.
“So, King Gul. How do you assess the ban and pick strategy for both teams this time?”
“Well, the biggest issue is whether Almond will actually go mid, wouldn’t you say?”
“What do you think?”
“I’m betting he goes mid.”
“Ah, now that you mention it, you said from the very beginning that Almond is an S-tier mid laner, didn’t you?”
“Yes. That’s one of my predictions that actually came true, surprisingly enough.”
hahahaha lol
-King Gul’s curse;
That’s the most surprising thing that I got right lol
Getting 100 score hits is less impressive than that, honestly. Back then, she was just a Silver-ranked rookie streamer lol
“But how did you know?”
King Gul paused for a moment.
It seemed like a delicate topic he was hesitant to bring up.
“I got beaten up pretty badly by him.”
-During school?
-He was friends with Mosol… so that’s why Mosol…
-“Birds of a feather”
“By Jeon-ja-pa.”
“Ah~~ Of course!”
The caster laughed along. After all, he was the one broadcasting when King Gul got beaten up by Jeon-ja-pa.
“You cried back then, didn’t you, King Gul? Right?!”
The caster’s surprise attack of a comment.
Pfft.
Even the analyst, who had been calmly wiping his glasses, burst out laughing.
The viewers laughing was only natural.
That’s crazy lolololol
-Mandarin orange juice! It’s bursting!
Ah, that “juice” incident lol
-I heard it was a Del Monte backdoor ad. Is that true?
King Gul’s face turned bright red.
“No, no. Those tears back then were just… a man’s tears.”
“A man’s tears are only worth shedding in victory! You were the one crying after getting completely crushed yesterday!”
-Hahaha crazy hahaha that’s too much hahaha
-So why’d you bring up Jeon-ja-pa anyway??
I’m gonna go crazy lol, did you lose and cry?
-Wait, didn’t you say King Gul vs Jeon-ja-pa was like Naruto vs Sasuke?!
“Yes. In any case, that person who made me cry… I saw something overlapping with them. You could call it pure, refined physicality? It felt like a different quality altogether. I made that evaluation based solely on that one aspect.”
-Compared to Jeon-ja-pa?
-Now that you mention it, Jeon-ja-pa’s record is exactly the same too, isn’t it?
-That’s high praise
Being compared to Jeon-ja-pa was the greatest honor any player or professional could receive.
At the same time, it was a burden difficult to bear.
Oh no. Yongpal is coming out ㅠㅠ
-Electronics district, assemble!
-They’re touching the sacred untouchable;
-Nah, not Jeon-ja-pa though.
I don’t think they’ll acknowledge electromagnetic waves lol
-That’s crossing the line
As expected, he showed up in just 1 second lol
The performance and achievements Jeon-ja-pa had displayed, the overwhelming career built against the entire world—it was almost burdensome to even attempt a comparison.
Anticipating such a reaction, King Gul wisely held his tongue.
“It’s purely my personal impression. In reality, Almond is truly an exceptional player when it comes to physicality alone.”
“Oh, the moment you said that. How many bans have already finished? The screen came a bit late for us!”
Two bans had already been completed.
[Godanbaek – Ban]
#1. Cold-Blooded Arcane Archer – Reina
#2. Iron Ball – Dino
Something notable appeared in Godanbaek’s bans.
“Wait? They banned Balloon Gum again!?”
It was the Iron Ball ban.
“Ah, could this be feedback from yesterday’s match?”
“Yesterday, didn’t Balloon Stars thoroughly punish what happens when you use a ban card on Balloon Gum?”
“That’s only when the Sayul combination is possible… The last ban is probably related to that.”
Next, Balloon Stars completed their second ban.
[Balloon Stars – Ban]
#1. Steel Wings – Valkyrie
#2. Storm Ninja – Haruky
“Balloon Stars has consistently banned Valkyrie, who’s currently rated as overpowered, and interestingly, they’re banning Storm Ninja?”
“It was also Almond’s first mid lane pick. Why would they ban it from this side?”
“Because Danmuji handled it quite well. It’s also evidence that Taco has been monitoring quite thoroughly.”
As King Gul and the Caster exchanged words, the Analyst briefly scanned the data and raised a counterpoint.
“Well, actually, Danmuji is quite exceptional with Flashing Blade. Normally he only pulls it out under certain conditions, but in an amateur tournament like this, he can bring it out without restrictions.”
At that, King Gul nods his head vigorously as if he’s just remembered.
“Ah, right! Flashing Blade! He originally practiced Storm Ninja to counter Flashing Blade, and he got so good at Storm Ninja that it became his most-played champion. I forgot for a moment. I haven’t seen it in so long because it’s always been banned.”
“Yes. That’s strange. If they’re banning Storm Ninja too, did they prepare another counter?”
“Hmm….”
Taco’s ban-pick strategy always laid multiple layers of traps, so the two commentators tilted their heads in thought.
“To put it extremely, we’ve banned even Storm Ninja for you. Are you going to play Flashing Blade? You still won’t? It feels like they’re asking that!?”
“Exactly. Unless they’re deliberately digging traps and waiting… they wouldn’t go this far!”
“Even so, Flashing Blade is hard to pick. The fact that it only gets strong after level 6 is too big a weakness!”
“But! Who is Danmuji!? Regardless of what he prepared, he’s skilled enough to pick Flashing Blade first and sweep them away! Especially since this isn’t a pro game—it’s amateur!”
“Hmm. Taco, who’s doing the banning, must clearly know that too. Could he steal it? But there’s no data on Flashing Blade….”
“He can’t steal it either. Since Godanbaek has first pick, if Danmuji picks it first, Balloon Stars can’t take it away.”
While the commentators went back and forth with their arguments, Godanbaek’s final ban ended.
[Godanbaek – Bans]
#1. Coldhearted Arcane Archer – Reina
#2. Iron Ball – Dino
#3. Light’s Melody – Sana
The final ban was ‘Light’s Melody – Sana’.
Sighs flowed out simultaneously from the audience and commentary booth.
“Ah~!”
“That’s accounting for the Sayul combination, right?”
“Did they judge it unstoppable? Or are they saying, ‘It’s set one, so if you ban like this and we just blow through the top lane highway, what are you gonna do about it’!?”
-Highway lol
You’re really ignoring me, gum guy ㅠ
Let me show you the gum-shaped one! ㅠㅠ
Highway.
It refers to the phenomenon where one lane gets completely broken through, creating a direct path straight to the enemy base.
Of course, there are various situations involved, but simply put, it means the player in that lane played terribly.
“Wow, that’s a scary question! A highway in the top lane! In the current situation with these ten players here, Balloon Gum is being evaluated as the weakest, so it hits even harder! Do you have something prepared for this, Balloon Stars?”
Now it’s Balloon Stars’ turn to ban.
The camera catches a scene of Taco discussing various things with his teammates.
“We could ban Flashing Blade here. But then we basically can’t touch any of Baeksuk’s main champions—he’s Grand Master tier and above. If we don’t ban Dotorimuk’s ‘Unstoppable – Bat’, we’ll get a real highway blown through us by Balloon Gum.”
“Right. ‘Unstoppable – Bat’ is like an incarnation of a bulldozer charging straight ahead, right? If we give that incarnation a kill, it might actually live up to its name. Plus, Dotorimuk’s proficiency with it is quite high!”
[Balloon Stars – Bans]
#1. Iron Wings – Valkyrie
#2. Storm Ninja – Haruky
#3. Unstoppable – Bat
The final ban was Bat. It was a consideration so that Dotorimuk and Balloon Gum wouldn’t be too far apart.
“Ah. So it’s a ban that invests in Balloon Gum after all!”
“Hmm. If it’s like this….”
“Alright! Now we’re picking! Godanbaek has first pick~!”

* * *
“Hyung. What if they pick first before us?”
Strawberry Shooter asked Taco with concern in his voice.
Honestly, I shared the same worry.
We’d even banned a counter to the enemy’s main champion, yet they had first pick. Of course they could grab it first.
“They can’t pick it.”
Meanwhile, Taco seemed completely unconcerned.
“Flash Blade is difficult for first pick. And Danmuji only chooses the right answer.”
“Doesn’t Danmuji have a really high winrate with Flash Blade even in pro play? It seems like he could just pick it.”
“He does have a high winrate. But that’s not because he’s exceptionally good at Flash Blade.”
“Then why?”
“Of course he plays Flash Blade like a ghost….”
Taco pointed at something. The ban-pick window.
An empty space where no one had been selected yet.
“He’s better at that than playing Flash Blade well.”
“The ban-pick window?”
“It’s a bit different. Danmuji knows when to use Flash Blade. That’s the secret to his high winrate.”
“So….”
“Which means Danmuji won’t pick Flash Blade if the timing isn’t right.”
At that moment, we heard the enemy team making their pick.
Thud.
[Ppokjujok – Paul]
Their first pick was Ppokjujok Paul.
Danmuji didn’t think it was the right time to pick Flash Blade yet.
Strawberry Shooter’s jaw dropped as he turned to Taco.
“Now it’s our turn, right?”
Taco grinned wickedly.
[Balloon Stars! We’re taking the next pick! King Gul, what pick do you predict!?]
[Ah, I──]
King Gul missed his chance to predict.
For him, that was fortunate.
Because the next pick was something he could never have anticipated.
[Flash Blade – Swift]
Thud!
Brilliant light erupted as a man spinning twin daggers landed on the stage.
Strawberry seemed to remember something and asked again.
“Hyung. You said Flash Blade is difficult for first pick… but we can win even if we pick it first?”
Taco placed his hand on Strawberry’s shoulder and answered.
“Picking only the right answers won’t be enough to win here.”
It was a statement that starkly illustrated the difference in power between the two teams.

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