Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 263

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 263
93. A New Leap (2)
Atop a high hill, a woman with her lustrous black hair neatly tied back draws her bowstring taut.
It’s Soyeon.
Sanghyeon muttered to himself without much surprise, approaching her as if entranced by something.
What is that?
The bow Soyeon was drawing was blue.
Sanghyeon, puzzled, approached and asked.
‘Soyeon, what is that?’
A youthful voice, distinctly different from her current one, flowed out.
‘Hm?’
Soyeon tilted her head briefly, looking down at Sanghyeon.
Whoooosh….
A gentle breeze swept through her hair, causing her neatly tied locks to sway.
When their eyes met, Sanghyeon grinned.
‘That blue bow… what is it? It’s beautiful.’
At the word beautiful, Soyeon’s face flushed. She understood that the word wasn’t referring to the bow at all.
She swept her hair back once, then murmured in a whisper-like voice.
‘Almond.’
Sanghyeon didn’t quite hear that.
Or rather, he heard it but seemed to want to hear it again.
‘What did you say?’
‘Almond. That’s the bow’s name.’
Then, Soyeon’s hair began to shift to a golden hue.
The pure white school uniform she wore transformed into a blue cloak.
Young Sanghyeon’s mouth fell open in astonishment.
‘Reina?’
Soyeon had become Reina.
Or was she playing as Reina in Rille?
Her face was unmistakably Soyeon’s after all.
Not Reina’s characteristic cold, frost-like expression, but rather a youthful and gentle face.
A rosy blush rose to her cheeks, and her lips moved.
‘Look, see?’
What was she asking him to see?
Sanghyeon turned his head in the direction Soyeon’s gaze moved.
Below the hill, spread across the plains, was where Soyeon was looking.
Remarkably, there was Department Manager Park, completely bald, struggling and bound to a cross.
He was bound so high that falling from there would surely kill him.
And beneath him was a pile of burning firewood. The luxury shoes he used to boast about wearing had already melted away, and his feet were roasting.
I was wrong! I was wrong! Please, just let me live once more!
He pleaded desperately in a pitiful voice, yet strangely, I felt no sympathy whatsoever.
Then Soyeon whispered.
‘Almond’s liberated arrow.’
Crackling electricity surged from the blue bow.
It was Kangsin’s technique.
An arrow brimming with tremendous firepower struck the lower abdomen of Department Manager Park.
Thwack!
That very spot I’d always wondered about shooting during my Company days.
Boom!
The blue target exploded outward, Department Manager Park screamed in agony, and Soyeon burst into laughter.
I laughed along with her.
‘What kind of dream was I having to be laughing like that!’
Suddenly, Juhyeok picked a fight with me from the sky.
Where the sun should have been.
Juhyeok’s baby-faced visage had taken its place instead.

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“…Ah.”
I stared blankly at the monitor as the memory of the dream suddenly rushed back.
I couldn’t remember anything when I woke up, so why am I remembering it now?
「By the way, what dream did you have while sleeping today? You kept laughing.」
Ah, it was because of Juhyeok’s question from earlier.
I said I didn’t know back then since I couldn’t remember, but now it’s come back to me.
The broadcast is coming up soon, and now I’ve got distracting thoughts.
[Streaming begins.]
Clap clap!
I patted my own cheeks.
Then I gathered my focus and turned my gaze toward the camera.
‘Concentrate.’
No matter how casual a talk broadcast is, I can’t be careless.
This is my job now, after all.
[Current viewers: 2.1K]
Viewers begin trickling in gradually.
[Current viewers: 13K]
We’ve already broken past 10K right at the start.
‘What the….’
The chat window scrolls wildly.
-Wow! Almond!
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text. It appears to be Korean consonants (ㄷㄱ) repeated without vowels, which doesn’t form valid Korean words or convey meaning in English.
-CEO open the door!
-Nut! Nut! Nut! Nut!
-Son! You’ll never become an Almond! Son! You’ll never become an Almond! Son! You’ll never become an Almond!
-Mom! There’s a nut in the newspaper! Mom! There’s a nut in the newspaper! Mom! There’s a nut in the newspaper!
Ding!
The camera finally turned on.
Almond appeared in pristine condition, having fully recovered from the finals’ exhaustion with Juhyeok’s tomato stew and an exhilarating dream.
-Huh? Looks like today’s a real after-party broadcast.
-Ohhhhh!
-Whoa, not the Capsule!
The viewers quickly noticed that the background visible behind Almond was his home.
Today’s broadcast wasn’t from the Capsule.
-Bro, congrats on the championship!
-Championship! Championship! Championship!
-The champion has arrived!
As soon as he appeared, some viewers congratulated him on his victory.
Sanghyeon only then remembered, “Oh right, I did win the championship.”
That made sense—his mind was occupied with something else entirely.
[Current Viewers: 74,000]
The viewer count had now surpassed 70,000.
I’d anticipated it would climb somewhat.
‘This much?’
But I hadn’t expected it to rise to this level.
The 20,000 viewers from the Nanterre match buff was already a significant number, yet 70,000 viewers—far exceeding that—flooded in the moment the broadcast started.
-Wow, the viewer count is insane lol
-You’d think something major happened lol
-Did everyone come to see the Nanterre match review?
-Guess they came to hear more about the past
-An article dropped on Hanhaeil News lol
-After the Hanhaeil News article dropped, the Korean viewers went crazy
-Is this the power of Korean viewers?!
70,000.
It was certainly a daunting number.
A figure somewhere between major and minor channels.
Could I handle this alone? Doubt crept in.
‘They’re just here for a quick look anyway.’
But Almond quickly steadied myself.
Not every single one of these viewers is my fan. They’re probably just stopping by out of curiosity about who that archery boy is.
[Current Viewers: 91,000]
Meanwhile, the viewer count had already surpassed 90,000.
Ahem.
Almond cleared the weight from his chest with a slight cough and offered a greeting.
Just like always.
“Hah!”
At his bright smile, the chat scrolled upward like it had gone mad.
Oh my god, he’s so handsome ㅠㅠㅠ
-Wow he smiled at me did you see him smile at me? Huh?
-Mom! Almond smiled at me! Mom! Almond smiled at me! Mom! Almond smiled at me!
The chat rushed forward frantically.
The messages scrolled so quickly that even with Almond’s tracking vision, it was difficult to respond to each one individually.
Almond decided to wait until the fervor cooled down.
But the viewers had no intention of waiting for him. Now donations poured in.
Ding ding!
[Rubisword donated 200,000 won!]
[I cried watching your old videos… Congratulations on winning! Please keep streaming hard!]
“Ah. Rubisword. A donation of 200,000 won. Thank you as always. I’m truly grateful.”
Ding ding!
[Gaji-bokkeun donated 100,000 won!]
[I secretly sold my brother’s shoes to donate… Congratulations on the championship!]
“Gaji-bokkeun. You’re joking, right…? If your brother complains, I’ll refund you.”
Hahaha, what did my younger sibling do to deserve this? Haha
That’s so random lol
Lol, one of the world’s top 3 worst foods
If you say you sponsored it for almonds, they’ll understand lol
-My brother can’t even donate to Almond, but my younger brother gets to wear shoes? The world’s turned upside down
lol
Following the usual first donors who always kicked off Almond’s stream, countless donations continued to flood in.
“Soso, thank you for 500,000 won. I can’t react properly today… haha. Lala Taco, thank you for 100,000 won. I was nervous too….”
The donation messages were piling up.
[Delay Check donated 30,000 won!]
[Current time 3:11 PM]
“The time now is 3:25 PM… anyway, thank you.”
Hyung, it’s not that, I’m checking if the sponsorship is getting delayed lol
-Wow are there like 10 more minutes of donations stacked up?
-This is insane….
-Almost all donations are over 10,000 won, this is crazy is this world-class Almond?!
‘The donations must be delayed.’
After reading donations for nearly twenty minutes, Almond was finally able to resume the broadcast.
“So many people are congratulating me. I’m truly grateful. And thank you to those who waited.”
-You won the championship, this is the least expected
How much is that thing anyway? ㅋㅋ
-The sponsorships are insane, matching the viewer count
-So when’s the after-party broadcast?
-My brother’s getting sponsored, so we gotta wait obviously lol
“Ah. Today’s broadcast is an after-party talk show that you all requested in the chat.”
-Wooooow!
-Talk show!
I’m seriously going to achieve enlightenment ㅠㅠㅠ An almond talk broadcast, really?
A casual talk show.
It was quite popular content among Almond’s regular viewers.
Of course, not because he was particularly good at talking, but simply because he rarely did this kind of content.
‘I hope it goes well.’
Because of this, Almond always had some anxiety before doing a talk show.
Whether it would flow strangely, whether it would be boring.
Of course, true to Almond’s nature, such worries never leaked out.
‘I need to find a natural flow.’
To start talking, he preferred a natural topic that everyone could relate to.
Almond could easily come up with such plausible topics.
Specifically, the viewer count.
[Current Viewers: 102,000]
Somehow it had already surpassed 100,000.
Almond glanced at it and asked.
“You’ve all come in such huge numbers. Is there a particular reason?”
Almond was genuinely curious about this, and everyone was probably paying attention to this viewer count.
There was no way all these numbers were Almond’s fans, so they must have come because of some specific event.
-lololol there’s so many
-Why did so many come lol
-Go watch Almond’s mad movie first you new viewers~~
-Bro you’re trending #1 on Ollytube right now
“Ollytube #1? Is that why?”
Almond quickly checked Ollytube, and his eyes widened.
Right there at the top of the trending list was a video exposing his past.
[View Count: 1,105,000]
The view count had already reached 1.1 million in less than 24 hours.
Another record-breaking popular video had been born on Almond’s Ollytube channel.
-Wow now he’s really world-class
The almonds got way too big ㅠㅠ
-He’s killing it;;;
-Isn’t he gonna move to a major channel at this rate?
-Honestly he’s got Video Star potential haha
-He’s a celebrity now
-You could even go on shows like Evening Wide as a guest lol. Cutie Pie went on once before too
The viewers were letting their imaginations run wild over the fact that a single video had hit real-time #1.
Sanghyeon had briefly entertained such thoughts as well, but the broadcast took priority, so he quickly moved forward.
“Ah. So that’s why everyone came?”
Ding.
As if in response, a donation comes in.
[Curious donated 100,000 won!]
[Do you do Q&A? hehe]
“Yes. Of course. Thank you so much for the 100,000 won donation.”
An incredibly fast response that slipped out before I could think.
-Of course we do, it’s 100,000 won
-That capitalist answer with zero hesitation is killing me lol
-His facial expression didn’t even change lol
Then came another donation.
[Laughing Otaku donated 1,000 won.]
[Is it just me, or does the response speed differ depending on the amount?]
Unfortunately, he didn’t get to hear Almond’s answer.
“So shall we do Q&A?”
-lol natural skip
-It wasn’t a skip! It’s just that the 1,000 won took a 10-minute delay!
-???: What happened?
Either way, thanks to that earlier donation, Almond’s after-show broadcast proceeded in Q&A format.
“Send in your ques──”
Ding.
A donation comes in before I can even finish speaking.
[Mosol donated 100,000 won!]
[Hyung. How do you get a girlfriend?]
From the very first question, this isn’t easy.
Hahahahaha Kichan ㅠㅠ
-That’s annoying… grow up.
-Why are you even asking him that lol
-The world’s first question where you could look in a mirror and still not get an answer.

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[Current viewers: 115,000]

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