Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 266

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Spin-off Episode 2
1. Ran (2)
Baaaaaaa~?
Almond staggered backward in bewilderment.
‘I’m… a sheep?’
Me, a sheep.
They want me to clear Story Mode in this state?
Haha, wait, it was a sheep?
-Wow, it’s been a while since this happened
Almond’s flustered reaction is so cute lol
Almonds lol so funny haha
No matter how I looked at it, I was definitely a sheep.
“Baaaaaaa~”
No matter what I tried to say, only sheep sounds came out.
Even with the chat turned off, I could perfectly sense what everyone would say.
‘What is this rough, gritty feeling?’
Only now did I notice it—my mouth was filled with something incredibly rough and grainy, as if I were chewing on a pile of sandpaper.
Was this a sheep’s tongue?
Thud.
Something bumped into me near my hindquarters.
“What is this.”
An irritated voice.
Turning my head around, I saw a human far taller than the students.
He wore white garments as well, but they were much longer and adorned with far larger patterns.
‘Is he a priest?’
Almond instinctively deduced that this person was some kind of monk or clergyman.
-Here he comes. Pseudo-Roman
This is easy lolololol
-&#&@**!
-Ugh, this top-tier guy pisses me off every time I see him.
The man’s face twisted sharply as he pointed accusingly.
“Hey. You two there!”
His finger indicated the two children walking ahead.
The children turned around, their faces as pale white as the garments they wore.
From this, Almond could deduce that this man was something frightening to those children.
‘So this clergyman is like a teacher.’
In a setup like this at what resembled a school, this clergyman likely played the role of an instructor.
Whether all the teachers here were clergy or just this one, I’d have to see more.
“You brought this sheep here, didn’t you? Huh?”
“N-No! We were just heading to the lecture hall…”
“What nonsense is this? Are you saying the sheep wandered up here on its own? Sheep can’t leave the pasture!”
Perhaps he’d trained the sheep. For someone claiming they couldn’t leave the grass, his conviction was remarkably strong.
“You two are cleaning the Chapel Hall today! Do you understand? Look at the mess this sheep made!”
“N-no, that’s not… We really didn’t…”
The children looked like they were about to be punished.
Seeing their miserable faces, I felt an unexpected pang of guilt.
“Ah. Brother Bered.”
Another Teacher emerged from the opposite corridor. He had a gentle appearance with round glasses and looked relatively young.
The way he clutched a large book made him seem somewhat timid.
“Have you seen Apprentice Lete by chance? He’s been absent from lectures since this morning… Hm?”
He tilted his head in confusion upon seeing Brother Bered’s flushed face and the two students’ pale complexions.
“What’s the matter?”
“Ah… Brother Daria. It’s nothing serious. These two brought a sheep into the school as a prank, so I was disciplining them.”
“N-no! We didn’t bring it! We didn’t even know the sheep was behind us!”
“What more nonsense? Do you want to clean the bathrooms too?! Should I just lock you in the punishment room?!”
“N-no, really! Prophet!”
An intense confrontation between the two students and Brother Bered.
“Hm?”
The timid-looking teacher called Daria adjusted his round glasses and looked between them alternately.
“What do you mean ‘hm’? Brother Daria. Are you saying you don’t believe me?!”
The irritable Brother Bered now shouted at Daria accusingly.
I decided to make a choice here.
“Baaaa!”
I rushed toward Brother Bered and rubbed against him frantically.
-Lol crazy judgment lol
-Why at Bered though lol
-So funny lol
“Ah, no. Why is this happening all of a sudden…!”
And I spat out what had been scratching inside my mouth onto his robes.
“Hm… Brother Bered. I believe the sheep followed you here.”
“…What? No, this crazy sheep is just acting up suddenly!”
“…”
Daria simply stared without saying anything.
Brother Bered grew even angrier and shouted loudly.
“Are you saying I lied?!”
“No. No one here is lying.”
“…?”
Daria slowly walked toward what he’d been staring at and removed the scratchy hay stuck to his robes.
“It followed this.”
“…?!”
Brother Bered’s expression became quite worth watching.
And for good reason.
He hadn’t done anything to warrant being buried under a haystack, and this goat was leading the way ahead of him. It wasn’t following behind at all.
-The most wronged expression in the world
-Bered, master of the wronged expression
Haha, even someone like me feels so unfairly treated.
“This… this can’t be happening…”
“One might inadvertently get hay on their clothes without realizing it. Isn’t that one of the amusing principles of this world governed by the seven goddesses? We humans haven’t achieved their level of enlightenment…”
Daria gestured to the two students to leave now. The children ran at maximum speed toward the lecture hall.
Daria smiled gently at Bered.
“Mistakes are always to be forgiven.”
One of the maxims of Seteia, the goddess of forgiveness and deception whom he most frequently served.
With that, he himself turned toward the lecture hall.
“This… this crazy goat!”
That crazy bastard lol
-Suddenly a Western person ascends;
“Bored reaction lol so funny”
-You’re the goat, Bered;
Once Daria disappeared, Bered sought out the goat to vent his frustration, but all he could see was the goat’s rear end bounding far into the distance.
“What… what!?”
Watching the goat’s behavior as if it had deliberately set out to mock him, Bered huffed indignantly.
But with the lecture starting soon, he couldn’t very well chase after that goat and wander far from the school.
“Ugh…”

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“Baaaa~~ Baaaa~~”
Almond, panting heavily as he ran, only felt relieved after glancing back.
Brother Bered had given up chasing him and was going his own way.
I felt extraordinarily exhilarated.
However….
“Baaaa….”
The exhilaration was short-lived.
In this sheep’s body, I had no idea what to do or how to proceed.
I checked the clear conditions once more to get a feel for the game.
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[Clear Conditions]
★: Secret
★★: Girl (female)
★★★: Revenge
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So I’m supposed to uncover a secret while in sheep form, meet a girl, and take revenge?
It would be fortunate if I wasn’t butchered into lamb chops and grilled on a hot plate by tomorrow.
‘Well, let me try anyway.’
I approached the other sheep first.
The sheep in the meadow were peacefully eating, bleating “baa, baa” with serene expressions.
“Baaaa~”
I tried speaking to one of them.
“Baaaa~?”
The creature tilted its head, looking at me.
“Baaaa~~ Baaaa~~”
I thought this was my chance and said something urgently.
“Baaaa~”
It simply went back to grazing.
Frustrated, I pushed it with my front hoof and turned away.
“…Baaaa.”
‘This won’t work.’
No way, were you seriously trying to have a conversation between the two of you?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Lol, check out this imagination
-This guy’s a newbie~~ kekeke
Are you a druid? lol
I thought the development would be that sheep could communicate with each other and I’d build some kind of animal network to uncover secrets. But that wasn’t it.
After that, I rummaged through hay piles, and even dug around inside the wool of other sheep.
“Baaaa….”
‘This won’t work either.’
I had made no real progress.
With no other choice, I flopped down onto the meadow. Without thinking, I began chewing on grass while pondering the matter.
Let me retrace everything from the beginning….
‘Was my encounter with Brother Bered just a coincidence?’
When I first played through Reina’s story mode, I had immediately identified all the key figures the moment I entered.
Could it be the same this time?
Brother Bered, Daria, and the two students—perhaps they were the pivotal characters in this story mode.
I simply hadn’t noticed.
‘But Ran isn’t here.’
No matter how young Ran might be, I should be able to recognize him instantly, just as I did with Reina.
Those students from earlier weren’t Ran.
I can’t find Ran, the most crucial piece.
“Baaah….”
A sigh escaped me.
‘This can’t be right.’
No matter how I thought about it, I couldn’t proceed in this sheep form.
I gazed toward the school building.
‘…!’
Then it struck me.
“Baaah!”
A thought suddenly flashed through my mind.
‘Lete wasn’t there, was he?’
Earlier, Daria had mentioned that a student named Lete was nowhere to be found.
Could that student be somehow connected?
I decided to head back to the school. Since everyone was in class right now, no one would notice a single sheep slipping inside.

* * *
A fluffy white sheep entered the school.
Moving with careful steps unbecoming of a sheep, it began walking down the school’s corridor.
It walked pressed against the wall—whether to avoid being seen through the windows or to listen better.
-…If you continue refining and tempering pure white mana….
-The strictest among the seven goddesses….
Incomprehensible words brushed past the sheep’s ears.
‘Pure white mana.’
But at least one word was familiar to me.
Pure white mana.
It was the true nature of the energy Ran wielded.
It seems he’s learning it here. Ran must indeed be a student of this place.
Or perhaps a teacher. It might not be a childhood story like Reina’s story mode.
-To receive the blessings of the goddesses, one must always keep body and mind pure….
-…As you know, women ‘taint’ the pure white. Pure white is a mandate we received on the condition of eternally dedicating ourselves to the goddesses.
Continuing to wander the corridor and eavesdrop.
This place was indeed some sort of religious facility. Every lesson was related to the goddesses.
What they repeated almost like brainwashing was to keep away from women.
It seemed related to the fact that most of this religion’s deities were goddesses.
Only by offering one’s purity to them could one obtain pure white mana.
-Women are an element you cannot control, so you must certainly keep your distance. Even Ran, who was so exemplary….
“Baaah!”
A voice suddenly burst out loud from sheer excitement.
Being an animal, I couldn’t control this sort of thing well.
Almond bolted away somewhere.
Clop! Clop!
The sound of hooves echoed.
Damn it.
‘A curtain?’
Between the antique archways, there was a small doorway, but instead of a door, it was covered with a curtain.
I slipped inside and hid my body.
Creak.
The sound of a classroom door opening reached my ears.
“…What was that? Didn’t I hear something like a sheep’s cry?”
It was the voice of what seemed to be a teacher.
His footsteps grew steadily closer.
Was it my imagination? He seemed to be coming straight here. How did he know?
‘The hoofprints…!’
The sheep’s hoofprints were clearly visible all over the corridor.
“What kind of nonsense is this….”
A murmuring voice drifts from just beyond the curtain.
‘If I get caught here, what happens? Do I have to start over?’
This development clearly wouldn’t help my game progress.
Whoosh!
The curtain sweeps open.
‘…Ah.’
A teacher’s silhouette comes into view.
“What? So it was you after all!?”
Brother Bered, of all people.
Out of all the teachers, why did it have to be this guy?
“I’m going to slaughter you today, you──”
I was thinking about where to start over and how to proceed differently.
“Tuur-Muto!”
Suddenly, a thunderous voice rings out from behind the teacher.
Crack!
A brilliant flash of light strikes Brother Bered.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
-Soda!
-I have arrived!
-Finally showing up
-@&*!
White light erupts from his eyes as his body trembles, standing perfectly still.
“Wha!?”
‘What is this?’
Almond freezes in shock as well, equally stunned.
“Lete! What are you doing! Come out now!”
From behind the trembling teacher’s robes emerges a mischievous-looking boy.
He speaks while looking at Almond, a sheep-person.
“Lete! Did you already go to the basement dungeon? No, never mind. Just come out! Hurry! If we get caught, we’ll end up like Ran!”

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