Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 269

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Spin-off Episode 5
2. A Strange Rescue (2)
The Soldier, sitting with his roiling insides churning, couldn’t stop cursing as he watched his Senior Soldier being strangled.
“Once I get in there, I feel like I could win. Just blow the whole thing up…”
Boom──!
Had his wish come true?
Something actually exploded.
“What?!”
The Junior Soldier jumped to his feet in shock.
The Senior Soldier was obscured by white smoke and invisible.
What had happened?
“M-magic?”
For an explosion caused by magic, it was far too pathetic. It was nothing more than what happens when a flour sack is dropped by mistake—white powder scattering everywhere.
“Cough… cough…!”
Was it really flour? I could hear my Senior coughing.
“Caaagh…!”
“?”
But… something about the sound was becoming increasingly ominous.
“Grrrraaaaahhh!”
“R-Robid!”
He tried to call out his Senior Soldier’s name and move forward, but he couldn’t.
An unidentifiable silhouette was visible within the smoke.
“W-what!”
Instead, he gripped his halberd and thrust it forward roughly, shouting.
“Who are you! You there!”
The owner of that silhouette had Robid’s throat in a chokehold.
“K-kill him now!”
‘Kill him instead of asking questions!’
Robid screamed, his eyes bloodshot and bulging.
“Y-yes?!”
Whether Robid’s true intent didn’t reach him or not, the Junior Soldier merely kept his distance, awkwardly holding his spear in a standoff.
Thanks to that, Almond subdued Robid with ease.
“…Gaaahhh!”
‘Damn fool!’
Robid left his final curse and collapsed, breathing his last. Behind him, the figure of a naked Boy was revealed.
“A… spirit…?”
The Soldier was so taken aback by the boy’s pristine appearance that he momentarily mistook him for a spirit manifesting. And no wonder—the boy had such pure white skin that it seemed to glow softly in the light.
Whether the boy appeared as a spirit to him or not, to that boy, he was the Enemy.
Screeeech…
“!?”
Before I knew it, a boy wielding a bow had me in his sights.
“Hey, wait. Why are you doing this? Let me──”
──Twang!
The arrowhead glinted once against the torchlight, and a crimson streak cut through the space between the boy and me.
Thunk!
It embedded itself in my arm, spraying red blood.
“Ugh…!”
I clutched my shoulder as my halberd clattered loudly to the ground.
Clang, clang, clang…!
I tried to quickly grab the halberd again, but….
Clang!!
Another arrow pierced through the halberd.
I tried to retrieve it again, but this time an arrow lodged itself in my left shoulder.
Thunk!
“Nngh…!”
Hot blood streamed down both my arms.
At this, the boy spoke.
“If you make a loud noise or resist again, I’ll shoot your tongue next.”
Saying that, the boy had already fired another arrow.
Whoosh!
An arrow grazed right past my ear.
He was intimidating me with sound.
My entire body trembled.
“What… what….”
It wasn’t the sound—it was the precision. The boy was placing arrows exactly where he wanted them, exactly when he wanted them. And he was doing it with Senior Soldier Robid’s bow, not even his own.
I instinctively sensed that this boy was no ordinary person. Perhaps because of that, I asked in a posture that was far more cautious than before, almost respectful.
“W-what do you want.”
“Where’s Ran.”
“Ran…?”
“Yeah. Ran. The one being disciplined at the School.”
The man hesitated for a moment, then pointed downward.
“You need to go down one floor. Ran is locked away in the deepest darkness.”
Click.
As Almond drew the bowstring without a word, the man hastily added an explanation.
“I-I’m serious. It’s not a metaphor. That’s all I know. Ran is that fair-skinned, delicate-looking thug, isn’t he!?”
Ding.
[You feel one step closer to the secret.]
A notification appeared. His words were true.
“Fine. Now run to the edge of the Forest. If you come back, I’ll kill you no matter what.”
“…Y-yes.”
The Soldier bolted out of the cave without a shred of hesitation, sprinting through the forest.
-Didn’t even look back lol
-Did that bastard seriously hold aggro the whole time his superior was dying?? lol what loyalty
-After seeing Almond’s archery skills, I wouldn’t look back either.

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I changed into the Soldier’s clothes and immediately searched for a path leading down to the basement.
Fortunately, the size fit reasonably well.
It wasn’t like wearing my father’s clothes—more like borrowing an older brother’s shirt.
After searching for about twenty minutes, I finally spotted stairs descending downward.
‘Why is no one around?’
I hadn’t encountered a single Soldier in those twenty minutes. Perhaps because this was merely a disciplinary space for students, security was lax?
Yet for a place that only handed out school punishments, the scale was far too massive.
If this location weren’t within the school, I would’ve believed it was an isolation facility for dangerous criminals.
‘What is this?’
As I descended the stairs, I pondered carefully.
This Story Mode required considerable deduction on the Player’s part.
Acting thoughtlessly would waste considerable time.
Upon reaching the 2nd Floor basement, numerous doors came into view.
This wasn’t merely a prison facility. A true prison would use iron bars for easy surveillance, but these were solid wooden doors.
I crept toward one door and pressed my ear against it.
“I mean, so….”
“…Yeah. That’s how it’d be?”
“So today that one in white clothes….”
“No one?”
I heard voices conversing inside.
‘Guards, perhaps.’
They sounded like those Soldiers from before. This room seemed to be a break room where Guards rested.
Opening this door wouldn’t yield anything useful.
I quickly moved toward a darker area.
‘There.’
Finally, prison bars came into view. I stepped forward quietly, carefully.
Clang!
“!?”
A sudden sound.
Thud.
I froze as though electrocuted.
‘The floor….’
The floor was made of metal plating. Every step produced a loud noise. Was this intentional too?
-That expression lol
-Shocked Almond lol
-Did he get electrocuted lol
-Roasted nuts;
“Sigh.”
I switched the microphone channel to broadcast mode and complained.
“For a prison that holds kids, this seems pretty intense.”
-For real
-Way too harsh;
-Is this a special school?
The viewers seemed to agree.
It was excessive to say this was just a study space where they kept kids locked up. This was clearly a facility meant for holding actual criminals.
“Anyway, let’s move forward.”
I drew my bow and carefully crawled forward.
This way, at least I made no sound.
-Wow for real scary;
-Why is it so dark
I can’t see it ㅠ
The light was gradually disappearing.
But no matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t find the prison where Ran was locked up.
All the prison cells were completely empty. The doors were even wide open.
I still hadn’t seen any guards.
Gulp.
Was it just my imagination?
Even the sound of me swallowing dry saliva seemed to echo.
I slowly moved forward again. Ahead was complete darkness.
It felt like my sense of sight was losing its function among all my senses.
‘How could anyone possibly be in a place like this?’
Even if Ran was beyond this point, would it matter? I doubted it.
Because I wouldn’t be able to find him anyway.
-I think we came the wrong way?
-Is this the right place?
-Creepy
I agreed with the viewers.
I seemed to have gone the wrong way. But I could still see the ground ahead to continue on. As my eyes fully adjusted to the darkness, I could make out about thirty centimeters ahead.
There was always a path forward. It wasn’t a cliff or a dead end.
At this point, I had no choice but to keep going.
Touch.
“!?”
That’s when I suddenly felt someone’s clothing brush against me from behind.
Not from ahead—from behind!
“What the—”
The one who noticed my presence growled in a low voice.
“Which unit are you from? You shouldn’t be here right now. Did something break again?”
“I’m from the 1st Unit.”
“Huh? How did you even—?”
──Twang!
Without thinking, I reflexively fired an arrow.
Thud.
Something collapsed. Since they didn’t even scream, it was instant death.
“Ah. Damn.”
-AHAHAHAHAHA
-Oh damn, he killed him ^^
-Wait AHAHAHA is he dead?
-Insane AHAHAHA
“I panicked and just shot. He’s dead. What do I do. Why do these guys walk around in such dark places anyway…”
Honestly, I hadn’t really worried about someone appearing. In a place this dark, like the Abyss itself, I would’ve seen a torch first if anyone was coming.
But this thug wandered through pitch-black darkness. Without even a footstep. Like a ghost.
Of course, it wasn’t actually a ghost. It died from an arrow.
“The Enemy approached without making a sound, and I couldn’t see them either.”
-Real jump scare
I’m at work and I’m pounding on the keyboard so hard ㅠㅠ
Yeah, there’s no sign of him, damn it.
The Enemy appeared without any warning whatsoever.
If the Enemy hadn’t stupidly asked which unit I was from, next time I’d be done for without anyone knowing.
“But it seems like the Enemy didn’t know I was here either before we ran into each other. Maybe they can’t see in the dark either?”
The only hope was that they couldn’t see me either.
Probably that’s the case.
-Yeah, asking which unit I was from proves it
I didn’t even realize I was lying face down lol
Why are they acting like that when they can’t even see their own feet lol
‘Let me think about this…’
If I had to guess, they don’t have the ability to see in dark places.
They simply know this place’s layout so well that they can walk around even in darkness.
Because of that, their hearing might be far more developed.
‘Then why is there no footstep sound?’
So what about footsteps?
I have no idea. Maybe they’re wearing soft shoes?
The only certain information is that I can’t detect them by footsteps beforehand.
“Well, since it’s come to this, I’ll just run forward from now on.”
In other words, if we meet, I die.
I couldn’t even predict when my opponent would arrive beforehand.
Rather than accept that, I charged forward with the determination to at least attempt a full clear.
Boom! Thud!
The steel-plated floor resonated loudly.
Hahahahaha
-Total chaos
-Let’s gooooo!
A moment later.
Crash!
I collided with something and came to a stop.
Vibrating…
What I’d hit trembled, creating vibrations.
‘Iron bars?’
It was iron bars.
Boom!
A drum sound echoed through the space.
[Ran has been discovered!]
“Who… are you?”
Before I could even respond, Ran spoke urgently in succession.
“Are you a Guard? It hasn’t been that long since my meal time, has it? I’m weak from hunger. Please… give me something to drink at least.”
Ran then asked in a voice tinged with fear.
“…Don’t tell me. You’re planning to just… let me die like this?”

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