Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 274

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Side Story Episode 10
3. A Secret Within a Secret (4)
Ugh, seriously…
-Shocking;
lol
-Daria was that kind of bastard??
-Bered needs reevaluation
Sally, nooo…
Sallie’s death.
And the viewers were struck by successive shocks at Daria’s appearance.
Almond was naturally no exception.
‘What is this….’
These insane fanatics.
Why go this far? Did the girl Sallie have to be a witch, and Ran had to disobey orders?
But do they really kill a girl in the middle of the village under the name of religion?
“I am Daria, a servant of Lewindale and a Holy Executor.”
Holy Executor.
At those words, the passersby’s bodies flinched.
“If you don’t wish to stand trial before the Holy Court, it would be wise to mind your own business and go your way.”
The passersby who had stopped, wondering what the commotion was about, began hurriedly clearing the area.
Even the innkeeper abandoned her own inn and fled.
“Ran. You have absolutely no talent for healing. Haven’t I told you this several times?”
Daria spoke with a sneer.
“Sallie… Sallie! J-just hold on a moment. I-I’ll fix this…!”
Sallie with her abdomen pierced clean through.
Ran desperately trying to heal her, voice trembling.
And Daria, creating another spear of light to hurl.
Zzzzzzzt…!
She had clearly made up her mind to skewer Ran and Sallie like kebabs.
Almond, still hiding beneath the table, vented his frustration to the viewers.
“Usually in situations like this, don’t they at least explain their circumstances before trying to kill them….”
The villain’s actions were far too different from the movie plots he’d seen before. She was radiating murderous intent so fiercely that she couldn’t bear to let Ran and Sallie live even one more second.
“How convenient that you’ve gathered together. Excellent. Then to the Goddess’s side──”
──Boom!
“!?”
Crash!
Suddenly the innocent ceiling collapsed. The spear of light had embedded itself in the ceiling instead.
Daria looked down at her arm in shock at her ridiculous aim.
“…An arrow?”
An arrow was lodged in her forearm.
That’s what threw off my aim.
That was the moment.
Thwip!
An arrow lodged precisely into his left eye.
“Ugh!”
Staggering backward from pain that exceeded all tolerance, Daria switched to his defensive system.
Whoooosh!
Pure white mana split into multiple branches, transforming into hexagonal shields. The shields interlocked at their edges, sealing off every direction.
Ting! Ping!
My successive arrows bounced off those shields. Each one had been aimed at vital points that would have ended him instantly.
“How… frustrating.”
Yet it was blocked so easily.
“What now?”
Ran couldn’t use a protective barrier like that. Was this creature superior to Ran?
Well, I’m not sure~ haha
-King knows
-No clue~~
While the viewers mocked me, Daria smirked.
“Lete… you couldn’t be seen. So you did help Ran after all? Foolish creatures. Did you wish so desperately to go to the Goddess’s side?”
Crackle…!
Daria created a spear anew.
That’s when my eyes gleamed.
‘When he creates the spear, one of the shields disappears.’
The luminous shields enveloping Daria from all directions. I could find no opening whatsoever, yet when he created the spear, one shield vanished momentarily.
‘But the angle…’
The problem was that the missing shield’s position was too far back, making it difficult to target from my current location.
“You go to the Goddess’s side as well.”
Whoooosh!
A colossal spear of light hurtled toward me.
A spear burning with intense light that consumed everything around it. If it connected, I would surely die without mercy in a single strike.
One…
Screech!
An anticlimactic sound for its size.
The spear merely grazed my waist shallowly, dealing no damage whatsoever.
“…What?”
Daria furrowed his brow and created another spear, hurling it.
Crackle crackle…!
Again, a massive spear tore through the sky.
Boom!
Only the unfortunate inn was destroyed. I remained unscathed.
I hurled another spear, then two more in succession.
Crash!
Boom!
I threw them with enough force to collapse the entire inn, yet Almond remained unscathed.
“How…?”
There was no particularly grand secret to this bizarre sight.
Almond had simply dodged the attacks.
“H-how can you evade like that?!”
The method of evasion itself was astounding.
He didn’t throw his body out of the way—he just slipped and weaved through the barrage.
Despite hurling so many spears, Almond hadn’t strayed far from his original position.
-Who am I? The one who essentially beat Jeon-ja-pa in the Survive the Challenge! A! L! M! O! N! D!
-Almond’s specialty just showed up lol
-No way a Mosol gentleman using just Pure White could match that physicality lol
-Daria’s expression is priceless lol
-First time seeing Daria react like that lol
-He’s making expressions like this too lol
The viewers were quite excited that this was Daria’s first such reaction.
“What’s your true identity? You’re clearly not Lete.”
Crackle!
Daria created another spear as he questioned me.
That’s when my eyes flashed.
‘Finally.’
I noticed one of the shields in front had disappeared, so I lowered my stance.
The speed was so fast it could almost be called a single motion.
Drawing the bow, pulling the string to aim, and releasing—
It all took only an instant.
From Daria’s perspective, it happened in the blink of an eye.
Thwip!
The arrow pierced through his throat.
“…Gack!”
With a whistling gasp, Daria collapsed.
Without even a final word.
“That was nothing special.”
Exhale.
I released the breath I’d been holding and spoke.
-Chills
-Only you can break through something like this so easily
-Wait, he dies in one shot???
-Is there a Perfect Shot here too? lol
-Since he’s human, he should die if a vital point is pierced! Damn!
-He hit the gap in the shield perfectly; creepy
-Info) Daria was the mid-boss of this game (at one point).
So that’s what it was…?
I read through the chat messages carefully.
“Sallie…!”
Ran’s scream pierced through the air.
“Sallieeeeee!”
At the voice cracking with anguish, I sensed it instinctively.
Daria’s words—”you have no talent for healing”—must have been true after all.
[Girl (★★) Clear!]

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After Sallie died.
The screen went black again, then brightened.
‘Where is this place.’
Faced with everything suddenly changing, I looked around in confusion.
It looked like some dusty warehouse. Since light only filtered in from above, it seemed to be a basement.
“…Lete. Do you really need to keep following me? Even you should leave for somewhere else. There might still be a chance.”
Ran’s weakened voice reached me.
“Ran.”
I got up to find him. It turned out he was right beside me—just hidden behind a large oak barrel.
He had gained weight after escaping the academy, but now he was gaunt again.
“…There’s no hope left now. The sect will tighten their pursuit. This time they won’t move alone like Daria did….”
“Ran.”
“…?”
Ran’s head snapped up.
“Almond?”
“Yeah. It’s me.”
“Ha.”
Pfft.
Ran let out a bitter laugh.
“What are you doing coming back now? What could you possibly do?”
“What…?”
Crash!
Ran suddenly stood and grabbed me by the collar.
I could have dodged, but it seemed I needed to take it, so I remained still.
“Do you know what kind of fight Lete and I have been through? You killed Daria….”
Thud!
Ran and I lost our balance and fell.
Ran climbed up and grabbed me by the collar again, hoisting me upward.
“…Because I killed him, even Lete became a death row inmate in the sect! Without knowing anything! He became a felon!!!”
Pitter-patter…
Tears streamed down Ran’s face like rain.
Looking at those glistening blue eyes, they resembled a sudden downpour pouring from a clear sky.
“…Ran.”
I wrapped my hand around Ran’s and gently pushed him away. He seemed to have no further intention to act, so he simply yielded to my push.
Ran, all strength drained from him, collapsed backward and slumped down.
“I’m sorry.”
Ran buried his head in his knees and muttered softly.
“If I hadn’t killed Daria back then, I would have died instead… I’m sorry… there was just… no one else to blame…”
“…”
I pondered what I should do in this situation.
Sallie was dead, and Ran seemed utterly despairing, without any hope.
“I’ve thought about it hundreds of times… what if I just died like this. As long as the sect pursues me, if I’m caught, I’ll never meet a good end…”
For this child, the sect was the entire world. If they hunted him down to kill him, he believed he would spend his life running, never receiving help from anyone, and eventually die.
“I’m as good as having killed Sallie myself… I wasn’t going to meet Sallie…”
Thump.
At those words, it felt as though a great drum had struck once in my heart.
「I’m as good as having killed Soyeon…」
I approached Ran and gently squeezed his still youthful hand.
Just as Hyeonju had done for me.
“Ran. Sallie isn’t a witch. You were the only one in the sect who believed that. Because of you, Sallie was able to live a little longer.”
“…Not a witch? Even if that were true… how can you be certain?”
“The bleeding phenomenon you called the decisive evidence… it’s a natural biological process that every woman experiences.”
“…What?”
“It’s true.”
“That… that can’t be…”
Ran shuddered as if he couldn’t believe it.
This must be the moment when the entire world he had believed in collapsed.
“It’s fine if you don’t believe me. Either way, now that you’ve left the sect, you’ll learn the truth eventually.”
“Then… the reddish-brown hair that’s never tied with green eyes… and the long fingernails?”
“Did Sallie have long fingernails on her pinky that day?”
“…!”
“Witches supposedly store magical power within their nails and can never cut them. But that day, she hadn’t grown them out? She cut them for hygiene once she started working at the inn. If she were a witch, that wouldn’t make sense, would it?”
“That… that can’t be…”
“Besides, not tying her hair was simply Sallie’s preference. The fact that her eye color and hair color matched the desert witch’s description might just be a hastily fabricated story to fit Sallie.”
“…”
Ran seemed unable to recover from the shock.
“But if someone were brainwashed like you were, anyone would have thought Sallie was a witch.”
According to the records, these boys had all been under the Religious Sect’s control since they were abandoned at the orphanage.
They weren’t overtly brainwashed soldiers, but rather boys with something fundamentally warped in their minds—one concept twisted in each of them.
That made them all the more terrifying.
Because on the surface, it was difficult to discern any difference from ordinary people.
“You were certain Sallie wasn’t a witch based solely on the emotions you felt and your intuition. You got the answer right. Your love gave Sallie several more weeks of life.”
“…Ugh…Ugh-huh….”
Ran buried his face into the ground.
I could only see his trembling back, but I could sense it.
That Ran’s heart was healing, bit by bit.
“The Religious Sect was determined to kill Sallie no matter what.”
So he wanted to dig into the root of this incident.
The Religious Sect had fabricated a description that perfectly matched Sallie just to kill her.
Why on earth did they need to kill that little girl? Simply to discipline Ran?
“There must be a reason. Is there anything that stands out to you?”
“Well…”
“Tell me what kind of girl Sallie was. What did her parents do, and so on.”
Ran began to speak about Sallie, sharing everything he knew.
Since he had observed Sallie over a long period, he knew quite a lot.
There were plenty of tangential details too—how her eye corners drooped beautifully when she smiled, or how it seemed like she had cast some kind of barrier that made his heart race whenever he got close to her.
Yet I managed to catch one clue from it all.
“…Wait. What did her father do?”
It was about her father.
“He was a professor. A scholar who researched the field of chemistry. But he passed away around the time I began my observations.”
The timing was peculiar. He died just before the Religious Sect ordered Ran to kill Sallie.
“What was it that her father was researching?”
“It seems to have been something called Blue Hole. I’m not entirely certain what that is myself….”
Blue Hole? What is that?
In that moment of thought.
Ding.
[It feels like you’ve taken one step closer to the secret!]
That message appeared again.

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[Beginner’s Tip: Witches store magical power in the nails of their pinky fingers. Especially if you dye that spot with henna, the magical power is stored much more freshly.]

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