Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 290

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Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 10
4. True Survival (1)
“Blood, blood… Blood!! Blood!!!”
As the Class Representative panicked, several children rushed over.
“What, what is it, insane!”
“Why is the PE teacher like that?”
“Blood, blood?!”
“Stabbed with a knife? Some kind of assault or something?”
“What do we do!?”
As the children who went ahead grew rowdy, others followed one by one. They gathered in a circle as if some spectacle had occurred.
“Hey. Shouldn’t we call 119?”
“Yeah. We’re already calling. Vice Representative, go get the school nurse.”
“Ah, got it.”
The girl called Vice Representative ran quickly toward the school building.
“Damn… what’s with all this blood?”
“Uh, what do we do….”
“What is this? Huh? Shouldn’t we call the police too?”
“Is he even alive?”
The students were panicking in fear.
Among them, the only group that remained composed was Baek Jun-su’s Group.
“Pathetic cowards.”
Wujung Kim, playing the role of lieutenant, spoke first. Baek Jun-su stretched and pulled Sohee Yun’s shoulder.
“How about we slip out while everyone’s distracted?”
“Huh…? What are you talking about. Suddenly.”
“This is going to turn into chaos soon anyway. While it does, the school won’t notice us leaving properly. Let’s go eat something delicious. I’ll buy.”
“Ah….”
Sohee Yun was bewildered by the sudden proposal, but seeing her friends nod in agreement, she nodded as well.
“Ah. Yeah. That’s a total win. If we leave now.”
“What. Just you two leaving? Come on, let’s all go.”
The other children in the group chuckled, saying they’d join.
“Wow. Baek Jun-su, your brain is seriously good. How do you come up with stuff like that?”
“I’m naturally pretty clever.”
He smiled smoothly and walked toward the school gate with Sohee Yun.
Then, he ran into Almond, who was standing farthest away.
From his perspective, it was Juhyeok Kim.
“…?”
Baek Jun-su hesitated as if he’d seen something he shouldn’t have, and muttered.
“What… that bastard….”
In a situation where a person lay collapsed, drenched in blood, there couldn’t be a human who felt no fear. Especially not young students—they could pretend to be tough, but they couldn’t possibly avoid being shocked.
But what about that guy.
His expression was genuinely unfazed.
Baek Jun-su wasn’t exaggerating. After all, Almond was communicating with viewers through the broadcast microphone channel, so appearing unfazed was only natural.
“It looks like it’s starting now. Right?”
-Kill them all! Kill them all!
-My heart’s pounding
-Are we going to kill them all now?
-Let’s shoot and kill them all!!
-You guys, this is a survival game lololol
Moreover, he was the only person here who truly understood what this situation meant.
Just from the Physical Education Teacher collapsing, I could infer that the zombie outbreak had begun, so I could prepare accordingly.
“If zombies appear, what should we do first?”
-Let’s secure food
-Weapons first gg
-Wouldn’t Almond be able to just beat them all with a weapon?
-Food has to come first, we’re starving
Almond carefully read through the chat. It seemed like many people were leaning toward securing food.
‘Maybe food first.’
Now that I thought about it, I had been in a state of persistent hunger. The viewers’ opinion seemed right.
But it was a shame not to be able to grab weapons.
Then, Baek Jun-su brushed past my shoulder.
“Hey.”
At the sound of his thick voice, I was seized with fear again.
[Fear]
Naturally, I couldn’t speak.
“You. Can’t you see what’s in front of you?”
Fortunately, Baek Jun-su only glared at me without doing anything else.
Sohee Yun, who had her arms crossed beside him, pulled him along.
“Hey. Baek Jun-su! We need to go now. If the teachers come again, we won’t be able to leave. I want to eat tteokbokki.”
“…Yeah.”
Baek Jun-su kept his eyes fixed on me while moving his feet.
“Let’s go. Let’s eat tteokbokki. I’ll buy.”
“Awesome!”
The two of them walked away. Then the fear afflicting me was lifted.
“Ah, now I can speak. This fear effect preventing me from talking to viewers should really be patched.”
-lololol so that’s why you kept going silent
-I was so immersed I thought you literally couldn’t speak lololol
-Baek Jun-su’s height is insanely tall, I’m getting PTSD;
-Baek Jun-su’s gonna die soon, what a jerk
Baek Jun-su being a jerk… well, that’s true. But thanks to that, I knew exactly what I needed to do.
Between weapons and food.
This character had a predetermined fate.
“Even if I search for weapons, if this cowardly Juhyeok Kim gets frightened again, I won’t be able to do anything. I’ll go for food supplies.”
Weapons seemed excessive for this character.
Whether he’d be frightened facing zombies remained uncertain, but against gangsters, he was utterly helpless.
-Cowardly Juhyeok Kim lololol
-The name really fits haha
-Shh. Be careful. Hodu can ban people!
Almond had decided on his route.
“Once things get chaotic, I’ll head to the school store.”
The first place that came to mind was the school store.
It was a place piled high with food that could be eaten immediately without any preparation.
[Bread Shuttle Not Him donated 1,000 won.]
[School store~? If the Bread Shuttle stays there all day, wouldn’t he lose his mind? Krkrulppingppang~]
“…Thank you for the donation, Bread Shuttle.”
Almond simply acknowledged the donation and ignored the content.
-lololololol
-That’s some serious PTSD right there
-Ugh, that voice is annoying
[Almond’s Pastry Chef donated 1,000 won.]
[You guys never been a Bread Shuttle? The school store is the easiest spot, no cap. All the gangsters make their Bread Shuttles go there, so there’s no scary people around.]
-What kind of bragging is this lololol
-lol this guy’s legit
-Beyond Bread Shuttle, he’s a pastry chef now
The donations kept flowing.
It seemed the viewers recognized this as a brief break moment.
[Jeong Gi-chan’s Bread Shuttle donated 3,000 won.]
[Wouldn’t the cafeteria be better?]
“Jeong Gi-chan’s Bread Shuttle, thank you. Since it’s past lunch time, there probably won’t be any prepared food in the cafeteria. As for raw ingredients… if the power goes out, that would be way too disadvantageous.”
-That judgment is crisp~ Is this the experience of a battle royale veteran?
-Oh. Hodu’s got some sense
-You planning to camp with the Gandhi meta until the power cuts? lololol
-That nickname tho lol
[Curious donated 10,000 won!]
[Wait, does Jeong Gi-chan also have a Bread Shuttle? What is this, a multi-level marketing company? lololol]
-Bread Shuttle’s Bread Shuttle lololololol
-For real tho
-In terms of ecosystem, it’s like plankton, ya know
[Gangster in Charge of Jeong Gi-chan donated 10,000 won!]
[Jeong Gi-chan, this bastard… pretending to be a Bread Shuttle. Turns out he’s a bread aircraft carrier commanding other Bread Shuttles~]
-Lololololololololol
-Bread Aircraft Carrier lololol
It turned out Jung-gi-chan was just taking bread delivery orders in the middle and telling the guys below to do it lol
Stop teasing Mosol ㅠ
-Bread Carrier lmao
[Bread Scourge donated 10,000 won!]
[Honestly, the best is when bread waits in the school store hallway and takes just one bite before eating it~]
-That’s disgusting;
-You’re the worst
-Your username really checks out lololol
Given the background, stories about Gichan (*Most Solia), who has the bread shuttle concept, come up frequently.
Normally I should refrain from mentioning other streamers, but Almond decided to let it slide as long as it doesn’t cross the line. It’s not a story that’s completely out of context anyway.
That’s when it happened.
“Oh! Teacher!”
An urgent voice from a female student rang out.
Almond turned around and was puzzled.
‘Huh? When did he wake up?’
Somehow the Physical Education Teacher had raised his upper body. I was sure he was dead.
That’s probably why the female student made a fuss.
“Teacher! Are you okay? What happened!?”
The female student asked the teacher about what occurred, but the teacher bit her neck instead.
Crunch!
“…?”
A moment of silence.
The children don’t understand what’s happening.
The female student whose neck was bitten doesn’t even scream, just rolls her eyes to confirm the face of the teacher who bit her.
Thick blood dripping down, bestial sounds and flaring nostrils, teeth sharpened to a point, eyes bloodshot crimson.
And moments later──
“──Ahhhhhhhhh!”
A scream bursts forth as the delayed pain rushes in.
“Insane!”
“What the… what is this!?”
“Sohee!!!”
All the children step back.
But no one runs away first. They can’t tell whether they should run or save the female student.
“Grrrrrr!”
Meanwhile the Physical Education Teacher, still biting her neck, applies more force to his jaw and tears away flesh entirely.
Crunch!
The girl can’t even scream anymore. She’s lost consciousness from shock.
“Damn it… hey! That’s why I told you to stand in a straight line!”
The Class Representative shouts with trembling hands.
To bring up the rope at a time like this—this guy’s mental state was clearly compromised.
The Physical Education Teacher rose to his feet in the meantime.
Blood dripping steadily from the corners of his mouth.
He moved slowly toward the children.
“Grrrrr….”
With the sound of boiling blood, he raked his fingernails toward the children.
Screeeech!
“Aaaah!”
One male student’s neck was scratched.
Vivid red marks remained.
He tried to rake his nails at the remaining children.
Whoosh!
The children stumbled backward and all dodged.
“T-Teacher!?”
“What is this, exactly!?”
The teacher couldn’t answer. He simply approached the children slowly again, waiting for an opening to scratch them.
“H-Hey, everyone… Could this possibly be… a z-zombie?”
A female student who had been backing away cautiously posed the question.
“It keeps trying to bite… and something… the way it moves like a corpse….”
“Do you really think that makes sense!?”
At those frightening words, the female student who had collapsed earlier rose to her feet.
“Grrrrrr….”
With her neck hanging loose, she walked toward the children.
Gasp.
The children gasped and retreated backward.
Not a single child naively approached asking if she was okay, like before.
Now there were two zombies.
That’s what they understood.
“Th-This really is a zombie!?”
“We need to get out, right!?”
“Yeah! Let’s get out of the school first. The fact that Jihyun, who went to call the nurse, hasn’t come back… doesn’t that mean chaos has broken out in the school!?”
The moment those words burst out.
Without hesitation, the children turned and began to run.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“Zombies! Zombies!!!”
They all ran toward the school gates, desperate to survive.
Then, a scream erupted from ahead.
“──Kyaaaaaaah!”
It was Sohee Yun’s voice. Hadn’t she headed toward the school gates long ago?
‘This is bad.’
Gulp.
Almond swallowed hard at the sight beyond the school gate.
“This can’t be happening.”
“W-we can’t get out?”
“Oh no.”
Groooaaaan….
Groooaaaan….
Countless zombies swarmed near the school gate and walls.
They were too far to see clearly, but there seemed to be well over a hundred of them.
“W-what is that!? Huh?! Baek Jun-su!”
“Be quiet!”
As Sohee Yun made a commotion, Baek Jun-su snapped back in a terrified voice.
The zombies were responding to the noise.
They all swarmed toward the gate at Sohee Yun’s scream.
Clang… Clang….
The gate was made of iron, but could it withstand the weight of over a hundred zombies?
Squeeeeak…!
The iron gate was slowly preparing its death cry.
“D-does that thing look like it’s about to collapse?”
Wujung Kim, standing near Baek Jun-su’s group, asked while backing away.
His face had turned nearly pale.
‘Hm?’
At that moment, I felt an abnormality in my heartbeat. Not mine—Juhyeok Kim’s.
Thump, thump──
And then, a peculiar emotion surfaced.
[Exhilaration]
Exhilaration?
What was this? The moment I questioned it, an explanation appeared.
[All status abnormalities are temporarily lifted.]
My body suddenly felt lighter.
The severe hunger had vanished.
Then──
“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”
──Boom!
The iron gate finally collapsed.

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Chaos.
No word better captured the sheer pandemonium of this moment.
“It’s c-collapsing! It’s collapsing!”
“Kyaaaaahhhhh!”
“M-move out of the way!”
Children fleeing toward the school gates and those scrambling back inside tangled together, tumbling across the sandy ground.
Yellow dust billowed from the gate entrance.
Groooaaannnn…!
The zombie horde advanced with unhurried patience, yet relentless momentum.
“Fall back! Fall back!! Outside is hell itself!!!”
The Class Representative bellowed at the top of his lungs, sprinting forward. Only then did the children begin streaming back toward the school.
Then──
“D-damn it… the PE teacher….”
Two zombies blocked the escape route.
The Physical Education Teacher and the female student he’d turned into a zombie.
In truth, two zombies alone shouldn’t have been able to seal off such a spacious athletic field.
But to the Class Representative’s eyes, they loomed impossibly large.
“We’re finished──”
Just as despair gripped him.
──Thwack!
Someone burst forward, and the PE teacher zombie crashed to the ground.
“!?”
It was Almond.
He’d swept the zombie’s legs out from under him while charging past.
“Graaahhhhh!”
The female student zombie lunged from the side, her jaws snapping wide open.
Snap…!
The sound of teeth clashing through empty air.
Almond had evaded it. With a full palm’s width of clearance.
And his hand was already positioned on the back of her head.
Whoosh!
He drove her down to the ground while flicking her legs out from under her.
The zombie, absorbing the full force of her own momentum, spun nearly a complete rotation──
Crash!
──and slammed down hard.
The Class Representative and all the children’s eyes went wide as saucers.
“W-wait! Juhyeok Kim! That was incredible!?”
The Class Representative’s exclamation, brimming with awe.
But Almond ignored him, continuing to sprint forward.
“Hey! Hey! Where are you going!?”
The Class Representative seemed to find Almond useful and tried to keep following, but he was slow at running.

* * *
“Huff… huff….”
Almond suppressed his ragged breathing and placed his hand against the wall.
I couldn’t run any further.
“This area… there are no zombies here. It seems the infection hasn’t spread throughout the entire school yet.”
The children’s assumption was completely backwards.
They had thought the outside was safe and the school would be teeming with zombies.
Instead, the school interior remained peaceful. It was questionable where the Physical Education Teacher had even contracted the infection from.
It seemed right to prepare for survival here.
“Ah… I’m getting too slow now. I’ll walk for a bit.”
[Very Hungry → Starving]
After the excitement faded, my condition only worsened.
I had to walk with sluggish steps, like a zombie myself.
As I slowly walked while checking the minimap.
[Convenience Store]
I finally reached the convenience store alone.

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[Beginner Tip: In Zombie School, anyone can die at any time. Don’t get attached to NPCs.]

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