Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 299

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Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 19
6. Combat (3)
Creak…
The convenience store door swings open, and a creaking sound pierces through the silence. It’s not particularly loud.
“Grrrr…”
The zombies on the floor still writhe about.
A few of them glance in our direction.
‘Th-they’re really all lying down….’
The Shaggy-haired Boy’s jaw dropped at the sight of the zombies actually being completely immobilized.
The Store Clerk beside him is less shocked. She’s already witnessed this scene moments ago.
“Alright. Let’s review the plan.”
She whispers as quietly as possible, retracing the operation.
“I’m standing at the west door… Pizza Bread is in the corridor center, Soboro at the north door. Right?”
“Yeah. When Soboro gives the signal, I’ll wave my hand. Time it and close it.”
The three of us whisper through the plan once more.
The core of the operation is closing both the south and north doors simultaneously.
It might seem safer to close them sequentially all together, but when the doors slam shut, the loud noise could bring zombies from the upper floors down through other entrances—that’s far more dangerous.
That’s why the Convenience Store Clerk waits at the west door, closest to the store, and closes it the moment Almond shuts the north door.
It’s truly a nerve-wracking operation.
If even one of us makes a mistake, it could turn into serious danger.
Almond raises his hand in front.
“Most of them can’t move anyway. It’ll be smooth.”
When that hand drops, we go.
Whoosh.
As the hand drops silently, the three of us take off.
That instant──
“Graaahhh!”
──Thud!
One zombie props itself up with its arms against the floor.
Its legs are completely useless.
“!?”
Thud!
Pushing off the ground with its arms, it crawls forward. What you’d call ground-swimming.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
It swims frantically.
Faster than expected.
“Uuuh…?”
The Store Clerk lets out an involuntary shriek before clamping her mouth shut.
That grotesque sight of it crawling on the floor using only both arms.
The sticky sound created by the blood-stained floor.
Screech!
Moreover, the distance was closing far faster than expected.
This was terror enough to scramble the minds of an ordinary store clerk and the shaggy-haired boy.
“U-u-uhhhhh…!”
The shaggy-haired boy, who had seemed so composed until now, finally let out a whimper.
“But you said they couldn’t move!?”
“Ah… Most of them had their legs severed… so maybe that’s why?”
I couldn’t sever the waists, arms, and legs of every zombie. Only a handful of them had been dealt with that way.
In most cases, I had focused on severing only their legs to neutralize their mobility.
So now the zombies that could only move their arms were crawling toward us, using the ground as leverage.
‘Even so, there are far too many of them that can still move….’
Some were even standing up and walking toward us slowly.
‘Don’t tell me these creatures are recovering?’
The store clerk stumbled backward in shock.
Thud….
The iron door touched her back, and a rather loud sound echoed through the space.
“!”
“…Kuh!?”
Even the zombies lying far away reacted to it.
“Kaaaaaaa!”
“Kraaaaak!”
The zombies began crawling and swimming across the ground in droves.
Screech!
Screech!
Screech! Screeeech!
“Huh, huuuh!”
A scream that escaped despite clenching her teeth with all her might.
Poor shop lady ㅠㅠ
These guys are scared lol
-Is this even going to work??
Oh my god, seriously?
“What are you doing! I gave you a weapon!”
Then Almond shouted with a ringing voice.
After he’d established that zombies were sensitive to sound.
“I’m, I’m insane….”
But the word “insane” wouldn’t leave the store clerk’s lips. Terror had already consumed her entire body. The dark, sticky saliva of fear was attempting to invade even her mind.
“Just swing it! Your shoulder or your back, anything!”
All that could be heard through the chaos was Almond’s voice.
“!?”
All the zombies turned toward where the sound came from—toward Almond. He was already distancing himself from the store clerk and the boy.
‘I’m the Player, so I have to be the one to do this.’
For those two, this situation is real. It’s happening in their reality, and those zombies were once their customers and friends.
There’s no way they can respond according to theory. Only Almond, the complete outsider here as a Player, can make a difference. That’s what this game was designed for.
Almond swung the iron pipe with the hammer attached toward the zombie’s head as it crawled across the floor.
Thud!
The zombie’s head crumpled and burst apart.
‘Did it work!?’
The skull that couldn’t be pierced by even a sharpened wooden spear.
Could a hammer do it?
“Graaaaaaah!”
The zombie shrieked and trembled before collapsing.
-Oh it worked!?
-He killed it!
-Wow!
It died. Striking the head works. But you have to destroy it completely.
‘It works.’
Convinced he’d found the answer, Almond swung the iron pipe hammer at the next zombie.
The strike was just as accurate.
──Crack!
But the sound was strange.
“!?”
The tape binding the hammer tore. The force didn’t transfer properly, leaving only a crack in the skull.
“Graaaaaaah!”
The zombie, momentarily stunned, rushed forward again with renewed ferocity.
‘This can’t be happening.’
The new weapon was a failure.
While the iron pipe and hammer had high durability, the duct tape was pathetic. But the connection point of this weapon was duct tape. That was the fatal flaw.
Almond turned to the Shaggy-haired Boy and shouted.
“Pizza Bread! Throw the wooden spear!”
“The wooden spear? But this one….”
The Shaggy-haired Boy had brought the wooden spear just in case.
“But you said this doesn’t work!?”
“Hurry!”
At Almond’s urgent shout, the Shaggy-haired Boy had no choice but to roll the weapon across the floor.
At the same moment, one zombie leaped up with its arm and opened its mouth wide.
“Graaaaaaah──”
The zombie that had been crawling toward Almond threw its entire body forward with both arms, teeth bared.
──Whoosh!
The wooden spear pierced deep into the zombie’s gaping maw, skewering it like meat on a stick.
“Grrrrgh!”
The zombie shrieks with a piercing wail.
From pain? No.
It reaches out toward the prey right before its eyes.
Crunch, crunch, crunch…
The creature advances, driving the wooden stake through its own heart and deep into its lungs.
Blood surges upward in grotesque spurts, and chunks of flesh tumble down with sickening thuds.
A horrifying sight.
‘This insane bastard.’
The zombie charges forward even as its body is pierced through, even unto death.
Fighting such a creature operates on entirely different logic than any battle before.
‘It won’t come out.’
The wooden stake lodged in its mouth refuses to budge.
Almond begins kicking the shrieking zombie away.
Thud! Thud!
But the other zombies won’t wait for him to finish.
“Graaaaaaah!”
Two more come charging.
Almond is forced to abandon his kicks and evade their assault.
“H-here! One more!”
At that moment, the shaggy-haired boy tosses another wooden stake. It was one the store clerk had been holding.
“Nice.”
Almond catches the stake and immediately rotates it to grip the pointed end.
Whoosh.
He targets the boneless space between the zombie’s jaw and cheekbone. If the stake hits bone, the wooden weapon becomes useless.
Squelch!
Fortunately, a clean hit.
The jaw goes slack, and finally the original stake pulls free.
Now Almond has two stakes.
He immediately neutralizes the zombie on his left with the other stake.
Thud!
‘I need to pierce the arm.’
Since I can’t penetrate bone, this time it’s muscle incapacitation again.
Zombies crawling along the ground begin closing in around him from all sides.
Squelch! Thud! Thud!
A flurry of attacks with the two stakes follows in rapid succession, and they’re neutralized just as quickly.
So many zombies charge at this one person, yet remarkably, they fall faster than they arrive.
-Wow, two stakes make it so much faster
-Game’s easy lol if one stake isn’t enough just use two lol
-Almond’s insane… his physical specs are just broken… Hodu only turns on when he’s doing ads…
Fighting while wielding two weapons is difficult enough in itself.
“Kaaaack!”
Whoosh!
I barely dodged the zombies’ attacks by lifting my feet just a hair’s breadth, then drove my blade with precision into the shoulder muscle.
-What kind of game is this lol
-I’m confident I’d become a zombie in 5 seconds
-Honestly, isn’t the main content becoming a zombie and exterminating humanity?
A continuous series of acrobatic maneuvers.
Thanks to this, the zombies were being neutralized rapidly.
But people were puzzled.
Why was this game so impossibly difficult?
Or was Almond deliberately making the game harder?
-Is this the right way to do it? This doesn’t seem right
-How does someone like Balloon Gum do it lol

* * *
“S-sponge cake…”
The Store Clerk couldn’t tear his eyes away from Almond’s combat display. The Shaggy-haired Boy beside him felt the same.
“What is that guy doing…”
He muttered, forgetting he wasn’t supposed to make any noise.
“Let’s at least close our west door.”
“Y-yes.”
Normally they should close both simultaneously, but given the current situation, closing even one door ahead of time seemed wise.
Since Almond was drawing all the aggro anyway. The thought was to at least watch his back.
But…
“Grrrrgh!”
A zombie descending from the western stairs appeared before them.
“!”
The Shaggy-haired Boy’s arm began trembling violently.
“C-close the door. Q-quickly…”
“Y-you do it…”
The Store Clerk’s teeth chattered. As if he’d been exposed to a bitter cold wind with bare skin.
“I-I can’t──”
──Clang!
There was no time to argue. They were now barely three steps away.
Thud. Thud.
This zombie was not one that Almond had neutralized.
It walked. Fundamentally different from those crawling on the ground.
“Grrrrr.”
Gulp.
The Shaggy-haired Boy swallowed hard.
The only weapon he possessed now was an iron pipe wrapped around a hammer.
‘It can work once.’
Recalling how Almond had swung it earlier, I was certain I could kill a zombie at least once.
‘Let’s do this.’
The Shaggy-haired Boy steeled his resolve and charged forward. According to Almond, zombies were usually slow, but they moved with terrifying speed when lunging to bite. So a preemptive strike was the key to survival.
“Hraaaaah!”
Thwack!
His hammer struck true against the zombie’s head.
But…
‘?’
Not everyone could strike with Almond’s precision. A head wasn’t flat ground—it was curved. Even a slight miss meant a massive difference in the force delivered.
The Shaggy-haired Boy’s attack merely created a horrific bald patch on the left side. Shattering bone was beyond his reach.
“Kraaaaaaah!”
Blood dripping from its head, the zombie lunged toward the Shaggy-haired Boy.
“…D-dammit.”
In that moment when he thought all was lost, the Shaggy-haired Boy realized something. It wasn’t lost at all.
“M-move out of the way!”
A desperate shout like a scream echoed from behind.
Turning around, he saw the Convenience Store Clerk wielding what looked like a table, hurling it forward.
“Wha—”
Before the Shaggy-haired Boy could respond, it was too late.
The table’s shadow engulfed him.
—Crash!

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“P-Pizza Bread!!”
The convenience store clerk screamed in shock.
The table she’d thrown had stopped the zombie, but it had hit the shaggy-haired boy as well.
Thud.
The shaggy-haired boy collapsed to his knees under the impact.
“Pizza Bread! I’m sorry! This wasn’t… I didn’t mean to…!”
As the clerk sat before the shaggy-haired boy, frantic with worry, the zombie pinned beneath the table crawled forward frantically, clawing at the ground.
Scrape! Scrape!
It was dragging itself forward with the table still on its back.
Snap!
Finally, the zombie’s hand grasped the shaggy-haired boy’s pant leg.
“Uh…”
The clerk’s mind went blank. She raised the hammer, but perhaps her strength had been exhausted when she lifted the table—her legs gave out as if her body had fallen asleep.
Thud.
The zombie opened its mouth toward the shaggy-haired boy’s leg.
“Ah──”
Just as a hollow cry escaped the clerk’s lips.
──Thwack!
A wooden spear flew from somewhere and pierced the back of its neck.
Avoiding the bones, it drove deep into the lower jaw muscles.
“Gaaaggghhhh…!”
The zombie couldn’t close its open mouth. Saliva dripped from its jaws onto the shaggy-haired boy’s pant leg. But it couldn’t bite.
“What are you doing! Move!”
“Ah!”
The clerk finally snapped to her senses and grabbed both of the shaggy-haired boy’s arms, dragging him backward.
Only after pulling him to the front of the convenience store door did she finally collapse and catch her breath.
“Haa… haa… I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I was just trying to help…”
“It’s fine.”
Almond approached her and extended his hand.
Behind him, zombies that couldn’t even crawl were lined up.
Click… click…
The zombies pitifully made only the sound of teeth clicking with their jaw muscles.
“It’s all over now.”
Just as Almond said, it was all over.
The clerk couldn’t hide her shocked expression. While she’d been making the foolish mistake of throwing the table and hitting Pizza Bread instead, he’d cut through all those zombies and sealed the fire door at the eastern stairs.
“You’re… quite impressive?”
With this guy around, it seemed like they might actually be able to break through this situation.
Ding.
[The store clerk trusts you!]

* * *
At that moment.
Balloon Gum’s broadcast was turning on.
-hey hey
-whoa bro you’re streaming early today?
-gum~
-are you really playing Zombie School today?
Balloon Gum had downloaded Zombie School yesterday and planned to play it today. The viewers remembered it quite well, as they were anticipating it.
“Ahem. Hello everyone.”
Ding.
A burst of donations greeted him.
[Gum Price donated 10,000 won!]
[Why’d you come so early!?]
“Ah, Gum Price. Thank you. I came a bit early today.”
Balloon Gum’s usual broadcast time was 7 or 8 PM, but today he started at 5 PM—about two hours earlier.
[Lie donated 3,000 won.]
[You did it at an overlapping time so Almond’s viewers wouldn’t come and backseat game while you’re playing Zombie School!]
Hahahahaha, for real
-that’s it
-Almond’s viewers do have high standards
“Lie, you’re living up to your name. That’s not it~”
-shameless
Haha, a caught/busted expression
-your face is already giving away the answer
“Well. As you all say, let me start Zombie School today.”
Balloon Gum quickly changed the subject.
He figured if he kept talking, he’d only get teased more.
“Today I’ll skip the preamble and jump right in.”
He immediately launched into the game explanation.
“Ah, for those unfamiliar with it, this Zombie School is a brutal survival game that takes place at a school.”
Just then, a video donation came in.
[Lie is sponsoring a video for 20,000 won: ‘Even Almond poops in the game (literally)’]
I’m dying laughing lol
-that’s…
-ah that game.
In the video, Almond—who mistakenly thought his bowel movements had spread across the entire nation—left behind an avatar with a stupid expression and quit the game.
Haha, it’s legendary no matter how many times I watch it.
His eyes are about to pop out of his head lol
-a mountain Balloon Gum has to overcome.
“Yes. It’s coming up now, as I mentioned. It’s an extremely brutal survival game. You could say it’s the kind of shitty game where you have to resolve everything within the toilet.”
Balloon Gum now executes the game.
“So, today’s game is~~~”

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