Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 303

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 23
8. The Guest (2)
Almond’s heart pounded violently.
It was probably Juhyeok Kim’s character’s heart racing, but I found myself trembling along with it.
This was how the game created its thrills—through its system.
Thump. Thump.
The sound of the heartbeat drowned out the knocking on the door.
‘Can’t catch them?’
Judging by Juhyeok Kim’s reaction, meeting them carelessly could spell the end.
“Hey. Anyone in there? Open the door. Huh?”
Wujung Kim asked as if he already knew something.
Almond clamped his hand over the Shaggy-haired’s mouth beside him.
“Shh.”
There was no benefit in revealing their presence inside.
The iron door rattled a few more times.
Baek Jun-su spoke up.
“Stop it. The zombies are coming.”
“Ah… the convenience store. What a shame.”
Wujung Kim muttered.
Someone responded to him.
This was a voice I didn’t recognize. It seemed they’d absorbed another group.
“Let’s just head to the cafeteria instead. We need to deal with the zombies here and come back. The Choco Pies in the infirmary are almost gone anyway.”
Choco Pies in the infirmary? Almond was puzzled. How could such luck exist…?
“Phew. If they hadn’t stacked Choco Pies and Moncher there for today’s blood drive, we’d really be in trouble.”
“And canned coffee and cola too.”
A blood drive?
Today was a blood drive day?
‘Damn…’
If I’d gone to the infirmary from the start, I could’ve secured beds, medicine, and food supplies.
Of course, since there was less food than at the convenience store, I didn’t regret it too much.
-Ah, those bastards cleared out the infirmary
-This snowball effect is insane…
How could this happen?
The dog is so cute in the infirmary ㅠ
The viewers seemed to know something about the infirmary. Perhaps they’d watched other broadcasts.
‘Balloon Gum?’
Balloon Gum was mentioned intermittently.
‘Is Gum also playing it?’
It seemed Balloon Gum was also playing Zombie School. From my perspective, it was like free advertising—such a windfall.
‘This is huge.’
While Almond calculated something dark in his mind, the thugs outside were counting Choco Pies.
“How many Choco Pies are left now?”
“…About two large shipping boxes? I’d say around a hundred.”
“That should be enough, right?”
“We’ve got ten people. A hundred disappears in no time.”
Ten people. I hadn’t realized the number was so large.
“We need to raid the cafeteria.”
“Huh? Zombies! Let’s get out of here──”
“Run!”
That conversation was the last thing I could hear from beyond the door.
The zombies eventually heard the noise and swarmed over, forcing Baek Jun-su’s gang to retreat.
Thump. Thump.
Then, someone clapped their hands to make a sound.
“Ugh! Ack!”
“Ah. Sorry.”
“Gasp!”
Without realizing it, I had even pinched my nose shut. It was because Shaggy-haired’s face was so small.
“Hey, l-let him breathe, will you?”
He braced himself on his knees and panted heavily for a while before asking.
“…Are you in the same class as those guys?”
“Yeah.”
“Haa. I see.”
He scratched his head vigorously, making it even shaggier, then spoke with irritation in his voice.
“I know who those guys are too. The ones who hang out with Baek Jun-su.”
“How?”
“They’re famous. The delinquents of our school.”
“…They’re famous, huh. Why did thugs like that manage to survive?”
Without realizing it, I muttered to myself.
-That’s because you didn’t eat the infirmary lol
-They survived because they ate the infirmary lolololol
-Check Balloon Gum’s stream later hh
Check Balloon Gum’s stream? There’s no way I could learn anything skill-wise from that guy’s broadcast.
While I was puzzled, Shaggy-haired spoke again.
“But man, your class has seriously bad luck.”
“Why?”
“Because your class is called the ‘Demon Realm’ in our class. How did all those guys end up in the same class….”
-Demon Realm lololol
-How is the class name Incheon lol
Wow, that’s hilarious.
-Those bastards were school-wide celebrities
“But….”
Shaggy-haired looked Almond up and down as he spoke.
“Couldn’t you just win against them?”
“….”
“From what I’ve seen of you… honestly, I doubt a regular high school student could even face you.”
-If fear doesn’t get to him, that’d be the case.
-lol for real
-His eye for talent is insane
“Someone like you should be famous. I’ve never heard of you. If I had your skills, I would’ve beaten those bastards to a pulp.”
Almond paused to think for a moment.
Should I share this information with this guy? The truth is, I’m an outcast who gets beaten up by those thugs?
“Famous? Yeah, right.”
For now, Almond decided to hold back.
He knew all too well how people who curse out delinquents react when they actually face an outcast.
“Let’s go help with the laundry.”

* * *
When we arrived at the bathroom, the Store Clerk was still doing laundry.
“I’ll help.”
“Oh? Really? That’s so touching!”
The Store Clerk distributed the laundry without any hesitation. It seemed her own underwear was already washed and set aside, so it didn’t matter.
The three of us each took a spot in front of the sinks.
Not laundry soap, but hand soap from the warehouse in the convenience store. Actually, this was better for hand washing anyway.
Splash. Splash.
The sound of the soaked fabric was like the sound of waves.
Waves dancing back and forth across an empty sandy beach, swaying gently. A peaceful and leisurely sight.
Without thinking, I glanced up at the mirror, and by chance, our three gazes met. In the mirror’s reflection.
Pfft.
The three of us unknowingly felt smiles tugging at the corners of our mouths. We didn’t know why.
They exchanged idle chatter while doing laundry.
Then, Shaggy-haired relayed what had happened earlier to the Store Clerk.
-Shaggy-haired’s been talking way more lol
-At first he was acting all cool lol
-He was like a Speed Wagon character lol
Just as the viewers said, Shaggy-haired had become quite talkative.
After hearing everything he said, the Store Clerk asked back.
“Huh? You’re saying those delinquents came outside?”
The Store Clerk seemed to know who they were.
“The world is really cruel.”
She didn’t seem pleased that they were alive either. A moment later, she looked in the mirror and asked.
“By the way, what are your names?”
Three figures stood side by side doing laundry inside the mirror.
The Store Clerk inside the mirror spoke.
“I’m Hyeon-a Kim. I’m twenty-two years old.”
Splash. Splash.
The Shaggy-haired figure answered through the sound of washing.
“…I’m Suhyeon Park. Second year of high school.”
“Oh~ Pizza Bread is Suhyeon Park~ That sounds like a girl’s name. So what about Soboro Bread?”
Almond inside the mirror opened his mouth for a moment, then closed it.
“Soboro Bread?”
When the Store Clerk, Hyeon-a, asked again, he answered.
“I’m Almond.”
“…Huh?”
Hyeon-a looked at Pizza Bread and Suhyeon as if she couldn’t believe it.
“Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?”
She was seeking agreement, but Pizza Bread avoided her gaze.
“Ahem, ahem. A person’s name could be Almond. I mean, why not.”
“R-really?”
At Suhyeon’s (Pizza Bread’s) nonchalant response, Hyeon-a (the Store Clerk) grew confused.
“So a person’s name could be Almond… How is that even….”
Hahahaha, that’s hilarious!
Are you seriously falling for this?! ㅋㅋㅋ
Pizza bread is so scared he can’t say anything lol
It’s a shame the convenience store noona doesn’t do the cuckoo prank anymore.
Kim Hyun-ah is so cute! lol
-Even her name is gorgeous….
“Now that we’ve introduced ourselves, we’re a real team, right?”
Hyeon-a said with a smile.
Almond, whose eyes met hers in the mirror, simply offered a bland smile.

* * *
After laundry, the three of us finished a simple meal at the school store.
Almond had peanut crumb bread, Suhyeon had pizza bread, and Hyeon-a had cream bread.
We all chose milk for drinks—it had the shortest expiration date remaining.
Afterward, we took the packing twine we’d retrieved from the warehouse and tied it between chairs to use as a clothesline. Placing a six-pack of bottled water on top kept the chairs from tipping over under the weight.
Suhyeon, finished with the task, exhaled heavily and muttered.
“Phew. This place would be perfect if it just had a bed.”
“Weren’t you going to the infirmary?”
“Can’t go there… they’ve taken it over.”
“They’ve taken it over?”
“I told you about it while we were doing laundry.”
The three of us had discussed those unpleasant visitors we’d encountered earlier while washing clothes.
“It really bothers me that they’ve claimed the infirmary.”
Hyeon-a frowned.
“And now they’re heading to the cafeteria to take that over too.”
Suhyeon replied.
Hyeon-a sighed at this.
“This is turning into some kind of territorial conquest.”
“Resources are limited, after all.”
Suhyeon shrugged and looked toward Almond.
“Almond. Have you thought of anything?”
“Like what?”
“A way to defeat the zombies. We still don’t have proper weapons to kill them. But those guys seem to have them.”
Weapons…
I’d felt the same way. Those thugs spoke as if they could wipe out all the zombies whenever they wanted.
「We should head to the cafeteria soon. We need to clear out the zombies here and come back. The biscuits in the staff room are running low too…」
They probably have proper weapons. And they have ten people, no less.
Meanwhile, we’re only three. And we don’t have proper weapons.
“Should we check the gymnasium storage?”
I just threw out the first idea that came to mind. Though truthfully, I was thinking of archery equipment.
“There’s probably just soccer balls there. Do you think there’s anything that could be a weapon?”
Suhyeon’s response was cold.
“The archery club…”
“Archery arrows don’t have arrowheads, so we’d need to find materials to make them first…”
“The science lab?”
“…Unless you’re the protagonist of Breaking Bad, there’s nothing there you could actually use for that.”
“Breaking Bad?”
“It’s a thing.”
Sure, I might be able to use hydrochloric acid or something, but I didn’t have the skill to handle it precisely enough to use it as a weapon.
I took a moment to carefully examine the minimap.
‘…!?’
While checking the minimap, I spot a location likely to have plenty of things that could serve as weapons.
“The construction site.”
I’ve barely finished speaking when Suhyeon jumps to his feet.
“That’s it! The construction site! If we grab something like a sledgehammer there, we can definitely smash a zombie’s skull. Almond broke one with a hand hammer, didn’t he?”
He continues excitedly.
“Plus, I’ve worked construction sites before. I know how to handle some of that equipment.”
Setting aside the question of why a high school sophomore has construction experience, Almond asks what he can make.
“Couldn’t we make something like arrowheads there? If we grind them with a metal plate cutter….”
As they talk back and forth, it sounds like it’s actually possible.
-If we go to the construction site, we basically clear the game lol
-Arrows appear, game over lol
-For real lol
“But the construction site is way too close to the infirmary….”
Suhyeon speaks with obvious anxiety.
He’s not the only one feeling uneasy.
‘This is bad. The infirmary and construction site are conveniently connected.’
Almond also feels a sense of dread while looking at the minimap. Baek Jun-su’s gang has far too easy access to the construction site.
If they’re not complete idiots, they’d naturally think about how many weapons are available at the construction site.
Almond mutters quietly.
“…They might bring a sledgehammer too.”
Both Hyeon-a’s and Suhyeon’s faces stiffen simultaneously.
Hyeon-a grabs Suhyeon with a frightened expression and asks.
“P-Pizza Bread. If they have a sledgehammer…will the fire door open?”
“Well….”
Suhyeon thinks for a moment, then nods.
“Yeah, probably. They’d just need to break the handle part. The annex fire doors are old-fashioned, so that’s all it takes. The annex is actually the school’s original building, and the main building is the new construction….”
“I know that, but… sigh….”
Hyeon-a sighs worriedly and sits down.
Almond is just playing this as a game, but for the NPCs here, this situation is real.
I should understand their fragile mental state.
Just as I’m thinking that, Hyeon-a suddenly jumps up.
“Wait. I just thought of a decent strategy.”
She seems to have had an idea. Wasn’t she just despairing?
“We can’t go to the construction site, right?”
“…Yeah.”
Both Suhyeon and Almond nod.
“Then….”
Hyeon-a takes a deep breath and speaks.
“What if we take care of Baek Jun-su’s gang first?”
Suhyeon asks.
“Uh, how?”
Hyeon-a’s gaze naturally shifts toward Almond.
As if telling him to handle it.
‘Me? Clean it up?’
Almond’s face turned incredulous.
Hahaha, is this the plan?
Operation name: Almond lol
You think you know something, huh? ㅋㅋ
-You go to Hawaii!
That’s crazy lolol
-“The real team”
College students really understand group projects well~~ lol

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