Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 310

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 30
10. Clarifying the Misunderstanding (2)
In the depths of winter, an unexpected rain fell.
And in Asung’s corporate headquarters, an unexpected Olympic atmosphere prevailed.
“Wow! Another bullseye!?”
“Oh!”
“Seriously. How is he shooting that fast!?”
Any Korean, whether they’d ever held a bow or not, had watched archery competitions during the Olympics at least once.
While it might grow tedious if watched daily, archery was one of those sports that became entertaining when viewed occasionally.
Whoosh!
Though this wasn’t the Olympics, the crowd was captivated by Sanghyeon’s consecutive perfect scores of ten points—and for good reason.
Especially when a familiar face delivered flawless performances with such overwhelming skill.
One couldn’t help but cheer.
“Wooooow!”
“Wow! What!?”
“Manager Yu’s insane? This isn’t just a hobby level, right?”
If even the dignified Asung employees reacted this way, the chat responses were even more explosive.
Even with the PD editing and condensing as much as possible, comments flooded in endlessly.
and creepy/eerie
-Is this that extension thing?
All of them are 10 points, crazy.
-All tens but the shooting speed is insane
-The person next to him must feel so deflated, he aims and shoots in less than a second
…The panelists burst into admiring exclamations as well.
[Wow. Is this really all tens? This is seriously no joke.]
[Wow… What is this? Are these the same rules as the Olympics?]
[Seriously. That’s incredible.]
The watching employees posed the same question.
“Are these the same rules as the Olympics?”
“Isn’t this an amateur competition?”
“Still, it’s impressive.”
The employees had only watched from the middle, so they didn’t know this was a championship tournament.
So the person who’d watched from the beginning explained.
It was the team leader who’d first started the video.
“Hey. That’s a championship tournament. This isn’t just some amateur competition. Looks like he’s about to win the gold medal?”
“Seriously. Is this the finals?”
“Yeah. This is the finals. Look at this.”
In the video the team leader pointed to, Sanghyeon climbed onto the podium and received the gold medal with an expressionless face.
“I heard the domestic championship is actually harder than winning the Olympics….”
“If you win this, winning at the Olympics is basically guaranteed, right?”
“Modern male archers aren’t quite at that level. Still, he’ll definitely get military exemption.”
“Come to think of it, didn’t Manager Yu say he hadn’t served yet?”
“Huh… Is that so? But why would an Olympic medalist bother coming to the company?”
“Right… And with a parachute appointment at that….”
As the employees exchanged puzzled remarks, the screen transitioned.
An interview.
[You just set an incredible record! How does it feel!?]
The camera shook, and the footage briefly became unstable.
A considerable crowd had gathered around Sanghyeon, and the cameraman had been jostled about.
There were several interview questions, but Sanghyeon gave a clear answer to only one.
His future goal.
[Olympic gold.]
The way he spoke it as naturally as breathing, his steady gaze, his refined features.
This moment carried weight.
Even the gathered crowd in the footage fell momentarily silent.
The panelists, too, were unusually quiet.
Then the video cut out.
During the brief blackout on screen, silence persisted. As if by agreement, as if paying respects to someone.
The dark screen gradually brightened again.
A talk show set decorated in vivid tones appeared.
Only then did the employees resume their conversation.
“Huh? Oh, this is Evening Wide?”
“Do you know what this is?”
“Yeah. Isn’t this one of those shows with trending people lately? Crazy. Sanghyeon appeared on this?”
The employees who had gathered late now recognized it as Evening Wide.
“I thought I heard Kim Tru’s voice in there.”
“Wow. Manager Yu’s face really is that of a nobleman.”
“But you guys aren’t leaving?”
Unable to bear the chatter, the Team Leader asked.
“Why not? Let’s watch together.”
“It’s our late-night snack time anyway.”
“Geez.”
The Team Leader shrugged and turned his gaze back to the screen.
“Then keep it down. Serin’s talking.”
The employees merely nodded formally.
[Um, you shoot the bow faster than other people, and I’ve never seen anything like this before. Is there a reason?]
[Ah… Well… Um… Should I shoot slower?]
Laughter erupted from the panelists.
The employees did the same.
Pfft!
“Ugh.”
“It’s the same. Exactly the same.”
“Does he act like that everywhere he goes?”
Sang-hyun Yu’s peculiar conversational style had already become more famous within the company. It hadn’t been particularly helpful at work, though.
But here, it seemed to land quite well.
Mingu Han detected the comedic timing and received it beautifully.
[No, Serin! Since I can shoot quickly, I just shoot quickly! So when you ask why you finish filming quickly, what’s your reason?]
Another wave of laughter swept through the employee break room.
“Ah. Mingu Han is really funny, isn’t he?”
“He wouldn’t keep appearing for nothing.”
“That expression is amazing. He really scrunches up his whole face.”
Mingu Han was actually quite a heavyweight for Evening Wide. The fact that his casting was frequently mentioned as evidence that SCB wanted to push this talk show as their main program spoke volumes.
With practiced ease, he moved the conversation forward.
[Anyway. Almond. You really do shoot fast and accurate arrows.]
“Almond?”
“Almond is a stage name?”
“He’s a streamer. A streamer.”
“Ah….”
The employees tilted their heads at the name Almond and murmured among themselves. The camera turned toward Sanghyeon.
[Well… but. I heard you quit archery. You ended up not competing in the Olympics either. You retired at a very young age.]
Sanghyeon’s expression had clearly darkened.
Since this was something the employees had been curious about too, they all forgot about eating and leaned their heads forward.
[Was there a reason you retired?]

* * *
“Department Manager Jang, the reactions are really good right now?”
The staff member’s expression brightened considerably.
The results were coming out well.
“Yeah. That’s right.”
Department Manager Jang wasn’t showing any of that satisfaction on his face.
Both hands propping up the bridge of his nose, his head bowed.
“Yeah. Yeah.”
He continued muttering like this.
He looked anxious.
‘It needs to keep climbing.’
Though the CEO had backed his editing direction this time out of luck, how long would this fortune last?
‘Then things would be smoother next time.’
Department Manager Jang wanted to assert that his editing direction was correct, that he was right. He wanted metrics substantial enough to state such things with confidence.
“It keeps going up.”
As if carrying his wishes, the viewer count graph climbs as time passes. This meant the initial viewers weren’t leaving.
Particularly in Almond’s segment, there was a considerable upward trend.
-Lolololol what’s with this sudden surge lol
-Lmao lol
Seo-rin… ㅠㅠ
The chat reactions from viewers watching the edited version were also positive.
Though it wasn’t live, there were so many viewers that the chat was bustling.
[Current Viewers: 316,000]
For SCB, these numbers were quite substantial. If the edited version had this much firepower, the YouTube short clips they planned to produce could potentially reach cumulative views of 2 to 3 million.
‘It’s similar to the Nanteu match’s firepower.’
Department Manager Jang had once checked Almond’s Nanteu match viewer numbers to gauge the success of this broadcast.
Even though there was a significant difference from the finals, the viewer numbers from regular matches were appearing.
The Nanteu match was an enormously large-scale tournament with numerous participants.
But a talk show was a highly efficient variety show—one fixed set, a few fixed panelists, and only the guest rotating in.
“Ads. Ad click rates.”
Department Manager Jang asked briefly, maintaining his posture.
The staff members answered.
“The ad click rates are quite high right now. The cosmetics ads are naturally performing well too. The ads from the Divers side also saw increased click rates.”
“The ratio of male viewers in their 20s has risen quite a bit. But it’s not that female numbers decreased. It seems like they just increased additionally.”
The gender ratio was spreading evenly.
It meant they were gaining mainstream appeal. This freed them from the pressure of idol-focused editing.
And then, the talk show began its final stretch.
The scene where Sanghyeon was asked about his retirement.
“Phew…!”
Department Manager Jang finally exhaled deeply.
With his hands resting on the shoulders of the two staff members, he speaks one final time.
“I… think I pulled it off?”
The viewer count reaches its climax.

* * *
[Is there a reason you retired?]
At the question asking about his reason for retirement, Sanghyeon on screen steadies his breathing.
The employees could easily sense there was quite a story behind it.
“Retired? So he didn’t really pursue it properly?”
“That’s why he’s here.”
“What? Why did he retire?”
“Ah….”
The employee from the same team could catch on quickly.
“What’s wrong?”
“Manager Yu… his right hand seemed a bit inconvenient.”
“His right hand?”
“Yes… wait, could it be because of that….”
The Team Leader lets out a sigh.
“…Ah. So it was this?”
He had a rough idea. Sanghyeon’s typing was noticeably slow. That’s why he rarely assigned him work in that direction.
In truth, Sanghyeon’s problem wasn’t just typing. The very background he came from was different from these corporate employees, and the standards of knowledge he’d accumulated were different.
He didn’t fit in.
At first, the Team Leader thought it was because he was some upper-class kid who’d been raised so well he could receive a parachute appointment.
However….
‘The more I saw, the less it seemed that way.’
Since he hardly talked about himself, there was no way to know for sure.
But it just didn’t seem right.
“Wow. It’s really true! His right hand!”
One employee makes a fuss.
[Were you a victim of that incident? I was the one covering that incident.]
[Yes. After that, my right arm… I can use it enough for daily life. But the aftereffects caused severe hand tremors.]
Sanghyeon on screen was talking about his accident.
He said the accident happened not long after that competition ended.
After that, Sanghyeon laid out the rest of his life as briefly as possible. The story of struggling to survive with his grandmother, the efforts he put into rehabilitation but how this was the limit….
“Wait. Wasn’t he a trust fund kid?”
“…What.”
“That’s just a rumor. Really.”
“There’s a rumor that rumor itself is a rumor.”
“Isn’t he a parachute appointment?”
“Not all parachute appointments are trust fund kids. Well… whether trust fund or not, it’s still a parachute appointment.”
And so the conversation continues to Sanghyeon’s joining the company.
“Oh. They’re bringing up Sanghyeon.”
“Wait, they’re talking about that? A parachute hire?”
“Right. A bit….”
The employees’ expressions darkened.
These were people who had sacrificed their entire lives to enter this company. After joining through bone-grinding effort, they lived each day vowing to bury even the remaining bone dust in this company’s soil, undergoing daily ideological scrutiny.
There was no way such people could view favorably a parachute hire descending on the winds of heaven.
Even if he had an unfortunate past.
But….
[Ah… So you entered through the disabled persons quota. But people think it was a parachute hire….]
[Yes. Back then, Department Manager Park asked which would be better—disabled persons quota or parachute hire. I said the latter seemed better.]
A truth entirely different from what they had known came to light.
“….”
A moment of silence.
“…What is this.”
Someone broke the silence.
The room erupted into commotion.
“Can it really be handled like that?”
“Personnel information can’t be seen by anyone except the person in charge… but it’s possible….”
“Is it a lie?”
There was speculation that Sanghyeon had lied.
But in truth, it was a difficult hypothesis to accept.
“Would he lie about something like that on broadcast?”
“No. Wait, but he really does have a disability, right?”
“Wow….”
“He could hide it. So why would he say it was a parachute hire?”
“He wouldn’t even mention Sanghyeon at all!”
“Why would he throw away Sanghyeon’s image!”
That couldn’t be it.
No. It could be.
Opinions went back and forth.
The Team Leader reached a conclusion.
“It’s probably true.”
He turned his gaze out the window, unable to bear looking any longer.
“It’s true? Why would Department Manager Park bother lying about it being a parachute hire….”
The Team Leader turned to face the employee who had asked the question.
“Why, you ask.”
Crunch.
The paper cup he was holding crumpled.
“I know exactly why he did it.”

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