Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 317

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 37
13. The Circumstances of the Incident (1)
Five hours earlier.
About five hours before I shot Baek Jun-su.
Almond’s team.
Suhyeon and Hyeon-a pushed the supply cart while Almond led the way, surveying the surroundings.
The three of them had just arrived at the 2nd Floor.
The place they arrived at was silent.
“…There’s no one here.”
There was nothing.
Why was that?
Thud… Thud….
Only the sound of three footsteps echoed through the corridor.
It was desolate, devoid of any sign of life.
“Isn’t this a bit strange?”
Suhyeon raised the question first.
“When the zombie outbreak happened, it was definitely class time. Since there are so many classrooms here, there should be a lot of zombies.”
“That’s true….”
Hyeon-a nodded in agreement.
When the zombie outbreak occurred, it was during class time. Except for the physical education class that was on the playground, everyone was gathered in their classrooms.
The 2nd Floor, packed with classrooms, should normally have far more zombies than the 1st Floor with its auxiliary facilities.
“Did they evacuate beforehand?”
Hyeon-a presented a hypothesis, but Almond shook his head.
“When I escaped, classes were still in session. There was no time for that.”
Even when the other students were screaming and running across the playground, classes were still ongoing. They had no time to evacuate in advance.
Suhyeon swept his hand across the floor.
“There’s an enormous amount of blood stains.”
The dried blood crumbled away.
Now that I looked closely, the desks in the classroom were scattered everywhere.
There were more desks with blood on them than without, and some classroom doors were even torn off their hinges.
The traces of chaos were unmistakable.
“This is strange. So where did the zombies go?”
If they had fought zombies and ended up like this, the zombies should still be here.
But the zombies were gone.
It wasn’t as if they were trained soldiers lying in ambush.
It was a mystery.
“It’s a bit creepy.”
Suhyeon shrugged his shoulders and continued walking.
Despite the strangeness of the phenomenon, he seemed unconcerned.
“But it’s probably nothing serious anyway.”
-It doesn’t seem like something we should just let slide like that lol
-???: We have Almond
-From Pizza Bread’s perspective it’s like who cares lol as long as he’s not a delinquent, Almond would catch ghosts for us anyway lol
-This is way too suspicious 🙁
-???: Ugh, the express bus ride is so uncomfortable!
“It’s Class 1-8, right?”
Hyeon-a asks Almond.
Almond nods while checking the minimap.
“Yeah. That’s the closest to the construction site.”
“I can see it over there.”
Hyeon-a pushes the luggage cart toward the room marked ‘1-8’ but stops short.
“…But. Why is the door locked?”
Suhyeon and Almond both freeze.
They exchange glances.
“…Right?”
“What is this.”
The fire door was clearly locked intentionally by someone.
Otherwise, there was no way this fire door could have suddenly shut by coincidence.
-For real, what is this
-Someone inside?
-Is there actually a survivor in there?
The viewers hypothesized that there might be a survivor inside.
This theory was quite plausible.
If it wasn’t Baek Jun-su’s group that closed the 2nd floor door, but someone inside who closed it, then it wasn’t impossible.
“Do you think someone inside locked it?”
“But there really wasn’t any food in here. How would they survive?”
“Right… Did they maybe steal some choco pies from the kids who did the group blood donation….”
No matter how optimistically I consider it, it seems difficult to solve the food problem here.
They probably starved the whole time.
Since it hasn’t been a full week yet, it’s not impossible to starve and endure, but….
“Ugh. This is complicated. Let’s just go.”
Hyeon-a takes the lead, not wanting to think about it anymore.
-Confident Jegal Hyeon-a lol
Girl crush is crazy
-Yeah just go lol Almond will handle it lol
Hyeon-a pulls the luggage cart first toward Class 1-8.
“I’ll start by tying the curtains.”
“Sounds good.”
They plan to settle in Class 1-8 and make rope by tying the curtains together.
The annex building was constructed long ago, so the ceiling height wasn’t particularly high.
Around 2 meters and 40 centimeters, if I recall correctly.
Quite low for a school building.
Through the window, dropping just 2.5 meters would let me reach the outdoor first floor without being spotted by Baek Jun-su’s group.
And since this was the closest point to the construction site, getting there would be easier than anything.
Creak.
Hyeon-a opened the door to Class 8 and pushed the cart inside.
“Phew. Finally here.”
“This stuff gets heavy when you carry it for so long.”
Hyeon-a and Suhyeon sat down on chairs to catch their breath. Even though they were just bread, the sheer quantity made it quite heavy.
Almond checked the hallway before closing the door.
As expected, there was still no sign of anyone.
“But are the curtains okay? I don’t even know how old those things are…”
Hyeon-a muttered while staring blankly at the curtains.
“Come on. At this height, even if we just drop, we could land safely without getting hurt. What’s the big deal?”
Suhyeon said this while stepping on a desk and reaching for the curtain rings.
As he undid the rings one by one, a curtain suddenly fell down.
Swoosh.
The way he quickly handled the next one looked quite skillful.
-As expected, Pizza Bread’s good at chores lol
-True to the Thief class!
-Wait, what’s that?
Suhyeon released the curtains while Hyeon-a gathered them up.
Meanwhile, Almond kept watch around them, prepared for any unexpected situation.
Swoosh.
All the curtains fell, and Almond could only stare blankly at one spot.
His gaze was fixed there as if nailed in place.
A person stood there with their back turned.
They had been standing behind the curtains.
“…!?”
Suhyeon, who was removing the curtains, noticed them only then and was startled. They say when people are too shocked, they can’t even scream.
Since Suhyeon hadn’t even considered a 1% chance that someone would be behind the curtains, he swallowed a gasp and stepped back.
Hyeon-a also discovered ‘it’ and stopped gathering the curtains.
“…!”
Everyone held their breath, staring intently at this strange phenomenon.
A survivor?
In that brief moment, judging by the complete lack of aggression they displayed, it was definitely a survivor.
But why were they behind the curtains?
Silent as a dead mouse.
As if waiting for something.
Could it be a survivor hunting other survivors?
Or perhaps….
“Hnngh… Ugh….”
Turning away, he began to sob.
His shoulders trembling.
No, perhaps he had been sobbing from the start, but I simply hadn’t heard it until now.
The sound of his weeping was so faint that it could only be heard in this kind of extreme silence.
Thump. Thump.
It was barely audible above the sound of my own heartbeat.
“Hnngh… Ugh….”
Less than five seconds had passed since I discovered this presence.
In this brief moment, I had been running through so many hypotheses in my mind that no one had spoken a single word.
“Excuse me?”
Hyeon-a spoke first.
Whoosh.
The one who had been crying turned around.
I couldn’t remember what his face looked like.
All I registered was white light streaming from his eyes. That was all my mind could process.
The thug’s foot lashed out.
Kwaaaang──
The floor ripples like liquid.
His form scatters.
White eyes and afterimages stretch out.
The elongated white light is directed at Hyeon-a.
Then it converges into a single point.
Toward Hyeon-a’s throat.
“──Kyaaaaaahahahahaha!”
His laughter would reach my ears slower than his claws tearing into Hyeon-a’s skin.
Clang…!
If Almond hadn’t stepped in first.
“Hah.”
Almond exhales as he deflects the thug’s claws.
‘That was close.’
My hand gripping the golf club tingles.
The thug seemed startled that his attack had been blocked. He froze.
A brief standoff flowed past in silence.
-Tsk tsk tsk
-What the hell
-Lol what
-What is that thing???
-??
-What the hell is that?!
The viewers finally react in shock, flooding the chat.
Heheheh.
The thug laughs.
His luminescent white eyes curve into crescents.
“Kyaaaaaaahahaha!”
Boom!
His form scatters.
The speed is so tremendous that afterimages linger in the air.
As if seeking vengeance for all the sluggish zombies before him, this one moves with terrifying velocity.
At that very speed, his claws come slashing toward me.
Clang…!
Yet again, the golf club blocks it.
Movements as if I’d anticipated this speed all along.
-How is he blocking that
lol
-Can’t even tell what’s happening
-All I hear is the sound damn it
-Wow
A speed even the viewers cannot follow.
Almond is far from composed.
‘What is this? Aren’t all zombies supposed to be slow?’
I tilt my head in confusion internally.
This creature was equally beyond my expectations.
A zombie that’s fast.
That’s right.
The enemy is fast.
But it’s not enough.
My response speed far exceeds the enemy’s velocity.
“Kyaaaahahaha!”
The thug shrieks with an eerie sound and swings his arm again. This time in rapid succession.
Clang!
Clang!
Both attacks are blocked as expected.
Clang-clang!
Three out of four attacks are blocked, one slips through.
Clang-clang-clang-clang!
Multiple attacks and multiple deflections.
His claws never even graze my skin.
I maintain extra distance while evading, just in case infection becomes a concern.
And then, finally.
‘It came.’
I found the timing to strike.
Since the thug was so fast, I merely needed to position my golf club slightly in his path.
Whoosh!
He drove it straight into his own solar plexus.
“Gaaah…heurgh!?”
The creature that had been laughing and swinging his arms suddenly gasped for breath.
-????
-Did the streamer just mess up?
-Suddenly showing his true self lol
-The act dropped lol
-A zombie feeling pain? lol
It wasn’t pain.
The sudden impact to his lungs forced the air from his windpipe.
“Kyaaaaaaack!”
The thug twisted his body left and right to regain balance.
Whoosh!
Then hurled himself backward.
“Huh?”
He was fleeing.
I hadn’t anticipated this at all, so even I was taken aback.
“Did he just run away?”
I started chasing after him while asking aloud.
-A zombie running away? lol
-Is that really a zombie?? This is creepy af
-Ugh, that’s terrifying
Was he truly a zombie?
I couldn’t define what this creature was.
The faint glimmer of intelligence in his movements made him unsettlingly enigmatic.
Bang!
The door to the adjacent classroom burst open violently.
He entered 1st Grade Class 7.
I pursued him relentlessly.
Then I froze at the sight before me.
Slurp. Slurp….
He was devouring a corpse.
Specifically, what appeared to be the remains of a zombie.
‘So that’s why there was no one here.’
Now I understood why the zombies had been exterminated.
“Kaaaaaagh…!”
Crack, crunch….
The thug twisted his body grotesquely, his wound healing before my eyes.
And those pale eyes fixed on me once more.
Hehehehe.
His mouth twisted upward, his gaze stretching wide.
Whoooosh──
His form scattered, closing the distance in an instant.
Undeniably fast.
Much faster than before.
But now I had deciphered the thug’s attack pattern.
His assault was far too simplistic for me.
Certainly blazingly swift, but if I could just react, I could actually harness that very speed to my complete advantage.
I drew the golf club back.
Recalling advice from a golfer senior at the Training Camp—whose name I couldn’t even remember now—I positioned myself properly.
‘The hips….’
Perfect form for transferring power from the feet planted on the ground, through the hips, and into the fingertips.
Full swing.
Already that alone was overwhelmingly powerful.
The thug collided directly at the impact point.
──CRAAAAAAACK!!!
A tremendous impact sound erupted.
The golf club bent nearly in half.
The thug’s jaw spun 230 degrees.
No, 280 degrees.
No, it exceeded 360 degrees.
Snap, crack…!
His head was torn clean off.
As if I’d driven a real golf ball, his head soared through the air.
Across the classroom….
Crash!
It shattered the glass and burst through the window.
Wow, he actually went and played golf lol
Is this also showmanship? lol
What the heck is this? lol
That’s hilarious lolololol
-CEO nice shot~!
I never expected it to be this effective.
Even I couldn’t help but marvel this time.
“…Wow.”
-What the heck is the principle behind this? lol
-Something just exploded…
-lolololol
And then, a sound rings out.
Boom boom boom!
“Huh…?”
Almond, who was enjoying himself, freezes.
[Achievement ‘Defeated the Boss on First Try’ Obtained!]
It’s an Achievement.
“I thought it was a donation.”
The Achievement’s trumpet sound was the same as a donation notification.
-lmao immediate mood change
-Nothing given? lol
-lololol thought it was a donation lol
-Iseok Kim you cruel bastard lol the sound is over 200k in donations lol
-What sound lol
“But this… seems like it was a boss. Something feels really twisted.”
-For real this is a boss??
-Something… something got twisted
-The timeline changed!
-Must be early access, it’s a mess lol
-Gotta patch this lol
Even to Almond, who knows nothing about games, defeating the boss right now felt wrong.
-No lol this is supposed to show the normal route lol
-Feels like something got messed up lol
-Iseok Kim sobbing lol
“Well. Can’t help it. Let’s head to the construction site for now.”
I don’t know where things went wrong.
But I decided not to worry about it.
“Check out the normal route on Balloon Gum’s stream.”
Balloon Gum will handle the proper route anyway.
-Balloon Gum product placement lol
-Did you coordinate this with Gum? lol
-This checks out lol
-Though that’s not exactly normal either…
-Whatever

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