Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 318

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 38
13. The Circumstances of the Incident (2)
Four hours before I shot Baek Jun-su.
Almond had already killed the boss on the second floor.
Almond actually thought the game would end around this point.
The boss was dead, after all. Normally, it would be natural for the game to conclude here.
“Ah. Everyone, that was fun.”
It wasn’t broadcast end time, but since when did Almond care about such things?
He was the kind of streamer who ended broadcasts during donation reactions.
By his standards, if the game had reached its conclusion, ending the stream here was the right call.
“The game was well made.”
-(leaving work early) Well made indeed
-Wait, you’re really leaving?
-No way. It’s not over yet… This is so anticlimactic…
-What the hell.
-No conscience lol
A boss discovered so absurdly.
A ridiculous death.
And a stream ending on top of that.
Few viewers could endure this triple combination.
Ding!
[ThisHourKingdom donated 10,000 won!]
[No! Stop the stream end!]
Ding!
[Omae donated 5,000 won.]
[F-faster…]
They fired donations to prevent the stream end, desperately holding the line.
[Gaji-bokkeun donated 2,000 won.]
[Hold the line! Hold it no matter what!]
It was like a barricade constructed from donations.
-lol blocking it with money
-Will you end it even now? Will you end it even now? Will you end it even now?
-You said you’d kill Baek Jun-su? You said you’d kill Baek Jun-su? You said you’d kill Baek Jun-su? You said you’d kill Baek Jun-su?
Just let me shoot an arrow once ㅠㅠ
-Is this that severance package system?
Had their donation barricade actually worked?
“…?”
The game hadn’t ended.
Beyond granting an Achievement, there was no other response.
[Confidence]
The only thing that emerged was a sense of confidence.
[I’ve gained confidence. It feels like I can do anything well.]
That’s the end of the explanation.
Whether I can overcome my fear against Baek Jun-su remains to be seen.
“Why isn’t this ending? Should I turn it off?”
-No lol if you turn it off then it obviously ends lol
-Relentless Nut Shake lol
-Just keep going!
Typically, survival games like this either have no real ending, or you need to escape to a specific location to finish.
It’s not a raid game where you hunt a boss monster.
Almond, lacking experience with such games, couldn’t understand.
But the viewers immediately grasped the situation and the atmosphere became festive.
-Damn, truly a survival masterpiece
Hahaha, that’s it! Haha, lock Almond in the eternal cycle of survival!
-Nice work Iseok Kim!
I heard the voices of NPCs from behind.
“…What? Is he dead?”
“What the hell was that just now?”
Suhyeon and Hyeon-a stared at the window where the head had flown through, their expressions bewildered.
Normally, they should have reacted with more shock.
Because it was disposed of so easily, some kind of conflict occurred in the program.
“Uh….”
“Uh…?!”
The two of them seemed momentarily off.
-What’s wrong with them, did they lag? lol
-lol
-Haha lol
Should they react excessively as befits killing a boss, or should they react simply to match this current situation where it was disposed of so easily?
A conflict had occurred.
However, they were programmed to always react in a way that matched the current situation as much as possible.
“I don’t know. Anyway, it’s dead, so that works.”
“Yeah.”
So without any particular expression, they just moved past it like that.
-Quick acceptance lol
-So this really was a boss lol they lagging is hilarious
-This is clip material lol
-This duo is so likeable lol
-Likeable duo lol
“…The game really hasn’t ended?”
Almond asked once more, still in disbelief.
-Nut Shake still hasn’t given up lol
-It ends when you escape lol
-Tsk tsk newbie Shake lol
“Well… I suppose there’s no helping it.”
-There’s no helping it. I’ll turn it off.
“Let me give it another try.”
-Yesss~~~
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
-Sigh…
The game resumed after all.

* * *
Hyeon-a, Suhyeon, and Almond began weaving curtains together in Class 1-8. The rope was created in an instant.
“Where should we tie this?”
Now I just needed to secure it properly.
After deliberating, they picked up a golf club.
And they smashed the window.
Crash! Crash!
One on each side.
Only the window frame remained standing bare.
Hyeon-a wrapped the curtain around the frame and tied it firmly.
Since it was the most critical knot, she tied it multiple times over.
“This… this should work, right?”
“Hmm. Let me adjust the knot here. Even falling from the second floor would hurt.”
“Okie.”
The NPCs were working hard.
Ding.
A message arrived.
It was from the phone I’d taken earlier.
[Disaster Alert Notification]
[Temporary shelters are operating in air raid shelters across all regions. Not all personnel can enter. We are limiting entry to only 10 people per immune individual.]
-Oh, did you guys defeat the boss and get this??
-Crazy
-Finally something’s happening
-But what’s an immune individual?
-Only 10 people survive?
‘…Ten people per immune individual?’
Are immune individuals really that uncommon?
In typical zombie games, one member of the protagonist’s group is the sole immune individual. But the nuance of this disaster message felt completely different.
Click.
Almond grabbed the curtain rope without the slightest hesitation.
“Going.”
Without waiting for the other two to respond, Almond simply leaped out the window.
Thud!
His arms strained a bit under the effort.
Creeeeak…!
After the window frame groaned a couple of times, Almond landed safely on the ground.
“Wow…!”
“That was awesome….”
The two of them poked their heads out from the window in amazement.
Suhyeon went next, and finally Hyeon-a slowly descended the rope, allowing them all to safely exit the annex.
The two of them raised their arms and let out small cheers.
But the joy was short-lived.
“Graaahhh….”
A sound I hadn’t heard in a while reached my ears.
-Yo, zombies are back lol
-These are normal zombies
-Your Bandit Leader’s dead~ Game’s over you bastards~
Almond, along with Suhyeon and Hyeon-a behind him, showed no particular reaction anymore.
With just a golf club or a hammer, handling two or three zombies alone was nothing.
“Graaahhh!”
“Grahhk!”
About six zombies approached.
Crack!
Thwack!
Crunch!
Three of them dropped with each swing of their blunt weapons.
Because they were zombies, the remaining three kept coming; if they’d been human, they would have lost their nerve and fled by now.
They cleanly dispatched the remaining zombies and headed toward the construction site.
“Graahhh….”
“Graaahhh!”
The zombies kept coming.
They kept beating them down.
And they came again.
And they beat them down again.
“Huff… gasp….”
“There are too many….”
Hyeon-a and Suhyeon showed signs of exhaustion.
Almond felt the same way.
[Exhausted]
The same one who’d faced that strange boss monster alone just moments ago.
Fighting continuously in succession had accumulated fatigue.
Almond pulled a chocolate bar from his pocket.
‘This should temporarily clear it.’
It was a strategy I’d seen during Takoyaki and Balloon Gum’s collaboration stream. Replenishing sugar with a chocolate bar caused the fatigue stat to decrease again.
Crunch. Crunch.
The abnormal status disappeared once more. Suhyeon and Hyeon-a each ate a chocolate bar as well.
They boosted their bodies with sugar that way and advanced toward the construction site.
-Wait, is this really how you’re supposed to do it?
-Zombies turned into regular mobs lolol
-Why are the NPCs so good at fighting lolol
-Did the NPCs learn from watching Almond?
-Balloon Gum’s team was total trolls lol
This was supposed to be a game where you avoid zombies, yet they were breaking through in a straight line far too easily.
With a dozen or so zombies dying per chocolate bar.
From the zombies’ perspective, it was a losing proposition.
More than anything, Hyeon-a and Suhyeon were now fighting quite well in front of the zombies without hesitation.
They’d become a fairly reliable force.
Almond didn’t fully understand the reason, but this was one of the functions of the ‘Camaraderie’ buff.
As they watched and learned from each other’s abilities, combat power increased with rising trust.
“There it is.”
Finally, they arrived at the construction site.

* * *
Inside the construction site.
Tattered cloth and exposed rebar on the ground greeted us.
There weren’t many zombies here.
“Grrraahhh….”
“Grrraahhh….”
Most of those that remained were floundering, unable to crawl up from the sunken floor.
Most of them had rebar piercing through their bodies.
The uneven terrain common to construction sites had become an insurmountable obstacle for the zombies.
“Oh. Check this out.”
Suhyeon held up an ore hammer for me to see.
“There’s still one left.”
We’d already secured one ore hammer, and we had a golf club too.
Acquiring another ore hammer here was certainly good news.
But that’s not what I needed.
“What can we use to make arrowheads?”
“Ah. That.”
Suhyeon rummaged through various parts of the construction site and lifted up what looked like a hook.
“If we carefully cut and sharpen this hook, it’ll make a good arrowhead.”
“Hands up.”
That’s when it happened.
A voice cut through the air.
I turned around to see students in school uniforms.
And not just one or two.
“ㄷㄷㄷ There are kids at the construction site???”
-Seriously;
What the hell?
How many people are there exactly lol
Haha, that’s messed up.
-ly ㄱ
From beneath the waterproof cloth of the construction site, and even from the exposed second-floor slab above.
Children began emerging one by one from all directions.
“I said hands up.”
The thug at the front snarled. He appeared to be their leader.
In his hand was a spear that looked fairly well-made, apparently crafted here at the site.
The tip of that spear was pointed directly at me.
Then he asked.
“Juhyeok Kim?”
The thug seemed to know me.
Meanwhile, I tilted my head in confusion.
“Who are you?”
Shameless lol
“He’s the class president, this bastard lolol”
What memory lol
Isn’t that usually not the kind of question he asks? lol
“You barge in here and who do you think you are? lol”
“What, what?”
The student’s face flushed crimson.
“I’m the Class Representative!”
“Ah….”
A response devoid of any tension.
The Class Representative found it infuriating and absurd, but he pressed forward with his question regardless.
“You… why did you come here? Are you after weapons?”
“Yeah.”
-Yeah give me the weapons
-Yeah. Kid. “Hand them over”
hahahahaha
At Almond’s manner of speaking, the Class Representative adjusted his glasses and asked again.
“Do you think I’ll give them to you?”
“I think you will.”
lol that’s hilarious
-He’s making a deal. A deal!
-???: I think you will? (physically)
“What?!”
“There are many. Just give me one.”
The Class Representative let out a sigh.
Unable to bear it any longer, the apparent second-in-command shouted out.
“Hey! Did you come here to mess around?!”
Almond surveyed the faces of these thugs.
They were shouting menacingly, but they didn’t seem like the type to actually kill someone.
All of them had kind expressions. More than anything, their nervousness was painfully obvious.
“Shoot and kill him?! Don’t you understand the situation?!”
Shoot?
Shoot what?
Almond’s gaze shifted.
The weapon the second-in-command was holding was a hammer.
There was no way he meant to shoot and kill with that.
Almond’s gaze moved again.
Where the second-in-command had glanced at without thinking.
Toward the corner of the second floor of the construction site.
“…!”
Someone was drawing a bow.
He was aiming at Almond.
Almond pointed at him with his hand.
“Give us that.”
Hahaha, I’m dying laughing.
Even if they’re NPCs, that’s too much lolol
-They’re people too!
“Th-this bastard is joking──”
“We’ll give you food.”
“!?”
The children who had been in an attacking stance froze.
That’s right.
The reason they were so on edge was obvious. Food.
Securing food in this place must have been incredibly difficult.
The Class Representative swallowed hard.
“…You expect us to believe that? I don’t see anything right now.”
“Don’t you see it over there?”
Where Almond’s finger pointed.
Hyeon-a stood there trembling.
Suddenly food shortage lol
Oh no, Hyuna’s head hurts ㅠㅠ
-Haha~ the official school Bread Shuttle
Hyeon-a’s existence.
That alone was enough to convince the children.
“The store clerk is on my side anyway. Where else would I have met her.”
The Class Representative pondered for a moment at those words.
Then he lowered his weapon.
“…How much will you give us.”
“I’ll share everything in the school store.”
At this, both Hyeon-a and Suhyeon had to tense their faces.
It was an absurd lie.
-???
-In the school store?
Are you leaving it to the barbarians to handle the barbarians?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Oh Hodu’s gambit works
That’s crazy/insane
Who was currently in the school store was obvious.
Baek Jun-su’s gang.
If I sent these kids to the school store, they would run into Baek Jun-su’s gang.
This is it, Jay.
“Fine. I get that you have food.”
But the Class Representative wasn’t going to be so easily satisfied.
“…So what?”
He smirked, his eyes shifting. The light in them changed.
“We saw you guys coming down from the second floor, you know?”
Almond’s eyes changed too.
“Unnecessarily sharp.”
-“Ugh─ This is getting annoying.”
-You guys are gonna die~~~~ like this~~~~
-???: That’s why I hate kids who are too perceptive?
-Almond’s getting tired of rolling Hodu around lol
-(Roughly “Should we kill him? Hyung?” meme)

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