Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 323

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 43
15. Family (2)
Inside the car heading back.
Juhyeok spoke first.
“How was the checkup today?”
Their eyes met in the rearview mirror inside the car.
Almond hesitated on whether he should mention it.
It was certainly good news, but nothing had been decided yet.
It could turn into premature excitement.
But not saying anything would be strange too.
If I didn’t tell Juhyeok and Jia, who would I tell?
I decided to just tell them everything as it was.
Exactly as I heard it.
“…Oh!”
Juhyeok, gripping the steering wheel, was surprised.
“That’s pretty good, right? Really?”
Juhyeok’s expression was brighter than anyone’s.
Of course, he knew.
Every time Sanghyeon went to the hospital, all he heard was to reduce gaming time, that his condition was getting worse, and things like that.
But now, for the first time, good news had come.
“So if things go well, I could keep gaming without any problems, right?”
“That’s right.”
“And if the doctor said it’s okay to have hope….”
Juhyeok had the words “my arm could heal” rise to his throat, but he stopped.
“…that means the odds are that good!”
Finishing his words this way, Jia in the passenger seat added on.
“That’s completely awesome! Seriously!”
“Yeah. That’s right. It’s good news.”
Sanghyeon nods with a smile.
“Wow! That Juhyeok! Something made by a CEO you know must really be the real deal!”
Jia understood this to be thanks to the capsule, but in truth, that was only half right.
‘She said she didn’t know the exact reason.’
Hana Song was very cautious about explaining the reason.
She said she would only tell me after the request she sent to an organization in America was completed.
“But….”
Juhyeok changed the subject.
“Was that person who came in the Rolls-Royce earlier the father of the person who had the checkup with me?”
“Yeah. That’s right.”
“Wow….”
Juhyeok made eye contact with Jia in the passenger seat.
It seems like there’s something the two of them both know about.
“Why?”
When Sanghyeon tilted his head in confusion, Juhyeok tilted his head as well.
“You don’t know who that person is?”
“Isn’t he Sarang’s father?”
“….”
Sanghyeon’s bewildered gaze and Juhyeok’s equally bewildered gaze met in the rearview mirror.
“He looks exactly like the chairman of Choi Kang Planning.”
Jia nodded along from the side.
“That does seem to be the case.”
Choi Kang Planning was a subsidiary of Aseong.
Having worked at Aseong and memorized all the high-ranking executives, Juhyeok generally knew the upper management of Choi Kang Planning as well.
Moreover, someone of the caliber of the Choi Kang Planning chairman was often recognized by ordinary people.
So it was all the more strange that Sanghyeon didn’t know.
“There’s probably no one in the world who lives as comfortably as that guy. Not even knowing the face of a subsidiary chairman.”
Juhyeok chuckled at Sanghyeon’s reaction, and Sanghyeon blinked.
“It’s natural not to know.”
“But Jia knows.”
“…That’s true.”
Sanghyeon scratched his head before answering.
“Well, now I know, so that’s fine.”
“!”
Following Sanghyeon’s shocking conclusion, Jia spoke up.
“That woman’s face looks so familiar to me.”
“…?”
“I feel like I’ve seen her somewhere before.”
In that instant, both Juhyeok and Sanghyeon fell silent.
For one thing, Jia had been a fan of Jeon-ja-pa in the past.
And Sanghyeon hadn’t told Jia, nor even Juhyeok, that Choi Sa-rang was Jeon-ja-pa.
He’d said it was a secret.
Of course, Juhyeok had already sensed that Choi Sa-rang might be Jeon-ja-pa.
‘This can’t happen….’
He hadn’t hoped for Jia to figure it out too.
‘That woman is somewhat dangerous.’
Jeon-ja-pa desperately wanted to hide her identity. There had been times when she’d taken down a famous YouTuber’s video in an instant just because there was a possibility of being exposed.
‘It wasn’t simply because she had money.’
Even problems that money couldn’t solve didn’t seem to be problems for her.
Only now did Juhyeok realize when he’d felt this sensation before.
‘…The Aseong chaebol family.’
The owning family of Aseong.
It was the “wall” I felt while watching how they handled their affairs.
People from a different world.
No, people from a higher world.
‘So the reason I could hide my identity all this time was because of Father.’
Juhyeok had already deduced things he should never have known.
But truthfully, it was still just speculation. Sanghyeon had never spoken a word of it aloud.
If Jia were to find out about it too, things would only become more complicated.
Juhyeok brushed off Jia’s questions with a plausible explanation.
“Well, she’s from a prestigious family, so she’d have seen it in the news or somewhere. She could even be a celebrity and it wouldn’t be strange.”
Jia nodded while still looking skeptical.
“That’s weird too. She’s so pretty and has such a rare style, and she’s from a chaebol family. She should be a complete celebrity. But nobody knows about her.”
“Her legs aren’t in good condition. She’d want to hide it.”
“…Yeah.”
Jia nodded while glancing at Sanghyeon at those words.
Sanghyeon had also desperately tried to hide the fact that his arm was injured.
That woman probably felt the same way.
Thinking that way, I erased everything about that woman from my mind.
“Right. She’d want to hide it.”

* * *
After parking the car.
The three of us talked about the 500,000 subscriber event the entire way up the stairs.
It had been decided to be a fan meeting, but we were worried about how to proceed with it.
By then, we had already arrived at the house.
“We’ll discuss the rest in the group chat.”
Jia said that and went into her house.
The fact that her gaze lingered on Juhyeok a bit longer was probably only felt by Sanghyeon among the three.
Juhyeok stared at her front door for a while before turning around and asking.
“What about an archery café?”
It seemed the time he spent saying goodbye to Jia was exactly 0.1 seconds in his mind, as he started talking right away.
But since there was actually quite a long pause, Sanghyeon didn’t understand.
“Huh?”
“The fan meeting venue, I mean.”
“Oh….”
A fan meeting at an archery café.
That sounds fun.
I could even experience the feeling of being at an archery range again. In the past, I would have avoided anything resembling archery.
But that wasn’t the case anymore.
Perhaps a fan meeting at an archery café also held symbolic meaning—the announcement of a new beginning.
“I should ask Dongsu about it.”
“Dongsu? Ah! Wasn’t there someone running an archery café?”
I had a friend named Dongsu who operated an archery café.
We were both from the same archery club. He had quit competitive archery early to pursue business, and apparently opened the archery café on a whim, reminiscing about the old days.

* * *
I arrived home at 2 PM.
My usual broadcast start time of 3 PM was just around the corner.
But that was only my recent standard start time. In reality, my broadcast schedule wasn’t fixed at all.
I’d been to the hospital today and had various preparations to make, so I was exhausted. I decided to just start the broadcast a bit later.
‘Maybe around 6 PM.’
I thought casually.
But the number of comments flooding the Tribi bulletin board kept increasing.
What’s more, this notice wasn’t even posted today—it was one I’d put up ages ago during a hiatus.
-Hey CEO! If you don’t open the door, I’m not voting in the awards ceremony?
└Fact) Already did.
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
Gritting my teeth and pretending I didn’t do it lol
(Fact) Almond doesn’t even care because they’re not giving money lol
Lol, I totally knew this would happen
What excuse will you come up with today? Haha, I’m so excited!
└Almond doesn’t make excuses though. Is this an influx?
Almond, you just have to wait, haha.
Why would you expect an excuse from a guy who goes crazy over a 100,000 won reaction lol
Some viewers were blackmailing me over my rookie award nomination, while others had made it their purpose to see what reason Almond would come up with for being late.
Tell me whenever you’re coming, nuts ㅠㅠ
-I took a half day off to watch Zombie School today. Legendary….
-Oppa, I even coordinated my whole outfit to watch your broadcast today….
└Why would you need to coordinate for watching a broadcast….
└???
└Where’d you take off that (thing)?
lol I just ditched it
Haha, just to watch Almond’s broadcast, they went that far…
What does watching broadcasts have to do with removing that lol
Why are you so sure that it was definitely taken off?ㅋㅋㅋ
Even viewers who seemed to have made major life decisions.
They all waited for my broadcast for various reasons. It was probably because my average viewership was approaching 20,000 now.
The number of hardcore fans had grown to around 1,000 to 2,000.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t paying attention to the current situation.
I was busy listening to information about tomorrow’s photo shoot.
And then I heard information that made my mind go blank.
[Almond: Was it a swimming pool party photoshoot?]
[Balloon Gum: Yeah. That’s what they said.]
A swimming pool party pictorial shoot, apparently.
[Almond: Ah….]
Though they’re shooting it in DisWorld, using DisWorld’s basic functions means it’s essentially no different from my actual body.
Since it implements the body exactly as it was captured through 3D scanning while completely naked.
Especially the latest version of DisWorld boasts incredible synchronization rates thanks to improved technology.
Strawberry Shooter: Wow~ hahaha~ I can see almond’s abs ㅎㅎㅋㅋ
[Strawberry Shooter: Almond chocolate~~]
In other words, my entire body is completely visible.
At least Reel was better off since it didn’t use photorealistic graphics.
[Miho: Was it a swimming pool party concept? That sounds fun lol]
[Miho: Good thing I’m on a diet!]
Miho seemed accustomed to this kind of shoot, showing no particular concern. If anything, she sounded quite confident, mentioning she was on a diet.
[Balloon Gum: But wait, am I the ball?]
[Strawberry Shooter: No! Gum oppa, you’d be perfect as the net!]
Balloon Gum: Hey, are you crazy?! I’m not a beach volleyball, damn it!
Miho: I’m going crazy lololololol
[Almond: hahahahahahahaha]
It was the first time I’d seen Balloon Gum react so intensely, so I burst out laughing too.
Miho: Gum oppa is probably going to play beach volleyball lol iron ball lol
[Takoyaki: Ah…but… Strawberry, you’re not wearing like a muscle bikini or something, right?]
[Almond: …shiver]
[Miho: …?]
This photoshoot was shaping up to be confusing in every way.

* * *
Around 6 PM.
Almond’s broadcast went live.
About three hours later than usual.
-Clickety-clack-clickety-clack-clickety-clack
-Three years late!
-Wow haha
-Found your original spirit! Almond!
-Nice!
Some viewers called it being late, but technically his broadcast had no set schedule, so it wasn’t actually late.
“Heyy~!”
So Almond greeted everyone warmly.
Then quickly launched the game.
“We don’t have much time, so let’s jump right in.”
-Who’s the reason we don’t have time?
-Why don’t we have time?! Huh? Huh?? Something’s off!?
-Okay gg
Some rather sharp comments popped up in the chat.
But Almond focused on progressing through the broadcast.
‘I should give a recap.’
For story games like this, briefly summarizing the previous events was absolutely crucial. At least Balloon Gum always did it that way.
Almond had now become skilled at summarizing the previous session’s progress.
“Yesterday, Baek Jun-su got eliminated.”
-‘Got eliminated’ lolololol
-Mom! My memory’s back!
-OK memory load complete
During the last playthrough, I had shot Baek Jun-su for the first time.
And today.
“Now it’s time to eliminate them all.”
By combining forces with the Class Representatives, we reclaim the school store.
That’s today’s objective.
-Eliminate them all lololol
-Eliminate-all lololololololol
-This is true elimination…
-Arrest them all!
-Baek Jun-su’s gang of thugs lol getting eliminated like dogs lololol

* * *
The game had begun.
The familiar construction site backdrop welcomed us.
And the shocked faces of the class representatives as well.
“We’re supposed to make twelve arrows here? All of us?”
“What are you talking about? Juhyeok Kim. They’re saying there are 12 of them?”
From their perspective, Almond had just told them to prepare twelve arrows.
“Ah. We haven’t actually decided to go yet. We’re still in negotiations.”
We had agreed to go after the class representatives and Baek Jun-su, but the method of how we’d do it was still being discussed.
-Oh right
How can we even negotiate when you’re talking nonsense like that lol
12 people dealt with 12 bullets lol
However, the method Almond proposed was absurd to the class representative’s ears.
He was asking them to prepare twelve arrows when the enemy numbered twelve.
Moreover, he wanted all the children who should be organized as the assault team to remain as construction site protection personnel instead.
He was suggesting they go up against twelve enemies with only four people, including himself, as the assault team.
It was a ridiculous proposal.
“Juhyeok. You don’t know how to count, do you? There are twelve enemies.”
The class representative spoke again, trying to convince him.
But Almond responded as if he found it absurd.
“That’s exactly why we need twelve arrows.”
He even turned the microphone channel over to the viewers and said:
“Why can’t they understand? Did something glitch?”
…and proceeded to check the game settings back and forth.
That’s absolutely insane lol
-Now I understand why he came from Sanghyeon. Sir.
I can’t translate this as it appears to be random characters and keyboard mashing rather than coherent Korean text.
Why are you looking at the settings window lol
-He’s like a car-illiterate reviewer opening the engine room, sir.

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