Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 325

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 45
16. The Hunt (2)
There exists such a thing as a “named viewer.”
Not a streamer, but a viewer with a name?
…One might ask that, but this industry runs on viewer sponsorships, doesn’t it?
Given the industry’s circumstances, viewers called “big spenders” naturally become known by name.
For example, there’s “Shy Yeopo.”
He’s also a named viewer in his own right, primarily spending large sums for missions.
However, compared to the truly big spenders, not only is his amount smaller, but since he attaches mission conditions, his ranking isn’t particularly high.
That’s right. Even big spenders have rankings.
Though Trivia’s official stance is that sponsorship records can never be disclosed, there are private websites that separately collect such data and create rankings.
Among them, there’s a ranking chart that holds considerable credibility among people.
Just making it into the top 100 on that ranking chart makes one an enormous big spender.
Shy Yeopo ranks around 200th.
Then, “Big Son” appears.
[Big Son has sponsored 1,000,000 won!]
[Heard the rumors and came by. I’m blown away. Amazing!]
With a name that already means “big spender,” he was truly an industry big spender in every sense.
Juhyeok, the manager observing the situation, searches for his account and is startled.
“…Insane.”
He’s a figure who ranks within the top 50 on the sponsorship rankings.
“How many hundreds of millions does he sponsor in a month?”
Sponsorship amounts so enormous that his identity becomes a mystery.
“And this is even his fallen ranking.”
His current ranking was embarrassingly low for Big Son. When he was actively sponsoring, he’d reached the top 20.
His favorite streamer was a sports game player who came from a soccer background.
When that streamer’s broadcast collapsed due to scandal involving a woman, his sponsorships stopped.
It seemed Big Son himself had taken quite a psychological hit.
“He likes soccer.”
Juhyeok muttered the fact he’d discovered while frantically researching Big Son’s history. It was his habit that emerged when he needed to quickly commit information to memory.
“So that’s why Big Son.”
His account name was taken from the legendary soccer player Son.
Rumors even circulated that he’d operated a soccer club.
“If he’s a club owner, the scale would be completely different….”
Though merely rumor, looking at the amounts he spent, it wouldn’t be strange even if he were a club owner.
The only question was why he’d become interested in the virtual world when he had real sports….
That reason was unknowable.
Certainly, sports-related games were highly regarded when capsule games first emerged. The merit of being able to continue enjoying sports with minimal physical exertion stood out greatly.
However, that was only when virtual graphics and gameplay quality weren’t particularly high.
Once the quality of fantasy games like Reel improved, the popularity quickly faded.
I could fly through the sky with my bare body, teleport instantly, and engage in spectacular combat.
Who would play soccer?
In the midst of all this, when that streamer got caught up in a scandal involving a woman, his popularity plummeted.
“That streamer’s donations dried up after the incident broke.”
After that streamer became embroiled in scandal, Big Son went silent as well.
He occasionally donated to other streamers, but it was almost nothing compared to before.
And that’s when he happened to visit Almond’s broadcast.
“This is completely good news.”
Almond was also a streamer with a background not unrelated to sports.
If he played his cards right, he could settle in here.
Of course, being swayed by a major donor wasn’t ideal.
However, losing them wasn’t good either.
Juhyeok was cold-blooded when it came to money calculations.
‘I need to secure the big spender.’
I had to secure the big spender.
I didn’t know exactly how to do it, but I had to find a way.
While I was thinking such thoughts, I heard something welcome.
[Reacting now.]
Sanghyeon had declared he would react.
“Oh!?”
I felt a thrilling sensation as if telepathy had worked.
But it didn’t take long for that feeling to turn into heartburn.
“Debauchery??! lol”
Damn, acting like a dog, so reckless lol
Haters are going to perish like dogs lol
We’re the ones going down in flames lolololol
Ah… hahahaha
Now that I thought about it, Sanghyeon’s high-value donation reaction was reckless.
“This crazy bastard.”
Sang-hyun Yu clearly had no idea who the big spender was.

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“Going for the reaction.”
After spitting out those words, Almond immediately broke into a sprint.
-But didn’t he use up all his arrows?
-How crazy is he gonna get this time lol
-He’s actually doing this lmaooo
-Why does he look so excited lol
-Almond can’t be stopped >_<
Right now, he'd just finished dealing with Baek Jun-su's gang of three.
Soon, Baek Jun-su's gang would emerge from the infirmary.
So he had to escape.
But without hesitation, he ran toward the enemies.
More precisely, toward the fallen ones.
"Big Son!"
Almond pulled out a single arrow lodged in one of the fallen thugs.
Screeeech.
He aimed ahead.
The arrow caught not at the center of the bowstring, but at an extreme corner.
A curve shot. An extremely sharp one at that.
"Sponsoring…!"
Whoooosh!
As Almond released the bowstring, the arrow flew forward with momentum, slowly rotating until it eventually made a 180-degree turn and came back.
However, it wasn't heading back to where Almond stood. It was coming toward a spot several paces to his right.
Almond ran toward the incoming arrow and thrust his head forward as if greeting it, shouting.
"Thank you so much!"
-???Wait, if you do that here doesn't it reset lol
-And if you die it resets from the beginning lol
-lol….
Only then did the chat become visible.
Almond's eyes went wide.
'That's right. There's no save point?'
Crack!
His broadcast screen went pitch black.
[Almond's stream has ended.]
And so, with his death(?), the broadcast simply came to an end.
-lololololol
-Almond got destroyed lol
-I don't think he knows he has to start from the beginning???lol
The broadcast had clearly ended.
Yet a fanfare sounded out belatedly.
Boom-ba-bam!
[Big Son has donated 100,000 won!]
[Why did the broadcast end…?]
-lol so funny, supporting a streamer after they went off air lol, what a sucker.
The big spender is flustered lol
You're a step too late lol
-Ah… We apologize instead of Almond….
Our kid is a bit quirky, haha ^^

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"…Oh."
Whoosh.
The first words Sanghyeon uttered as the capsule opened.
"Thank goodness."
Sanghyeon checked something and let out a deep sigh of relief.
It was the capsule's power status.
The capsule had all its functions powered down except for the basic operations—maintaining biological rhythms and the open-close mechanism.
After seeing the chat saying everything resets when you die, I'd hit the capsule's emergency power button just before the arrow reached me.
"That was close."
Since the power had gone out rather than dying in the game, fortunately it wouldn't be processed as a death.
"That's impressive. Really impressive."
Clap clap clap.
I'd been so busy frantically checking the power that I hadn't noticed Juhyeok approaching and watching.
Sanghyeon scratches his head and laughs.
"What's so impressive about that…."
"Huh?"
Juhyeok tilts his head as if to say it really is quite impressive.
"…What's wrong?"
Sanghyeon tilts his head in confusion too.
"Hey. What do you do when you end the broadcast with that big donor watching?!"
"Big donor? Oh, Big Son? Why? I gave him a reaction."
"…."
A large donation had come in after a while, and the timing worked out perfectly, so I gave him a reaction.
From my perspective, I'd given him special treatment.
I genuinely thought that if I did any more, it might be unfair, bordering on dangerous.
"He was just starting to enjoy it and you shut down the broadcast—is that a reaction…."
"It's my channel's signature reaction."
"Well, that's true…."
Sanghyeon shrugs his shoulders. What can I do if that's the tradition of my channel? Faced with his nonchalant attitude as if he'd simply done what was decided, even a logic machine like Juhyeok Kim becomes helpless.
"Let's hope he found some charm in it."
Juhyeok wasn't the type to dwell on what had already passed.
That much, at least, he shared with Sanghyeon.
It was perhaps the greatest reason why these two, seemingly opposite in nature, managed to get along so well.
He had no tendency to regret or ruminate over what had already happened. He simply thought about how to respond next.
"I have an important shoot tomorrow. I'm going to bed early."
"Got it."
Since the broadcast had started late, by the time it ended, it was quite late at night.
Sanghyeon had already gone to sleep.
Juhyeok stayed behind to observe the reactions after the game ended.

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In the community garden, and in Zom's garden.
In this community dedicated solely to Zombie School, the talk was naturally dominated by Almond.
-Baek Jun-su would've just been caught for real.
Aren't you already awake though? lol
But it got reset lol
The fact that Almond had nearly cleared the game was the reaction during Almond's broadcast earlier.
This wasn't strange at all.
Catching Baek Jun-su didn't seem difficult anymore, and since he'd defeated a zombie that was practically a boss monster, zombies were no match for him either.
Clearing was inevitable.
But then….
Breaking news! Almond died and we're starting from scratch lol
A post like this appeared.
It was naturally a matter of seconds before this post rose to the top of the issue list.
Almond died?
It was an impossible story.
There was nothing left in that game that could kill Almond.
Except for Almond himself.
-I wondered why he died even though he caught the boss, but….
The only one who can kill Almond is herself… lololol
Those who had come in thinking it was impossible had no choice but to understand the moment they saw the first scene.
He had killed himself.
-No you crazy nut bastard save the convenience store noona!!!
-Hul so the Hyeon-a we knew doesn't exist?! She doesn't exist?!
Oh no, I pushed Suhyun and the almond milk over ㅠㅠ
└????
└…?
-???:I'll bet a million won and burn all of Zombie School. How about you?
Some viewers were simply angry that all the friendship(?) they'd built up was thrown away because of the reaction.
On the other hand, there were those who argued that it was no big deal and that this was just how the game was supposed to be.
-But if Almond plays again, he'd do so much better lol
└For real lol
-What's wrong with playing again lol? That's just everyday life for 'those people'?
Gum hyung already exceeded 30 tons on the first day… what's the big deal about this ㅠㅠㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Other streamers had already repeated this game dozens of times.
There were even those who felt dissatisfied that Almond playing just once was becoming an issue.
-The world is so damn unfair lol
└For real lol
-Gum hyung needs 30 retries to get an issue post lol but Almond gets one and it goes viral. Look at that efficiency.
-It's no different from sending issue posts every time he gets a kill on Reel lol
└Can Gum hyung even do that?
└For real lol
Then, someone posted a comment like this.
[Almond actually didn't reset. Analysis of the reason]
Not only did one reset occupy all the issue posts, but the reset itself wasn't even real.
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When you slow down the scene of Almond getting hit by an arrow, the screen goes black before impact.
Almond always pressed the power button himself when doing this broadcast termination reaction.
He always kept a virtual power button in one corner of his vision.
Except for the incident where the broadcast accidentally went off at first, it seems he did it this way every time.
In other words, Juhyeok Kim didn't die—the game just ended.
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-Bullshit
-Looks like he just died lol
-Nah.
-Almond does end his broadcast with the power button. But he died before that anyway. He never faked getting hit.
└This is right
└Yeah he dies and then it shuts off.
-Almond seems like he didn't know about the reset lol
└If it were Almond, he'd have read the chat at the last moment and survived through pure skill lol
└Nut class delusion lol
└Yeah~ it's a reset~
It was a fairly plausible analysis, but most people didn't believe it.
Because Almond had actually killed his character when doing reactions until now.
He had never once gotten away without actually dying.
His arrows never missed—not even against himself.
So most viewers assumed his Zombie School data had reset, and were already discussing how powerfully he'd play in the second attempt.
The next day came.

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