Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 326

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 46
17. Swimming Pool Party (1)
Today was a filming day.
I had to move about busily from morning onwards.
Sanghyeon woke with his hair tousled, grabbed a simple breakfast, and checked his messages while munching on some almonds.
I chewed on a handful of almonds while reviewing the messages.
[Triby Employee: Today’s filming will be used for award ceremony promotional videos.]
[Triby Employee: Any photoshoot with good reactions during filming will be produced as actual photobook merchandise and sold. This requires a separate contract, so we’ll discuss the profit-sharing ratio at that time.]
[Triby Employee: The director will decide which shots become merchandise. Even if your shots don’t make it, please don’t be too disappointed haha]
Apparently, any footage from today’s shoot that gets a good response will be turned into merchandise and sold.
“Oh….”
It might not be a big deal, but my competitive spirit was ignited.
My signature drive to win had awakened.
“I need to give it my all.”
Crunch.
I muttered while chewing on the almonds.
‘But how do I even do this?’
My desire to rank first was burning intensely.
But despite the desire, I honestly had no idea how to make it happen.
‘Miho’s a professional, so she’ll guide me well.’
I simply resolved to work hard, trusting that Miho, who did modeling professionally, would show me the way.

* * *
As I entered the capsule, a message from DisWorld arrived.
[DisWorld Invitation Message]
[Link]
Instead of entering a password, these days they send a separate link to invite people, apparently.
It’s because overzealous fans sometimes sneak in to spy on things….
[Access]
As I brought my hand to the link, the entire surrounding environment glowed with a cyan hue.
[Analyzing body code….]
[Analysis complete]
[Registered code]
These messages appeared.
After that, the blue world glowed white.
Uuuuuung…!
The light grew increasingly intense, consuming the entire world. A blindingly bright light that made pitch-black darkness seem preferable.
The light gradually gathered into a single point.
It became a round sun, hanging in the upper right like a painting.
Yes. Warm sunlight.
Whoooooosh…!
Followed by the sound of blue waves.
Whoooosh!
Waves.
White waves crashing across an impossibly vivid blue sea that stretched across the vast beach.
“Wow….”
I found myself dropping my jaw without thinking.
Of all the DisWorld spaces I’d seen so far, this was the most impressive.
I stepped onto the platinum-gleaming sandy beach.
“…Huh?”
Somehow, beach slippers had appeared on my feet.
My clothes had become a vibrant aloha shirt.
And my pants were, naturally, swim trunks.
“Wow! You’re here!”
A delighted voice called out from somewhere.
But I couldn’t tell where it was coming from.
“Over here! Over here!”
I looked up to the sky, and a fairy was fluttering about, continuously photographing me with a camera in her hands.
“….”
“Ah. This is your first time seeing this, right? This is a really expensive item. It’s called the Fairy Cam!”
From the explanation, it’s an item you buy with cash that allows the cameraman to move freely in three dimensions while filming.
There really is everything under the sun.
“Follow me. The Balloon Stars filming location is somewhere else!”
I’d heard that voice somewhere before. Thinking about it, I followed along.
As I went to where she led me, I gradually saw more and more people.
They appeared to be filming staff.
Among them were many people who had transformed into fairies as small as the guide fairy herself.
“Oh. Almond! You’ve arrived!”
A few fairies flew over. Were they already filming?
“Ah. This is behind-the-scenes footage. Just proceed naturally and casually as usual—we’ll handle the filming!”
Behind-the-scenes footage. I’d seen it a few times before.
It was content where they filmed how the filming was being done. It wasn’t particularly popular, just fan service really.
‘Still, with fairies flying around, it’s not bothersome.’
If people had followed me around with massive cannons for cameras, it would have been incredibly burdensome.
But with fairies the size of sparrows fluttering about and filming on their own, I barely noticed and could move around naturally.
“Wow…!”
Someone sitting under a beach parasol in the distance suddenly jumped up and screamed.
“Wow! Wow! Almond-nim!”
“…?”
I didn’t know who she was.
‘Is she part of the filming crew?’
I just thought she was someone on the crew with an unusual manner of speaking.
But hearing her next words, I immediately figured out who she was.
“Unnie! Bring me some rice! I can eat just looking at that face!”
“…Ah. Lemon.”
She was Lemon, the Supporter who traveled with Hong-cha.
Whenever the Necromancer Kuipan was picked, her personality would become strange. But… actually, she seemed like an odd person to begin with.
Thwack!
A red-haired figure burst out from the side and kicked Lemon far away.
“Ah… Hello! I’m sorry. She’s a good kid. Just a bit odd. Hahahaha!”
She was Hong-cha.
A Challenger ADC and an uncommon female Challenger, she was a streamer drawing considerable popularity.
Above all, she was popular because of her refreshingly straightforward personality.
Her romantic relationship with Greentea was also quite famous.
“Hong-cha. You can’t move that vigorously in a bikini.”
Greentea appeared from the side sipping a bright blue lemonade. Upon seeing me, he bowed politely.
“Hello. This is the first time seeing you since the after-party last time. The blonde hair suits you well.”
“Blonde hair?”
“Ah. You didn’t know? Right now you’re doing a swimming pool party Ran cosplay or something like that.”
“…Ah.”
I hadn’t seen a mirror, so I didn’t know my hair color had changed.
‘So it wasn’t because of the sunlight.’
Now I finally understood why the strands of hair occasionally visible in my field of vision always seemed so brilliantly bright.
“Anyway, Hong-cha should go as Poison Dart Bunny, not Sniper from the pool party….”
Apparently the Sniper’s swimsuit was more revealing than Poison Dart Bunny’s.
A bright red bikini that suited her perfectly.
It seemed the red was simply more eye-catching.
“Ah, you’re being such a stick-in-the-mud again.”
“It’s not being a stick-in-the-mud….”
“Aaahhh! Ahh! Aaaahhh! I don’t care! This looks good! How am I supposed to walk around in this crazy swimsuit with a tube?!”
Greentea finally closed her mouth after Hong-cha’s assault on her eardrums.
“Even though our sister seems like that, she’s actually a good person.”
Lemon, who had returned, suddenly appeared from behind me and spoke.
It seemed to be a response to what she’d said earlier about the child being strange despite being good.
“What?!”
Hong-cha spun around. Her flowing red hair stood up just like in a cartoon. Faced with that terrifying sight, Lemon hid behind me again.
Looking again, Lemon wasn’t wearing a bikini style, but rather a neat one-piece swimsuit.
“Uh. Almond Oppa!”
“!”
My spine suddenly went cold.
‘Ah.’
It was Strawberry Shooter.
‘So Poison Dart Bunny mentioned tubes on the kids’ swimsuits….’
It would be better than a bikini, but something even more dreadful seemed to be waiting.
I lowered my head as much as possible, trying to avoid eye contact.
Whoosh!
Strawberry Shooter suddenly blocked my path.
“Almond Oppa. What’s wrong?”
I slowly lifted my head with a stiff expression.
“!”
Strawberry Shooter wasn’t cosplaying as Poison Dart Bunny, but as a Ppokjujok.
“Wow. It suits you well.”
Holding a massive water gun shotgun, sporting a beard and showing off a tanned, muscular upper body magnificently.
The epitome of machismo.
“Haha. Really? Actually, I wanted to do my main character, a Succubus. But the filming crew stopped me. These boys trapped by such prejudices.”
“…When did Succubus become your main character?”
At those words, Strawberry Shooter thrust her face forward and asked back.
“Is that… something you’re curious about?”
“Ah, no.”
Gulp.
I swallowed hard without realizing it.
Following that, Takoyaki and Balloon Gum also appeared. As expected, they were Hammer Warrior and Iron Ball.
And wasn’t it said that the protagonist makes their entrance last?
“Wooooow.”
“Wow, this is insane.”
“Seriously. Unnie.”
A presence arrived that drew admiration from everyone, regardless of gender.
Even from this distance, the beautiful silhouette was unmistakable.
Her refined gait was enough to steal everyone’s attention in an instant.
Combined with Aqua’s flowing ocean-blue hair, bikini, and refreshing smile.
“Wow! Everyone’s here!?”
Miho came running over while waving her hand.
“Ahem.”
“Uh, uh-ahem….”
Balloon Gum, Takoyaki, and even Almond cleared their throats and turned their heads away.
“What? Why is everyone ignoring me!? Was I really that late?”
“Oh, no. Your timing’s perfect.”
In the distance, Greentea was being put in a headlock by Hong-cha, but Miho seemed oblivious to the reason.
“Balloon Stars, please come this way!”
The fairies (?) in charge of filming Balloon Stars gathered around and began guiding them.
It was like a secret swimming pool carved into the seaside.
A natural pool created by bright gray rocks jutting out in all directions.
Between the rocks, seaweed from the sea and vegetation from the land grew together.
In the distance, other teams could be seen filming as well, making it feel exactly like they’d come out for a summer vacation.
Splash.
“Hello there.”
The Director entered the swimming pool and gave a polite bow.
With his thick beard and sunglasses, he looked rather suspicious, but somehow he had a good impression about him.
“You all look wonderful together. Especially Strawberry Shooter. You really changed your outfit well.”
Miho giggled beside him.
But none of the men laughed.
“Well. First, the filming concept is….”
The Director paused for a moment before declaring it.
“You all decide it!”
“!?”
Everyone in Balloon Stars was taken aback.
“Us, us?”
“Seriously.”
“So this is a competition from the start.”
The Director nodded and answered simply.
“Alright then. Give it a try. You have 20 minutes.”
Splash. Splash.
The members waded into the water.
“What would be fun to do?”
Balloon Gum asked first, as befitted a leader.
Takoyaki pondered seriously before speaking.
“Well, we should probably play in the water first.”
“Just splash around?”
“Since we have Miho here. Just splashing water would work fine, but….”
Various suggestions tumbled out from behind.
Strawberry Shooter proposed doing a fashion show while swimming.
Takoyaki immediately rejected it, simply worried that Strawberry Shooter would wear something hideous.
“Fashion shows look unnatural unless it’s Miho. We’re amateurs. Photos always look better when they’re natural.”
Then an unexpected voice offered a plausible idea.
“This place kind of looks like a volleyball court….”
I pointed to the area beneath where we stood in the water.
A pile of rocks happened to divide the rectangular shoreline perfectly in half, coincidentally resembling a volleyball court.
“Oh? You’re right? Playing would be fun and natural.”
“Wow! That’s it! I love volleyball!”
Miho and Balloon Gum chimed in.
Takoyaki nodded as well.
“It would look natural.”
The expressions would certainly look far more natural than a fashion show.
“But we don’t have a ball….”
The only problem was the lack of a ball.
We’d probably have to ask the director for a prop….
Everyone’s eyes turned toward Balloon Gum.
They all seemed to say, “Isn’t there a ball right here?”
Balloon Gum panicked.
“Ah, no, I’m a, I am a ball. I mean, I am a ball, but….”
Being used as a ball to be batted around like this.
Balloon Gum seemed reluctant.
“So will you do it, sir?”
At Strawberry Shooter’s words from beside him….
“Damn it! You crazy bastards!”
Pop!
In an instant, he transformed into a beach volleyball and rolled across the water.
Splash!
He kicked up water spray like a jet ski before launching into the air with a pop.
“Let’s go!”
Takoyaki shouted with excitement and leaped up, smacking Balloon Gum’s cheek mercilessly.
Thwack!
“Grraaahhh!”
“Kyaaaa!”
Miho on the opposite court received the ball and sent it back over.
Thwack!
Balloon Gum successfully cleared the net of stone piles.
“Grraaaaahhh!”
He flew toward me with a scream.
“!”
My eyes grew intensely serious.
‘Work hard and make merchandise.’
For some reason, the thought of filming diligently had transformed into the determination to win this beach volleyball match.
“P-please go easy!”
Balloon Gum shouted urgently, though I wasn’t sure if he heard me.
Meanwhile, the fairies relentlessly pressed their shutters.
Click!
Click! Click!

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