Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 329

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 49
18. Schrödinger’s Almond (2)
While Sanghyeon headed to the Capsule.
Juhyeok sat at his computer preparing for his manager role, and in between, he scrolled through the Community bulletin board.
“Wow… today’s pretty heated.”
The moment we showed a crack, the backlash became enormous.
This is why streaming is so difficult.
Because public opinion online is always shifting back and forth.
A place that was plastered with praise yesterday is now overflowing with posts like this.
It’s even the number one issue post.
[What the Nut Fans are hoping for right now]
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Actually, right before Almond died, he saw the chat and went crazy, so he turned off the stream -> Today he comes back defiantly and catches an arrow mid-air and immediately scores again on Baek Jun-su’s head -> Actually this is all a reaction, and then ends the game
He turned off the broadcast -> Today, as if to show off, he came back, caught an arrow in mid-air, and scored directly on Baek Jun-soo’s head again -> Actually, this is a reaction. while ending the game
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-Nothing makes any sense lol
└Forreal lmaooo
-The Baek Jun-su kill is straight up BS lololol
-Now that I think about it, even if he ended the stream, the arrow was right there lolol what’s with this guy?
└Just some broken Dormammu lololololol
-The arrow was literally right there lol, the Nut Fans’ brains really aren’t that good!
└Average Nut Fan IQ lol
└Nut Fan average intelligence
-Nut Fans are honestly garbage lololol, if you’re gonna stan someone, might as well stan the dead Jeon-ja-pa instead
A post sarcastically suggesting that Almond could never have survived.
More precisely, a post mocking Almond’s fans. Juhyeok adjusted his glasses and thought for a moment.
Then he took a screenshot of the post.
Of course, he wasn’t planning to sue. There’s no way a post like this could result in legal action.
Rather, he was thinking of capturing this and passing it to Jia as editing material.
Because he believed.
That Almond would survive.

* * *
“I’ll just dodge it, that’s all.”
That’s what I said coolly before entering the Capsule.
‘But can I really?’
Before turning on the broadcast.
I rewound the clip from yesterday countless times.
──Whiiiiish!
The arrow spiraling back through the air, and the scene of me lunging my head toward the incoming projectile.
‘When will it cut off?’
There was one thing I was curious about.
At what distance would the broadcast cut off as the arrow approached?
When I turned it back on, where and how would I need to dodge?
Just before the arrow embedded itself in my head, Juhyeok Kim’s eyes in the game darted back and forth before the game shut down.
Tap!
I managed to freeze the screen right before it went black.
Switching from first-person perspective, I rotated the view around in third-person to observe the screen carefully.
‘What is this?’
I stroked my chin.
My eyes gleamed with unusual intensity. It was clear I was observing something with intense focus.
But the results of that observation weren’t good.
‘There’s… nothing.’
There was no opening to dodge the arrow.
That’s why everyone in the Community had been certain of my death.
Regardless, the broadcast time was approaching.
Almond turned on the broadcast.

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-Aha!
I can’t translate this as it’s not meaningful text. “ㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱ” consists only of Korean consonants repeated without vowels, making it unintelligible in Korean or English.
-You made it on time today
Viewers flooded in the moment Almond’s broadcast went live.
Today’s numbers were quite substantial.
-0 squad wake-up time lol
-Lol just woke up and turned on my phone mindlessly in bed and boom~ Almond’s broadcast! This is the best!
-3 PM. Right when you’re just waiting for quitting time! That’s when Almond makes his entrance.
It probably had something to do with him streaming at his usual time.
-Let’s see if he’s dead or alive lol
-How do you feel about attempting it twice today?
-Should we head to the infirmary first this time?
-Let’s go watch the Nut Fans get annihilated!
-^Nuts^
It was undoubtedly the aftermath of the shorts video Jia had uploaded yesterday.
The video had accumulated considerable views, and the comments had erupted into quite the battle, so interest in today’s broadcast had skyrocketed.
“Tra!”
Almond’s face appeared on screen as he greeted brightly.
-Hi there
-Wow! Wow!
-Your eyes are dazzling today too…
-So handsome
Immediately after, the grateful viewers who always cut off their starter donations sent in their donations.
[Rubisword donated 10,000 won!]
[Hello. How have you been!]
[Gaji-bokkeun donated 2,000 won.]
[Aha! Aha!]
“Ah. Thank you, Rubisword and Gaji-bokkeun. I’ve been well. It’s only been a day though?”
As Almond laughed sheepishly, a donation containing the content everyone was curious about came in.
[Question Mark Killer donated 1,000 won!]
[Almond! Almond! So you survived yesterday, right?]
-Oh lol finally
-Direct question lol
-He’s come to settle this controversy…
The chat scrolled wildly.
It was a question everyone had been waiting for.
“Hmm.”
However, Almond did not answer.
-He doesn’t take 1,000 won questions lol
I’m laughing so hard at a thousand won
Hmm… cut ㅋㅋㅋ
Due to his broadcast circumstances, Almond often skipped responding to thousand-won donations and moved on. The viewers probably thought that’s why he wasn’t answering.
But Almond was genuinely troubled.
“Everyone. It’s not like that. I seriously don’t know how to answer, that’s why. This is a truly astronomical dilemma.”
Isn’t that philosophy, not astronomy? lol
Schrödinger’s almond lol
-Did you mean to ask for an astronomical donation amount?
“Ah. P-philosophy. Philosophy.”
That’s right.
Should I consider Juhyeok Kim, with an arrow flying right at his face, as alive? Or dead?
It was a profound question that could even connect to philosophical contemplation.
I couldn’t answer it easily.
Dum dum.
[Then you’ve donated 100,000 won!]
[Is he alive? Is he dead?]
“Thank you. Then you. He’s alive.”
Haha, I’m dying laughing.
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. The Korean characters appear to be either incomplete, misspelled, or use non-standard romanization that doesn’t form recognizable words.
-at this speed he’d survive, approved!
“Now let me start the game. A picture is worth a thousand words.”
-Right. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s also a picture….
-That too is a picture….
Hahaha, like I’m about to die right now.
-but from the way he’s talking, it doesn’t seem like the arrow hit him
-go go go go let’s go!

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While the game was loading.
For a brief moment, the gamer was plunged into complete darkness.
Almond closed his eyes and steadied his breathing.
‘There was no opening, but I can reduce the damage through injury.’
There was certainly no way to avoid being hit by the arrow.
However, there seemed to be a way to survive. If this game used the same physics engine as Kingdom.
‘Curved shots have reduced lethality.’
A curved shot that doesn’t receive force from the center of the bowstring has reduced lethality.
The more it curves, the more it decreases.
So a curved shot that bends as much as the 180-degree one I just fired would have significantly reduced lethality.
If I avoid the vital points, I won’t die.
‘That should be possible.’
If I could avoid a direct hit to the crown of my head and let it graze past my ear instead, that would be best.
Even if that doesn’t work, if I can make it miss slightly enough to avoid skull damage, that would be good.
Gradually, my vision began to brighten.
‘From now on, I should pay better attention to the chat advice too.’
Resolving not to ignore the chat’s commentary anymore, Almond opened his eyes wide.
The slowly appearing vision told me I was still in the annex corridor.
That central hallway between the infirmary and the convenience store.
-Here it comes lol
-Big one incoming!
I cannot provide a translation for this text as it does not contain meaningful Korean words or phrases – it only consists of repeated consonant clusters (ㄷㄱ) that do not form valid Korean language content.
-He really didn’t die?
-Can he dodge it?
The viewers had roughly figured it out too. That Almond hadn’t at least been hit by the arrow and quit the game.
Pop!
My vision became fully clear, and the game started.
──Whoooosh!
I heard the sound of an arrow flying.
There wasn’t even a moment to spare looking at it.
Almond twisted his neck with all his might.
Or rather, tried to twist it.
But…
‘Huh?’
He was startled by a certain familiar sensation.
A solid and heavy support.
Specifically, the sensation of my feet being planted on the ground.
‘What is this.’
Clearly, at the moment I had quit the game.
Almond was throwing his body forward to bring his head to meet the arrow.
Like a soccer player diving to perform a header.
So there had been no angle to evade it. But now his feet were planted on the ground.
‘Ah!’
Only then did Almond realize it.
‘The save point is different!’
No matter how superior the auto-save system was, it couldn’t save at 0.01-second intervals.
Moreover, this wasn’t even a normal game shutdown—it had been an abrupt forced closure.
Therefore, Almond had restarted about 1 second before the moment the game had shut down.
For example, if the game had shut down at 10:45:32, he was now restarting at 10:45:31.
With this 1-2 second difference, Juhyeok’s feet were planted on the ground, and now the arrow was much farther away than he’d anticipated.
‘If that’s the case….’
Then this was far more manageable.
Whoooosh…!
The arrow was flying toward him.
His body’s balance was already tilted toward the arrow.
But his feet were planted.
Almond extended his left foot forward once more to support his tilted body.
Thud….
His body, which had been about to tumble forward, teetered and came to a stop.
Still, the angle wasn’t enough to completely evade the arrow.
It seemed like it would graze his lips.
‘This looks like it’s going to awkwardly hit my mouth….’
Since things had come to this, Almond opened his mouth wide.
Whoooosh!
The sound of the arrow tearing through the air—
Snap!
—stopped.
As if he had bitten it clean in half.
Snap, it broke.
-???
-What?!
-Lolol
-?
-???????
The chat window was flooded with question marks.
“…I survived, right?”
That’s what he said.
And with the arrow still in his mouth.
-Insane lololol
-And
-Right?
-Should I buy this
Schrödinger’s cat-like resurrection lol
Stagger.
Unable to regain his balance, Almond lurched forward.
But somehow, I survived. Didn’t even fall.
I caught the arrow in my mouth.
“Hey, you crazy bastard! What are you doing!?”
The Class Representative from behind rushed over with a pale face.
Class president is crazy lol
From the NPC’s perspective, that’s absolutely ridiculous lol
Oh right, they were there weren’t they haha
From his perspective, our archer who was shooting well suddenly charged forward, picked up an arrow, fired a 180-degree curve shot, and caught it in his mouth.
“What kind of circus act is that!?”
“Ah… cough. My hand slipped.”
“…?”
Almond mumbled a half-hearted excuse, while the Class Representative twisted his head as if lagging.
Pababam!
[Big Son has donated 1 million won!]
[Wow. So that was the reaction, right?]
Another massive donation came in.
and 100 idiots
Did you come again?
No way, is it debauchery again? lol
Hey, watch the broadcast for a sec, lol.
Big spender class…
Unable to contain himself at such an incredible performance, the big spender sent another massive donation.
At this level, even the receiving streamer might feel burdened by the amount.
Almond casually pushed the Class Representative aside and stood up.
Then, pulling the arrow from my mouth, I answered.
“Thank you. That was yesterday’s donation reaction. Now for today’s reaction.”
-??
-Are you turning off the broadcast right now?
-Oh. No.
Surely not, even so, it’s almond… ㅠㅠ
-Damn…
Almond nocked the arrow I had caught earlier back onto the bowstring.
And aimed at the Class Representative.
“???”
-?!
-?
-??
The Class Representative’s expression probably didn’t differ much from that of the viewers watching intently.
“What… what is….”
While the Class Representative stammered, Almond issued a firm command.

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