Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 33

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 33
13. Knight (1)
At Emilia’s sudden action, the chat naturally erupted into a frenzy of scrolling messages.
Clack-clack-clack.
The sound of keyboards was so intense it felt like I could actually hear it through the screen.
-Ooooooh
-Is she crazy! Emilia!
Damn it.
hahahahaha
-What is this!!!
-What the heck!!!
-She’s lost it!
Hahahaha
…Of course, my thoughts weren’t much different from the viewers’.
‘This isn’t a joke?’
No matter that Almond and Emilia had spent three days together, I had no experience of it.
It had simply passed with a black screen displaying “3 days later.”
“Emilia.”
Almond’s mouth moved independent of my will. His voice dripped with honey.
“I came back victorious.”
Just a moment ago, this guy was still worried about choosing between options lol
Oh, what’s up with your voice? lol
Suddenly true love?ㅋㅋㅋ
Hahaha, method acting
-If discovered… he dies!
Though the viewers teased playfully, Almond gazed steadily at Emilia, as if drowning in her lake-like eyes.
“You did well. Really well.”
Emilia met his gaze and spoke.
Her face drew closer and closer.
The knights around us erupted in cheers.
-Kyaaaaaaah!
-Whoa!
-I’m dying!
I’m going crazy ㅠㅠ
As Emilia’s beautiful face drew as close as possible, the screen slowly faded to black.
The scene had transitioned elsewhere.
-No! Show us! Please show us!!!
-Dammit!
In times like this, first-person VR looks gross lol
-Argh!
Amid the viewers’ complaints, the next scene showed me returning to my original domain by carriage.
What differed from before was that Almond nominally did not share the carriage with Emilia.
He rode on horseback instead, serving as an escort for the carriage procession.
Moreover, the knights’ attitude toward him had changed.
Those who had once dismissed him as a mere mercenary now approached him with feigned friendliness.
“So you’re the archer who shot down a hundred men? Truly impressive, friend.”
“…Ah, yes.”
It was like this.
Roman snorted beside me as if amused.
Hmph.
These were the same men who had refused to acknowledge my achievements just moments ago.
“The enemy soldiers themselves are acknowledging our accomplishment. Well, not our accomplishment—precisely your accomplishment.”
“I could never have killed a hundred men if you hadn’t fought on the front lines.”
Almond answered with formal courtesy, but Roman seemed genuinely impressed.
He drew his horse alongside and patted Almond’s shoulder, nodding respectfully.
“Thank you, Almond. Hearing you say that gives the mercenary company renewed vigor.”
“You speak as though I’m not part of the mercenary company. I am, so it’s only natural.”
“Well… it seems to me you’re no longer part of the mercenary company…”
Roman smiled knowingly and gazed at the carriage carrying Emilia.
“Either way, it depends on your choice.”
“?”
At that moment, Almond didn’t understand what Roman meant.
“In any case, thank you. Thanks to you, our mercenary company has earned enough to not work for four months.”
Roman grinned good-naturedly and turned his attention forward, urging his horse onward.
-Roman… now he even seems friendly.
-You’re not like this normally. You demon bastard!
-Strip away the human mask, demon!
hahahahahaha
The reaction was hilarious lol
-Roman’s really something else.

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A short while later.
Returning to Zaneret’s Estate, Almond entered the Inner Castle alongside Emilia.
All the way to the Banquet Hall, reserved only for the castle’s masters.
“Emilia, this place is….”
“Just wait a moment.”
Almond felt awkward being formally invited to such a place for the first time, but Emilia squeezed his hand firmly before stepping away briefly.
She returned with her father.
“!”
Almond couldn’t help but tense up.
“So you’re the one? I’ve heard quite a bit about you.”
Emilia’s Father treated Almond with unexpected kindness.
He seemed to harbor no prejudice whatsoever against mercenaries or those of lowborn status.
“You’ve done well. Very well indeed.”
Chuckle.
Emilia’s Father laughed and patted Almond on the back.
Despite his warm treatment, Almond couldn’t relax his guard.
‘What is this.’
Perhaps because I was a mercenary unfamiliar with dining etiquette, I had to follow along with dining customs like a mini-game throughout the meal.
It was a sequence involving slight puzzles and button actions.
It was a meal that could rival the climax of a third-rate action game.
Fortunately, Sanghyeon cleared every challenge immediately and finished the meal splendidly.
After the cutscene ended briefly.
Sanghyeon expressed his tension to the viewers through his microphone.
“Wow… I bet this is what meeting your father-in-law would feel like.”
His words, bursting out after a long silence, made the viewers laugh.
Hahahahaha
-Marriage simulator
Haha… a game of meeting your father-in-law…
Why the hell are you even playing this game lol
-Even this feels realistic
-The ultimate annoying relative during holidays game.
Holiday simulator lol
It was when Almond let his guard down for a moment and was chuckling while reading the chat.
“…What do you think about becoming a Knight?”
Along with the sudden question, choices appeared.
[1. Of course. I would be honored.]
[2. I prefer my life as a mercenary.]
These were the choices presented.
Sanghyeon paused the game for a moment.
“What is this?”
His words acted like a signal flare, and countless messages flooded the chat.
and lol
-There’s a route to become a Knight?!
-Insane!
I heard there were some, but I didn’t expect them to come out this quickly lol
-First time seeing this….
I don’t think they’ve ever appeared on broadcast. That’s because they came out in the latter half of [the period]…lol
-Nobody plays Kingdom that far into it….
-Isn’t this basically the ending?
Now I gotta speak informally to the mercenary captain too lol
Almond carefully scrolled through the chat messages.
‘If I become a Knight here, is that the ending?’
It had to be. The main content was wandering around doing mercenary work, so if he stopped being a mercenary, the game couldn’t progress.
At least not in the original fun way.
In other words, this was an ending choice point for this playthrough.
‘Has the time come….’
I thought choosing Emilia would lead to a faster ending.
But not this fast.
-I wish we could keep going as a mercenary.
-But wouldn’t it be better to just see the Knight ending this run and play through again?
-Curious about the Knight ending, +1.
-2222
-1, shut up.
-Shut up yourself.
Viewer opinions were divided.
Sanghyeon himself hadn’t made a firm decision either. But there was a trick for times like these.
“That’s all for today’s stream. See you!”
A sudden broadcast end.
-????
-Insane timing.
-Wait. For real?
-No, this psycho bas….
hahahahahahaha
-For real???
Almond does it if she’s going to do it lol
He said he’d be indulgent but never went back on his word lol
I messed up and now I’m behind until tomorrow’s broadcast lol
[Stream Ended]

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Screech—
Almond emerged from the Capsule as its lid slid open.
Unlike usual, he wasn’t drenched in sweat. There had been no combat scenes today.
Moreover, the broadcast duration itself hadn’t been particularly long.
‘I think I cut it at just the right moment.’
Still, Sanghyeon was satisfied with today’s broadcast.
Even by his own assessment, the timing of the cut-off had been excellent.
“Hey. Nice work. That was entertaining today.”
Juhyeok Kim greeted him as soon as he emerged.
I thought he’d be asleep by now, but it seems he’s still awake.
“Really? There wasn’t even a combat scene. I’m glad then.”
“How could I stream combat every single day?”
Juhyeok pulled up the Community reactions as if to prove his point.
[Is Almond’s broadcast cut-off timing for real?]
Ah, you’re cutting it off here? ㅋㅋㅋ
[You bastard. Almond.]
[The worst streamer in existence, Almond.]
While some people jokingly cursed at him, the vast majority of reactions were extremely positive.
[Summary of the situation leading up to Emilia’s Knight offer.txt]
A post about how Almond had received a Knight offer from Emilia was already climbing to the best posts.
“I always speak based on data. Got it?”
Juhyeok, in his characteristic boastful tone, showed graphs of viewer influx trends that he’d analyzed.
“Do you know how I analyze this?”
“No, I don’t. I don’t understand what that even means.”
Sanghyeon was the type to get dizzy if he thought too hard, so he simply didn’t want to look or listen.
“No, listen.”
With that opening, Juhyeok rambled on for an hour, mentioning all sorts of formulas.
Of all those words, only one phrase caught Sanghyeon’s attention.
“Oh, right. I got a call from the Department Manager.”
“…The Department Manager?”
“Department Manager Oh. The person who selected you as a Punk partner streamer.”
“Oh!”
“It’s approved. He said they’ll match the editor’s salary.”
“!”
Sanghyeon still didn’t have enough income to match Seojia’s base salary.
He had to rely entirely on his partner Punk, but it seemed the editor salary matter he’d inquired about had been approved.
“It was a condition they proposed anyway, so it’s only natural.”
While it was a natural progression, actually having the matter approved felt different.
Sanghyeon felt a weight lift from his shoulders.
“I think I’ll go check it out tomorrow. We can do some filming too.”
“Sounds good. Let’s get some early sleep tonight.”
The two of them each headed to their rooms and lay down.
And the next morning.
A headline article appeared on the front page of a gaming portal website.
[Breaking News) Almond Selected as Punk’s Partner Streamer!]

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Punk.
The largest game distribution company domestically and internationally.
To be precise, it’s a game platform company.
Originally, it operated as an almost monopolistic enterprise with little strategic differentiation.
However, as High Games has recently emerged as a fierce competitor, Punk has been focusing on publicity, marketing, and exclusive launch strategies.
[Breaking News) Almond Selected as Punk’s Partner Streamer!]
One of those strategies is the partner streamer program.
They recruit popular streamers through partnership contracts and have them regularly stream games that Punk promotes.
-Wow, world-class;
-Whoa. So they’re on the same level as Balloon Gum?
Hey, one kingdom as a partner lol
-So now we’ll get regular content from them.
-For real? Wow, Almond really made it big.
Now even almonds are exploding lol
Haha, Pung-dae is so funny lol
Lol, calling a clown “팡대” as “펑대” to mean a punk clown—is this what they call a witty remark that cuts to the bone?
└Insider;;;
└Regional Military Commander
└Seoul University Student Council President
└Pretending to be genuine while being genuine.
This guy really looks like the real deal lol
As the comments on the article above indicated.
Becoming a Punk partner streamer wasn’t just a casual “oh, I got a sponsorship” kind of thing.
-Is it possible to become a partner with only 1k viewers?
└Looks like it’ll hit 2k soon.
└Hitting 1k with Kingdom isn’t easy. If they’d done a major title, it would’ve been huge.
Looks like they rated the possibility pretty high lol
-Seems a bit excessive though….
-Almond’s doing well.
For Almond, who had only recently maintained around 1,000 regular viewers, it was certainly an excessive contract.
Nevertheless, the partnership was established largely thanks to Department Manager Oh from Punk.
‘They revived even a dead game like Kingdom, even if just briefly—what couldn’t they accomplish!?’
This was something Department Manager Oh had brought up during the meeting, and the decision-makers had no choice but to agree.
They had all watched Almond’s videos and observed his abilities firsthand.
They were curious.
What would happen if Almond were given a major game to play?
-So will he do the homework game on today’s broadcast?
From the first day? Lol
└Since he even summoned the Knight, he’ll probably do it, right?
Are you not doing Kingdom anymore? ㅠㅠ
└Whether he becomes a Knight or not, he needs to make a decision and move on!
Now that Almond had become a partner streamer, viewers were already anticipating that he would attempt various other games.
The question was which game he would play.
Since he had been challenging minor picks like Kingdom so far, the real question was whether he would now attempt major picks, or establish himself as a streamer who exclusively plays niche games.
[Today’s prediction list for what game Almond will play]
[Honestly, if he drops Kingdom, he’ll skyrocket]
How’s the martial arts game? Lol
[Abandon this trash game and soar!]
[He already has thousands of viewers, if he drops Kingdom he’ll really take off]
[No! Don’t go! Abandon Emilia!? Live happily with Emilia!]
Even on Kingchi Man, which was essentially Almond’s home base, discussions about games other than Kingdom had begun to increase.
-When is Almond’s broadcast today anyway?
-Nobody knows…
-I’m going crazy;
-Almond, at least finish things with Emilia before you go…
Chat messages were being exchanged even on his broadcast channel, which hadn’t started yet.
But the news they were waiting for didn’t come through Tribby’s live streaming.
[Hello. This is Almond.]
Instead, a video with this title was uploaded to Almond’s newly created Ollytube channel.
Seojia, whose payment had been processed, had begun her work.

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