Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 398

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 118
41. Politics Warrior (3)
[Ill-Fated Archery Prospect ‘Almond’ Tops Politics & Society. Why?]
Surprisingly, this wasn’t written by community users. It was an actual article from a real portal site.
To be precise, it was an article from a real portal site that simply copied a phrase community users had made as a joke.
-Trash journalism class lol why would they copy this?
-Can someone seriously explain the difference between Rilpro users and journalists lol
-lmao journalists are in the politics & society section too lol what a mess lol
-“Welcome to the world of the insane ‘dog'”
Because the article itself was introduced to the community, it naturally received dozens of insults in the comments.
It was already a problem that journalists were copying community posts and getting paid for it.
But the bigger issue was that the article had virtually no actual content.
Even the journalist didn’t know why it could have topped the Politics & Society category.
-So you don’t know the reason either, journalist?
└Didn’t you see the journalist wrote ‘Why?’ because they didn’t know?
└lmaooooooooo
└lollllll omg lol
└This is hilarious lollll
└Was the headline literally asking because they didn’t know lol
For newspaper subscribers and citizens who actually wanted real journalism, this article was certainly below expectations.
But for Almond, it was an enormous blessing.
A portal site with significant exposure, and media articles with evenly distributed target demographics across all ages and genders.
This directly translated into increased views for the video.
[Why the World Bowed Flat Before Joseon’s Bow]
[Views: 1.083 Million]
The view count growing like a rolling snowball.
The snowball didn’t stop there.
With the emergence of forces turning this article into a meme again, the view count continued to rise….
[1.121 Million]
[1.2 Million]
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.
.
Eventually, the rankings reversed once more.
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1st) Why the World Bowed Flat Before Joseon’s Bow
[Views: 1.283 Million]
2nd) Cutie Pie Discord? Muffin, Former Pastiche Member! The Reason: Love Triangle!?
[Views: 1.14 Million]
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“…How did it come to this?”
Juhyeok, returning from the hospital, clicked his tongue at this strange phenomenon.
In the end, Almond had defeated Time Trouble. Of course, it would only be this once.
It was frustrating, but that channel operated in a different weight class.
“Phew.”
Still, Juhyeok felt refreshed nonetheless.
He wasn’t the only one feeling that way.
Among the community users, there were those who had caught onto this dynamic.
[Time Trouble that bastard deserves to collapse lol]
[Seriously disgusting, Almond doing literally anything is better than those guys being #1]
[Almond reclaiming #1 lol so sick]
And then, this became a news article.
[Issue Streamer ‘Time Trouble’ Suffers “Home Ground Defeat” Against the Person He Once Sold Stories About]
“Tch!”
Juhyeok’s fists clenched.
“Wait… Again?”
His expression turned puzzled.
“This is strange.”
Why would someone write articles about every little thing like this? And this was someone who regularly posted articles on major portals too.
[Han Hae Daily, Reporter Lee Jeong-su]
“This is….”
A name that lingered vaguely in his memory.
Juhyeok searched for Reporter Lee Jeong-su’s article list. With a search function available, he found it quickly.
[A Young Archer Rising Above Dreams Shattered by Injury]
[Han Hae Daily, Reporter Lee Jeong-su]
Juhyeok remembered one passage from this article precisely.
[…Sang-hyun Yu overcame the frustration of archery—the most analog and traditional of sports—through the profession of streamer, the most innovative and digitalized of careers…]
“That’s right.”
After reading it, Juhyeok nodded in agreement.
It seemed the reporter had become interested in Almond from that point on and frequently wrote related articles.
Besides that, his main focus was on e-sports related articles and gaming industry news.
But….
[K Capsule “Divers” Announces Best Results of Second Half This Year. Birth of Korea’s “New Conglomerate”?]
It appeared he had interest in the capsule side as well.
“….”
Juhyeok paused his scrolling with a slightly uneasy expression.
‘This is….’
From Juhyeok’s perspective, it was far too obvious.
That the CEO of Divers had invested capital.
After all, the idea that a reporter suddenly became interested and diligently wrote articles was far too naive a thought.
‘I don’t care about that part.’
This sort of thing happened all the time. It was simply how society operated. Companies paid for advertising and wanted their message out, and journalists served their advertisers in their own way.
But what really bothered Juhyeok was something else entirely.
‘Could it be because of Father?’
The CEO of Divers was on close terms with my father—senior and junior from way back. This kept gnawing at me.
What if he was doing this out of goodwill toward me, not just for Divers’ benefit?
I wanted to politely decline.
But was there a way?
If I just called him up and refused as if to say ‘don’t pity me,’ it would be incredibly rude.
He was like an uncle I knew well, but he was the CEO of a major corporation.
How many lives he was responsible for, how much weight he carried on his shoulders.
Having worked at a large conglomerate before, I could fully appreciate it. He was in a completely different league than me.
It almost felt natural that he would take pity on me.
Being rude to such a person carried too great a risk.
‘It’s just speculation anyway.’
I decided to just close my eyes and let it pass.
At times like these, I always had a mantra I repeated.
‘The world is just made this way. Are you going to leave because you hate that the Earth exists?’
I put my phone away again.
It was almost time for Sanghyeon’s broadcast to start.
‘Just focus on work.’
Right on cue, Sanghyeon opened the door and spoke.
“I’m starting the broadcast now.”
“Yeah. Okay. How’s your body feeling?”
“Good.”
Sanghyeon flashed a bright smile.
I thought Sanghyeon looked unusually cheerful today.
‘He seems like he’s trying to hide something bad.’
I had a rough idea of what it might be, but since he wasn’t saying anything, I couldn’t know for sure.
“Be careful.”
*Click.*
Sanghyeon gave a thumbs up instead of answering, then disappeared into the capsule.

* * *
Kim Chi Warrior, Chiseung Kim.
His gaze shifted toward the clock.
5 PM.
It was the time Almond was supposed to arrive. He’d mentioned he’d be a bit late today since he had to stop by the hospital.
Sure enough, a message came through.
[Almond: I’m ready now. Coming in.]
He rose from the conference table.
“Guys, I’m gonna run through some stuff with Almond. Be back in a bit.”
“Sure.”
“Okie~”
His colleagues didn’t react much since they already knew the schedule.
They turned their attention back to the numerous maps and chess pieces.
Chiseung entered one of the capsules positioned deep within the room.
[Biometric information confirmed….]
[Chiseung Kim]
[Access granted.]
When I opened Tribu, Almond’s broadcast had already started.
[Kim Chi Warrior × Politics Warrior – The Dream Duo]
What an odd title.
“What’s this supposed to mean.”
What caught my eye wasn’t the title but the viewer count.
[Current viewers: 10,000]
How long had the broadcast been running to already hit 10,000 viewers in an instant.
It seemed everyone rushed in because the stream started at an unusually late time today.
-The title is insane lmao
-What’s Politics Warrior lmaooo
-lol
-Send Almond to Parliament! Send Almond to Parliament!
-hahaha
Chiseung observed the viewers’ reactions and speculated that the title was related to some meme.
‘Must be some meme. The title really matters, huh.’
He made a mental note. Almond was teaching him gaming, and he was learning broadcasting from Almond in return.
Ding.
Then the camera turned on.
[Trahhhh~!]
Almond greeted the viewers with his usual bright expression—or rather, even brighter than usual.
-Hi hi
-Aha! Aha!
-Why does he look so handsome today??
-Did you change your hair? You look insanely handsome;
Wow, that’s insane!
A flood of chat messages poured in.
Chiseung grasped the true essence of the broadcast.
‘…It seems like appearance matters more than I thought.’
-Meeting a woman?
-Where did Almond go? Where did Almond go? Where did Almond go?
-Who is she! Who is it!
No way, seriously? ㅠㅠ
The viewers mistakenly thought Almond had gone to meet someone.
Almond then provided an explanation.
[Ah, I went to the hospital today, and since I was going out for the first time in a while, I just got my hair dried….]
-Oh…
-Oof!
-Lock it all down!
I see, haha.
Since most viewers already knew why he went to the hospital, the chat fell silent for a moment.
Then a donation came in.
[Warakwakwak donated 10,000 won!]
[The hair dryer Almond uses seems to have better performance than the plastic surgeon I was treated by??? Huh? Ehuh? Ehehuh!?]
Hahaha, coming out as straight
-22222
Ah… haha
Your voice is getting cut off lol
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
After that, his regular supporters like Rubisword and Gaji-bokkeun threw in donations.
[Ah. Kim Chi Warrior and King Gul just came in. I’ll head over there right away.]
Almond finally began entering the Dis World channel.
Chiseung took a moment to recall today’s objective.
‘I think we might be able to reach the promotion match today.’
Almond’s current point gain rate was quite good for A-rank.
‘The problem is….’
The problem lay elsewhere.
Chiseung turned his head to look at a window open in the corner.
‘That’s it.’
It was a group chat from the community site ‘Embul’.
This was a place where only the more extreme members of Embul had gathered.
The direction of their extremism was toward killing all Nalbil supporters—think of Islamic fundamentalists for reference.
Kim Chi Warrior, a Nalbil secularist, was naturally not invited to this place.
One of Chiseung’s colleagues had infiltrated in disguise and was sharing the screen.
AK47: These bastards are starting shit, fuck, we’re all screwed.
“Fix your extroverted personality: That’s ridiculous lol lol lol How dare you do a day build in A-rank with a noob??”
[Sharr: But if this gets ruled as a snipe, wouldn’t it be a ban… Is it okay?]
[Nalbil Judge: The first match is never ruled as a snipe. Just take turns going in.]
Fix your extroverted personality: Even the sniper filtering program doesn’t make judgments on the first episode lol
There were about ten people in the room.
But realistically, only about four people had the will to participate in this ‘snipe match.’
[Morae Spoon: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ A-rank gatekeeper, four kings, so reliable ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Extremely Intelligent: I’m the highest rank here, so I’m sorry I can’t participate… But I think the Four Kings should be able to handle someone at Bontovi’s level]
In the group chat, they were calling them the Four Kings and praising them.
“AK47: Yeah. Hey. Mom’s here. She’s back, damn it.”
Ugh, this is so messed up.
Well, I guess I could call them the Three Kings now.
‘For crying out loud.’
Chiseung let out a hollow laugh.
I wanted to expose this on stream, but doing so wouldn’t make the sniping disappear, and it would only strain my relationship with Embul.
Instead, I saw this as an opportunity.
‘Almond needs to experience this anyway.’
How the limits of a bow user approach. It was time for Almond to feel it too.
‘He’ll probably lose. Roop is different.’
The combat power would be different from Roop, who had sniped me last time. They had prepared this match organizationally and strategically.
And their skill level was A+ rank.
The probability of defeat was high. He would probably lose.
But that was fine.
In training, defeat was just as important as victory.
‘I’ll get a chance to see something here.’
How Almond handles a game where defeat seems certain. What mindset he accepts it with.
This too was a very important factor in participating in the international competition.
I already had some sense of his crisis-overcoming ability.
But the numerous(?) Civil Empire fans did not.
They would probably see it now.
[Almond has entered!]
[King Gul has entered!]
[Bontovi has entered!]
The three of them entered Disworld without knowing anything.
“Hello!”
I greeted them with a bright face.
After explaining today’s objective and the upcoming training schedule.
The game began.
[Found a matching opponent!]
[AK47]
My opponent was AK47.
One of the members in our group chat.
‘What? I thought he couldn’t play because his mom showed up.’
When I checked, he had left this message in the chat.
[AK47: I’ll be back before my back cools down.]
It seemed he got hit once by his mom and was already planning to return to gaming.

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