Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 420

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 140
49. True Recognition (1)
Pfft.
Juhyeok glances at his phone and can’t suppress his laughter.
Just then, Jia, who had been standing before him showing off clothes, looks down at him with a cold gaze.
“Why are you laughing? Don’t you like this outfit?”
She had been changing clothes and showing them to him one by one.
Unfortunately, Juhyeok’s timing was terrible as he burst out laughing right then.
Juhyeok quickly explained himself.
“Oh, no. I saw something funny.”
He had been reacting to the responses from the group chat.
“Funny, huh. This outfit….”
“No, that’s not it?”
“Sigh. It’s already heartbreaking that I had to rush here just yesterday to buy something because I’m so busy. And now the person who came to see me is mocking my clothes….”
“No, I’m telling you it’s not like that!? That outfit is fine!”
At Juhyeok’s flustered response, Jia bursts into laughter.
“Just kidding.”
It was a joke.
Juhyeok’s expression shows he’s been had.
“Let me try something else.”
“Yeah, okay.”
Jia, apparently not entirely satisfied with the outfit, changes into a different one.
“How about this one?”
A moment later, Jia emerges from the fitting room and spins around, asking for his opinion.
!
Juhyeok’s eyes widen.
It was a red dress with exposed shoulders—the best outfit he’d seen so far.
Suddenly, all thoughts about the community vanish from his mind.
“…Wow. You look beautiful.”
….
Jia tilts her head curiously, then raises the corners of her mouth into a smile.
“Now that’s a genuine reaction.”
“Ahem, ahem….”
Juhyeok briefly looks away.
“Will you be purchasing this one?”
A department store clerk approaches and asks. From her expression, it seems like a decision has been made.
“Yes.”
Jia readily agrees and changes back into her original clothes.
The clerk wraps up the new item and proceeds with the payment.
Juhyeok takes a moment to gather his thoughts, staring blankly ahead.
I’ve been thinking so much lately that I occasionally need these moments of mental clarity.
It’s one of my habits.
Through my dazed consciousness, the store clerk’s voice reaches me.
“Um….”
She whispers to me with a slightly troubled expression.
“It seems your payment limit has been exceeded….”
“?”
I tilt my head, not understanding what she means.
Only a moment later do I comprehend.
‘This isn’t my card?’
The card the clerk handed me was Jia’s card.
It seems I got confused because Jia had given me her card before going to change clothes.
I naturally smile and pull out my own card. On a day like this, there’s no need to embarrass Jia.
“Ah, I see. Then please use this one.”
I decided to just buy it for her. Consider it a gift as well.
Considering Jia’s earnings, giving a gift of this magnitude isn’t really that significant. But isn’t a gift about the heart and the timing?
“Are you done?”
“Yeah. Let’s go. That took a while.”
Jia leaves the store thinking her card was charged.
“Oh, where’s my card?”
“Here.”
I pull out the card the clerk had given me and hand it to her.
Jia puts the card in her wallet without a word. Then she tilts her head slightly.
“…Why didn’t I get a payment notification?”
I’m supposed to receive a message on my phone every time I use the card. But it didn’t come.
Normally she wouldn’t pay attention to this, but since she spent quite a bit of money, she seems to have been waiting for it.
“Your limit was exceeded.”
“?”
Freelancers tend to have lower credit card limits regardless of their earnings, so you only get a limit that somewhat matches your income after using it for a long time.
Since Jia hasn’t been earning for very long, she probably doesn’t have a significant limit. It might not even reach 150.
It was completely natural that her limit could be maxed out.
Yet, Jia still looked very flustered.
“Ah… I, I see.”
Did she miscalculate her limit?
I was puzzled, having been expecting some praise.
‘What’s going on?’
Right now, she should be saying, ‘Then how did I buy this dress!?’
But she looks even more flustered by the news that her card didn’t work.
A moment later, Jia’s consciousness finally shifts to that question.
“Wait. Then how did I buy this dress?”
Tsk.
Juhyeok pointed to himself with a raised chin, as if he’d been waiting for this moment.
“I did.”
Jia’s eyes widened considerably, and then….
“!?”
A fist flew at him immediately.
Pow!
“Ow! Why, why would you do that!?”
“How much was this!? You should’ve just bought it!”
“Then why did you buy it!?”
“Well, I….”
The words—because I earn better than you—reached his throat before retreating back down.
He couldn’t wound the pride of someone who’d even bought her a gift.
Gulp.
Jia swallowed dryly and composed herself.
Calm down, she told herself repeatedly.
Her mind cleared slightly.
Then the reality that Juhyeok had bought her a dress sank in.
A smile gradually bloomed at the corners of her mouth.
“What is it? Are you angry or happy?”
Juhyeok asked in bewilderment, watching her shift from anger to laughter.
Whoosh.
She turned her head away and spoke.
“A-anyway. Don’t buy something this expensive again. I hate wasteful spending.”
‘Isn’t that about you?’
Jia herself had quite an impulsive spending habit.
And Juhyeok knew that very well.
So he couldn’t help but say something.
“Seriously, I─”
Just as he was about to voice his complaint.
A pale hand covered his mouth.
“Thank you. I’ll wear it well.”
Their eyes met. He could tell. She meant it sincerely.
“I mean it.”
A smile spread across Juhyeok’s face as well.
Similar to hers.
“Now… let’s go.”
“Yeah.”
The two walked side by side through the department store.
Perhaps it was because they matched each other’s pace?
Even his gait seemed to have become similar to mine.
Is this what happiness feels like?
As these thoughts filled Juhyeok’s mind.
‘Huh?’
Only then did Juhyeok remember something he had forgotten. This unnecessarily sharp memory of mine was sometimes a curse.
‘….’
This was exactly one of those moments.
He recalled something Jia had said not long ago.
「I maxed out my credit card limit. I’ve just been using my debit card lately. Damn freelancer life.」

* * *
“Ugh!”
Sanghyeon jolted awake from the sofa where he’d been dozing.
His expression suggested he’d been having a nightmare.
“Hhh….”
Strange sounds escaped his lips as he tried to shake off the fatigue.
But he paid it no mind and sprang up hastily, heading somewhere.
To the shelf where his phone was. He quickly checked the time.
“…Ah.”
There was still about an hour left until the international tournament scrim.
He must have been more nervous than he realized, waking up so much earlier.
“Phew. Thank goodness.”
Rather than feeling wronged about waking too early, Sanghyeon was relieved he hadn’t overslept.
He patted his cheeks repeatedly while habitually fidgeting with his phone.
He entered the community to chase away the overwhelming drowsiness.
A post insulting Almond was the perfect remedy for staying awake.
‘Huh?’
But what Sanghyeon found was quite unexpected.
The top issue post that appeared immediately upon entering was exactly that.
1st) Almond Bontovi’s final promotion match was a stream throw (evidence attached)
Pfft.
Sanghyeon scoffed when he first saw it.
“What nonsense.”
He remembered the final match being won quite easily.
Yet they were calling it a stream throw.
Was this some new way to mock him? Doubt crept in.
“What kind of meme is this?”
Or it could be a meme.
With uncertainty, he clicked on the post.
“…?”
The post was surprisingly neither a meme nor a new joke meant to mock Bontovi.
The author presented evidence methodically, developing their argument in a calm, measured tone.
While one could technically argue that all the screenshot evidence was fabricated upon cold analysis,
just as consistency in testimony carries significant weight in court, this author’s statements proceeded with unwavering logic from beginning to end.
Since the side claiming truth held a considerable advantage in presenting such testimony, it appeared almost undeniable that what the author was asserting was fact.
‘It does seem plausible….’
I stopped reading midway through the post and went straight to the comments section.
I’ve never been good at reading long posts anyway, so I usually just skim the comments to get the gist.
But the comment section’s reaction was equally clear—they believed I’d stream-sniped.
-??It really does seem true though?
There are a lot of crazy bastards out there lol
-I mean stream-sniping isn’t exactly a serious crime. But these guys’ tone and mindset are seriously unpleasant
That’s exactly it lol
└I thought the same thing
-You claim to judge Nalbil and then pull this???
-Stream-snipe against Bontovi??? Baaang-puu???
The fact that I’d stream-sniped was becoming almost established truth.
Only I, the actual person involved, tilted my head in confusion.
‘Really… stream-sniping?’
Stream-sniping means watching the broadcast and countering based on what you see. It means proceeding while clearly observing what your opponent is doing.
In RTS games, it’s quite lethal, and even in survival-type games like Battle Large, it’s fairly devastating since your hidden position can be exposed. Not to mention AOS-genre games like Ril.
There are almost no games that don’t suffer critical damage from stream-sniping unless they’re one-on-one fighting games.
What I found strange was precisely this.
‘I won far too easily.’
I won the final match so easily I barely remember it.
Based on the spearmen rushing in from the start, it does seem like they were targeting me, but is that stream-sniping?
‘Either way, that’s what everyone thinks.’
I scratched my head and looked at the comments again. Even as I did this, they kept pouring in endlessly.
It was natural for such an attention-grabbing post to reach the top of trending issues.
With so many comments, there were naturally some claiming this was fabricated.
What kind of elaborate fake is this? ㅋㅋㅋ You’re falling for this?
But the response was poor.
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to contain Korean characters mixed with informal internet slang/abbreviations that don’t form standard words, making it unclear what the intended meaning is.
Hey, Eomkeu 47
└Yeah. Tungdungi, get over here.
Charles ho
Gritting my teeth at this “carefully crafted” fabrication lol
The nicknames of my group chat members were holding a full gathering in the replies.
‘Oh….’
It seemed the persuasiveness of that post was simply too high.
Sanghyeon returned to the post, determined to read through to the very end.
The more he read, the more it seemed like this wasn’t the work of someone who’d only tried this once or twice.
At the end of the final screenshot, he spotted a message written there.
[Honarl(Bil)doo:
Almond Manager
You
All
. You bastards]
The identity was pixelated. At first, he thought it was severe profanity, but….
Hmm.
Sanghyeon furrowed his brow as he read, catching that the word under the pixelation was roughly “you~~”, and he realized it.
“Ho…du.”
Excluding Nalbil, he now knew the name was Hodu.
Moreover, the format of this post… he’d seen it many times before.
It was the same habits used when posting briefing reports at Asung.
But this was only circumstantial evidence.
Then, more definitive proof arrived.
Zzzzring.
[Kim Chi Warrior]
Chiseung received a call.
“Hello?”
-Ah, Almond! I have something urgent to tell you! The manager isn’t picking up right now!
“…Ah. Tell me instead.”
-Ah! First, the scrim time got pushed back to 9 o’clock!
“…Ah. Yes. I see.”
Almond glanced at his watch, considering whether to get another hour of sleep.
But this next part was the main issue.
-And! By the way, have you seen the top issue post on the community right now?
He felt caught off guard, wondering if Chiseung had some kind of sixth sense. Sanghyeon hastily pulled his hand away from the screen.
“Ah… Yes.”
-Sand Spoon is my friend! I was gathering intel in your place! I’m sorry! I was just going to handle it all at once later for practice without saying anything, but… the manager suddenly beat me to it!!
Ah….
Sanghyeon roughly understood the situation.
So the manager had actually been trying to contact him because the manager himself had business to attend to.
“Ah… I understand. I know who’s with Juhyeok right now anyway. Let me try contacting them.”
-Ah, thank you so much. I was worried I’d get unfairly penalized….
“Penalized? Does it really go that far?”
-Yes! Of course! Game penalties are absolutely applied. In real-world terms, it’s organized crime!
“Ah… Yes. So we need to save Sand Spoon, right?”
-Yes! That’s right!
“Understood.”
“-Anyway, thank you so much. Please speak well on our behalf! I’ll send all the evidence to the Manager through messenger right away!”
“Yes. Don’t worry.”
Click.
After the call with Chiseung ended.
Sanghyeon clicked his tongue.
“So it really was a broadcast accident.”
It really had been a broadcast accident.
But to lose so pathetically like that.
Interesting fellows.
Since I had won so easily, my impressions amounted to just this much.
But my fans were different.
[Looking for people to send complaint emails to headquarters]
[Let’s make a guest star call! Let’s go!]
[Game over. Lock them all up! White Sword Brigade! Assemble!]
Considering Embul’s nature, those who participated there would never escape unscathed.

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