Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 438

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 158
55. The Awards Ceremony (3)
“Juhyeok was quite different from me—he was a highly respected employee at Asung. I’m sure everyone tried to stop him when he said he was quitting.”
Ooooh~~!
The streamers cheer and applaud.
-??
-The manager was from Asung too?
lol
-So they were an Asung duo
-That’s crazy
Most of the streamers and viewers watching this broadcast are hearing this story for the first time.
It’s only natural they wouldn’t know—this is private information that only Almond’s fans would be aware of.
“Yet despite that, he came out for his own dreams and for me, and has achieved remarkable results as my manager. I wanted to use this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude. Juhyeok will undoubtedly become an essential person in this industry going forward. Keep an eye on him.”
-Almond can talk this long?
-Wait, is this Sang-hyun Yu!? Is this Sang-hyun Yu!?
Isn’t this an ad??ㅋㅋㅋ
-Hodu’s doing a backdoor promotion here
Haha, the walnut is speaking instead.
The viewers were right—Sanghyeon was absolutely not the type to deliver long, eloquent speeches.
That’s right.
There was no way he’d suddenly become so articulate.
Even when talking about his own arm, he’d keep it incredibly brief.
‘This bastard….’
Juhyeok removed his glasses for a moment.
‘He prepared for this.’
Jia tapped his shoulder.
“Oh, no. Something got on my glasses.”
…he offered an unnecessary excuse.
But Sanghyeon’s acceptance speech wasn’t over yet.
This time, Jia’s face turned bright red.
“My editor, Jia, created videos for me when I was nothing. I remember it clearly. Her videos were more famous than mine back then.”
Ahahaha.
Light laughter ripples through the streamers.
“After that, we happened to meet in the park and discovered we were neighbors. I remember Juhyeok telling me to hold onto the documents no matter what while he prepared the paperwork, and I held on tight.”
The camera panned to Jia.
Her face filled the screen.
Jia, embarrassed, bowed her head deeply.
“After we signed the contract, Jia would stay up all night if videos weren’t ready. If the response wasn’t good, she’d create another one. If there was no content, she’d study other streamers’ videos. She had a video sense we didn’t possess, and without Jia, we wouldn’t have accumulated this many subscribers on AllTube. I’d like to express my gratitude for this opportunity.”
Sanghyeon pulled the microphone away for a moment.
It seemed he was about to wrap up.
“I’m also grateful to everyone at Tribi. I’ll work hard. I’ll do my best in this international competition we’re participating in right now and beat Japan and China. Oh, and the Rookie Award….”
Sanghyeon shouted while making a finger gun and firing it with a “bang.”
“Chicky-cha!”
Hahahahahaha (laughing)
Hahahaha
Argh! Hahahaha!
My hands and feet lolol T_T
Lol crazy, someone must have requested this lol
How many times are you gonna die, dude? lol
Of that long and lengthy Rookie Award acceptance speech, only this moment remained as a short and supposedly drifted across all of YouTube forever.

* * *
The Streamer Garden began flooding with posts once again.
But for a different reason this time.
“It’s hilarious how all those bastards got completely burned lol”
[They said he wouldn’t get it~ said he wouldn’t get it~~]
“The rookie is absolutely dominating lolol what do you mean he can’t win”
Almond’s fans had grown bold and launched their counterattack.
With such an overwhelming graph, he had taken the Rookie Award, so it was only natural.
Anyway, whenever someone tries to do well, they get knocked down lol
[Welcome to the Domestic Inferiority Complex Garden]
What can we do ㅠㅠㅠ These people must have been born as squids ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
[Yeah~~ strike them down again~~ just say chicky-cha and that’s it~~]
It’s the same in any field.
There’s such a thing as a one-hit wonder in the music industry too.
People who blow up with their first song in life often end up essentially retiring after that one song.
Stars who rise quickly have many fans who support them obsessively like this.
No, the difference is overwhelmingly huge lolol what even lolol
That’s crazy/insane difference.
[Next year at least Best Award]
[Actually, I think being a rookie undervalued him?]
A faction that finds fault with whatever he does also grows.
This is resistance.
It’s always been this way.
Yes, perhaps this isn’t a problem of social humanities, but of physics.
[With just one Rookie Award, they’re already sweeping through the strong period]
Ugh, those dogs are so annoying lol
It looks like the newcomer award will be my last award ㅋㅋㅋ
What did the atmosphere do to deserve that? lol
[Looking at this, did he sweep all the awards?]
It is like air resistance.
For those standing still, it is the source of life, but for objects moving faster than the standard they have set, it delivers a hellish inferno.
Even comets far larger than humans cannot overcome this air resistance, burning white-hot and oxidizing.
Thus, most comets disappear before ever touching Earth’s ground. Solely because that comet tried to move quickly against the air.
However, perhaps that was simply because the comet was not large enough.
If a sufficiently large comet were to fall.
Then it would be the life forms on Earth that oxidized instead.

* * *
After the Rookie Award ceremony ended.
Various other awards began to be presented.
First, among the Balloon Stars members, Miho took the stage next to receive her award.
She received an Excellence Award in the female game streamer category.
The Rookie Award goes to exactly one person regardless of gender or age. But the Excellence and Grand Excellence Awards were divided into categories.
That’s why the Rookie Award carries greater prestige.
“Wow. I can’t believe I’m receiving this!”
Miho descended from the stage with an excited expression, rattling off a long list of people to thank.
Next was the male Grand Excellence Award.
This was a rather predictable competition.
-The gap is insane
-Balloon Gum’s class didn’t go anywhere
-Honestly, just Zombie School alone deserves the Grand Prize lolololol
Balloon Gum took the Grand Excellence Award by a considerable margin. Everyone had already expected this since the nominees were announced.
While Almond was growing, Balloon Gum was also growing, and by next year, he was someone worthy of aiming for the Grand Prize itself.
“Wahaha! Ah… First, I’m so grateful to my wife. My All-Tube channel wasn’t doing well…”
He delivered quite a touching acceptance speech to his wife.
Crying/Sobbing
-So sweet
-Balloon Gum has good fortune
-Kyaa so sweet!
Balloon Gum then expressed his gratitude to his son and daughter for their support.
“Kids! Dad got an award! Even if you don’t study well! Even if you’re short! You can still live well!”
Puhahahaha!
Laughter spread, but Balloon Gum’s eyes glistened with tears.
Everyone was at year’s end, and alcohol had been flowing.
Receiving an award for a year’s worth of achievement seemed to make people emotional.
Sanghyeon felt the same way.
‘I envy him.’
Clap clap clap.
He applauded harder than anyone else while thinking this.
His wife rushes over, presents flowers to Balloon Gum, and embraces him.
‘They look happy.’
Balloon Gum and his family looked genuinely happy.
Sanghyeon had lost his parents at far too young an age.
His Grandmother had taken their place, but.
Separate from that, the fantasy of a harmonious home built by a father and mother, a son and daughter, had continued to exist within him all along.
I had never consciously acknowledged it, but as I grew older year by year, the thought that I needed a family persisted.
Even when Juhyeok said he’d fought with his father and left home, it had felt like spoiled complaints to me, if I’m being honest.
Of course, it was a very serious matter for him, so I simply didn’t let such feelings show.
“Female Streamer! Best Excellence Award! Hong-cha!”
The female excellence award went to Hong-cha.
She gathered many viewers by displaying her frank, unadorned, single-minded breakthrough personality directly in her gameplay, and she had apparently achieved significant growth through this Nant Tournament as well.
Remarkably(?), she thanked Greentea for always supporting her, her eyes growing moist.
“Ha, I’m always… grateful!”
Ooooooh…!
The Streamers sent cheers and applause her way.
After progressing to this point.
“Now. The regular awards have only the Grand Prize remaining.”
The host began.
At this point, the atmosphere seemed to be shifting.
“After watching the second invited singer’s performance, we’ll now begin presenting the special awards! Most of the special awards! Did not have predetermined nominees! So everyone is welcome to anticipate!”
Special award presentation.
This was something I had been waiting for as well.
‘The Best Couple Award must be coming here.’
It seemed the Best Couple Award was likely included among these special awards.

* * *
The invited singers’ performances concluded approximately an hour later.
Since the Streamers had prepared stages throughout the event, it took considerable time.
“Now, let me present the first special award.”
The host swept his gaze across the audience.
“This one had candidates before, didn’t it?”
Whoosh!
The curtain drew back, and text appeared on the screen.
[Best Team]
It seemed the Best Team award would be presented first.
“This award goes to the team that demonstrated the most perfect teamwork!”
The candidates were primarily composed of teams that participated in the Nurtwar.
“The special awards do reflect voting from company executives quite a bit, so in other words, don’t read too much into it!”
Ahahaha.
The Streamers all laughed lightly.
“For the special awards, there’s no separate presenter—I’ll deliver them directly! Now, the special award! Best Team!”
Boom boom boom boom…!
The names of the candidate teams rose and fell as drum sounds echoed through the hall.
Since there were many awards to be given afterward, it didn’t drag on too long.
“Balloon Staaaars!”
Wooooah!
Cheers erupted from the Balloon Stars’ table.
“The Ril Championship trivia event that happened this year—a chaotic spectacle! At the Nurtwar! Where underdogs staged a delightful rebellion! And achieved victory! Unanimous approval from all executives! An overwhelming voting margin! It’s Balloon Stars!”
Sanghyeon rose from his seat and reunited with his former teammates.
Strawberry Shooter, Miho, Balloon Gum, Takoyaki.
They all held hands and entered together.
Wooooah!
Other Streamers cheered for them.
-Clap clap clap clap
This is way too predictable lol
Looking at it now, what a magnificent lineup that makes my heart swell…
-The beginning of a legend
People are still sharing that clip of him picking Almond Blink Sword and slicing pickled radish as a meme lol, oh man lol
Footage from the Nurtwar began playing on the screen.
The scene of Almond picking the Blink Sword. At that moment, no one had anticipated he would use it.
Even more so, no one expected him to achieve a level 1 solo kill against Danmuji, the most skilled player in the tournament, using that avatar for the first time in actual combat.
Following that came scenes of Balloon Gum’s four-person archery, Takoyaki receiving the crucial crowd control ability instead of Almond, and Miho’s charm hitting Mosol.
All sorts of famous scenes played out.
-Nut! Nut! Nut!
Are you mad about almonds? lol
-Is this within the team’s expectations?
The fact that Almond’s highlight plays took up a considerable portion was, in truth, an unavoidable tragedy.
And this wasn’t even all of them.
The scenes where Reina played were completely cut out. Was it because they weren’t as flashy compared to the Blink Sword?
-Where did all of Reina’s clips go?
-Reina’s sulking again lolol
-This is Dehaep’s conspiracy, damn it. Where’s Reina?
-Even Ril’s getting an award. Reina doesn’t show up?!
-Where’s the world-first kiss scene?
The chat exploded with people searching for Reina, but the ceremony continued.
“Well, there are too many to mention. How about we have one representative come up and share their thoughts?”
All the teammates yielded the microphone to Almond.
“The microphone goes to the person who worked the hardest!”
-That’s so natural lolol
-Balloon Gum lol stubbornly refusing
-“Carry”
Almond took the microphone somewhat reluctantly, but the Best Team award was something I had anticipated.
I had prepared remarks for this.
“Ah… First of all, I’m truly grateful for receiving such an award. I had barely experienced team sports before, but spending time with the Balloon Stars members and working in sync with them was truly meaningful.”
-Ooooh…
-Did he prepare this too???
-What kind of advertisement is it this time?
Viewers watching Almond in eloquent mode already sensed it was an advertisement.
“Because of this experience, I was able to participate without hesitation in the Civil Empire International Championship, a major tournament. Thank you.”
-Setup, development, twist, international championship lololol
-No way lolol
-Nut Shake really came prepared lolol
-Streamer lol
-Another hidden advertisement?!
“Man, that international championship. At this point, I’m actually curious to see it?”
The host chuckled and sent the teammates down.
Now the next award began.
But then─
“Alright. Best Performance! Almond! You’re coming up again?!”
The very next award was also Almond’s.
Having to go up again in succession, or perhaps running out of things to say.
Sanghyeon looked a bit flustered.
“Come on! Hurry back up here!”
This was only the beginning.

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