Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 449

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 169
59. Luna (2)
When the owl’s call rings three times, come to the campfire.
A suspicious message, as if arranging a secret meeting.
“It is suspicious, though.”
But there was nothing I could confirm right away.
-Isn’t this just Almond dating Luna? lol
-Leave them be, they like each other~
-Something feels off. Especially with Swift tho
The viewers’ opinions were divided.
Why send a message through a window in the first place?
Wasn’t this an overreaction to someone else’s love life?
And so on…
“For now, I’ll just have to follow along. But since I don’t know what might happen, I should make sure my level is the highest.”
In the end, this was my conclusion.
In Ril, level had always been king, and it seemed no different here.
-Like you can do that lol
-???: I have no money, so I’ll earn a lot~
-Don’t talk about it like it’s some grand strategy lolol
-Almond Antoine
Weak becomes strong. Beggar becomes rich.
It was an overly simplistic solution.
As futile as an elementary schooler’s vacation plan.
However, if I could actually pull it off, nothing would be more productive than an elementary schooler’s vacation plan.
[Time passes.]
Of course, that couldn’t happen by willpower alone.
“…Huh?”
The screen suddenly went black.
-Plan destroyed lol
-Hodu destroyed like a dog lolol
-Lmao
I can’t translate “-ㅅㄱ” as it appears to be incomplete Korean consonants without vowels, making it not a valid word or recognizable abbreviation in standard Korean.
-Time: Sure~ Make another vacation plan~ Once I flow, that’s it~

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Crackle… snap….
The sound of a campfire burning.
‘…No way.’
I jolted awake, my eyes snapping open in surprise.
The thought struck me—had I already been summoned by that campfire promise?
Luna was already standing before me.
“….”
Luna was looking at me.
Did Luna summon me? But why me?
What was this situation? Had I been caught spying?
Fortunately, that wasn’t it.
‘What is this. That’s not it.’
Looking to the side, Swift was sitting there. And beyond him, other children were scattered around the campfire, sitting in a circle.
Like they were having a training camp bonfire.
I quickly scanned the area to assess the situation.
There were traces of roasted meat here and there. Tents were pitched in the clearing. Even in this dungeon where day and night couldn’t be distinguished, sleep was necessary. They seemed to be planning to stay for the night.
“I’m going to find the Sanctuary. And I’m going to make a contract.”
Someone murmured.
“Once I become a Contractor… my family will all escape that hellish neighborhood and move to Taran. We’ll become nobility in Taran.”
It was one of the party members sitting around the campfire speaking.
From what I could tell, they were taking turns explaining why they’d become participants.
“I’m not making a contract.”
Swift replied flatly.
“Being a Contractor comes with more headaches than you’d think. That’s what I’ve heard anyway.”
“What? But you’d receive incredible treatment from the nation. Especially in Taran….”
“I don’t know. More than that, what matters most to me is arriving at the Sanctuary with you all. And then we split the rewards cleanly among ourselves and leave. Simple as that.”
The children seemed moved, looking at him with admiration.
Then someone raised a question.
“With that level of motivation, wouldn’t the ‘Bird’ refuse to let you participate?”
Bird?
What was that?
I decided to listen carefully.
“Right. There’s something I haven’t told you all. But I told the Bird.”
“Ah… I see. You can’t tell everyone everything. Luna, what about you?”
A boy asked Luna.
Luna was staring into the campfire. The flames seemed to flicker in her eyes.
“I’m definitely going to make a contract.”
Her tone was strangely resolute.
Not just the children, but even Swift, who had been lying back watching the sky, turned to look at her.
“I’m going to make a contract with the most vicious, powerful, and cruel incarnation there is.”
Murmur, murmur.
The children whispered among themselves, wondering what that meant.
As if such a thing could ever be a goal.
Swift, the eldest among them, asked on their behalf.
“You cute little thing. Why do you harbor such dark dreams?”
Puhaha.
Laughter rippled through the group of children.
Luna chuckled as well.
She brushed her golden bob hair back and spoke the reason as if it were nothing.
“There’s a man I need to kill.”
The atmosphere sobered instantly.
“I told that story to ‘Bird,’ and he brought me along as a participant. That’s all there is to it.”
“…Quite the tale for such a small one.”
Luna nodded with a smile.
“Right. And I’m not small.”
“Yes. Understood. As you say.”
Swift’s expression became unreadable as he pointed to the next person.
“Then you.”
His branch-like finger was directed at Almond.
“Me?”
“Almond. You’re the only one who hasn’t said anything.”
“Ah….”
“Why did you come here? And why were you alone?”
“I….”
I couldn’t answer.
This wasn’t a matter of intelligence. It was information I was never given in the first place.
Should I just say I don’t remember?
‘Now that I think about it, why was I alone in such a treacherous place? What was that Rune box?’
There were many questions. Things I didn’t know either.
“Why I came alone… I don’t remember.”
For now, I had to claim memory loss.
“You don’t remember?”
“Right. When I came to, I was alone and unconscious.”
“Interesting. I’ve heard that many participants heading to find the Sanctuary experience something like that.”
Luna interjected from the side.
“That’s right. They can’t withstand the power the Sanctuary emits.”
It seems the Sanctuary isn’t purely beneficial after all.
Yet people still seek it out—perhaps because the rewards are that exceptional?
“But… don’t you remember why you entered here in the first place?”
Swift asks Almond again.
“Usually people remember at least that much even when they lose their memories.”
Moreover, even with lost memories, people remember that much? Where does that even happen? If you lose it, you lose it.
Almond found it absurd, but here he knew nothing while Swift knew everything.
Going along with it was the answer.
“I’ll tell you about that next time. We haven’t known each other that long anyway.”
Swift chuckles and nods.
“That’s true.”
Crackle… crackle…
Only the sound of the campfire filled the silence for a while.
“Mmph!”
Swift stretches first.
“Let’s stop with the gloomy talk. Time to sleep. We don’t know what kind of monsters we’ll encounter tomorrow.”
With those words, he stood up first.
Then the children gradually got up one by one.
Only the child taking the first watch of the night remained by the campfire.
Almond spoke while watching Swift’s back as he left.
“Now that I think about it, why did my original owner come here?”
-Right, that’s the question
-We might figure it out if we analyze the tattoos
-Let’s get more runes
Suddenly, I realized I knew nothing about my original owner’s purpose.
Participating in this abyss exploration carried enormous risk.
There must have been a purpose to match that risk.
Just as I heard, everyone seemed to have quite clear purposes, didn’t they?
Especially Luna…
‘Just who does Luna need to kill?’
To speak of killing someone so casually. It must be quite a grudge.
“What’s wrong? Why aren’t you going in?”
The night watch looks at Almond strangely.
It seemed to be the pressure from the NPCs urging him to enter the tent and sleep.
“I’m going in now.”

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After entering the tent.
I pretended to sleep, keeping my eyes closed.
Then a message appeared.
[Would you like to rest?]
[Please set the duration.]
It seemed I could pass time by sleeping.
I naturally chose not to sleep.
‘I can’t actually fall asleep.’
Rustle.
I carefully raised my upper body without anyone noticing.
-Where are you going?
-Shouldn’t you wait for the owl to hoot?
-Going to assassinate someone?
“I can’t wait until the owl hoots three times.”
I could depart once the owl called.
If this message was summoning me, there would be no problem doing so.
But what if it wasn’t summoning me?
Someone else would wake up at the sound of the owl.
“I’ll wait in hiding.”
I held my breath and walked out of the tent. Fortunately, no one woke.
Outside, there was only a child sitting in front of the campfire, staring blankly.
He showed no reaction, simply remaining still.
I felt relieved and lay down in a suitable patch of brush.
Crackle.
Did I hear the sound of grass?
The child tending the campfire stared in my direction.
“You. You’re the new one.”
lol
-Gasp
-Oh…
I rose calmly as if nothing had happened.
“Yeah. That’s right.”
-Yeah. That’s right lol
-So shameless even after getting caught lol
-Oh. Got caught. Hey?
The child pointed to the spot beside him.
“Sit next to me. Looks like you couldn’t sleep either.”
“….”
Since I had to wait in front of the campfire anyway, I approached and sat down.
“I’m Ben.”
“Why.”
“…What?”
“Ah. So your name is Ben.”
lol wtf hahahaha
-???
It’s confusing enough for the streamer lol
So you’re saying I got banned? lol
I mentioned my name. Why are you laughing?
“Actually, I already knew.”
Almond hastily corrected course.
-???
-Asung-style social skills activated
What do you know? lol
Ben tilted his head in confusion.
“Really? You didn’t know when we were setting up the tent earlier. That’s why I introduced myself.”
“I know now.”
“…Yeah.”
Ben laughed awkwardly and scratched his head.
He had an innocent impression about him.
Small talk about nuts lol
-No wonder he’s a Ril expert, his conversation is like an aggro ping-pong match
-If I were Ben I’d smack him with the firewood
Ben, who had been staring at the fire for a moment, asked.
“Do you happen to be interested in Luna?”
“…?”
Almond grew cautious as if asking what he meant.
Well, it could be said that he had some interest in Luna, if anything.
I’m interested, haha.
Even the police are interested in criminals lol
I looked at it suspiciously lol
Since Almond didn’t answer, Ben seemed to take it as confirmation.
“Luna is definitely pretty.”
Ben muttered that and looked at Almond.
“But don’t trust her too much.”
“…Why. Did she dump you?”
That’s too much lol
“Was it tea? lol”
I cannot provide a translation for “-정──곡” as it appears to be incomplete or corrupted text. The hyphens and dashes suggest missing characters or formatting issues that prevent meaningful translation.
“What!? No, it’s not like that! Didn’t you see today? Every path Luna chose was a dead end.”
I had only seen Luna choose a path once. The rest were skipped.
“Really?”
“You don’t remember? Ah… you said the Sanctuary took damage… what a shame.”
“But how do you know the path Luna chose turned out to be a dead end?”
“Because there was no harvest at all?”
“That’s just bad luck.”
“No. Luna can sense the Sanctuary’s aura. She joined this party as a guide in the first place. Then at minimum, she should have obtained two or three Rune boxes.”
“…”
“Either she lacks the ability, or she’s deliberately not guiding us.”
“Why on earth would she?”
“She could be a human hunter wandering the abyss.”
“A human… hunter?”
“Yeah. They keep participants running in circles, and when they’re exhausted and weakened. They make them their prey. Those creatures hunt humans instead of monsters to level up.”
lol lol lol lol
-so scary
-what’s Luna’s real identity
-conspiracy theory lol
“Why do you suspect Luna so much? By your own words, she’s just a pretty girl.”
“…”
Ben hesitates to answer.
I decided to push for an answer here.
“Did she reject you?”
-lol what a jerk
-lmao
-forced answer lol
-if he doesn’t answer now he’s rejected~~
-answer button lol
“What? I… no!”
Ben shakes his head vigorously.
“That’s not it! If it were that, it would be better.”
“Then what is it?”
“…She did it. My friend.”
“?”
“He died. Because of Luna.”
“…What?”
Died?
Because of Luna?
Then why are they traveling together?
lol
-wow
-What the hell
“It’s only suspicion. Only I know about it.”
“What kind of suspicion are you talking about?”
“Luna sent him a note asking him to meet her secretly that night.”
‘What? Could it be something like this?’
I glanced down at my spear without thinking.
“That bastard went out all day excited, saying it was good. Honestly, I would’ve done the same. A girl like that asking to meet secretly at night. What man wouldn’t go?”
Ben stared into the empty air with a dazed expression, lost in his own thoughts.
From my perspective, Ben seemed to be the one interested in Luna. Even if he had killed his own friend.
“But the next morning, that bastard disappeared without a trace.”
“…That’s it?”
“Yeah.”
“…Did you tell Swift about this?”
“He doesn’t believe me. He asked where the letter Luna sent was.”
….
“I definitely heard it. From him. That he was going to meet Luna tonight. That she sent him a note. He even bragged about it to me. But no matter how hard I searched for that note… of course I couldn’t find it.”
I was at a loss for words.
Because I somehow knew where that note was.
It wasn’t a note.
‘Luna was carrying it.’
Perhaps Luna was the one carrying the evidence.
-Ah. So what was written on the spear was written back then?
Wow lol the murderer is holding evidence lmao
-Wow
‘Then this must be a message already used once.’
The owl’s cry won’t ring out today. It’s just a record of a story already finished.
At that very moment.
Hoot~
“!”
Hoo-oot~
‘The owl’s cry….’
Hoo-oo-oot.
‘Three times.’
I looked at my spear once more.
「When the owl’s cry sounds three times, to the bonfire」

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[Beginner’s Tip: Have you successfully made a contract with a Divine Being? Congratulations! You can now receive noble-tier treatment wherever you go! However, remember that Divine Beings cannot exist if the sanctuary’s energy runs out!]

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