Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 451

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 171
60. Erased Memories (1)
Rilpro.
The chat had been buzzing about Almond’s choice regarding Luna.
More precisely, they’d been discussing his decision not to choose Luna.
Haha, you’re not picking Luna?
I ended up ruining it by rolling the walnut that wasn’t even rolling in the first place.
“The nut bar is clenching its teeth and won’t tell us, did it get hit? lol”
Ugh, it’s so frustrating having to die and restart just because I picked the wrong choice.
When Almond didn’t believe Luna’s story and instead grew suspicious.
They naturally assumed Almond would die.
It was only natural.
The Abyss’s concept was designed that way from the start.
Here, making a wrong choice alone is enough to kill you.
To demonstrate this, the creators made players die in very simple and ridiculous ways.
As shown in this current reaction, there weren’t just one or two players who died that way.
[but isn’t that too malicious of the creators? they basically made it like just go dig around once…]
How the hell does Luna gain trust like that all at once?
Just, this is how it normally is, you’re overreacting.
[???: You’re already dead. You just haven’t realized it yet]
Thus, many victims voiced their grievances.
Their only consolation was that there were countless other victims as well.
So everyone thought Almond would also die for picking the wrong choice.
But Almond became the exception.
Almond making a dog-like comeback lol
[he survived this???]
“Wait, if I buy this, how does the story even work lol”
[total mess]
[real-time Almond survives without choosing Luna]
Almond survived despite picking the wrong choice.
If this is the first time, that would be huge lol anyway this is my first time seeing it
It looks the same at first lol
-someone probably did it before
For the first time ever, I actually bought Luna and held onto her.
-could there be a hidden route??
Where would that even come from lol, how many people have beaten this?
That’s true, lol
Even with Anna’s hidden route, that’s even more amazing because the production team wasn’t prepared for it either lol
Someone claimed this was the first time.
There was no way to verify immediately since creators rarely track every single piece of data like this.
It was that rare of an occurrence.
With this development, public opinion shifted.
[Those who say they went to rock bottom for not choosing Luna, come out!]
[From today on, I’m also Almond’s puppy! Woof woof!^^7]
[Can I join the Puppy Clan?]
Most of Ril’s story mode leaves the player with almost no agency.
After all, there’s a predetermined story, and there’s the vast world of Ril itself.
It’s difficult to change anything within that larger framework.
But right now, there are signs that something might be changing.
And it happened on the broadcast of a popular streamer with 30,000 live viewers.
People couldn’t help but be excited.

* * *
The chat was in an uproar saying Swift had died.
-Seriously, what do we do if he’s dead lol
-Almond, the NPC with a minus hand.
-How do we proceed from here
-Either way, do we have to restart lol
-A supporting character who killed the protagonist lol
“Is he really dead…?”
If someone had their jaw kicked by a foot and wasn’t moving, just lying there motionless.
It wouldn’t be an entirely unreasonable conclusion to think they were dead.
But wouldn’t it be more accurate to assume they were just knocked unconscious?
It wasn’t a blade—just a kick.
“Swift probably isn’t dead. Would all his health really be depleted from that?”
-In story mode, health might not matter?
-We don’t know how it applies here
-He crushed someone’s jaw and that’s supposed to kill him? lol
“He’s the protagonist himself. He wouldn’t die. So how do we proceed?”
Almond approached Swift’s collapsed form and examined his condition.
“….”
It was eerily quiet, as if he really were dead.
“Even if his health is completely depleted, isn’t this usually counted as unconsciousness rather than death? Since he’s the protagonist…”
The fact that Almond kept talking showed he was anxious too.
-Muttering lol
-Looks like you’re nervous too haha
-Repeating the same thing, what’s with that lol
Since the chat kept saying he was dead.
Almond found himself leaning toward that conclusion as well.
‘Dead?’
If a character wasn’t supposed to die, they wouldn’t have let them die. This scene was never meant to end in death in the first place. Didn’t they say it was a scene where the Player dies?
That’s when it happened.
[Time passes.]
The screen went black.

* * *
“Hey. Almond. You can’t keep sleeping like this. Wake up.”
Ben’s voice reached me through the darkness.
My vision gradually recovered, and I could make out the faint glow of a lamp inside the dim tent.
“What… what is this?”
“What do you mean ‘what’? Did you think you could just sleep in the Abyss? We’re moving out again. We need to find the Rune Box. Swift is going crazy. He says we’ll die if we don’t find it soon.”
-???
-Not a restart?
-Did we go back to yesterday?
-What is this
The chat erupted with speculation.
The spoiler filters like ‘&#*@&$’ that had appeared frequently before completely disappeared.
This meant the story was heading into uncharted territory that no one knew about.
“Ben. About what you said by the campfire yesterday──”
“Shh!”
Ben’s eyes went wide as he raised his index finger sharply.
“Why are you bringing that up all of a sudden? Are you still half asleep?”
“Ah.”
I nodded as if I’d confirmed something, then addressed the viewers.
“Time didn’t rewind.”
Judging by Ben’s reaction, we definitely hadn’t gone back to yesterday. Besides, the message clearly said “Time passes.”
Time rewinding would be nonsensical.
Surely they wouldn’t be so petty as to say “We never said which direction time flows, hehe” and send us to the past.
“Anyway, be careful of Luna. Grab your weapon and come on out.”
Whoosh.
Ben handed me my spear.
“Ah. Thanks──”
Just as I was about to say thanks.
My eyes caught sight of the inscription carved into the shaft.
「When you hear the owl’s call three times, come to the campfire」
Oh no.
Did Ben not see this?
It was written right there on the spear?
I stared at it for a moment.
“…Ben.”
“Huh?”
He thrust the spear toward the text inscribed on it.
“You said you didn’t know what kind of letter Luna sent, right?”
“Uh… Yeah. But I told you not to bring that up!?”
Ben whispered while shouting.
“….”
A moment of silence.
‘You don’t know about the letter even though it’s right in front of your eyes?’
A thought flickered through Almond’s mind as he pondered.
「You can read that writing, can’t you?」
Luna’s words came back to me.
‘He can’t read it.’
Now I finally understood why sending it this way posed no risk whatsoever.
Only I could read these characters.
I had no idea what principle governed it, though.
“What, what is it. Let go of this. I need to prepare.”
Ben pushed me away and tried to leave the tent.
But then—
“Oh? Wait.”
Click.
He grabbed my spear again.
“This….”
He was staring directly at where the message was written.
-Wow
-No way, right?
-Huh?
Ben’s expression suddenly brightened considerably.
Could he actually read this text?
“Whoa!”
The next words that burst out were quite unexpected.
“Isn’t this the script that divine beings use? The kind from mythology.”
Script used by divine beings, he said.
I wasn’t sure what he meant.
“…Divine beings?”
“Yeah. I know it’s the script used by the most powerful clan among divine beings. They have the worst temperament and are crude, but they’re the strongest.”
“….”
Divine beings with bad temperaments and crude personalities… the strongest ones….
‘What is this.’
If I apply this directly to Ril, isn’t that just describing Koreans? Of course, in ranked matches players compete as Contractors rather than divine beings, but in this story mode we’re recognized as divine beings.
“The shape is so unique that I do remember it. But I don’t know how to read it, and even if I did, I wouldn’t understand what they’re saying… I roughly know that ‘ㅂ’ makes a ‘b’ sound… like that.”
Speaks while pointing accurately at the Korean letter ㅂ.
At this point, it’s 100%.
This isn’t just Korean written as a game mechanic—these creatures actually perceive it as Korean.
“What kind of setting is this lol”
Is this an Easter egg? lol
The most powerful clan lol, at least in the game lol
His personality is the dirtiest lol
Damn, Koreans are the best at rap, haha.
-King Sejong, are you watching!?
Ben muttered to himself like this.
“Ah… I see. So that’s why this spear is good? Because ‘they’ used it?”
He went back outside the tent.
After a brief silence.
Almond asks the viewers.
“So Luna can write Korean?”
That’s hilarious lol
Probably tweaked it little by little to fit the local tastesㅋㅋㅋ
It seems like that’s the case.
-It would be English if played in North America.
I see. How interesting… I mutter as I exit the tent.
Thud.
I run into Swift.
“!”
From Almond’s perspective, this is the being who just tried to kill me.
He speaks to me without a care, as if nothing happened.
“Don’t you know the newbie gets cursed out for being last?”
“You’re one to talk—did you forget what happened yesterday?”
“Yesterday?”
Swift tilts his head in confusion.
“What happened?”
I was dumbfounded.
He doesn’t remember.
“ㅁㅊㅋㅋㅋ don’t you remember?”
-Where did he come from, some political party?
-Is he acting?
If you get hit by that kick, you won’t remember it lol
Swift strokes his chin and mutters.
“There was a fire, so I got up to put it out… but when I woke up later, I was sleeping in a different tent. Other than that, nothing seemed strange.”
He could be acting.
But since this wasn’t the game’s intended development, he might genuinely have lost his memory.
“Why. Do you happen to know why I was sleeping in a different tent?”
“No.”
“Hmm. That’s strange. It feels like you know something…”
Swift scrutinized Almond’s expression, suspicious of him.
“I really don’t know.”
“Is that so? Fine. Get ready and come out.”
Whoosh—Swift vanished.
‘What the hell.’
Almond was utterly bewildered.
“Did I really get kicked and lose my memory?”
[Osoi donated 10,000 won.]
It was a memory-loss kick~lololol
Mapo-gu Eraser Kick Yoo Sang-hyun is crazy
Haha, amnesia kick lol
-lol that must be it lol
Getting past it this casually was understandable, really.
They had said Swift’s death wasn’t intentional in the first place.
If it were a different game company, they would have made players start from the beginning all over again.
Letting it slide like this was quite natural.
‘So… it’s actually strange.’
However, Almond found it more suspicious that things had been resolved so smoothly.
Could it really be that something completely unexpected happened that the game company hadn’t prepared for?
‘Who knows. Whatever.’
Almond shrugged and followed Swift anyway.
“Well, it worked out anyway. I didn’t know what would happen if I left the party.”
One way or another, I managed to stay with the party without any real conflict.
Even if Swift was displeased, he was the protagonist of this story. I had to go along, didn’t I?
And there was still so much more I needed to find out.

* * *
My journey since entering the Abyss had been straightforward.
Hunting, and nothing but hunting.
I thought finding the exit would be the first priority.
“Once you’re in the Abyss, the exit only appears after the ‘rules’ activate. So until then, we need to grow stronger!”
That’s what he said.
We had to grow stronger to prepare for the bloody competition when the exit appeared.
“We’ll only get rune boxes if we find monsters level 5 or higher.”
The fastest way to grow stronger here was to find rune boxes.
Now the party set out on the path.
“Ken, you navigate. Luna’s senses seem to have dulled.”
Swift no longer entrusted the navigation to Luna.
“Yeah, got it.”
Glancing over, Luna’s expression didn’t look good at all.
I thought Luna and Swift had quite a solid relationship. Maybe that wasn’t the case.
I was certain Swift had come to kill Luna in her place.
“What are you looking at?”
Zing.
Luna glares at Almond and walks past.
Seeing this, Luna clearly remembered yesterday’s events.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but let’s just move forward.”
Almond decided to clear his mind since he didn’t understand the situation.
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to be fragmented Korean slang or abbreviations that don’t form a coherent phrase, and without proper context, an accurate translation isn’t possible.
-There’s no one here who can beat him anyway lol
-Figurehead Swift and the real power Almond lol
Walking the path for a while in that state.
Kuguguung…!
[Magma Bear]
[Lv. 6]
The level 5 or higher monster Swift mentioned had appeared.
This was the same creature that existed as a jungle monster in the Ril siege battle.
Kraaaaaaah!
A bear whose entire body was made of churning lava roared and charged toward us.
From here on, it was a terrifying monster where you could feel the heat on your skin, but Swift actually seemed delighted.
“Excellent! Once we catch that beast, the rune box appears immediately!”
Meanwhile, Almond pondered how he could claim the rune box for himself.
If Swift took the rune box, it would take much longer to recover my memories.

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[Beginner’s Tip: Where do the sanctuaries buried deep beneath the earth come from? That remains unknown. What we do know for certain is that the areas surrounding sanctuaries always transform into the Abyss.]

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