Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 569

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 39
14. G-Star Grand Finale (4)
“Actually, it’s not ten million won—it’s one million won!”
The moment those words reached my ears, I didn’t immediately understand.
In other words, my mind didn’t process it right away.
How terrifying the unconscious mind and instinct truly are.
“!”
The small fragments of doubt scattered throughout my mind suddenly clicked into place like puzzle pieces.
Thump!
A heavy realization crashes down with a dull sound.
‘Oh no.’
A wave of embarrassment floods through me, and without thinking, words escape my lips.
“No wonder there were so many donations…”
-No wonder my luck was so good today!
-Hahahaha this is hilarious!
-???: Drops came in! Why can’t I grab them!
-Lmaooo
-This is actually happening
While I sat there in shock, everyone around me was either stifling their laughter or laughing outright.
My mind went blank, and my face flushed crimson red.
-Red pepper Almond lol
-His face turned red hahahaha
-Ah so cute
-Blushing Mond in paradise
“Ah… um… Almond? Did the viewers perhaps trick you?”
Trick me? Did they really?
Was I supposed to admit that?!
“Ha… ugh.”
After a brief moment of composing myself, I managed to force out an answer.
“No. I let myself be fooled… for the entertainment.”
Almond insisting that he willingly played along.
Pfft…!
I could feel the host struggling to hold back laughter.
I admit it. It was impossible not to laugh.
“Ah… well… doesn’t that happen often? When viewers try to prank streamers, like… you know when people say to take off your shoes before boarding a plane… stuff like that?”
Almond’s expression darkened. It looked like he was about to genuinely pout…!
Just then, a fan’s voice chimed in again.
“It’s okay! Almond! The people filled in nine million won through donations!”
After hearing that, Almond’s expression brightened again. Remarkably so.
-Lol it’s written all over his face haha
-Unknown: Oh right, you received 9 million won?
He suddenly burst out laughing haha
-Hey hey, just trust the viewers(?)
At the mention of 9 million won, the host thrust the microphone forward to ask another question.
“You received 9 million won!? Then you weren’t actually fooled, were you? You really did earn close to 10 million won!?”
At those words, Sanghyeon tilted his head while managing his expression.
“I did receive a lot of donations. But whether it’s exactly 9 million won…”
“Ah. So you haven’t calculated the exact amount? Still, it seems you received quite a bit.”
“Yes. A lot did come in. And to make that happen, I let myself be fooled… haha…”
Scratch.
Since he wasn’t good at lying, his awkward head-scratching was obvious to anyone watching.
Sanghyeon himself knew he wasn’t skilled at deception.
Yet he seemed unwilling to admit to the viewers that he’d been fooled.
“Ah, so it went according to plan… something like that?”
“Yes. Well… something like that.”
Now the audience didn’t even bother hiding their laughter and burst out laughing.
At this moment, the viewers’ chat window was also flooded with laughter.
“Got screwed over and then says ‘everything went according to plan’ lolololol”
Hahahahahahaha
-Pretending he wasn’t fooled~~
Hahahaha / Lol
Haha, that’s hilarious!
That’s the expression of someone who got what they planned, right? ㅎㅎㅎㅎ
-Ah ah… so you had a plan for everything…
The host patted him on the shoulder and wrapped up the award ceremony.
“Well. In any case, Almond received close to 10 million won. Everyone, did you see? This is how important trust is! Things work out the way you believe!”
Things work out the way you believe. It wasn’t wrong. Because the viewers sent donations precisely because he believed so naively and took everything at face value.
“Almond, you also came in first in the overall rankings. So what are you going to do now? Is there something you want to buy at the auction?”
“I’ll try to find it first.”
“Pardon? Find what? Do you have a specific item you’re looking for?”
“Who mentioned it first.”
“…!”
Whoosh!
Flames ignited in Almond’s eyes as he spoke.
“No, saying that I was fooled ㅋㅋㅋ”
I can’t translate this accurately. The text appears to be incomplete or corrupted Korean text with irregular spacing and characters that don’t form standard words.
hahahahaha
-If you think it’s you~ come out and bash your head~

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After the awards ceremony concluded—one that had been rather unusual in its own way—various auctions and merchandise sales conducted with points began.
An announcement broadcast echoed through the speakers scattered across the venue.
[We will now be displaying merchandise created by game companies at each booth. Challengers who wish to make purchases may do so using your accumulated points.]
The time had come to freely spend the points I’d accumulated thus far.
Everyone’s excitement was rising as if they were about to go on a shopping spree after saving up their monthly salary.
Tap.
Sanghyeon and Juhyeok sat at a table, conversing with serious expressions.
“Did you know about this?”
Sanghyeon asked Juhyeok carefully.
Though his words were cautious, the intent to pin someone down came through loud and clear.
Juhyeok vehemently denied it.
“No, no!? I had no idea!”
“Really? You?”
“I’m under contract, so I haven’t even been able to watch your stream!”
“Sigh….”
What Juhyeok said was the truth.
If he had watched, given his personality, he would have warned me beforehand to prevent any mishaps.
“Then….”
My gaze naturally turned toward the chat window.
The culprit had to be in here somewhere.
“If you confess, I’ll reduce your sentence by half.”
Hahahahaha
-so scary lolol
Um… would it be okay if you went shopping?
[Mond donated 10,000 won.]
[Hey! You just filled up the ten million won! That was money that didn’t even exist originally!]
“You filled up the ten million won? Ah…”
Actually, that statement is correct. The challenge prize was originally one million won.
The ten million won that essentially never existed….
The viewers actually filled it in for real.
But I made this argument nonetheless.
“However, justice cannot be bought with money.”
Money is money, and a lie is a lie.
-Ohhh~
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol)
-why so serious lolol
-what kind of hero dialogue is that lololol
-Kant or whatever lololol
“Since you won’t confess, I’ll find them myself and timeout whoever brought this up first.”
Tap tap tap tap tap…
Before Sanghyeon could even speak, Juhyeok opened his laptop beside him and began searching through the chat.
The viewers could see the investigation net tightening.
-Yikes.
-As long as it’s not me~~~
-Wait, are you seriously finding them lol
“If you confess, I’ll reduce your sentence by half~”
-How long is the sentence?
-Half?
-Half?? That’s a good deal lol
“A thousand years.”
-???
-This is insane lol
-So even if you cut it in half, that’s still five hundred years lol this is crazy
-Wait, a thousand years, even if you reduce it by half that’s five hundred years, who’s gonna confess lol
-Just don’t confess lol
Honestly, a confession wasn’t even necessary.
Finding the first person to mention the amount wasn’t difficult at all.
All I had to do was search for “ten million won” and find whoever mentioned it first in today’s chat.
Sanghyeon was simply toying with that person now.
Giving them a taste of their own medicine.
“If you confess even now, I’ll reduce it to a quarter. Final offer~”
-This is insane lol
-Two hundred fifty years? If you wait for the ban to lift you might survive lol
-What if it becomes a cyberpunk world and you can swap out parts to survive?
-This place runs a tight ship lol
No one would accept such absurd negotiation terms, and the two had already identified the instigator.
“Yukino07.”
-Oh no!
-Wow they found them lol
-Is this for real lol
-Their heart must’ve skipped a beat
Sanghyeon opened a private chat with them and began the trial.
“I’ll give you a chance for a final statement.”
[yukino07: I have severe astigmatism, so I saw an extra zero…]
-Astigmatism lol this is crazy
-If you have severe astigmatism shouldn’t you see two zeros?!haha
-They came up with that excuse on the spot lol
-Goodbye
“Ah… I understand.”
As Almond nodded, Juhyeok moved the mouse and completed the selection.
[yukino07: Save me! Save m]
[(Blocked Viewer)]
No, hahahaha
-Is it really a thousand years??
I understand = death penalty lol
The last chat message is giving final death screams lol
-He just vanished in real time…
-He was a good liar…
According to later accounts, it wasn’t actually a 1,000-year ban, but a 1,000-hour suspension.

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Of course, eliminating the ringleader didn’t resolve everything cleanly.
[Breaking News) Greedy Almond’s Legend Award Speech: “Give me one more zero”]
Almond’s remark on stage today—something along the lines of “there’s one zero missing”—was perfectly phrased to be misinterpreted and become the butt of jokes.
Hahahahaha, there’s not a single zero!
I’m going crazy lol
And they’re pulling this off – those almond guys are amazing, damn.
Almonds are lowkey filling lol
I don’t know much about the internet side of things lol, I’m so naive
I got fooled by almonds lol
Haha, I just remembered that scene from Zombie School where poop suddenly splashes out ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Haha that’s legendary too lol
-Mond’s red face is so cute…
Every time it got posted to communities, the reactions were great. His viewers weren’t about to miss this opportunity.
Click!
Click!
They churned out endless clips and began spreading them across the internet. The titles were so easy to make sensational that it was hard not to click without reading them.
[Almond’s Legend Award Speech “One zero short”]
[Almond’s face turns red in anger after realizing the prize money is one zero short]
[Viewership Luck of the Fortunate “Huh, I got a lot of donations today…”]
[Almond’s expression like a man who lost his country after checking the prize amount]
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.
.
Among these countless posts, some naturally rose to trending status.
Not just in one community, but even in gaming communities and celebrity-related communities with little connection to the event.
-Almond’s viewers pulled it off~
I got totally fooled and became world-class lolol
How does something like this happen at Gstar lolol
It’s hilarious that a new record was set in the midst of all this ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ created by passion born from being deceived ㅋㅋㅋ
Lol for real, while other people are working with a million won, this guy’s working with 10 million won alone lol “10 times the passion”
lol “10 times the passion”
These videos were also spread as video donations to other streamers who hadn’t attended G-Star today.
Ding.
[Breaking News donated 10,000 won.]
[Today’s Almond Award Acceptance Speech lol Legend (Video)]
Ding.
[OO donated 4,000 won.]
[Breaking News) Streamer Asking for an Additional 9 Million Won on Top of 1 Million Won Prize]
Ding.
[Legend donated 3,000 won.]
[Almond’s Award Acceptance Speech “The Prize Money is Missing a Zero” (Video)]
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.
.
The reactions from streamers who saw these video donations varied.
“Eeeek….”
“Uh, what do I do!?”
“Hahahaha! Argh! I can’t watch this!”
Some widened their eyes in shock, others covered their mouths in embarrassment, and still others lowered their heads as if it were their own problem and hid off-camera.
The common thread was that they all giggled and laughed throughout their reactions.
The chat was no different.
Give me one more, damn it hahaha
I can’t translate this as it’s not coherent Korean text. It appears to be random characters and laughter symbols (ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ).
I saw her on the bed and she hid under the blanket lol
That’s crazy lol, that’s legendary
If I get cast as a villain, that would be so cool lol
And there was one person collecting all these reactions.
A woman with tousled hair, clicking her mouse between two monitors.
Click. Click.
“I definitely hit the jackpot with this.”
It was Jia, Almond’s editor.
She was pleased that there were plenty of angles to work with for the video.
“This is really… incredible. In many ways.”
It seemed nothing had turned out the way she’d anticipated.

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