Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 675

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 145
48. Dinner Party (3)
I’d eaten enough food by now, and met plenty of people.
Walking around, I must have repeated my archery player days story about thirty-one times.
Now that I think about it, that’s probably how many times I told it to everyone from all the countries that made it to the main rounds.
Was that right?
Sanghyeon couldn’t quite remember.
Every time my mouth felt bored or awkward, I’d gulped down champagne, so at some point my head started spinning pleasantly.
So I sat down on the sofa for a moment and stared at my phone.
Ding.
I had a message from Juhyeok.
[Juhyeok: How are you doing?]
It was news that came after quite a while.
I grabbed my dizzy head and moved my thumb with effort to send a reply.
[Sanghyeon: Yeah, good]
[Sanghyeon: In the middle of a dinner party right now. Looks like it’s almost over]
I stared blankly at the chandelier on the ceiling for a moment when another message came from Juhyeok.
[Juhyeok: Oh. You said good, but guess what? Merchandise just dropped lol]
“…”
I wanted to point out his previous comment, but the news about merchandise dropping completely grabbed my attention.
In the meantime, Juhyeok sent more messages.
[Juhyeok: First, the Dis World merchandise.]
[Juhyeok: (link)]
The link Juhyeok sent was a page from the Dis World store.
Almond-shaped cheering sticks and almond-shaped hats, and so on.
Almond merchandise had been released.
“…Oh.”
It was quite impressive? No, compared to other famous celebrities’ merchandise, I couldn’t tell the difference.
There were diverse variations too. Some were predictable items.
Since these were virtual world merchandise, there were items I never could have imagined—like a suit where your entire body becomes an almond itself (Mom I Want to Become an Almond When I Grow Up), or mixed nuts fireworks that burst with almonds and other nuts. These unimaginable products existed.
[Juhyeok: The almond merchandise wasn’t made by the Monster team—the company directly hired people to make it.]
[Sanghyeon: You did this???]
I sent a rabbit emoticon with a bewildered expression.
Then Juhyeok replied with a dignified dog emoticon.
[Juhyeok: It wasn’t that difficult, the system is really well set up.]
I’d only just taken over the new company, but even for Dis World, to actually produce merchandise like this in-house was remarkable.
I could only be amazed.
[Juhyeok: Physical merchandise is coming out now too. If we’re lucky, it’ll arrive in Japan tomorrow lol]
[Sanghyeon: Tomorrow???]
Tomorrow? Why is everything moving so frantically?
[Juhyeok: The match is about to start anyway]
[Juhyeok: Party time!]
Juhyeok sent an emoticon of a dog wearing sunglasses winking.
[Sanghyeon: What about the actual items?]
[Juhyeok: Cheering merchandise]
[Juhyeok: The Almond cheering merchandise wasn’t made by Monster, but the national team cheering merchandise was made by Monster. There will be quite a lot of Monster logos on it.]
[Juhyeok: (photo)]
Juhyeok showed an example image through the photo.
A white background with red and green patterns, featuring a monster emblem resembling a haetae.
It matched well with Joseon’s concept, and it definitely felt like it was being spawned from Monster.
[Juhyeok: The other members’ individual merchandise will take a bit longer. To be honest, we’re still assessing production angles on this end. Whether it’s worth investing in.]
[Sanghyeon: Ah…]
Team cheering merchandise had come out, and Almond’s individual cheering merchandise had come out.
But the individual cheering merchandise for the team members hadn’t been assessed yet for whether it was worth investing in.
Sanghyeon immediately understood what he meant.
[Sanghyeon: We have to win]
We have to win this match against Viking.
He sent an emoticon of a peach clenching its fist.
Then he averted his gaze from his phone.
“Alright! Thank you for waiting!”
The venue had become quite chaotic.
Everyone stood up and headed somewhere, and colorful dresses tangled here and there, blocking the view.
“Today! The candidates selected for Best Dresser! Please come to the stage! Now! Since the dresses are long! Please come out slowly! Slowly! We have plenty of time!?”
Wooooooooooo!
As familiar faces, all dressed up, came up on stage one by one, cheers erupted fiercely.
“Lauren! Lauren! Lauren!”
Some teams of men were chanting cheers.
The cameras all began focusing there, and Sanghyeon’s personal broadcast camera also shifted its focus in that direction.
and lol
-What is this, the military?
-Kyaa
-There are quite a lot of candidates
The cool kids have all the fun ㅠ
-Why can’t Almond go! Go out in drag!
The Viking side also didn’t hold back and cheered.
“Jesse! Jesse! Jesse!”
“Jessieeeee!”
It seemed only Jesse came up on their side.
lol
Vikings alone are ㅠ
-Whoa
Jesse really left ㄷㄷ
-Wack Jesse’s style is insane~
In a bright yellow dress with an open side and high heels that made her already tall frame seem even more elongated, her fiery red hair seemed to burn even brighter today.
No one could deny it. She was absolutely striking.
“Well, we’d recommend having one representative from each country participate, yes? It only seems fair….”
The host gazed at the lined-up candidates and tilted her head.
“Ah. Korea? Korea didn’t send anyone?”
I didn’t expect her to point it out so directly.
Sanghyeon found myself flustered, glancing around nervously.
-Almond, go out there!
-Cross-dress right now
We don’t have any either ㅠㅠ
-Guess they weren’t prepared
-Danggeun won’t go? Her outfit seems a bit too plain for that stage?
“I knew we didn’t have anyone, but now that we actually don’t… it’s disappointing.”
I was trying to comfort the viewers with a brief explanation.
“We prepared in a rush, and this is our first time making it to the finals….”
I’m so sad about it ㅠ
-Let’s rip off our shirts and run down there right now, Sang-hyun Yu!
We should come wearing hanbok too.
Why can’t just anyone go out?
-But these days young people don’t have hanbok, how would they even wear it
That’s when it happened.
Suddenly the host excitedly waved her hands wildly.
“Ah! Here she comes! Wow~! Does the protagonist always make a late entrance!?”
The camera and my gaze turned backward simultaneously.
It was toward the entrance.
“!”
A woman in hanbok appeared.
A long, voluminous black skirt.
Against the black fabric, delicate and restrained embroidery gleamed with five-colored light. Like a jewelry box crafted by a master of mother-of-pearl lacquerware over months.
Above it, a pearl-colored bright jeogori.
That jeogori, studded with glittering patterns throughout, had such a short length that it made the beholder feel a sense of longing.
Why is beauty so brief? Why do flowers wither so quickly?
Yet following the delicate neckline that this jeogori embraced, that longing quickly fades away.
Her black hair braided and pinned up held the essence of this masterpiece with an elegant refinement that was neither overly traditional nor clashing with the outfit.
Ascending the stairs, she lifted her head.
An elegant jawline, features radiating grace.
Long black eyelashes naturally curved upward, and the true jewel that all the previous ornaments had been reaching toward was finally revealed.
My eyes meet Sanghyeon’s.
‘Choi Sa-rang…?’
The moment our eyes met, I knew who she was, yet simultaneously I couldn’t trust my own vision.
Was it because her appearance today was so breathtakingly beautiful? Unprecedented?
No, that wasn’t it.
It was a far more realistic and physical problem.
‘Why is she standing?’
I couldn’t accept the fact that Choi Sa-rang was standing and climbing the stairs.
Every time I’d encountered her before, she had always been sitting in a wheelchair.
-Whoa
-Wow
-Whoa
-She’s insane, who is this person???
-Crazy
-Joseon making a comeback like that!
With her entrance, the chat window’s scroll shot up like mad.
And─
“Ooooh….”
“Wow.”
“…Huh?”
Countless exclamations echoed from every direction.
From behind, Pang-eo gripped my shoulder tightly.
“Hey… did that person just look at me?”
-??
-It’s Ajae…
People keep making the same mistakes… lol
-Are you joking guys~
ㅠㅠ (crying face/tears)
-Hey, Pang-eo might’ve actually seen her, why are you like that!
Then the Sync Tank team members who had been following behind Choi Sa-rang joined us.
“Wow. Hyungs. You were here.”
Chiseung approaches, waving his hand.
“Did you see? That person is Daisunsin Choi.”
“Wh… what!?”
Pang-eo, apparently unaware, jumped back in surprise.
“Ah, no. Where did Cookie find such a precious person to bring here!?”
“…But you just said she was washed up.”
“I, I never said that!? What!?”
Pang-eo seemed to have decided to erase that memory entirely.
“I, I decided not to follow Cookie’s orders anymore after that person looked at me─”
“Ah. Almond hyung. Do you know that person? They were asking if you had a brother.”
What?
Pang-eo Ajae stopped mid-sentence and turned his head blankly toward Almond.
Hahahahaha
Well, that’s true then haha
ㅠㅠ (or -ㅠㅠ) represents crying or tears in Korean text/internet culture.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 167]
A natural English equivalent would be:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 169]
T_T
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 171]
or simply:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 173]
crying / ;_; / TT
-You guys who said Pang-eo was looking at them earlier, come out. You’re the worst
Hahahahaha lol
-Chiseung, why are you lying? Chiseung, why are you lying? Chiseung, why are you lying? Chiseung, why are you lying?
-The whole world is the Nut Clan…
“You don’t know who his brother is?”
“Ah….”
Sanghyeon was conflicted.
Should I say I know or not?
But if they went out of their way to ask if I had a brother, then it should be fine to act like we know each other.
“Yeah. I know. I just didn’t realize that person was that person.”
“Eh eh eh!?”
At this, the other Sync Tank members approached him and bombarded him with questions.
“Wait. How do you even know them?”
“Where did you meet?”
“That unni seemed super rich!?”
However, such questions were instantly dismissed by his answer.
“We go to the same rehabilitation hospital. She watches my stream and… she was just being nice to me.”
“Ahem, ahem. So that’s why you were looking? Right? Ah, I thought….”
In the meantime, Pang-eo was excitedly chattering away when he suddenly shut his mouth.

Everyone glared at Pang-eo as if he were trash.
“Ah, no. Before I could even process the word hospital, my mouth just started moving on its own….”
Pang-eo had to make excuses for quite a while.
Ugh, that old-fashioned guy
Just don’t hang around next to Almond, lol
Honestly, it’s so pathetic lol
I feel the wealth gap every day, sigh.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 202]
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A moment later.
Best Dresser candidates, including Korea’s representative, lined up across the stage.
“Alright, everyone! Please vote for the most… beautifully dressed contestant!”
Ding!
App notifications arrived on everyone’s phones, and after a brief moment of deliberation, people began voting.
“The winner will be selected by combining your votes with the scores from our special judges!”
Everyone alternated their gaze between their phones and the stage.
Sanghyeon and the members gathered around him also began voting.
“Who did we decide on?”
“Oh. That person from Japan. The kimono.”
“Right.”
Since they couldn’t vote for someone from their own country, they had to cast strategic votes to eliminate the natural predator that could knock out the Viking faction.
Haha, what do you mean by strategic voting? Lol
Korean-style voting lol
-Best Dresser… right?
Hahahahaha
-But the Japan candidate is super popular anyway
Rather than selecting the Best Dresser, they were essentially voting to avoid the worst-case scenario, which was somewhat amusing.
But there was no choice. Joseon was the weakest.
“Sigh… do we even have a chance of being selected?”
“Pretty high.”
Just then, Cookie appeared from somewhere and spoke.
“Oh. Hee-cheol hyung?”
“Chiseung. Don’t worry. I think it’ll almost certainly be us. Start thinking about which map to pick.”
“Huh? No, how can you be so sure about that?”
I was also puzzled by this.
Could even a commander predict the Best Dresser?
“Unless they’re not even a worthy opponent… right now we’re quite competitive, aren’t we? So people will think a little and eventually choose us.”
Hee-cheol grinned and added the precise reasoning.
“Because we’re in last place.”
Hahahahaha
-Oh
Hahaha, cute!
-How did this happen here?!
lol
-Honestly, it’s no joke even without that
-Wow
-Truly a master strategist
-Cookie’s form is insane!
-Don’t say things so confidently, lol
At that moment, I thought it was just Cookie’s style of joking.
The other members probably thought the same thing.
But then, a moment later.
Cookie’s words became reality.
“Wow! An overwhelming score difference!”
1. Daisunsin Choi 227
2. wackjassey 113
3. VeryMochi 87
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