Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 73

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 73
26. Records (2)
A high VNS score doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good at the game.
Just as a high IQ doesn’t guarantee top-tier college entrance exam scores. It’s simply a numerical representation of a certain ‘skill level’.
However, if we use the term ‘tendency,’ things might be slightly different.
In the past, people who excelled at keyboard and mouse games generally tended to have high APM scores.
Children with high academic achievement tend to have high IQs.
Similarly, players who demonstrate high performance in virtual reality games tend to have high VNS scores.
Jeon-ja-pa, the world’s greatest player, also has the world’s highest VNS score.
But that record has just been broken.
By an unknown streamer.
“The VNS world record has just been updated! This is truly incredible! Almond’s medical examination has finished, and he’ll be arriving shortly! Just a moment….”
So it was only natural that Huyeon Yu was chattering away with such an excited expression.
-Wow, for real?
-I can’t believe I’m watching this live
-Nooop!
-its BS af cant believe this
Damn, haha
-What happened to the survival record?
-Did he really break that record? Lmao
-lololololol
-WTF
-Almond? never even knew such a player ever existed. stop bs-ing
-Oh the chat’s lagging lol
-A Fking Noooob just bit JJP’s record? lol
[Current Viewers: 76,000]
So 75,000 viewers from all over the world had waited through that one hour of medical examination.
Who was this person?
Who had broken Jeon-ja-pa’s record?
The curiosity was unbearable.
And what would the person themselves say about it?
“Almond is entering now!”
The camera panned to the corridor where Almond was approaching. All the viewers erupted in cheers.
-Hahaha, Ha-yeon suddenly got all formal and respectful.
-Now the hierarchy is clear
-oh he’s coming
-dat guy….
-Oh he’s here.
-wow he’s cute
-Almond? never heard of him….
-Almond, welcome sir lol lol lol
-Ohhh~! Almond has arrived!
The attitudes were distinctly different from when I first came to this set.
‘What on earth is this?’
Sanghyeon, who still hadn’t heard from Juhyeok what VNS was, could only stand there bewildered.
In any case, he said I had to stream again, so I took my seat in that same chair as before.
“Almond! You’ve finally arrived!”
“Yes…”
I couldn’t begin to match Huyeon Yu’s sky-piercing energy.
-What’s with that reaction lol
-You don’t know what’s going on? He was unconscious lol
-Wow, Almond!! Now you’re truly world-class!
-Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond!
-You broke the world record
World record.
That phrase caught my attention in the chat. Juhyeok too. I had broken Jeon-ja-pa’s record.
“How does it feel to have achieved the VNS world record?!”
Finally, that question came.
All the chat windows began to slow down momentarily. For this moment alone, they had paused their chatting to hear his words.
After all, these were people who had waited an hour just to hear this comment.
“I…”
“Yes?”
“What is that? I asked my manager, but he wouldn’t tell me.”
“…”
For a moment, silence fell.
Question marks began to slowly rise in the chat.
-???
-Huh?
-?
-what…
It didn’t take long for those question marks to transform entirely into laughter.
-lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
-Insane lol lol lol lol
-lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
-lol lol lol
-You really don’t know? lol lol lol lol
Because Almond’s expression was far too genuine. No, this was genuinely real.
This was a concept I had never heard of in my life.
If I had even the slightest interest in gaming, I should have known this concept.
It revealed just how recently I had developed an interest in gaming.
Even foreign viewers were spamming “noob” and laughing uncontrollably.
And naturally, they found it astounding.
-Wait, this idiot broke Jeon-ja-pa’s record without even knowing what VNS is?
-Well, VNS is pure talent anyway lol
-Insane talent lol
-The fact that he genuinely doesn’t know is perfect… loaded with genius talent
-Wow lol
Almond had defeated the world’s best without even understanding what he was doing.
To anyone watching, it was the image of a true, overwhelming genius. Even more so than Jeon-ja-pa.
“Ah… um… you really don’t know?”
“…Yes.”
Huyeon Yu seemed quite flustered.
‘What kind of person is this?’
Watching Almond, I’d always thought he was quite an unusual person, but I’d never felt it this intensely before.
“Ahahaha! Truly a genius among geniuses! Almond, you’re incredible!? To defeat the world’s best without even knowing what it is!”
“So what exactly is it?”
“Ah…”
Huyeon Yu was left speechless again.
The expression of someone wondering if she really had to explain this on broadcast.
-lol lol lol lol
-Ah, just tell him already lol
-Tried to move past it naturally. Fat chance!
-lol Almond’s expression isn’t pleased at all.
-Oof lol
World’s best.
A genius.
A record broken.
Such words carried tremendous weight, but they had little effect on Almond.
He was someone who’d heard such things as casually as eating since high school.
What mattered to him was being first in fields he actually cared about—being first in some VNS he didn’t even know about brought him no joy whatsoever.
There was only one thing he cared about right now.
“I heard my record is tied with Jeon-ja-pa’s. Why are you calling it a new record?”
“Ah. The Survive the Challenge is indeed a tie!”
-Tied down to 0.00001 seconds lol
-Is this even legit? lol
-That’s impressive enough. He used the Capsule for the first time three weeks ago
-For real lol
Snap.
That’s when Huyeon Yu suddenly raised her hand.
“But! We conduct something called ‘Ability Measurement’ within the game. The unit of that ‘ability’ is VNS. And that’s where you surpassed Jeon-ja-pa!”
Huyeon Yu’s words suddenly became well-organized. Following her gaze, I noticed a staff member—one of the writers—had written dialogue on a cue card that caught my eye.
-Script on!
-The writers are working so hard~
Hahaha reading a Korean textbook lol
-Almond understood anyway from his expression.
Whether Almond read the staff’s cue card and understood, or listened to Huyeon Yu’s explanation and understood, either way he had grasped the situation.
VNS, roughly speaking, referred to something like a player’s stats.
“So! How does it feel? Are you finally realizing that you’re a world record holder?”
“But… is this official?”
Sanghyeon was meticulous when it came to records.
Ever since high school, he had always been closely chasing world records.
Whether something was unofficial or official had always been an important matter to him.
If he were to break records unofficially, he would have already been treated as a world champion back in high school.
“…Pardon?”
“VNS seems to have really ambiguous standards. Especially records made with Fantasia equipment—those wouldn’t count as official records.”
“Ah….”
Huyeon Yu urgently glanced back toward the staff.
Hahaha, Yu Ha-yeon got totally roasted hahaha
-She was winning at first but early on she’s no match!
Haha, you’re so cute when you’re flustered!
-Almond why so sharp lol VNS obviously isn’t an official metric lol just measured for fun
-Even if it’s for fun, it still has meaning
I can’t translate this as it appears to be incomplete Korean consonants without vowels, making it impossible to form meaningful words or determine the intended meaning.
-VNS has meaning but it’s because Fantasia measured it lol
Having received the information, Huyeon Yu resumed the broadcast.
“Ah. It’s not an official metric recognized by the world, apparently. The standards aren’t clear yet.”
“Then it’s just an unofficial first place.”
“Aha… yes, that’s right. But how does it feel to have broken Jeon-ja-pa’s record, even if unofficially…?”
Huyeon Yu’s furrowed brow seemed to say, ‘Please just give me some thoughts already!’
Perhaps he read that.
Finally, Sanghyeon spoke his thoughts.
“It’s disappointing.”
“!?”
Silence fell once more.
Disappointing? But he broke the record!?
“Ah… disappointing? But you’re number one in the world!?”
“Anyone can be number one in the world unofficially. ‘My son is number one in the world’ according to his mother is also number one in the world.”
“Ah, no….”
Her words caught in her throat, leaving her speechless.
She alone couldn’t match Sanghyeon’s logic—someone who had discussed records with her dozens of times over.
-Lmaooooooo
-Mind games lol
-Is this what you call humility!? I’m confused! Almond!
-Lmaooooooo
-Our son is first lmaooo
-Son! When I grow up, I’m going to be Almond!
As Huyeon Yu read the chat, her face flushed even deeper.
“So you’re disappointed because it was unofficial…?”
“That’s not all.”
“Then what?”
“I’m disappointed I couldn’t win the main game.”
“The main game? But you tied.”
“That’s what disappoints me. I let the record slip away right before my eyes.”
“Ah…”
Huyeon Yu was now utterly bewildered.
‘Isn’t he happy at all?’
Almond was essentially a complete beginner with virtually no virtual reality gaming experience. Yet he’d tied with the world’s best player.
Somehow, he didn’t seem happy about it at all.
That was what surprised and amazed her.
She’d witnessed his incredible genius, yet he didn’t seem pleased?
If she’d discovered she possessed such talent, she would have been overjoyed.
But when he was shooting arrows earlier, he’d seemed far more delighted than he did now.
‘What kind of expression is that?’
She couldn’t quite read Almond’s expression, but it was definitely not joy.
Rather──
‘Could he be… angry?’
He seemed closer to being angry.
Yes. He was angry right now!
It was absurd.
Where exactly did this man’s competitive spirit end?
For Huyeon Yu, it was dizzying to contemplate.
Good is good—that’s what she’d always lived by. For someone like her, this way of thinking was completely unimaginable.
On one hand it was uncomfortable, and on the other hand it was enviable.
In fact, that discomfort itself was the kind a herbivore feels watching a carnivore.
Wariness, awe, fear—such emotions.
And naturally, a thought followed.
‘This person will surpass Jeon-ja-pa someday.’
This person will become the best.
“It must be disappointing, losing the record right before your eyes. But you don’t have much capsule experience yet, and breaking a VNS record is incredible, isn’t it? Couldn’t you become a player even greater than Jeon-ja-pa in the future?”
A player greater than Jeon-ja-pa.
It was closer to a reckless statement than something an announcer would normally say.
But Huyeon Yu was sincere.
This man would reach the summit.
At least in this moment, she was certain of it.
Almond’s response that followed only strengthened that conviction.
“I believe I can.”
His tone was calm and measured.
Without a trace of self-aggrandizement, he spoke plainly—as if merely stating a fact—that he would become the best.
-Chills chills chills
-Wow
-What confidence
-That’s insane
-Almond the trash talk master lol
-Ooh~
It could have been taken as a provocative statement, but those present could feel it. There was no such intention anywhere here.
Of course, if his answer had ended there, the backlash would have been enormous.
Who knows what would happen after malicious editing later.
Jeon-ja-pa’s fans and the general public would definitely take it as provocation.
“Ah——”
Fortunately, Sanghyeon’s answer didn’t end there; there was more to come.
And because this follow-up became far more famous, very few people remembered the previous statement.
“Still, I don’t want to talk more about the VNS records.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“Well, the match ended in a draw anyway. It’s like watching soccer where you console yourself by saying you had high possession even though you lost the game….”
His expression genuinely twisted with displeasure.
-Hahahahahahahaha
-Huk lololol
-Is he actually mad lol
-The national team director who was sleeping just jumped!
-Crazy lol why did he suddenly bring up soccer lol
-The national team director just startled lololol
-Lol
Pffft.
Even the serious Huyeon Yu burst out laughing.
“Ah. That was fun. Almond, you’ll come back for the Disassembly Analyzer next time, right?”
“Is there… more to disassemble?”
“Hmm~ I think there will be plenty!”
The two’s chatter faded out as the broadcast ended.
[Stream Ended]
Like ending credits, clips of Almond’s spectacular plays began to roll.
On that day, every gaming community site’s trending posts were naturally flooded with the word Almond.

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