Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 827

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 297
97. A Welcome Face (1)
While Coffee and Bread held Guan Yu in place, the Cavalry Archer Unit broke through Guan Yu’s cavalry formation.
Countless crescent blades from China’s cavalry and arrows from the Mounted Archers crisscrossed through the air.
Clatter! Clatter!
Leading the charge, Almond galloped forward with fierce determination, his eyes locked solely on Guan Yu’s neck.
As the distance closed, he raised his bow.
The bowstring drew taut with tension, his feet locked in place, and his body rose halfway as he achieved perfect stability.
Balanced as if standing on level ground, despite being mounted on horseback.
In that position, without blinking once, he drew back the bowstring.
Grrrrr…!
If Guan Yu fell, the morale of his cavalry unit would collapse entirely.
Then all these soldiers could pour into the palace.
[Focus]
White light gathered at the tip of his arrow.
Holding even his breath, every variable except the galloping horse froze in his world.
Clatter… clatter….
When even the sound of hoofbeats echoed like a distant mountain’s reverberation.
He released the arrow.
Click.
The mouse dragged, and the arrow stopped.
All other space remained frozen, rotating around the arrow as its center.
Soon the arrow’s perspective shifted from third-person to first-person.
As the arrow advanced, Guan Yu’s eyes drew progressively closer.
Click.
The mouse dragged again.
Unnecessary screen edges were trimmed away, and the footage played again.
The video was then spliced before the previous footage and replayed with subtitles.
Clatter. Clatter.
Mounted Archers charging fiercely forward. Their faces were highlighted one by one in close-up.
Almond’s face was particularly emphasized.
After that, various other archers’ faces flashed past, and the incoming and outgoing arrows were captured with more dynamic energy.
Then came the shot of Guan Yu drawing closer from the arrow’s perspective.
Jia nodded with satisfaction.
“This turned out well enough.”
With this, the fake national team video to be uploaded tomorrow was complete.
“Whoa!”
Tug.
Department Manager Jang playfully pulled the back of her chair, startling her.
“Ah, aaah!”
“Haha! What’s there to be surprised about?”
“Why… why are you doing this again?”
“If we’re done, let’s go. The upload is tomorrow and the deadline’s here now. I need a drink.”
“Where are we going?”
“Well. The most… *cough*! Expensive and delicious place. Since this is the last one.”
“?”
I could have sworn I just heard “cheap and delicious place.”
But from the context, it must be expensive, right?
Yeah, it probably is.
“Oh~”
*snicker*
Jia laughed at the mention of an expensive restaurant and stood up to grab her coat.
“What’s the occasion, Department Manager Jang?”
It was a pastel-toned cardigan that suited the warm spring day perfectly.
Outside, the bright afternoon sun was still shining brightly at 3 PM.
An awkward time of day, but for them, it was quitting time after their work was finally finished.
As Jia followed Department Manager Jang out, Park O-hun, a stocky male employee, trailed behind her and stretched.
“Ugh. I was so tired of this~ so tired.”
A sense of relief washed over him now that everything was done.
“Why are you tired? We still got plenty of amazing scenes.”
“Yeah~ that’s true! But work is work, you know? When we get amazing scenes, we get exhausted.”
Jia answered with a bittersweet expression and murmured.
“Still… I wish we could have gotten even more amazing scenes.”

* * *
“This is clearly embezzlement. Isn’t it?”
Park O-hun, a plump male Employee, muttered with eyes blazing with anger.
“…Well, I suppose.”
Jia, seated across from him, scratched her head.
She wanted to agree, but it was hard to call it embezzlement.
“No, he said we’d go to the most expensive, best place, brought out the corporate card, and then came to an all-you-can-eat pork belly restaurant—how is that not embezzlement!?”
“He didn’t say we’d go to the most expensive, best place… he said ‘cough! *cough* pretty good place’ instead.”
“….”
Park O-hun’s expression became one of utter disbelief.
But you couldn’t call it embezzlement just because he chose a cheap restaurant for the company dinner. If anything, it would be the opposite.
Simply put… Department Manager Jang was a person stingy to the bone.
“If you roasted Department Manager Jang, you wouldn’t even need to season him with salt. I guarantee it.”
“He’d be saltier than any seafood. You’d have to boil him in water.”
“Don’t shake hands with the PD. The osmotic pressure will suck all the moisture out of you.”
As brutal remarks passed between Park O-hun and his Colleagues, Department Manager Jang approached with a large beer bottle in hand.
Completely unaware that he’d nearly been roasted and boiled moments before.
“Alright! Everyone worked hard! Huh? Since we came to such a great place today! Drink as much as you want! And eat!”
“….”
At the words “such a great place,” I could feel the gazes of nearby tables turning toward us.
The surrounding tables were filled only with high school Students who’d come with friends, or families with Children still in their growth years.
The atmosphere somehow became solemn.
“Hahaha! Why so awkward? Huh? It’s all-you-can-eat here.”
“….”
Department Manager Jang gulped down beer while grilling meat.
The first to agree with him was Jia.
She nodded her head, drank her beer, and placed meat on the grill.
“Let’s eat. It might taste good… no, it looks delicious.”
Department Manager Jang’s Employees had accumulated resentment from suffering under him for so long, but Jia was different.
During the short period of building the fake national team, she’d spent perhaps the most important time at this company.
Department Manager Jang’s company was the first to recognize her.
Just as Juhyeok was first recognized by Hee-cheol, she too was first recognized by Department Manager Jang.
Such an experience wouldn’t be easily erased.
An all-you-can-eat pork belly company dinner was nothing compared to that experience.
“Hey! Yeah! Let’s eat and die!”
Park O-hun raised his beer glass and picked up a piece of meat to eat.
“Let’s dieeeee!”
“Yeahhhhh!”
Clink.
Finally, everyone’s beer glasses clinked together, and the company dinner began.
Crunch, crunch.
Park O-hun began devouring the pork belly as if releasing all the stress accumulated from overtime work onto every pig in the world.
‘Bird, this is better than I expected?’
Was it because it was the first plate?
For an all-you-can-eat place, the meat quality was surprisingly decent.
The reactions from others were similar.
Though I hated to admit it, the all-you-can-eat meat didn’t taste bad.
Despite the meat tasting good, everyone wore uncomfortable expressions.
‘How could I fall this far.’
‘Will I be satisfied eating this? Impossible. I’ll use up my entire budget.’
‘Damn it… this is delicious.’
Everyone was eating meat while wrapped in complicated emotions.
Only Department Manager Jang was grinning wickedly to himself.
Since he had personally chosen this restaurant, this was a reaction he had anticipated.
‘A forty-year life lived purely by cost-effectiveness… I’ve brought them to one of the top-tier restaurants on my value-for-money radar. Of course.’
Being a penny-pincher, he had developed quite an eye for finding cheap yet delicious places.
“Um, um, could we get more please!”
“Our table too!”
The second plate.
Park O-hun eyed the pigs that were already completely dismantled with a fierce gaze.
‘All-you-can-eat usually shows its true colors starting from the second plate.’
While thinking such thoughts, Jia had already cooked all the meat from the second plate and was putting it in her mouth.
“Mm. Mm. Oh. Mm.”
Despite her small frame, she ate remarkably well.
Equal to or surpassing Park O-hun, who weighed nearly ninety kilograms…
“Whoa. Sirloin tip. Good.”
Her reactions were even quite enthusiastic.
Department Manager Jang watched her eat with satisfaction.
At this, Park O-hun felt a strange jealousy.
‘When we went to Burger Shack last time, I knew it wasn’t ordinary.’
During lunch, Jia sometimes goes to Burger Shack.
Park O-hun also liked the brand and went with her often, but she always ate exactly two Burger Shack hamburgers.
Park O-hun ate three.
Yet he was beginning to sense something.
All eaters sense it.
‘There’s a saying that real recognize real.’
Heroes recognize heroes.
Park O-hun quickly realized that two hamburgers weren’t her true capacity.
She was merely filling half her stomach due to variables like money and the relatively short lunch break.
Today, when she came to the all-you-can-eat place, that fact was finally revealed.
“I’ll have another one~”
When Jia ordered her third plate, he snapped to attention.
Sizzzzle.
He quickly placed the second plate on the grill.

* * *
A short while later.
“Ughhhh….”
Everyone filed out of the restaurant, patting their bloated bellies.
“Phew… Haaaa….”
Park O-hun emerged last, breathing heavily like Darth Vader.
“D-damn it. Department Manager Jang. Next time we’re eating Korean beef, right? Right?”
“You eat your fill and then start talking nonsense?”
Department Manager Jang laughed in disbelief.
“No, seriously! Really! Promise me!”
Park O-hun seemed to be drunk.
“Hey, I left the cow in your care!”
“Ah man, just do it! Please!”
Puhahaha.
The employees laughed at the two bickering.
Jia also giggled among them, playfully slapping someone’s arm.
“O-hun, you ate so well—how could we possibly buy you Korean beef~”
“Tch….”
Then Department Manager Jang led the way and took them to a second bar.
“Come on, everyone. Let’s not do this here. Gather up those going to the second round!”
No one declined.
Since the company operated with such a small team, the employees seemed to get along well.
“Man, you guys are demons when it comes to draining the company card. Fine. Fine. And O-hun.”
“…?”
“You buy the Korean beef yourself.”
Pfft.
At first, everyone thought Department Manager Jang was just teasing Park O-hun as usual.
“A bonus is coming. Nearly equivalent to your annual salary.”
“!”
But with his next words, they all realized the meaning lay elsewhere.
“Y-your annual salary?”
“Huh?!”
“We’re not getting paid next year, are we?!”
Puhaha.
Department Manager Jang continued speaking with a playful laugh.
Though I’m wrapped in a scarf with frayed seams in the cold weather, my hands thrust deep into the pockets of a worn coat.
My eyes gleamed brighter than ever through the tousled, unkempt strands of hair.
“The fake national team did exceptionally well this time, we’ve brought in plenty of sponsors, and investments have poured in. When else would we give the employees substantial bonuses if not now? It won’t affect next year’s salary. The bonuses are going out. So don’t eat Korean beef with me. Everyone eat with your families. Do the things you haven’t done, buy the things you couldn’t afford….”
I couldn’t finish my words.
Park O-hun suddenly burst into tears.
“Hnnnngh… Uuuugh….”
Not just Park O-hun, but the other employees’ eyes were glistening with tears as well.
This was the reason Department Manager Jang had tried so hard to save money at the company dinner.
He wanted to distribute the company’s funds as completely as possible to his employees.
To the colleagues who had walked this uncertain path with him.
‘Wow.’
Even Jia, who didn’t receive bonuses and wasn’t affected by salary changes, found her eyes glistening with tears.
‘What a… good company.’
Given Department Manager Jang’s stingy personality, if bonuses went out to this extent, he must be in considerable pain.
But perhaps these employees might never leave for the rest of their lives.
If even half of them never left, he would become a successful CEO.
Since editing ultimately comes down to dealing with people, talent was the most important asset.
“But, but what about you, PD!”
A female employee clung to Department Manager Jang while crying.
“What do you mean? I’ll take care of myself too.”
“That’s a lie! Your nose, you wear the same coat every day! This is Sony & Clark!”
Department Manager Jang’s face turned red.
He must have thought people wouldn’t notice.
“…Well. Don’t worry. I’m going to abandon you all and exit anyway. Right? Just don’t curse me when that time comes.”
“We’ll curse you! Don’t go!”
The employees who had been complaining about his stinginess gathered around Department Manager Jang and shouted like a cheer.
“Don’t go! Don’t go!”
“Waaahhhhh!”
“You, you crazy bastards. Money really is good, huh? Right?”
Jia, though she had nothing to do with it, went along and shouted with them.
“Don’t go! Don’t go!”

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A day passed like that.
A single video containing the efforts of all the national team players, the editing crew, and numerous sponsoring companies was uploaded to Almond’s channel.
[Fake National Team ep.10 The Beginning of the End]
[Now premiering for the first time!]
-It’s here… my drug.
-Kyaa
-Is it true that the prosecutors will investigate if you watch this before going to the airport?
If you came to watch this instead of the China match, that’s hilarious lol
-Finally!
I’m crying / Wahhh / Boo-hoo
-The title alone doesn’t seem ordinary.
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The video began with a view of a company office.

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