Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 904

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 35
12. The Devil of Interviews, After All (2)
When Almond’s collaboration broadcast began.
Jia was in crisis mode.
“No way, they’re really doing this?”
She had never imagined Almond would actually accept the collaboration. But the situation had already spiraled beyond her control.
Almond’s collaboration broadcast shot up the trending searches on Jaber, and news of it spread across popular streamer community threads.
There was no backing out now without losing face.
So her course of action was clear.
She first checked the collaboration terms.
“Let’s see… anyway, the revenue is split fifty-fifty.”
When two streamers collaborate, the AllTube video gets uploaded by the editors from both channels. Then they split the earnings equally.
“Then I can upload this.”
Click.
Jia switched to Balloon Gum’s screen and began editing.
The key was uploading this kind of content quickly while the collaboration was still trending hot.
A video of a guy getting rejected by a balloon gum girl for being ugly is creepy.
Since it didn’t require heavy editing, the upload was quick.
Videos like this performed better the faster they went live.
Sure enough, the view count began exploding.
Why are you being so serious about it lol
So you got dumped for being ugly? lol wtf??
I’m not ugly just because I chew gum ㅠㅠ
So you’re saying you got kicked with a foot? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The scariest part is that the title is actually true;
What the heck is going on??
He’s just someone blessed by the broadcasting gods lol
Maybe it’s a relative evaluation mechanism where ugly people get compared to the person next to them? That would make sense then.
Comments poured in within just 10-20 minutes.
And Jia pinned a comment.
-Almond & Balloon Gum. Gort and Matt Duo Collaboration Broadcast (link) LIVE NOW!!
“What the heck? Lol so crazy!”
└What??? These two are collaborating???
└They’re doing it right now??
A lot of people don’t know about it lol
Wow, Godzia real-time editing is amazing lol
But it didn’t end there.
Even though the broadcast hadn’t been going long, there were more moments worth clipping into shorts.
She started by pulling out what people would find most interesting.
“Aghwi’s rocket? Math quiz?”
The Aghwi rocket was impressive, but I had to admit the Math Ghost segment was even better.
Most viewers on AllTube had never heard of Ghost Busters, the game itself.
Killing Aghwi might not have generated much excitement for them.
And truthfully, when I killed him without any fanfare, it showed.
So I started editing with the Math Ghost segment first.
There wasn’t much to edit, really.
I just needed to trim the beginning and end cleanly, add high-visibility subtitles, and I was done.
The key was crafting a compelling title.
Since the “Almondoil” meme had been trending on AllTube recently, I went for a similar vibe.
[Math? Almondoil]
The short was finished and uploaded.
I made sure to add a link to this short as well.
-Want to see Almondoil’s math skills? (Link) Live now on Genius Archer!
└Oh, he’s streaming right now lol
└I thought he was actually fixing something with those math skills lol
As the view count climbed, comments poured in.
-Almond’s been hiding his intelligence this whole time
-Why is he so good at math??? Insane
└For real, I was shocked
└He’s probably just naturally smart
└But what’s he using that brain for then
-Seriously, he’s actually insane at this????
-Why is this actually real lololol
-If this title was actually real I honestly had no idea, upvote lol
└For real lol
└I’m voting yes
As time passed, the link clicks multiplied.
Almond and Balloon Gum’s stream viewership, already high, began swelling even further.
Heading toward their first peak since the International Championship.

* * *
Meanwhile, in a different platform from Cheese—Paprika’s conference room.
Paprika held considerable standing as South Korea’s largest internet broadcasting platform in both name and reality.
“We need to bring Almond in.”
Unlike Cheese, they had targeted Almond from the very beginning here.
Song Gu-hye, the Team Leader known as Paprika’s calculator.
She was pushing forward with unwavering determination.
The Department Manager questioned this.
“What about Jello?”
Jello was undeniably the number one, so asking about Almond instead made sense.
“Jello can’t come anyway. The color is too different.”
The platform’s atmosphere was not something to ignore.
Paprika’s overall vibe leaned heavily toward skilled players.
Former professionals, or even amateurs who were substantial rankers.
Tribby competed on charm rather than game skill alone.
“His skill aside, he’s neat in appearance. He’s exactly the talent Paprika wants.”
But Almond was skilled to begin with, and he possessed considerable good looks as well.
“Given Tribby’s existing atmosphere, his handsomeness probably never gave him maximum benefit. That same atmosphere will transfer directly to Cheese. Wouldn’t that be another loss?”
From Paprika’s perspective, Almond’s appearance was a disadvantage compared to Tribby.
That wasn’t to say it didn’t help—rather, it meant he hadn’t maximized that advantage.
Tribby’s audience preferred approachability, while Paprika had high standards for appearance. They essentially wanted celebrities.
Yet Paprika didn’t hesitate to shower donations on such celebrities.
The big spenders were extremely active.
“Almond looks like a celebrity no matter who you ask, right? What if we persuade him this way? With the same conditions as Cheese, the revenue here would be substantially larger.”
“Hmm….”
The Department Manager facing Song Gu-hye clutched his head.
“Something tells me… this guy probably doesn’t prefer that sort of thing, does he? Team Leader Song? If he liked that, wouldn’t he have already started streaming on Paprika?”
“I heard he’s a money bird.”
“But is that actually true?”
From the Department Manager’s perspective, Almond didn’t seem like a money bird at all.
Just looking at his participation in the international tournament showed he wasn’t that type.
If anything, he was someone with conviction.
“In my opinion, our UI and accessibility have made it difficult for streamers to easily start broadcasting. Tribby, on the other hand, was incredibly easy. Anyone could just try it and forget about it. That kind of approach.”
“So Almond started streaming because it was easy?”
“That’s my guess. But now that he’ll be entering into a contract with us, the accessibility issue disappears, and with the UI overhauled significantly, I believe he’ll be satisfied.”
“What’s the ratio?”
“We should push it up to 8 to 2.”
The Department Manager sighed and shook his head.
“Sigh… if we quote too high and he doesn’t come, we’ll lose all the other streamers too.”
An 8 to 2 ratio was quite substantial.
It was a ratio I could never have dreamed of if the recruitment war over Tribby Exodus hadn’t erupted.
What if such a ratio leaked to the outside?
I had to face difficulties when contracting with other streamers as well.
“Here.”
Thunk.
Then Team Leader Song Gu-hye pulled something out.
“Look at this.”
It was a tablet PC.
Almond’s broadcast was on. She tapped the viewer count display repeatedly.
The number of viewers who had broken through the all-time high during the Ghostbusters tournament.
[Current Viewers: 151,000]
“151,000. Another all-time high. This isn’t even a national tournament boost. Just imagine all of this coming to Paprika.”
“Hmm… it is a collaboration, but…”
The Department Manager was conflicted.
In truth, Paprika’s situation was far more favorable than Cheese’s.
A streamer from Tribby?
Even without bringing any of those, the revenue scale was already larger than Tribby’s.
Even if Cheese brought every single Tribby-origin streamer, the best they could achieve was matching Tribby’s revenue.
‘Our game is won by precisely targeting and poaching just a few major players.’
In other words, Paprika had no reason to target everyone.
They would identify a target worth shaking, dig into that one, and even if only a few of them came over, it would be a complete victory for Paprika.
‘That target is Almond.’
It seemed that primary target was being set as Almond.
“Let me tell you the 8-to-2 advantage again. You said earlier that contracting other streamers might be difficult, right?”
“…That’s right.”
“That’s an advantage.”
“What?”
“It’s not just us who suffer.”
Ssssmile.
A rare smile from Team Leader Song.
The Department Manager felt chills run down my spine.
‘I see?’
Just by shaking the asking price on our end, Cheese would inevitably suffer massive losses.
The Department Manager’s gaze turned toward the dark window outside.
Among those windows, only one department had its lights on.
That was the conference room of the startup platform Cheese.
They were burning their last resources too.
“Fine. Proceed. Before Cheese does.”
“Yes!”
If Paprika made the first move, they would have no choice but to take the blow.

* * *
Meanwhile, inside the theology building at Sungduk University.
“M-Mond! Come with us!”
Almond, Balloon Gum, and Suyeon all headed toward the rooftop together.
They were all running at an incredible speed.
-Who’s chasing you from behind? lol
-Speedrun oof
-First time I’ve seen someone try to clear this with running speed lol
Ghosts and other creatures jumped out intermittently, but they posed no real threat.
They all lay peacefully with talismans stuck to their heads.
Crackle!
-What came out?
-Lol
-Balloon Gum doesn’t even get surprised anymore lol
-(Cooperate with Balloon Gum standing with hands behind his back watching) Work together!
It had been a long time since this trash mob section stopped being a cooperative game.
Though they had captured Aghwi with perfect cooperation, at least.
“We’re here!”
Boom.
The door leading to the rooftop opened.
“Gasp.”
Balloon Gum was startled.
A terrifying sight unfolded before them.
Dark purple clouds blanketed the rooftop, and floating above them were papers drifting about.
A large white paper glowed with a crimson light.
“What the hell is that?”
“…It’s a Seolgyeong.”
Suyeon explained.
Almond then asked.
“A Seolgyeong?”
“Yes. You can think of it as a large talisman that confines ghosts. But…”
Suyeon approached the Seolgyeong and examined it closely, then gasped in surprise.
“It’s been flipped upside down.”
In other words, the talisman meant to confine ghosts was releasing them instead.
“Ugh, cough! Cough! We need to deal with this smoke first!”
Balloon Gum wandered around searching for the source of the purple clouds.
The smoke was preventing them from seeing anything properly.
“It’s probably this.”
Clang!
Balloon Gum kicked the incense-like object off the altar with his foot.
Whoooosh.
The smoke dissipated, and finally the rooftop scenery came into proper view.
“How’s that?! Huh? Did I just pull off another one?”
-Oh Balloon Gum carrying hard
-Balloon Gum cleared the smoke sus
-Dang
-LMAOOOOO
-The god of smoke, Balloon Gum;
Mocking comments flooded the chat, but Balloon Gum wasn’t looking at them.
Instead, he was looking at something else, and he froze in place.
‘What is that…?!’
As the smoke cleared and his vision opened up, dark silhouettes were revealed.
They were students.
They were scattered all over the rooftop, everywhere.
Standing motionless, staring at him with vacant eyes.
“Kyaaak?! W-what, what is this?!”
Suyeon clung tightly to Almond.
“…?”
But Almond too wore an unusually frightened expression.
Even though this game had exorcism elements, there weren’t really any horror scenes.
But this moment felt something eerie.
-Almond scared?
-Almond what? Can’t handle horror games lol
-Why’d he suddenly go quiet
“Wait, my mic just glitched. Uh, um. What is this?”
He fumbled with a weak excuse, but Suyeon, clinging close, explained.
“These look like sacrifices!”
“Sacrifices?”
“Yes. To succeed with a large-scale ritual like this, you need sacrifices!”
“So… are they dead?”
If they were offered as sacrifices, it would naturally mean they were dead.
“No. They’re alive. They’re currently possessed by other spirits. This… we need to destroy the ritual!”
A ritual?
Almond looked around. No matter where he looked, there was no ritual visible.
“Those talismans in the sky?”
The only suspicious thing was those large talismans floating up in the sky.
“…That might be it?”
Suyeon also suspects it.
The talismans themselves are sealing formations rather than rituals, but since no ritual is visible here.
I had no idea what might be carved behind the snow scene floating in the sky.
“Ah. I can see it.”
Almond furrowed his brow and pointed at something.
Behind the snow scene floating at the highest point—literally in the sky—some characters became visible.
That part was different from the rest.
There was something there.
“But how do we get up there?”
The problem was reaching that height.
A simple jump wouldn’t even come close. It was nearly the height of a four or five-story apartment building.
Balloon Gum racked his brain for a moment.
“What if I lay down a Department Manager skill… you climb up, then I lay down another one, and we keep doing that?”
“Oh…”
Having experienced being launched by a Department Manager skill before, I could quickly deduce the answer.
Scary experience with a starving ghost
Are you doing that bullshit again? lol
-This time it actually seems right;
Maha Prajna~
Balloon Gum struck the wooden block to create a Department Manager skill.
“Okay, okay it’s down! Go up. Mond! Uh… Mond?”
In fact, Balloon Gum’s deduction wasn’t wrong.
‘I feel like I’m going to fall and die if the timing’s off.’
Almond simply didn’t trust it.
“Mond? Can’t you hear me?”
“…”
Not even twitching ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Hahaha shaking eyes lol
Hahahahaha
Pretending not to hear lol
Is this a bug? lol it’s just sitting there

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