Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 909

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 040
14. Assemble! (1)
“You’re not going to suddenly stumble upon the answer all at once again, are you?”
Manager Kim suddenly voiced an ominous concern.
It wasn’t an unreasonable suspicion. Looking back at all the cases we’d uncovered so anticlimactically and abruptly until now.
However, Manager Kim shook his head.
“So far, it’s just been luck.”
Manager Kim stated with certainty that it was purely luck.
His judgment wasn’t wrong.
Indeed, it had all been luck.
The problem was that this luck continued for some reason.
In any case, Manager Kim was a realist.
He spoke the facts as they were and reassured Manager Kim.
“But it’ll be difficult to guess blindly like that here. The numbers are just too overwhelming, you know?”
The Model Club had nearly twenty to thirty members.
Choosing from seven or eight people in the hospital ward interview and selecting which of several clubs to infiltrate were probabilities on completely different scales.
The odds of randomly guessing correctly were extremely slim.
‘Could it really happen?’
Manager Kim felt an ominous premonition.
But he didn’t voice it aloud.
If he did, it might actually become reality.
‘Still, that’s a lot of people.’
Besides, thinking about it rationally, the answer was clear.
Twenty to thirty students.
Without finding concrete evidence, there was no way to narrow it down to a single person in an instant.
“But how are we supposed to find this?”
Manager Kim was curious by this point.
How to narrow down the suspects here.
“Based on what we’ve learned so far, there’s definitely something within the club. And someone is the mastermind behind it.”
“Right. They all had the same memory. About being introduced to someone.”
The common thread in the memories the students shared.
It was that they had been introduced to someone.
That was largely their last memory.
“So there’s an insider in this Model Club?”
“Exactly.”
“But there were victims from other clubs too, right? What about that?”
“Other clubs have people doing similar activities, but they never meet the real mastermind. Only the insider in the Model Club can make that happen.”
Manager Kim explained with confident expression.
This was a trap within a trap within a trap.
No matter how much they’d managed to select the Model Club in one shot with bug-level luck, another ordeal was waiting for them next.
“…Wait, hold on a second.”
Manager Kim paused, speaking up.
“How did you narrow it down to the Model Club with those guys?”
“Huh? Well….”
It was just pure luck, wasn’t it?
‘Oh no….’
Manager Kim’s expression hardened.
He realized he’d made a slip of the tongue.
“You just said it yourself. There are connections in other clubs too. But you said those guys were small-time.”
“…Y, yes.”
“If you’d targeted the small-timers first, it naturally would’ve taken much longer, right? And that was the original plan?”
“…Yes.”
“But these guys came to the Model Club in one go?”
“….”
Well, Manager Kim had been deceiving Manager Kim all this time for the sake of his mental health.
Making it seem like these guys coming to the Model Club in one go was according to the game’s design.
It wasn’t so much deception as simply not mentioning it, but to Manager Kim right now, it didn’t look that way.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“W, well… Even if we visited the small-timers first, it wouldn’t make that much difference… haha.”
“Hey. Aren’t you going to speak straight!? Huh?”
“Oh, no, I’m serious! There really isn’t much time difference….”
And so on and so forth.
Manager Kim made excuses left and right.
But Manager Kim was already displeased.
“Ugh.”
Crack.
He cracked open another beer in frustration.
“In other words, you didn’t tell me because you were worried I’d lose it mentally? Are you disrespecting me? Huh? Just tell me everything!”
“…Yes, sir.”
“Now do you really believe me? Huh?”
“Yes, sir.”
Manager Kim became completely obedient.
“Now. From here on, we’re deducing this. That connection. Okay?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Who is it?”
Manager Kim pointed at the screen and asked.
“Well… If you know beforehand, it won’t be fun.”
Just like that.
Manager Kim glared with his eyes.
“Do I look like I’m watching this for fun!? The school’s seal and my seal opened together, Aghwi got launched into space, and whether it’s a Jibakryeong or an earthquake spirit, I can’t even see what it looks like—it’s dead!?”
“Ugh… w-well….”
Manager Kim pointed reluctantly.
Tap.
Kim Gwajang’s eyes followed to where his hand directed, toward the monitor.
‘Oh.’
A flicker of interest crossed his gaze.
An unexpected person entirely.
Someone with virtually no presence, features so unremarkable they’d slip from memory the instant you looked away.
Even Almondil, a master of physiognomy deduction, wouldn’t dare pick this one out.

* * *
Meanwhile, Balloon Gum.
He was in the thick of a verbal sparring match with his viewers.
“You heard it, right? Huh? You heard it—he just said ‘you’re all handsome, aren’t you?’ right?”
The source of this grievance was none other than an NPC who had introduced him.
When that NPC pointed to the students he’d brought along and said “you’re all handsome, aren’t you?” Balloon Gum got thoroughly riled up.
“My face isn’t that much of a disaster, okay? AI-certified visuals! That’s right, isn’t it?”
From his collab with Almond, he’d accumulated quite a bit of resentment from all the NPCs’ aesthetic contempt.
Of course, his viewers—honed by years of practice—weren’t about to go easy on him.
Ding.
[Fact donated 10,000 won!]
[Wow. Really ugly! <<< what the AI said lol]
-lololololololol fr
Hahaha, that's hilarious!
-"AI-certified visuals" I'll acknowledge that ^^
lol that's right
I can't provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to contain Korean characters mixed with what looks like incomplete or corrupted text (ㄷㄷ are Korean consonants used as onomatopoeia or informal expression), making it unclear what the intended meaning is.
They simply turned his own words right back at him.
"That was a bug, everyone~"
But this time, Balloon Gum wasn't about to let it slide.
If he backed down now, he'd be material for mockery for at least three months.
Ding.
[Cherry donated 3,000 won.]
[Understood. 'Dadeul' sir.]
-ah he said you're all handsome lol
Everyone lol
-how is someone's name dadeul?
Haha, that's funny!
It wasn't just Balloon Gum who had three months of mockery on the line.
His viewers did too.
From their perspective, the history of Balloon Gum being kicked by a female NPC couldn't be distorted just because he was ugly.
This was a battle of conviction!
"That's why. Dadeul and me and Almond. Wait? These two are included?"
All you needed for agitation was a single catchy phrase.
What you needed for an explanation was tedious, lengthy justification.
People naturally preferred the former.
[Dadeul donated 3,000 won.]
[Yes. I'm Kim Dadeul. I was told I'm handsome. Some weird mister got all excited about it. It was ridiculous.]
Hahahahahaha
Everyone's showing up, it's crazy.
-The man himself appears
-Game's over~
"…."
With Dadeul appearing in person, Balloon Gum was ultimately left speechless.

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond was engaged in yet another battle with the viewers.
This one was decidedly one-sided.
-Someone stop the streamer~
Hahaha what are you even saying, for real?
"and it's seriously bad lol"
-Is this guy an archer or a physiognomy expert?
That was because Almond had begun his full-fledged deduction.
His deduction diverged from ordinary detectives right from the starting point.
"Physiognomy actually has some basis to it, you know?"
He deduces based on facial features.
Whether this physiognomy-based deduction had merit or not.
This argument was a long-standing dispute that had continued since the deduction game where Almondil was born.
"Especially in games, you have to take that into account."
Almond always harped on 'in games' and it was always the same pattern.
Haha, if you take that into consideration?
-if you repeat nonsense enough it sounds plausible
-Fact) Nobody ever thought Almond had the face of someone good at math;
There's no such thing as physiognomy… there's only being handsome or ugly ㅠ
The viewers were presenting far more evidence trying to convince him.
But as always, it was futile.
"In my opinion, this isn't them, you know? The modeling lacks sincerity. This isn't someone who should appear later on."
Almond was already filtering people based on their facial features.
Modeling is all the same though lol
-That, that NPC is just ugly…
-No sincerity lol
-lol sounds plausible though?
Polygon reasoning is crazy.
-Modeling sincerity lol if you expand physiognomy this far it's obvious

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Physiognomy deduction, line-drawing shooting then deduction, and so on.
What was frightening about these various shortcut deduction methods wasn't their uncertainty.
The real problem was how surprisingly convincing they sounded.
"Hey, hey… is that really true?"
Just like Manager Kim, who was startled by the modeling deduction theory.
People end up being convinced, even if only for a moment.
"That person isn't actually the culprit, right?"
Once Almond excluded someone, they weren't the culprit.
Statistically, even if you randomly exclude someone, it's a 29 out of 30 chance anyway, so it's obvious… but.
When Almond presented the modeling deduction as plausible evidence, people hesitated.
"Well, um…? Let me check."
Manager Kim also hesitated and verified multiple times, but no matter how many times he looked, the modeling level remained similar.
"I'm not sure…"
[This one isn't it either.]
Almond filtered out another one.
"Again, filtered again? He filtered out another person!"
"That's…"
Statistically, it's only natural.
But right now, Manager Kim couldn't let those words escape his mouth.
Thinking about what he'd been through so far, it was obvious what Manager Kim would think.
"Geez… did those crazy guys really do the modeling half-heartedly? What is this?"
"I guess…"
Manager Kim scratched his head.
He was thinking that couldn't possibly be the case.
"If I were the CEO, I'd have the entire modeling department assembled tomorrow. Got it?!"
Manager Kim swung his fist at the air, making threats.
Of course, Manager Kim wasn't the CEO, and even if he were, such a thing couldn't happen.
Far from assembling anyone, the CEO himself couldn't sleep right now and was editing their video.
'That couldn't possibly happen, Manager Kim.'
Pfft.
CEO Jung, the representative, chuckled at the marketing team's naivety and continued editing.
"Let's have the assembly happen when Manager Kim and Manager Kim gather on AllTube…"
I couldn't upload the video to AllTube without employee consent, but CEO Jung believed they couldn't refuse the upload in this negotiation.
"With the contract set up like this, they won't refuse."
An advertisement with game completion as the condition.
Normally, requirements like mandatory playtime of a day or two, or a few hours would be standard, but naturally game completion was a far longer and better condition than those.
So the CEO thought it was a good contract.
But he'd chosen the wrong opponent.
"This guy has quite the impressive track record."
Almond's information appeared on CEO's other monitor.
What was organized below like the impressive résumé of a capable CEO was actually game completion records and data that users had compiled on the wiki.
[Kingdom Perfect Shot First Implementation]
[Kingdom Fastest Clear Time]
[Korean Server First Reina Story Mode 3-Star Clear]
[Battle Large Fastest Diamond Achievement]
.
.
.
Even setting aside grandiose championship titles, this person possessed an innate talent for clearing games quickly.
To offer such conditions to someone like this.
'He probably accepted those conditions because he's that kind of person….'
Regardless, the company evaluated people by results.
Manager Kim and Manager Kim would pay the price at AllTube.
Moreover, they still hadn't come to their senses and kept stumbling.
"Sigh. Manager Kim. What problem could there be with the modeling? Huh? The problem is in your contract, I'm telling you?"
At Almondil's nonsense, the CEO lamented at Manager Kim, who was still staring at the monitor in excitement.
However, when he glanced at Almond's broadcast on the other monitor he had open, his eyes widened.
"…?"
What is this.
"Is there really a problem with the modeling?"
CEO's eyes trembled slightly.
Perhaps, just as Manager Kim said, the modeling department might have needed to assemble.

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