Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 930

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 061
21. Ahan’s Death (1)
The ending credits rolled, and the game came to an end.
ㅠㅠ (crying/tears)
Bye, take care ㅠㅠ
Photos ㅠㅠ
Wow, you actually cleared it ㅠㅠ
Suyeon, no… (or: Oh Suyeon… T_T)
Suyeon made a typo and it turned into Ghostbusters ㅠㅠㅠ
Based on the feeling the game’s ending conveyed, if I had played it according to procedure, it would have been quite moving. In fact, about half the viewers seemed to think it was moving.
But the other half?
-So all those people whose names appear there are working overtime, right?
Haha, stop pretending to be all mysterious and deep~
That’s one crazy game lol, the kill list is going up lol
-If we hadn’t used glitches, there would’ve been lingering emotion…
-So out of 3 people, it’s Ghost Busters 2 without Balloon Gum, right?
Worrying about the production company, excluding Balloon Gum from Ghost Busters, and so on.
Half the chat was making jokes that mocked the game.
Of course, that wasn’t enough to determine the success or failure of the content.
Rather, the content itself was a massive success.
[Current Viewers: 221,000]
The number 220,000 viewers had come in—I had no idea where they all came from.
Comeback celebration for Gamers’ Skills, Turned On King commemoration, aftermath of the international tournament victory, and so on.
There were multiple positive factors, but the core reason was that the gameplay itself was revolutionary.
In other words, the content itself had been successful.
“That was fun~”
Satisfied with this, Almond was about to wrap up the stream.
I was already tired from the time spent on Turned On King.
But that didn’t go as planned.
-Where are you going
That’s crazy/insane lol
-Hey! CEO! Take the rest of the money with you!
For extreme content like Turned On King, countless big donors always get involved.
Even after the ending credits finished rolling, donations didn’t stop.
Pabapam!
[BigSon has donated 1,000,000 won!]
[Congratulations on Turned On King!]
A million again lol
-Wow
What, again? That’s creepy.
-And lol
-Insane lol
Ding!
[Soryongpo has donated 500,000 won!]
[Wow! The streamer king is crazy]
-Soryongpo crazy
-This guy donates a lot too
-Come on, Broke Stir-fry, step it up~
-Lol
The usual big donors like BigSon and Soryongpo were joined by people who rarely appeared, all throwing massive amounts of money at the stream.
Ding ding!
[Seongjo has donated a whopping 1,000,000 won!]
[Interesting clear]
-Living up to the name lol
-Whoa lol
-Insane
-Even the streamer king doesn’t usually get this much lol
-The streamer king’s money collection is insane
Ding!
[OnlyBuyToday has donated 500,000 won!]
[Advertiser? Well, I already cleared it~ Let’s have a drink~]
-Lol
-The advertisers are crying lol
-That’s true lol
-Ah… lol
-So the ad is over???
-Ah… this was an ad lol
Even for Almond, with such massive amounts of money pouring in, I couldn’t just stick an arrow in my head and go wild.
“BigSon, a million won. Thank you. Soryongpo, Seongjo, OnlyBuyToday—thank you all…”
After the game ended, I spent nearly an hour collecting donations before finally ending the broadcast.

* * *
*Whoosh*
“Haa.”
It wasn’t until about nine hours had passed—including the time I received donations after the game ended—that I finally emerged from the capsule.
“Hey. You good? Huh?”
Juhyeok approached me and checked my condition.
No matter how good the capsule was, time showed no mercy—my complexion was flushed and I was running a fever.
“Actually, I should’ve just come out and received the donations through camera broadcast instead.”
“Huh. There’s a method like that…”
“I thought you were being so thoughtful, but you just didn’t think of it?”
“Yeah.”
“Geez.”
*Tap*
Juhyeok pressed his forehead and pointed toward the bathroom.
“Hey. Go take a shower first. Okay?”
It was the same method he used back when I had the old secondhand capsule.
The first thing was to cool down the fever.
“Ah… yeah. It’s not that bad though.”
“It’s not, huh. What…”
Juhyeok pushed my back toward the bathroom and was about to strip my clothes off entirely.
“W-what are you doing!”
“Get in, man!”
“Ah, ah, I’ll do it! I will!”
There was a reason Juhyeok was acting like this.
It wasn’t simply because nine hours of runtime was quite long for me.
Compared to something like the full five matches of the international tournament, this was nothing. Back then, the match intensity was insanely high, and I couldn’t even use a dedicated capsule.
I endured that too. I didn’t think anything would happen from just nine hours in a dedicated capsule.
Yet the reason he was making such a fuss was because he sensed some kind of ‘intention’ behind it.
‘Something feels off.’
Juhyeok’s suspicion was that this Konwang mission wasn’t simply wagered for fun.
‘I’ve never seen this viewer ak47 before either.’
The one who had wagered the Konwang.
He was using a nickname based on the firearm name ak47.
It was a fairly noticeable nickname, so if he were someone who donated consistently, I would’ve recognized him immediately.
But he was someone I’d never seen before.
Of course, Tribby nicknames could be changed freely at any moment, so it was meaningless.
Juhyeok’s keen instincts were warning him about ak47.
So during the game, he looked into that viewer.
First, he checked the history of donations he’d made to the broadcast so far.
[ak47 has donated 50,000 won.]
[Cheese is launching and there’s talk of a platform competition. Will you participate?]
[ak47 donated 3,000 won.]
[It’s literally platforms going head-to-head. There’s a lot of rumors, but I don’t know the details]
[ak47 registered a mission.]
[Going for the Power On King mission~]
After that, the donations were all Power On King success donations, but in reality, there were only two donations sent before the Power On King mention.
Both of them were mentions related to the platform competition.
At that time, this viewer had never even donated 100,000 won, let alone 2 million.
Yet suddenly, this person wagered 2 million won and put up the Power On King bet.
‘I even chatted for the first time on the day I was going to bet the Power On King.’
The chatting was basically just a few memes that came out of Almond’s room.
-Ohhh…
-Do Kingdom a bit~
-King~ you can’t beat me ~dum
Mostly stories about Kingdom.
Could they just be a toxic Kingchiman user?
Juhyeok thought the probability of that was low.
[Only talking about Kingdom Age]
Whenever I went into Kingchiman, I could always see public opinion about Almond.
[Who’s the bastard who bet the Power On King?? Almond can’t do Power On King, right?]
[Power On King crosses the line~]
“Why did they accept the cable king??ㅋㅋㅋ What’s going on??”
[Almonds hit the king once ㄷㄷ]
[Is Almond’s body okay?]
Unlike aggressive and cynical communities like Rilpro, Kingchiman had a strong tendency to worry about Almond—or rather, the person Sang-hyun Yu himself.
[Congratulations on Kingdom’s archer “Almond” player’s victory in the international competition!]
It was so much that this was still plastered on their main page.
Comments were still being added there.
-Congrats congrats
-Amen…
-Congratulations
-Gort… I worship you…
It felt almost as sacred as telling Jerusalem to step aside.
That’s right. To them, Almond was a sacred being.
They begged him to play Kingdom, but they never donated large amounts while forcing him to play Kingdom.
1st Place) Don’t burden Almond, he’ll play Kingdom someday you bastards
There was even a time when a post telling people not to donate large amounts asking for Kingdom reached the top of trending posts.
Would Kingdom Birds with these tendencies really spend 2 million on the Power On King?
Just because they wanted to see Kingdom after this game ended?
‘There’s no guarantee he’ll play Kingdom after this ends anyway?’
It wasn’t merely a matter of uncertainty—the probability of Almond doing Kingdom again was genuinely low.
The advertisements he’d have to do going forward, the major events he’d need to participate in, were piling up like mountains.
Kingdom was, regrettably, his lowest priority.
All the Kingchiman members understood that too.
‘Then….’
Juhyeok reached a conclusion.
ak47 wasn’t Kingdom Bird.
It was a mask.
‘King Moo-sae is wearing a mask. This bastard.’
Someone pretending to be Kingdom Bird.
It was something that happened frequently when people conducted opinion warfare on community sites.
For example, Almond’s anti-fans would pretend to be Almond fans while committing misdeeds.
In communities, this level of masquerading had become so routine that the veterans took it a step further.
Almond’s anti-fans would deliberately pretend to be Almond anti-fans.
So-called anti-fans pretending to be anti-fans.
They’d write posts criticizing Almond while subtly praising him.
Then people would think an Almond fan was wearing a mask and praising Almond, so they’d get angry.
This kind of complex psychological warfare happened dozens, hundreds of times a day in communities.
Ever since taking on the role of Manager, Juhyeok had spent nearly all his time there analyzing public opinion, so he’d grown accustomed to such tactics.
His instinct was telling him exactly that.
‘I know ak47’s intentions aren’t pure.’
He wasn’t just a simple fan.
But there was something that didn’t make sense.
‘Why?’
What was the reason?
Juhyeok focused on the donation content again.
[ak47 donated 50,000 won.]
[After Cheese launches, there’s supposed to be a platform competition. Will you participate?]
[ak47 donated 3,000 won.]
[It’s literally platforms going head-to-head. There’s just a lot of rumors, so I don’t know the details.]
Ah. Juhyeok’s eyes widened.
Maybe the answer was already laid out?
‘A platform competition.’
Was that this bastard’s purpose?
Something didn’t quite click.
Platform?
Was he trying to probe which platform to move to?
How would he probe that as a fan?
All sorts of thoughts crossed his mind, but nothing really resonated.
Then─
‘What does this have to do with Kingchiman anyway… huh?’
No way.
Juhyeok flinches.
Could he really have done it with such malicious intent?
Juhyeok glances briefly at the bathroom where Sanghyeon is showering.
He feels awkward about it.
‘No way.’
Juhyeok right-clicks on ak47’s chat history and checks the login ID.
He copies it as-is, pastes it into a search engine, and searches.
‘This… damn….’

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Splash….
Under the stream of water from the showerhead, Sanghyeon thinks for a moment.
‘No….’
After all, he has a conscience too.
‘Was the advertisement done properly?’
Strictly speaking, it was fulfilled.
According to the terms, it’s only an advertisement until it’s cleared completely.
In fact, this was a condition the game company set up to properly squeeze us, and that’s why we accepted Juhyeok’s absurd revenue-per-sale advertising terms.
Even the proportion of revenue per sale was only around 1-2%.
‘…Hmm.’
Still, there’s a reason Sanghyeon is worried.
Revenue per sale itself is a premium condition that doesn’t exist in this world originally.
‘The condition of advertising until it’s cleared is certainly special too.’
Of course, the condition they gave—advertising until it’s cleared—is also a premium condition.
‘But still….’
No matter how much a contract is a contract, and even if they failed trying to gain a huge profit.
Sanghyeon couldn’t help but be bothered.
An advertisement cleared in just two days, and in such a bizarre speedrun fashion at that.
Whether this would actually be proper promotion and increase sales.
“Hmm….”
Sanghyeon ponders for a moment.
But then—
“Ugh. I’m so tired.”
The conclusion was simply that he was tired.
Probably because he used his head a lot for the first time in a while.
After showering, he goes to Juhyeok, who is passionately searching for something, and they chat about this and that.
‘What is this bastard ak47 doing.’
All he remembers is roughly this thought lingering in his head.
After that, everything went black.
“Ugh.”
Thud.
I collapsed onto the bed as if losing consciousness, and my day came to an end.
So I had no way of knowing.
During these hours while I slept, what conversations were happening in the online world, and what events were unfolding.
#Trending Video 1st Place
Which video had just claimed the top spot.

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