Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 939

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 070
24. Nant Match Assembly (1)
Whoooosh—!
Someone was sprinting down the alley stairs at full speed.
It was Sanghyeon.
‘Juhyeok Kim.’
I was filled with the determination to get revenge for today’s nagging.
He’d threatened me so much, saying I couldn’t find a team if I didn’t go to the social gathering.
Let me show him what I’ve brought.
I ran frantically, looking up toward where my apartment was.
But—
‘That’s right.’
—Crash!
Only after colliding with a suddenly opened door did I remember.
“Oof!”
Juhyeok was at Jia’s place.
Jia screamed in surprise at the sight of the flattened Sanghyeon.
“A… Almond!?”
“Sanghyeon. You okay?”
Juhyeok’s face poked out as well.
“Ugh… yeah, yeah. I’m fine.”
Sanghyeon shook his head and got to his feet.
“Wow… if you couldn’t dodge that, other people must be getting hit constantly.”
Jia shook her head.
“Ah… no.”
“…?”
“?”
For some reason, this door had an unusually high hit rate specifically with Sanghyeon.
“Anyway.”
Sanghyeon didn’t mind.
It worked out well anyway.
“I…”
I was about to speak, thinking I should say it right here.
“Oh. But aren’t you hungry?”
Juhyeok asked as he passed by me heading downstairs.
“We’re going there. You know, that eternal Kimchi stew place.”
“Ah… yeah, that place is great.”
I revised my plan.
I’d say it at the restaurant with proper composure.
Jia tilted her head, noticing the strange glint in my eyes.
‘Why is he acting like that?’

* * *
“Welcome! Ogangwoo Kimchi Jjigae, a timeless tradition! Will you be ordering?”
The part-timer greeted them with her usual bright demeanor.
The three of them ordered without hesitation as soon as they sat down.
“Ah, yes… I’ll have three of the Nine Hells Kimchi Jjigae. And… rolled egg too.”
Juhyeok grumbled at Jia’s order.
“What is this? The price is ten thousand won now. It used to be nine thousand. This doesn’t make it Nine Hells Kimchi Jjigae anymore, does it?”
“Everything went up. What can we do about it?”
Jia poured water into the three cups without making a fuss.
She was quite lenient with spending, but Juhyeok was not.
“They should change the name to Ten Thousand Hells or something.”
“Nine Hells isn’t about the price—it’s an actual term…”
“Still though.”
He continued muttering, sensitive about money as always.
Jia retorted in exasperation, and Juhyeok countered again.
The conversation kept circling back to the price.
‘Hmm…’
Sanghyeon was watching for an opening to naturally join in.
He had something he wanted to say too.
“Ahem. Um…”
“?”
Juhyeok finally noticed.
That he wanted to say something.
‘Is it about his arm?’
He’d just come back from the hospital today.
Yet he had that look in his eyes.
Eyes eager to say something, barely able to contain it.
Until now, his arm had been a sensitive topic, so Juhyeok hadn’t pressed him about it.
But at this point, Juhyeok was curious too.
“What is it? Why are you like that? Did you get good news at the hospital?”
“Yeah.”
His head nodded quickly.
In an instant, both Jia’s and Juhyeok’s eyes focused on Sanghyeon.
“Really? What is it?”
Sanghyeon broke into a grin and opened his mouth.
“The Coach…”
BANG!
That was when it happened.
The door burst open suddenly, and a group rushed in.
It was a combination that naturally drew everyone’s attention.
“Wahaha! W-what a coincidence!?”
A middle-aged man with a physique bordering on spherical.
“Wow, oppa! Are you eating? You’re so fascinating~”
A young woman with pink hair and a slender model-like figure in stark contrast to him.
“Oh… do octopuses go in too? My fellow kin….”
A gleaming bald head.
“Ohohoho! Oppa~”
And a muscular man of varied appearance.
‘What is this. Was this Disc World?’
These people shouldn’t be here. For a moment, Sanghyeon even wondered if he’d somehow entered the game itself.
‘It’s started.’
From Juhyeok’s perspective, this was already a kind of game.
A team recruitment game.

* * *
As news of the platform championship spread by text message, the preliminaries to the platform championship had essentially begun from this moment.
The early bird catches the worm, as they say?
Not quite.
“The desperate bird wakes up early.”
Taco had gathered all the Balloon Stars members this morning and said this.
“Haaah. Taco. We didn’t wake up early, we just… didn’t sleep….”
Balloon Gum grumbled while yawning.
Taco shot back at this.
“Hyung. It’s because of you that Almond can’t be absent, you know? Shh.”
“Tch….”
Miho laughed at Balloon Gum’s expression.
“Ah, you’re too much.”
“Your expression doesn’t say ‘too much’ at all, Miho.”
“It’s so funny.”
“….”
She simply ignored Balloon Gum’s words and kept laughing.
“She just likes meeting Almond. That’s all it is.”
Balloon Gum shrugged and ignored Miho’s laughter.
“So what are we doing, just following along like this? Taco.”
“Well….”
Taco scratched his head too.
Gleam.
His head was cleanly shaved for meeting Almond today.
“Let’s meet up first and grab coffee or something, and we can talk… We, we even went to support you at that international tournament… Maybe if we just appeal with stuff like that….”
“Good grief. How pathetic. You’re being pathetic, Taco.”
Balloon Gum lets out a snicker.
At this, Taco’s expression hardened like dried squid.
“Ahem.”
“?”
Balloon Gum stares at Taco’s face for a moment, wondering what that was about.
Then he caught on to something.
“You… You’re not going to team with me if you can’t recruit Almond, are you?”
“….”
Taco doesn’t answer.
“You… How could you do this to me! Huh!? Who built up your streaming career, huh!?”
Taco shrugs his shoulders as if he’d been waiting for this.
“Good grief. How pathetic. So pathetic~”
“So pathetic~ hehe~”
Miho chimes in from the side, backing up Taco.
“Wow! Wow! I’m, I’m the CEO! Huh?”
Balloon Gum puffs out his chest and tries to intimidate them, but he’s actually shorter than Miho.
It wasn’t threatening at all.
Then Strawberry Shooter offers an opinion.
“Why don’t I just kidnap Almondpang outright? Ohohoho.”
There was a brief silence, but no one responded, and the argument started up again.
“I’m the CEO, I said!”
“A pathetic CEO.”

* * *
A few hours later─
Bang!
The Balloon Stars Members who had been lying in ambush on the stairs where Almond came and went stormed into the Kimchi Stew restaurant.
‘Huh?’
Sanghyeon’s mind went blank for a moment as he’d been waiting for the perfect timing to brag to Juhyeok.
‘What… what is this?’
Haven’t they logged out yet?
Sanghyeon was confused about why members who shouldn’t be in reality suddenly appeared here.
“Wow! Oppa, it’s been so long!”
Miho suddenly approached and greeted him, causing everything Sanghyeon had prepared to scatter from his mind.
“Oh… yeah. This is really strange. How did you get here?”
“We had some business nearby!”
In the morning?
Four streamers?
Sanghyeon already knew their daily patterns well.
Miho could hide it with makeup, but Balloon Gum had dark circles hanging heavily under her eyes.
There’s no way they’d schedule something at this hour.
“Oppa. Since we ‘happened’ to run into each other, let’s grab a meal and have some coffee with us. We can chat a bit. Want to go jogging together too?”
That’s a lot to do for a chance encounter.
“Sure, sure, wahaha! I’ve been jogging lately, you know.”
Balloon Gum spoke while his unbelievable belly rippled.
I could feel silent pressure to accept.
Sanghyeon nodded for now.
“Oh… yeah. That sounds good.”
“Okay!”
Only after receiving Sanghyeon’s confirmation did they find a seat and sit down.
Juhyeok saw this and chuckled.
“It’s started.”
“What?”
He spoke quietly so no one else could hear.
“You came to recruit him for the team.”
“…Y-yeah?”
Sanghyeon scratched his head.
He was surprised that they’d already considered him.
After all, according to what Juhyeok said, after the international tournament, they’d grown distant from the streamers, so they needed to socialize and build friendships to form a team, right?
“Wow~ you’re assembling the team pretty well.”
Just then, Jia nudged Juhyeok with her shoulder and teased him.
Juhyeok nodded shamelessly without caring.
“Yeah. The team will come together.”
“But why are you pushing me to go to the tournament?”
“The team I’m talking about isn’t this one.”
“Then what kind of team?”
“One that can win.”
“…Wow. Brutal. Juhyeok. Is this really Aseng?”
“It’s just everyday life in Aseng.”
Jia shook her head and scooped out some Kimchi stew.
“Who’s going to take such a cold-blooded guy~ Definitely not me~”
“Cold-blooded? No way. I’m a passionate man. That’s why I got kicked out of the company.”
Juhyeok rambled on, trying to explain that he wasn’t cold-blooded in response to Jia’s words.
But none of it registered with Sanghyeon.
‘One that can win?’
Juhyeok’s words had completely stopped his mind.
That’s right. This tournament was an exhibition match, but it was one where there was a clear reason to win.
Playing with Balloon Stars again would be fun, but they might not be able to win.
‘Especially when even former pro teams that played with Jeon-ja-pa are competing….’
CK entus.
No matter how much they were called has-beens (according to Jeon-ja-pa), they were legendary pro gamers.
Could Balloon Stars win against them?
Balloon Gum beating Popcorn? Miho beating Marshmallow?
No matter how I thought about it, I couldn’t picture it.
Actually, could they even beat that team?
Did Paprika and those vicious guys create a team that never loses?
If so, I needed to think about the team too. Juhyeok really does see one step ahead.
But then─
“Oh right, now that I think about it. When we went to cheer at that national tournament. It was really fun. Right?”
Balloon Gum’s voice suddenly came through.
He’d said it was a shameless tactic earlier, but when they actually met, that was the only strategy available.
And sure enough, it was effective.
“….”
Sanghyeon’s expression grew complicated.
“Wow. Yeah. Oppa. I was cheering that day and got so exhausted I completely collapsed.”
“Hahaha! That’s right. We were supposed to drink, but you collapsed from exhaustion while cheering.”
Euk.
The weight in Sanghyeon’s heart was rapidly increasing.
“Customer?”
A part-timer came to his rescue.
The part-timer went over to them and pointed at the order form.
“Would you like to order?”
They were just sitting there talking without ordering, so she cut them off.
“Ah, um… Four Ninth Circle Hells, please. And with that… rolled egg?”
“Are you ordering rice with everything?”
Strawberry Shooter raised her hand and shook her head.
“I’ll have bread instead of rice.”
“…Pardon? We don’t have bread.”
Taco nudged her from the side.
“Hey. What bread?”
“Almond bread!”
“…”
After a moment of silence.
All of the Balloon Stars burst into deliberately loud laughter.
“Wahahahaha!”
“Ahahaha!”
“Kyahahaha!”
Sanghyeon’s face went pale.
‘Insane.’
He didn’t even look in her direction.
Juhyeok chuckled to himself, finding it amusing.
“Ahem!”
Tap, tap, tap!
The part-time worker tapped the menu while asking.
“Rice. You’re ordering that, right?”
“Ah, yes, yes…”
She saved Sanghyeon once more.
Sanghyeon wanted to give her a thumbs up.
Because—
‘Strawberry is genuinely dangerous.’
Regardless of others, Strawberry Shooter’s obsession was somewhat frightening.
But surprisingly, Sanghyeon wasn’t only supposed to be wary of Strawberry Shooter and the Balloon Stars.
Beyond the shop window, near a utility pole in the distance, suspicious red and yellow hair were peeking out.
“Um, unnie… should we, should we go in too?”
“No. They’ve already started eating. The timing’s off—is there any point in doing a Kimchi Stew one-shot? Let’s aim for when they go to the café.”
The bottom duo they’d met at the Nantes match.
ADC Hong-cha and Supporter Lemon.
“There were kids more diligent than us… sigh.”
“This happened because you woke up late!”
Hong-cha grabbed Lemon’s yellow hair in frustration and shook it.
It was quite a commotion.
Fortunately, they were far enough away that Sanghyeon at the Kimchi Stew restaurant had no idea, contentedly blowing on his stew before eating.

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