Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 940

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 071
24. Nant Tournament Assembly (2)
“Ugh….”
Meanwhile, Orange emerged from the capsule.
*Screeeech.*
“Damn. This is bad. Really bad.”
I couldn’t even muster the strength to fully exit the capsule, my body going limp.
It was because of the news I’d heard from Sausage.
By my own assessment, the situation was truly a mess.
“Why did he go with Cheese…?”
Nearly everyone in the industry had predicted Paprika.
But suddenly, he switched to Cheese.
I couldn’t understand it.
He was a core member I desperately wanted on my team.
“Ugh….”
I lay there for a while, staring blankly at the ceiling and groaning, before finally pushing myself up.
“I need to rebuild the roster.”
I had to form a new team.
*Sigh.*
I exhaled heavily as I got to my feet.
Nothing’s been going right lately.
I was steadily building my position as a Ril RPG streamer.
But then the game came to a complete halt and shifted to a brand new title.
They say the new game, Legend Tale, is progressing well, but it’s still in alpha testing—not even open beta yet.
Only personnel directly selected by the game company are participating in the test.
And I didn’t make the cut.
If someone as established as me from the previous version couldn’t get in, it’s clearly an alpha test run by insiders only.
“Ugh.”
I made another odd sound and opened my notepad.
“Who should I recruit? Who?”

* * *
“But Sanghyeon, why were you so fixated on Orange anyway?”
“?”
Juhyeok asked since the contract was already finished anyway.
Even though Orange’s intention in betting against Keonwang was impure, everything had worked out well in the end and I’d even received a substantial donation.
It was curious that I’d chosen a platform specifically to defeat Orange.
“Ah.”
I paused for a moment before answering.
“You had it written down in your notepad.”
“…?”
“Orange is an ‘Enemy,’ you wrote.”
“S-so…?”
“So what?”
“!?”
Juhyeok’s expression became bewildered.
‘No way. Because of the wording I created?’
It was a sentence I’d written out of frustration while investigating, so it was a bit exaggerated.
Besides, I’d typed it quickly for convenience, so I’d just expressed it with the shortest word possible.
“If you wrote it like that, he must be a really bad guy.”
So that’s how he understood it.
Then again, if Juhyeok had seen in my notepad that someone was an enemy, he would have been extremely cautious too.
“A guy like that. And he’s even challenging me. There’s no reason not to accept. The conditions are the same anyway.”
For now, I really disliked Orange’s approach.
It seemed to be more about personal preference than the scale of the incident itself.
“….”
Juhyeok didn’t know what to do about this snowball that had rolled this far.
“Hey. I checked all the conditions. Do you think I’m an idiot?”
I wave my hand as if to say I know what Juhyeok is thinking.
“You chose it without even hearing my explanation. Man.”
Pfft.
Jia bursts out laughing beside me.
Almond gets it. It’s a meme reference.
“Not those kinds of conditions.”
“Then…?”
“I liked that it was a new platform.”
“What?”
For the conservative Juhyeok, this was an incomprehensible statement.
“Paprika has people with maximum viewership of a million. Tribby had tons of amazing people too.”
“Right.”
“I thought I could only reach the highest tier if a new arena opened up.”
Sanghyeon chuckled at his own words and took a bite of kimchi stew.
It seemed to be a decision he was quite proud of.
‘It’s just a blue ocean, that’s all.’
Juhyeok thought there must be a reason why blue oceans remained blue oceans, so he wasn’t particularly convinced.
Then Sanghyeon suddenly muttered under his breath.
“But we absolutely have to beat Orange.”
‘This bastard. It really is about Orange!’
I almost fell for it.
It was just a clever excuse to avoid his nagging!

* * *
“Ah, I’m so full.”
Juhyeok finished two bowls of rice and even stole Jia’s portion on top of that.
“You’re stating the obvious.”
Jia muttered in exasperation and stood up from her seat.
She was going to pay first.
“We can just use the company card now, right?”
“Yeah. That’s right. It’s the employees’ lunch.”
Mix Nuts had been registered as a corporation.
In addition to Jia and Macaron, they planned to hire many more employees and open an office.
“But does this card actually have money on it?”
Jia waved the card suspiciously.
The sponsorship revenue from Almond went entirely to Almond, and Mix Nuts currently operated on advertising and other planned income.
Besides Bontovi, Kim Chi Warrior, and Pangeo and other affiliated streamers, the company had little incoming money since the fake national team incident.
“That’s a credit card. What are you talking about?”
“Do we actually have money coming in to maintain credit?”
“Ah, well then!”
Yet Juhyeok insisted they did.
“I arranged to pull some advertising revenue in advance.”
“…?”
“No, you know. Ghostu Busters.”
That was it.
The moment Ghostu Busters took off, Juhyeok requested an advance payment.
Jia scratched her head and quietly pulled out her own card to pay instead.
‘No matter how I think about it, there probably isn’t much.’
Juhyeok’s corporate life was only just beginning.
Even Jia, whose financial sense was far below Juhyeok’s, could tell the company wasn’t exactly rolling in money yet.
Wasn’t there a difference between a celebrity doing well and an entertainment company doing well?
Beep.
The payment went through, and Jia gestured.
“Let’s go.”
“Haha. Now we’re a corporation too. A corporation.”
Juhyeok laughed excitedly, unaware that Jia had already paid the bill.
Since his dream had always been to run a company, this must have felt something special to him.
That’s when it happened.
Crash!
“Oh, oh no! W-we need to pay too!”
“Oh, oppa! Since we ran into you, would you like to have some coffee with us?!”
The Balloon Stars members rushed out, nearly toppling their chairs in the process.
They were following because they were worried Sanghyeon might try to escape.
‘I was planning to wait.’
Sanghyeon, who had naturally intended to say they’d wait outside since they’d run into each other, was taken completely by surprise.
After all, he hadn’t even stood up from his chair yet.

* * *
“Come again soon!”
In front of the kimchi stew restaurant.
“Wahaha. Oh, what a coincidence! I’m Balloon Gum~ the bug artist~”
Balloon Gum, who could barely tell a lie in his everyday life, kept muttering these things because the situation felt so awkward.
“But the food here is really good, isn’t it? I knew it was famous, but…”
At least Miho was doing a good job steering the conversation.
“Oh, yeah. I come here often. But how did you end up coming here?”
Oops.
Sanghyeon suddenly realized he’d made a mistake.
He knew why they came, yet he’d just blurted out something random.
“Ah… w-we have a… a shoot. Hehe.”
“Oh. Right. That’s right.”
A shoot that he’d never even mentioned to Sanghyeon.
Everyone fell silent, watching Sanghyeon pretend to know something he couldn’t possibly know.
‘What do I do. I can’t handle this.’
‘Is this too much of a burden?’
‘We’re the worst.’
‘Almond…’
Each lost in their own thoughts, they walked toward the café.
“Hm.”
Jia glanced back quickly.
She felt like someone was chasing them from behind.
She was quite sensitive to such sensations.
“What’s wrong?”
“Ah… um… I think someone’s following us.”
“Huh?”
Juhyeok turned around to look behind him.
He saw nothing.
Well, by the time he turned around, I had already hidden behind something.
‘What was that?’
Juhyeok felt uneasy.
He knew better than anyone that Jia didn’t get these feelings for no reason.
‘What kind of lunatic follows someone in broad daylight.’

* * *
Whoosh!
Hong-cha hid her body with the physicality befitting a Challenger.
And faster than anyone, she immediately pestered Lemon as usual.
“Hey, hey, I told you not to chase after me so much! Ugh!”
“Ugh… Why are you following us secretly? Unnie. Can’t you just say hi?”
“I don’t know how it happened. Damn….”
Thud.
Suddenly a shadow appeared.
Over the two of them crouching behind a car.
“!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Lemon nearly foamed at the mouth and collapsed, while Hong-cha stumbled backward and hit her head on a delivery motorcycle that was parked there.
“Crack!”
With a sound of breath catching, Hong-cha’s eyes rolled back.
Actually, the one who was more startled here was the shadow’s owner, Juhyeok.
“What, what!?”
Juhyeok, who had imagined some dark male stalker, was even more shocked to see a red-haired and yellow-haired woman both writhing.
“What’s wrong!?”
“Manager! Are you okay!?”
Whether the commotion reached the main group or not, people came rushing over.
“….”
What they saw was Lemon and Hong-cha flipped upside down relative to each other.
“You… why are you guys here?”
Miho, who was quite acquainted with them, asked first in bewilderment.
Hong-cha shouted at those words.
Despite being flipped upside down, her voice was quite loud.
“That, that’s what I should ask you! Why are you here! If you dare say this is a filming location at this hour!? Is a Rune Star selfie shoot really a shoot!?”
“….”
Only then did Miho realize why these two had come here.
‘I need to go with them.’
Balloon Stars alone couldn’t monopolize Almond anymore.

* * *
The café they headed to was Blue Boat, located along the riverside promenade.
It was the kind of place where you could see the river, and if you paid extra, you could even take a boat ride.
“Wow. Nice. I like this place.”
“Wow~ Almond oppa, you really know some nice spots near Hangang, huh?”
Lemon spoke excitedly, oblivious to everything else.
She apparently hadn’t seen the fake national team roster.
Sanghyeon lived at the very top of a hillside slum.
Though there were some newly developed wealthy neighborhoods nearby, the conditions in that area weren’t good at all.
In fact, they’d gotten worse.
Smack!
Hong-cha hit Lemon.
“Ow… Why? Why are you hitting me?”
“Be quiet.”
“Ugh….”
They gathered around a long table, and Juhyeok brought the coffee.
“Here. Everyone, please have some. Almond’s treating us to coffee. Ha ha.”
Like kindergarteners, everyone chorused “Thank you!” and sipped their coffee.
“Oh. This is delicious.”
“Good.”
“The view is great, so the coffee tastes even better.”
After the comments about the coffee faded, silence fell.
It was Hong-cha who broke the silence.
“We need to be fair about this. Honestly.”
It was a completely unexpected statement for Sanghyeon.
I thought she’d ask Almond which team he wanted to join first.
What she said went even further.
“Almond is our Tribby’s—no, Cheese’s one and only hard-carry player. How can you take such talent away just because of past connections?”
“…Ah, I haven’t taken him yet.”
Balloon Gum muttered defensively.
“You’re literally trying to kidnap him right now—you even packed a bundle!”
Hong-cha shouted, pointing at Strawberry Shooter.
‘How did she know?’
Taco countered.
“And you’re here too, aren’t you? Hong~-cha?”
“I-I! I came because I was worried this might happen! That’s why I came!”
“Huh? So what do you want to do then?”
Hong-cha avoided his gaze for a moment, then shouted the prepared statement.
“I… I just want our platform to win!”
“That’s right!”
Lemon chimes in from beside me.
That’s true.
They had brought a noble cause with them.
“We need to build the ultimate team! And beat Paprika.”
“Absolutely~!”
Taco, listening to those words, was dumbfounded.
“The ultimate team, sure. But…”
Taco points to Lemon beside me.
“Is she part of that ‘ultimate team’ too?”
“…Ah, no. She’s just the cheering squad.”
Lemon was hearing this for the first time.
“Huh? Unnie, that’s what it was?”

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