Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 950

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 081
27. The Unselected Personnel (3)
Suddenly, a figure burst from the bushes.
His fist struck the back of Huchoo’s head with tremendous force.
Thwack!
“Kyaaaaaaah?!”
Huchoo let out a bizarre shriek of pure shock and bolted forward.
“What, what is it! A monster! A monster!”
Hahahahahaha
Monsterrr lol
-The scarier one is heredddd
That’s a hilarious reaction lol
Pow! Smack!
Almond pursued Huchoo, continuing to throw punches relentlessly.
‘Wow, this is short.’
As I kept throwing punches, I gradually learned the limitations of a two-headed character.
The short limbs applied to my actual reach as well.
If I’d discovered this in a critical situation, it could have been dangerous.
‘Jump, punch, jump, punch.’
Almond mixed in jumps while continuously closing the distance and pummeling Huchoo.
Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow!
I can’t translate this as it appears to be random Korean consonants and onomatopoeia (ㅋㅋㅋㅋ = laughter) without coherent meaning.
Why are you so fast? lol
-Punching someone ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
That’s not it lol
-This guy’s fighting style is just different
Incredibly rapid strikes and relentless pursuit.
While Almond’s control was flawless, the buff from the donation made a huge difference.
[All Speed Increased 30%]
“Huchoo! That’s a person! What are you doing!?”
Salt drew his sword and stared at the sudden intruder.
I couldn’t see their user ID.
They must have toggled the nickname hiding setting.
“Whoever you are, you dare challenge me bare-handed!?”
Salt rushed toward Huchoo.
‘He’s completely ignoring me.’
Right now, he only had eyes for Huchoo, completely disregarding Salt.
Once the blade pierced his skull, he’d finally snap to attention.
Whoosh!
Salt’s blade swung through the air.
“!?”
Whoosh.
Almond suddenly crouched down and dodged out of the way.
‘Wait, was she watching me the whole time?’
I thought she wasn’t paying attention at all, but I was wrong.
Even now… she’s still getting pummeled by me while sitting down.
Thwack! Thwack-thwack!
“Gaaaaaahhhhh!”
“Huchoo! Get it together!”
Why was a fighting game expert panicking like that?
From Salt’s perspective, it was impossible to tell.
From Huchoo’s perspective, it was different.
‘Where, where exactly!?’
Almond was precisely following her blind spot and striking from there.
She had never gotten a proper look at Almond even once.
The moment she turned her head, he’d weave and slip into her blind spot, mixing in jumps while throwing nothing but relentless punches.
It was a rapid-fire technique that pushed the speed buff to its absolute limit.
‘Just as I thought—she can’t see me.’
Almond had already mapped out her blind spots while dashing around in this body.
It was basic knowledge for those who played as archers, you could say.
Since arrows are best fired from blind spots, this habit had been ingrained in me for quite a while now.
‘The field of view here is narrower than in reality.’
In reality, a human’s field of vision is surprisingly wide, but not here.
It didn’t even reach 180 degrees.
It was more like 140 degrees or so.
The same applied to Huchoo as well.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
By keeping my eyes fixed on Huchoo’s head and moving my body only through her blind spot, I could keep landing hits.
‘She’s panicked too.’
Almond pressed in relentlessly and threw more punches.
Targeting only her head, the one place her armor didn’t protect.
All Huchoo could see when she turned her head was a small fist coming at her.
Pow! Smack!
Once she got caught in the rhythm, she allowed far too many attacks through.
Thwack-thwack-thwack…
[Health 18%]
Her health was nearly depleted.
-Lmao she’s a newbie?
-Only beats newbies huh lol
-Almond the newbie slayer lol
Almond’s viewers thought Huchoo looked like a helpless newbie getting pummeled bare-handed, but in reality, she was among the top amateur gamers competing in the fighting game rankings within the top 50.
Of course, she hadn’t even turned on her broadcast and had hidden her nickname, so she had no way of knowing about any of this.
-But her voice sounds exactly like Huchoo’s?
-Is it TTS? Huchoo’s voice lol
-Her screams are hilarious lol
Still, mentions of Huchoo came up because of her distinctive voice.
-Huchoo went to Paprika, so she wouldn’t be here lol
-I miss you, Huchoo noona…
-lol isn’t this a VTuber using TTS?
No one dared make the bold guess that the opponent might actually be her.
Splurch!
“Kyaaahhhhh!?”
In any case, Huchoo had completely lost it, and the only one properly prepared to fight here was Salt.
“Get away from her, damn it! Get away!”
Salt rushed over and swung his sword again.
This time, even Almond couldn’t dodge easily.
‘If I crouch again, I won’t be able to dodge easily.’
Whoosh!
Salt’s objective was now to separate this guy from Huchoo.
That objective was achieved perfectly.
Tumble.
Almond went flying and separated from Huchoo.
“That’s it….”
A kid without equipment. You’re dead… he thought, rushing forward and swinging his blade again.
This time, there was no way to dodge.
──Clang!
But then, he blocked it.
With what?
“?”
A sword.
He was holding a sword.
“Huh?”
Salt’s eyes widened in shock.
“This, this is….”
This was Huchoo’s sword.
Rolling his eyes to look to the side, Huchoo was already lying on the ground.
The thug was matching blades while rapidly equipping armor as well.
Armor, pants, shoes, gloves too….
Click, click, click.
“Insane.”
He now had equipment nearly equal to mine.
-Lmaooo this is it~
-Why make equipment? Just beat him with bare fists
-Punching him down piece by piece, he really killed it lmaooo
-I think I just witnessed something too brutal…
-So insanely fast lmaooo

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[pep731 has defeated an Unknown Person.]
A notification that appeared in the server-wide chat.
The streamers each chimed in.
[Balloon Gum: Huh. What? What?]
[Hong-cha: Huh? Already? But why is the username like that?]
[Greentea: I’m scared…]
[Tomato: Ah, let’s take this nice and easy.]
[Takoyaki: Oh… Has it already started?]
[Miho: You said this was a healing game!!]
‘He really killed him, didn’t he?’
Department Manager Jang froze for a moment before finally opening his mouth after a long pause.
“Who… who is that?”
“Yes?”
Park O-hun answered as if he’d said something completely off-topic.
“It’s Almond. That one.”
“No, the person who suggested we change the Paprika people’s nicknames to something strange.”
*Click.*
Someone in the back raises their hand.
“That’s me!”
“You… you’re a genius!?”
“Hehe.”
Department Manager Jang praised the employee profusely, wiping his chest as if he’d just lost ten years off his life.
“If the nickname had been real, everything would’ve been ruined. Seriously.”
The Paprika streamers had been assigned nicknames in a codename format that concealed their identities.
Because they weren’t actual residents.
This setup hadn’t been in place from the beginning, but was changed at Park O-hun’s suggestion.
The reason this situation, where Huchoo was killed right at the start, didn’t spiral out of control was entirely because of the codename system.
“If it had been known as Huchoo, it really would’ve been chaos.”
If Huchoo’s nickname had been displayed as-is across the entire server, the Tribby streamers who’d left for Paprika would’ve immediately realized they’d arrived.
It was a blessing in disguise.
Department Manager Jang swept his long hair back and focused on the camera again.
“But how exactly did he kill him?”
As someone not deeply versed in survival craft, I couldn’t comprehend the scene where Almond had just beaten Huchoo to death with his bare fists.
It was as if Huchoo had died too easily, almost as though she’d deliberately let herself be defeated.
Since Serc had a strong roleplay feel to it, there were cases where people would intentionally take a fall.
But judging from Huchoo’s reaction after respawning, it didn’t seem intentional at all.
[Aaahhhhh! What the hell! Who are you?! You’re insane!]
She was absolutely furious.
She’d been beaten to death one-sidedly without even getting a good look at her attacker’s face, and on top of that, all her equipment had been lost.
[What? Did all your gear really get blown away?]
Orange approached and looked her over as if witnessing something bizarre.
[Wait, we just started… Was that ‘pep’ in the server chat earlier actually you?]
[Yeah… there’s someone out there who’s absolutely vicious.]
[Could there be others secretly invited besides us?]
Huchoo nodded.
[Yeah. ‘Unselected personnel.’]
[What… what’s with the fancy terminology?]
[You’ll understand once you meet them.]
Orange let out a sigh.
[Sigh. These vicious Cheese bastards… how many tricks did they set up?]
[Would the platform people do something that costs them money? They prepared this. So we wouldn’t outperform Cheese.]
“?”
Department Manager Jang couldn’t help but laugh.
“What are you talking about?”
“Isn’t it easy to misunderstand that way?”
Huchoo continued spinning her narrative about those ‘unselected personnel.’
[I’m telling you, this isn’t just anyone! I seriously didn’t even see their face before I got hit. They must be someone specially recruited. Doesn’t Cheese have some Serc masters?]
[I don’t know either. I don’t play Serc much. But wait, what kind of healing game is this?!]
[I don’t know anymore… but one thing I do know is that our real enemy is the unselected personnel.]
[…Huh.]
Orange’s expression turned serious at the mention of these mysterious unselected personnel.
“Nice expression.”
Department Manager Jang chuckled and zoomed in on that face.
For a while, there didn’t seem to be any concerns about content length.
[What about Salt?]
[I… I don’t know. My equipment… do you think he could bring it back?]
[Is he that strong?]
[He’s insane, I’m telling you. He beat me to death with his bare hands.]
[B-bare hands?]
Orange took a step back, flinching.
[Combat is your specialty, Huchoo. What’s going on?]
[That’s why… he was just incredibly fast, okay?]
Even if Seruk’s two-headed fighter operates differently, the fundamental psychological warfare framework remains the same.
There’s a master of that caliber?
[Didn’t he come from Cheese?]
[No way, they just entered the village. This must be someone who came in separately.]
[Wait, without Zhang Fei’s equipment, what do we do? We’re equipment-dependent.]
[Ahhhhhhhhh!]
Suddenly, Huchoo bursts into tears.
[What do I do now! Our only advantage was getting equipment first! Am I obsolete!? Huh!? Am I going to be abandoned!? Like a villain!?]
Zing.
Department Manager Jang excitedly zooms in on Huchoo’s face as she wails, filling the camera frame.
[Ah, no, calm down. Salt will find Zhang Fei’s equipment.]

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Meanwhile, at the battlefield from moments ago.
‘What is this?’
Salt’s eyes wavered as he stared at the mysterious two-headed character before him.
He was confused.
‘Huchoo is dead?’
He still couldn’t accept Huchoo’s death.
No matter how skilled someone was with their fists, they couldn’t kill that quickly. It was shocking.
Of course, they didn’t know about the power the Cheese village residents possessed.
It was a temporary buff received through donations.
[All Speed Enhanced 30%]
Because of this, he couldn’t have anticipated that Almond was displaying extreme efficiency.
‘What on earth is this?’
From his perspective, Almond’s movements could only be classified as beyond standard.
Salt’s expression was clearly visible on his avatar as well.
-You felt the opponent’s expression, right?
-Just go lol
-Scared?
-You’re trembling, bro?
Salt held his sword but didn’t rush forward easily.
If he died here too, not only would Huchoo’s equipment be lost, but his own as well.
All of Paprika’s early advantage would disappear.
A brief standoff continued.
Almond scratched his head.
“Why are you just standing there? Is it lag?”
Salt, his pride wounded, snapped back.
“Ah, no! I’m doing reconnaissance!”
“…I see.”
-Hahahahaha
-Humiliation lol
-Even mental damage sprinkled in lol
Almond nodded as if he understood everything, then made a suggestion.
“If fighting feels too difficult, you can put down half your equipment and go.”
“…H-half?”
Salt hated that he found himself intrigued by those words.

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