Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 951

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 082
28. If You’re Going to Do This, Don’t Do It at All (1)
“If fighting is too difficult, you can leave behind half of your equipment and go.”
A suggestion to an opponent hesitating to fight.
-lol leave behind equipment and go?
The Return of the Reckless Hero ㄷㄷ
Hahahahahaha
Half?? lol
-Why leave half when you only need a fishing rod
The viewers criticized Almond’s suggestion as nonsensical.
But truthfully, if I had encountered an NPC instead of a real person, this conversation wouldn’t have happened at all.
I would have just killed them without question.
‘Because I’m thinking of them as a streamer… I just can’t bring myself to kill them.’
The opponent was naturally a streamer as well.
Thinking of them as a future colleague in the industry, I found myself maintaining at least basic courtesy.
“Everyone. Since this person is a streamer and not an NPC, I’m trying to show some respect. Please don’t complain about why I’m not killing them.”
-??
Who’s complaining about why I’m not killing them? lol
That’s not it lol
-Are you looking at a different chat window?
It’s shameless considering I just beat Huchoo to death moments ago.
But regardless, I mean it sincerely.
“Ah, I understand.”
Salt appeared to have decided to leave behind half of his equipment.
No way lol, you’re seriously putting down half?
Hahahaha
-This actually works?
hahahaha
‘If the fight escalates here, our identities will just be exposed and things will get difficult.’
Since the starting items were worthless anyway, I figured I might as well take half of something.
Salt sensed it instinctively.
The ‘killing intent’ emanating from that two-headed character casually pointing a sword.
‘That guy… isn’t an ordinary person.’
He reached a conclusion similar to Huchoo’s.
‘They didn’t just plant us in Cheese—they created another faction to check us as well.’
There’s no way a competing streamer would just do good deeds and progress easily.
Naturally, there would be some kind of mechanism in place.
The one standing before me now appeared to be that mechanism.
‘Let me just go along with the production team’s intentions.’
In games like Survival Craft, above all else, ‘roleplay’ is the foundation.
The way streamers kept this game alive on broadcast was by immersing themselves as if they were actual inhabitants of this world, while adjusting their attitudes to match whatever flow seemed entertaining.
Salt interpreted Almond’s brazen demand to put down half his items as possibly being some kind of broadcast device.
“I just need to put down half, right?”
He bent down to place the items accordingly.
“No?”
Almond suddenly said it wasn’t half.
He still had his sword pointed at Salt.
“Now that I think about it, you should put down everything…”
“…?”
-??
-?
Are you fighting? lol
What the heck lol
-Did Almond forget what he just said??
lol
“No, the thing is… I can’t tell if that’s half or a third, right? If you put down everything, I’ll take half of it.”
Almond wasn’t a split-personality psychopath—he was simply being thorough about securing exactly half.
Ding!
[You’ve received a 30,000 won donation!]
[What about math, then?]
-Almondil.
-Almondil! Almondil! Almondil!
-Almondil!
-Mom!? Almondil! Is mom Almondil!?
Hahaha, is this Almond Day or something?
-ly
That’s right lol, it has to be accurate~
The viewers began praising his precise judgment once again.
‘What the hell. This guy’s insane.’
Meanwhile, Salt’s expression twisted.
But there was nothing he could do about it.
He’d already bent down anyway, so he might as well go along with it.
“Ah, I understand.”
Whoosh, whoosh.
He removed all his items and emptied his entire inventory.
“That’s it, right? Now I’ll just take half from here… huh?”
But something felt off.
Almond was slowly approaching without lowering his sword at all.
“No, actually… now that I think about it. How can I know if that’s everything?”
That guy’s shameless lol
Hahahahahaha
-Couldn’t you think about that beforehand?
No way lol
Salt, clad only in underwear, voiced his grievances.
“W-what are you talking about? You told me to put everything down. So! I took it all off!”
Regardless, Almond’s blade drew ever closer.
“No… that’s not it? You could have pretended to take everything and hidden something, right?”
“…I’m literally just wearing underwear right now!”
“There could be more in your inventory. I can’t help but think that way. From my perspective.”
Almond was being considerate because he thought his opponent was a streamer, speaking in roundabout terms.
But this only made it more terrifying for the other party.
Hahahahaha lol
Why are you talking like you want me to sympathize with you lol
That guy’s actually insane lol
What is this concept now lol
“H-how would you even know that? Honestly, at this point I’ve done enough… huh?!”
Whoosh.
Almond’s sword advanced further.
And with an expression of complete indifference, those large eyes spoke.
“If you just die for me, I’ll only take half from there.”
Since they were colleagues in the industry, Almond couldn’t bring himself to simply kill, so he was asking for permission.
This is what industry etiquette is… or so he believed.
Hahahahahaha
No, I’m just dying laughing haha, this guy’s crazy haha
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to be Korean characters arranged in a way that doesn’t form coherent words or standard Korean text – it looks like random characters or possibly corrupted text.
-I’m scared now, bro…
“…”
Salt stood dumbfounded, mentally retracing this bizarre logical structure.
‘Wait, I was supposed to put down half on the condition that I don’t die…’
He wanted to put down half to avoid dying, but proving it’s half only happens if he dies.
So he has to die?
But to avoid dying, he puts down half. Yet to prove it’s half, he has to die?
Almondil’s reasoning structure spun like an infinite loop.
Strangely, every ending led to death.
‘This can’t be right!’
No matter how much Salt thought about it, he couldn’t accept this outcome.
‘Then…’
His eyes darted away for a moment, as if checking the chat window.
At that instant, he grabbed his sword and leaped up.
“Here goes!”
A single opportunity.
If this blade could just pierce through that thug’s abdomen, everything I’d been holding back would transform into a crouch before my leap.
But then─
“…?”
──Whoosh!
The thug dodged the sword strike as if he’d known it was coming, so effortlessly it was infuriating.
Salt’s crouch had become nothing but a pathetic stumble.
“…Ha… haha. Ah, no, my hand just slipped.”
Almond stared at Salt with eyes that said he’d witnessed something strange, then laughed along.
“Ah. Haha.”
Their awkward eye contact passed.
Fire ignited in Salt’s eyes once more.
“…That was a feint!!”
Clang!
There was no way a surprise attack would land.
Almond’s blade and his clashed together.
“Damn it?!”
It was blocked far too easily again.
This isn’t how it’s supposed to go.
Salt’s eyes trembled slightly.
“I, I wasn’t trying to do this….”
-Kyaa~
-Now that’s the stuff
“No, who even is the opponent? lol”
You’re such a coward lolololol
-He blocked that too??
-Just kill him already?
Almond glanced at the chat sentiment.
He cried out as he drew his blade.
“I wasn’t trying to do this either!”
Swoosh!
Salt, fighting without armor, lost his head in just three exchanges.
-Now that’s the stuff
-Keuuu
Cider lol
Weren’t you just keep scratching away while praying for public opinion in the chat to change? ㅋㅋㅋ
-I wasn’t trying to do this (beaming smile)
-My lips won’t stop curling up, hyung
[sa474 has been slain!]
Doodung.
A warning message appeared in the server chat window.
The streamers each chimed in with their own comments.
[Balloon Gum: What? That’s seriously scary]
[Miho: Huh what’s going on really???? Again????]
[Jello: Let’s just skip that~]
[Cutie Pie: What, what! Let me join in too!ㅋㅋㅋ]
[Middle-aged Detective: Should I step in here]

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“…Aaaaaaahhhhh!”
Thud.
Salt respawned in the center of Paprika Village.
“What?”
“Hey, you… why… why did you suddenly move to the village…”
Huchoo immediately grasped the situation upon seeing Salt standing there in nothing but underwear.
“You died, didn’t you? But how did you end up losing even your basic clothes?”
Armor could be stripped, but basic clothes were supposed to remain even in death.
Yet Salt had arrived in nothing but his underwear.
“…Ah.”
Salt had been so overwhelmed by the demand to drop everything that he’d actually removed his clothes and thrown them off.
Orange came running over and asked.
“Hey, hyung! Why are you taking your clothes off? You’re literally running around in your underwear!”
“…U-underwear run! I died! A spectacular death!”
“What on earth happened?”
Salt explained the incident.
“…It happened like this.”
When Orange heard that Salt had tried to come out with only half of his items dropped but ended up dying anyway, he burst out laughing.
“So you said it was a spectacular death?!”
“It was spectacular.”
“I guess it was…”
Orange nodded in agreement.
“That guy’s really vicious! That one!”
He immediately reignited his hostility toward the enemy.
Salt followed suit, his anger flaring up.
“Y-yeah! That guy’s absolutely despicable! Planning to take everything in the end!”
“Right. It’s total mockery! To think Cheese planted such a vicious thug here!?”
Huchoo also joined in, venting her frustration.
At the unexpected commotion, a few other villagers approached and asked.
“What? An uninvited guest?”
“Items?”
“What’s his ID? Can’t you see it?”
One of them brought paper and started drawing a portrait.
“Describe that guy’s appearance. We can’t just let this slide.”
A wanted poster resembling Almond’s character was unfurled in the center of Paprika Village like a public notice.
[WANTED]
He had been placed on the village’s wanted list in just a single day.

* * *
“Oh. This is good.”
Park O-hun zoomed in on Salt in his underwear and expressed his approval.
“The streamers from the Paprika side issued the wanted notice on their own! The village is even putting up a bounty!”
The greatest appeal of Survival Craft was its ‘spontaneity.’
Originally, a bounty system like this didn’t exist in the game at all.
But the village residents had created it out of necessity.
The bounty was collected by the villagers splitting it equally among themselves.
“These people are already struggling just to make a living. And they’re already putting up a bounty.”
Department Manager Jang observed with interest.
Paprika Village was harsh in many ways, so resolving how to make a living was the top priority.
Yet in the midst of that, they were placing a bounty on Almond.
Using the villagers’ own money at that.
“It’s colored by rage. They got robbed before things even started….”
This is human society.
Not everything runs on the efficiency of survival alone.
When collective emotion explodes, humans will commit any inefficiency.
“Do we even need to do anything? Conflict will arise on its own anyway?”

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond.
Unaware that he was wanted, he stuffed numerous equipment into his inventory and finally prepared to attempt fishing.
“Huh?”
His eyes scanned his inventory in confusion, searching here and there.
This couldn’t be.
“…There’s no fishing rod?”
It turned out that the Paprika residents had no fishing rods.
They had only been given items for combat.
-?
-??
-lol lol lol lol lol lol
-What was it all for…
Nah that’s not it lol so why’d you kill it then lol
Wasn’t it confirmed that there would be a fishing rod?ㅋㅋㅋ
-???: W-why did we have to die…?

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