Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 980

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 111
36. Agricultural Cooperative vs Knights (2)
About two years ago.
On the rooftop of a massive corporate headquarters, surrounded by sleek curtain walls of towering buildings.
It was a windy day.
Manager Kim failed to light his cigarette and clicked his tongue.
“Manager Yu. That’s all well and good, but where’s the justification? Where’s the justification?”
“…?”
“Sigh. You don’t understand again.”
Manager Kim finally got his cigarette lit and took a long, deep drag.
“To attempt something this radical in a society like ours, you need some reasonable justification. No, not just reasonable—something so undeniable that no one could possibly object.”
“Why? Export packaging reduces conflicts, and if we handle branding packaging locally, the cost issue is solved. Local materials are cheap across the board right now….”
“I know. I know that too. But we’ve never done it that way before, have we? We don’t know if local production will go smoothly, or what kind of damage might occur to our subcontractors.”
“Does the producer have connections with the subcontractors?”
“Damn it! Look… that’s not the point. No, I don’t know. But the thing is, we don’t have any data on it. What if we force this and it fails? Who takes responsibility? ‘The company told us to do it’… that excuse doesn’t work anymore, does it?”
“….”
Manager Yu back then had no answer.
Because he was right.
“To do something you’ve never done before, you need a bigger justification. There has to be a reason it was unavoidable. Everything requires consensus from the members of this organizational society. You know what happens if you don’t get it?”
“…What happens?”
“You die.”
Manager Kim pointed toward the back.
Department Manager Jeong from some department stood there blankly, staring at the building across the way.
Sanghyeon didn’t know which department he was from, or which division.
Everyone just called him “Department Manager Jeong from some department.”
He had no fixed affiliation, and no assigned position.
So he was always either coming up to the rooftop or wandering the company corridors, sitting in empty seats whenever he found one.
He walked through this corporate headquarters alive, received his paycheck, but was essentially a ghost.
A social death.
“That’s what an organization is.”
“I understand.”
“Good. You catch on fast. Don’t get beaten down by Department Manager Park again. Just stay here. I’ll be back.”
“…Yes.”
The manager went back inside, and Sanghyeon stood on the rooftop for a moment, glancing toward Department Manager Jeong.
He stared at the building across the way without speaking, barely moving at all.
It was like watching a religious practitioner in meditation.
Perhaps he was looking at his own reflection in that sleek curtain wall.
Perhaps he was searching for something within it.
‘Still… it would have been a decent plan.’
Even as Sanghyeon watched Department Manager Jeong, he still harbored regrets.

* * *
Danbong asked as if seeking confirmation.
“So you’re saying we should block off Mosol’s escape routes by setting them on fire, roast him slowly until he’s dead, turn him into fertilizer, and then we go in and take the fertile soil? Is that what you’re saying?”
-LMAOOOOOOOOO
-KKKKK roast him slowly KKKKK
-KKKKKKK the rice chest ending
-This is trash KKKKK
-LOLKKKK
-Mosol the crown prince…
“That’s a bit of a leap, but basically yeah.”
‘Where’s the leap in that?’
Gulp.
Danbong swallowed hard.
Thinking about it again, this is a devil’s plan.
He came here to get our approval because he knows that, right?
Otherwise, there’d be no reason to spell it all out like this.
But I can’t get swept up in this.
Danbong shook his head.
“That… no matter what, that’s a bit….”
Gobong felt the same way.
Even if the successor wanted the position badly, he didn’t want it this badly—not by turning someone into fertilizer.
“M-Mosol hasn’t done anything wrong. Almond….”
Almond nodded, watching the two of them express moral resistance.
It seemed to be the reaction he’d anticipated.
“Is that so? Can’t be helped then.”
Sigh.
Bongbong and the others felt relieved and began trying to devise an alternative plan.
But then─
“If this works out well, we could raise the ratio immediately.”
Almond casually dropped the words as if it were nothing.
Raise the ratio?
Immediately?
Right now?
“…Huh? Right now?”
“Since we’d have more fertile soil. Would there really be a need for you all to keep farming? You’ve worked hard all this time. Now you should hire people and take it easy.”
-KKKKKKKKK
-Where did Almond learn to talk like this KKKKK
-LOLKKKK
-Class advancement DDD
Gulp.
For a moment, silence hangs in the air.
“Y-yes, I will!”
Gobong bursts out from beside me, speaking first.
This guy?
Danbong’s head snaps up as he shouts along.
“M-me too! It sounds good! I think it sounds even better!”
-Did his speech pattern become like Gobong’s lol
-Danbong lololol
-I think it sounds even better lolololol
-Danbong’s reaction speed lololol
And so the Bongbongs agreed to Almond’s plan.
They’d made up their minds for the sake of raising their ratings and their status.
They decided to become ruthless.
“Krkrkr. What would Mosol hesitate about something like this?”
“Right. Exactly. It’s his fault for being Mosol. Krkrkr.”
They gazed at each other and laughed, dreaming of their rise in status.
Surprisingly, these Bongbongs worked together quite well.
But then, suddenly, Almond’s attitude shifted.
“To actually do this….”
“?”
What was he saying? Why the sudden change?
“I was just mentioning that this method exists.”
“…?”
Almond sighed and shook his head.
“Right…. For the sake of clearing your debts, I suppose I have no choice but to do something like this.”
“Who is he even talking to….”
He was looking in an entirely different direction as he spoke.
Upon closer inspection, a tiny camera was floating there.
He was creating a justification.
-Is he a lizard? lol That’s hilarious lololol
Corporate-style scapegoating is crazy.
-Escaping responsibility lolololol
-What’s with the editing point lol
-No, he’s making it sound like he’s paying the debt instead lololol
-But that debt is owed to him lololol
-Lmao
-Almondlizard
‘…Was he always like this?’
Danbong felt a chill of fear run through him.
‘Adults really are different.’
Before someone who’d endured five years in Aseng, I was just a kid who happened to be good at games.
‘Is this what Manager Lee meant by justification?’
Of course, Almond was also hastily applying what he’d learned and observed before to this sudden environmental shift.
His experience was simply exceptional.

* * *
Meanwhile, at Hong-cha’s house.
“Phew. Rebuilding this is really exhausting.”
Thud.
She had finally restored her house.
Not a perfect restoration—just enough to make it livable.
Even so, it had taken a full hour of real time.
“As long as the bed is here, there’s no problem with save and load.”
“Yeah.”
Sigh.
Lemon and Hong-cha lay on the bed, finally able to relax.
Since their characters were only two heads tall, even a small bed could accommodate them if they lay properly.
“Why hasn’t Greentea contacted us?”
Staring at the ceiling, Hong-cha’s thoughts began to multiply.
“What is that guy even doing? His girlfriend is trapped here.”
“Older sister. It’s just a game….”
Lemon cut her off preemptively, knowing exactly what Hong-cha was about to say.
“Yeah, I know.”
Hong-cha rolled over and recalled what had happened today.
Everything had been so chaotic.
And when she came to her senses, she had pledged her loyalty and become Hongsong-i.
“Was becoming Hongsong-i the right choice?”
“I don’t know. You suddenly pledged your loyalty, didn’t you?”
“Hey. It wasn’t a complete pledge, okay?”
“That, that’s not true? Anyone could see it was completely loyal… Ow!”
“Be quiet.”
Bonk!
Resong-i delivered a chestnut bump.
“You started talking to me! Why are you hitting me!”
It was just venting frustration.
“Sigh.”
She rested her chin on the windowsill and gazed blankly outside.
Normally at this hour, she would have been in a meeting with the people from the Agricultural Cooperative.
“I wonder if those guys at the Cooperative will be okay on their own?”
It seems she’s feeling troubled about completely destroying the agricultural cooperative.
-Yeah
-But Doughnutz is there
-If she betrays after getting fertile soil, that’s literally rock bottom lolololol
-lolol Don’t worry Hong-cha
-Greentea shook but like is she really not coming? lolol
A worried black tea ㅠ
“What? I’m not worried, I’m just trying to get ahead of any blame coming my way… huh?”
That’s when it happened.
Someone was approaching the house from far away.
Clearly heading straight for us.
But their appearance was distinctly different.
‘Armor?’
They were heavily clad in iron plating.
There were only two people.
[Jello]
[Chocosong]
Jello and Chocosong.
Jello stepped forward and knocked on Hong-cha’s door.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
“Hong-cha~”
-Gasp
lol
-World-class appearance
-What’s this?
Hong-cha actually had no connection with Jello whatsoever.
‘Why are you here?’
No matter how fiery Hong-cha’s personality was, she couldn’t help but tense up when Jello, who commanded so many viewers, suddenly appeared.
“Y-yes? What brings you here?”
She moved toward the door while buying time.
“I’m… Jello. Could I have a moment to talk?”
Creak.
The door opened cautiously.
Then Chocosong beside her greeted her.
“Hi, older sister!”
Chocosong was a streamer who frequently interacted with Hong-cha. She’d even played as the midlaner for the Red Carpets team in the Nant Tournament.
“Oh. Chocosong~ You’ve made it big?”
Hong-cha said this upon seeing Chocosong’s full suit of armor.
“Oh my. Well, it’s not like being with me is any kind of success.”
Jello suddenly felt embarrassed.
Hong-cha stared at me for a long moment, unable to grasp my meaning.
“?”
“?”
A brief silence fell between us.
-Hong-cha’s expression lol
-lololol Jello’s dying
-Jello…
-What are you saying lmao
Jello quickly changed the subject.
“W-well, actually… we brought some items with us.”
“Huh? You came to sell things? Like a peddler? Ahahaha!”
Oops.
Hong-cha laughed heartily before covering her mouth.
The word “peddler” had slipped out naturally.
We weren’t even that close with Jello.
-peddler lololololol
-lololololol
-Hong-cha really does have that vocabulary choice normally lol
-Her mouth doesn’t discriminate
Jello seemed momentarily flustered, but Chocosong stepped in to mediate.
She bounced up and down from below, waving her hand.
“Older sister! Not a peddler! This is an opportunity, an opportunity!”
“An opportunity?”
Hong-cha tilted her head, looking down at her.
What kind of scheme was this?
“We actually…”
Chocosong wiggled, unable to contain her laughter.
Her expression brimmed with anticipation.
“We brought iron ore!!”
Doodung~
Jello made a sound effect beside me as he opened the box.
It was filled with iron ore.
“…”
Hong-cha stared at it for a moment, then nodded.
“Ah… iron ore.”
“?”
That was it.
“Iron ore… why?”
“Why, you ask? Weren’t you attacked by monsters yesterday? Now it’s time for us to grow stronger too, isn’t it?! Peace without strength is nothing but a lie!!”
Jello recited his prepared speech and raised his iron sword high.
Flash.
“….”
Hong-cha drew his own sword and raised it high.
“Wow. I have one of those too.”
“?”
Flash.
Hong-cha’s sword gleamed identically.
“Ah… so you crafted a sword. How did you manage that? Then this means….”
Clang.
Jello tapped his iron armor and displayed it.
Hong-cha promptly showed off his own iron armor as well.
Whoosh.
But that wasn’t all.
Clink, clink.
Iron boots, iron shield, iron helmet—he had everything.
“…?”
Both Chocosong and Jello had question marks written all over their faces.
“W-who… already mined iron ore? There was no one at the mines. At least not anyone from Cheese Village….”
“Oh. No, I joined the Knight Order. They just gave it to me.”
“The Knight Order?”
Just then, a recruitment notice appeared in the server-wide chat.
[Goguma: Recruiting Knight Order members. Join now and get a full set of iron equipment for free~]
[Goguma: Bong-ja Bae reservations unavailable. Song-ja Bae reservations only. For anything else, please DM~]

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