Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 988

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 119
38. The Invaders (2)
“Oh. Is that Sanghyeon?”
“I think it’s oppa?”
Dongsu waves his hand from far away in greeting.
“Is that Sanghyeon?”
There was a reason they couldn’t recognize me so easily.
I’d pulled a hat down over my head.
Only a few months had passed since the international tournament ended, but fans who still hadn’t shaken off those memories would rush toward me, so this was at least minimal camouflage (?).
‘Huh? It’s Dongsu.’
Whoosh, whoosh!
Just in case he didn’t recognize me, I waved my arms enthusiastically.
“It’s me, it’s me!”
“Oppa. Stop waving and come here quickly.”
“Oh.”
I hurried over at that.
Really fast.
Fast enough to startle Hyeonju.
“I’ve… I’ve never seen someone sprint full speed like that in a department store before.”
Whoosh!
I arrived right in front of them.
“What’s the point of wearing a hat if you’re going to run around like that? Everyone will be staring at you.”
“…But they won’t know who I am even if they stare?”
I scratched my head and countered.
Dongsu tilted his head too.
“Really?”
“What do you mean ‘really’? You think one hat is enough to make people not recognize me?”
Hyeonju scolded us both as if exasperated.
“Anyway, let’s hurry. The restaurant is inside here. Besides, the other trainees are coming this way too.”
“Yeah, yeah. Let’s go. It’s been a while since we’ve seen the juniors.”
Snicker.
Dongsu nudged me with a laugh, and I laughed along.
It had been a while since seeing friends, and it had been a while since having time like this.
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older.
Whenever I meet old friends, a smile naturally spreads across my face.
“Wow. This place really improved.”
Dongsu marvels as we walk through the department store interior.
Charming restaurants you’d often see on social media line the endless underground shopping arcade.
It’s an underground arcade, but it’s decorated to look like you’re right in the middle of a European street.
“Several areas were redeveloped, so the department store got remodeled too.”
“I see… So our successor building…”
Sanghyeon adds reassuringly.
“This is Building 1. Our successor building, Building 3, is still intact.”
Snap.
Sanghyeon gives a thumbs up, and everyone stares at him with vacant expressions.
“It… it’s still intact?”
“Uh… yes, it’s still there. Hahaha.”
They’ve all become adults now.
I think that not being redeveloped isn’t entirely a good thing.
“?”
Sanghyeon scratches his head, realizing he’d misspoken.

* * *
The three of them entered a brunch café decorated with vibrant frills and lace.
The dazzling pink hue felt like a forbidden zone for men.
“….”
Even Sanghyeon, who doesn’t usually care about such things, momentarily hesitated at the entrance.
“Geez. I have a feeling there’ll be some spirited ladies here?”
Dongsu muttered this awkwardly as he entered.
Sanghyeon reluctantly followed him inside.
There were indeed spirited ladies waiting there.
“Older sister!”
“Wow! Older sister, you’re so beautiful!”
“Hyeonju~ how are you allowed to be this pretty as a gold medalist?”
These were Hyeonju’s classmates and juniors.
“Oh, come on. Pretty? Everyone’s pretty~ Hehe.”
This was Dongsu’s response.
“?”
It was so natural that everyone froze for a moment.
“Why are you saying that, oppa?”
Puff.
Hyeonju pushed Dongsu away and sat down.
“So I’m sitting here today, right?”
“Of course, of course.”
Since they gathered for her birthday, she gets the seat of honor.
“Wow~ the princess has arrived~”
“Kyahahaha!”
Sanghyeon practically collapsed into a random seat.
‘This is trouble.’
I felt it back in high school too, but the archery club juniors really are….
‘My energy’s already draining.’
This is exhausting.
I still haven’t gotten used to these girls’ chatter.
It feels like countless little fish are nibbling away at my energy bit by bit.
These fish seemed to think they’d already thoroughly prepared Hyeonju, the star of this gathering, so now they were slowly turning their attention toward me.
Duh~ dung. Duh~ dung.
The background music from a shark movie drifts past my ears.
“Wow. But how does your face stay the same?”
“My husband watches your broadcast every day. It’s seriously hilarious.”
“Oh? My boyfriend too. He watches it every day, I’m telling you. He just leaves it on the TV.”
“Are you going to keep coming to our gatherings from now on?”
“Yeah. Would you? You’re a superstar.”
“Well, Hyeonju’s a gold medalist too, you know?”
They ask questions but don’t actually give me time to answer.
“Ha ha….”
Just as sweat was about to bead on my forehead.
The men’s archery team appears, hesitating slightly.
“Oh my~ sorry we’re late.”
“I spent 10 minutes outside debating whether to come in through the front or not. Please understand~”
“You certainly have interesting taste. Hyeonju.”
Just as they were about to sit down with casual remarks, they suddenly jump back up as if electrocuted.
“S, Sanghyeon hyung?”
“What!”
“Gasp….”
I greet them awkwardly.
“Ah. Hey.”
“Ah… Hello!”
“It’s been a while! Senior!”
The male juniors sit back down and whisper toward Hyeonju.
“W, we weren’t told you were coming….”
The women giggle at their reaction.
“Ah~ yeah. That’s how it turned out.”
She knows these guys are terrified of Sang-hyun Yu.
Though I have no idea why.
‘Crazy. That was intentional, wasn’t it?’
‘Damn it.’
They quickly settle into their seats, their casual demeanor completely vanishing.
“Now that everyone’s here. It’s nice, isn’t it? Really nice.”
Hyeonju says this and hands out menus, beginning to order.

* * *
As food began to enter my stomach, my senses gradually returned.
“Wow. This is delicious.”
The brunch itself looked colorful and appetizing, and its sweet taste turned out to be surprisingly to my liking.
“Brother, you’re really eating well?”
Dongsu answered in my stead.
“This guy goes crazy for anything sweet and savory like this.”
“Ah. Really?”
Was that so?
I tilted my head in confusion.
Now that I thought about it, Almond cereal did have that kind of taste.
“It’s delicious. Really delicious, actually. Better than I expected.”
“Good to hear.”
As the sweetness settled in, everyone’s mood seemed to lighten, and the conversation flowed easily between old memories and stories of how we’re living these days.
There was plenty of talk about marriage and childbirth, and those doing work completely unrelated to archery shared a lot of company stories.
“I’m saying it’s more impressive that my brother lasted five years at Aseng. More than doing well as a streamer?”
“Yeah, I know….”
It seemed corporate life was tough.
But honestly, streaming life isn’t exactly easy either.
Especially the situation with the Paprika streamers who had it rough from Almond at first.

* * *
Meanwhile, in the still-peaceful Cheese Village.
“Na na na~ na na~”
Cutie Pie hummed her new song while moving a cauldron.
“Hmm hmm~”
She was the village’s number one chef.
She earned the position quickly by making the most corn porridge faster than anyone else.
Once you become the official chef of the village, you gain access to the massive stove in the village center.
Thunk.
She placed the cauldron there and opened her recipe book.
“Wow. There are this many?”
Certain dishes possessed unique buffs or effects.
Additionally, consuming a variety of dishes made it very easy to resolve the [Boredom] status.
The more abnormal statuses one accumulated, the more it hindered growth, so once livelihood was somewhat guaranteed, people would eventually seek out cooking.
“Hmm hmm~”
The song hummed itself naturally.
Cutie Pie stirred the cauldron like a witch from a fairy tale.
This was my first dish as the official chef!
This was the dish that made me a chef!
[Corn Porridge -78%]
Corn porridge again.
-Ugh
-Why corn porridge again?
-Lol we’re gonna develop a new stat for getting sick of it
-Making corn porridge over and over again;
“I have so much inventory left over… what do I do?”
The truth was, in the competitive bidding for corn, I’d bought far more than necessary and was now dealing with the surplus.
“This corn porridge is the first time our official Chef has made it. Don’t you think people will line up?”
I was indulging in that unconvincing happy fantasy when it happened.
Thud ─
“?”
A heavy boom echoed from somewhere.
“…What? Did something big fall over?”
Being extremely sensitive to sounds, I couldn’t just ignore it.
Thud… Thud…!
The booming was steadily approaching the village.
“Uh… uh? This… this feels ominous?”
The sound was artificial, occurring at precise intervals.
As if keeping rhythm.
Or perhaps like a skill being used immediately whenever its cooldown expired.
Boom!!
Along with the explosion, dust rose up in a hazy cloud.
‘Huh?’
Cutie Pie’s eyes widened. Something unbelievable reflected in her pupils.
Someone burst forth from the ground.
“A… a person?”
People were erupting from beneath the earth.
“Excuse me. What is this? Even if you’re miners, you can’t just dig up the village floor!”
Judging by the pickaxes they were holding, they were miners.
I had no idea what skill they used to tunnel beneath the village, but they really were unstoppable.
‘Huh?’
But something about the miners’ expressions seemed off.
Their clothing too.
They were all wearing black robes.
I’d never seen robes like that in Cheese Village before.
The civilization here hadn’t advanced enough to care about clothing.
Forget clothing—we’d only just reached the stage of making porridge as a dish.
‘Who are these people?’
They seemed to come from a far more advanced civilization.
The black robes were actually a product I’d begged the Production Team for just to save face, but.
Cutie Pie had no way of knowing that.
‘Looks dangerous?’
-*$(@$*@
-Gasp
lol
What the hell, why are you dressed like the Akatsuki?ㅋㅋㅋ
-*#%*#
Filtered chat messages multiplied.
The leader among those in robes opens his mouth.
A low, resonant voice echoes out.
“We have no intention of harming you.”
The voice rings out as if special effects had been added to it.
“If you were to….”
“Were you going to harm us?”
Cutie Pie tilts her head.
“What? That’s not it, we have no intention of….”
“I never thought about that, but seeing you play mind games like that! You were trying to harm us!?”
Reading the room like a pro lol
-Gasp hahaha
Entertainment industry politics are no joke.
“??”
“Who are you guys? Huh? You’re not from this village!? Hey! Who are you people!”
Though momentarily flustered by Cutie Pie’s sudden barrage, at the question “who are you?”, the people in black robes smirk and straighten their posture.
It’s only natural to answer when asked!
The opportunity to reveal the cool villain names they’d prepared had arrived.
“We are the Bl─”
It was almost simultaneous with these words.
Cutie Pie suddenly lets out a scream.
“─ ─KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
A scream that sounded like it belonged in a disaster film echoed through Cheese Village.
An incredibly high-pitched shriek at tremendous volume.
Haha, seriously, hahahahahahahaha
Hahaha, that’s hilarious!
lol that’s so funny
Human siren lol
-(Real) job skill activated lol
Not just the leader at the front.
“Ah, no… we have no intention of harming….”
All of the people in black robes are flustered.
“What’s this? What do I do? I need to film my entrance scene!”
“I don’t know. Are they insane?”
“We haven’t done anything. What’s their problem?”
These people were also employed by Cheese Village in their own right.
Even when playing villains, they needed to be captured on camera.
But Cutie Pie didn’t tire at all, shouting continuously at the top of her lungs.
“People of the village!!! Strange people have arrived! Strange people have appeared!!!”
Murmur, murmur.
The villagers began emerging one by one.
“This isn’t right.”
“Isn’t this getting edited out?”
“We can’t even turn on the broadcast. Damn it…”
The people in black robes muttered, disappointed that their entrance had gone wrong.
To the villagers, this looked far too strange.
“What are these guys doing?”
“Huh? What is it?”
However, the moment they revealed their true nature, everyone couldn’t help but be shocked.
“I don’t care—just die, you bastards!”
Kwakwang!!!
[Lava Pillar]
Kwurrrrr!!!
A blazing red lava pillar erupted from the ground.
At the fifth advancement of the Miner job, one could choose a magical path. That path was the “Lava Sorcerer.”
The skill from that job had just been activated.
The surging lava melted Cheese Village’s plaza like an ice cream cone.
“Kyaaaaaaaa!”
“L-Lava in the village!!”
“What the helllll!”
-??
-What
-wtf
-What??
-Wow
Pure pandemonium.
They had wandered through underground mines and dungeons, pooling every miner coin into a single person.
Until now, this strategy had been working remarkably well.
“Tremble in Fear! Those Pickled in Peace!!!”
“Krkrkrkr!”
“Uhahahahaha!”

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