Genius Archer's Streaming

Even after changing his nickname to Dumb Young Man, Almond believed his calls would be needed for victory.

'If we rely too heavily on Sweet Radish... it won't be interesting.'

He'd planned to follow Sweet Radish's calls to the letter, but believed that would inevitably yield poor results. Honestly, even for the stream's sake, he thought that was the better outcome. What were the actual results?

'My calls weren't needed at all?!'

They had achieved a clean sweep. Even if it was just team ranked, the difference between 10-1-10 and 1-1-1 was significant.

[Frog has donated 10,000 won.]

[Ahh~ the hot spring is so warm~ isn't it? Almond?]

— LOL

— lmaooooo

— They got into the hot spring together

— Hot spring temperature is just right~

— lmaooooo

— At least you have company!

Even the viewers were excited. The stream was doing well, at least. Almond had made a fuss about frog sous vide. The plan had completely fallen apart. Even now, Almond still held on to hope.

"Ah... We don't know how the feedback will be yet."

He still didn’t know!

— ?

— ??

— Still in the dark LOL

— Hm? lmaooo

— From his perspective, he lost the first one so the feedback will be brutal

— You got all first place though

— lmaooooo

"I mean, really..." Almond forced a casual laugh. "Maybe it's because you guys have never done sports."

He thought back to the world championship and his archery days.

"Winning doesn't mean all wins are the same. Some wins are meaningless, a hollow victory."

In practice matches that focused on the process, winning wasn't the most important thing. How they won mattered far more. This was true of all professional competition. Building a solid process was the most important thing. Results were just a byproduct of the process.

Whoosh.

They all returned to the This World lobby.

'She's not someone who'll just let this slide.'

Almond let himself feel a little hopeful about Choi Sa-Rang. The games hadn't been perfect by any means. Feedback was bound to come.

"Good work."

Clap clap.

Choi Sa-Rang smiled and even gave a round of applause.

'Why...?'

Almond looked like someone who had lost their country twice.

— LOL

— Choi Sa-Rang's smile is adorable...

— lmaooooo

— The last bastion has fallen...

— This is the big picture to resolve the nepotism controversy, right?

— So this person can smile like that

— LOL she's enjoying this way too much

Sweet Radish's already small eyes became even smaller as he laughed. "Hahaha! Thanks for the good work~."

— lmaooo ah~ LIL is fun!

— Sweet Radish happiness arc

— This is peak gaming!

The rest of the Knight Order were all in good spirits too.

"Oh. Good work, everyone~. The shot-calling has finally been properly settled~."

"Yep~. Yep~."

"Great! Great! Let’s go all the way to the championship!"

They also came to Almond and offered praise.

"The Dumb Young Man was the real ace."

"Exactly exactly~. He’s the ace as long as he doesn't call the shots~."

Sweet Potato and Lemon happily said this.

Almond's expression froze in place like glass, but nobody noticed. His expression didn't clearly show negative emotions in the first place.

Black Tea drove the final nail. "That's why it's Dummy~ Dummy~!"

— Smart Young Man death sentence

— lmaooooooooooooo

— Dummy Dummy!

— Dummy <<< the sound of it is so funny

— They're doing this on purpose right?

— Time to purge, Lord?

— They're calling you Dummy lmaooooo

"..."

Since Dummy was just an abbreviation of his nickname, Almond had nothing to say.

"Shall we wrap up for today then?" Sa-Rang asked everyone with a nursery teacher's smile.

This didn't apply to everyone.

"Though... Dummy stays behind."

"!?"

Sa-Rang had specifically singled out Almond to remain.

— What the?!

— Wow

— Is this a green light?

— Face ID (despair edition)

— Again? lmaooo

— But he carried!

— lmaooooo

— The truth room was for Almond after all~

— She's not even formal anymore LOL

***

With three consecutive first-place finishes under the Dumb Young Man, the trending posts in the community had completely changed.

[1. From now on, being called dumb is a compliment]

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(photo)

Understood?

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The photo was from the Lord Almond era. His massively enlarged face was looking down. The perspective was fairly aggressive because it was from the perspective of a soon-to-be fertile streamer.

— lmaooo the photo

— Ah... understood!

— Dumb Young Man <<< smarter than the Smart Young Man lmaooooo

└ lmaooo fr

└ The irony itself lmaooo

— Melly is cooked

— Melly needs to be permabanned

The next trending post also mentioned Almond. It looked like praise for Melly.

[2. ??? Wake up]

Looking inside, it wasn’t praise.

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Lazy Soldier: Wake up. Sweet Radish.

Sweet Potato: Bro, this guy is smiling

(photo)

"AHHHHHHHHH?!"

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The post ended with Sweet Radish's horrified face as a template. The actual content claimed that the change from Lazy Soldier to Dumb Young Man had never happened.

— Sweet Radish's expression LOL

— Insane hahaha

— lmaooooo

— The meme is so funny

— So that was the wake up call!

[5. Almond's intelligence is an inverse ETF]

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Try to be smart and you're three times dumber. Try to be dumb and you're three times smarter lmaooooooooo

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This post compared Almond's intelligence to a leveraged inverse financial product.

— So this person’s nickname is Dumb Young Man and Dummy for short, just how smart have they gotten at this point

└ ??? Elon Musk, get out!

└ lmaooo he's in the same league at this point

— lmaooo fr

— The fact that the Smart Young Man had a faction is the same too

— lmaooooo

— Hey, you guys are too much. How is Almond supposed to understand this? Mondu should get to laugh too ㅡㅡ

└ lmaooooooooo

└ That was the worst one LOL

└ His stolen laughter...

The Almond and Dumb Young Man discussion continued.

[10. Realtime Dummy - Getting absolutely dragged into the room of truth again lmaooooo]

Almond had been summoned to the truth room again. Even this occupied the last trending slot. Just one nickname change had generated enormous buzz from a match that was neither a tournament nor a scrimmage.

— Realtime Dummy lmaooo

— When it was Smart Young Man it felt normal but Dummy hits different LOL

— Is Dummy just Almond at this point??

— I wondered who Dummy was

— It does fit him...

— lmaooo

— Why is he going again LOL

***

After the stream turned off, Almond remained alone with Choi Sa-Rang in This World.

[Entry Denied]

Sa-Rang had even locked the room door. She seemed to find standing a bit tiring now, so she summoned a chair, sat down, and crossed her legs.

"Do you know why we’re here again?"

"... I don’t know because I’m too dumb to know."

A laugh slipped from Sa-Rang's lips. “Pfft.”

She didn't want to laugh, but the nickname suited him too perfectly.

"Are you sulking?"

"No. Just... hmm... thinking I really don't know much about LIL."

Almond hadn't been personally wounded by Sa-Rang's feedback. His mental state wasn't like that. He just started looking directly at a problem about himself. A wall existed between him and professional players. He'd felt it clearly.

"Of course, you don't. The other side are professional gamers."

"But how did I win in tournament then?"

"Hmm?" Sa-Rang tilted her head as if curious why he didn't already know this. "Alright. The fact that you're asking me that shows you've grown." She explained precisely, "There are amateurs who can win a laning phase against a pro sometimes."

It happened fairly often.

"On top of that, Sweet Radish was no longer active. He had retired after his form fell off considerably."

The laning phase was the process of contesting minions to earn gold while keeping the opponent in check in one’s lane. This exchange continued in Siege mode until a turret fell and was the center of all game management.

"Compared to you, his mechanics are weaker, and his edge isn't sharp."

"But he's a professional gamer."

"Right, which means you're just that talented."

"..."

Almond was surprised. He hadn't expected her to acknowledge his talent this easily.

"Do you know?"

"?"

"What happens to most professional gamers when they first come up from Tier 2 to debut in Tier 1?"

"They get crushed?"

"They carry in about 65% of those debut matches."

"...?"

This was completely unexpected. It was so different from actual sports.

"Why?"

"..."

He had no idea. Nothing like that happened in archery.

"Because there's no data on them."

"There's data from Tier 2."

"Not that kind of data. Something more..." Sa-Rang closed the distance instantly, coming right up to him. "Intuition... Looking you in the eye like this, reading when you breathe..."

Tap.

Her finger touched the tip of his nose.

"When you're thrown off, whether you look left, where your feet are pointing..."

"..."

She blinked in front of him. Her long lashes settled down calmly as her gaze dropped. He felt the feeling of being completely scanned.

"Everyone wants to know everything about you in the pro scene because everyone's skill level is actually similar. The battle is decided by psychological warfare like this and split-second judgment."

"Their skill level... is similar?"

"Yes. Within the range of what you'd call skill, they're similar. Some might even be behind you."

"...?"

Almond briefly thought.

'I should have kept the stream on.'

It would have been quite satisfying for the viewers, who kept teasing him, to see this. Of course, Almond knew she didn’t mean this at face value.

He asked, "Ahem... Why would you say they're behind me?"

"Pardon?"

"Just now you said some pros were behind me..."

Sa-Rang's expression went flat. "That's not what I said at all. They're better than you."

"..."

Was she messing with him?

Sa-Rang barely held back a laugh at his expression. "I'm not messing with you~."

Almond wasn't particularly expressive, but she somehow seemed to read everything about him.

'Is that why she's good at games?'

Tap, tap.

She knocked on her own head again, as if answering his unspoken thought.

"The concept of better and worse is different."

"Concept... what does that mean?" Almond genuinely wanted to know at this point.

What was this concept that LIL players talked about?

'I've heard it mentioned a lot.'

Almond had studied LIL and learned plenty through Takoyaki. He'd heard about this concept many times, but it was too broad a term. Could it be summed up in a single phrase?

As if smashing that question apart, Sa-Rang raised a finger and defined it precisely. "In LIL, concept is the theoretical framework for what universally happens and should happen in the game. Not simply an inductive accumulation of information, but deductive reasoning."

"...!"

Something felt like it clicked open in his head. Mathematical terminology was easier for him to understand.

"Why do you establish this concept? To understand why a given thing inevitably happens, what causes it, what results it produces, and in turn what that becomes a cause for. In other words... to read the future."

Almond's mouth opened slightly.

'No wonder I don't know.'

He hadn't dug into LIL deeply enough to internalize theory.

"I said it's deductive rather than inductive and experiential, but for it to become part of you, you need sufficient experience. Raw instinct matters. Some people can solve calculus with just a few formulas. Others need to be taught calculus to solve calculus. That's the growth gap."

"Ah..."

For people who loved mathematics, there was something puzzling about school sometimes. Problems that didn't need a formula to solve, yet they were forced to plug it in. Apparently, LIL wasn't like that.

"Different people can have different ways of solving LIL's problems. The Dumb Young Man's homework is to build your own method of solving into theory. To show your own concept."

Almond tilted his head in genuine puzzlement. "But..."

It wasn’t because he didn't understand what she just said! Something genuinely puzzled him.

"Why are you telling me to do that? Sweet Radish can just do it."

Hadn't today's results shown exactly that? Almond had already mostly accepted it. He'd been reacting to the viewers' teasing, but was internally settling into, “I should just follow Sweet Radish.”

"Do you mean that?"

"...?"

"Today's three first-place finishes... was that really a first-place strategy?"

What was she doing? Why was she inflating his ego again? He could just follow Sweet Radish and win.

"A concept isn't truth. It changes if someone proves it wrong from a different perspective. Before Galileo, someone said Earth was the center of the universe. They were correct because they were first in school, but was that really first?"

"...?"

"Anyway, bring me the homework done. It'll help you. You."

Whoosh.

She left him with those words and disappeared.

'My own concept...'

Her words kept circling back. Could he actually develop something like that?

"Hmm." Sang-Hyeon opened the search bar.

[Search: Galileo]

"Oh. It's not a champion."

He scratched his head.

"I knew this one."

He genuinely felt relieved that the stream hadn't been on.

Meanwhile, Sa-Rang stepped out of the capsule. "Unbelievable..."

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