Genius Archer's Streaming

Hisssss.

Orange King and Almond came out of their capsules. They sat back in front of the camera.

"So~ we've finished everything, including the field trip?" Orange King laughed awkwardly and tried to wrap things up. "... Do you have a better understanding of LIL now? You learned a lot, right?"

— ?

— ...?

— Lesson learned: EMERGENCY!

— lmaooooo

— ???

Question marks were flying everywhere. Then, a donation topped it all off.

[IGotIt has donated 5,000 won.]

[Oh. So you go to the vault early, contract the carry first, then enroll four insurance tanks and beat people up with a salaried carry, right?!]

— LOL

— lmaooooooooo

— fr

— HAHAHAHA

— That summary is perfect

"Urgh." Orange King found it hard to argue.

Hearing it, it really did sound like that. He thought he'd rebuilt the optimal choices from the ground up, but that was the result.

"No, everyone, look beyond just the results..."

Orange King tried to salvage it, but Almond's viewers weren’t that easy.

Ding.

[DontJustLookAtNuts has donated 5,000 won.]

[Hm... isn't this a familiar strategy? You're not a Smart Young Man ally, are you?]

— lmaooooooooooo

— fr...

— Deja vu...

— Explain the comeback exorcism ritual

— Orange King is a known Smart Young Man faction member

— DontJustLookAtNuts lmaooo

— Confirmed Smart Young Man ally, Orange King

Now he was even under suspicion of being a Smart Young Man ally.

Orange King waved both hands vigorously in denial. "No?! A Smart Young Man ally?! What are you talking about!"

— lmaooooooooooo

— This level of denial??

— The Smart Young Man faction framing is scary

— Hahahaha

— His expression LOL

— Though during all this, why isn't the nut guy saying a single word LOL

— Smart Young Man’s ally?!

At that moment, Almond chimed in. "I..."

He'd been slow because he'd been taking notes on paper this whole time.

"Everyone, let's give a round of applause for Orange King, who even did the field trip with us."

— Yes~

— Clap~

— Uh

— Tsk tsk

— Clap Clap!

— Uh

Countless clapping sounds and emojis flooded in.

"Since everyone is clapping, we will now take our leave on this auspicious note."

"...?" Orange King looked at Almond as if to ask if he was serious.

The mouse was genuinely moving toward the end broadcast button.

— ?

— ??

— Insane buildup

— lmaooooo

— That's not what that phrase means...

— Wow I genuinely want to put his face between my hands and clap

— lmaooooo

— ?

— Who just sent a big donation?

"Oh, oh..."

Ding!

The stream actually ended.

[Stream Ended]

"Huh?" Orange King looked at Almond in surprise. "Th-this is how you end it? Normally?"

"No. There's usually a meme where someone sends a big donation, and the stream suddenly ends. Right now, it was just time to end, so I ended it."

"???"

Orange King thought, 'Then that has nothing to do with the meme!?'

Why had he mentioned it then? Wasn't this just a rage-quit?

"I tried executing a strategy suited to the situation like you."

He was saying it wasn't, but it was.

'That's what a rage-quit is.'

Was this a joke, or was Almond serious?

"S-strategically...?"

Orange King's gaze went to the notepad Sang-Hyeon had been holding this whole time. Glancing at it, he could see something densely written.

"Yes. It's a strategy. The more feedback you and I share about the last game on air, the more our strategy gets exposed."

"...!?" Orange King's head tilted strangely.

So, Almond had quickly turned off the stream to avoid exposing any strategies.

'What... Is he a professional gamer?!'

The streamer tournament and the Platform War were all ultimately for fun. Turning off a stream over strategy exposure... This person was frightening.

"S-still though, streaming is the priority. Is that okay?"

"That's why streaming came first. There should be plenty to edit and upload already."

"Oh..."

There was already enough broadcast material.

'Being first at multiple things is hard.'

He was confusing priority with chronological order.

"But I couldn't even say a proper goodbye..."

Orange King wanted to turn the stream back on somehow in this strange situation. He wanted to give a proper closing, but Almond had everything planned.

"Your closing remarks will be recorded separately as an interview without a live stream and uploaded to YouTube."

"Oh... th-that works."

Thud.

The back of the notepad Almond put down had a broadcast outline written on it. Orange King also realized everything had been mapped out in advance.

'He's a bit different from how he appears on stream.'

When Orange King first met him, he thought Sang-Hyeon and Almond were practically the same person. Seeing him right now, they were clearly somewhat different. Like a reverse swan, so to speak. On the surface, it looked like a chaotic clown. Underneath, there was still some elegance in the water.

"I was curious about some things from the last game that I wrote down. Would it be alright to ask a few questions?"

"Oh, yes, of course. No wait, but this is all content too..."

Sang-Hyeon shook his head. "Viewers don't like seeing things this in-depth."

"Oh..."

As expected, he had already assessed viewer demands too.

'Reverse swan checks out.'

Almond only showed a light and fun side on stream.

Orange King looked around the studio. The world championship photos hung on the wall.

'Well... it was similar back then too.'

Back then, scrimmages were fully private. The viewers didn't know that behind the screen, Yu Sang-Hyeon was probably like this back then too. Did the people in those photos know this side of him?

'But... who's that girl?'

While Orange King's eyes wandered over the photos, he spotted a girl in one of them. It looked like an old photo. Standing beside Sang-Hyeon, they weren't arm-in-arm, but the two of them looked quite close. From the faintly flushed expressions on both their faces, their relationship somehow came through even across two dimensions.

"What I was curious about... hm? Orange King, are you listening?"

"Oh, yes. Go ahead."

"When you went to the Vault for the first time, you were calculating experience and also planning the creep types, right? How did you know that just from looking at the map..."

"Oh, that..."

***

"What the?" Ju-Hyeok burst out of the director's office when the stream suddenly ended. "What happened?"

He looked into the studio through the glass window.

"Hm?"

For the first time in a while, Sang-Hyeon wore a serious expression and was asking questions about something. Orange King was earnestly answering. They sat and talked for a solid hour.

"He's doing a feedback session," BornToB explained from beside Ju-Hyeok.

"Wh-why is he getting feedback with the stream off?"

"They said it can't go on the stream."

"Hm?" Ju-Hyeok put on a baffled expression.

BornToB just shrugged. "Why are you surprised, Director? At the world championship, all scrimmages were fully private."

"Oh..."

"More than anything, Almond says watching them exchange this kind of conversation would be boring even for viewers."

Ju-Hyeok realized something odd while talking. "But how do you know that?"

"Well..."

Tap, tap.

BornToB touched one of the monitors.

"There's a separate internal studio equipment channel. Even when the stream is off, we can still hear."

"Oh... ahem."

He had all that installed too? BornToB was unexpectedly serious about broadcast equipment. Some people would fixate on one thing and dig deep into it. BornToB was the type to get fixated on one thing and dig deep into it. Broadcast equipment was his thing.

"The B in BornToB probably stands for Broadcast, doesn't it?"

"Hm. No, it doesn't."

It didn't.

"True, it doesn't. Anyway, I'll go prepare for the interview."

"Interview?"

Whoosh!

Ju-Hyeok turned his head back and asked, "Yes. Almond said Orange King's final remarks should just be recorded separately inside the studio."

"... Oh."

That was actually a good idea. Ju-Hyeok nodded in understanding.

"That guy... he's doing his own production planning now?"

"Seems like it... He's growing as a streamer, I'd say. Could it be that he's actually genuinely smart?"

"Don't say scary things. If you'd gone to Ah-Sung with him..."

"Yikes!"

Ju-Hyeok said it with a threatening grin.

'But undeniably... he's doing well.'

Sang-Hyeon was now creating his own small-scale directing as befitting a solo streamer like Zelo or Bubblegum.

'Maybe the Survival Craft experience helped?'

On the stage of Cheese Village, Almond had been forced to create and drive narratives on the fly. The fact that it all worked out chaotically seemed to have blown open some circuit in his brain somewhere. His streaming head was running quite well now.

"Your workload is going to shrink, Director. Hehehe." BornToB laughed smugly.

He clearly wanted to tease Ju-Hyeok about becoming obsolete, but Ju-Hyeok was unexpectedly composed. That was what being a director was.

"Well... streaming-wise, it's right for Sang-Hyeon to be taking more initiative."

Ju-Hyeok needed to handle external promotions, PR, and bigger-picture planning. Having become a director, he couldn't just keep filtering hateful comments in the chat. He needed to help Almond the streamer rampage in bigger waters and bigger events.

"Hmm. Speaking of which..."

"?"

"This framing... Is it compelling?"

"... What framing?"

"That. That there. Look." Ju-Hyeok slowly raised his phone camera.

Click! Click!

He took a few shots as if in a trance. The photos captured Sang-Hyeon through the glass, earnestly asking questions.

"Oh, this should be a video. A video."

Ding.

He started recording a continuous video. Shooting with a phone camera ironically gave it more presence. Almond and Orange King seriously discussed strategy.

"This kind of thing... Viewers don't like it, he said..."

Ju-Hyeok thought differently. It was a matter of how it was expressed. Watching it live would certainly be a drag, but what if this diligent approach to gaming was leaked through a different medium? It would get a much better response.

"Oh... it looks like they're wrapping up. I'll go get the interview."

BornToB pulled out the earphone he'd been wearing in one ear, picked up his camera, and went inside.

Bang!

Throwing open the studio door, he called out, "Freeze!"

BornToB leveled a toy gun at them.

"Wh-what?"

"An interview."

"... What's with the gun?"

"Our production team has a concept they want to try."

Click.

BornToB handed the gun to Almond.

"..."

Seeing that, Orange King looked like he very much wanted to leave quickly.

***

The next day, strange videos started appearing on YouTube.

[Shorts: Bubblegum finally gives BubbleSniper the real lesson!]

[Shorts: As fate would have it, Bubblegum kills BubbleSniper again]

[Shorts: Bubblegum killing BubbleSniper three times]

[Shorts: BubbleSniper dying to Bubblegum again]

...

A whopping twenty Shorts of BubbleSniper dying were uploaded. Every Knight Order member who saw these thought something similar.

'Wow. Is there anything that can beat this?'

'As expected, he's a genius streamer!'

'Wait, he said ten, and it turned out to be twenty!?'

The biggest beneficiary that day was said to be Bubblegum, but there was an even more shocking YouTube Short.

[Shorts: Orange King's shocking statement - "Almond is smarter than I thought."]

It was the last interview segment with Orange King uploaded as a Short.

"Oh yes. Today's lesson was enjoyable for me too. Almond, you're... Behind the camera, he's actually quite smart and well-mannered..."

The original was just Orange King making a warm and standard closing statement.

— Wow

— Curious

— Th-that shouldn't be said...

— Insane...

— Shocking statement...

— Orange King is a Nuttillion member. Reveal your true face!

— ??? Hey can't I just be a little smart?

— This is just a normal thing to say LOL

— Legendary overreaction lmaooo

The real main dish was in a comment link.

— Is this AI-generated?

└ The other video shows Almond holding a gun and threatening him (link)

└ ??

└ Why??? lmaooo

└ ??????

Following the link led to a video made by Macaron rather than Ji-Ah.

[Shorts: Orange King's shocking statement, "He was smart!" What's the truth?]

It started the same with Orange King speaking.

"Oh yes. Today's lesson was enjoyable for me too. Almond, you're... Behind the camera, he's actually quite smart and..."

Click.

Almond leveled a pitch-black gun barrel at him.

"B-behind the camera, he's smart and well-mannered... Oh goodness! DUMB! YOUNG! MAAAAN!! I know the truu..."

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!

Suddenly, Almond opened fire, and Orange King flew away like a piece of paper.

Then, Almond walked toward the camera and reloaded. "First lesson. The truth is only for you to know. Hah!"

Almond blew the smoke from the gun barrel, and the video ended.

— LOL

— Hahahahaha

— lmaooooooooooo

— Zzzzzzzz

— So the Smart Young Man has gotten his hands on AI now... the end of the world is near.

— Is he actually insane?? lmaooo

— Producer: Macaron

— The fourth lesson is... bang!

— lmaooooo

— Why do I somehow feel like this might be real... what if Orange King actually died here and has only been living on as AI?

└ You have awakened...

— Why does the pistol suddenly become a machine gun?? LOL

An astonishing comment with another link appeared here too.

— Everyone, shockingly this isn't AI LOL, the behind-the-scenes video is also up (link)

└ Just an insane streamer

└ Why is it actually real...

└ Everything Almond does is always real...

└ LOL Orange King's all-out performance

It genuinely wasn’t an AI-generated video.

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