Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 265
87. Spring (3)
“Yes. See you next time. Manager Koo.”
Tuk.
Joo-hyuk hung up the phone and thought about old times for a while.
When I think of Manager Koo, there is one thing that comes to mind.
About 4 years ago.
Joo-hyuk and Sang-hyeon when they were still fresh newbies.
When all employees are eager for a word of praise from their boss and run around here and there to somehow get someone’s attention.
This is a story from a time when passion as an employee could support their sagging shoulders.
“hey. Isn’t that almost half of what you did? Why is he getting praised? “Should we go and ask?”
“Do you live for praise?”
“No, it’s not just a compliment… I’m saying this is all reflected in the grades?”
A long office hallway.
Joo-hyuk followed Sang-hyeon as if he was frustrated, trying to persuade him, and Sang-hyeon kept shaking his head.
In fact, it was a common sight among new classmates.
Since the team was somewhat divided by subtle friendships and factions, they gave each other advice and sometimes stole credit from others.
“I know. “It’s reflected.”
“…Then why are you doing this?”
“The situation will only get worse if I do more.”
“?”
Joo Hyuk could not accept the situation at the time.
At this time, it was difficult to just sit idly by because his department was also involved in the matter that Sanghyun was involved in.
‘Ugh. ‘You frustrating bastard.’
Joo Hyuk was furious.
Something was boiling inside me and I was about to pass by Sanghyun and take a big step toward the people giggling in front of me.
Sang-hyeon pours cold ice water on him.
“…I just lost.”
“what?”
lose?
What is lost?
In this contract, Sanghyun accomplished a decisive task.
“What do you lose?”
“just. “Everything… everything.”
“…What do you mean?”
“I am a high school graduate. I’m a parachute and have no work ethic, so I’m usually out of sight. My social skills are lacking, so even if I happen to be good at my work, I can’t even reflect on it. Rather, I didn’t win anything.”
Sanghyeon really didn’t seem to care much.
He seemed to completely accept the victory.
No matter what the outcome is, even internal politics.
“under.”
Until then, Joo-hyuk thought Sang-hyeon was simply a loser who fell into mannerism.
“Do it yourself.”
But no.
He was just serious about winning.
So, he was a person who could do that even in situations where the positions were opposite.
This happened when time passed and the two started working together in a team.
“Why us?”
Okay.
When asked to appeal to other teams as well, he turns his chair around and tilts his head.
“Well… the marketing team… suffered some losses because of us. Manager Koo, you know that, right?”
“I never learned that much from Manager Koo.”
“…what?”
“Chief Gu passed away. To our manager. “You’ll probably understand soon.”
“….”
chin.
Joo-hyuk remembered when he saw Sang-hyeon leaving work, lightly organizing his documents.
Long, long hallway.
‘At that time…’
The back of me walking with my subordinates in front of me.
That person was Manager Gu.
At that time, I was assistant manager Jinmo Koo.
“…I get it.”
Joo Hyuk was convinced.
Joo Hyuk, who was later transferred to the marketing team, did not view Manager Koo favorably.
‘Did he teach that?’
But no matter how bad you try to look at it.
‘huh?’
Manager Gu was a good person.
‘what? Is he a bit… a good guy?’
First, Manager Koo is a person with absolutely no flaws in his personality.
Second, Joo Hyuk was always a winner.
Whether socially or competently.
Therefore, he had no problems with Manager Koo at all.
Anyway, after meeting with Manager Koo.
It may be because of his personality, but Sanghyun never took care of losers.
Any kind of defeat, even if it is your own.
A person who may seem gentle and stupid normally, but at a really important moment, he can point out an icy blade without any hesitation.
That was Sanghyeon when I was attending the castle.
No, maybe it was more like before.
There were many times when I was hated even more because of that appearance, but one day, while drinking, Sanghyun responded like this.
“If I hadn’t done that, everyone would have looked down on me.”
If you do that, you’ll get less hate.
Now Joo-hyuk’s eyes are fixed on the phone number of the department where he once worked.
This is the call record from earlier.
‘Mr. Koo Jin-mo….’
What kind of person was he when he was new?
* * *
When Sanghyun opened his eyes, Panga was still sleeping next to him, snoring.
The bed pillow was soaked with sweat even though it was the middle of winter.
“Did I have a dream?…”
It’s usually like this when you dream of that guy. I don’t really remember. That’s how deeply he was sleeping.
Thinking so, Sanghyun got up and checked the time.
It was 10 o’clock.
Normally I would have been shocked, but this notice was posted in the group chat room.
[Chiseung: Today is a holiday]
There is no training today.
It was a free day of rest.
As he was about to get out of bed, he lay back again and checked other messages.
[Joo Hyuk: Are you okay? I just came because you were sleeping. Be sure to see the doctor tomorrow.]
[Joo-hyuk: Hey. When do you wake up?]
[Joo-hyuk: Talk when you wake up]
Joo-hyuk sent three messages in a row as if something was up.
Sanghyun tilted his head and said, ‘Why?’ and then looked at other messages.
[Hyunjoo: Oppa, your game is amazing hahaha, it’s really crazy! All of our classmates are going crazy!]
[Classmate: Pride of succession! Yoo Sang-hyun! Haha]
[Soyeon: Yoo Sang-hyun has succeeded~ haha]
There were also messages of support from members of the archery club.
This is because the Korea-Japan match gained nationwide recognition, so there was almost no one who knew about it.
Even people I knew at work sent me messages.
‘uh?’
But Sang-hyeon’s eyes fluttered when he saw one message.
‘Soyeon?’
He shook his head and looked again.
[Soo-hyeon: Yoo Sang-hyun has succeeded~ haha]
It was Su-hyeon.
He was one of the members of the archery club.
She is a completely different person from the deceased Han So-yeon.
“…ah.”
Haven’t you ever been like that?
When you look at the clock in a half-asleep state and see the wrong time.
Or, if you dream and wake up again and again, you don’t know which was the real dream.
Some people say that they want to continue dreaming and go back to sleep.
When he was young, there were times when he had to go back to sleep.
Simply to see the dream.
However, Sanghyun never made that choice after a certain point.
Because it was so painful when I woke up one day and realized it was a dream.
‘Let’s get up.’
As always, he jumps up as soon as he opens his eyes.
I approach the window. If I lay like this any longer, I could fall asleep again. I could dream. If you are hit by cold air, you will wake up quickly.
Come on.
I open the window and cool air passes by my cheek.
A rush of air coming in.
However, it is different from expectations.
“…uh.”
Is it because it’s Japan?
The bitter scent of winter disappeared from the air.
The air was cool rather than cold and soft with some moisture.
A small dandelion seed flew in from afar and sticks to the bridge of my nose.
Spring has come.
If this happens, I might not be able to fully wake up from the dream.
Sang-hyeon stands shakily looking out the window for a while, then suddenly shakes his head left and right.
“Bub bub bub…”
A funny sound comes out of my mouth, but it is a struggle to wake up.
* * *
As the seasons changed, many things changed.
First of all, Civil Empire has become a popular game in name and reality.
Even if it is a flashy popularity limited to this year, it is still the case for now.
Mbull posted a notice that it was expanding its servers to accommodate all the people coming into the community, and there were rumors that Civil M’s Korean branch was holding a bonus party.
These were big changes.
In terms of articles, these are changes that could be featured in the society section of the Hankook Ilbo.
When these changes occur, small things are bound to change as well.
In terms of articles, these are changes that would be small enough to appear in a corner of a local newspaper.
The first time Sang-hyeon witnessed such changes was when he responded to Joo-hyuk’s call.
I headed to his room with a face like a raccoon that hadn’t woken up from a half-asleep hibernation.
“What is it?”
When Joo-hyuk sees Sang-hyeon, he gets very excited and shows him something.
“hey. “Look at this.”
What is shown on the screen is an AllTube channel.
It was Almond’s channel.
[Subscribers: 1,049,000]
After the fake national team match, the number of views on the channel went up, and even the number of subscribers reached 1 million.
“The trend was so exciting that people from overseas came to see it.”
Each channel has its own tendencies.
Some channels grow subscribers quickly, but the number of views catches up slowly or goes sideways.
Some channels keep increasing views but have few subscribers.
Almond’s channel was strangely the latter.
This phenomenon is usually only seen in channels that handle highly tiring content that upload provocative videos.
Joo Hyuk interpreted the cause of this phenomenon as consistency.
Both Almond and Zia didn’t have long careers to find direction.
Because of this, there were several changes in editing direction, and each time the response was good or bad.
As the person named Almond went viral or as certain incidents occurred, the number of views slowly increased.
However, the only ones who wanted to continue watching this channel were the fans who frequently watch his live broadcasts.
Even including all the people who stopped by occasionally, it took quite a long time for the number to exceed 500,000, let alone 1 million.
With the launch of the fake national team content, the game changed completely.
The increase in subscribers has risen at a remarkable rate.
The fake national drama had consistent content and even connectivity, so there was something called ‘next episode’.
Then, people will click subscribe to see the next episode.
And due to the structure, each time the results of a national competition came out, one more episode of the fake national team was released.
As awareness increases, the subscription rate also increases.
Now that we have won the Korea-Japan game, I came to my senses and suddenly the number of subscribers has surpassed 1 million.
“If this continues, once the national competition is over, 1.3 million will be possible.”
Joo-hyuk looks at the graph and gets excited.
“It’s not like you’re getting emails right now from all kinds of channels trying to reserve your appearance.”
Major channels always gather famous people to create content for big projects.
In the past, there were many programs centered around established celebrities.
In the past 10 years, at least 50% of the world has been filled with celebrities based on SNS or minor channels (personal broadcasts).
It goes without saying, but even if you go to a place like Almond, you will be treated like a master and be filmed.
This is because, regardless of the size or profit of the channel, he currently has the level of support of a national hero.
“Even ‘The Brilliant’ contacted me. “Aren’t these guys idiots?”
Hahaha.
Joo-hyuk bursts out laughing.
“what is that?”
“Don’t you know The Brilliant?”
“uh.”
“You know what. “Beautiful celebrities come out and have a battle of brains.”
It was a content format in which one person was eliminated after each stage, and those who won the brain battle continued to survive and played a different game each time.
“…oh?”
As Sang-hyeon watched the video with interest, Joo-hyuk felt anxious.
‘Is this guy really going to leave?’
Now that I think about it, Sanghyun strangely had a tendency to trust his own brain power.
Tuk.
“uh? “Why turn it off?”
“no.”
“…I don’t know what. “Why are you turning it off?”
“No?”
“Tch…”
Sanghyeon felt strangely depressed.
“Hmm.”
Joo Hyuk showed the following story to brighten the mood.
“ruler. Brilliant and Nabal. “Look at this.”
It was an Excel chart.
This is an Excel sheet containing the sales I wanted to show off at dinner.
“One hundred and ten… huh?”
Sanghyun looks surprised.
“Is this real merchandise profit?”
“Even just yours. “This means we eat 100% of everything!”
Joo-hyuk gets excited at the mention of money, jumps up and stretches out his hand.
match!
Sanghyeon and I clap his hands without realizing it. It was an amount that definitely got a high five.
The two made eye contact and began hosting the Olympics in excitement.
“Where are we going? Make reservations for all real estate along the Han River. “My grandmother said that if you are a man, you should live somewhere overlooking the Han River.”
“I’m going to go meet Elon Musk first. “My father told me to meet famous people first.”
Of course, with the money I’ve saved up until now, I couldn’t buy even a decent place without debt, let alone reserve all the real estate along the Han River.
Even though I might be able to meet Elon Musk by luck.
“This is just selling my goods… how much does everything else cost?”
Nevertheless, their eyes overflowed with hope.
Although it may not be enough to reach the level of the truly wealthy at the moment, it was an amount that could be used to dream of the future.
“okay. “Here’s everything else combined.”
“…?”
At this time, Sanghyeon’s expression, which was once shining brightly, becomes strange.
‘Is it about 1.5 times?’
Almond’s merchandise sales account for 75% of all merchandise sold in national competitions.
‘I thought it would be four times more.’
Of course, I didn’t have high expectations because I was behind in recognition, but I didn’t expect there to be this much of a difference.
“Somehow, awareness is still a bit low. I think this will have to be resolved gradually. It’s not like we’re sharing it anyway. what.”
“uh. okay.”
Rather than a question of whether or not to share the money, Sang-hyeon felt that too much attention was being paid to him in the current national competition.
Of course, it is natural for the most outstanding players to receive the spotlight.
This is something I knew for granted even when I was doing archery. Sanghyeon thought there was no room for any objection to that.
After all, archery is an individual sport. On the other hand, Civil M is strictly a team sport.
“….”
Sang-hyeon is speechless for a moment. It’s not like I couldn’t see their hardships right in front of my eyes.
