Season 2: Chapter 50. Schrdinger's Almond (3)
A one million won donation was nearly the highest for Almond’s stream. As soon as BigSon showed up, he donated such an amount not once but twice in a row.
‘I can't just end it like this.’
Almond thought that if he received such an amount, he should show something worth that much. He could’ve brazenly ignored it, but didn’t take it lightly when he thought back to how difficult it was to earn one million won at Ah-Sung.
‘Let's do this.’
Therefore, he decided to take slightly more risk even if it meant dying here and restarting the game.
"Here comes the reaction."
With that in mind, Almond aimed his bow at the class president.
***
— Farewell, class president...
— Is he going to shoot the class president instead?
— LOL, that's too much!
The viewers guessed as they watched Almond aim at the class president.
"Why... why are you doing this to me?" the class president asked back while half crying.
It was reasonable for him to feel aggrieved. The class president had been helpful all this time, but now an arrow was aimed at him.
However, Almond hadn’t released it yet and the words from his mouth had nothing to do with killing the class president.
"Go bring Baek Joon-Soo."
Almond aimed at him to order him.
"Me... me?"
"It's dangerous if I go."
— LOL!
— Crazy, LOL!
— Typical Almond order.
— "Born to be a leader"
— 23rd century leadership.
Ju-Hyeok would suffer from the fear status, so he couldn't personally confront Baek Joon-Soo. That wouldn't be the case for the class president.
"Me, I’m... oh, am I not in danger?"
"No. It's dangerous. You’re in danger right now."
Click.
Almond pulled the bowstring even tighter and replied in a hurry as if he knew this would happen. There was no time to waste.
— LOL!
— Fact: Almond put you in danger
— Crazy, LOL!
— Are you okay, Almond?
— Poor class president...
Without a word, the class president immediately turned and headed to the infirmary.
"How... how am I supposed to get him?"
"Provoke him or something."
"Oh..." The class president shouted as if he had an idea, "Baek Joon-Soo!!! Come out here right now! I'm Kim Ju-Hyeokkkk!"
For a moment, silence fell in the corridor.
— LOL, he suddenly turned into Kim Ju-Hyeok!
— So you dream of being Almond's manager, class president? Hehe...
— Kim Ju-Hyeok? LOL!
Still, no response came from the infirmary.
Almond continued aiming at the back of the class president's head while he tried to find more provocative words.
"I’m here for your bread delivery! Come out! You loser!"
— Crazy, LOL!
— Bread delivery LOL!
— Isn't it dead bread? LOL!
— Knife bread delivery!
— Is it a summoning spell?
Thump.
Some noise could be heard from inside the infirmary.
'Will it work?'
Would this provocation work? Would Baek Joon-Soo come out with this?
Click...
Almond fully drew his bow.
'I'll shoot him right away.'
He now aimed toward the infirmary.
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The infirmary had been chaotic even before the class president started shouting.
"An arrow!?"
"Crazy. An arrow?!"
The other guards inside didn’t know that three of their members had already died, but they still hesitated to come out. To them, an arrow was an object of fear. It was the weapon that incapacitated Baek Joon-Soo, their boss, in a single shot.
"Get, get that!"
"Okay!"
They fetched something from a corner of the infirmary as soon as they heard about arrows. It was a shield made from a detached chair seat. It wasn’t too sturdy since it was made of wood, but it could block an arrow at least.
As the class president said in a panic, Baek Joon-Soo had covered his face and upper body with a shield. He also seemed to be wearing some kind of protective gear on his leg. It looked like it was made from the cast materials available in the infirmary.
Almond wasn’t sure if an arrow could penetrate it.
"Uh, quickly. I'll stall for time! Let's run!"
Almond placed the bowstring to his lips and replied, "Shh."
"!?"
The arrow couldn't hit because the enemy had a shield? Only ordinary archers thought like that.
Creak.
Almond released the fully drawn bow without any hesitation.
Whoosh─
The arrow flew upward and almost touched the corridor ceiling. Then, it sharply descended as if gravity had intensified.
Thud!
The sound of flesh being pierced could be heard.
Baek Joon-Soo dropped his spear and his shield slid down too.
Finally, where the arrow had struck was revealed.
"How, how...?" the class president's voice trembled.
He just witnessed an unbelievable feat with his bare eyes.
Thump!
Baek Joon-Soo fell forward as if deeply bowing. The arrow had pierced his head, right in the center of his skull. It was like hitting the ten point bullseye in archery.
— Wowwwww!
The viewer’s cheers seemed to automatically replay in his ears.
Almond spoke into the mic, "Chikicha."
That was his one million won reaction.
***
The chat exploded with reactions the moment Baek Joon-Soo fell.
— Wow
— Niceeeee!
— This is what a donation reaction should be lololol
— So awesome
— Is this, is this Almond who just got paid...?
Mostly, they expressed satisfaction at the revenge against Baek Joon-Soo.
— But is this how it's normally done?
— I don’t think so, lol.
— The producers are crying right now, lol.
Of course, only a few people thought Almond's way of subduing Baek Joon-Soo's gang was normal. The final boss died such an absurd death despite holding a shield.
—He was epic though.
— When Baek Joon-Soo shouted and opened the door, I wanted to go to the bathroom, lol.
— But how did the arrow hit him?
The most baffling thing was the arrow.
Almond had similarly shot a goblin boss holding a shield in a previous game. He hadn’t shot in a straight line, but in a parabolic arc and the arrow came from high above for the kill. The enemy could only die in vain without ever seeing the arrow and didn’t even have a chance to raise his shield toward the sky. At the time, even that boss monster fell in a single hit.
Most viewers had witnessed that boss monster’s death, but the current situation still confused them for a simple reason. The circumstances then and now were completely different. It had been an outdoor battle in the past with no obstructions to shoot into the sky, but Almond did it indoors this time.
The building was old and the floor-to-ceiling height was quite low. Aiming at the opponent's crown with a parabolic trajectory seemed absurd in this place. Such an angle seemed impossible, but Almond did it.
— Isn't that like a curve shot?
— It dropped like a forkball
— I thought it was a wild pitch, not an arrow.
Simply put, Almond had fired a curve shot. Only it curved vertically and not horizontally. To the viewers’ eyes, it appeared as if the arrow suddenly stopped and plunged straight down. The curve shot seemed to curve even more than usual because of its vertical trajectory.
— Can a person do that just by calculating?
— He must be lucky too.
— I thought it was a forkball.
— I've seen this on YouTube before, LOL.
— Does this actually work?
It seemed like a shot beyond the realm of calculations, more like luck or a miracle. Whether it was due to luck or something else, no one knew. The only fact was that Almond succeeded with a single attempt.
Ba-bam!
[BigSon has donated 200,000 won!]
[Amazing... Such a rewarding donation...]
His performance was outstanding enough to garner such reactions.
— The real.
— Agreed.
— Almond's reaction is so on point...
— Where's the top-of-the-head suicide performance? LOL.
— Mind-blowing performance today.
"Thank you, BigSon..."
"Aaaahhhhhhhh!!!!"
Almond suddenly halted while thanking BigSon.
A woman's scream echoed from the direction of the infirmary. He knew there was only one girl among Baek Joon-Soo's gang: Yoon So-Hee.
"It seems it's not all over yet."
Yoon So-Hee was also one of the individuals who induced the [Fear] status.
