Genius Archer's Streaming

"Wow, how many are there?"

The gates in front of the school field collapsed. While chaos ensued, Bubblegum stayed in the nurse's office and counted the number of Choco Pies.

"Three, four... seven..."

It was a peaceful scene compared to the current situation. After counting all the Choco Pies, Bubblegum expressed his thoughts.

"The nurse's office is quite nice, isn't it?"

Bubblegum, the survival expert, seemed to like the nurse's office.

"At this rate, couldn't we just stay here? If only there's a way to deal with pooping..."

He sneakily glanced toward the sink in the nurse's office.

Bubblegum shifted in his seat and looked at his cell phone. He even made sure it was fully charged. Then...

The emergency message announced the current disaster. It essentially signaled the start of this game.

"... They are asking us to stay indoors and wait for assistance. What. Wait? Why wait?" Bubblegum said while aimlessly wandering toward the door and lying back down on the bed.

"Look, look. I've played a lot of zombie games, you know? I've watched a lot of movies too. If you act rashly at the start, you're just an extra."

"For now, let's try to hold out with Choco Pie and cola."

Bubblegum tore open a packet of Choco Pie to alleviate his hunger and drank cola to boost his spirits. Then...

"Nurse! The PE teacher! The PE teacher!!"

It was the class vice president. She had seen the fallen PE teacher at the field and rushed to the nurse's office.

"The PE teacher suddenly collapsed! Are you there? Where have you gone...?"

Bubblegum quietly ate his Choco Pie and waited for her to leave.

The vice president eventually became a zombie while wandering somewhere for the absent nurse. Then she headed to another floor.

Had it been ten minutes? The howls of zombies echoed through the annex corridor.

Bubblegum put his ear to the door.

He could hear footsteps.

“It seems like there’s quite a lot of zombies.”

Then...

A thunderous sound came from his stomach. It wasn't from hunger.

As the number of zombies increased, his digested meals needed to make an exit. The scene with Almond wasn’t a coincidence.

Feeling supported by the chat, Bubblegum cautiously opened the door and stepped out.

A bizarre mission suddenly appeared.

"Excuse me, what do you take me for? I'm seriously playing this game right now!"

Bubblegum declined the mission.

"I'll pass on the mission. I'm out."

He tightly held the golf club with both hands and cautiously stepped into the corridor.

The zombies reacted immediately.

"Oh, here it comes. Here it comes...! I'll just avoid that one for now!"

The zombie was slower than he thought.

He quickly dodged and easily evaded it. It was like dribbling past someone in soccer without even kicking the ball. In other words, the zombie was pretty easy to dodge. However, that was true when there was only one zombie.

Two... no, three zombies blocked his path. He had to fend them off.

Bubblegum considered retreating, but...

The zombie he previously dodged was now following him. Of course…

He couldn't hold back any longer. He felt a trembling sensation like the vibrating controllers of old console games.

Bubblegum cursed the game and charged forward.

The zombies responded and approached.

The closest zombie opened its mouth wide.

Bubblegum tightly gripped the golf club and shouted, "Going for a hole-in-one!"

There was a saying that being naive was also bravery. He confidently swung the golf club in a clean arc at the zombie's head.

However, he missed. Not only did he miss the zombie’s head, but he didn't even touch its shoulder. Instead of a hole-in-one, it was like hitting the ball out of the golf course.

He didn’t have time for any disappointment because he did achieve a hole-in-one, after all.

"...!?"

It was Bubblegum's own head!

Bubblegum's head tightly filled the zombie's mouth. It was so precisely placed that it seemed to be jammed in there.

When the golf club missed, the imbalance caused his foot to slip and his head lurched forward. Simply put, he just fell over. Because of this, his head went precisely into the zombie's mouth.

Even the zombie made a surprised sound and looked around, trying to figure out how to digest this. Understandably so because its mouth was stretched as wide as Bubblegum's head. Its jaw was already loose.

Only now did the audience realize the situation and burst out laughing.

Nevertheless, the zombie enthusiastically chewed on Bubblegum with its loose jaw.

Bubblegum continued to push the zombie with his head and tumbled forward. Then...

The screen went dark and an embarrassing sound could be heard.

The screen didn't turn off because he died. It turned off because of the excretion system during gameplay.

A sticky sound could be heard, followed by a message.

Bubblegum died after being surrounded by zombies.

The reward from the earlier mission Bubblegum refused was still donated. The chat window rapidly scrolled up.

***

After dying, Bubblegum returned to the game's waiting screen.

Countless chat messages mocked him. One could easily feel bad, but Bubblegum continued the stream unperturbed whether or not he was used to this.

"Let's go again. I'm doing it right this time. I've got the hang of it, you know?"

"Again. Let’s go."

***

Bubblegum continued trying, but didn’t make any significant progress. Being surrounded and killed by zombies became routine.

Even if he managed to reach the bathroom, he would either die from tetanus after getting scratched by a windowpane or tumbling down the stairs…

"This sucks. Seriously, this game."

He truly experienced various kinds of deaths. For now, his attempts had been halted.

"I'll quickly check how Almond does this."

"... What is this?"

The video content was entirely different.

"How do you do this? The start is so different, right? And doesn't this look even more disadvantageous?"

Bubblegum watched a few clips and repeatedly exclaimed, "Wow... wow..."

"But doing it this way won't work, right? Didn't Almond die?"

Bubblegum felt surprised. Almond’s situation seemed even more severe than what he faced, but Almond still hadn't died once yet.

"He's still alive? Still on his first life?"

"Let me quickly check how he’s progressing. Can I do it like this…?"

Driven by curiosity, Bubblegum entered Almond's livestream.

"Wow. He's got both the bathroom and the snack bar..."

As the viewers mentioned, Almond seemed to be doing quite well. He was more organized than expected.

"He's even doing laundry? That's impressive. So he claims more territory by closing the fire doors?"

"There are NPC allies too! Wow, starting with the snack bar looks good?"

Bubblegum was having this potentially dangerous thought when…

"Huh?"

He was taken aback when Almond ran into someone.

Bubblegum immediately recognized them as the ones who badly beat him up just a while ago.

"Those jerks are still alive?!"

It was Baek Joon-Soo's gang.