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◈ I Unleashed a Gossip Gallery in Another World ◈

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Gossip Gallery

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The world I lived in was one where galleries were everything.

[Live Popular Galleries]

[1] Grinning Empire Village Gallery

[2] International Mages Gallery

[3] Other Races Minor Gallery

[4] Academy Minor Gallery

[5] Holy Church Gallery

It would not be an exaggeration to say that every nation and group in the world, not just the empire where I lived, had its own gallery.

A world where anyone could pull up a gallery before their eyes and communicate anytime, anywhere. It was the kind of world one could only dream of.

“What the fuck, you call this a gallery?”

Still, I had plenty of complaints about it.

[Grinning Empire Village Gallery]

[*Princess Ruabel: I hope all imperial citizens have a good day today^^]

[*Knight Commander Ciel: I am the newly appointed commander of the Imperial Knights! I look forward to working with you all!]

[*Eirin, the Mage Tower’s Top Disciple: We are recruiting students to study magic at the Mage Tower!]

[*Yurian von Agnail: On behalf of House Agnail, I apologize for my recent controversial behavior.]

Most galleries had been thoroughly controlled by the ruling class and had lost their original purpose.

“How can a community that allows neither guest posting nor anonymity even be called a gallery?!”

Guest participation was banned. Fixed-handle users were required to verify their identities. On top of that, there were countless suffocating rules that made it impossible to call them galleries anymore.

As someone who knew what a real gallery was, it was enough to make my blood boil.

‘How dare they turn the galleries I gave them into this?’

After all, I was the one who had unleashed the gallery system upon this world in my previous life.

I had now reincarnated as the second son of an ordinary count’s household, but in my past life, I had been a transmigrator and a Hero.

I had even been enough of a gallery addict to use the Goddess’s boon, my reward for saving the world, to create a society where galleries ruled all.

‘I warned them over and over to guarantee anonymity, at least.’

Yet in the distant future, after awakening in the body of a far-off descendant, I could only despair when I saw what had become of the galleries.

The lively, witty galleries where everyone laughed and chatted were now a thing of the distant past.

In their place, galleries that had become tools of control for the ruling class welcomed me.

“Phew...”

At first, I tried to adapt to this changed world somehow.

But unlike my previous life, I was terribly frail in this one, so I had no choice but to stay shut in my room all day.

The maids took excellent care of me because I was the second son of a count’s household, but that did not make me any less bored.

‘This won’t do.’

More than anything, even though it had already been a month since I regained my memories of my past life, the fury boiling in my heart showed no sign of fading.

How was I supposed to vent this resentment?

How could I get revenge on the people who had ruined the galleries, my only link to the home I remembered?

[Master Administrator: Hero123]

[Permissions: Create New Galleries, Grant User Administrator Privileges]

One day, after agonizing over it again and again, I realized something important.

‘This still works.’

My master administrator account from my previous life was, unbelievably, still active.

Most of its permissions had been revoked over the long years, but the most basic ones remained.

“Hmm...”

The authority to create new galleries, and the authority to hand out moderator privileges.

Could I use those two powers to bring down the current gallery system?

“You’re all dead, motherfuckers.”

After only a brief moment of thought, I found the answer and broke into a bright smile.

[Would you like to create the Grinning Empire Village Gossip Gallery?]

I would destroy the world that had ruined sacred galleries.

To achieve that grand purpose, I chose to unleash a Gossip Gallery upon this other world.

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[Notice: A space to freely share gossip related to the Empire.]

Author: Gossip Gallery Eraser

Tired of hypocrisy and masks?

Banned from galleries for ridiculous reasons?

Have nowhere to vent the anger building in your heart?

The Gossip Gallery welcomes you.

Here, where perfect anonymity ensures no one can identify you, vent to your heart’s content.

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Make galleries great again.

With that mission in mind, I chose the Grinning Empire Village Gallery as the first target for helping the Gossip Gallery catch on.

The reason was simple.

The Grinning Empire Village Gallery covered everything related to the Magnesia Empire, a massive unified nation.

Because it had the largest number of guest users, introducing a Gossip Gallery there would cause the biggest stir.

[Anonymous: Can we really say anything we want?]

[Anonymous: Isn’t this a sting operation?]

[Anonymous: The Imperial Family has a monopoly on the right to create galleries. Won’t all of this be reported to the Emperor anyway?]

Things did not go smoothly from the start, though.

[Anonymous: I won’t believe it until the admin personally insults the Emperor to prove where the admin stands.]

[Anonymous: I’m telling you, this is 100% a sting operation lol]

[Anonymous: Even posting here feels kind of dangerous...]

Was it because they had spent their whole lives under the Empire’s control?

Many guest users visited the Gossip Gallery after it appeared among related galleries, but they did not trust it yet.

‘Can’t be helped.’

After thinking it over, I decided to lead by example to help the Gossip Gallery catch on.

[Gossip Gallery Eraser: The Emperor <<< If you pity him for hiding his ever-thinning hair with a wig, upvote this lol]

The plan was to use my fixed handle to prove I was the administrator while committing taboos forbidden in the existing galleries.

[Gossip Gallery Eraser: (Scary story) The Crown Prince is secretly hiding the fact that he inherited the Emperor’s baldness genes...]

[Gossip Gallery Eraser: The Goddess <<< She confessed to the previous Hero, got rejected, then made it pour over the Empire for a whole month, crazy bitch lol]

Once I scored a double crown in the ultimate taboos of insulting the Imperial Family and blaspheming the divine, the imperial citizens who had been watching cautiously realized something.

[Anonymous: Why hasn’t that bastard been arrested???]

[Anonymous: Fine, maybe the admin made a deal with the Emperor, but blaspheming the Goddess is an automatic death sentence, isn’t it?]

[Anonymous: Is this really a gallery where they can’t track us?]

[Anonymous: Is this for real?]

Whatever my identity or purpose, I clearly was not on the side of the ruling class that had monopolized galleries until now.

[Live Popular Galleries]

[1] Grinning Empire Village Gossip Gallery (New!)

[2] Grinning Empire Village Gallery

[3] International Mages Gallery

As a result, the Grinning Empire Village Gossip Gallery astonishingly rose to first place among the live popular galleries in just a few days.

[Grinning Empire Village Gossip Gallery]

[Anonymous: Princess Ruabel <<< She acts pure, but is it true she’s actually a hardcore masochist?]

[Anonymous: There’s someone I hate lately, and I’m trying to figure out how to assassinate them!]

[Anonymous: Recruiting revolutionaries to overthrow this shitty country~! Room and board guaranteed! Bonuses after the revolution succeeds!]

[Anonymous: It’s bullshit that there’s a witch in the western mountains lol. Go there and you’ll find tons of the previous Hero’s treasure lolol]

[Anonymous: Don’t trust the Holy Church, everyone!!! The holy water they hand out is actually tap water!]

Behold. The moment they realized absolute anonymity was guaranteed, the imperial citizens began pouring out their pent-up resentment all at once.

The scale was so enormous that it would not have been an exaggeration to call it a nationwide festival.

“Fuck.”

But there was one person who could not enjoy that grand celebration and could only sigh...

(Author: Princess Ruabel)

[Anonymous: Princess Ruabel <<< She acts pure, but is it true she’s actually a hardcore masochist?]

(Author: Lady Yurian)

[Anonymous: There’s someone I hate lately, and I’m trying to figure out how to assassinate them!]

(Author: Ciel, Commander of the Imperial Knights)

[Anonymous: Recruiting revolutionaries to overthrow this shitty country~! Room and board guaranteed! Bonuses after the revolution succeeds!]

(Author: Witch of the West)

[Anonymous: It’s bullshit that there’s a witch in the western mountains lol. Go there and you’ll find tons of the previous Hero’s treasure lolol]

(Author: Saintess of the Holy Church)

[Anonymous: Don’t trust the Holy Church, everyone!!! The holy water they hand out is actually tap water!]

That person was me, the founder of the Gossip Gallery.

‘I didn’t think of that...’

I could see the red pill behind every anonymous account perfectly clearly: their real identities.

That was because the account I used was a system-wide administrator account.

Thanks to that, each poster’s account information was automatically displayed beside every post.

Even in an anonymous gallery.

‘If I’m going to keep running the Gossip Gallery, I have no choice but to use this account...’

The price of creating the Gossip Gallery after overlooking that obvious fact was far too harsh.

(Author: Princess Ruabel)

[Anonymous: Yesterday, I secretly wandered the halls in my pajamas. It was thrilling hehe]

(Author: Eirin, the Mage Tower’s Top Disciple)

[Anonymous: Everyone, is this the recipe for that banned love potion? I’ll have to try it tomorrow lol]

(Author: Saintess of the Holy Church)

[Anonymous: Everyone, how are babies made? No one will tell me...]

No matter how hard I tried not to notice, I kept seeing the contrast between their noble identities and posts shamelessly spilling their twisted desires.

(Author: Lady Yurian)

[Anonymous: (Scary fact) They say the current Empress poisoned the previous Empress and took her place beside the Emperor. Apparently, she used to be a whore...]

(Author: Ciel, Commander of the Imperial Knights)

[Anonymous: (Shocking, Bizarre, Terrifying True Story) The missing previous Knight Commander was actually assassinated by the Second Prince!?]

Even when I saw all kinds of ridiculous exposé posts starting to pop up, I could not simply laugh them off because of who had written them.

“Aaaaargh!!!”

Because I could see the red pill behind their accounts: their real identities.

[Gossip Gallery Eraser: Cut it out, you fucking bastards.]

ㄴ(Princess Ruabel): I kind of like how forceful you are, Mr. Mod...

ㄴ(Eirin, the Mage Tower’s Top Disciple): You egged everyone on and now you’re throwing a fit lol

ㄴ(Witch of the West): Already going on a mod power trip? You think I don’t know where you live? lol

ㄴ(Lady Yurian): If you’re an eraser, why don’t you act like one?

ㄴ(Saintess of the Holy Church): Have a glass of holy water and calm down hehe

It was the birth of a haven for trolls around the world, one that only I could not enjoy.

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