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◈ I Unleashed a Gossip Gallery in Another World ◈
Chapter 17: The Sockpuppet Incident
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Immediately after the 1,096th International Moderator Conference ended.
Similar notices began appearing one after another in official galleries across the continent, the so-called front galleries.
(Author: Emperor)
[Notice: As of today, the mixed use of unauthorized names for Original Mithril is strictly prohibited.]
(Author: Queen Minerva of the Elves)
[Notice: The Great Forest praises the new dwarf chieftain's disclosure of the method for creating Original Mithril.]
(Author: Dragon Lord Belkaros)
[Notice: As the original owner of the volcanic region, I recognize the dwarves' rebellion as the legitimate exercise of their right of succession.]
Of course, there was not a single mention of "unauthorized galleries."
There was no crackdown on Dwigellium, and, astonishingly, no pressure was placed on the new dwarf chieftain, Ugrin, as everyone had expected.
[📌Global Notice: Regarding Unauthorized Galleries]
Instead, what went up was the emperor's notice proclaiming the outcome of the 1,096th Moderator Conference to the entire world.
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[📌Global Notice: Regarding Unauthorized Galleries]
Author: Emperor
By the unanimous resolution of the continental representatives, discussion of and activity in unauthorized galleries are hereby designated an international taboo.
This shall apply collectively to every existing nation and group as of today and shall take effect immediately upon publication of this notice.
All gallery users across the continent are commanded to remember this fact and conduct their activities while clearly distinguishing light from darkness.
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Naturally, the Gossip Gallery users who saw that post, which remained visible in every gallery on the continent for roughly an hour, flocked to their home and shared their thoughts.
[Anonymous: LOL, an international taboo my ass. So are all us shut-in Gossip Gallery users now enemies of the whole continent?]
[Anonymous: Is it true that the last international taboo was declared 300 years ago???]
[Anonymous: Demon King, Four Calamities, Demon God Cult, and the Gossip Gallery. Let's gooooooooo LOL]
[Anonymous: Unemployed shut-in gossip bros scratching their asses at home, suddenly becoming enemies of the continent LOL]
But those who had become an international taboo and enemies of the continent overnight had no idea.
'Good. That's more like it.'
The person who had made the emperor write that post word for word was none other than Elrod Durgel, the master administrator of the Gossip Gallery.
'Our beloved head mod Emperor, thanks for the promotion.'
The Gossip Gallery, which had already been banned once within the Empire, had now become a major taboo across the entire continent.
And to say it again, the surest way to promote something was to ban it.
Now that the scope covered the entire continent, a massive influx of users would soon pour into the Gossip Gallery.
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[🔒Notice: Other Races Gossip Gallery Rules!]
Author: Other Races Gallery Eraser
I'm weally a slave! You can call me a slave, 'kay!
There aren't any rules besides staying anonymous, so have fun, 'kay!
When the Other Races Gossip Gallery opens, should I write the notice like this? Pwease approve it!
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Of course, Ugrin, the new chieftain and moderator, was diligently preparing a place to settle all those new users who would come pouring in from across the continent.
Gossip Gallery Eraser: People can identify you from the way you talk, so fix it.
ㄴOther Races Gallery Eraser: I'll fix it, so hold me again ♡
ㄴNoble Lady Gallery Eraser: ??????
ㄴMage Gallery Eraser: Shameless bitch.
ㄴSwordsman Gallery Eraser: You kicked me in the stomach, but you'll hug her? Fucking LOL
ㄴGossip Gallery Eraser: It's not like that, you crazy bitches....
There was a brief commotion due to a misunderstanding in Ugrin's post asking for approval, but still.
Compared to everything that had happened until now, these were remarkably peaceful days.
“Cough!”
However, that peace did not last long.
“Y-young Master! Are you all right?”
“...”
“Sh-should I call a doctor?”
One morning, just as the opening of the Other Races Gossip Gallery was close at hand, Elrod received the breakfast his maid brought as usual and opened the Gossip Gallery.
Then he saw the posts in front of him and immediately began coughing after his food went down the wrong way.
[🔒Request to Create Great Forest Gossip Gallery]
[🔒Application to Create Dragon Gossip Gallery]
[🔒Application to Become a Spirit Gossip Gallery Mod]
[🔒Application to Become Beastfolk Gossip Gallery Head Mod]
[🔒Application to Become Demon Gossip Gallery Administrator]
The Empire Village Gossip Gallery, which had been peaceful just an hour earlier, was now filled with requests to create Gossip Galleries for various races.
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[Anonymous: Suddenly it's a bumper crop of Gossip Galleries LOL]
[Anonymous: Now we can pick whichever one suits our tastes. Nice.]
[Anonymous: Upvote if you think it's a banner year for slave applications LOL]
[Anonymous: But don't they do dogeza or verification?]
The Gossip Gallery users were, naturally, very pleased by the sudden flood of slave application posts.
“Hmm....”
And honestly, I welcomed requests to create various Gossip Galleries.
Of course, requests from people unrelated to the gallery's topic were forbidden.
But if they proved that they were personally connected to the subject of the gossip, I was always willing to create that Gossip Gallery for them.
'This... can only be deliberate.'
But the integrated Other Races Gossip Gallery was just about to make its appearance.
For requests to create Gossip Galleries for so many different races to suddenly appear all at once in that situation, there could only be some hidden intent behind it.
[✪But do we even need an Other Races Gossip Gallery if this happens?]
[✪Honestly, cramming all those different races into one gallery did feel a little off LOL]
[✪For real. Why do I have to gossip while rubbing shoulders with knife-eared elves? LOL]
[✪Upvote if you think the Other Races Gossip Gallery will become a hub community like the Empire Village Gossip Gallery as soon as it opens LOL]
You could tell just from the reactions being posted in the Empire Village Gallery.
Unlike humans, most other races did not get along with one another.
Under those circumstances, these conspicuous requests were little more than a silent rebellion from other-race users declaring that they would never mingle.
'This bastard is really getting on my nerves.'
At least, that was how it appeared on the surface.
But because I could see anonymous users' identities exactly as they were, this situation looked a little different to me.
(Author: Black Dragon Azrakan)
[🔒Request to Create Great Forest Gossip Gallery]
(Author: Black Dragon Azrakan)
[🔒Application to Become Demon Gossip Gallery Administrator]
(Author: Black Dragon Azrakan)
[🔒Application to Become a Spirit Gossip Gallery Mod]
(Author: Black Dragon Azrakan)
[🔒Application to Become Beastfolk Gossip Gallery Head Mod]
Amazingly, every one of the gallery management applications had been written by the same person.
Noble Lady Gallery Eraser: These applications do follow the template, though?
ㄴMage Gallery Eraser: LOLLLLLLLLLL
ㄴNoble Lady Gallery Eraser: Why are you suddenly laughing your ass off, Number Two?
ㄴMage Gallery Eraser: Ahahahahahaha
A dragon had used Polymorph to transform into different races and submitted applications to create numerous Other Races Gossip Galleries.
As the Witch of the West's reaction showed, that dragon was a very famous figure.
'Why is one of the Four Calamities doing this here?'
Black Dragon Azrakan. One of the Four Calamities, equal to the Witch of the West, and an evil ancient dragon who had gone unvanquished longer than any other.
If my guess was correct, she was probably snickering to herself somewhere on the Northern Continent right about now.
(Author: Black Dragon Azrakan)
[Anonymous: Everyone... don't fight now... heh.]
(Author: Black Dragon Azrakan)
[Anonymous: After all... you're all nothing but lowly beings... heh.]
Her distinguishing trait was that, while she acted lofty and struck all sorts of poses on the outside, she was an absolute scumbag underneath.
To put it simply, her whole life was trolling.
The fact that she had shown up not long after the Empire Village Gossip Gallery opened and had been actively using it ever since said it all.
'I don't like this.'
Until now, I had considered her the kind of scumbag that suited the Gossip Gallery and simply left her alone.
But this clearly crossed a line.
I had no intention of standing by when someone directly harmed the operation of the Gossip Gallery.
Nor did I intend to overlook that bastard deliberately disrupting unity among other-race users while standing back with her hands clasped behind her back.
'How should I punish her....'
After spending a long time considering how to punish that evil dragon, I eventually summoned someone through the call bell.
Gossip Gallery Eraser: Swordsman Gallery Eraser.
ㄴSwordsman Gallery Eraser: ?
ㄴGossip Gallery Eraser: If you got caught trolling in a gallery, what punishment would you fear the most?
I believed that Ciel, the Imperial Knights commander who lived for ego searching and her reputation, would offer an excellent idea for punishing Black Dragon Azrakan, who had similar tendencies.
ㄴSwordsman Gallery Eraser: What else? Getting put in Receipts on the Gossip Gallery and getting dragged for the rest of your life LOL
ㄴSwordsman Gallery Eraser: I ego-searched again today and found 200 posts insulting me, so I'm making the knights run laps around the parade ground LOL
But her answer was ordinary enough that it could hardly be called an idea.
“Ah.”
Yet at that very moment, it felt as though my view had suddenly cleared, and I slapped my knee.
'Why was I overthinking this?'
Sometimes, the simplest method was best.
The more direct and simple it was, the more destructive its power could be.
“...It might be time to introduce it.”
It was time to thoroughly punish the evil ancient dragon who had dared to treat the Gossip Gallery as her toy.
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“G-great Azrakan.”
Meanwhile, at that very moment, on the frozen snowfields of the Northern Continent.
“Ileg, representative of Snowfield Village, humbly requests an audience with you....”
Inside a massive cave in the Ice Mountains, a place considered remote even in that barren land, a man trembled in terror.
“I permit your lowly mouth to speak.”
At that moment, a voice chilling enough to make his spine tingle rang out from within the enormous pile of gold that filled the entire cave.
“W-we have brought this week's tribute....”
“...”
“P-please accept this token of our sincerity....”
The man trembled so violently at that voice that he looked ready to faint, but he eventually struggled to set down the tribute his entire tribe had painstakingly prepared for a week.
-Rumble....
At that instant, murderous intent vast enough to engulf the entire Ice Mountains began pouring out in every direction.
“Mountain-Top Village brought more than twice this much.”
At the same time, a massive eye emerged from the gold before the man, so large that it could easily cover his entire body.
“You dare think this meager tribute is enough to satisfy me?”
The man met that eye, could not utter a single excuse, and began hiccuping.
“...Hic.”
Of course, there was nothing a mere tribal representative from Snowfield Village could do.
“Haa....”
The being coldly sighing before him was one of the Four Calamities, left alone even by her fellow dragons because they could do nothing about her.
“I understand your sincerity.”
Black Dragon Azrakan. Before her, the strongest force on the Northern Continent and its worst evil dragon, any being could do nothing but tremble in fear as the man did.
“Now disappear from before my eyes.”
The moment such a being ordered them out, the man and his companions ran from the cave without looking back.
“If you bring tribute inferior to Mountain-Top Village's again, Snowfield Village will meet its end.”
They did not even dare think of making excuses at the chilling words that seemed to pierce every bone in their bodies.
“...”
Silence soon descended upon the cave.
-They clearly promised to match the value and quantity of their tribute!
-Those bastards have obviously betrayed us!
-This isn't the first or second time, those mountain-valley bastards!!!
As Azrakan quietly perked up her ears and listened to the enraged conversation outside the cave, the corners of her mouth slowly curled upward.
“Heehee.”
Then, an oddly sinister laugh that did not fit her persona began to escape her lips.
“Heeheehee....”
The figure that had filled the cave just moments ago had already transformed into a human woman covered in black scales. Clutching her stomach, she rolled around on the ground.
“Ah, this is so fun I could die....”
She wiped away the tears that had formed at the corners of her eyes, sat down, and began muttering to herself.
'Nobody knows.'
She gazed at her still impossibly beautiful reflection in the treasure pile and smiled wickedly.
'That such a noble and beautiful being as me is actually this much of an awful troll....'
Who knew what there was to be proud of, but that was her very reason for living.
The strongest ancient dragon, who should never be crossed, and the incarnation of absolute evil with wickedness too great to measure.
For thousands of years, she had never once been caught as the pitiful creature she truly was. In a way, perhaps that was something worth taking pride in.
“Now then, how is the Gossip Gallery doing?”
Recently, the Gossip Gallery, which had created such a commotion across the world, had become her target.
'If the requests aren't accepted, I'll troll them over that. If they are accepted, I'll make every race fight each other forever.... Hehe.'
Thinking such evil thoughts, Azrakan connected to the gallery with a cruel smile, eager to harvest the seeds she had sown.
“...”
But the smile on her lips began slowly fading only a few seconds later.
[✪Receipts: A Dragon's Polymorph Sockpuppets Exposed]
“...Huh?”
The Gossip Gallery, whose users should have been fighting each other by now, was instead united and ablaze because of a single Hall of Shame post.
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[✪Receipts: A Dragon's Polymorph Sockpuppets Exposed]
Author: Gossip Gallery Eraser
After reviewing the recently submitted moderator applications for various Other Races Gossip Galleries, we discovered irregularities.
According to analysis by Mage Gallery Eraser and myself, every verification was carried out by a single dragon using Polymorph.
Accordingly, we will disclose all verification photographs attached to the secret posts and reject the applications for those galleries in a single batch.
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Anonymous1: No fucking way LOL, those were all sockpuppets?????
Anonymous2: But is that actually true? How can you tell someone used Polymorph?
ㄴMage Gallery Eraser: And Duel Magic Circles and Dwigellium make sense to you?
ㄴAnonymous2: Ah, okay. I completely understand now.
Anonymous3: What kind of dragon uses Polymorph just to make sockpuppets? What a fucking pathetic bitch LOL
Anonymous4: Look at those verification photos LOL. A dragon threw away their pride for that? What the hell are they doing? LOL
“Eek!”
After quickly reading the entire post, Azrakan unknowingly disconnected from the gallery, screamed, and shot to her feet.
“Haa, haa....”
Her breathing gradually grew more ragged.
'How did they find out?!'
She had trolled the world for an eternity, but this was undeniably the first time she had been exposed.
In other words, this was the first time someone had publicly dragged her.
Naturally, it was an unfamiliar experience for Azrakan, and she began trembling as though her head were spinning.
'No, it isn't a problem yet.'
The revelation alone had badly shaken her mind, but Azrakan still forced a smile and tried to reassure herself.
'They still haven't discovered my identity....'
Of course, her shameful actions and the photographs she had taken while Polymorphed into inferior races would remain a dark chapter in her history for the rest of her life.
Still, what mattered was that her identity had not been fully revealed.
'No matter what, how could humans identify me just from photographs of my Polymorph forms....'
Having forced herself to calm down, Azrakan reconnected to the gallery while desperately hoping the discussion had died down by now.
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[Notice: Individual Gossip Galleries Will Be Created!]
Author: Gossip Gallery Eraser
Unlike existing Gossip Galleries, Individual Gossip Galleries mainly focus on gossip about a specific person.
We plan to introduce them as an official system from now on, so please make good use of them!
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But what awaited her was a shocking notice, enough to make her lose the last thread of sanity she had barely managed to hold onto.
“...”
Azrakan stared blankly at the gallery for a long time before weakly dropping to her knees amid the pile of treasure.
[Black Dragon Azrakan Gossip Gallery]
[Gossip Gallery Eraser: Azrakan <<< Acts all proud on the outside, but she's a crazy bitch who uses Polymorph to make sockpuppets LOL]
A post publicly dragging her, already with an overwhelming number of upvotes and about to enter the featured posts, floated before her eyes.
“Ah....”
That day, Azrakan's world collapsed.
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