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◈ I Unleashed a Gossip Gallery in Another World ◈
Chapter 54: Civil War in the Great Forest
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“Phew....”
Around the time the Dungeon Demonic Realm crisis that had covered the Southern Continent began to settle down thanks to the Eraser Expedition.
“It was like a dream, nya....”
Nienie, who had escaped the dungeon using an Escape Scroll, was treated like a hero and escorted to the Adventurer’s Guild under the rescue team’s highest-priority protection.
“Big Sister Nienie! I missed you so much....”
“I thought I’d never see you again, Nienie.”
“Honestly, you’re too kind for your own good....”
After a few simple inquiries, she finally returned to her lodgings, where countless adventurers she was usually close to had gathered.
“Everyone can stop worrying now, nya!”
“But you still need more treatment....”
“I was already treated inside, nya! I’ve only got a few scratches on my arms and legs now, nya!”
They had naturally been worried about Nienie, who usually hid even minor injuries. But when they realized she was telling the truth, they stared in surprise.
“It really is true?”
“Don’t you trust me, nya? Is this beastkin discrimination, nya!”
“I’m half-beastkin too, Nienie.”
“Ah, I forgot, nya.”
Looking embarrassed at the words of her closest friend, a half-beastkin adventurer, Nienie soon pulled the blanket over herself and raised her voice.
“A-Anyway! I’m going to sleep now, nya!”
“R-Right! You need plenty of rest.”
“If the next Adventurer’s Guild Master wants to rest, we should leave quickly!”
Having realized that Nienie was perfectly fine, her fellow adventurers began filing out of the room with bright smiles, letting her rest.
“D-Don’t hype me up too much, nya.”
Nienie blushed as she muttered at the well-wishes they left behind.
“We mean it, Nienie.”
“Nya?”
“And it was your dream too, wasn’t it?”
Her closest friend, a half-wolf beastkin adventurer, stopped walking and turned around with a serious expression.
“To become the greatest adventurer and change people’s image of beastkin.”
Silence followed for a moment.
“With the way you are now.... You might really be able to do it.”
After she broke the silence and left the room, Nienie, who had been sitting quietly on the bed, lowered her head.
‘But I’m not the one who deserves the praise, nya.’
Nienie had already learned through the Gossip Gallery why everyone was praising her so much.
‘Gossip Gallery Eraser. None of this would have happened without him, nya....’
It was because of a review of the Eraser Expedition that Gossip Gallery Eraser had written in the Adventurer Gossip Gallery.
[Gossip Gallery Eraser: Eraser Expedition Results Announcement]
The post, which contained everything that had happened after Minerva’s live updates while posing as the Dungeon Master, had greatly exaggerated Nienie’s accomplishments.
Anonymous1: So it really was true that Nienie was the one who made the decisive contribution LMAOOOOOOOOOO
Anonymous2: She dueled the Dungeon Master one-on-one and took them down!?
Anonymous3: Allen’s apparently stepping down as Guild Master to take responsibility for this. Looks like we’ve got our next Adventurer’s Guild Master? LOL
Anonymous4: There might be adventurers stronger than her, but she’s the only one who truly embodies the spirit of an adventurer LOL
Anonymous5: Upvote if you’re already looking forward to the next Adventurer’s Guild Master election LMAOOOOOOOOOO
‘I.... Actually didn’t do much.’
Since Nienie knew better than anyone that she did not deserve this praise, she could only be at a loss.
‘Gossip Gallery Eraser.... I never thought he would go this far to stand by the weak until the very end, nya.’
At least, the Gossip Gallery Eraser Nienie had seen so far had always been a hero who stood on the side of the weak.
His intentions were clear.
He had deliberately elevated her for the rights of the despised beastkin.
[Anonymous: I’m a rat beastkin, and my party members suddenly started treating me nicely LOL. Is this a hidden-camera prank???]
[Anonymous: I got three months of overdue wages at work, plus a bonus, woof! Today is the best day ever, woof!]
[Anonymous: I’m a rabbit beastkin at the Academy, and nobody makes fun of me for ending sentences like a beastkin anymore, meow. Hehe.]
[Anonymous: Nienie <<< Upvote if she’s the hero of beastkin ㅠㅠㅠ]
Drip, drip....
As testimonies from various beastkin began appearing in the Other Races Gossip Gallery, tears started streaming down Nienie’s face.
“Gossip Gallery Eraser, thank you, nya....”
Tap, tap....
But she soon forced a smile and began moving her fingers.
“I can’t break anonymity, but it’s only right that I at least leave the thanks I couldn’t give, nya....”
Then, in the next moment, Nienie’s expression went blank.
[You are a blocked user.]
[Block duration: 72,000 hours]
“...Nya?”
The moment she tried to make a post, an utterly bewildering message had appeared before her.
‘W-What is this, nya?’
After her eyes rolled around in panic, Nienie hurriedly went to the Ban Appeal Gallery and left a post.
[Gossip Gallery Ban Appeal Gallery]
(Beastkin Warrior Nienie): I think there’s been an error, nya hehe
(Beastkin Warrior Nienie): I didn’t do anything wrong, but I got blocked from every Gallery for 72,000 hours, nya!
Not long afterward, a reply arrived from Troll Eraser, the head mod of the Ban Appeal Gallery.
ㄴTroll Eraser: Check the reason hehe
“N-Nyaat....”
Only then did Nienie hurriedly check the reason, and cold sweat began pouring down her forehead like rain.
[Reason: Accept being head mod and unban yourself hehe]
Tremble....
Right afterward, her beastkin instincts returned, making her entire body shake as though she had the chills.
(Beastkin Warrior Nienie): This isn’t right, nya!
(Beastkin Warrior Nienie): Don’t do this to me, nya!!!
ㄴTroll Eraser: Every Eraser who was there heard you say you would join the Gossip Gallery, you know^^
“Nya....”
But it was already too late.
Troll Eraser: Then I shall now teach you the Eraser verification manual hehe
ㄴNoble Lady Gallery Eraser: But why is Gossip Gallery Eraser blocked?
ㄴTroll Eraser: Shh^^
ㄴTroll Eraser: I am the head mod of the Appeal Gallery, after all^^
“......”
Unfortunately, because of Azrakan’s little rebellion, Gossip Gallery Eraser missed the chance to tell Nienie that she did not need to provide dogeza verification.
[Noble Lady Gallery Eraser: The Gossip Gallery-Style Dogeza Manual New Erasers Must Follow Hehe]
“Kyaaaaaaaaaat!!!”
By the time Elrod belatedly lifted the block, Nienie was already having a fit after reading the new mod manual Noble Lady Gallery Eraser had posted.
“This is why humans can’t be trusted, nya!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Gossip Gallery Eraser!!! I curse you, nya!!!!!”
About five minutes later, the ownerless Adventurer Gossip Gallery acquired a new owner along with one private post.
* * *
(Author: Beastkin Warrior Nienie)
[🔒Anonymous: (No Title)]
“What the fuck are these bastards doing?”
After belatedly lifting the block and trying to contact Nienie, I could only stare blankly at the seventh dogeza verification post that had already been uploaded.
Gossip Gallery Eraser: Fuck, I’m saying she doesn’t need to do dogeza?
ㄴNoble Lady Gallery Eraser: Who are you to decide that???
ㄴMage Gallery Eraser: Do you know her? Hehe
ㄴTroll Eraser: Why aren’t you protecting anonymity?
ㄴChurch Gallery Eraser: But what exactly does dogeza mean?
This time, though, the Erasers attacked me using anonymity as their grand principle.
Adventurer Gallery Eraser: Humans tricked me again, nya!!!!!!!!!!!!
ㄴChurch Gallery Eraser: Which bastards did this!!!
ㄴOther Races Gallery Eraser: Hello, Big Sister hehe
ㄴSwordsman Gallery Eraser: At least you didn’t get demolished in a Gossip Gallery Duel, bitch. Be grateful.
It was truly absurd, but regardless, the ownerless Adventurer Gossip Gallery had finally received an owner wearing an orange crown.
[Adventurer Gossip Gallery]
[✪An Adventurer Gossip Gallery mod has been born, congrats]
[✪Adventurer Gallery Eraser <<< Who do you think this is?]
[✪Judging by when they applied, probably one of the top-ranked adventurers jealous of Nienie? LOL]
[✪Gossip Gallery Eraser <<< Does this guy have no heart???]
[✪He used Nienie for all she was worth, then gave a mod badge to someone who hates Nienie. What a psychopath ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
And amid all that, Nienie made her first post with an Eraser fixed handle.
[Adventurer Gallery Eraser: I hate humans, nya!!!!!!!!!!!!]
I immediately deleted that post, then quietly called her with the call bell and talked her down.
Gossip Gallery Eraser: Don’t use beastkin speech.
ㄴAdventurer Gallery Eraser: Beastkin discrimination, nyaat!!!
ㄴGossip Gallery Eraser: You still have to preserve anonymity hehe
ㄴAdventurer Gallery Eraser: Understood, nya....
She still seemed resentful, but because she had been helped, Nienie eventually accepted her fate.
[Anonymous: Nienie <<< Everything’s great except her chest is too small hehe]
ㄴAdventurer Gallery Eraser: Are you stupid?
ㄴAdventurer Gallery Eraser: Don’t you know female thief adventurers always wear compression wraps for agility?
She apparently could not abandon her distinctive beastkin speech entirely. She just barely began posting by phrasing her questions with ordinary interrogative endings that happened to share the sound of her beastkin “nya.”
“Ugh....”
As I watched her, thinking she wasn’t entirely normal either, I let out a sigh.
“Masteeer?”
Suddenly, a clear voice came from in front of me.
“Why have you been sighing since earlier?”
“It’s nothing, Sepi.”
“Is that so?”
Sepi was currently inside a portable miniature corridor.
I couldn’t leave her in a drawer forever, so I planned to let her see the outside often in a miniature corridor disguised as an ornament.
Of course, I planned to introduce her to my family soon as a little Spirit who had contracted with me.
“Request. Sepi wishes to see Master’s appearance in the present era.”
“Hm?”
“Please remove the silhouette?”
As I looked down at Mini Sepi while thinking that, she made an adorable but terrifying request, so I stretched her cheeks out.
“Bweeeeeeh?”
With her cheeks stretched out like rice cake, Mini Sepi tilted her head with a confused expression.
“When the time comes.”
“......”
“Why are you making that face, Sepi?”
Sepi suddenly puffed out her cheeks and muttered in a low voice.
“Sepi is upset.”
“Ow.”
“Finger elimination mode activated.”
She then bit the tip of my finger with her teeth.
“This little brat.”
“Eek.”
“What kind of habit is that?”
Of course, Sepi’s rebellion was soon suppressed by my thumb and index finger.
Squish, squish....
But even after that, Sepi kept puffing out her cheeks. Even though I diligently tickled her cheeks and head, she still crossed her arms and turned her head away.
“Want to play airplane, Sepi?”
“......!”
“Come on, hop on.”
I had no choice but to bring out my ultimate move.
“Here we go, you’re flying~”
“Hyat!”
“See? It’s fun, right?”
Sepi stood on my finger with her arms spread wide and eyes sparkling. Then she belatedly composed her expression and swiftly turned her head away again.
“...Not fun at all.”
Yet she kept glancing my way afterward, apparently disappointed that she couldn’t play airplane longer.
“Sepi, let’s eat.”
“You mean food?”
“It’s chlorophyll jelly, your favorite.”
For her, I brought out my second ultimate move.
Munch, munch....
Sepi carefully accepted the chlorophyll jelly I gave her, hugged it to her chest, and nibbled at it with her little mouth.
“Logic circuit assessment.”
She glanced at my face and muttered quietly.
“Sepi has decided to forgive you this once.”
“Really?”
“However, Sepi demands three rounds of airplane play.”
Seeing her absurdly adorable appearance, I found myself smiling like a father as I sank into thought.
‘From now on, I should treat Sepi well.’
Of course, unlike in the past, when I raised her a little strictly, there was a reason I was treating her this well.
‘That way, I can put her to work....’
But that was precisely when I was secretly muttering it to myself.
“Alert! Master is making ‘that expression’!”
“Hm?”
“Y-Your eyes narrowed! According to memory circuits, you are definitely plotting something evil!”
Sepi suddenly hurried into the miniature corridor and took on a wary expression.
“It’s just your imagination, Sepi.”
Seriously, what a sharp little thing.
Since she was practically my daughter from my previous life, she could immediately tell what I was thinking even from the slight narrowing around my eyes.
“Suspicion alert raised to Level 2.”
“Haha....”
“Ten rounds of airplane play are required to lower it.”
Still, I was relieved that I could clear the suspicion alert with ten rounds of airplane play.
I had no intention whatsoever of making cute little Sepi do anything unreasonable.
‘With a high-performance program like Sepi, it should be perfectly possible.’
But before I could begin my plan to make use of Sepi, there was still one thing that needed to be resolved.
‘I wonder how things are going over there.’
To find out, I quietly lowered my head and logged into the Gossip Gallery.
‘Sigria should be done preparing around now.’
Before long, I easily found the news I had been waiting for among the featured posts in the Other Races Gossip Gallery.
[✪(Breaking) Unrest in the Great Forest happening right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
The hot news, posted only ten minutes ago, already seemed to be spreading across the continent by word of mouth.
(Author: Princess Ruabel)
[✪I just got a report that the Great Forest has entered a wartime state. Is that true?]
(Author: Demon Commander Lilith)
[✪Fuck, I’m on the Southern Continent because of the fake Demon King. What the hell is this?????]
(Author: Holy Knights Captain Christina)
[✪It’s certain that unrest has broken out in the Great Forest. I’m watching it with my own eyes through certain means LOL]
Seeing users of high status all making such posts, it was clear.
‘It’s finally starting.’
It seemed Sigria, who had finally awakened, was beginning the work she had promised me she would do.
Anonymous1: Did adventurers launch a large-scale invasion or something? LMAOOOOOOOOO
Anonymous2: Pointy-ears <<< Are they finally getting taught a lesson? Kya LOL
Anonymous3: I was wondering how long those elf bastards would keep piling up karma LOL
Anonymous4: Wow, today’s full of satisfying news hehe
Anonymous5: (Drooling Orc emote)
Not just me, but Gossip Gallery users were also highly anticipating the news.
The elves, who had been called pointy-ears even in Sigria’s time, had seen their reputation hit rock bottom after the Dungeon Demonic Realm crisis.
Anonymous6: But is it even possible for outside forces to invade the Great Forest?
ㄴAnonymous7: Seriously LOL. Didn’t the Great Forest and the Academy hold out until the end during the Demon Army invasion?
ㄴAnonymous8: You can’t invade as long as the World Tree hasn’t completely withered, right? Isn’t this misinformation?
Yet quite a few users had their doubts.
The Academy and the Great Forest. These two groups were sacred places that had never allowed an invasion by outside forces, not even during the Demon Army’s invasion or at any point in the current era.
Of course, unlike the Academy, which still resisted even the Emperor’s pressure, the Great Forest had been a sacred place in a slightly worse sense, as it belonged to the continent’s ruling class.
(Author: Spirit Princess Sereniel)
[✪Great Forest unrest <<< It’s not an invasion, it’s a civil war hehe]
Most users were puzzled by the unrest in the Great Forest.
But their questions began to be answered by live updates posted in the Gossip Gallery by welcome faces appearing for the first time in a while, the so-called “unidentified lifeforms.”
(Author: Lower Spirit Igui-Igui)
[✪It’s a revolutiooon!]
(Author: Lower Fairy Shasha)
[✪We’re giving the high-ranking elves a good scolding!]
(Author: Lower Imp Piopio)
[✪We’re joining forces to make the Great Forest great again!]
(Author: Intermediate Spirit Levetea)
[✪It’s useless even if the high-ranking elves activate the makeshift Golden Shield! Spirits have VPNs!]
Their identities were, of course, Spirits roaming throughout the Great Forest, reporting events in real time.
Anonymous1: So basically, the young elves and Spirits joined forces to rise up?
Anonymous2: I’m really living to see a civil war break out in the Great Forest LMAOOOOOOOOO
Anonymous3: Gossip Gallery <<< Upvote if it’s the continent’s only true press LMAOOOOOOOOO
Thanks to the Spirits, who had changed careers from smugglers to war correspondents, Gossip Gallery users across the continent could receive real-time information about the Great Forest.
Anonymous4: But can they even stand a chance?
Anonymous5: High-ranking elves <<< Those crazy bitches are at least on par with archmages, fuck.
ㄴAnonymous6: As far as I know, I heard a few of them were already active even during the Hero’s era.
Anonymous7: Is this really okay?
Anonymous8: Even if we want to help, we can’t intervene because of the Great Forest’s barrier....
Yet even as users’ questions were answered, their worries gradually grew.
It couldn’t be helped.
The reason elves, despite their countless sins, had not become a hated race like Orcs or beastkin was their immense mana and knowledge accumulated over countless years.
And even if young elves and Spirits joined forces, there was no way they could defeat the high-ranking elves known as the strongest among them.
(Author: Spirit Princess Sereniel)
[✪The Great Forest revolutionaries have one actual combatant, so everyone can stop worrying hehe]
Amid all that, a post by an anonymous Spirit user added even more fuel to the atmosphere.
Anonymous1: Fuck, that means we should worry even more!!!
Anonymous2: Spirits, open the barrier!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous3: The adventurers are waiting, so hurry up and open the gate!!!
ㄴ(Spirit Princess Sereniel): It’s fine hehe
ㄴAnonymous4: You’re seriously screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ㄴAnonymous5: Those unidentified lifeforms are pissing us off again....
Before long, featured posts about the unrest began to fill the Other Races Gossip Gallery.
[✪One actual combatant <<< Upvote if you had to rub your eyes after reading that LMAOOOOOOOOO]
[✪Spirits <<< Why are they so cheerful???]
[✪Fixing the Great Forest <<< Upvote if you think it will never happen this century ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[✪The pointy-ears and Spirits are even dumbasses when it comes to revolutions LMAOOOOOOOOO]
‘They still haven’t figured out the situation.’
But I alone couldn’t hide my smile as I looked over those featured posts.
(Author: Demon Commander Lilith)
[✪I’m taking a quick look, and the lower-ranking elves are really just evacuating and gathering mana? LMAOOOOOOOOO]
But before I could give anyone a hint, one curious anonymous demon made such a post.
(Author): I’m so fucking curious that I’m heading right up to the barrier LOL
ㄴAnonymous1: Give us a photo update LOL
ㄴAnonymous2: Isn’t the rebellion already over?
ㄴAnonymous3: One actual combatant <<< Please get a picture of who they are. It seems like it’ll be fucking hilarious LMAOOOOOOOOO
After that comment, no posts came from the curious demon for quite a while.
‘If a civil war that decides the fate of the Great Forest has one combatant.... There’s only one possibility, no matter how I think about it.’
Clicking my tongue to myself, I continued watching the situation while diligently playing airplane with Sepi.
(Author): Fuck.
(Author): Why is that bitch there?
Around the time our airplane play ended, the demon finally posted again, and the post was thick with PTSD.
(Author): Fuck, I made eye contact with her;;;
ㄴAnonymous7: ???
ㄴAnonymous8: What are you talking about?
Even Demon Army commanders, who stood at the very top of Tier 1 on the Gossip Gallery tier list, couldn’t help reacting that way after seeing who it was.
(Author): Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck....
ㄴAnonymous12: What’s wrong with them all of a sudden?
ㄴAnonymous13: What are they doing by themselves? LOL
ㄴAnonymous14: Fuck, quit overreacting. Seriously.
‘Looks like the old memories are coming back.’
Do you know why Sigria, creator of the Gossip Gallery tier list, had conspicuously excluded only herself from the strongest tier list?
(Author): (An image has been attached.)
ㄴAnonymous21: ??????????????
ㄴAnonymous22: Uh, excuse me???
ㄴAnonymous23: Holy shit LMAOOOOOOOOO
ㄴAnonymous24: An identity nobody could have imagined ┏(ºдº)┛
ㄴAnonymous25: Wait, she was alive???????
It was the same reason she had excluded my Gallery identity, Gossip Gallery Eraser, from the tier list.
The moment you put yourself on the strongest tier list, it stops being fun.
* * *
Meanwhile, in the Great Forest at the center of the Southern Continent.
“K-Knight-type golems exhausted!”
“The armor-type magical beasts have also been exhausted!”
“A-All undead summoning modules have been disabled!”
Unlike the relaxed atmosphere of the Spirits casually running their live updates, the situation there was in fact extremely urgent.
“T-There’s nothing else we can deploy!”
“Stop talking bullshit and bring in the dungeon stock too!!!”
That was, for the Queen’s faction elves trying desperately to defend the Great Forest’s control room, rather than the revolutionaries.
“I’m saying.... That stock is exhausted too.”
“What?”
“There are.... no more monsters we can send.”
The Great Forest’s defense system, which had perfectly stopped even the demon race’s invasion of the Southern Continent led by Demon Commander Lilith in the past, was being brutally neutralized.
“W-What about Her Majesty?”
“She won’t wake up....”
“N-No healing spell is working!”
Even Queen Minerva of the Elves, who normally should have stepped forward first in a situation like this, had been in a deep sleep of unknown cause since yesterday.
Tremble....
High-ranking elf priests diligently cast healing spells on her as she foamed at the mouth and shook violently, but she showed no sign of waking.
“If we lose the control room, we’re all finished!!!”
Amid that desperate situation, the highest-ranking priest elf who had been serving in Minerva’s place as the queen raised her voice.
“I-If it’s come to this, I’ll personally...!”
Gritting her teeth, she picked up a bow and began walking toward the tightly closed control room door.
“Stop your meaningless resistance.”
At that very moment, the voice of Spirit Princess Sereniel began to echo throughout the Great Forest.
“You forest keepers who have lost your pride.”
Then, immediately afterward.
Kraaaash!!!
With a single strike, the door of the control room, which had allowed no intruder for five hundred years, shattered to pieces.
“Ah....”
“M-My goodness.”
“That can’t be....”
As the intruder’s identity was finally revealed, the high-ranking elves turned deathly pale and began collapsing where they stood.
“Please see clearly with those ugly eyes of yours.”
Spirit Princess Sereniel’s voice continued to echo, but no one dared to properly take in her words.
“The Great Forest’s true queen has returned.”
Everyone had realized that the long rebellion led by Minerva had finally come to an end.
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