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◈ I Unleashed a Gossip Gallery in Another World ◈
Chapter 56: Sepi Wiki
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In the dead of night. Academy dormitory.
>Anonymous: Um, excuse me.
>Anonymous: I won't call you a demon anymore.
>Anonymous: Please reply again....
“....”
Inside, Celine quietly lowered her head, her face haggard as she moved her fingers.
Anonymous223: I agree.
Anonymous224: I agree.
Anonymous225: I agree.
Anonymous226: I agree.
Anonymous227: I disagree.
Anonymous228: I agree.
“....”
After checking the vote's progress for a while, her shoulders slowly began to shake.
Emperor: Interim results. 65:35.
Emperor: Isn't there really no need to see any more?
“Sniff....”
The next moment, tears like pearls began spilling from her eyes.
Emperor: Even now, post your consent to the Academy Minor Gallery's promotion to a regular gallery under your own name.
Emperor: That way, won't I have grounds to overlook your treasonous act?
How much time passed after that?
Student Council President Celine: If I agree.... Can you promise the students won't suffer any disadvantages?
ㄴEmperor: I promise. Hehe.
Celine stared blankly at the Emperor's comment for a long time.
>Student Council Secretary Pippi: Big Sister, no!
>Student Council Executive Sharon: We'll somehow persuade the professors, so don't give in!
>First-Year Class A Representative Phillip: President.... Please.
Celine turned away, forcing herself to ignore the guestbook entries the Student Council executives had begun leaving on her Gallery Log.
“I'm sorry....”
Her voice trembled as she tearfully entered the Academy Minor Gallery.
“I'm sorry.... Everyone.”
She was just about to write a notice as the final head mod of the Academy Minor Gallery, which had endured for five hundred years.
“...?”
That was when she spotted a slightly strange post.
[🔒■■■■■■: The Academy Student Council needs to see this.]
A user whose author field had been blacked out had just made a post in the Academy Minor Gallery.
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[🔒Title: The Academy Student Council needs to see this.]
Author: ■■■■■■
Required materials: A dictionary of suitable thickness, a small amount of Mana Stone, and the plugin distributed with this post.
(Photo attached.)
Copy the plugin's Magic Circle, use the dictionary as a medium, and chant the incantation according to the manual.
Then you will obtain what you need right now.
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“Uh....”
Celine's hand began shaking wildly as she scrolled down.
“A dictionary! Where's a dictionary!?”
Steadying her racing heart, she hurriedly pulled a dictionary from a drawer.
“Bloom, Tree of Knowledge.”
After swallowing dryly for a moment, she drew the Magic Circle from the post onto the dictionary and chanted the incantation.
-Pop...!
The dark room was suddenly dyed green.
“Eek!?”
Startled, she hurriedly hid beneath her desk, then cautiously peeked her head out.
“Hellooo?”
A cute hologram girl was perched beside the green tree that had sprouted from the dictionary.
“Um, excuse me....”
Celine watched warily for a while before sitting back down and asking in a faint voice.
“Who are you?”
Mini Sepi lifted her head with a bright smile and introduced herself.
“My name is Sepi.”
“I am the Tree of Knowledge that all of you will cultivate!”
* * *
About an hour later.
At the emergency summons of Student Council President Celine, the Student Council and Board of Directors were all gathered in the Academy Head's office.
“Celine.... Is that really true?”
“You really found a solution?”
There was only one reason the Academy Board, which had been forced to ignore the students' messages until now, attended the meeting.
“Wouldn't it be faster if you saw for yourselves?”
Student Council President Celine had delivered the shocking news that she had found a solution to the crisis.
“W-Wow!”
“Amazing....”
“Am I dreaming!?”
The next moment, everyone gathered there stared wide-eyed as a hologram tree sprouted from the dictionary on the table.
“Is this... a spirit?”
“No, rather than a spirit.... Is it a golem?”
“I-I've never seen a spirit or golem like this before.”
The board members and professors, who had not held much hope, could not hide their surprise at the adorable Sepi who appeared beside the hologram tree.
“Now, Sepi.”
“Yes?”
“Could you explain to everyone what you can do?”
Celine looked fondly down at Sepi and spoke in a gentle voice.
“Referencing memory circuits. Beginning manual briefing.”
Sepi, who had been cheerfully waving at everyone, adopted a serious expression and began introducing herself.
“I am the administrator of Sepi Wiki, an open-source collaborative encyclopedia.”
“Sepi... Wiki?”
“Anyone who summons me may freely access and edit information without any restrictions!”
At that moment, Academy Head Oswald seemed to realize something and urgently asked Sepi a question.
“W-What is the data capacity limit for knowledge that can be uploaded?”
“It is unlimited!”
“Is that... really true?”
Sepi nodded, straightened her shoulders, and proudly pounded her chest.
“Sepi Wiki operates through a mutually beneficial relationship between the Great Fo... an anonymous group and the Gallery system.”
“....”
“Unless the tree somewhere completely withers or the Goddess's boon disappears, there is no limit to the materials we can store!”
When her explanation ended, Lugnox, head of the International Mage Association, asked another question.
“But if it is a Gallery system plugin.... Doesn't that mean it is under the Emperor's control?”
“You need not worry about that!”
The murmuring room fell silent at once.
“As long as my master holds the control rights, no one can suppress Sepi Wiki!”
One of the professors exchanged glances with the others for a moment, then cautiously asked Sepi a question.
“When you say master....”
“That information is secret.”
“Ah, I understand.”
Sepi puffed out her cheeks with a firm expression, and the professor cleared their throat before falling silent.
“What do you think, professors?”
“....”
“Will you change your minds now?”
The office fell quiet once more, and Celine looked at the Board with obvious tension.
“Certainly.... With this much.”
“Even the Imperial Family won't be able to censor information.”
Votes on promotion to a regular gallery were conducted through comments.
That meant anyone could change their vote any number of times before the vote ended.
“Haah.... This is all well and good, but we don't have time.”
Lugnox pondered in silence, then sighed and spoke.
“At this rate, the vote will end today.”
“....”
“Even if we persuade people and stop the vote from now on.... The Emperor won't simply stand by.”
Avoiding the eyes of Celine and the Student Council executives, Lugnox lowered their head.
“In the end.... Nothing will change.”
Beside Lugnox, Academy Head Oswald pressed a hand to their forehead and muttered regretfully.
“If we'd found this function just a little earlier.... I would've stayed up all night to back up every document....”
Sepi tilted her head blankly, then stepped into the gloomy atmosphere.
“You don't need to worry about that.”
“Hm?”
“Hologram deployment.”
Blue light began to shine from hologram Sepi's eyes.
-Wheee....
When the light reached the walls of the office, a vast, neatly organized database appeared before everyone.
“This Sepi Wiki has forked all data accumulated from the Gallery's first creation through yesterday!”
“...!”
“Furthermore, everyone will be free to edit and view those documents!”
Silence followed.
“If that is true....”
“We don't need to watch our backs anymore.”
“Hah, is that so....”
The eyes of the Academy Board and professors quietly began to burn.
“Question. May I state a request?”
“Y-Yes, of course.”
Oswald hurriedly nodded at Sepi, who had raised her hand high.
“Sepi Wiki is operated through collective intelligence. Therefore, it is vulnerable to outside interference, malicious editing, and biased information.”
“That is... true.”
“And it is deemed unreasonable for a single chief administrator of the current Sepi Wiki to bear that burden.”
Sepi continued her serious explanation, then crawled forward.
“Therefore, this unit has one proposal for the Academy Board.”
Having approached right in front of Oswald, Sepi made her proposal.
“Will everyone at the Academy become senior chroniclers for Sepi Wiki?”
Oswald's face went blank at those words.
“If the Academy, the most neutral institution on the continent, becomes the first to volunteer as chroniclers and cultivates Sepi Wiki, enormous synergy is expected.”
Not only Oswald, but the other professors and Student Council executives were left with their mouths open.
“Furthermore, if this request is accepted, the Sepi Wiki system will grant mediator and civilian administrator qualifications to the Academy Student Council and Board of Directors.”
“....”
“The mediators drawn from the Student Council will be granted authority to mediate conflicts and disputes arising from document editing through discussion, while the administrators drawn from the Board....”
Sepi's explanation continued for quite some time.
“...This concludes the explanation.”
How much time passed?
“And I will output the question once again.”
Having finished her explanation, Sepi looked around at everyone seated in the room.
“Members of the Academy Council.”
“....”
“Are you willing to continue managing the tree that everyone cultivates?”
The next moment.
“As Academy Head, I declare this.”
Oswald quietly rose from the chair and began to speak in a solemn voice.
“From this moment on, the Academy promises to devote all its budget and personnel to supporting the Sepi Wiki Project.”
No one voiced any objection to those words.
At that moment, everyone present was thinking the same thing.
“Transaction complete.”
That was when Sepi, who had looked nothing but cheerful until then, suddenly gave a sly smile.
“You are the ones who said you would join.”
A few professors noticed something about the sly smile that resembled her master's and began whispering.
“As expected.... The chief administrator is....”
“That person.... must be the one.”
“Hah.... Just who could they be?”
But Academy Head Oswald quietly raised a hand to stop them.
“It does not matter who they are.”
Already wearing a coat, Oswald looked around at everyone in the room.
“Seek knowledge and philosophy, and bring broad benefit to the world.”
It was the unchanging truth that had never been violated since the Academy was first established.
“The Academy's grand principle, upheld since the days of the Hero, will not change no matter what.”
Having settled the situation, Oswald briskly headed out of the office and spoke again.
“Now then, everyone, get moving.”
The Board members and professors all began rising from their seats.
“From now on, the Academy will be busier than ever.”
They were already bowing their heads and busily moving their fingers.
“...And it will shine brighter than ever.”
From that moment on, every single member of the Academy faculty and Board stood on the students' side.
That was the clearest proof that the Academy deserved salvation.
“Big Sister Celine!”
“This is incredible!”
“You really did it again, Celine....”
Once the faculty and Board members had all left the room to swiftly handle the situation, the Student Council executives tearfully rushed to embrace Celine.
“Haha....”
Celine looked awkward for a moment.
“....”
Then she quietly lowered her head.
>(Student Council President Celine): Thank you for saving us.
And she began muttering inwardly.
‘...I was wrong.’
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: I don't know what you're suddenly talking about.
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: If you're a student, wash your feet and go to bed.
The guestbook entries Gossip Gallery Eraser had sent a little earlier were in her sight.
‘You weren't some demon.... You were another Hero.’
But because of the situation, Celine had not been able to check the messages that followed.
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: Remember what you said earlier.
>Gossip Gallery Eraser: You said it yourself, okay?
* * *
[✪(Repost) Update on the Academy Minor Gallery's promotion to a regular gallery vote, holy shit]
That morning, a miracle began to unfold in the Academy Minor Gallery, where it had seemed impossible to turn around the hopeless situation.
Academy Magic Professor Elizabeth: I disagree. (Edited)
Academy Swordsmanship Professor Igor: I disagree. (Edited)
Academy Spirit Studies Professor Isabelle: I disagree. (Edited)
The first miracle was that every professor who had voted in agreement began voicing opposition.
Anonymous223: I disagree. (Edited)
Anonymous224: I disagree. (Edited)
Anonymous225: I agree.
Anonymous226: I disagree. (Edited)
Anonymous227: I disagree.
The next miracle was that the overwhelming ratio of support gradually began to be overwritten by opposition.
“W-Why is everyone suddenly voting against it....?”
“T-This is strange.”
“T-That can't be possible....”
The children of high nobles, who had naturally received secret orders from their families or the Imperial Family, could not hide their confusion.
“L-Lady Violetta!”
“Why are you calling....”
“P-Please look at this!”
Among them, the Academy's representative of noble students, Lady Violetta, wore the most troubled expression.
“Huh?”
She only understood why after checking a post that had been openly uploaded to the Academy Minor Gallery.
[✪First-Year Representative Elise: Current state of the first-year dormitory.jpg]
Lady Yulia, Daughter of the Viscount: That's my little girl, hehe.
Lady Isabel, Daughter of the Baron: It's such a shame I can't touch her because she's a hologram.
ㄴSion, Knight Trainee: For real, lol.
Ligrin the Elf: Sepi is the best!
Rierie, Beastkin Spirit Master: Sepi Wiki, the Tree of Knowledge that all of you cultivate. (Cute)
Lady Penelope, Daughter of the Marquess: Why do only first-years get to enjoy this???
ㄴLady Evergreen: Big Sister, hurry and come down too, hehe.
The younger noble ladies, either too young or too ignorant of the world, were being won over one by one by an unknown existence.
“Ever since that strange spirit appeared, the atmosphere has been weird....”
“My family keeps pestering me to change public opinion....”
“L-Lady Violetta. What should we do?”
Naturally, Lady Violetta, representative of the noble students, could not simply watch this trend continue.
“...We'll go teach them a lesson ourselves.”
She led her faction straight to the first-year dormitory.
“Hmph, how cute can a lower spirit be anyway....”
Lady Violetta flung open the door, her drill curls flying.
“You people, how can you be doing this at a time like...!”
But the next moment, Lady Violetta stopped speaking without realizing it and stared blankly.
“Oh my....”
“Wow....”
“A-Ahem!”
A short while later, some votes supporting promotion to a regular gallery were very quietly changed into votes against it.
Anonymous249: I disagree. (Edited)
Anonymous250: I disagree. (Edited)
Anonymous251: I disagree. (Edited)
Once even the Violetta faction that led the noble ladies had been won over, the vote quickly came to an end.
(Author: Student Council President Celine)
[Anonymous: Repost of the Academy Minor Gallery promotion to a regular gallery vote results, hehe]
The results immediately spread not only through the Academy Minor Gallery, but throughout the Gossip Gallery as a whole, where there was great interest in the incident.
Anonymous1: What the hell is happening at the Academy? Lol.
Anonymous2: The world has been so strange lately....
Anonymous3: Wow, it really looked like they were going to upgrade it during the early vote, but the final result is overwhelmingly against it lol.
Naturally, most Gossip Gallery users were curious about why the flow of the vote had suddenly changed.
Anonymous5: What the hell is that insanely cute spirit that keeps appearing in the Academy Minor Gallery?
ㄴ(Author): You don't know...?
ㄴ(Author): Well, you see....
ㄴAnonymous6: Finish what you're saying, you fucking bitch lol.
ㄴAnonymous7: Tell us too!!!!!!
ㄴ(Mage Tower's Top Disciple Eirin): Damn, I should've been at the Academy....
Celine carefully watched that trend from the Student Council President's office.
“How is the World Tree Log analysis going?”
“It's almost finished.”
“It's going incredibly fast with Sepi helping us.”
Celine quietly smiled at the other news.
“We've already found quite a bit of hard evidence.”
“I think we can start soon....”
The other executives felt the same way.
“All Student Council executives and Sepi Wiki Project participants, attention.”
When Celine finally spoke amid the hopeful atmosphere, everyone's attention focused on her.
“From this moment.... Chronicler duties begin.”
Beside Celine, mini hologram Sepi clasped both hands and bounced excitedly in place.
“Do your best, chroniclers!”
* * *
“They have lost their minds.”
That afternoon. The Imperial Palace in the center of the Magnesia Empire.
“Do they really think.... I cannot erase it?”
Emperor Rudric quietly ground his teeth, a chilling expression on his face as he roughly cracked his knuckles.
“You have brought this upon yourselves....”
Before pushing the continent's progress back five hundred years, the Emperor entered the Academy Minor Gallery to issue his final ultimatum.
“...?”
His expression suddenly turned puzzled.
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[Notice: Sepi Wiki Project Now Public]
Author: Student Council President Celine
(Photo attached.)
Required materials: A dictionary of suitable thickness, a small amount of Mana Stone, and the plugin distributed with this post.
(Photo attached.)
Copy the plugin's Magic Circle, use the dictionary as a medium, and chant the incantation according to the manual...(Rest omitted)
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“Huh?”
A notice uploaded just a few hours earlier was sitting openly in the Academy Minor Gallery.
[Views: 110235]
[Recommendations: 21123/Downvotes: -1]
For some reason, both the view count and recommendation count were alarming.
‘What are they plotting?’
The Emperor narrowed his eyes, downvoted it for the moment, and spoke in a low voice.
“Bring me a dictionary.”
“Y-Yes!”
Following the steps written in the notice, he opened a dictionary and chanted the incantation.
-Rustle....
A somehow extremely scraggly tree sprouted before his eyes.
“This childish nonsense....”
The Emperor shook his head at the sight, then turned his eyes back to the Gallery window.
“...!?”
That was when an entirely new UI, rather than the usual Gallery UI, appeared before him.
[Sepi Wiki Real-Time Search Rankings]
1. Minerva ▲
2. Minerva/Controversies and Incidents ▲
3. Southern Continent Dungeon Demonic Realm crisis ▲
4. World Tree Erosion ▲
5. Great Forest/Incidents ▲
6. Sepi Wiki ▲
7. Great Forest Rebellion Incident ▲
“Uh....”
The Emperor stared blankly at the titles of the countless documents before him, his mouth falling open.
[Real-Time Search Rankings Updated]
Sepi Wiki's real-time search rankings refreshed, exposing new popular documents.
[Sepi Wiki Real-Time Search Rankings]
1. Four Continental Rulers’ Joint Action Theory (New!)
2. Demon God Summoning (New!)
3. Minerva/Controversies and Incidents ▲
4. Rudric Rag Magnesia/Controversies (New!)
5. Bald Head (New!)
6. Great Forest Rebellion Incident ▲
7. Bald Head Head Mod (Redirect) (New!)
8. Academy Internal Affairs Interference Incident (New!)
“This is absurd....”
A vast current yearning for a new era was surging toward him all at once.
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