Chapter 16
What's with the gallery's atmosphere!?
The mindless praise-hounds and my haters are tearing into each other, insulting one another!
This is totally a popcorn moment..!
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Title: We Need to Condemn Koreans' Excessive Praise.
Posted by: EnglandDoctor
I can see people praising the Basement and trying to control public opinion about the Administrator.
Isn't this an attack on the Babel Tower community, which should be the freest place of all?
Koreans are just like the Hunters from China and other Red Team countries used to be.
They're excessively defending certain ideologies, people, and organizations.
I hope the gallery moderators will recognize this for what it is and deal with it by banning mentions and blocking users.
[Comments]
└Pajoligae: Why are you reading so much into people praising someone in their personal posts?
└GeojeKimCheolsu: Island-country bastards are always so damn extreme.
└RiceSoupGukcheon: They went nuts when they got an S-rank Hunter a few years ago, too. What the hell.
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Well, well.
Everyone was just doing a little WWE, and then you come along and post something this serious. Talk about killing the mood.
You have no sense of timing, do you?
There's always someone who has to ruin the mood.
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Title: New Rules for Basement-Related Posts on the Gallery
Posted by: LifelongSlave3
Lately, the number of people excessively praising the Basement Administrator has been increasing.
In response, the moderators of the Babel Tower community, myself included, have decided to...
(A tedious and pretentious explanation of the rules.)
...Therefore, from now on, any excessive criticism or praise of the Basement Administrator will be deleted.
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Wait a second. What's this?
Is this how the Babel Gallery moderators are responding?
They're going to delete and block every post related to me now?
So they're banning all mention of me on the gallery.
Posts made by regular users and
official announcements made by the gallery moderators carry completely different weight.
If it were just users fighting among themselves, I would've let it go without interfering, whether they insulted me or not.
But if the gallery moderators step in to suppress Koreans' right to speak and ban mention of me, then I can't just sit back.
“They slobber all over their own country's Hunters, so why are they being so strict with us?”
Is this deep-rooted discrimination against Korea, still a backwater in the Tower, lingering on the gallery?
For some reason, there are a lot of people who go straight to a full-blown UFC meltdown over Korean posts instead of just doing WWE.
Good. I like it.
It's fine if you freak out.
But you can't just announce, as moderators, that you're going to shut Koreans up.
That's unfair, unjust, and unequal.
I can't stand this kind of thing.
If the moderators are getting involved,
then I can't just sit by anymore!
The gallery belongs to everyone.
How dare you favor or discriminate against a particular country as you please?
“Let's see how you like this.”
Me, Ji Cheonwoo,
can flip the table, no matter who I'm up against, if I'm discriminated against.
If I'm being ostracized by a group, then I have no choice but to terrorize the whole group.
You and I and all of us are being bullied. Someone has to stand up!
So I'll... become a troll.
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Title: Gallery Moderators, You'll Regret This.
Posted by: BasementAdministrator2083
Can you moderators handle me?
Delete that new notice right now, or I'll terrorize this place for the next 24 hours.
This isn't a suggestion.
It's a warning and a threat.
And don't even think about negotiating with me.
I refuse to accept any attempt to suppress freedom of expression.
You're the ones who made this a bigger issue.
I've got a hell of a lot of time on my hands, too.
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If you don't want to spend 24 hours deleting endless shitposts and gore pics, CHANGE THE DAMN RULES.
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Title: New Rules Revoked
Posted by: LifelongSlave1
We decided it was better to leave the Administrator praise posts up and block the gore pics.
From now on, anyone who leaves malicious comments on Korean users' posts will be blocked.
No arguments.
If you don't like it, you can be the gore-pic janitor yourselves.
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Yeah. That's more like it.
You can shout all you want about not being racist or looking down on other countries. It won't do any good.
Uncompromising, relentless spam attacks are the only way to instill true equality and fairness in Babel Gallery users logging in from all over the world.
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Title: This Is What Real Power Looks Like, LOL
Posted by: Pajoligae
See that? Behold the Administrator's greatness!
This is the strongest weapon South Korea has.
So don't go running your mouths in the Babel Tower Gallery, LOL.
Go against the tide and you'll be the only ones who lose out, LOL.
[Comments]
└YodaNobunaga: A national-power-level troll is terrifying...
└Third-RateReptile: Honestly, I'm both scared and jealous.
└GuangzhouHomeless: Why doesn't our great China have talent like this?
└NewYorkPeople: The terrifying part is that all they do with such great power is troll.
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That's right. Despair, everyone!
You will never! No matter what! Never be able to ban people from mentioning me!
I'll haunt Babel Gallery for a thousand years!
Ding!
[Find the chef's body.]
[Reward has been issued.]
“Huh? It's already over?”
The three days of leave I'd been given as a reward, and one geun of some mysterious meat.
Wait, the quest was already cleared?
The employees finished it all while I was away.
I meant to take a short break, but I really ended up resting for ages.
But lying on the break room sofa and browsing the gallery with my brain switched off is so much fun..
I'm sorry, everyone.
I was going to help again after taking a quick break, but... somehow...
“Administrator..! Where on earth did you go..”
“Oh, something came up for a bit...”
“Cheonwoo... You ran off without helping us...”
“No! I was going to come back! You all did such a good job that there was nothing left for me to do!”
“Well, if that's what the Administrator says, then I suppose that's how it was.”
It's true! I really mean it!
The gallery was getting so heated that I was a little late because I had to spray everyone with sedatives.
I was going to help again, too!
“Anyway, Administrator, we've finished everything you asked us to do. May we return to the office now?”
“Oh, yes. Thanks for all your hard work!”
“It was nothing.”
How beautiful it is to see someone finish their work without fuss and leave without a second thought.
Everyone came out to help and worked their tails off. I can't send them away empty-handed.
I'm not that inconsiderate or lacking in decency!
I want to give them something, at least.
“Um, Mr. Office Worker. Is there anything you'd like?”
“Something I'd like? Would it be possible to get some more instant coffee mix later?”
“Of course. I brought you some premium coffee, the expensive kind. Look forward to it.”
“Oh...! Thank you! Now I feel motivated to work! Please call on me again, Administrator! I'll always do my very best.”
Mr. Office Worker really will do anything if you give him coffee.
It's like he's a little high on it, the way he lives for coffee.
A being who works just to drink coffee.
Judging by how quickly the instant coffee mix runs out,
he's probably drinking it like water.
At that point, it's beyond caffeine addiction...
“Um, Administrator...”
“Oh, yes. Ms. Librarian. Thank you for helping with this, too. Is there anything you'd like to ask me for? I want to give you something.”
“W-well, in that case... could you get me some books?”
“Books? There are tons in the library.”
“Ah... I mean...”
There are tons of books in the library.
So what kind of books does she want me to get?
“I'd like to try reading a romance novel...”
“Romance novels?”
“Ah, yes. It's just that... I've never read a novel before.”
What a shock..!
The librarian has never read a novel?
Ah, I guess that makes sense.
—There aren't any novels in the Floor -3 library.
It's all nonfiction, grimoires, skill books, and that sort of thing.
So even though she's a librarian, she never got to read a novel.
Ms. Librarian was a nonfiction girl!
“All right. I'll buy you a few popular ones next time.”
“R-really? Thank you! I'll work even harder from now on! You're the best, Administrator!”
“Haha. I'm always grateful for your help, too.”
“Still, thank you!”
“Oh..! M-Ms. Librarian..!?”
The busty librarian bounced up and down with joy, then hugged me..!?!?
[The antipsychotic filter activates.]
‘What's this? Ms. Librarian smells amazing...’
I didn't know she smelled this nice.
But my face is, well, how do I put this... buried in a huge mass of fat? It's hard to breathe!
Just how big are they?
I'm completely flat, while Ms. Librarian looks ready to burst.
And on top of that, she has the sort of face that makes me think she'd get NTR'd easily, so I'm worried!
“Ms. Librarian!”
“Y-yes?”
“You can't just hug anyone else like this, okay?”
“O-of course! No other humans come down to the basement besides you, Administrator... You're the only one for me.”
“Phew. That's a relief to hear.”
Hmm. At least I can relax for now.
Ms. Librarian seems like the sort of person who'd get led around by some sleazy blond playboy if I left her alone, so I feel like I always have to keep an eye on her.
“Kkingki, is there anything you'd like?”
“Me..? Uh, not really. Oh, I want chocolate.”
“Really? There's some in the break room, so help yourself.”
“Okay!”
After living in the basement, I've realized that
the entities beneath the Tower all have their own powerful cravings, and they seem to get addicted to them easily.
That makes them easy to manage, in a way.
Since the things that raise their favorability are set, all I have to do is keep supplying them so they don't fall apart.
“I'm sorry I left you alone for so long, Chef. How are you feeling?”
“Hahaha! I feel great! That's the Administrator for you. I knew I could count on you. I never imagined you'd be so good at managing the basement entities.”
He was a massive figure, easily three meters tall.
In the pantry, Chef laughed as he rubbed his own body.
But he has three pairs of arms?
With six arms in total, does that mean he can cook six dishes at once?
I can't even imagine how quickly he can cook.
“I've been left alone for such a long time. Thanks to you, Administrator, I can stand on my feet again. So, I'd like to give you this.”
“This is...”
“It's a menu.”
Ding!
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[Lost Item Found!]
[No. 5 – Cafeteria Menu]
You need to eat well to work!
Dine and dash means death~
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It appeared! A Lost Item!
As I thought, Lost Items are given to you by the entities on each floor.
“But, Chef, what can I do with this?”
“With the menu, you can control the Tower's food supply.”
I can control the Tower's food supply?
Does that mean no one can eat without my permission now?
The Floor Masters' meal privileges.
They're in my hands now.