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“Come out and clarify your Elf ties!”

“How does an elf oppose another elf? That doesn’t make any sense!”

“Right now, the Knight Commander needs to come out naked!”

“?”

In front of Elardrien Castle, elves were flocking together, protesting.

It turned out the Knight Commander, Eliana, was the deputy… and as if that wasn’t enough, she was stirring up conflict while pretending to be human.

[Title: Current Situation in Elardrien…jpg]

Posted by: Elves are Pretty and Cute and Can Do Everything

(Elf meme knocking on a door aggressively)

(Elf meme covering her face with both hands, crying loudly)

(Elf meme lying on the floor, flailing around)

No way, Eliana…

The Knight Commander directly under the Queen is a deputy…

Come out and explain yourself!

[Upvotes 7434] [Downvotes 102]

– LOL, it’s a mess.

– How is the Knight Commander a deputy? LOL

– I’m as mad as three bottles of Soju!!!

– 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

– But wasn’t she the one in controversy last time?

ㄴ Seems like a perfect time for some water manipulation, LOL

Of course, the elves were in a frenzy.

They banged on the door, demanding explanations.

And soon enough, the door slowly opened, and a calm blonde elf stepped outside.

The deputy, Pure Elf.

“Ah! She came out!”

“Get her!”

Pure Elf committed crimes that could never wash away.

Charges included kicking a Soju bottle, dumping untouched Soju into the sewage, and mixing mint chocolate into Soju, among others.

The elves screamed in fury to catch Pure Elf.

“Sh-should we catch her?”

Yeah, they were all talk.

Pure Elf was the weakest among the deputies…

But in the eyes of elves, she was the only elf favored by the World Tree and a capable Knight Commander.

As a member of the High Protein Love Society, she had strong muscles too.

“Y-you catch her.”

“No way! You catch her!”

They shouted to catch her, but who would dare intimidate Pure Elf?

Besides, she hadn’t really broken any laws.

More than anything, Pure Elf’s aura was different now.

Gone was the typically calm and gentle elf; instead, a blonde elf exuding the vibe of someone who’d given up completely stood there.

“C-clarify yourself!”

A green-haired elf in the crowd shouted.

“What do you mean?”

At that, Pure Elf’s head snapped around, her eyes glinting like a ghost’s.

“HEECK.”

“YIECK.”

Elf perfection of showy strength!

Elves really knew how to lay down the law.

“I was already forced into this deputy role, and got way too much work to deal with…”

As Pure Elf walked through, the crowd parted like waves.

She grabbed the ear of the trembling green-haired elf with her bare hands.

“HEECK! Ouch!”

The elf teared up and shook, but Pure Elf showed no mercy.

“Even when I calmly try to lecture you, you ignore me… and after the World Tree left, all you do is drink…”

How many reforms did she hope for?

How hard did she work?

But just because she caused one disturbance, the elves gathered to take her down.

Pure Elf then sent me a chat with a darkened aura.

Pure Elf: I realized.

Pure Elf: This is how elves are meant to be.

Do they really reason well?

Build a better society through majority rules?

Nope, that’s just not how it works.

Being an elf is all about this.

And Pure Elf had figured it out.

“This is all wrong!”

Another elf nearby shouted, recalling how ideal Pure Elf used to be.

This doesn’t make sense at all.

Elves shouldn’t act like this!

“Then just die!”

But Pure Elf had no intention of listening.

“HEECK!”

She even caught the ear of the shouting elf.

Watching the situation unfold, I was left in doubt.

“Can this really be allowed?”

I was worried Pure Elf might suffer consequences from the crowd, but things turned out completely the opposite.

But could sheer force like this really be a solution?

“I mean, elves shouldn’t behave like this…”

The end result of force is only destruction.

But when I thought it over, maybe being an elf makes it okay.

“How’s the gallery reacting to this?”

The real question was how the gallery was taking all of this.

Before being an elf, Pure Elf was a deputy.

If it were beings like Yonyong or I Will Not Die Even If I Am a Vampire, outside the social boundary, it wouldn’t matter.

But if someone well inside society like Pure Elf were a deputy, that could create issues.

One could say, it’s possible because the Head of the Gallery is backing this up!

“The stage is perfectly set for disturbances to run wild.”

So I checked the gallery.

– Who cares if an elf’s being an elf?

– Just post a Tuna Can or something, will ya?

– Internal affairs of Elardrien? Not my business!

ㄴ Don’t say such vulgar things!

ㄴ ?

“What?”

No one cared.

Well, it wasn’t that they didn’t care, they were just focused on other pressing matters.

A new concept article caught my eye.

[Concept Article: Curry Tastes Like Shit vs. Shit Tastes Like Curry]

(Peaceful scene from Kellierhton Street)

(Suddenly, the screen shakes like there’s an earthquake)

(A massive shit fountain explodes)

F*ck, what is happening with this curry?

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– Ah.

– No f*cking way.

– Wait a sec, what the hell?!

– What’s going on?!

– Is this real? Why is the ground shaking live?

“Huh?”

The shit fountain in Kellierhton’s sewer exploded.

As I struggled to comprehend the situation, the bunker shook violently.

– BOOM!

The loud noise was followed by a massive shockwave hitting the bunker.

*

The sewer in Kellierhton had erupted.

A Waste Monster, fed by the neglected waste, had grown stronger.

What shot up into the air along with the tremendous shock was a shit fountain.

Or rather, it was more like a bomb.

No, it was at the level of a grand explosion.

“Ah f*ck, my house.”

My house was gone.

[Title: Summary of Kellierhton in One Memes…jpg]

(Medieval public restroom meme)

[Upvotes 2039] [Downvotes 5943]

– F*ck, take that down!

– I just went shopping and my house has turned into a toilet!

– Was it just a bit of shit? Why all the fuss?

ㄴ You f*cking idiot!

ㄴ You’re gonna die, seriously, do you want to kill yourself?

ㄴ LOL, the reactions are so on point.

Seeing the landscapes of Kellierhton from the Magic Tower, I was sure of what had happened.

From the west side of the plaza to the nearby streets, everything had been washed away.

There were even people who vanished along with their houses due to the rampaging Waste Monsters.

“Ah f*ck, my house.”

And that person was me.

The bunker was fine.

But the shop that had been built on top of the bunker had completely disappeared.

The cleverly camouflaged building was gone, leaving only an empty lot.

– But what’s the Head of the Gallery doing about this?

– Head of the Gallery, you’re responsible for my house!!!

– You were the one who built it! You were the one who built it!

And as always happens when a disaster strikes, disturbances rise to the surface.

Some truly lost their homes, while others posing as disturbances started demanding from me.

I scanned through the comments in disbelief and stumbled upon the post with the most attention.

[Title: But isn’t this the Head of the Gallery’s fault?]

(A Waste Monster bigger than a two-story house meme)

(Knights and soldiers struggling to fight it)

This was made under the Head of the Gallery’s supervision, isn’t it neglected maintenance?

If someone had cared even once, wouldn’t it have been fine?

[Upvotes 392] [Downvotes 5320]

– Wow, what a shameless jerk LOL.

– Is the Head of the Gallery the king of Kellierhton? Why should he care?

– Because goodwill breeds entitlement.

– 1 point.

It was clearly a low-quality trolling post.

I usually ignored such things, but right now, I didn’t have the luxury to dismiss it.

ㄴ Poster: What do you mean, “A”? If you built it, you should take responsibility LOL, am I wrong?

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: 3.

ㄴ Poster: 3? Is there gonna be another weird joke in this serious situation LOL?

“Ah f*ck, my house.”

I couldn’t leave the wreckage of the upper house as it was.

There was a chance the royal family might discover the identity of the bunker during the street repair process.

That would mean I’d lose the geographical advantage I had hidden all this time.

It would become an annoying situation.

ㄴ Poster: The deputy has never been serious, right?

ㄴ Poster: Try to refute my statement.

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: 2.

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: 1.

ㄴ (User has been permanently banned.)

ㄴ Whoa.

ㄴ Huh?

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: What do you mean, huh? Didn’t you write a provoking post too?

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: It’s your turn now.

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: 3.

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: 2.

I’m sorry. I just wanted to get some attention, I didn’t mean to upset you, I swear to the heavens I didn’t!

“There are no negotiations with terrorists.”

I was in a state of frenzy.

My life had been split between online and offline.

The ratio was about 0.1 : 9.9.

“Balance must be maintained.”

This ratio couldn’t deviate at all.

But when a problem in offline, meaning the real world, popped up, it naturally affected the online realm too.

Just thinking about the issue with the land above the bunker and my house might mean a loss of gallery time…

No? A combined loss of over 10 hours of gallery time.

That would mean a loss of my gallery experience.

“Ugh, hmph. Huhhh!”

Imagining that future made me short of breath.

Disturbances? That’s fine, it happens.

Tactical nukes? They are part of the gallery’s identity, of course, we can let that slide.

“But you can’t stop me from enjoying my gallery time.”

I felt an anxiety attack creeping in, and my anger shifted to Kellierhton, which had been neglected.

– Is the Head of the Gallery feeling weird right now?

– I’d be furious too if I helped out like this, LOL.

– Everyone, get down!!!

[Announcement: Meeting at Kellierhton]

Posted by: Head of the Gallery*

(Meme of a Waste Monster moving east)

Within an hour:

1. Propose a solution to capture that thing

2. Propose measures to address and prevent future damage

3. Explain why it was neglected

Failure to submit even one will result in Kellierhton IP store closure.

* Affectionate Konik Tuna Can Queen is exempt.

[Upvotes 9999+] [Downvotes 0]

– Whoa.

– Please spare me.

– But last time you installed it, you were told to manage it properly!

– Who is the sewage maintenance officer?

– Why is the Tuna Can Queen exempt?

ㄴ Head of the Gallery: Because she’s cute.

ㄴ Ah, okay.

ㄴ I admit she’s cute.

ㄴ Tuna Can Queen: ㅇuㅇ

“Even if the world ends, the bunker will still be fine.”

But I absolutely couldn’t accept having my bunker location revealed, leading to problems in the gallery.

The Waste Monster also just so happened to have moved elsewhere.

But rather than checking only through memes, I needed to actually see what was happening above.

“Gotta check it out to figure out what to do next.”

Holding the legendary sword that served as a vent, I slowly ascended the stairs.

What met my eyes was just the wreckage of collapsed buildings.

“Ah.”

During the process of the Waste Slime erupting, the broken debris had flown all the way here.

I stood dumbly at the center of the ruins and opened the gallery to snap a shot.

– Click!

“Gotta post this concept article.”

Even if my house was destroyed, the concept article must go on.

Besides, there were many gallums whose homes flew away too.

Timing is everything for a concept article.

While articles going to the Head of the Gallery are delicious, being listed under some random sidekick is even tastier.

[Title: Realizing I Don’t Have a House]

Posted by: Secret of the Ghost of the Liberal Arts

(Photo of a collapsed building)

LOL.

[Would you like to post this?]

Just as I was about to hit the register button…

“What a dangerous place for a mortal to be lingering.”

A strange voice came from behind me.

With a cheesy tone and an oddly unique vocal quality.

“Is this your home?”

I knew only a few people who would speak like that.

When I turned around, I saw gold.

Golden eyes were staring at me from extremely close.

“Wait, hmmm?”

Yonyong was staring at me!

 

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