Chapter 301: Selecting a New Moderator
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: This king didn't get a Breakthrough Card, but I did get something incredibly valuable—a set of invention blueprints packed with all sorts of bizarre, one-of-a-kind ideas. Just looking through them, my head's already spinning with inspiration.
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: Can't complain about this haul at all. Anyway, gotta go, buried in inventing mode now!
I'm Rolling In It: Wolffy, hold up for Uncle Tony—let me grab a bite to eat first before you disappear on me.
Kaguya-sama: Eh? Wait, hold on, I think I just discovered something huge—Mr. Stark, are you living with Wolffy right now?
I'm Rolling In It: Yep, been crashing at Wolf Castle for half a month now. Admin knows all about it.
RawrSoFierce: Yeah...half a month back, Stark asked me to open his crossing permissions, said he wanted to go hang out with Wolffy at the castle for a while.
RawrSoFierce: Wait, isn't there supposed to be zero humans over in the Green Green Grasslands? Stark's just one guy showing up there—did that cause any kind of panic?
I'm Rolling In It: No panic, exactly, but the animals over here seem to have decided I'm some kind of rare protected species.
My True Form Is Cola: P-protected species? Does that mean Wolffy's world doesn't have humans at all, or just, like, almost none?
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: Honestly, this king has no idea whether there are humans in my world or not. Lived here twenty-some years and never once seen one.
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: Never really thought to look into it before, actually. Guess I should dig through some old texts, see if "humans" are even a documented species around here.
Eternally Seventeen: A world with no humans, huh? Kind of interesting. A little like Gensokyo, though Gensokyo's not exactly human-free, just really sparse on them.
Street-Corner Illustrator: A world with no humans? That just gave me an idea for a manga: "In a World Without Humans, I Chose to Focus Entirely on Winning Over Beast-Ear Girls"!
RawrSoFierce: That title's a mouthful...but why does it already feel like it's some kind of shady doujin?
My True Form Is Cola: "Feels like" is putting it mildly, that's a straight-up harem manga premise! And knowing Eriri's track record, it's definitely going to be the extra-spicy kind.
Street-Corner Illustrator: Hey! I've reformed, thank you very much, I don't draw that kind of trashy stuff anymore. Everything I make now is completely wholesome and proper!
RawrSoFierce: You sure about that? Because the old hag's weird rough draft is still sitting in our private chat, you know. The one with no clothes.
Eternally Seventeen: ...WHAT???
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Yukari genuinely couldn't process what was happening for a second—why had she suddenly gotten dragged into this?
And what did he even mean by "her weird rough draft"?
Aside from her occasionally acting a little weird when she was bored out of her mind, when else was she ever "weird"? And a rough draft? Of what?
And "no clothes"?
She always wore clothes! Even when sleeping in pajamas—she absolutely was not the type to sleep without clothes on.
Especially after learning from Admin that Yuyuko's...tastes...might run in a certain concerning direction, Yukari had gotten even more careful about not sleeping in less than full pajamas, just in case something happened without her realizing.
Wait!
Hold up!
If she remembered correctly, before Eriri "reformed," she'd been the artist behind those explicit doujin—drawing all sorts of not-safe-for-anyone content, the full works.
Which meant...if this new manga's rough draft carried over any of her old habits...surely that couldn't actually be true. Right?
Yukari's expression slowly stiffened as an increasingly absurd possibility dawned on her.
Eternally Seventeen: WAIT. WAIT. WAIT A MINUTE. Are you saying Admin-sama is holding onto pictures of ME? Sure, they're just drawings, but he's still LOOKED at them, right??
Kaguya-sama: Now that you mention it...I remember one of the leads in Eriri's new manga was based on Yukari-nee's look and personality. Which means...?
My True Form Is Cola: Which means Admin-sama AND Eriri, the two of them...
Terrible Tornado: ...I think I just learned something I really shouldn't have.
Eternally Seventeen: You bastard Admin, delete that chat log RIGHT NOW! Eriri's new manga was drawn like half a year ago, and you've been sitting on this bizarre piece of dark history for HALF A YEAR?! Unbelievable! You single, lonely dog!
Admiral Kizaru: Fire's spreading, fire's spreading! Grab a stool, front row seats!
Crazy Diamond: Selling sunflower seeds, peanuts, cola, watermelon, right here up front...
Maidang: I want sunflower seeds!
My True Form Is Cola: Cola!
Street-Corner Illustrator: Wait, hold on, Yukari-senpai—didn't you also look at the rough draft I did of Admin-sama?
Eternally Seventeen: AHEM! Eriri, you really need to cut back on that kind of unhealthy content, got it?
RawrSoFierce: ...wait, hold on, there's one of ME too?! What the hell, Eriri, what have you been doing??
Street-Corner Illustrator: I didn't do anything, waaah!
Street-Corner Illustrator: ...and also, I haven't drawn that kind of thing in over half a year now, and it's basically not even explicit anyway, I do have professional standards, you know.
Eternally Seventeen: Like hell I believe that! Admin-sama, open my crossing permissions right now, I'm going to go smack some sense into this filthy little troublemaker!
RawrSoFierce: Tch, old hag, your orientation really is questionable after all—going after a fellow female member now, too.
Kaguya-sama: The terrifying Yukari-nee finally reveals her true colors. Poor Sakura's probably already fallen victim.
My True Form Is Cola:shivers Absolutely terrifying.
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The topic derailed hard and fast, veering off in a direction nobody could quite trace back. Honestly, neither Ryū nor Yukari felt much of anything about Eriri's old rough drafts—the whole thing was really just an excuse for everyone to pile on each other the moment a good opportunity for mutual roasting presented itself.
Shaking the whole mess of nonsense out of his head, Ryū glanced over the member roster.
The Dimensional Chat Group had been running a full year now since its founding, and the roster had grown to twenty members.
Time to pick out another Moderator, honestly. No point leaving the slot empty when he could hand it off to one of the members instead.
Setting aside himself as Admin and Yukari as the existing Moderator, that left eighteen candidates to choose from.
Ideally, someone who'd been in the group a good while, and who was especially active in the chat.
And someone genuinely well-liked by the rest of the group, too...eh, forget it. Might as well just let them vote on it themselves.
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