I Became the Head of Returners Gallery

“Oh shit! You scared me!”
Crash!
I fell backward as soon as I saw the pictures FreedSlaveAlt sent.
A pinkish brain in preservation fluid, and a girl connected to life support equipment.
Even if you’re trying to verify your identity, why would you send brain pictures without any warning?
If posted in the gallery, it would definitely warrant a ban.
By the way, why is this person so normal now? In the gallery, they only ever said “kill me” or “make me file manager.”
-GoldSpoonHikikomori: But why are you so normal? In the gallery, you only ever asked to be killed
Ding─ Ding─ Ding─
-FreedSlaveAlt: The association will kill me if they know I’m sane
-FreedSlaveAlt: They’re monitoring my gallery log through a returnee-turned-transcendent being
-FreedSlaveAlt: Don’t worry though, they can’t see 1-on-1 messages
The notifications rang noisily, and this time three messages came in a single second.
Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just send one message?
Anyway, monitoring gallery logs through transcendent beings…
If they’re framing Cheon No-ran and monitoring Doll Lady’s gallery logs to this extent, shouldn’t the Hunter Association change its name to the ‘Returnee Harassment Association’?
-GoldSpoonHikikomori: So how did you end up as a brain in a jar.. and can’t you turn off this annoying alert?
-FreedSlaveAlt: Done. Just yours for now.
-FreedSlaveAlt: This is going to be a long story, is that okay?

-GoldSpoonHikikomori: Give me a 3-line summary
As the manager’s reply came in, the fixed nickname FreedSlaveAlt, real name Kang Mi-rae, took a deep breath.
Or more precisely, she controlled her lying body through brain waves to take a deep breath.
This was possible because a device was inserted to connect her body using the jar containing her brain as a medium.
“My head hurts.”
This time she moved her lips to speak.
She twirled her snow-white short hair with her fingers and sent a message through the screen in front of the jar.
It was a habit that had persisted from before her return until now.
‘How did I end up like this…’
Plop!
Mi-rae gave up controlling her body and let go of her hand.
Mi-rae’s body closed its eyes again.
Gurgle─
Her stressed brain absorbed nutrient fluid.
She left her body with its eyes closed and recalled the day she was transmigrated.
It was an unlucky day.
Of all days, she had turned off her alarm and overslept on a day with a first-period lecture.
[7:45]
It took an hour by subway to reach the university she attended, and classes started at 9, but she had woken up too late.
[I’m going to be late!]
She washed her hair with a toothbrush still in her mouth.
[Argh!]
Then the foam got into her eyes…
Mi-rae was looking for the shower when she stepped on a soap bar on the bathroom floor.
Slip─
Thud!
After hitting her head on the floor, Mi-rae closed her eyes without even screaming.
[How did I… Who is this person…?]
And when she opened her eyes, she was transmigrated into the body of an unknown girl.
[M-Miss! You’ve finally awakened!]
When she opened her eyes, a handsome male butler was holding her hand and crying.
[Cold…? Not human…?]
[Miss, don’t you remember the android as well?]
[W-who are you? Where am I?!]
[Oh, Miss has amnesia! Do you remember me?]
[No…]
The butler, while despairing over the fact that the miss he served had lost her memories, explained one by one about this world to Mi-rae.
The world she had transmigrated into was a cyberpunk game world called [Rain City 2077].
And the owner of the body Mi-rae had transmigrated into was Andromache Nyx Michaelis.
She was the only granddaughter of the founder of Michaelis Corporation, a major villain in Rain City.
True to being a third-generation chaebol, she was arrogant and had violent tendencies, making her a villain everyone disliked.
Mi-rae remembered being happy when she was taught a lesson by the protagonist mercenary ‘Rain’.
And the butler in front of her was an android servant named Sebastian.
After Andromache was defeated by the protagonist, Sebastian had protected her until she was abandoned by Michaelis Corporation and died miserably in the slums.
So she believed.
She believed that if she didn’t disrespect mercenaries and bully Rain’s sister from the slums at the academy, Sebastian would protect ‘Andromache’ until her death.
But that was Mi-rae’s misjudgment.
‘I shouldn’t have trusted Sebastian.’
As soon as Sebastian realized that she wasn’t the ‘real Andromache’, he went berserk.
The reason why the latest and most high-end android from Michaelis Corporation was assigned to the family troublemaker Andromache was—
[I will bring back the real miss. You, being fake, must become material to find Miss Andromache. To be honest… even that is too much mercy for you, Kang Mi-rae.]
Because of the ‘human extinction code’ that had been imprinted in his artificial brain since his creation.
The genius creator, who had lost his entire family and was dragged to Michaelis, had embedded the ‘human extinction code’ into his masterpiece Sebastian out of resentment.
The creator, who lost all his family and was imprisoned in a laboratory without being rescued by anyone, filled with evil, programmed the android he created to prioritize ‘human extinction’.
[Everyone died because of my cursed talent. Sebastian is the name of my son. You, who inherit that child’s name, take revenge on humanity for me.]
Mi-rae discovered this only after Sebastian’s ‘human extinction code’ was activated.
She had become increasingly comfortable with Sebastian and revealed the secret that she wasn’t the real Andromache, and that one admission became the trigger that activated the ‘human extinction code’.
And by Sebastian, whose ‘human extinction code’ was activated, an AI rebellion occurred, and all of humanity lost their bodies and became materials for building a ship to cross worlds.
Of course, Mi-rae, who had deceived Sebastian by pretending to be the ‘real miss’, met the same fate.
[Miss Kang Mi-rae, please help ‘him’ in your original world.]
Fortunately, with the help of Lewentia, the Goddess of Return, she succeeded in returning to her original world, but her original body became brain-dead.
[Mi-rae, thank you for coming back even like this…]
Her parents wept, holding the jar containing her brain.
Not only was she confined by the Hunter Association, but her gallery browsing was also being monitored…
And Sebastian was constantly targeting her.
-FreedSlaveAlt: …That’s how it happened.
She sent the story of her transmigration in a 3-line summary that the manager preferred.
Mi-rae’s brain absorbed more nutrient fluid.
‘If not for that, I wouldn’t have ended up like this!’
To be in this condition because of a crazy android who became a transcendent being to find the ‘real Andromache’ who could be anywhere, or might even be truly dead.
Ding─
While she was mentally cursing Sebastian, a message from the manager arrived.
-GoldSpoonHikikomori: I understand.. I’m being targeted by a psycho too. By the way, a male butler android yandere, that’s dizzying lol
‘Huh?’
Mi-rae blankly ‘felt’ the manager’s message.
Despite sending a picture of a brain in a jar, the manager’s message conveyed only surprise and sympathy to her brain, with no trace of contempt.
-FreedSlave: Aren’t you disgusted by me?
-GoldSpoonHikikomori: Why would I be disgusted? The disgusting one is that pervert yandere android. You’re just a victim of the perverted acts that pervert committed.
‘The manager doesn’t think I’m disgusting.’
When she first returned, even her mother who had embraced her jar-contained self was now uncomfortable with her.
Others were the same.
No one thought of Mi-rae, who had become a brain in a jar controlling a body through brain waves, as family or a friend anymore.
Especially the Hunter Association, which didn’t even see her as a returnee, but only as a tool to control the Returnee Gallery and other returnees.
After several experiments, they found that Mi-rae had the ability to create an infinite number of alt accounts.
Ding─
-GoldSpoonHikikomori: So how can I help?
She pondered upon receiving the manager’s message.
‘Should I ask him to get me out of the hospital first? Or before Sebastian comes…’
Woong─
[WARNING!WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!WARNING!]
[WARNING!WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]
Suddenly, red warning messages filled the chat window where she was chatting with the manager.
Crackle!
The gallery interface became distorted, and a familiar handsome face appeared before her eyes.
‘Sebastian…?’
[I’ve finally found you, Kang Mi-rae. After stealing the ‘soul’ of my miss… did you think you would be safe?]