I Became the Head of Returners Gallery

9 - That Tower Was Too High (1)



The next day.
Whoosh—
“Wake up, child.”
“Aaah! What are you doing, you lunatic!”
“This one is a Heavenly Demon, not a lunatic.”
After finishing my work in the Returnee Gallery, I had been managing other galleries.
I had stayed up all night avoiding the manager crossdressing topic in the Genre Sophiea Gallery when suddenly Cheon Noran pulled away my blanket.
I turned on my phone to check the time.
[07:00]
I had fallen asleep just after five, so it hadn’t even been 2 hours.
“I’ve been asleep for less than two hours, why are you waking me up!”
“One should wake up during the Myo hours (5 AM~7 AM) and be active for their energy to be clear. And I’m doing housework.”
“Can’t you do it later?”
“This one must repay your kindness, mustn’t I?”
Whirrr—
This time, Cheon Noran started running the vacuum cleaner.
I decided to escape from the noisy vacuum.
‘Might as well take a morning dump…’
I wonder if I made a mistake bringing her home.
‘The Hunter Association seems shady, so I can’t just abandon her… and I don’t really want to see her die…’
I scratched the back of my head and went out to the living room.
“Yaaawn—”
After a big stretch and opening my eyes, I saw a sparkling clean living room.
“Wh-what? How did you do this?”
“You have been living without cleaning for too long, child.”
After my parents passed away, I had only stayed in my room, so I thought the living room and other rooms couldn’t have gotten dirty.
But as if shouting that this thought was false, the house was clean, unlike before I fell asleep.
Cheon Noran only came out to the living room after making even my room spotlessly clean.
“The manager child is too weak. To think your leg broke without even using energy outflow. Manager child, won’t you train in martial arts from today?”
“Aren’t you just abnormally strong?”
“This one used not even a quarter of a quarter of my strength.”
“I barely have time to delete tactical nukes and kill spam posts?”
“It might be difficult to reach the realm of manifestation like this one, but if you just achieve first-class enlightenment, you won’t need much sleep. When you reach the supreme realm, your physical strength recovers just by regulating your energy.”
I was slightly tempted, but the gallery shop had all kinds of buff potions and recovery potions.
‘But training in martial arts just to sleep less? Why would I do such a thing?’
“Manager child. As this one has said repeatedly in the gallery, the only thing you can trust is your own body.”
“I told you not to read my thoughts.”
“This one made a mistake. I apologize. It’s a habit.”
I bought a stamina recovery potion from the gallery shop and drank it right in front of Cheon Noran.
I didn’t want to exercise.
What’s the point of being healthy in a world where there’s nothing to protect?
In a world without family or friends, I just needed to eat delicious things and do what I like before I go.
And what I liked was browsing galleries.

[Returnee Gallery]
[★Title: Returnee idiot finally cleared floor 10 of the tower..]
[Author: NotATowerClimber(Fantasia-019→Earth-457)]
[Content: Cleared floor 10, time to rest
Coming to brag about my B-class climber license, ah lol]
Likes 190 Dislikes 33
-Congrats
-Congratulations,,,
-Killmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillme
-Wow! Going to floor 100 soon?
-KingOfKingsS-classClimber: A B-class climber… bragging? I cleared floor 50 long ago, how dare a mere floor 10 climber challenge me?lololol
└Author: Damn, where do you live? Seems like we’re in the same world, I really want to beat you up
└KingOfKingsS-classHunter: Can you even climb to floor 50? Pfft
└This guy spouts S-class talk every time he opens his mouth, can’t you even congratulate someone?
└KingOfKingsS-classClimber: Why should I congratulate someone for just floor 10?lol
└Your mind is really twisted
-Don’t mind the spammer and go your own way, congratulations
-Killmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillme
[★Title: It would be fun to have another “Shitty World Experiences” contest]
[Author: GiveMeSmartphone(Earth-129→Fantasia-001)]
[Content: Why were all the old contest posts deleted?
Looking at the shitty world contest made me think I actually live in a good place]
Likes 20 Dislikes 9
-Ho ho ho,, the former manager deleted them 100 years ago,,, because someone used them to spam,,,
└Author: Ah, I wanted to read them all, that sucks
-KingOfKingsS-classHunter: It’s just a nostalgia contest for nobodies, pfft
└Author: Shut up
-(Satan saying “even this is too much” con)
└Author: Come on, honestly, when things are tough, you think like that, right?
└For real lol
-Killmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillme
[Title: Talking about shitty worlds reminds me of something.. huff huff..]
[Author: VirginSuccubus(Murim-993→Earth-???)]
[Content: That is.. a world where I can’t have sex with my beloved gaga.. huff huff..
Manager, let’s have sex]
Likes 1 Dislikes 99
-Damn, gaga? So the manager isn’t your first love? Your heart is not virgin
└Author: Hiing.. my body is virgin.. I swear on my points.. huff huff..
-The manager is too good for you
└Author: I know.. I’d be fine as a sex slave.. huff huff..
-Grandma, tell us about your first love
└Author: I’ll kill you
└Weren’t you the Succubus Queen with cobwebs on your private area?
-Killmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillme
└Join the Shitty World Contest
[★Title: Sorry, actually the world before I returned was really tough..]
[Author: KingOfKingsS-classClimber(Fantasia-006→Earth-457)]
[Content: (Picture of Blue Archive pickup character single gacha brag)
(Authentication photo of account with 50 billion won)
(Authentication photo of Seoul National University honorary degree)
(Authentication photo of Returnee Association pension receipt)
(Authentication photo of first Tower floor 40 climbing award)
(Authentication photo of first Tower floor 50 climbing award)
Returnee idiots who can’t even kill the bullies who tormented you after returning from struggling, let others be fooled too, like and comment
Pfft
Likes 15 Dislikes 23905364
-No thumbnail like
-Wow finally not 10 million but 20 million dislikes lol you broke the record
-Complete S-class set wow
-Damn give me Aki too, why only you get one
-Manager, why aren’t you killing this guy
-I was a fool for thinking this guy had some special circumstances for being an S-class
-Killmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillmekillme
-Pfft this is bullshit
-(S-class treatment gun con)
-Please go to Transcendence Web, you idiot

S-class.
It’s a deceptive act in communities like galleries.
Examples of S-class include…
Bragging about getting a pickup character in a single pull in gacha games like Blue Archive, or proving that you have a good job or were born with a silver spoon in reality, and so on.
S-class proof was an asymmetric force that could inflict more internal damage than tactical nukes to the community ghosts who were mostly unemployed basement-dwellers.
The S-class spammer in the Returnee Gallery was the fixed nickname ‘KingOfKingsS-classHunter’, who spouted S-class talk whenever he opened his mouth.
I immediately gave him a 1-year ban.
I had been letting him live because he didn’t cross the line, but this post seemed too much even to me, who was immune to most S-class posts.
To be banned after getting 20 million dislikes in the Returnee Gallery, where the S-class threshold was much higher because most users were returnees.
He was an impressive user in a bad way.
“Why are you so angry, manager child?”
“Ah, you don’t know because you’re banned. I cut down an S-class.”
“That child is pitiful too.”
“What do you mean?”
Cheon Noran showed a sage-like expression.
“A poor child who has become a slave to the status window, climbing the tower day after day.”
“Ah, I see.”
That spammer had once poked at Cheon Noran, calling her an old lady.
‘And yet he was angry enough to challenge her to a life-and-death battle.’
Anyway, since he was banned, I could browse the gallery cleanly for a while.
“I need to appease the public, so I’ll distribute some WiFi routers.”
This time, I put the WiFi routers I received from Coobang yesterday on the auction along with spare phones.
I listed 100 WiFi routers at 10 points each.
Since there are worlds that have implemented WiFi with magic engineering, this price should be enough.
“Hey, Cheon Noran.”
“What is it?”
“Do you want to be a file manager?”
“What kind of dog-like talk is that?”
“I’ll give you 10 points a day to delete tactical nukes.”
Contempt flashed in Cheon Noran’s red eyes.
There are quite a few people who want to become file managers, what’s wrong with that?
“The manager child must be unwell to talk nonsense. How about practicing the earth-swallowing method daily? It’s a specific remedy for calming the mind, even if you don’t build inner energy.”
“What kind of pseudo-religious talk is that?”
In a world without inner energy, the earth-swallowing method would just be a waste of time.
It would be better to read one more post or write one more adult image in that time.
[Total auction price of 10,000 points has been credited.]
[Commission fee of 100 points has been credited.]
[Current points: 10,321,070 points]
‘This time it’s less. Maybe there’s less demand for routers because of magic WiFi.’
[You have helped returnees in difficulty.]
[The returnees’ average distress level is 1.]
[10,000 points have been credited.]
“I don’t understand why not having WiFi and smartphones is distress level 1.”
“That’s because you and other gallery users are addicted to smartphones.”
Cheon Noran kept nagging endlessly while wiping the floor with a mop.
I couldn’t tell if I was hiding a wanted criminal or had brought home a nagging grandmother.
Ding—
At that moment, someone commented on a post I had written earlier.
[-NotATowerClimber: Manager, there’s a returnee in distress level 4 in my world, can you help? Damn it rings once every two hours and it’s really annoying]


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