Edward Newgate: Understood, Shitdacoal.
I'm Rolling In It: Oh co on — it's STARK! Not Shitdacoal!
I'm Rolling In It: By the way, when did that nickna start circulating in this group? Tell who first used it and Uncle Tony will personally kick that person's behind with his good leather boots.
Kaguya-sama: I believe, from what I rember, it was the Admin who first said it.
I'm Rolling In It: …Huh?!
My True Form Is Cola: I think so too! It was the Admin.
I'm Rolling In It: …emmm
Eternally Seventeen: Oh? Little Tony-didi, are you considering using those leather boots to kick the Admin? I support this with both hands raised. Go forth, young Tony! Activate the 'Boot Kick' technique!
Eternally Seventeen: Don't worry — with Yukari backing you, you'll be fine!
I'm Rolling In It: …You backing makes MORE worried, not less!
I'm Rolling In It: Admin, Uncle Tony — pfft — Admin, I just want to say that my account was hacked earlier. Everything posted before this was by the hacker. Yes. That's correct.
I'm Rolling In It: Despicable hacker. How dare they hack Uncle Tony's account. Absolutely unacceptable behaviour.
I'm Rolling In It: I will be pursuing legal action against the responsible party imdiately.
RawrSoFierce: Pfft — that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it.
RawrSoFierce: At minimum, find an excuse that's sowhat believable. The "hacked account" line has been worn so thin by a certain dignity-less gap youkai that it doesn't even register as an attempt anymore. Completely used up.
"…"
Ryū's expression twitched slightly. A Chat Group account getting hacked?
That excuse wouldn't fool even Sakura, who was five and among the smallest mbers in every quantifiable sense. It wouldn't fool a toddler. He wasn't going to be fooled.
Who could hack a Chat Group account? If that were possible, soone else would have been Admin since the beginning. Certainly not him running the place for over half a year.
Stark needed more training before he could reach the supre state of "lying directly to soone's face without leaving a trace." Yukari operated at a level Tony couldn't currently approach.
Kaguya-sama: Playboy billionaire iron-heir gets suppressed by the Admin — is this a moral derailnt or a human-shaped trampling? Stay tuned for this week's episode of Yukari-nee Has Sothing To Say.
Eternally Seventeen: Little Kaguya is growing so fast — she's already scooping my lines. Truly the beautiful young woman I have cultivated!
RawrSoFierce: I think you've corrupted Kaguya.
RawrSoFierce: Rember how innocent and pure she was when she first joined the group? You've shaped her into soone who drives the trolley and knows exactly how the gears work.
RawrSoFierce: Hard to count the young girls who have fallen under your influence.
Terrible Tornado: Agreed — Yukari-senpai is a complete nace.
Terrible Tornado: Last night, middle of the night, she private-ssaged asking if I wanted to swap bath photos. I'm now seriously wondering whether she's attracted to won.
Crazy Diamond: Th-that's… that's a lot. Senpai is operating at that level?
Admiral Kizaru: How frightening~ The circles one can end up in~
RawrSoFierce: What circles indeed…
Eternally Seventeen: Cutting off the echo chamber before it starts! Hmph — isn't exchanging bath photos a perfectly normal thing girls do with each other? At the very least, in Gensokyo, Yuyuko and I exchange photos all the ti!
RawrSoFierce: @Eternally Seventeen — you should be careful.
Eternally Seventeen: ???
RawrSoFierce: I think Yuyuko has her eye on you.
Eternally Seventeen: !!!
"…"
anwhile, in Gensokyo:
Yukari's expression had shifted to sothing slightly alard.
Yuyuko has her eye on ? For what purpose?
Exchanging bath photos is just… a thing friends do. That's all it is.
Wait. Hold on.
She'd better hold on.
Yukari mobilised her supercomputer-grade mory and rapidly reconstructed the Chat Group conversation from several months ago — the one where the Admin had ntioned sothing about Gensokyo, and specifically about a certain matter involving herself and doujin content.
At the ti, the Admin had also said sothing about Yuyuko.
Her expression cycled through several states.
She touched her own collarbone, sowhat uneasily.
"Yuyuko couldn't possibly be attracted to won, could she? I an — I've been single a long ti, but I am absolutely, categorically a heterosexual woman. There's no ambiguity there."
"But if Yuyuko is that way — and she's been exchanging bath photos with all this ti — was she doing sothing with those photos that I'd rather not think about? No. She wouldn't. Would she? Oh no."
The sense of safety she normally maintained evaporated with unusual speed.
Being noticed by a stranger was manageable. She'd simply remove the stranger from the equation, no further complications.
The problem was that the person who had apparently noticed her was a longti close friend.
Who was also a woman.
This was a new and sowhat disorienting category of problem.
"This is all going wrong! I was supposed to be building a wholeso, positive-vibes Gensokyo! Why has the atmosphere taken such a specific turn? I support people living however they want, but being redirected toward that orientation myself is sothing I did not sign up for!"
A wave of retroactive relief washed over her. Ever since joining the Chat Group, she'd beco essentially a shut-in — logging in, chatting all day, rarely going out. She'd already been reclusive before. Now the tendency had solidified completely.
It was good that she'd beco a hobody. Gensokyo, in its current ambient state, seed like a place where one's virtue was not guaranteed to survive sustained exposure.
Then another possibility surfaced.
What if the Admin made all of this up? What if the entire thing was a deliberate provocation designed to throw into confused ntal loops?
It wasn't a low-probability scenario. The Admin had this habit of looking approachable and casual in the group chat while being, underneath, entirely composed of sches.
"Unacceptable!! The great Yukari, sage of Gensokyo, hoodwinked by the Admin!"
"I let my guard down!"
"…"
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