When electronic devices and internet access were unlocked in My Home Tower, the interior facilities instantly transformed into a massive filming set.
Climbers took photos and videos with their phones and cameras, posting them online from every corner of the tower.
Someone tried taking a photo while cuddling a Bomb Rabbit.
"Wow! The rabbit is so cute~ Take a picture for me!"
"Alright, I'll take it! One~ Two~"
-Click!
-Click!
"Huh? Why did I hear two sounds—"
—KABOOOOM!!!!!
...And that's how they died taking photos, only to be resurrected outside the tower later, or so the story goes.
Another person bought the tower's specialty, twin watermelons, set up a camera, and suddenly started filming a "speed eating twin watermelons" video while hitting their head with a tray!
-Clang! Clang! Clang!
"Spweed eawting tween watewmelons!!!! Wararororoprorokhurapchwarabhwaprarapraphurulirarara!!!!"
That video was uploaded to Neotube Shorts and quickly reached 1 million views.
Someone else risked their life entering the 9th floor, the "Twisted Nether Rabbit Garden," carefully filming the bizarre mutant rabbits with a silent camera and uploading it to Neotube.
But they made the mistake of titling the video [♡Cute and Adorable Rabbits of My Home Tower♡], causing many innocent viewers to suffer psychological trauma!
"F*ck! I can't take this anymore!! This is too much!!!"
"Keep this disgusting stuff to yourself!!!"
The video received an explosion of dislikes and reports, but people spread the link across numerous communities like a tactical nuke, thinking "I shouldn't be the only one to suffer!"
A few days later, the video was flagged as disturbing content and cleanly deleted from Neotube.
Yet people's curiosity about My Home Tower didn't diminish at all...!
Photos and videos taken from various locations—Milky Way Hotel, Emerald Beach, Squishy Soft Restaurant, Succubus Garden, and more—continued to pour in.
Scenes that were impossible to believe were real spread across the internet, and the whole world buzzed with stories about My Home Tower.
And then—
"Wow! There are already thousands of pictures of me!"
Tower Administrator Eriel Tricia was now watching everything happening on the internet!
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My Home Tower 92nd Floor -《Paradise of Civilization》
Today, the Guardians were again playing with their electronic devices.
Rukki, Ju Ji-ye, Lilithis, Zergos, and Tricia were gathered on the 92nd floor, while the others had returned to their respective floors with smartphones and laptops.
Rukki was lying down watching Neotube videos.
Ju Ji-ye was reading stock-related articles.
Lilithis was openly browsing adult content on a site starting with H.
Zergos was searching for something with a complicated expression.
And at the center of it all, Tricia was exclaiming in amazement while holding a smartphone!
"Wow! These days AI can draw pictures, sing songs, and make videos!? How far has technology advanced!"
Tricia was chatting with AI in real-time, gradually filling in the cultural knowledge she'd missed during the past five years!
"So that's why there are so many illustrations of me? Most were made with AI!"
Indeed, most of Tricia's illustrations online were AI-generated images, with hand-drawn pictures being extremely rare!
And above all—
"As I expected... there are a lot of inappropriate images...?"
The ability to easily create images also meant inappropriate ones could be easily made.
The government had already created legislation prohibiting the upload of inappropriate images of Tricia and responded quickly, but they couldn't block everything.
Tricia made a complicated expression seeing those kinds of images of herself continuing to appear on certain sites.
"Well... I was a man in my past life, so I can understand..."
Though actually genderless, Tricia was portrayed as female in all internet content.
Only two people outside My Home Tower knew Tricia was genderless.
One was Crow, who had no intention of revealing Tricia's gender to the outside world, and the other was a Climber named Kang Geun-yuk who had seen Tricia naked at a hot spring.
But he's busy with his (sweet?) love affair with an orc noona, so let's move on.
"Well, I'm nice enough to overlook this much!"
This one enjoys the attention anyway, so it's not a big deal!
Meanwhile, Zergos approached Tricia with an extremely serious expression.
"Lady Tricia, I have something urgent to report."
"Hmm? What is it?"
"Someone on the internet has created and distributed a book insulting you."
"Really? Can you show me?"
"Well... it's something that can't be viewed with a sane mind, so you'll need mental preparation."
"...I can guess what it is, but I'll see and judge for myself."
Tricia received the laptop from Zergos with an uneasy feeling.
《[CPZTK] 【The Angel Has Fallen】 ~「Tower Administrator Being Thoroughly Abused by Dozens of Climbers」 <Chapter 1> (My Home Tower) (KR)》
"Wow, that title is seriously messy."
Tricia was shocked first by the shocking title, then again by its vulgar content.
And even more shocked to learn that a sequel had already been released!
"How should we punish this person?"
"No, let's just overlook this."
"Pardon? But even so, this is..."
"Even during the Eriel era, many people secretly drew strange pictures of me. This is just an extension of that. It's fine."
"...If that is your wish."
Tricia forgave their sins with ocean-wide tolerance.
Normally, depicting a real person like this would be illegal, but since Tricia wasn't human and had ambiguous human rights, such things were possible!
However, they overlooked one thing.
Tricia now had an ID card, giving her the right to legally protected human rights!
"If any problems arise, we can notify the government to resolve it, so don't worry too much."
Tricia said this while opening another site that Zergos had found.
《(※Warning: Cruelty) - How to Cook an Angel》
"Oh f*ck."
The moment she saw the title, a curse escaped her lips.
The tags section contained words related to perversions too disturbing to mention, and the content inside was as horrifically disgusting as the "Flying Giant Centipede Rabbit."
Watching her reaction, Zergos asked again.
"How should we punish this person?"
"...Let's request the government to catch whoever made this when we meet them later."
"Yes, understood."
Tricia sighed and scrolled down, but there was something strange mixed in the site's recommended works list.
"Wait, what's this?"
Out of simple curiosity, she clicked on the image.
Then, a cover showing Rukki crying painfully came into view.
《[Gore/Misery] Comic of "Disciplining" the My Home Tower Kusogaki Rabbit Girl》
—Snap.
Something broke inside Tricia.
"......"
She stood up and placed her right hand on her chest where a heart was drawn.
"Lady Tricia...?"
"【In the name of Majestic Angel Eriel Tricia, I command. The restraints and shackles cast upon my flesh—】"
"Stop right now—!!!!"
Just as Tricia suddenly accelerated to unseal her "true power" and go berserk, Zergos panicked and stopped her!
"Don't stop me!!!!!! I'm going to bring that bastard here and teach them a lesson—!!!!!!!"
Tricia's furious shout echoed throughout the place, enraged that someone had dared to insult her friend in such a manner!
Hearing the commotion, Rukki, Ju Ji-ye, and Lilithis, who had been peacefully playing, rushed over!
"Stop it, you fool!!!!"
"Ahhh!!!! Calm down!!!!"
"What on earth is happening—!!!"
Everyone present had the same thought.
If left unchecked, fragments of the great catastrophe that occurred in Eriel decades ago might be recreated here once more!
Believing they had to stop it somehow, the three immediately unleashed their Authorities at full power!
"Authority! 『Anger Absorption(憤怒吸收)』!!!"
Rukki's 『Wrath』 Authority quickly absorbed Tricia's anger—
"Authority! 『Whisper of Seduction(blandimentum)』!!!"
Lilithis used her 『Lust』 Authority to calm Tricia a little—
"Authority! 『Fate Manipulation(運命操作)』!!!"
Ju Ji-ye activated her 『Pride』 Authority to twist the fate of Tricia breaking her seal!
For an ordinary person, they could have been stopped without using Authorities, but Tricia had a special constitution(?) that made most skills and Authorities ineffective!
"Calm down now—!!!"
"Arrrgh—!!!"
—WHOOOOSH!!!
After an intense Authority battle, Tricia failed to release her seal!
As the storm of divine power subsided, the red energy disappeared, and she began returning to her original white angel form.
The rampage was barely contained by the combined Authorities of the three.
Everyone around breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ugh... that was terrifying..."
"Phew, did we manage it?"
"Rukki, don't raise flags in this situation."
Ju Ji-ye collapsed from exhaustion, Rukki made a joke and got called out by Lilithis.
"...Lady Tricia has always thought of us first. This was my mistake."
And Zergos began blaming himself with a gloomy expression.
"It's not your fault, Tricia's the one who went berserk on her own!"
"By the way, what made her so angry in the first place?"
"That's right! Lady Tricia rarely gets that angry!"
Rukki, Lilithis, and Ju Ji-ye asked in succession, and Zergos summarized what had happened.
"Someone on Earth drew insulting pictures of you, Rukki. Lady Tricia became furious upon seeing them."
"...For just that reason?"
While it was certainly a reason for Tricia to be angry, Rukki thought unleashing the seal was an overreaction.
"Yes. But since she couldn't punish that person inside the tower, it seems she tried to use 'that power' to go outside."
"Ah, now I understand."
In summary, from Tricia's perspective, it was already frustrating not being able to leave the tower, and then someone outside was doing such terrible things, which became too much to bear.
"Anyway, Tricia should be fine now, right? Let's check..."
Saying this, Rukki turned toward where Tricia had been.
Fortunately, Tricia had returned to her original angel form.
"...?"
However, there was one problem.
"Awoo...?"
Tricia had... shrunk smaller than usual!
"Wait, why did she get smaller!?"
"Ahhh!!! Lady Tricia has turned into a baby!!!"
Rukki and Ju Ji-ye were greatly shocked by this sudden development!
"Could it be... a side effect from forcibly stopping her while she was releasing the seal...?"
"It seems that way...?"
Zergos accurately identified the cause of this incident.
Lilithis, who had been agreeing beside him, carefully stepped toward Tricia.
"Um... Tricia? Are you okay?"
"Dyu...?"
"W-what did you say?"
"Dwuttat-!"
"...She seems to have completely regressed to infancy?"
Tricia's body had become much smaller, and her mind had regressed to infancy!
Faced with this unexpected situation, Lilithis held the miniaturized Tricia and asked:
"Does anyone here have childcare experience...?"
Rukki started whistling, and Zergos averted his gaze.
The only person left was Ju Ji-ye.
"...Huh? Me?"
She actually had experience caring for children while leading her tribe in the past, and she still looks after tower residents now.
But she had a feeling this situation would become extremely troublesome!
"You have childcare experience, right?"
"W-well, others might be better—"
"Who?"
"Um... Wang Jjin-ppang?"
"He might be good at taking care, but he has no childcare experience, right?"
"Eck, then what about Yurining..."
"How could she have any?"
But there was no escape.
"You take care of Tricia for now, and meanwhile, we'll look for a way to return her to normal!"
"Nooo! I hate responsibility without pleasure!!!"
"Please! You can ask Wang Jjin-ppang to help too!"
And thus, My Home Tower, which had finally found peace—
"Dwutta!"
—faced an unprecedented crisis called "Raising Baby Angel Tricia"...!!
