Ch.468Counterattack Forces. (3)

Title: Yo, Loki Clan is voting to kick out Betelgeuse lolololol

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of Betelgeuse expulsion vote from Loki Clan chat room.jpg]

To be precise, it’s not just about Betelgeuse, they’re trying to clean house and replace many of the existing Loki Clan executives

The reason is apparently because Betelgeuse has been acting super authoritarian, harassing subordinate clans and existing clan members, which pissed everyone off

Comments:

-[An event within an event, are you kidding me?]

-[What lololol]

-[Wh-wh-what the]

-[Humanity staged a coup against their faction, and now Loki is staging a coup against their clan leader]

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Naturally, from the perspective of users who had been crushed by the factions during the event, hearing news that was essentially about a major clan collapsing from within…

While reactions varied, they commonly included comments like “This is great popcorn material!” while munching on popcorn.

Of course, many users also viewed the chaotic situation in the Loki Clan quite negatively.

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Title: That Loki Clan “expulsion vote” is just them doing whatever the hell they want, isn’t it?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Evidence.jpg pointing out similarities between the “anti-faction” group’s speech patterns and those of the anti-Betelgeuse faction within Loki Clan]

Plus, looking at this, it seems like these anti-faction bastards can’t do it alone, so they’re trying to kick out Betelgeuse and use the Loki Clan and subordinate clans to launch an all-out offensive against the faction

Pretty interesting

Comments:

-[What is this? Time for a new conspiracy theory?]

-[Everyone’s so busy, starting conspiracy theories and internal divisions in the middle of an event]

-˪[For real lol]

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Title: Honestly, the Loki Clan Betelgeuse expulsion thing seems pretty stupid

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Loki Clan member verification.jpg]

First off, I’m also a Loki Clan member

But honestly, those pushing for the expulsion are just having fun while screwing over everyone else

Especially fellow clan members who are mostly just trying to mess with others

Damn, even trolling has fun and boring types, but these idiots only do boring stupid shit while thinking they’re having fun

They’re just idiots who think they can get away with anything because the clan generally covers for them with the “we’re all trolls supporting each other” excuse

Comments:

-[That’s some sharp anger]

-[Well, I see you’re acting all righteous while calling yourself a troller]

-˪[If you’re just going to laugh among yourselves while jerking each other off, don’t call yourselves a troller clan?]

-˪[They jerk each other off more than we do](Author)

-˪[Their jokes are so unfunny that I wouldn’t want to meet them if we weren’t in the same clan, but they’re always trying to stick together](Author)

-˪[What is this]

-˪[Oh wait, I just realized you’re one of those bastards too. Get lost](Author)

-[Look at these idiots fighting so happily within the same clan]

-[Lolololol]

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Title: Loki Clan was pretty shitty

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Chat screenshot of Loki Clan manager doubling tribute fees and taking half for himself.jpg]

They were just awful

Comments:

-[Is this for real?]

-˪[Yes it’s real](Author)

-[Look at this guy making shit up]

-˪[<Full chat log showing that right after the message about doubling fees and taking half, there’s another message saying “just kidding” and reducing fees by 10%.jpg>]

-˪[Now I know your clan’s level]

-˪[Damn, I got caught]

-[Look at this fake news]

-[What the hell lololololololol]

-[A big clan starts falling apart and all sorts of weirdos come crawling out]

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In the process, even the ugliest internal conflicts were exposed to the public.

Some subordinate clans were caught trying to backstab the Loki Clan and more.

The situation was such a complete mess that users were reacting as if the collapse of the Loki Clan was imminent.

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But exactly three days after the flames began…

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Title: Breaking News) Real-time Pirate Union faction territory status.txt

Author: News Boy

Content: [Image of Pirate Union’s advance routes as they launch full-scale offensives against clans and users with negative reputation scores on all fronts.jpg]

Currently, the Pirate Union is attacking users with reputation scores below negative 10 using all their forces, including mercenary groups gathered from across the universe and their own faction’s dispatched units

[Image of a Dreadnought included in a fleet of 1 million ships worth about 5 million points bombarding a clan that owns a level 5 stronghold.jpg]

Even the Pirate Union’s flagship vessels, presumed to be the Iron Blood and Eclipse, have been confirmed deployed

[Image of a massive fleet of approximately 60 million points led by the enormous battleship ‘Iron Blood’ with its edgy crimson-gray color scheme that stimulates chuunibyou sensibilities.jpg]

[Image of ‘Eclipse’ with a rather sleek appearance, looking like a bulked-up cruiser.jpg]

Everyone be careful

Comments:

-[Why does the Pirate Union have two flagships?]

-˪[Dunno?](Author)

-˪[It’s part of the Pirate Union concept. One is a fake with just size and speed but normal grade with a fancy name, the other is the real flagship]

-˪[Oh]

-˪[What “oh”? Stop making stuff up]

-[According to the lore, the Pirate Union is now ruled by the Pirate Empress after the Pirate King, so one ship was being built by the Pirate King]

-˪[And the other was made by the Empress, probably Eclipse this time]

-˪[How do you know that?]

-˪[The Pirate King and Pirate Empress always have opposite fleet concepts]

-˪[For example, if the Pirate King had brought cruisers instead of battleships like this time, the Pirate Empress would be commanding ridiculous heavy battleships]

-˪[Oh](Author)

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Ignoring the miscellaneous comments, as the event entered its second week, Marian’s Pirate Union began to punish users with an overwhelming fleet that was incomparable to anything seen before, as if the previous period had been a “grace period.”

Moreover, while all users in the Pirate Union’s territory combined were fewer than those mobilized by Humanity (180,000), the Pirate Union hadn’t been weakened like the Earth Federation.

Though unintentional, while the Loki Clan and pro-Betelgeuse subordinate clans were paralyzed by the expulsion issue, the Pirate Union completely crushed all other clans except for the inactive Loki Clan and its allied clans.

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Title: Real-time Loki Clan status.jpg

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of thousands of people gathering in front of a character with Betelgeuse’s pink hair composited on it, shouting “Thank you!” and “I believed in you!”.jpg]

“You’re a hero, Betelgeuse!”

Besides that, people are calling her “Beteljesus” for making a miraculous comeback in just three days

Of course, Betelgeuse is about to die from frustration seeing this spectacle

Comments:

-[Look at that shameless flip-flopping]

-[Ugh, those opportunistic bastards tsk tsk, oh but of course I always believed in the wisdom of our leader Betelgeuse]

-˪[Damn lol]

-[From now on we should call them the Pathetic Loki Clan instead]

-[This is hilarious lol]

-[Hail Betelgeuse! Hail Loki!]

-[“Now do you believe what I said?”]

-˪[Betel-men]

-˪[Betel-men]

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The pink-haired troublemaker Betelgeuse, a.k.a. Marian’s human punching bag, who had been in crisis due to the expulsion attempt, made a comeback in just three days.

With a new nickname of “Living Jesus” added to her list of titles.

As a result, Betelgeuse and her inner circle’s control over the Loki Clan became even more solidified.

Although in the process of avoiding her base being attacked by the opposition, she had randomly warped to escape, only to end up in the “Pirate Union headquarters” where Marian resided.

Not only did she suffer all sorts of abuse from Marian for three days, but she also had to endure Marian saying “This is what your oppa treasures” while making kissing sounds and squeezing her—a “very minor” incident.

But neither Marian nor Betelgeuse, who was suddenly subjected to this training, would ever mention this to clan members or acquaintances…

Until someday in the distant future when Betelgeuse herself reveals it, it would remain buried in the unknown forever.