Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "I just peeked into the Eternal Pavilion. Looks like this isn't her doing. So who the heck is behind this mess?"
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "Waking me up from hibernation is not something you can do without consequences!"
Lady Kaguya-sama: "Hibernation…? Humans still need to hibernate these days?"
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "Who said I was human? I'm not! I am a youkai of the gaps. You may address me as Lady Yukari Yakumo."
Lady Kaguya-sama: "Youkai???"
Edward Newgate: "Gurararara! Youkai, huh? I've sailed across the seas for decades. I've seen animals with intelligence rivaling humans and the Mink Tribe… but never anything like a 'youkai.'"
Far across the vibrant blue seas of the New World, a massive sailing ship called the Moby Dick glided along with the wind.
On board, a massive man sat on an equally massive chair, with IV tubes inserted into his body. His brows furrowed and relaxed in turns, clearly wrestling with something perplexing.
Slowly, he opened his eyes and glanced around at his familiar sons. Then, focusing inward, he sensed the strange thing in his mind called the Dimensional Chat Group.
He pondered quietly, "This doesn't seem like an illusion. Even if someone had infiltrated my ship, my sons would've noticed their presence immediately."
"If it's not someone using a Devil Fruit to challenge me in secret… then what exactly is this Dimensional Chat Group? And who are these strange people talking in it?"
This man — known across the world as the strongest man alive, whose power could shatter the heavens — Whitebeard… was currently filled with deep confusion and suspicion.
He had truly never experienced something like this before.
Just as Whitebeard was deep in thought, he noticed several long chat messages being sent in the Dimensional Chat Group — from someone named "AwooSuperFierce."
AwooSuperFierce: "I know this might sound ridiculous, maybe even hard to believe, but I have to say this: this isn't some genjutsu, not a Devil Fruit ability, and definitely not some kind of Earth black-tech."
AwooSuperFierce: "This is a chat group that links countless worlds and dimensions. Each of you is a member now. Before joining, didn't you all receive an invitation message in your minds?"
AwooSuperFierce: "Whether you believe it or not, that's the reality of the situation."
As the first person to join the Dimensional Chat Group, Haruto Kisaragi felt it was his duty to explain the situation to the others who joined just a few minutes after him.
And how did he know all this?
Simple — while the others were still freaking out in the group chat, he snuck into the "Group Info" section and read through everything carefully…
For a few seconds, the group fell completely silent.
Then, all at once, a wave of messages exploded into the chat:
Wandering Little Planet: "A chat group that connects all dimensions? I'm quite sure this could be real! Before this, I was just a vague, unconscious planetary will. Nothing more."
Wandering Little Planet: "But ever since joining this chat group, it's like I've undergone some kind of metamorphosis. I can think now!"
Lady Kaguya-sama: "Planetary… will? Is this some kind of science fiction setting?"
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "Is that so? It's hard to believe…"
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "By the way, that 'AwooSuperFierce' person — what are those two little golden characters next to your nickname?"
Lady Kaguya-sama: "I see them too. Two gold characters… they look like Chinese. Wait — does that say 'Group Admin'?! Hold on… why can I understand Chinese now?"
Shinomiya Kaguya's mind hit a critical error. Even though she was a certified genius, everything that was happening was simply beyond comprehension.
She rarely interacted with technology, mostly just using the internet to check the weather forecast.
And so, faced with something this far outside her mental model, her brain was drawing blanks. She simply didn't know how to react.
Meanwhile, Haruto also noticed something next to his own nickname.
Two small golden words — "Group Admin."
He froze.
Then he quickly opened the group member list and saw his name right at the top, confirmed again by those golden characters.
"I'm… the admin of the Dimensional Chat Group? Is it because I was the first to join?"
This… was just too much.
The other members of the group included:
The consciousness of Earth itself
A legendary pirate
A rich noble lady from the Shinomiya family
And a youkai who's lived for who-knows-how-many millennia
And he — Haruto Kisaragi — was just a helpless, isolated transmigrator with no powers or lineage.
And now he was their group admin?!
This has to be some kind of cosmic joke… right?!
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "Group Admin… That must mean 'Master of the Dimensional Chat Group,' right? If you're the one who built a system that can link all dimensions, you must be incredibly powerful!"
Edward Newgate: "Gurararara! Dimensions? Other worlds?"
Lady Kaguya-sama: "This is way too absurd to be real!"
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "Even with my gap-based powers — which do involve spatial manipulation — I could never break through the walls between worlds. That's virtually impossible!"
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "That means… whoever this admin is, they must have trained for tens of thousands — no, hundreds of thousands of years! A true ancient entity!"
Wandering Little Planet: "I'm probably around a few billion years old myself, and even I don't have the power to link worlds. If I did, I wouldn't have spent eons drifting around the solar system."
Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl: "Bill… billions of years?!"
The youkai who had lived for an unknown number of centuries suddenly felt shockingly youthful by comparison.
Even though the very idea of a Dimensional Chat Group was hard to believe… there was no denying its reality.
No matter how skeptical they were, the members had no choice but to accept this world-shattering truth.
As the others slowly accepted the chat group's existence and began enthusiastically chatting, Haruto — now inexplicably their group admin — said nothing more.
Instead, he silently poked around the chat interface, exploring everything: group settings, features, descriptions — every tab and option.
It was natural to fully explore something this bizarre and unfamiliar.
After who knows how long, Haruto finally let out a long breath.
"It's not a standard cheat-system like in those novels… but this chat group is something else entirely."