I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 165

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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‘The Inquisitor is already here?’

As far as I knew, Stella should still be in the Holy Kingdom. Because it was the player who defeated Behemoth, not the Inquisitor.

Of course, she should be in the Holy Kingdom if she didn’t want to be told that she was just playing around while the player was defeating demons.

The fact that she had opened the door and entered right after Behemoth had been defeated meant that she had left the Holy Kingdom at least a few hours ago, even assuming she had used teleportation to get here.

But it had only been a few hours since Behemoth had been fully resurrected.

The proof was that the city had been functioning normally when I had briefly stopped by here before heading to obtain the rune.

The time gap was too narrow. It was as if she had known that Behemoth was going to be resurrected from the beginning.

“…….”

Stella also seemed to be feeling the same way as me. She looked incredibly surprised to see me. She was frozen in place, her face filled with shock, her mouth agape as she looked at me.

Her fingertips trembled. Her green eyes darted back and forth between Behemoth, who had turned into a bloated pig, and me, who was standing in front of her.

As if she had lost her grip, her mace fell to the ground.

Thud!

There was a sound, and the floor nearby caved in, but no one seemed to care.

“Inquisitor, are you alright?”

I was the one who broke the silence. I couldn’t just stand there facing each other.

“I, uh… y-yes…”

She replied with “yes”, but her expression and tone were far from alright.

I sighed inwardly and put Wingless Nightmare back in its sheath.

“How did you get here? I’m just here because the lord of this city asked for my help, but what about you, Inquisitor? You’re not going to tell me that you came here by chance, are you?”

Stella, who still couldn’t hide her shocked expression, stammered at my question.

“I, I caught Behemoth’s trail… and it led here… Her Holiness the Pope, uh, now that the monster is dead, she said that we can look into uncertain matters thoroughly… so she told me to come here…”

‘Ah.’

It took me a while to understand because her words were so disorganized and fragmented, but I think I understood the causal relationship.

Since I had killed the Creature Abandoned by God and her worries were completely gone, the Holy Kingdom had started to focus on subjugating the demon worshippers. So, they had caught Behemoth’s trail earlier.

Not only had they caught Behemoth’s trail earlier, but since they no longer needed to leave the Inquisitor and Interrogator behind to prepare for the Creature Abandoned by God’s awakening, they had sent them out to subjugate demons freely.

In the game, the player defeated Behemoth before starting the DLC story, and the Inquisitor and Interrogator had to take turns monitoring it, so they couldn’t leave to subjugate demons without definite proof.

Because if they went on a wild goose chase and a demon awakened somewhere else, it would take them much longer to respond than if they had departed from the Holy Kingdom.

‘Wow, so that’s how it turned out?’

I wondered how many times the story had been twisted because of my actions of visiting the Holy Kingdom and defeating the Creature Abandoned by God.

The fact that I had been summoned to the Imperial Palace, the fact that the Eater of Worlds had appeared, and the relationship between the Popes and me.

All of them were snowballs that had rolled after the creature boss fight.

‘But it’s fine since the incidents aren’t twisted.’

Stella arriving early wasn’t a bad thing at all. Rather, it was a good thing since it would allow the chaos in the territory to be resolved faster.

Even in the game, when the player defeated Behemoth, the Inquisitor would come with her battle priests and stay in the city for a while under the name of purification.

The orders given by the Inquisitor and battle nuns of the Holy Kingdom would feel much more reassuring to ordinary people than the orders given by the lord who had been charmed by a demon.

It was unfortunate for Cassandra, but she had to overcome it on her own.

“I understand, Inquisitor. Then can I ask you a favor?”

“Ah… y-yes. What is it, distinguished guest?”

“I have something I need to do right now, so could you take care of the demon’s remains for me?”

I pointed my thumb at Behemoth’s corpse that was behind me.

Stella obediently nodded.

I patted her shoulder a couple of times as a sign that I was leaving it to her, and then left the room.

As soon as I did, I heard someone collapse behind me. It was clearly Stella. It seemed that she had been greatly shocked by seeing that pillar of light.

“…….”

“…….”

Two battle nuns who had followed Stella were standing in the hallway.

They were wearing nun outfits that were slightly less revealing than Stella’s, and there were a mace and shield lying nearby. And they were staring blankly at me. They weren’t in their right minds either.

The battle nuns were standing there with dazed expressions as if they had witnessed a miracle, and then they flinched at the sound of my footsteps and pressed themselves against the wall of the hallway.

Because of their figures, their breasts were emphasized.

I tried to avert my gaze and looked at the spot where I had tied up Helga. It was empty.

The curtains were fine, except for being slightly wrinkled in some places, which meant that she had untied the knot instead of tearing the curtains.

I looked at the battle nuns who were still pressed against the wall, wondering if they had seen Helga. The battle nuns trembled when they met my gaze.

It seemed like it would be impossible to get a proper answer from them. It seemed that I would have to look for her myself.

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Stella saw it.

A giant light descending from the brilliant ‘sun’ in the sky towards the mansion in front of her.

A holy radiance spreading around the descending pillar of light, creating a scene that was like a magnificent mural.

The shape of the moon being drawn next to the sun despite it being broad daylight.

Stella saw all of that with her own eyes.

No, it wasn’t just Stella.

All of the battle nuns who were here saw it. And the Interrogator who was still outside the city walls must have also clearly seen it.

Stella thought about it hundreds of times in the short time that she stood there on her two feet. She wondered if it was blasphemy to stand there without kneeling.

Her battle nuns were already doing that.

They had thrown away their maces and shields, knelt on the ground, clasped their hands together, and bowed, praising the descent of the holy light.

She was confused.

She had clearly come here after hearing that Behemoth had been resurrected, so why was such a brilliant and holy radiance erupting instead of a terrible and filthy demonic aura?

Stella, along with her battle nuns, opened the door to the mansion, clutching their trembling bodies and minds. She had to find out the identity of that halo of light as soon as possible.

The mansion was filled with traces of the demon.

It had been cleverly hidden to the point where ordinary people wouldn’t be able to feel it at all, but it couldn’t fool the eyes of an Inquisitor.

But despite the fact that the mansion was filled with traces of the demon, there wasn’t any of the disgusting smell that was unique to demons.

She guessed that the halo of light must have purified all of the evil.

After climbing further with a trembling heart, when she opened the only remaining door on the top floor of the mansion……

“Ahh……”

Stella witnessed it.

A man who was bathed in the brilliant radiance of the sun and moon, holding a weapon filled with holiness, and indifferently staring at the demon that had become a mere corpse. And the halo of light that surrounded the man.

It might be a blasphemous thought. It might be a truly blasphemous thought.

But for a very brief moment, Stella felt as if the man in front of her was much closer to the sun and moon than the Pope of the Sun and the Pope of the Moon.

Once her values were shaken, it was only a matter of time before she fell into confusion.

Stella couldn’t even properly remember what had happened afterwards because of the endless confusion.

The distinguished guest in front of her kept asking questions, but she didn’t know what she had answered.

Or rather, she wasn’t even sure if she had answered at all. She had mumbled something, but she wasn’t even sure if it was an answer.

In the end, the distinguished guest seemed to have given up, entrusted Stella with dealing with the demon, patted her shoulder a few times, and then left.

A thrilling pleasure surged from the shoulder where his hand had touched.

Her body ached. It was a different kind of ache than pain.

“Oh God……”

So, it might have been natural for Stella to collapse the moment the distinguished guest’s form disappeared.

A being that felt more holy than the Pope shouldn’t exist.

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‘Of all the times to arrive……’

Even though we had parted ways without saying anything, I couldn’t shake off the uneasy feeling from Stella’s dazed expression. She had definitely seen it.

Or rather, it would have been impossible for her not to have seen it.

A pillar of light that size would have been visible to the naked eye no matter where you were in the city.

It was a pillar of light that had descended directly from the sky and was large enough to destroy the ceiling of the mansion, so if she hadn’t seen it, it meant that she was either blind or physically unable to observe it.

Stella coming here was a welcome event since it would allow the chaos to be resolved quickly, but her seeing the pillar of light wasn’t a welcome event.

‘She probably brought all of the battle nuns she could gather as well.’

In the game, the Inquisitor would say that she had brought all of her battle priests.

Even when she had come after hearing that Behemoth had been subjugated, she had said that, so how many troops would she have brought if she had come here to subjugate Behemoth herself?

That meant that there was a very high chance that the dozens of battle nuns that Stella had brought with her to subjugate Behemoth had witnessed the pillar of light that had descended from the sky.

And they would have probably had a similar reaction to what I had just seen.

‘Can’t be helped.’

I just accepted it. It was water under the bridge, and there was nothing I could do even if I kept thinking about it.

It wasn’t like my position in the Holy Kingdom would change because of this.

From the moment I received the brooch as a distinguished guest of the Popes, my actual position was practically right below the Pope.

And the Popes had a close enough relationship with me that they had asked me to use informal speech with them when there was no one around.

So, I might even be on the same level as the Pope, or even higher.

And that wasn’t all. The Inquisitor and Interrogator were also definitely on my side.

Stella and Selene knew that I had defeated the monster beneath the Holy Kingdom, and that I had slept with the Popes, and Stella also owed me a personal debt because of Lucia.

From the moment the Pope of the Sun, the Pope of the Moon, the Inquisitor, and the Interrogator, who were the core of the Holy Kingdom, were all on my side, the power I held was practically absolute.

So, nothing drastic would happen even if one more strange phenomenon was added.

‘Where am I supposed to find Helga— huh?’

I was wondering where I should look for Helga when I stopped after hearing footsteps coming from the other end of the hallway.

It was a similar composition to when Helga, who had been charmed, had come looking for me.

But it was different this time. The hair that was faintly visible in the shadows was silver. And it was long enough to wrap around her body more than once.

“Selene?”

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