I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 170

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“It’s been a while, Helga. It’s been four days, how have you been?”

I waved at Helga, who was approaching me hesitantly. I could hear giggling behind me. The members were looking at us with playful eyes.

Helga, with a face full of shame and embarrassment, bowed her head. There wasn’t a trace of her usual dazed demeanor.

“……Yes, I’ve been well. I’m really sorry for acting like that.”

“It’s fine. I understand. That’s why I waited for you to feel better.”

I could hear the regular members giggling even from here. Most of them were saying for her to approach me boldly like she had done before.

Helga couldn’t even properly retort and just trembled.

‘Should I not have said anything?’

I felt a little bad for her. It meant that they were close enough to tease each other like that, but Helga’s face was so red that it looked like it was about to explode, which made me feel even worse.

And I had also found out that all of those actions stemmed from her feelings for me.

‘I didn’t expect it to apply here as well.’

Demons amplified a human’s primal emotions.

Just like when I had used the book to kill Aurora’s father, he hadn’t charged at me as soon as he saw the book, but only after I had lied to him and triggered his desires had he completely lost his mind.

According to Stella’s explanation, Behemoth’s ability, charm, was the same.

The reason Helga, who had been charmed, had clung to me like that was because she had positive feelings for me. Of course, it wasn’t romantic feelings, but rather, in the sense that I was a good superior.

It was easier to think of it as any positive emotion being transformed into sexual desire. That was what demons were.

Of course, it wasn’t impossible to trigger desire even if there weren’t any positive feelings to begin with, but it was almost unheard of for someone to jump at you the moment they saw you like Helga had done, unless the demon was specifically aiming for that, according to Stella’s explanation.

Especially if they were in an incompletely resurrected state like Behemoth.

The people of this city who had only stared at me when I passed by were a prime example. They had only stared at me, and hadn’t tried to do anything directly.

‘I should consider the charm I experienced in the game and the charm here as having the same name but being different.’

That was the conclusion I had come to after hearing Stella’s explanation. The nature of the status effect was different from the one I had seen in the game.

The Behemoth in the game had used charm to make humans worship her and gain power, so almost everyone who had been charmed was identified as a heretic.

No matter the cause and process, they had ended up worshipping a demon. So, even if the player moved quickly, there would have been a huge number of victims.

But the charm that Behemoth had used here was, honestly, closer to arousal than charm. It was unclear what kind of mod was in effect again.

‘Iris probably also……’

Iris’s case was similar. After hearing Stella’s explanation, I naturally understood why Iris’s symptoms had been much more severe than Helga’s.

It was because Iris’s positive feelings for me were much stronger than Helga’s.

Although the time we had spent together wasn’t that long, it was practically like I had saved the Silver Dawn Knights.

I had allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief by killing their former lord, and in the end, I had even helped them return to the Imperial Palace and regain their original positions.

It would have been stranger if they didn’t have positive feelings for me.

Since those positive feelings had been completely transformed into sexual desire, it was natural for her to cling to me even more aggressively than Helga.

‘I hope it won’t be awkward when we meet again. Lize will interrogate me, asking if we were sucking and licking each other while she wasn’t there.’

Iris, whose body had recovered, ran off with a bright red face as soon as she heard the explanation that she had acted like that because of her positive feelings for me, saying that she would return since she had completed her mission.

Thanks to that, I couldn’t tell her that those positive feelings didn’t necessarily mean romantic love, but included all positive emotions.

‘Well, I’m sure she understood.’

Iris wasn’t a child, so how could she possibly think of positive feelings as only romantic love?

“Distinguished guest, are you ready?”

Stella spoke to me with a bright smile. I looked at Helga.

“She’s asking if you’re ready, Helga.”

“We’re perfectly ready.”

Helga, who had finally escaped the teasing, quickly replied.

The members also erased their smiles and took their positions.

“Yes. We’re also done.”

Behind Stella, who was talking to me with a bright smile, battle nuns holding maces and shields were standing in formation as if they were one body. The shields glinted in the sunlight.

Selene was standing right next to Stella, and behind her, battle nuns holding rapiers in one hand and wearing translucent tights and underboob leather jackets were lined up.

It was a stark contrast, as if they were following their superior’s personality and appearance.

“What about you, Inquisitor?”

Stella grinned and shook Behemoth’s head that she was holding in her right hand. She said that this was a very special situation, so she was going to purify it after recording it in the archives.

The demon’s head had a white veil tightly wrapped around its eyes. It was because it had been revealed that Iris had been charmed because she had made eye contact with Behemoth.

There wouldn’t be a problem if you had divine power, but it was a precaution just in case.

And this was also going to be recorded in the archives. It was probably the first time someone without divine power had made eye contact with a dead demon.

It was natural since this was the first time they had even kept a demon’s corpse after subjugating it.

“Okay. Everyone, get ready. You’ll return to the Holy Kingdom first.”

“Aren’t you coming with us, Commander?”

“I have something to do in the Holy Kingdom. Nix has the report for the lord, so take it, and Helga, you can go to the lord’s mansion and deliver it.”

“Understood.”

We were preparing to leave this city after only four days. It was because there was no need for the Inquisitor to stay for a long time like in the game.

Unlike the game’s story where Behemoth had been fully resurrected and caused serious damage to the city, the damage was quite minor this time since she had been incompletely resurrected and immediately subjugated after awakening.

It was to the extent that we could hide the truth of the incident and pass it off as a simple demon worshipper resurrection incident.

For reference, the men were all locked up in the basement of the building. It wasn’t difficult to imagine what the women had done to the men in the basement.

The reason why the women had collectively done such things was covered up by saying that it was because of the demon worshippers’ wicked power.

It was a very convenient, all-purpose spell.

“I’ll be back soon, Inquisitor.”

“Of course. I’ll wait for you. Safe travels.”

I left Stella and Selene and headed towards the hut, which wasn’t really a hut, where Nix was residing.

Nix, who had been sleeping in bed with purring breaths, sat up as soon as she heard footsteps approaching the bed.

Her breasts, from the recoil, swayed precariously as if they were about to pop out of her shirt.

Nix rubbed her eyes a few times, looked up at me, and smiled creepily.

“H-hehe… hello?”

“It’s the formal speech side, huh?”

“Yes, hehe. I came out yesterday.”

Nix, who had woken up, clung to me with a smile. I carried Nix, who was dangling from my body, and came out of the hut.

A few of the members’ eyes widened after seeing this.

“We’re going back to the Holy Kingdom now, are you ready?”

“Ah, is that so? Hehe. Okay.”

As soon as her small finger snapped, black flames poured down and burned the hut. It seemed that there wasn’t anything inside that she wanted to take with her.

There seemed to be quite a few things inside.

What was strange was that the black flames were only burning the hut. Even the pile of fallen leaves that were nearby were fine, let alone the live trees, which didn’t catch fire easily.

“Hehe, see you later.”

Nix, who had cleanly burned down the hut, waved at me as she prepared to teleport.

Soon, a magic circle emitted a black light, and Helga, along with the regular members, completely disappeared.

After confirming that even the traces of the magic circle had disappeared, I returned to where Stella and Selene were waiting.

The battle nuns’ gazes towards me changed in a very burdensome way when I returned alone.

“It is an honor to serve you again, distinguished guest.”

Stella approached me with a bright smile. Next to her, Selene was approaching me with a holy catalyst that had a faint full moon on it.

“Their Holinesses the Popes will be pleased.”

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“……Lize, are you free for a moment?”

Iris, who had returned to the Imperial Palace, reported to Cecilia and then immediately looked for Lize. Lize, who had finished her work and was resting in her room, growled as soon as she saw Iris.

“Did you enjoy your date with my lover while I wasn’t there? It must have been sweet, huh?”

Claudia, with her hand on Erica’s shoulder, was giggling while watching them. She knew that Lize wasn’t truly angry. It was just a light complaint.

Erica, who was polishing her armor, only frowned at Claudia, who was pressing down on her shoulder, and didn’t show any signs of stopping Lize.

“……It’s about Delta, Lize. I’d like you to listen.”

Pause.

Lize’s expression changed at those words. Claudia and Erica also hardened their expressions and changed their postures.

Iris’s stiff expression and the words ‘it’s about Delta’. It was a combination that couldn’t help but bring ominous thoughts to mind.

Lize’s voice slightly rose.

“……Why? Did something happen to Delta?”

“That is……”

When Iris hesitated, Lize, unable to hold back any longer, strode towards Iris. And then, she grabbed her shoulder and pulled her closer.

“I asked you what happened to Delta? Why can’t you answer?”

There were two things that Iris had overlooked and that Delta hadn’t noticed.

“I……”

The first was that she hadn’t explained charm itself to Iris because she had been thinking about the reason why the corpse could inflict charm and why the effect of charm was different for each person.

“I, Delta……”

The second was that Iris had combined the actions she had committed and Stella’s explanation, specifically the word ‘positive feelings’, and had come to her own conclusion about her state.

“……I think I like him.”

—Crash!

The helmet that she had just finished polishing rolled onto the other parts of her armor with a loud sound.

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