I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 176

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Two pairs of green eyes and two pairs of purple eyes were looking back and forth between the staff in my hand and me. They seemed to be incredibly surprised.

“D-distinguished… g-guest…?”

Floretta, like a broken robot, stammered as she opened and closed her mouth towards me.

Her face looked like she had a lot to say, but it seemed like her tongue was frozen and couldn’t move properly.

“Distinguished guest, is that…?”

Luna stepped in for Floretta, who was only stammering. However, Luna’s condition wasn’t that good either. She could barely manage to open her mouth.

“It’s what I was talking about. So… for now, it’s a holy relic.”

I felt a pang of guilt calling a weapon that was even worse than a broken straight sword in terms of performance, and had nothing but its appearance going for it, a holy relic.

Why would this thing, which couldn’t even deal three-digit damage even if you had 99 faith and 99 divine power and were fully buffed and used the highest-ranking Divine Spell against a demon, be called a holy relic?

It was just a cool-looking flashlight.

Just looking at the damage, I wondered if it had a reverse correction value instead of a correction value. I had seriously doubted my eyes when I first used it, thinking that I had misread the damage numbers.

But what could I do? It was considered a holy relic in the Holy Kingdom. I had to call it that.

“Holy relic……”

Luna, with her head bowed, mumbled something.

The volume of her voice gradually decreased to the point where it was hard to tell if she was speaking or just mumbling.

I casually accepted the gazes that were piercing me from four directions and approached Floretta, offering her the staff in my hand. Floretta’s eyes widened at the sight.

“Here, Floretta. It’s yours.”

“……Me?”

“Is there another Floretta here besides you?”

I lightly shook the arm that was holding the staff, urging her to take it quickly.

Floretta carefully extended her hands, which were clasped together. Her hands were trembling so badly that I wondered if she would even be able to hold it properly.

I placed the staff on her palms and pressed her knuckles so that she would make a fist. I did that because I felt like she would drop it the moment I removed my hand.

Floretta, staring blankly at the small sun that was emitting light in her hand, transferred the staff to her left hand. Her now free right hand reached out towards the small sun.

Her right hand, which had reached right in front of the sun, hesitated for a moment, and then, as if she had made up her mind, she slowly started stroking the sunset-colored surface.

Luna, Stella, and Selene were staring at her as if they were mesmerized.

“It’s… not… hot……”

Those were the first words that Floretta uttered after stroking the sun for a while.

Floretta, seemingly fascinated by the fact that it wasn’t hot at all despite looking exactly like the sun in the sky, stroked it with teary eyes and then raised her head.

Our eyes met, her green eyes swirling with complex emotions.

“Distinguished guest. How… how did you find this… holy relic?”

“Well. Did God tell me?”

I replied jokingly with a slight smile.

The four people here would easily realize that I had said that to subtly avoid the question. They would also realize that I was avoiding the answer.

“……Is that so.”

As long as they didn’t take it seriously.

“The sun……”

Floretta’s expression was very serious, as if she hadn’t noticed my joking tone, playful expression, and the slightly raised inflection at the end of my sentence, “Did God tell me?”.

Of course, the Pope of the Moon, the Inquisitor, and the Interrogator were no exception. All four of them were taking my words very seriously.

“If you can hear God’s voice… then of course……”

‘I knew it.’

I wasn’t surprised at all since I had fully expected it. Rather, I would have been much more surprised if Floretta or Luna had taken my words as a joke in this situation.

It wasn’t like anything problematic would happen even if they thought that way.

Considering my relationship with the Popes, adding one more holy relic wouldn’t change anything drastically. It would be like adding a cup of salt to the ocean.

Hearing God’s voice?

That was something the Popes did every day. It was the first time someone other than the Popes had heard it? I was the first one to defeat the Creature Abandoned by God, so what was so new about this?

‘It’s not like this is the first time I’ve done something like this.’

Looking back, I had done quite a lot of surprising things.

Interpreting a revelation from God, returning after soloing the Abyss Dungeon, defeating the Creature Abandoned by God, receiving God’s blessing, hearing God’s voice.

I had done quite a few things. Finding a holy relic might be a tremendous achievement on its own, but if you listed it after all of those things, it was just average.

And I had firmly told them not to reveal our relationship until I gave them permission, so what more could there be?

I hadn’t done this without thinking.

“Luna.”

“…….”

“Luna?”

“……Yes, distinguished guest?”

Luna, who had been staring at the small sun surrounded by angel wings that was shining in Floretta’s hand as if she was mesmerized, regained her senses and looked at me.

Her eyes were still half-dazed.

“Can you tell me when the full moon will rise?”

“Today.”

Luna, after hearing my question, answered immediately without any hesitation. I wondered if it was because she was the Pope of the Moon.

“……Oh.”

I hadn’t expected this either. To think that today was also the day of the full moon.

Just like how ‘noon’ was a requirement for activating the Sun Salutation easter egg, ‘full moon’ was a requirement for activating the moon’s easter egg. To put it bluntly, a full moon.

In the game, since both of them were one-time events that appeared when certain triggers were met, the difficulty of activation was about the same, but it was different here.

Compared to noon, which could be activated at any time as long as it was 12 PM, you had to wait for the full moon cycle for the full moon.

So, I had thought that I might not be able to give it to her right now and was going to comfort her, but……

But if today was the full moon, there was no need to comfort Luna. I could just obtain it and give it to her. And I wouldn’t have to come back to see the Popes again when the full moon cycle came.

For reference, ‘Praise the Moon’ wasn’t that different from ‘Praise the Sun’. The only difference was whether your palms were facing outwards or inwards.

‘I can just wait until midnight, give Luna the staff, and then return.’

Even I thought it was a perfect plan.

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Luna stared blankly at the staff in her hand. At the holy relic that had two pairs of angel wings and a full moon floating above it, emitting a faint moonlight.

As if her throat was choked up, she couldn’t speak. It felt like other emotions would pour out instead of words if she opened her mouth.

It was the same for Floretta.

Floretta was also holding the holy relic in her hand, staring blankly at the small sun that was floating between the angel wings.

Luna’s slender fingers started stroking the full moon that was floating at the tip of the holy relic. Her fingertips trembled.

It wasn’t cold.

Just like how the sun wasn’t hot.

“……Sister Seraphica.”

A familiar voice was heard. I slowly raised my head. Her younger sister was standing in the direction where her purple eyes, sparkling in the moonlight, were looking.

“Are we… allowed to receive something like this?”

It was a reasonable question.

The Popes hadn’t even fully repaid their debt for their lives yet.

They had only promised to provide maximum convenience while hosting a farewell banquet, and even that maximum convenience hadn’t been used often, except for when obtaining holy water containing light.

They hadn’t even fully repaid the debt for their lives, and they had received a holy relic that wasn’t even recorded in the history of the Holy Kingdom. They didn’t even know how they were going to repay it.

What had the Holy Kingdom done for him, and what had Floretta and Luna done for him to receive such kindness? What did the Holy Kingdom of Raphaela mean to the distinguished guest?

And he hadn’t even given them the holy relic with any expectations.

He had rejected their seduction and left, and then returned after a few minutes, saying that he had something to find and asking them to come with him.

“……I don’t know either.”

Luna couldn’t answer properly either. There was no way she could know the distinguished guest’s thoughts.

The Popes, who had been looking at each other for a moment, simultaneously exerted their divine power as if they had planned it beforehand.

As a chillingly clear and transparent divine power flowed into the staff, the sunlight and moonlight intensified.

White light and silver light pushed away the darkness and illuminated the surroundings.

“He said to cherish this.”

The distinguished guest, as he was returning to the Empire with Selene’s help, had said not to use it anywhere else and to just hold it. He had said that there was no need to use it to defeat heretics or demons.

But Floretta and Luna knew. The implication of those words was just for them to cherish the gift he had given them. He had probably said it indirectly because he was too embarrassed to say it directly.

The Popes knew.

“Even if he hadn’t said that… of course we would.”

They each hugged the holy relic that was emitting their respective lights tightly.

Even if he hadn’t said that, they would have cherished it. It was to the extent that they would choose the holy relic without hesitation if they had to choose between their lives and the holy relic.

To think that he had told them not to use the staff, which had acknowledged the Popes as its owners as soon as they held it, and whose usage had been personally taught to them by God, to subjugate demons and heretics. It was ridiculous.

No one else, not even the distinguished guest who was receiving the love of the sun and moon, would be able to properly use this staff.

It was natural. Because this was a holy relic that the sun had made for the Pope of the Sun, and the moon had made for the Pope of the Moon, from the very beginning.

No one other than the Popes could properly draw out even 1% of its power. It was something they had realized from the knowledge that had flowed into their heads from the holy relic.

“You must have known, right, Evangelina?”

“He must have, sister. Yes. He definitely did.”

The almighty distinguished guest would definitely know this, so what other reason could there be for him to say to just hold it, other than for them to cherish his gift?

The two, who had been staring at the sunlight and moonlight with dazed eyes for a while, simultaneously opened their mouths.

“Evangelina.”

“Sister Seraphica.”

And then, they smiled as if they had realized what the other was trying to say.

They couldn’t just keep receiving like this. They had to repay this favor, even if it meant dedicating their entire lives to it.

But how?

They had already offered their bodies as women. They had brought the bodies of the most noble and pure women in the Holy Kingdom to him.

And they hadn’t just offered their bodies. Rather, Floretta and Luna had become completely immersed in the pleasure and constantly seduced the distinguished guest who had visited the Holy Kingdom after a long time.

This wasn’t serving him, but rather, just enjoying it together.

And it didn’t seem like he wanted power and position.

If he wanted to, he could obtain the Pope of the Sun, the Pope of the Moon, the Inquisitor, and the Interrogator right now, and control the entire Holy Kingdom.

If the ordinary believers didn’t follow him, then maybe, but if it was revealed that he was the one who had heard the voices of the sun and moon despite not being the Pope, they would rush to bow their heads before him.

The fact that he wasn’t doing it even though he could meant that he wasn’t interested.

Then there was only one method left. The sisters looked at each other again and smiled.

“Sister, are you thinking the same thing as me?”

“I am.”

The sisters were still on the same wavelength.

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