I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 177

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Good work. It must have been tough.”

Aurora, after hearing the whole story, crossed her legs and leaned back in her chair.

The chair had been replaced with one made of a softer material. While the previous one had focused more on style than practicality, this one felt like it prioritized practicality and comfort over style.

Rumor had it that she had changed it to a softer material because she couldn’t even sit properly in the chair for several days after sleeping with me.

I had deliberately pushed her harder than usual to prevent her from following me, but I thought that I should hold back a little next time.

‘If she’s also willing, that is.’

Aurora, with her legs crossed, glanced at me and smiled. It was the kind of smile she had when a good idea came to mind.

A good idea from her perspective, not mine.

“But you’re not going to tell me what you did in the Holy Kingdom?”

“What did you just hear?”

I looked at Aurora with a bewildered expression. What I had just told her was what I had done in the Holy Kingdom.

She was asking that question after hearing the whole story from beginning to end.

Of course, I had hidden quite a few things. I couldn’t tell her everything that had happened in the Holy Kingdom.

Sleeping with the Popes for two days straight, hearing God’s voice, receiving holy relics as gifts.

All of them were things that would cause all sorts of repercussions if they were spread to the outside world. Especially if it reached Cecilia’s ears, it would definitely cause a huge commotion.

It wasn’t that I didn’t trust Aurora, and I knew that she could keep secrets, but I didn’t want to reveal it to the outside world yet.

It was because I didn’t think I could handle the aftermath. I was busy defeating bosses, so I couldn’t deal with any other troubles.

“You said you went to see Their Holinesses the Popes. You didn’t do what we did with them, did you?”

Aurora, with a playful smile on her face, made a circle with the thumb and index finger of her left hand, and repeatedly inserted and removed the index finger of her right hand inside the circle.

My expression became even more bewildered at the grand blasphemy.

“Are you now committing blasphemy? I won’t be responsible if you’re punished by heaven.”

“It’s fine, you’ll protect me, Delta. You’re not going to abandon me after doing that, are you?”

“Who am I to you, My Lady, that you would even need protection from divine punishment?”

“Hmm… well. A man with a lot of secrets?”

Aurora’s face was full of playfulness.

Seeing as she had completely disappeared, no longer groaning about her back hurting and unable to move a single step, it seemed like she had fully recovered.

And since I had actually slept with the Popes in the Holy Kingdom, I had nothing to retort. Rather, I wondered if I would be struck by lightning if I denied it here.

“Did you call me here this late just to make such vulgar jokes?”

I glanced at the clock. It was 2 AM.

To activate the easter egg for Luna, I naturally had to wait until night when the moon rose, and among those times, I had to wait until midnight when the full moon was directly above the spire of the Moon Cathedral.

So, I inevitably had to return here very late at night.

However, the reason why it was closer to dawn than late at night was mostly because of the long argument I had had with the Popes afterwards.

‘How can I accept something so burdensome?’

Floretta and Luna, after receiving the holy relics from me, had said that they wanted to give me a small token of gratitude and asked me to wait for a moment, and then returned after 10 minutes with 40 two-horse carriages.

They might be holy relics to them, but to me, who knew the truth, they were just flashlights. I felt guilty receiving such a reward for giving them weapons with practically trash performance.

Since I wasn’t the type to shamelessly accept something that was more than what I had given them, such a reward wasn’t a reward, but a burden.

So, I had tried to only take one carriage’s worth of goods, but the Popes clung to me and pleaded with me to let them express their gratitude, so I had a very hard time persuading them.

That was the cause of the long argument.

‘When I returned to the castle with Selene, the knights who were on night duty were so surprised that their legs gave way.’

Well, even after the argument, the amount I had chosen after careful consideration was still 10 two-horse carriages’ worth.

It was only natural for the castle to be in an uproar since the Knight Commander, who had said that he was going to the Holy Kingdom for a bit, had returned with 10 carriages with the Holy Kingdom’s emblem.

Not only the Deputy Commanders and members who were on night duty, but also the ones who were sleeping had to be woken up to organize everything.

The sight of 5 reverse bunny girls and 50 bunny girls picking up treasures in the middle of the night was quite a sight to behold.

Of course, I was being sarcastic.

‘I wonder if it’ll be done by tonight.’

I had left for the mansion after taking a suitable jewel and telling the knights on night duty that Aurora had told them to come find her whenever.

Even though I had left after dumping a bunch of work on them, it was a good thing for the knight order, so the Deputy Commanders and the members had very strange expressions as they looked at me.

“Did you really think I would do that? The report said it would only take two days at most, but you didn’t return even after three days. I called you because I was wondering what you were doing that made you a day late.”

“Well, there were some circumstances.”

“Of course there were. If you had just been late, then maybe, but you even came back with all of that.”

Aurora glanced at the jewel that was placed on her desk.

Aurora’s eyes had widened in surprise after seeing the jewel, but after hearing the answer, she had a bewildered expression.

A faint sigh escaped her lips as if she was recalling what had happened back then.

“……I’m done with what I had to say. You can go back now, since it’s late.”

“Understood.”

Aurora stared at me as if she had something to say, and then looked down and reached for the jewel on her desk.

After confirming that, I turned around and left Aurora’s room.

I was glad that it ended without any problems. I had been worried about what to do if Aurora tried to seduce me like the Popes had done.

“Weren’t you with the Lady inside?”

As soon as I closed the door after going out to the hallway, I heard a woman’s voice right next to me.

I flinched and looked in the direction of the voice.

Just like always, Lana, the head maid with black hair and black eyes, was standing there with her hands politely clasped together in front of her lower abdomen.

“……I was.”

When I replied, calming my surprised heart, Lana tilted her head.

“Why did you come out already?”

What was this, déjà vu?

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On the morning of the day I returned from the Holy Kingdom, I was in Nix’s room after hearing the quantity and list of treasures from the Deputy Commanders, including Lakscia.

According to Lakscia, they had to seriously consider expanding the warehouse.

I could roughly tell from just looking that the amount was enormous, but I hadn’t expected it to be that much.

Even with just the 10 carriages I had taken after greatly reducing the original amount they had tried to give me, it was this much, so if I had taken all 40 carriages, I wondered if treasures would have really overflowed the entire castle.

I decided to remodel the castle and asked them to organize a list of facilities that needed repairs, improvements, or expansion, and then told Nix about what had happened in the Holy Kingdom.

That the restriction on Nix herself had been personally placed by God.

“……Hehe, is that so.”

Nix, after hearing my explanation, was silent for a while, and then smiled foolishly, hehe-ing like usual.

“So, have you ever been involved with someone from the Holy Kingdom? Or have you ever heard God’s voice like I did?”

“I, I don’t think so… It’s not in my memories.”

It’s not in my memories, huh.

It was a very ambiguous statement. At first glance, it sounded like she was saying that it might be in the informal Nix’s memories, but Nix’s personalities shared their memories.

“You said that you share your memories, right? Then the Nix that speaks informally wouldn’t know either, right?”

“Yes. What I know, that Nix also knows, and what I don’t know, that Nix also doesn’t know. Ah, but there are slight differences in very specific areas.”

“There are differences? What kind of differences?”

“Things like using magic, I’m a little better at that.”

Now that I thought about it, I remembered that informal Nix had said that it wasn’t her area of expertise and had switched personalities with formal Nix.

Was it because formal Nix was better at magic?

“Do you know why there’s such a difference?”

“Hehe, I don’t really know about that either……”

Nix fidgeted with her fingers in front of her chest and glanced at me. I stroked her head as a sign that it was okay. Her expression immediately brightened.

“Okay, I understand. I’ll ask the informal one later as well.”

Nod, nod-!

Her head bobbed up and down vigorously.

I continued to stroke Nix’s head, inwardly cursing the god of the Holy Kingdom, who had a similar appearance to a certain green-haired cat beastkin, who had disappeared without giving me a proper answer.

“Commander, are you there? I heard that you were in the black magic user’s room, so I came looking for you.”

Someone knocked on the door. It was Lakscia.

“I’m here. What is it?”

“A letter has arrived for you, Commander.”

“A letter?”

I felt a slight chill as soon as I heard that.

Hadn’t every letter I had received so far led to some kind of trouble? They had all either led to incidents or required me to go somewhere.

“Yes. May I deliver it to you?”

“Yes. Come in.”

Lakscia, after receiving permission, opened the door and entered the room.

Then, she paused for a moment after seeing me stroking Nix’s head and Nix purring while being stroked, and then handed me the letter in her hand and immediately left.

I quickly checked the sender.

Unless it was a letter sent directly by Cecilia, or a time-sensitive mandatory quest or story event, I was planning on ignoring it for a few days.

‘……Lize?’

But the sender of the letter was Lize.

I couldn’t ignore a letter sent by Lize, so I carefully untied the knot.

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