I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 182

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Uh, from here on out, we have to walk!”

After a full day’s ride in the carriage, we finally arrived near the ruins Fetch had mentioned. Fetch, looking incredibly excited, hopped out of the carriage, and I lumbered after her.

‘……She really talks a lot.’

Whether she had done it on purpose to wear me down, or if it was just her natural personality, Fetch had chattered non-stop throughout the entire journey.

When I asked her why she talked so much, she said it was an occupational hazard she had developed from traveling alone so much, a way to keep herself from getting bored.

Even considering that, she really talked a lot, to the point of being tiresome.

After the carriage departed, leaving just the two of us, Fetch gestured in a certain direction and started leading the way.

‘I hope Lize is following along alright.’

I felt a little bad for making her follow us for a whole day without rest, but she had said that much was child’s play for her, so she was probably fine.

Nix would teleport to us later anyway.

“This is it!”

Fetch finally stopped after walking for nearly two hours through the mountains. I checked the spot she was pointing at.

The trees were already dense, but the surrounding rocks and weeds cleverly concealed the entrance to the ruins, making it hard to notice even if you knew what you were looking for.

This was especially true for me, even though I had visited this place countless times in the game.

It seemed like she had put an incredible amount of effort into hiding a place that might be filled with treasure.

“Ah! Just a moment! I have to disable the traps first!”

As soon as we removed all the rocks, a slender arm stopped me, and she headed towards the entrance to the ruins first.

Fetch, who had been about to bend down, turned around and, with a slightly embarrassed expression, said in a tone of excuse,

“It wouldn’t do if someone else looted it before I got here, would it? That’s why.”

The traps set at the entrance to the ruins were ones that Fetch herself had installed to prevent any unexpected intruders.

In the game, since she wouldn’t be so proactive, the player had to disable the traps themselves.

There were quite a few people who had triggered the traps while trying to enter the ruins, gotten blocked at the entrance, and then returned, fuming, to kill Fetch.

Fetch hummed to herself for a while as she disabled the traps she had set, and then, with a bright smile, gestured for me to enter.

“Alright! Let’s go in!”

While she wasn’t looking, I took the opportunity to drop a small scroll.

It was a scroll inscribed with a magic circle that would transmit my current coordinates to Nix after a certain amount of time.

Now Nix would be able to find us here. Lize was probably watching us from somewhere already.

I entered the ruins.

A space that was similar to the game, but much larger, greeted me. As befitting a place called ruins rather than a dungeon, it felt distinctly man-made.

I looked around, and then, glancing at Fetch, muttered,

“Doesn’t this seem a little empty for a two-million-gold ruin?”

“Hey, I already looted this place! I’m the one who found it, so why would I leave it as it is? This is just a small part anyway, there’s much more space further inside!”

It was a lie.

In the game, when the player fell into the trap, she would readily admit that this place had been empty from the beginning.

Well, if there really had been treasure, she would have looted it all, just as she said.

We went deeper inside. Fetch was even humming to herself, unable to contain her excitement at the thought of scamming me.

It was only natural, since she probably thought she had landed a big one.

After walking for a while, Fetch pointed towards the entrance of an inner chamber.

“We’re here! See that door? That’s it!”

Beyond the entrance, which was about my height and wide enough for two people to stand side-by-side, I could see rows of treasure chests.

Each one was covered in gold leaf and decorated with dazzling jewels.

“That’s where I couldn’t explore further! See those chests? They look so fancy, don’t they think they’re filled with something?”

“Really? They look ordinary to me. There must be a reason you left them untouched, right?”

“There is, but… it’s hard to explain, so it’ll be better for you to see for yourself. Let’s go check it out!”

Was this how she was going to lure me inside while avoiding giving a proper explanation?

Fetch entered the inner chamber first. I followed her inside. Fetch, standing near the entrance, pointed to a chest a little further away.

“I’ll tell you why now. Come closer and take a look.”

Fetch was leading me further inside while simultaneously positioning herself near the entrance.

Her movements were so natural that it was hard to believe she hadn’t done this countless times before.

I played along. As I approached the chest, Fetch began to chatter about some useless information. I pretended to focus on the information while observing Fetch.

While talking, she was subtly shifting her feet towards the entrance. It was so subtle that if I hadn’t been paying close attention, I wouldn’t have even noticed she was moving.

She was probably planning to quickly slip out while I was distracted by the chest and then close the entrance, trapping me inside. I quietly waited for Fetch to reveal her true colors.

“……So, this is a trap. See this mark here? Compare it to the chest next to it.”

The opportunity came soon enough. I turned my head towards the direction Fetch was pointing, thinking that she was finally about to make her move.

Just as I had expected, as soon as I turned my head, I heard the sound of footsteps fading away.

I looked towards the entrance to the chamber. Right after the pink twintails disappeared outside, a metal gate slammed down with a clang, blocking the entrance.

“Hahahaha!”

Fetch stood in front of the gate, laughing triumphantly. I suppressed my own laughter and walked towards the gate.

“What’s this all of a sudden?”

“What do you mean, what’s this?! You fell for my trap! It’s over for you!”

Fetch, having revealed her true colors, dropped the polite speech. There was no need to be courteous to prey that she had just caught.

“This trap is for idiots like you, I hope you like it. A money-crazed idiot who rushes in without thinking. That’s you, isn’t it? Well, it’s hard for someone as selfless as me to understand!”

‘She’s saying the exact same lines as in the game.’

I chuckled at the word ‘selfless.’ Fetch’s expression darkened.

“Ha, you’re laughing? You don’t even realize what kind of situation you’re in?”

“What about my situation? What’s wrong with it?”

Fetch, seemingly displeased by my nonchalant attitude despite being trapped, momentarily twitched her eyes, and then scoffed.

“I guess you think you can escape from there. Go ahead and try. No one has ever escaped from that room. You’ll be no different!”

“Hearing you say that makes me feel less worried. If no one has ever done it, that just means it’s about to happen. Do you even read novels?”

And I was going to be the one to set that precedent.

Fetch, seemingly thinking that I was bluffing, clutched her stomach and burst into laughter. After laughing for a while, she wiped away her tears.

“Do you think you’re the first one to say that? You know what happened to the guy who said that? He starved to death in there. He begged me to let him out later, but I didn’t. You’ll end up the same way.”

“I doubt it.”

“Think whatever you want. You’re going to die anyway, so you might as well think freely. Ah, don’t worry too much! If you’re dead when I come back, I’ll strip you naked and sell everything you have!”

After waving goodbye, Fetch left.

I was left alone in the room with the dazzling treasure chests.

There were exactly thirteen chests in the room. Six along the left wall, six along the right wall, and the largest and most ornate chest at the far end of the room, opposite the entrance.

The treasure chests were all lavishly decorated, giving off the impression that they were filled with treasure. And they probably were.

If it weren’t for the mimics.

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‘That annoying guy! What kind of reaction is that?’

Fetch cursed the man trapped inside as she left the ruins.

He should be crying and begging, but he was laughing instead?

Because of him, she hadn’t even been able to deliver her prepared lines properly. It was just another thing to be annoyed about.

She had been planning to tell him to choose wisely among the treasure chests, since one of them was a mimic.

The woman who had been trapped right before him had cried and begged to be let out as soon as she realized she had been tricked. It had been quite entertaining to boss her around.

Well, she had ended up being eaten by a mimic anyway.

‘How many more people do I have to lure in here?’

It was true that even Fetch herself hadn’t fully explored the ruins.

There were mimics among the chests in the room, and she didn’t know which ones contained real treasure. She didn’t want to risk opening the wrong one and getting eaten.

That was why she lured people here, trapped them, and made them find the real chests.

If the man currently trapped inside succeeded, she would wait until he starved to death and then take the treasure and his belongings. If he failed, she would simply bring in someone new, just like she had been doing.

That man was the sixth.

She usually lured them in with words, but she hadn’t expected someone to actually buy the map.

He had spent a million gold on a piece of paper, he was clearly out of his mind.

‘He has to have some common sense, right? He can’t be that stupid.’

There were bloodstains in front of the chests where people had been eaten.

She had deliberately not cleaned them completely, to prevent the unfortunate event of someone opening the same chest.

‘Well, I made a lot of money, so I’ll let it slide once if he makes a mistake.’

Fetch smiled, thinking about the million gold she had in her bag. It was enough to live comfortably for several months. She could finally afford to splurge a little.

She was humming to herself as she was about to leave the ruins when—

“They were two when they went in, why is only one coming out? That’s strange.”

She stopped at the voice coming from the entrance to the ruins. Someone was blocking the entrance.

A familiar silhouette, a familiar female voice.

“You are……”

She recognized the woman.

Blue hair and blue eyes. A neat uniform consisting of a white tank top and dolphin shorts. Large breasts that couldn’t be concealed even by the modest uniform, and a flawless figure.

The woman who had been next to the black-haired man she had trapped.

Fetch looked around. The shorter one wasn’t visible. She had either been left behind, or was hiding. It had to be one of the two.

“How did you get here?”

She tried to assess the situation by speaking politely first. It was crucial to figure out how much the woman knew.

If she had simply followed the man without knowing anything, she could be persuaded to leave. But if that wasn’t the case…… she would have to be killed.

“How did I get here? I came to catch you, of course.”

“……What?”

The blue-haired woman grinned.

“I mean, I know everything, you swindler. You scammed my man and trapped him in there.”

“…….”

There was no need to pretend any longer.

Fetch’s expression hardened.

He must have told her something before coming here. That was probably why he had been so nonchalant despite being trapped.

He had known that she would come to rescue him?

‘Ah, that would work.’

Fetch smirked.

If that was what he was relying on, she would just kill her and throw her head inside.

That would show him that his reliance had been shattered, and he would despair like the others.

Besides, she had to deal with the woman to escape anyway, so it was killing two birds with one stone.

Fetch placed her bag on the ground and neatly folded her coat. Then, she pulled out a weapon from her bag. A sword she often used when she needed a weapon.

She couldn’t even remember who the original owner had been. It had been too long since she had killed them.

“What, are you trying to fight me? Why don’t you just surrender and save yourself the trouble?”

The woman scoffed.

She was still like that even after seeing Fetch draw her weapon? It meant one of two things.

She was either a newbie who didn’t know her own strength, or a seasoned veteran who was beyond the norm.

But judging from her incredible figure, she didn’t seem like a veteran who was beyond the norm.

How could she move properly with breasts that large? One should be free of excess baggage to move swiftly.

“I have to kill witnesses. I wasn’t planning on letting you go anyway.”

“Oh, you know that? Then that makes things easier.”

The woman beckoned with her finger. It was a gesture telling Fetch to come at her.

She was clearly looking down on Fetch, thinking she was just a merchant. She wasn’t even drawing her weapon.

‘Perfect.’

It was just what Fetch wanted. She knew how to kill people very well, she had done it countless times. This woman would be no different.

She kicked off the ground and charged at the woman at full speed.

The woman, caught off guard by the unexpected speed, hadn’t even touched her weapon.

‘Goodbye, idiot!’

She thrust her sword towards the woman’s throat.

The tip of the sword pierced the woman’s throat.

“……Huh?”

“Just in case you’re wondering, this isn’t the end, is it?”

It would have been, if the woman hadn’t caught the blade with her bare hand.

It was completely unexpected. Fetch froze in place. The woman clicked her tongue.

“You were trying to kill me with that kind of skill? Pathetic.”

Fetch tried to pull out her sword.

Since the woman was holding the blade with her bare hand, she would be the one getting hurt.

“Eek… eek…!”

But the sword wouldn’t budge.

She tried pulling, pushing, twisting, moving it sideways, but the sword, gripped in the woman’s hand, wouldn’t move an inch.

It meant that there was an enormous difference in strength between Fetch and the woman. So much so that she couldn’t even move the sword, let alone pull it out.

‘Damn it!’

Did he hire a skilled woman as his bodyguard and… something else, instead of just a pretty face like the other nobles?

The thought that she had messed with the wrong person crossed her mind.

Fetch struggled to pull out her sword.

The woman, watching her pathetic attempts, spoke in a condescending tone.

“Since you still don’t seem to get it, I’ll give you a piece of advice.”

“I don’t need—”

“There’s only one thing in this world that can pierce me.”

The woman flicked her wrist. Fetch’s body was lifted into the air and sent flying backwards.

Fetch quickly flipped herself over in mid-air and landed on her feet, bending her knees to absorb the impact.

She immediately looked up. Was the woman going to attack?

“……!”

No. The woman was standing still, holding Fetch’s sword in both hands.

She held the tip of the blade with her left hand and the hilt with her right, and then she squeezed.

Creak!

‘That crazy woman……!’

Fetch’s face was filled with horror. The sword began to bend like a twig, until the hilt and the tip touched.

The sword, folded in half, was exactly half its original length.

‘She… bent a steel sword… with her bare hands?’

The woman casually tossed the halved sword aside. A pathetic clang echoed through the ruins. Fetch involuntarily stumbled back.

The blue-haired woman, who had folded a steel longsword as easily as eating a cake, beckoned with her finger, still unarmed.

“You said you were going to kill me. What are you waiting for?”

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