I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 51

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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‘How cute.’

Lizé looked at the newbie, who was glancing around with dazed eyes as if he couldn’t understand the current situation at all, with a satisfied smile.

Her index finger poked his cheek.

It was the first time she had seen the newbie so disheveled.

He was a man who didn’t even bat an eye no matter what happened, as if he had anticipated everything.

Except when it came to women.

Every time she pushed her breasts or bare skin against him in an attempt to seduce him, he showed clear signs of panic.

“That’s… What is…”

“Oops, be careful, newbie. You’re going to fall over.”

Claudia caught his body that was about to fall sideways while trying to get up from the seat.

Even though the weight of a sturdy adult male was entirely focused on one arm, Claudia was someone who could easily swing a greatsword larger than her own body and drink directly from an oak barrel full of wine.

There was no way she couldn’t support a single person.

“Since… when…?”

“We had already reached an agreement among ourselves before holding this banquet, so it hasn’t been long. At first, we didn’t intend to go this far, you know? As we watched the situation unfold, we thought this would work.”

“Then…”

“It started with Lady Aurora and Iris, then Iris hinted it to me, and I passed it on to Erica and Claudia. According to Iris, the first suggestion came from Lady Aurora.”

Aurora nodded her head in agreement.

Since it was something she had proposed, there was no need for excuses or justifications.

Claudia carefully seated the newbie in the chair.

As soon as the hand supporting his shoulder let go, his body slumped in the chair like a doll with its strings cut.

“There’s no need to be so frightened by the thought of us uncovering your secrets, newbie. The questions will be simple, despite how it sounds.”

Erica cautiously spoke up.

“When we first met you, newbie, you said that you had lost all your memories due to a curse. And that you were gradually regaining your memories through certain triggers. We even confirmed through the ability orb that all your stats were at 1, so there was absolutely no reason to doubt your words.”

The problem was what came after.

Erica let out a small sigh.

“Of course, we still fully trust you, newbie. That feeling will never change. However, we keep getting the impression that there’s something you haven’t told us. Not that you lied, but that you hid the truth from the beginning. You must know well that these two are different.”

“The fact that you were cursed itself is probably true. But that’s not what we want to know.”

Iris took over.

The newbie still had dazed eyes from the alcohol.

He seemed to be trying to sort out his thoughts, but the alcohol was preventing him from doing so.

“Who were you in the past?”

Yes, this question was the core of the current situation.

Who exactly was the newbie in the past?

Although there were numerous other questions piling up, the root of all of them was ultimately this question.

Even if they only got an answer about who the newbie was in the past, they would consider their purpose achieved.

“In the end, your words mean that you were able to come up with all those solutions because your old memories had returned. Then, the key is what kind of person you were in the past. I think it’s about time you can explain it to us now.”

What kind of past did he have to be able to recognize the behavior of a monster he had never heard of before, fully grasp the internal structure of a rune dungeon, and even handle a demon as if it were nothing?

If all those actions were truly based on his past memories, he must have been an extraordinary hero.

However, no human in the Empire, not even the Empress herself, had achieved such feats.

The Empress had been solving problems by overwhelming her opponents with her dominant power.

It was fundamentally different from the newbie who had overcome difficulties with abilities that were no better than the bottom of the bottom, let alone overwhelming power.

Especially when it came to dealing with demons.

They couldn’t even imagine what kind of past he had or what experiences he had gone through to be able to dismiss the descent of a demon as nothing and calmly come up with a plan to use it to kill the lord.

Demons were far from something that could be captured just because one had exceptional abilities.

Even the priests of the Holy Kingdom had to be prepared for extremely severe sacrifices.

Yet the newbie alone was unfazed.

It was from that point on that the knight commanders had started to genuinely wonder about his past deeds.

“Can’t you tell us what you’re hiding from us?”

Even at Iris’s polite request, the newbie kept his mouth tightly shut.

His firmly closed lips showed no sign of opening.

There was definitely something. The knight commanders and Aurora exchanged glances.

They say silence is affirmation.

If he chose silence instead of denial, it meant he had some unspeakable circumstances.

Aurora, who was right next to him, stepped forward and gently cupped his cheek with her hand, making eye contact.

Dazed black eyes and golden eyes filled with strong will exchanged gazes.

“Listen, I don’t know what kind of secret it is that you’re trying so hard to hide, but we’re not trying to do anything to you with it. Rather, we’re trying to help you.”

“……”

“No matter what you did in the past or what kind of person you were, we have no intention of using that against you at all. Even if you had actually committed a crime and been imprisoned, it would be the same. That might have been the case back then, but not now. We can just put that as a thing of the past and start anew.”

“……”

“Look here. This is a place where you can achieve anything you want. We have enough money, we have enough power to not be useless, and most importantly… we have women, don’t we? If you want, you can have them right now.”

“Wait a moment, Lady Aurora. What did you just say?”

Lizé cut off Aurora’s words.

Blue eyes glared at Aurora, filled with a growl.

It was a look of great vigilance towards the other person.

Somehow, ever since they first met at the mansion regarding the demon summoning incident, Aurora’s gaze towards the newbie had been unusual.

She never imagined Aurora would actually harbor such feelings.

Her level of wariness reached its peak.

At first glance, one might dismiss it as words referring to Lizé, simply seeing through Lizé’s heart and uttering them.

However, Aurora’s eyes made it clear that it wasn’t the case.

Those were the same eyes as Lizé’s when she looked at the newbie, filled with the emotions of a female.

At the same time, they were also the eyes of someone who felt sexual desire for the man in front of her.

Therefore, it was obvious who the word “women” Aurora uttered was referring to.

“Oh my, why is that? I didn’t say anything wrong, did I?”

“You seem to have said something very wrong. ‘We’? He clearly belongs to our Silver Dawn Knights. You can’t just do that.”

“In the end, you all have to obey my orders. So your subordinate is also my subordinate.”

“You’re using the same logic as that pig bastard?”

“The Empress said the same thing when she was in the Imperial Palace, so of course. That pig bastard and I both used to live in the Imperial Palace. Or are you perhaps saying you won’t follow the Empress?”

Lizé flinched when that topic came up.

Not following the Empress was unthinkable for the Silver Dawn Knights.

In contrast, Aurora smiled in victory.

After flinching for a moment, Lizé seemed to have found a counterattack, glancing at Aurora’s chest and smirking as she gestured as if she had no choice but to take a step back.

This time, it was Aurora’s turn to get upset.

She immediately understood what that gaze meant.

Although Aurora’s size couldn’t be considered small, it was woefully lacking compared to Lizé’s absurdly large breasts that rivaled her own head.

The newbie had also been constantly staring at Lizé’s breasts from the moment he started getting drunk, so it wasn’t difficult to guess what his preference was.

“Now, now. Lady Aurora, let’s stop there. Lizé, you too, leave it at that.”

Before the atmosphere could get even more heated, Claudia swiftly intervened.

This gathering was meant to uncover the newbie’s secret, not for them to fight each other.

The two of them knew that aswell, so it didn’t lead to a second round.

They knew that in the end, the right to choose wasn’t in their hands.

“The story got sidetracked for a bit, but in the end, what we want to say is this. Who were you in the past?”

“That… I can’t… tell…”

“You can’t tell? So there is something?”

“……”

He seemed to realize his mistake and closed his mouth again, but it was already spilled milk.

The eyes of the knight commanders and Aurora changed.

Those words were practically the same as saying there was something he couldn’t share with others. And it would be related to the newbie’s past deeds.

Finding that out was the task from now on.

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The next day, I vigorously got up from somewhere unknown.

‘This is absurd, seriously.’

My memories of last night immediately came to mind.

I had anticipated that they would be curious about my past, but I never imagined they would go to such lengths to try to find out.

I had intended to reveal it someday, but the timing had almost been pushed forward considerably.

Rather than feeling angry, I felt dumbfounded.

If we were to assess right and wrong, I was the one at fault from the beginning for blatantly lying with a straight face.

They were just trying to find out what my lies were.

It was just that the method was ridiculous.

I wondered if this was how the knight commanders felt when they heard the news that I had used a demon to kill the lord.

‘Did I answer the question?’

My head was already hazy from the alcohol, and I vaguely remembered getting caught in Claudia’s wordplay and openly admitting, “I have a secret.”

But I had no memory of what happened after that.

I couldn’t recall whether I had answered the question or managed to keep my mouth shut.

The film had been completely wiped out.

‘Wait. Where is this place?’

I hurriedly looked around.

The walls had an antique wallpaper, and the floor was covered with a carpet.

The bed was large enough for at least five people to comfortably lie down.

It seemed to be one of the rooms in the lord’s mansion.

I looked to the side, feeling a tingling sensation.

Fortunately, there was no one next to me.

The bed was also clean, and there were no signs of my clothes being taken off or torn.

‘…I hope nothing happened to me.’

I became even more worried because it seemed quite possible if it were Lizé.

During the time my memory was cut off, she could have seduced me and made me pounce on her, or she could have pounced on me instead.

Neither of those scenarios sounded completely far-fetched.

‘What happened after that…?’

“What, you really woke up? How did she know about this?”

While I was desperately trying to recall, the door swung open, and Lizé walked in with a tray, a bright smile on her face.

She was wearing her usual white sleeveless top and blue dolphin shorts instead of the see-through dress from the banquet.

“Hey, you were going to interrogate me by making me drink? And all five of you were in on it together?”

“You remembered. What a pity. We can’t use that trick a second time.”

I thought I should give a sharp remark even if I wasn’t angry, but seeing her nonchalant attitude, I was so dumbfounded that all the words I had in mind disappeared.

I also owed her a debt of gratitude in many ways.

‘Is this why Lizé came out of all the people?’

Lizé calmly walked over and sat on the edge of the bed, placing the tray down.

On it was a bowl of steaming soup.

Although my stomach didn’t particularly hurt, the timing to express anger had passed, and I thought I should eat something for now, so I reached for the soup bowl.

Smack, Lizé slapped my hand away with a coy expression.

When I looked at her with a question mark above my head, Lizé picked up the soup bowl herself, scooped it with a spoon, and held it out to me.

“……”

My appeal that I could eat by myself was completely ignored.

As I obediently accepted the soup, Lizé finally smiled brightly, put the spoon down on the tray, and opened her mouth.

“How much do you remember about what happened yesterday?”

“How much do you think I remember?”

I returned the action she had done to me at the beginning of the banquet.

Just as I thought I had scored a point, I saw Lizé looking at me with a very meaningful smile.

What kind of expression was that again?

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