I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 71

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Golden hair that could be called the sun itself stretched downward, boasting an abundance that could wrap around the entire body and still have plenty left over.

The ends of her hair were so long that they almost touched the floor, and on both sides, well-groomed bangs fully revealed her forehead.

Between her eyelids, green eyes that looked as refreshing as if they contained the lush greenery of summer sparkled.

Around her neck, an ornament with a green gemstone the same color as her eyes was hanging.

Her appearance was stunning, but what rendered me speechless more than anything else was the woman’s clothing.

It was an outfit that was close to see-through, where the skin was fully visible.

It was an outfit where it was harder to find parts that were covered from her shoulders to her toes.

The nun’s robe that Stella wore had considerable exposure, but the woman in front of me surpassed even that.

Her collarbone, arms, cleavage, breasts, abdomen, sides, navel, hips, lower abdomen, and thighs.

Every inch that the eye could see was practically no different from being stark naked.

No, it seemed like it would be less obscene to rip off all her clothes and stand there completely nude rather than wearing that outfit.

Her breasts, which were almost fully exposed, were as large as Lizé’s.

They were so big that her elbows above weren’t even properly visible due to the sideboob.

The only piece of clothing that covered her important parts was a single, extremely thin piece of cloth.

It wrapped around the back of her neck, slightly covering her breasts, and merged into one in front of her lower abdomen, covering a woman’s intimate area.

Even the thickness of the cloth itself was seriously thin.

It was so thin that the flesh below her buttocks was slightly exposed between her thighs.

With such an outfit, there was no way she could be wearing underwear.

There was no sign of anything that could be considered underwear even in her cleavage, which was exposed almost to the point of revealing her nipples, and there was no presence of underwear between the garter belt that wrapped around her pelvis and hipbones.

In other words, the only clothing that woman had on her body was a nearly transparent see-through fabric, a single piece of opaque cloth narrower than her own forearms, and a garter belt with stockings.

It was an outfit that rendered even me, who thought I had seen all sorts of outrageous outfits, speechless.

Even the see-through dresses the knight commanders had worn during the banquet didn’t expose all the important parts like that, and the same went for Aurora’s dress.

“I have been eager to meet you.”

The Pope greeted me with a smile.

I couldn’t say a word, only stammering due to the unique elegance and atmosphere emanating from the woman, combined with the presence of the sacred robe that was too embarrassing to even call an outfit.

Her appearance wasn’t really an issue.

Just walking down the street, you would stumble upon pretty women.

Even the important NPCs were beings beyond the scope of the word “beautiful,” whose appearance couldn’t be adequately described by that term.

However, such an absurd outfit was something I couldn’t even imagine.

Recalling that this outfit was also handcrafted by the mod creators, human talent always exceeded people’s expectations.

“Delta? We’ll come in tooㅡ”

The knight commanders had similar reactions to mine.

Iris entered and glanced at the Pope, then froze on the spot, and Claudia, Lizé, and Erica, who entered in a line, ended up in a similar state.

Since they weren’t wearing armor, their expressions were fully visible.

According to Stella, wearing armor in front of the Pope itself was an act of impiety.

However, the emotions I felt seemed to be of a completely different nature.

While I was shocked by the outrageous level of exposure of the sacred robe worn by the Pope, the knight commanders were closer to being shocked by the elegance and holiness overflowing from the Pope.

“Please come in. Knight commanders of the Silver Dawn Knights. In the name of the sun, I welcome you as well.”

The Pope took a light step forward.

In sync with that, the hem of her sacred robe fluttered, and her breasts swayed greatly.

The cloth that crossed the center of her body and covered her important parts flapped and swayed.

Seeing it swaying like that, it was clear that the cloth wasn’t fixed anywhere, yet the Pope’s genitals were never exposed.

“I should introduce myself first.”

The Pope, who had stopped about 10 steps away from us, brought her arms, which were spread wide to the sides, together in front of her lower abdomen and smiled brightly.

It was a contradictory smile that felt both cute and mature.

“My name is Floretta Evangelina.”

The halo bursting out from behind her intensified even more.

It was such a strong light that I had to unconsciously raise my hand to shield my eyes.

Squinting, I looked at the woman called Floretta through the gaps between my fingers.

“I am the one called the Pope of the Sun in the Holy Kingdom of Raphaella.”

The Pope of the Sun, known as the heart of the Holy Kingdom itself and the representative of God, was standing right in front of us.

“Are you feeling a bit more at ease now?”

Floretta looked at us with a benevolent smile. The knight commanders had expressions of being moved just by seeing that smile.

They didn’t seem to pay any attention to her attire.

I wanted to ask what they thought about that outfit, but I suppressed the urge because it was clearly inappropriate to engage in trivial conversations among ourselves in front of the Pope.

“You must be the one Stella mentioned.”

Green eyes turned towards me.

“…You knew?”

“It’s something I couldn’t possibly be unaware of.”

The Pope laughed briefly with a chuckle.

Even such small actions were filled with elegance.

If it weren’t for that insane outfit, she would have been a perfect fit for the position of the Pope of the Sun.

“On behalf of the rudeness committed by the Inquisitor, I, Floretta Evangelina, will apologize to you.”

Her head bowed slightly forward.

Before we could hurriedly stop Floretta in surprise, her head that had delivered the apology had already returned to its original position.

Erica spoke in a stumbling voice.

“Your Holiness, there is no need for you to bow your head to us…”

“The height of one’s position is not what matters, knight commanders of the Silver Dawn Knights. What matters is who committed the wrongdoing. Since I have also wronged you, it is only natural for me to seek forgiveness.”

“When you say wrongdoing…?”

“Do you remember the actions committed by Stella the Inquisitor?”

Claudia, Lizé, and Erica flinched simultaneously.

I did too.

Of course, I remembered.

It was a memory that would be impossible to forget for a lifetime unless something extraordinary happened.

Under the pretext of judging heretics, the battle nuns had collectively stripped in front of us, and as if that wasn’t enough, she even made me fondle her breasts with my own hands.

How could I possibly forget that?

“The one who hinted to the Inquisitor that you had unleashed a demon was none other than myself. And the one who requested a holy war from the Inquisitor even after realizing that the demon’s existence had vanished was also me. Do you now understand my sin?”

I had roughly anticipated something like this.

Even in the game, the Inquisitor of the Sun was a person who only obeyed the orders given by the Pope of the Sun.

Conversely, the Inquisitor of the Moon was a person who only obeyed the orders given by the Pope of the Moon.

The Inquisitor of the Sun not only left the papal palace but even invaded the Empire’s territory?

There was only one person in the entire continent who could give an order to take such actions.

“I will not deny my wrongdoing. However, I hope you can understand that it was an unavoidable choice.”

“…An unavoidable choice?”

“To completely dispel the Inquisitor’s suspicion towards you, it was an indispensable act.”

The smile that had appeared on Floretta’s lips slightly faded.

“She is a pitiful child. Her parents were sacrificed as offerings to a demon right before her eyes by devil worshippers, and she was the only one who was barely rescued and has been following God’s will ever since. How great must be the hatred and resentment she holds towards demons? How could someone like me even dare to imagine it?”

I had briefly heard about this before.

Such details were the same as in the game.

The Inquisitor’s enjoyment of torturing devil worshippers was partly due to personal taste, but it was also said to be partly motivated by revenge for her parents, as the memory of what she had experienced in her childhood had become a trauma.

Of course, since she was an NPC who treated players quite harshly if their faith or sacred power stats were below a certain level, the number of users who disliked her was also considerable, regardless of whether she had a pitiful past or not.

“Not long ago, you all must have been involved with a demon at some point.”

Since I had no intention of denying that, I obediently nodded my head.

The knight commanders blushed and nodded their heads more timidly, as if they were embarrassed to admit their involvement with a demon in front of the Pope.

“Although the scent is very faint, the smell of a demon still lingers on you. It might be unnoticeable to ordinary believers, but the battle nuns of our cathedral or the Inquisitor would surely have noticed it.”

“And now it must have been purified and disappeared. Since we met Your Holiness the Pope.”

“You knew? That’s very surprising.”

Floretta smiled at me with an expression overflowing with mercy.

It was something that was mentioned to the point of being tedious when talking to the Pope after defeating a demon-type boss, so there was no way I couldn’t know.

In fact, I had planned to keep my mouth shut until the Pope spoke, but I took the initiative because the knight commanders’ expressions were darkening too rapidly.

Even if it had no effect on them personally, having the smell of a demon permeated in their bodies couldn’t possibly have a good meaning.

They must have felt very uncomfortable.

“If you had met the Inquisitor for the first time within the Holy Kingdom, the repercussions would have surely been much greater. Instead of conducting a heretic judgment first, they would have recklessly pounced on you to purify you, thinking that devil worshippers had entered the Holy Kingdom.”

That was certainly true.

The reason they had tried to conduct a heretic judgment was because we had met outside the Holy Kingdom.

If we had encountered them within the Holy Kingdom, there would have been no judgment or anything.

We would have had to fight until either the Holy Kingdom side was annihilated or we were all killed.

It would have been one of the two.

“So there was a need to clear up the misunderstanding before you visited the Holy Kingdom, and I ordered a holy war to have her meet you directly. It would have also been possible for me to personally tell you that you were not heretics, but in the end, you would have had to meet that child to see me, so it would have been even worse.”

‘…Huh?’

Wait a minute.

Something was strange.

“Your Holiness. May I ask just one question?”

“By all means, please do. What are you curious about?”

“Why is it a premise that we are coming to the Holy Kingdom?”

I almost let it slide because she said it so naturally.

The Pope was speaking based on the premise that we were coming to the Holy Kingdom.

We were going to visit, indeed.

We were going to visit, but it was planned to happen only after the main story had progressed to the latter half.

The only item we needed to obtain in the Holy Kingdom was the enchantment-type sacred spell that could be acquired through the quests related to the Pope of the Sun and the Pope of the Moon.

The rest were all meaningless things.

It wasn’t like I was going to allocate my stats like a clergyman.

“You noticed?”

The smile that appeared on Floretta’s face became even more radiant.

The Pope began to walk towards us.

The click-clack sound of high heels resonated in the space.

Her breasts swayed softly in sync with her steps.

Floretta, who had walked right in front of me, gently smiled and firmly grasped my hand.

“That’s because I wanted to meet you.”

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