I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 37

Chapter 37

The girl watched everything.

She watched the new knight, whom the Emperor had ordered to monitor every move, single-handedly dominate the other Knight Commander in a sparring match.

She watched as the newly recruited knight, despite being a mere newcomer, defeated the Knight Commander who served Her Majesty the Emperor, and acted as if it were nothing, as if it were only natural.

She observed the clean and concise attack movements, the defensive movements that deflected all incoming attacks, and the continuous movements that flowed like water.

And, the Emperor also watched everything.

“…Have you confirmed everything, Your Majesty?”

In a tree with a full view of the training ground. A girl, clad in a black leather outfit beneath a black hood pulled over her upper body, muttered into the air.

Blink, her eyes blinked once, involuntarily. As if understanding, the girl nodded.

Beneath her eyelids, a pair of sharp, golden eyes shone brightly.

The girl bowed her head towards the empty air, showing respect, then lowered her head even further, as if someone had commanded her.

“Yes. I understand, Your Majesty. I will follow your will.”

This time, the girl blinked her eyes voluntarily. When her eyes opened again, the place where the golden eyes had been was empty.

Literally, it meant that there was nothing where her eyeballs should have been. Only two black, empty eye sockets remained, sending chills down the spine of anyone who saw them.

Despite being completely unable to see, the girl began to slowly descend from the tree, stepping and grasping onto branches one by one with familiar hand and foot movements.

There were no fumbles, no missteps. At a glance, it felt as if she was even more stable than a person with two normal eyes.

Soon, the girl landed softly on the ground and quietly lowered her posture. Then, she stopped moving and listened to the surrounding sounds.

The sound of the wind swirling through the trees. The rustling of fallen leaves. The sound of branches swaying back and forth. The sound of the girl herself inhaling and exhaling.

No other human sounds could be heard.

‘It’s fortunate that I don’t need to deal with any witnesses this time.’ The girl thought so and carefully tucked the dagger, which she had been prepared to draw at any moment, into her waistband.

The girl’s attire was quite bizarre. Her upper body was completely covered by a black hood, and she wore a tight-fitting black leather armor as a top.

Her lower body was clad in tight-fitting leather pants, so short that it was hard to tell if they were underwear or pants, even shorter than men’s boxer shorts, revealing the lines of her pelvis.

Despite clearly not wearing any shoes, her feet were strangely clean.

‘People… still none.’

Having confirmed once again through sound that there was no one around, the girl took off her necklace, held it in her hand, and activated it. It was an artifact given to her by Her Majesty the Emperor.

Her clothes began to change. The hood and leather armor, leather pants, which had felt like fine, high-quality fabrics, disappeared. Instead, filthy and incredibly dirty rags appeared.

As the hood disappeared, the hair that had been neatly hidden inside bloomed. Jet-black hair, barely long enough to reach her shoulders, contrasted with her fair skin and swayed around her neck.

The girl was naked.

Her small breasts, collarbone line, toned abdomen, soft-looking sides, a woman’s private parts, and slender thighs were all exposed, but there was no hint of embarrassment on her face.

The girl briefly pressed down a piece of cloth with a nearby stone, then threw herself onto the dirt floor and rolled around vigorously, covering herself in dust. Dirt and sand clung to her body.

After rolling around for a while, she got up. The girl’s previously neat appearance was gone, replaced by a dirty girl with disheveled hair and a body covered in dirt and dust.

‘I should work on the clothes too.’

The girl, now looking like a beggar, picked up the cloth she had pressed down with the stone and rolled it mercilessly on the dirt floor. When she finished, the cloth looked like nothing more than rags.

She wrapped it around her body. It covered her thighs, her waist, her chest, arms, and shoulders. The last remaining piece was wrapped around her head, concealing her face and hair.

‘Perfect.’

Although she couldn’t see it herself, the girl was confident that she looked no different from a street beggar.

Just as she had thought, her current appearance was indistinguishable from that type of person.

It was impossible to imagine that she had been wearing the finest leather clothes just a moment ago, showing off her undeniable beauty while monitoring someone.

The only difference was that, even in this beggar’s attire covered in dirt and dust, her uniquely beautiful features couldn’t be completely hidden.

The girl searched around and snapped off a branch of suitable thickness and length. She swung it around in the air. This branch seemed sufficient for use as a cane.

In truth, she could walk around like an ordinary person even without something like this, but for what she was about to do, she had to appear as an ordinary blind person.

‘The last order Her Majesty gave me was… to watch that new knight up close without revealing my identity, no matter what it takes.’

The Golden Twilight Knight was bait anyway. There was no way they would actually put such a fool in charge of surveillance. He seemed to be excited about being entrusted with an important task, but Her Majesty didn’t have any expectations for him.

Just one thing. Her Majesty believed that if he sent that knight to the Silver Dawn Knights, he wouldn’t be able to control his temper and would pick a fight with the new recruit. And the Emperor’s prediction was correct.

Thanks to that, she was able to observe the new knight’s skills even more clearly, so she had completed her task.

The girl covered the lower half of her face with the remaining cloth and began to move forward, deliberately stumbling with her cane and carrying a small wooden bowl in one hand.

She exited the small forest within the city and slowly entered an alleyway, following the path she had memorized while she was in the tree. She heard people whispering about her.

Of course, she didn’t mind at all. She had come down here precisely for them to look at her with those eyes.

‘Here it is.’

Stopping at the end of an alleyway, the girl leaned against the wall and crouched down, hugging her knees to her chest and placing the wooden bowl in front of her.

Anyone would see her as a beggar perfectly begging for money, but naturally, she hadn’t come here for that.

‘Those Knight Commanders pass through here regularly.’

That was the conclusion she had reached after observing the entire city for two days using her “eyes.” The Knight Commanders patrolling the city always followed the same route. And the road right next to her was that route.

They had started their patrol not long ago, so they would pass by here soon. With her head bowed, the girl felt the slight vibrations of the ground every time people took a step.

She had deliberately chosen the place with the least foot traffic. Except for a few beggars, there were hardly any people passing by.

She had already memorized their footsteps and voices. All that remained was to wait.

‘…’

How much time had passed since she buried her face between her knees and waited, feeling only the vibrations of the ground? Finally, the voices she remembered could be heard from afar.

The girl perked up her ears and listened carefully to the voices. One was cold, and the other was calm.

‘Iris on the right. Erika on the left.’

Having finally identified them, the girl quietly rose. She held her cane in one hand and the empty wooden bowl in the other.

She waited quietly, clinging to the wall, for the Knight Commanders to approach. Just before Iris and Erika passed the alley, she jumped out in front of them.

“Whoa!”

And she dramatically collided with Erika and rolled on the ground, making sure to break her cane and throw the wooden bowl far away.

“Oh, huh? What was that justㅡ”

“I’m, I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! Please forgive me! I’m sorry!”

Before Erika could even grasp the situation, the girl prostrated herself on the ground, bowing her head and trembling, trying to look as pitiful as possible.

Erika froze at the sight of the girl trembling like an aspen leaf with her head bowed, and Iris, who had retrieved the wooden bowl that had rolled away, also froze.

“Um… you don’t have to tremble so much. I’m not going to do anything.”

Erika said cautiously.

The girl raised her head with a mournful expression. Erika and Iris flinched when they saw her face, with two empty black holes where her eyes should have been.

“I’m, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I, I haven’t eaten anything for days, I was so hungry…”

Erika and Iris exchanged awkward glances. She was a blind girl. Naturally, Erika or Iris should have noticed her first and avoided her. It was clearly their fault.

“…What should we do, Iris?”

“I… don’t know either. For now, it’s our fault, so I think we should help her.”

“Then should we take her to the castle? She said she hasn’t eaten anything for days, so let’s have her fill her stomach in the dining hall.”

“That would be best. I’ll finish patrolling the rest of the area. Erika, you take this girl to the castle.”

“I understand, Iris. Um… Miss? Can you get up?”

Upon hearing that they would take her to the castle, the girl lowered her head so they couldn’t see and curled her lips into a smile.

There was one fact that both Erika and Iris, shocked by her appearance and distracted by the girl’s pitiful and abject apology, had failed to notice.

No matter how suddenly she appeared, Erika was not someone who would bump into a beggar. If it had been an ordinary beggar, Erika would have noticed first and easily stepped aside.

This incident had occurred because the girl in front of them had approached so quickly and stealthily that even their instincts failed to detect her.

They hadn’t realized it yet.