I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 71

Chapter 71

“We have arrived.”

Along with Selene’s inorganic and emotionless voice, I set foot on the ground again. The dizziness subsided quickly. My head was only slightly spinning, and there were no other symptoms.

“…”

But it was different for the Knight Commanders.

Iris, Claudia, Rize, and Erika. They were all sprawled on the floor, desperately trying not to throw up what was inside them.

When they first teleported, they were dizzy enough to stagger and speak, but from the second time onwards, it seemed like they were struggling just to stand up, and from the third time, they just kept their mouths shut.

They had taken off their armor a long time ago. They said that wearing it made their heads ring, making the dizziness last several times longer. The discarded armor was placed neatly beside them.

Since the Knight Commanders were like that, the rest time between teleportation inevitably got longer. Now I understood why Selene had come to pick us up under the guise of an escort.

Could they fight the enemy in that state? They couldn’t even stand up and were doing their best not to vomit.

If we had just gone to the Holy Kingdom by carriage as originally planned, we wouldn’t have needed an escort, but it would have taken months to reach the Grand Cathedral of the Holy Kingdom.

Thanks to Selene moving us via teleportation, we arrived in a day, even considering the rest time in between.

“Are you alright, Rize?”

“…”

Rize lifted her head and looked at me with her trembling body. Her blue eyes were saying, ‘Do I look alright to you?’ Well, it was a silly question since she didn’t look alright at first glance.

Because of her posture, her breasts were pressed between her upper body and the floor, spreading out softly to the side. Her spread-out breasts protruded a long way under her armpits. Even in that state, they maintained their elasticity perfectly.

She seemed to be unaware of her own appearance because her vision was spinning. If she had known, she would have definitely teased and flirted with me.

“My task is complete.”

Selene completely ignored the Knight Commanders clutching their heads in agony and poured power into the Divine Catalyst in her hand. The gray and silver halo surrounding her began to fade.

“I look forward to the day we meet again.”

The Divine Catalyst in her hand shone brightly. Selene’s figure disappeared, and the traces of the moon vanished. Warm sunlight filled the void. Yellowish-white light spread all over the place.

The Knight Commanders were still out of it. It seemed like they would need a lot of time to recover, so I decided to wait patiently and looked around.

‘This is incredible.’

Everything was white. All the buildings and roofs on the street, everywhere my eyes could see, even the tiles on the main street were all shining white.

The tiles on the main street were clearly white, but they were also pure without a speck of dust. Numerous people were walking with devout expressions, and there were no footprints or even dirt on them.

According to the NPC’s explanation, it was because this entire Papal City was protected by Divine Power. I just glossed over it in the game, but seeing it in person was no different from a miracle.

The thought briefly crossed my mind that it was natural for people to fall into religion in a worldview that directly showed the existence of God like this.

However, there was something else that really caught my eye.

‘…Why are the women’s clothes so modest? Did the mod creator skip it because it was too much work?’

It was the attire of the women in the Holy Kingdom, which was 180 degrees different from the Empire.

Unlike the clothes of the women in the Empire, which were far from revealing, such as crop tops and miniskirts, the women in the Holy Kingdom wore clothes that were modern but also covered their bodies tightly.

It wasn’t uncommon to see fashion where the only exposed skin was the face above the neck, and even if there was exposure, it was at most slightly revealing one thigh or wearing a black sleeveless top.

I couldn’t find a single woman wearing clothes like those in the Empire, where their breasts were covered with a single string and they wore hot pants that were no different from underwear.

My mind felt at ease with the wholesome scenery I hadn’t seen in a long time.

‘Maybe the Inquisitors were a special bunch.’

Stella wore a nun’s habit that was objectively and subjectively revealing, and the Battle Nuns under her command also wore clothes that were so revealing that even a slight breeze would expose what was underneath.

But the women on the streets of the Holy Kingdom were covering their entire bodies, so naturally, the thought came to mind that they were the strange ones.

“Ugh…”

While I was calming my mind and body by looking at the neat and modest appearance of the women in the Holy Kingdom with satisfaction, the Knight Commanders seemed to have come to their senses and started to get up unsteadily.

“How’s your head? Feeling better?”

“…I can stand up now. I can’t walk properly yet, though.”

I helped Iris, who was the first to get up, and leaned her against a nearby tree. Iris leaned against the tree, holding her forehead and taking deep breaths.

I helped Erika and Claudia up one by one, and finally reached out to Rize. Rize quietly leaned on me.

I put my left arm around her shoulder and put my hand under her right armpit to lift her up. My hand awkwardly waved in the air. If I went any further, my hand would touch Rize’s underboob because of the position.

No, even with this, her side boob was rubbing against my right forearm. I kept repeating in my mind that it couldn’t be helped if I wanted to support her because of the human body structure, and moved my feet.

“…I don’t want to do this twice. Let’s take the carriage on the way back, even if it takes longer.”

Rize slightly turned her body and buried her face in my chest, murmuring like that. The other Knight Commanders nodded in agreement.

It seemed like they had a really hard time.

“Are you feeling better?”

A cheerful voice came from behind us. It was a voice I had heard before. When I turned my head, I saw Stella and her Battle Nuns approaching us.

I was briefly nervous that she might be about to say something about heresy again, but I felt relieved when I saw that none of them were carrying weapons.

“Now that you look like you can drink something, drink this first.”

At Stella’s gesture, the Battle Nuns approached and opened the potion-like bottles they were holding. Then they went up to each Knight Commander and held the mouth of the bottle to their lips.

The Knight Commanders obediently drank the potion that the Battle Nuns were feeding them. It seemed like they didn’t even have the energy to resist such actions.

‘That’s quite expensive.’

Except for Charm, each status ailment had a consumable item assigned to it that could remove it. Charm was an exception because the only way to get rid of it was to raise Divine Power and Faith significantly.

Of course, there was a way to remove all status ailments, one through magic, one through divine spells, and one through consumables.

Among these, consumables were items that could only be purchased at their proper price in the Holy Kingdom. They weren’t exactly cheap in the Empire either, but the merchants ripped people off so badly that they were almost 10 times more expensive than in the Holy Kingdom.

The last Battle Nun came towards us. The nun was about to feed Rize, who was practically clinging to me, the potion, but she paused for a moment after seeing our posture and then held it out to me instead.

“You want me to feed her?”

Nod. The Battle Nun who had forced the potion bottle into my hand returned to her original position. I held the potion bottle in my left hand and nudged Rize.

Rize, who had buried her face in my chest and was breathing in with a sniffle, peeked her head out.

“…Why?”

“She wants me to feed you this.”

I shook the potion bottle in my left hand. Rize glanced at it and then changed her posture.

She took her arms off my shoulders and placed them demurely in front of her lower abdomen, then leaned her back against my right arm and completely put her weight on me. Finally, she tilted her head back slightly, looked up at the sky, and opened her mouth.

Her parted lips revealed her pearly white teeth, the uvula that wiggled every time she swallowed, her bright red tongue, and the slightly pooled transparent saliva between them. It all came into view.

I felt like some strange thoughts were going to keep popping up in my head, so I hurriedly put the mouth of the potion bottle to her lips and tilted it.

Rize gulped down the potion with a glug glug sound. I should correct that. It wasn’t that I felt like some strange thoughts were going to come to mind, but that some strange thoughts did come to mind. Rize’s expression made it even more so.

After I poured the potion down her throat to the last drop, I hurriedly removed the bottle before those thoughts could take over my mind.

Pooh, Rize stuck her tongue out halfway and met my gaze. A very thin silver thread stretched between the mouth of the bottle and her tongue before snapping off in the air.

“Delta, you just put a long stick in my mouth and fed me the liquid inside, didn’t you?”

“…You’re talking nonsense, so you must be fine. Stop talking nonsense and get up.”

Rize grabbed my hand and stood up obediently, then clung to my side and subtly rubbed her breasts against me. I guess I didn’t have to worry.

The other Knight Commanders were also standing up as if they had never been groveling on the floor.

“It’s quite an expensive potion. Does it do its job?”

“Indeed. Thank you for your kindness.”

“No need to thank me. We were the ones who misunderstood you first, right? We accused an innocent person of being a heretic, and we’re still far from atoning for that sin.”

As she said that, Stella glanced at the spot where Selene had last been.

“The fact that you arrived at the Papal City so quickly, and the fact that the Moon’s Divine Power still lingers… It seems like the Inquisitor has been here. Am I right?”

“That’s right. The Inquisitor helped us, so we were able to arrive in a day. It was a little… very difficult, though.”

“She’s so kind-hearted… Follow me. I’ll guide you to where Her Holiness the Pope is.”

‘What’s this?’

Stella’s face had just darkened slightly. It was an emotion closer to depression or sadness rather than annoyance. It was so brief that I couldn’t be sure, but…

Was it my imagination?

“This is the Grand Cathedral. It’s where Her Holiness the Pope resides.”

The Grand Cathedral was enormous. I had to crane my neck back a long way to be able to see the top. It was a huge structure even in the game, but it was much bigger in reality.

The entire building was ornately decorated with yellow and white bricks, and gold ornaments. The spire that rose in the center was literally as high as the sky.

The exterior was also incredibly complex. It was so complicated that I couldn’t even figure out how the structure was supposed to work.

Stella lightly bowed to the cathedral building and then turned to the side. There were plenty of people around who were kneeling on the floor and praying.

Stella walked a long way around the Grand Cathedral and headed towards the back of the building, pointing to a door that was ornately decorated in a different way from the main entrance. A warm light like the sun leaked out from the half-opened door.

“Once you pass through here, you’ll be connected directly to where Her Holiness the Pope is. Since the Pope has granted you an audience, we’ve skipped all the trivial procedures.”

Her slender finger pointed at me.

“But you go first. The rest will enter when I tell them to.”

“I’m nominally a new knight, aren’t I? Shouldn’t the Knight Commanders go in first, in order of rank?”

“Why do you think you’re here?”

I understood immediately at those words. The reason we were here in the first place was because of me.

Stella stepped aside from the door, and the Battle Nuns surrounded us as if to escort us. I had experienced a similar situation, but unlike then, the atmosphere wasn’t hostile, and they weren’t carrying weapons.

Feeling the prickly gazes piercing my back, I walked into the light. I closed my eyes involuntarily at the light that was poking at my eyelids, and then carefully opened them when the light seemed to have subsided a little.

“You have finally come to me.”

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the sun.

No, it was the stained glass with a pattern so splendid that it felt like the sun, and the blonde hair that was even more splendid and abundant than the stained glass. A halo was shining behind the blonde woman.

I couldn’t say anything and froze when I saw the woman. My mind was completely bleached, and all the thoughts that came up melted away.

It wasn’t because I was overwhelmed by the warm and cozy atmosphere, or because I was mesmerized by the splendor of the stained glass and the woman’s beauty, or because I was moved by the benevolent and compassionate woman’s voice.

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“In the name of the Sun, I welcome you. The one who was once called a heretic.”

‘What… is that?’

The woman’s attire.

‘Is that even clothes?’

It was because of the outrageously revealing clothes that the woman in front of me was wearing.