Did the witch get her wish today?

On the night after defeating the Bull of Heaven and holding a grand banquet, looking at the soft moonlight outside the window, the sleepy Lilium sighed silently.

As for why I can't sleep——

"The banquet is too loud, I want to sleep with Lily."

Yes, Enkidu was obviously one of the hosts of the celebration banquet, but he didn't stay with the king.Instead, he made a special trip to this hut to read and chat with her.

This is a pain for Lily, after all, the shameful memory of being punished has not been completely erased from her mind, and her waist...was still hurting!

But looking at the other party's shining eyes, she couldn't bear to drive him away.

And I have to say that Enkidu, as a weapon made by God, is better than anyone Lilium has ever seen, at least in the field of knowledge.

But now, this strong man who participated in governing the country, fought with fierce beasts with bare hands, and fought with Gilgamesh evenly, is lying quietly beside her.

His expression was very peaceful, and he never moved when he was asleep.Beside Lilium, vigilance also seemed to have weakened.

The girl breathed in the cool night air, but there was a faint warmth in her heart.

She felt a little unreal, like being in a dream.But this feeling was so good that it made Lilium want to cry.

If this is really a dream, I hope I can immerse myself in it forever and not wake up.

But dreams always come to an end.

On the third day after the Bull of Heaven was slain, Enkidu spent the night with her again.When the moonlight gradually dissipated, the dark blue night sky began to become thinner, and the sleepy girl was awakened by an unsteady moan/// moan beside her.

She saw Enkidu's originally peaceful sleeping face turn sad, and eventually even turned into pain.

"Enkidu? Enkidu!"

Lilium, who had never seen him like this before, quickly woke him up, only to find out after asking that he had a dream.

A nightmare of my own death.

However, this was only the beginning. On the second day, Gilgamesh, who learned of this, sullenly, took Enkidu, who had somehow become a little weak, into his bedroom for cultivation.

An ominous premonition spread in the girl's heart, because she remembered every detail of herself and that person after meeting in the forest.

He had never had a nightmare, let alone a dream about his own death.

Within two days, doctors and priests began to enter and leave the king's bedroom.Although the nightmare was over, reality seemed to echo, and Enkidu really began to weaken.

Lilium also came to Gilgamesh's palace.

Siduri was very considerate, and she was not allowed to continue to do those complicated and trivial finishing tasks, but let her go to Enkidu to take care of her.

She stayed by Enkidu's side every step of the day, taking care of the weak Sky Chain as best she could.In the evening, he took advantage of the short rest time to read those obscure and difficult clay tablets, trying to find clues that could help him in the literature that recorded magic and gods.

I don't know magic, and I don't know much about the power of the Sumerian gods, and I can't even hold a few clay slabs.In front of the stone table that was gradually piled up with various stone slabs and antiquities, she felt her own powerlessness again.

A second nightmare came to Enkidu in the middle of the night not long after.

This time, his condition took a turn for the worse.

"I'm sorry, Lily... I have to trouble you to take care of me."

Enkidu, who was already unable to move freely, was half leaning against the bed, holding the girl's hand.His face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his long hair, which was once full of vitality, seemed to have become eclipsed.

Lilium had taken care of chronically terminally ill patients, and she could feel that the other's vitality was continuously draining from her body.

In just a few days, between two nightmares, he showed signs of exhaustion.

Why is this happening?

The moment this thought flashed through his mind, a chill suddenly soaked through Lilium's limbs.She subconsciously held Enkidu's hand lying on the bed with numb fingertips.

Maybe...it's not just as simple as dreaming.

Then her fears were confirmed.

All said that the king and Enkidu had defeated and killed the bull of heaven, which angered the gods in the sky.

They lowered the punishment.

It is not the nightmare that weakens Enkidu, but the "curse of death".

At least a few days, as many as ten days, when the third sign of the curse comes, he will lose his strength and life, and turn into mud again.

The entire palace was filled with sadness, and Lilium even saw Siduri wiping tears secretly outside the palace gate alone.

But she seemed to have fallen into a dream, in a trance, unable to cry, just sitting by the bed, watching the priests and warlocks coming in and out.

Just like when the platinum-lead disease first broke out, she sat in the hospital ward, watching the doctors and nurses come and go, while holding the patient's hand to encourage them.

In the end, it still failed to save the lives of those people.

"...Lily is... sad?"

Enkidu, who was too weak to walk, held her trembling hand instead. Even at this moment, facing the girl, his pale face showed no trace of fear or anxiety.

"Have you always... sent those people away like this?"

Lilium stared blankly at the person in front of her, but her stagnant heart seemed to be thrown into a stone.

She only told him once, a short sentence, telling him that she used to accompany patients with platinum lead disease as a nun in the hospital.

Everything in front of her eyes was blurred, and the girl suddenly began to breathe heavily, and held Enkidu's already cold and powerless hand to her chest.

"……I……"

She opened her mouth, wanting to deny it flatly, but could only falter for a long time like a fool.

She couldn't even say the phrase "everything will be fine", because she knew better than anyone how terrible God's curse was.

"... Lilium..."

Seeing Enkidu's knowing eyes, and hearing his full name out of his mouth, she suddenly became timid.

"Feel sorry……!"

Before the other party could continue speaking, the girl stood up in panic.

"Maybe I'm a little tired, I... I'll be back in a while."

After all, without looking at the other party's reaction, he used clumsy lies to escape from the room.

In these days, besides staying by Enkidu's side, she found all the clay tablets inscribed with spells and curses in the palace, and some even belonged to Gilgamesh's treasury.

Anything is fine, as long as a little bit, even if it is a way to betray the gods, she doesn't want to see Enkidu become so weak.

The complex text began to become blurred, and some water droplets dripped on the clay board. Lily hurriedly wiped it off, but more warm water droplets fell on the back of her hand.

The tears that had been suppressed finally broke through the shackles and overflowed from her eye sockets.

The girl didn't want those clay tablets to get wet, so she wiped her cheeks with her hands and sleeves in vain, but couldn't stop more and more tears from wetting her face.

But at the same time, her heart, which was already filled with sadness, gradually gave birth to a different kind of emotion.

That feeling is like a new bud, which slowly breaks through the soil layer and grows rapidly amidst the tide of sadness.

"...Why! Why are you doing this!!"

With questions to the gods and a curse on herself, Lilium clenched her fists and slammed them down on the stone table, screaming in vain and grief!

Because she was humiliated, the goddess sent down the punishment from heaven.

Because the bull of heaven was slain and divine punishment defeated, the gods cast a curse.

Because Gilgamesh has two-thirds of the blood of the gods and is the king who rules mankind, this curse will come to Enkidu.

"Can God do such a thing—?!!"

"……hateful……!"

Could it be that he could only watch Enkidu die helplessly?

Lilium was obsessed, and began to look up and search without sleep!

But one day passed, and two days passed, she rummaged through the palace's collection of books, desperately trying to understand those profound and obscure spells, and even got the stone tablets in the treasure house that recorded the magic of the Age of Gods.

But still—no way.

On the third day, at the moment when the morning sun rose, the desperate girl finally looked at her hands.

Since Uruk has no means of lifting the curse, what if, for another miracle, she now prays to the gods again?

The curse of death can affect any human being...except yourself.

Realizing this, the girl stumbled to Enkidu's bedroom.

In the past few days, she searched for classics and forgot to sleep and eat. At the same time, because of the attitude of the other party, she never saw him alone again.

Just when Lilium was hesitating whether to go in, she saw King Gilgamesh with a gloomy face, striding towards the room where Enkidu was resting, and Siduri followed behind him step by step.

The man's scarlet eyes widened slightly after seeing the person in front of him, but his footsteps did not stop.

Just as he was passing by Lilium without looking sideways, the girl called out to him in a strange way.

"Please wait...!"

Wang didn't reply, stopped and turned to look at her.

Lilium stared at the young man in front of him. After Enkidu fell ill, he was the one who was most worried, and he should be the one who was most sad in his heart.

"That...that..."

Wang refrained from all joking expressions, and the suppressed anger and anxiety under calm made the girl feel suffocated, and she swallowed subconsciously.

"I'll go in with you."

Enkidu looked weaker.Today, he can't even get up from the bed without other people's support.

Lilium sat next to Enkidu, holding hands with him as she did a few days ago.She listened quietly to the exchange between the three, feeling her chest getting hotter and hotter.

pray.

Just... just pray to God again, transfer the curse of death to yourself, or let it disappear altogether.

In this way, Enkidu can get rid of the shadow of death, and he won't be weak anymore... how good it is.

"Lily... what's wrong??"

An angry voice came from beside her ear, and the girl suddenly felt her arms being tightly held.

"What are you doing?"

"……what……!"

She moved her arm subconsciously, but saw Gilgamesh's angry eyes.

"what……?"

The strange heat in her body dissipated, and she suddenly seemed to come back to herself. In front of her eyes was Enkidu's pale face and the king who seemed to be enraged by something.

Siduri, who had been standing obliquely behind, came to the bed, looked at the two, and then at Lilium, who was trembling, with a puzzled face.

"Wang...here, what happened?"

"I sensed the flow of magic power, Lily, just now... what did you want to do to me?"

"I...I didn't..."

She didn't understand what Enkidu was talking about, but she still stuttered because of guilt.

"I just, just wanted to help you..."

"Oh? You bastard—" On the other side, Gilgamesh seemed to have read her mind, staring straight at Lilium. "You want to transfer the curse of death that was cast on Enkidu to yourself?"

At the same time, Enkidu, who was leaning on the bed, called out the name of his best friend in a soft voice: "Jill. Also, I'm sorry Lily—"

"I disagree."

He refused.

"Put away your extremely stupid ideas."

Before the girl opened her mouth to explain, Wang also raised his head and shook off her hand.

"Arrogant woman, who do you think you are? Or are you underestimating this king and my friend's dignity?!"

The cold tone pierced the girl's heart like a poisonous spear.

"king……"

"Send her back to rest."

The King of Gold's order could not be refused, and she was invited out forcefully by the other attendants including Siduri without being rude.

"Stop thinking about it, Lilium."

Maybe it was because the frustrated expression on his face was too obvious, when he sent her out of the room, Siduri was still comforting her.

"The king will not let Enkidu die, he will be all right."