Did the witch get her wish today?

Lilium was ordered not to see Enkidu again.Although only a subconscious idea, she still angered King Gilgamesh by trying to "pray" to make the curse disappear.

What's more, Enkidu himself refused.

Although she collapsed, she couldn't control the king of Uruk's thoughts, so she had to wait in vain for new news from other people in the house.

That day, it had been raining heavily since early morning.

Lilium woke up from an unknown dream. Although she no longer remembered what the dream was about, the great sadness was still in her heart.

She struggled to get up, but heard a slap, and the cane that was leaning against the wall fell off for some reason.When the girl approached and picked up the staff, she found that a piece of the leaf was broken off.

As early as a few days ago, in order to save the weakening Enkidu, the king took him to the Great Temple.

She hadn't seen the two of them for several days.

The fear and anxiety in her heart became heavier and heavier, she put on her clothes and went out to find the servants she knew, but everyone was as ignorant as she was.

The torrential rain poured down, dark clouds covered the sky, and thunder resounded throughout the palace.

Finally, at the gate of the palace, Lilium saw the head of the guard, who was drenched into a drenched chicken, and Siduri, who was deeply saddened.

"That... that lord... Enkidu..."

The gods have not withdrawn the curse, and the third nightmare has come.

Enkidu died after all, beside the king, his body returned to the earth, and his soul went to Hades.

Thunder fell from the sky and exploded in the girl's ears.She forgot to breathe, and all the sad expressions in front of her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of veil, and she felt illusory.

The long staff was still in her hand, but no one could help her repair the missing corner.

In an instant, the sadness that had long receded reappeared, and the girl's knees softened, and she fell heavily to the ground.

"Lilium!"

There seemed to be someone's panicked shouts in her ears, but she didn't want to identify them or pay attention to them.At the moment of realizing that Enkidu is dead, everything seems to be indifferent.

When she regained her senses, Lily found that she had returned to her room, leaning against the bed, and her cane was well placed aside.

Who sent me back?

"…………never mind……"

She slowly lay back on the couch, hugging the long staff that was placed aside in her arms.

Lilium remembered that she had lost her memory on the first day when she came to this world because of the power that transcended time and space. She didn't remember anything, didn't know anything, and was wandering in the woods full of fear. that person's.

The memory is like a layer of light, so hazy, but very clear.

'He is really beautiful. The girl thought, "It's like an existence from another world, looking at me gently. '

Thunder sounded from a distant place from time to time, and Lilium opened her mouth to breathe, but a whimper sounded in her ear.She suddenly found that her eyes had already been filled with tears, and her vision became blurred.Those tears wet his cheeks, leaving large water marks on the bed.

Enkidu was gone.

She closed her eyes, and in the roaring thunder and torrential rain, she burst into tears in despair.

My heart hurts like it's about to tear apart.But why not just split it like this?It's better than the continuous pain, which seems to have no end.

In this way, she held the long stick in one hand and the clothes in the other, curled up on the bed, weeping, weeping silently, recalling those beautiful memories, and the cycle repeated.

I don't know how long it took, the thunder and wind and rain that could have covered her crying disappeared, and there was still no one to comfort her or disturb her.

When a ray of sunlight shone into the room, the girl suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen Enkidu for the last time.

Is the king back?The funeral... where is it?

Lilium had only these two thoughts in her mind, and she got up from the bed in a daze.

The palace was quiet, and the traces of the rainstorm had disappeared.Her legs and feet were weak, and she could only walk slowly with a cane, like an old woman.However, there were no decorations in the palace that had anything to do with the funeral.

where is it?

Where is King Gilgamesh?

Even if it's just the body after death, she doesn't care what that person becomes.She wanted to see that man for the last time, to say goodbye to him.

The girl stumbled to the main hall to find Siduri and Wang, but overestimated her current body.

She climbed up the steps, and within two steps, the cane used as a means of transportation slipped, and the two legs with little strength also completely stopped at the same moment.

Lilium only felt that she was flying up, the stone steps disappeared from her eyes, and what finally caught her eyes was the blue sky as usual.

I don't know how long it took, but when she opened her eyes because of the cold breath around her, she found that she was lying down in a strange space.

"Here... where is it?"

There was some cold soil under her, surrounded by rows of strange rocks, and there was only the cane left by Enkidu in her hand.

It seems to be a dark cave here, with no bright light, and a wonderful faint blue fire flickering in the distance.

... She obviously wanted to go to the main hall to find Gilgamesh, and begged him to let her see Enkidu for the last time.Why did I come here after I fell on the stairs?

Could it be that I prayed to God unconsciously?

Thinking of this, the girl stood up with difficulty.The cave is too high to see the top, and the winding road even extends all the way down.She walked along the road and followed the light source slowly for a distance, but she still didn't find any living things.Not even a flower, not a single grass.

What's even more weird is that those blue light sources are actually will-o'-the-wisps locked in birdcages.Lilium once wanted to reach out and try to touch the blue flames, but the intuition in her mind and the cold temperature made her fingertips rest on the edge of the cage.

The familiar feeling of helplessness and futility reappeared in her heart.

The dark cave can't be seen at a glance, and there are only faint blue ghost lights and rugged and strange stones around.She could even feel the temperature drop around her body, as well as whispers from time to time.

This is not the Human World, absolutely not.However, even though she knew that this place was not Uruk, she had no idea how to leave.

"What...what should I do..."

For the first time since coming to this world, Lilium really panicked.

"If you don't go back—"

"What will happen if you don't go back?"

An abrupt voice interrupted the girl's soliloquy.

"Who?!"

The girl immediately became vigilant. After all, until the sound sounded, this dark and barren land was silent.

She looked around, but didn't see anyone, only the blue flame in the cage seemed to be brighter.

"Oh? You came to my territory, but you don't know who I am? You human beings are really daring."

The melodious female voice surrounded the grotto, and Lilium didn't see anyone at all, but the words in the other party's mouth caught her attention.

"Territory... Excuse me, this is not Uruk, right?"

"Of course not! How can you compare my underworld with that noisy city!"

Underworld?This is actually the underworld? !

"Huh? Wait, you bastard...?"

The woman's voice suddenly slowed down for some reason, and just as Lily was hesitating and retreating, she suddenly burst out laughing again!

"Hahahahaha! What's going on... You are the human being who made Ishtar smothered! Unexpectedly, you came to the underworld."

At the same time, the ground began to shake, and after a flash of light, a blond woman in red appeared in front of the girl.

Lilium found that she was exactly the same as Ishtar, whom she had met once, but the aura coming from her was completely opposite.

"That...that..." The bad memory of being blasted by a blast magic came back, and the girl clenched her cane uneasily. "You... hello, Lord Ereshkigal."

In this world, the world of gods and the underworld has not deviated from the earth where humans live.But unlike the heavens, the underworld is deep underground, rarely visited by mortals or gods.After all, this is the kingdom of the dead.

And the person who rules here is Ereshkigal, the sister of the goddess Ishtar.

"Hey, this kid is quite polite, and he knows my name." The woman holding the gun brushed her hair, "Don't be nervous, I'm different from those guys who watched the theater in the sky, yes You are not interested in the power in your body. And Ishtar has suffered such a big loss, forgive you for your innocence."

"So, what's the use of a living person coming to this underworld?"

Lilium looked helplessly at the goddess who seemed to be in a good mood: "...I don't know."

"what?"

In the next 5 minutes, she patiently and detailedly told the goddess about her experience.

"Well, that means that Enkidu died, you are all sad, and then you want to go to Gilgamesh to attend the funeral."

"Um……"

"In the end, I didn't stand firm and fell, and then came to the underworld?"

"Yes, I don't know why I appear here..."

"Ummmm..."

The goddess named Ereshkigal frowned in distress, her golden red eyes fixed on her.

"Before you lost consciousness, you really wanted to see Enkidu face to face, right?"

Not knowing why, Lilium nodded honestly.

Then, she was "invited" by the goddess to the temple where the other party was located, without losing her grace.

There are no living things in the underworld, and those will-o'-the-wisps placed in cages are actually human souls.And the goddess controls the messengers of the underworld, the Galura spirits, to perform their duties in this empty and dark underground day after day.

"I know why you are here."

Ereshkigal sat on the throne, looking down at the girl who was brought to the temple by the spirit of Galura.

"But it's true... that Gilgamesh guy didn't tell you?"

tell her what?

The goddess of the underworld sighed heavily: "Enkidu's body has been buried in the underworld by him."