[comprehensive] Ishtar

"Yet you still hesitated," Ereshkigal sat on the throne, she looked at her sister through the mirror that penetrated the underworld and the world, "because of his words, you hesitated. I can feel it, Yi Varied."

"I don't know, it's hard to say..." The blond woman in the mirror lowered her eyes, as if something was lying under her hand, and Ereshkigal could see that her body was lifted up by the movement of her arm. shaking slightly, "Gilgamesh's suggestion is very exciting, isn't it?"

Seeing Ishtar like this, Allie ruthlessly exposed the truth she had hidden: "Is this suggestion moving your heart, or the man Gilgamesh moving your heart?" If possible, she would like to To break through the restrictions imposed on her by the underworld, she came to Ishtar's side and severely woke up her stunned mind.

But she couldn't: "You should be glad that I can't leave Hades," staring fiercely at Ishtar on the opposite side of the mirror. If eyes can kill, then Ishtar has already been delayed by Ailei at this moment, "If I can leave Underworld, I will let you know what 'thinking' is."

It is rare for Ishtar to make cold remarks like this, and it can be seen from this that Ishtar hesitated because of the suggestion made by Gilgamesh this time. What has become: "I'm very sensible and calm, thank you for your concern, Allie."

"Calm?" The Queen of Hades has a pair of frightening red pupils, "Sane?"

"Ishtar, as long as you have anything to do with these two words, you should know that what Gilgamesh stretched out to you was never a 'hand of hope' or a 'vision of the future', but It is a notice letter that will drag you into eternal doom and push you to the desperate situation of betraying relatives."

After piercing the situation that Ishtar might face with the sharpest words, Ai Lei didn't flinch from the unbearable and hesitant look on Ishtar's face at the moment: "What you have to do is not 'turn a blind eye' at all. Or 'help him conceal it', but tell father everything exactly, and then win his favor."

Anu had many children, and Ishtar was just the favored one among them.And those who are not favored, such as her Ereshkigal, need to tell more about the situation: "You revealed your wish to Gilgamesh from the very beginning, and obviously maintained your father's favor for you. Let the gods realize your usefulness and accept your love, that is what you should do."

What the twins have been in frequent contact with all the time is that Ai Lei can read the answer she wants from her face without Ishtar's reply: "What good are those human beings that can make you Make such a decision, even at the expense of betraying your people?"

"Think about it Ishtar, we, the gods, are your family, your people, and your backer." Ai Lei really didn't understand Ishtar's decision, "That Gilgamesh Really good enough to make you abandon your family and even stab us back?"

Hearing this, and hearing Ellie's collective name of "we", Ishtar finally raised his head: "It has nothing to do with Gil, Ellie, this matter has nothing to do with Gilgamesh at all." She Seeing the disdain on Ai Lei's face and the sarcasm of "Do you think I believe it?", she reiterated, "It really has nothing to do with him."

"It has nothing to do with him?" Alley didn't believe Ishtar's words. "If it had nothing to do with him, why did you suddenly make such a decision? If it had nothing to do with him, as a god, you , why sacrifice yourself for the benefit of mankind?"

"If it has nothing to do with him." The third time, Ai Lei's tone was already full of anger, "tell me Ishtar, why have you, who have chosen to stand by for so many years since you were born, why at this moment Decided to stand with him and make such a rebellious move!"

"Ishtar, I never knew that my sister, my half body, was so self-sacrificing."

This sentence is naked irony. If Ishtar is standing opposite Ereshgar at this moment, maybe she can feel the manic power of Ereshgar all over her body, tearing the land of Hades into pieces: " For a man, for a bastard with only two-thirds of the blood of a god, you betrayed me?"

Ishtar keenly noticed the key point of Eilei, not betraying the "clan" such as the gods, but betraying her—Ereshkigal.

"You betrayed me, Ishtar!" Alley reprimanded sharply, "I shouldn't have agreed to your idea of ​​going to the battlefield with him back then. Even earlier, I shouldn't have let you go to the battlefield with him. Contact him and become his friend!"

Facing Ai Lei who was full of anger, Ishtar looked at her intently, at her angry eyes, at her distorted face, at the torn black sky and earth around her: "I Never betrayed you, Ellie, when I made this decision, you were the first and the only one to know."

These words calmed Ereshgar's anger to a certain extent, and calmed her violent temper, but it was limited to this.

However, this is enough for Ishtar: "Before making this decision, I thought carefully and predicted that expelling the gods from this land will not affect your existence, or even your existence. Leaving Netherland also has the benefit of helping each other."

If you want to achieve one thing, how can you just rely on the rampage of your brain.

She has already passed the age of acting recklessly because of impulsiveness. Ishtar has already thought about how to prepare and how to do it if she wants to expel the gods. What kind of impact.

"You are the goddess of the underworld, the guide of life and death, and the guardian of that land." Just like Gilgamesh's promise to become "Uruk", the kingdom of the underworld represents A source of strength that will not be easily shaken, "As long as Hades exists, Ai Lei, your existence will not be erased."

So the gods recede and have nothing to do with you.

"I want to live, Ellie." When I made a decision, before I made such a rebellious decision, which could even be regarded as a betrayal, I wanted to live, "What kind of reaction will you have? I have thought about it."

Ai Lei was not moved by Ishtar's words, she looked at Ishtar, looked at the sincerity on her face, and listened to her sincere confession: "But you still decided to do this, those thoughts, To you, those hesitations are not as good as the grand plans Gilgamesh drew for you, right?"

This is quite extreme, but Ishtar, who knows he is wrong, can't refute anything: "Ai Lei, this is my decision after consideration. Even if you don't understand, I hope you can respect it."

As if hearing something funny, Ereshkigal looked at Ishtar in disbelief and said, "Respect? This is the end of the matter, Ishtar, you said to me, I hope I respect Your stupid, hopeless, ridiculously whimsical decision?"

"It's because you don't have a clear mind that you didn't run to contact your father immediately."

"My brain is very clear, Ereshgar!" Facing the half-body who did not understand anyway, Ishtar also lost his temper, "I am not discussing with you, but telling you my decision That's all, what you do next, what you want to do, has nothing to do with me."

She looked at Ai Lei with a decisive tone: "Just like the decision I made, it has nothing to do with you."

"What do you call it has nothing to do with me? It has nothing to do with me that my father and other gods may leave this world? Humans want to rebel against gods and I am also a god. This matter has nothing to do with me? My good sister wants to stand by a human being's side , it has nothing to do with me to be an enemy of the gods?"

He asked one after another, pressing step by step: "Have you ever thought about it, because of the one-third of human blood in his body, because of the two-thirds of Goddess Ningsun's blood in his body, father and the others will not even blame him He! Because he is human, he has a position, and because of his mother, his father cannot be executed arbitrarily."

"——Then what about you!" Ailei's voice suddenly rose, and she shouted in a voice that was almost heartbreaking, "When you lose your dream and are killed by them, should I stand by and stand by? Should I take your soul and hide in the depths of Hades, or just watch you die?"

Probably really blown away by Ishtar's attitude, Ai Lei couldn't even maintain her basic emotions well: "Watching my sisters being abducted by cunning humans, watching my half body being used by greedy humans , watching my friend step by step towards the cliff of despair—"

"—If this has nothing to do with me, Ishtar, tell me, what has to do with me?!"

Quiet, so eerie that you can't even hear the sound of breathing.

Ishtar looked at Ereshgar's face flushed with anger, at the undisguised anger in her eyes, at her tightly pursed lips, and at the pale fingers of Meslamthea holding the weapon. Jian: "Always sacrifice something for what you want to do, Ellie."

"It's not your sacrifice, this matter has nothing to do with you!" Ai Lei slammed the ground with Meslamtea anxiously, "That's a human thing, it's a headache for Gilgamesh, not you, Ish, it shouldn't be you. Even if you are expelled together, even if you are unlucky with the gods, at least you should not be a traitor."

Unlike Ereshgar, who was trapped in Hades from birth, Ishtar has been favored by all living beings since birth.And because of Anu's undisguised preference for her, if she betrayed, Ishtar's fate can be imagined: "It shouldn't be you, Ish, even I..."

"Erene," Ishtar interrupted Erene, "I know what you're going to say, but this is my wish."

Speaking of his own thoughts, the arrogance on Ishtar's face faded away, replaced by Ereshgar's never-before-seen appearance, confident and dazzling: "I promise Gilgamesh to be his accomplice, It's not because I have a good impression of him. In fact, such a good impression came about after I agreed."

No one will not have a good impression of like-minded people. Ishtar was also a human being, and even now she is still a human being in the depths of her soul: "My original choice was to expel the gods from the land. The idea is not because of Gilgamesh, but is longer, hidden deeper, and existed from the beginning."

She looked at Ai Lei: "Such a wish existed from the very beginning." If you really talk about when it was deeply rooted in your heart, if you want to talk about when it took root, "When you were sent away because of your 'attribute' Going to the underworld, when I saw that thousands of human names were hastily cut off because of 'unwillingness', this decision has already been made."

Gilgamesh, at best, is only the fuse of this series of events. The gunpowder and fuse of the explosion were actually buried from the very beginning: "When I saw the land that died of drought because of no rain, when I passed by because If you don’t do your duty and get waterlogged to death, the decision has already been made.”

"Is this still the fault of the gods?" It is precisely because of such a hatred that iron cannot be made into steel, Ereshkigal's words are full of sarcasm, "Aren't they the ones who prayed to us? Is it them, Ishtar, I don't think your mind is clear at all!"

"It is precisely because of this. It is precisely because human beings are begging, praying, longing, and demanding, that gods should be separated from humans. Ai Lei, have you ever thought about gaining human beliefs and using human beings? Who is the god that is enshrined that cannot be separated from whom?"

This question made Ai Lei never think about it. From the time she had memory, from the time she became the master of Hades, everyone told her that she was superior and she could do whatever she wanted: "Isn't it? Can't influence the human beings who need to depend on us, can they leave us?"

Ishtar shook her head, and did not directly answer her own question: "You just have to watch, Ai Lei. Watch the development of the situation, and then the choice and decision are your freedom."

"Even if I choose a completely different path from you?"

Ereshkigal's cautious attitude and the worry on her face dispelled the haze in Ishtar's heart: "Isn't this good?" She smiled, "If you win, you have proved it with practical actions. Now you are the one fighting for."

"At that time, everything was over, so what's the point of proving it?" Allie tugged at her own hair angrily, "So, you are determined to stand with that Gilgamesh , What is so good about that guy!"

"It's not that I want to stand with him, but that his wishes coincide with my thoughts." There is still a big difference, "As for what is good about him..."

Ishtar raised the corners of his mouth: "Probably because since he passed, there is no one who is as arrogant but convincing, arrogant but not blind, and can see through everything I think and know with just one glance. What I want is there."

"...So you really like him."

"Perhaps," the goddess replied with a smile, "but that's in the future."

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