Her black twin-tails danced in the gale. In her hand, she held a short sword made of gemstones, gleaming with rainbow-colored radiance, while her ruby-like eyes brimmed with the excitement of a scheme successfully carried out.
Gilgamesh's pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints as he immediately looked toward the golden Venus-concept light projectile still clashing head-on with the Sword of Rupture.
Through the dark crimson storm, he could clearly see that behind that Venus light projectile, only the heavenly bow Maanna was maintaining its magical energy output on its own, with no one controlling it.
Clearly, the heavenly bow had been charged in advance and had released the Noble Phantasm in her stead!
As for her, she had used the magical energy eruption from releasing the Noble Phantasm, along with the magical turbulence and blinding light produced by the clash of Noble Phantasms, as cover to teleport to Venus through an interstellar transfer gate, then offset the coordinates when teleporting back to Earth—allowing her to cut directly into his blind spot!!
"You—!" Gilgamesh roared. He wanted to move his left hand and summon weapons from the Gate of Babylon for defense, but his right hand was still maintaining the Sword of Rupture's output, and the Noble Phantasms within the treasury were also amplifying the Sword of Rupture.
The remaining Noble Phantasms simply could not stop Ishtar!
But even though they could not stop her, he still opened the Gate of Babylon and unleashed every Noble Phantasm he could release to block Ishtar.
Yet at such close range, the speed of opening the gates and releasing Noble Phantasms was nowhere near as fast as Ishtar's Agility B!
Thus, Gilgamesh could only watch helplessly as Ishtar raised that gemstone sword and viciously chopped down at the elbow joint of his fully exposed right