Iron-Seeking Demonic Beast

Once they had gotten acquainted, everyone chatted for a while. Out of embarrassment, Ishtar did not dare admit that she had lost her Bull of Heaven. Instead, she beat around the bush, asking whether they had seen anything powerful fall from the sky, thoroughly confusing everyone.

Mash Kyrielight said awkwardly, "Um, even if you put it that way, judging from your wording... did you lose something?"

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Ishtar anxiously retorted with an obviously suspicious expression, "O-Of course not! I didn't lose anything! I was merely entrusted by someone else. That kind of treasure isn't important at all!"

Those transparently flawed words were so naïve and adorable that even Tohsaka Rin was speechless. So this was what it felt like to watch herself forcefully argue from someone else's perspective.

Ritsuka Fujimaru sighed. "This is... too painful to watch. Could you please include a subject when you explain?"

Ritsuka Fujimaru already knew what Ishtar had lost. It was none other than the Bull of Heaven.

Normally, there would have been no way to guess it, but Ritsuka Fujimaru had cheats. He had foreseen the future in advance and crammed information about some gods.

Just as Ritsuka Fujimaru expected, Ishtar decisively refused. "No way! If I say what I lost, won't my mistake be exposed?"

Even Fou was speechless. "Umm..."

Without even admitting it, she had revealed her own problem step by step.

Seeing Fou's reaction, Ishtar realized it too. Fortunately, no one pointed it out. Though inwardly embarrassed, she still forced herself to say, "Anyway, you only need to tell me whether there is or isn't some particular thing nearby!"

Ritsuka Fujimaru simply changed his approach. "So, this item is related to the mad god you came here to find, Ishtar, right?"

"Huh? Right!"