Chapter 544

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“But this must be wrong.”

Tiamat spoke with a faintly sorrowful expression.

“Gilgamesh was right. One day, children must leave their mother…”

Tiamat placed her hand against Shirou’s chest.

“Don’t leave me behind. Don’t love me any more than you already do…

“Shirou, staying beside me won’t bring you happiness…

“So… go back to where you belong.”

She intended to use her authority as the goddess of creation to return Shirou to his original time and place.

She alone should be condemned to this world of nothingness.

Shirou was her most beloved child. Precisely because of that… she could not let him remain in a world that held nothing at all.

“Shirou, the fact that you were willing to come here with me made me so happy…”

Tears kept streaming down Tiamat’s face.

“So very happy… I’ve never been this happy before… Ah, I’m so happy…

“Thank you. Truly, thank you… It’s enough now. You’ve already done more than enough for your mother…”

Compared to the long ages the goddess of creation had lived through, her time with Shirou had been fleeting.

Yet even the happiness and joy she had found in that brief time would be enough to sustain Tiamat until the next age.

As long as she could imagine Shirou living well somewhere on the planet after leaving her, she felt she could endure any loneliness.

Light shone from Tiamat’s hand.

The King of Demon Gods possessed an authority called “Unsummoning.” Though Mother knew nothing of magecraft, she could achieve something similar through her authority as a Beast.

She would simply send Shirou back to his own era.

“…?”

Tiamat looked down in confusion at the hand he had grasped.

“What is it,