Chapter 546

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At first, all she could make were culinary horrors that seemed like tributes to the Lahmu. Now she could prepare delicious food all by herself.

Shirou’s coaching certainly deserved some credit, but she probably had a natural talent for it, too. She was the ultimate mother, after all.

When he returned home, Tiamat came to greet him and helped him change into fresh, clean clothes.

At first, she had been as flustered about this as she was about cooking. Now she was becoming more and more like a newlywed wife.

“Thank you, Tia.”

“Mm. Breakfast is ready. Come and eat.”

Shirou sat down at the table and enjoyed the delicious breakfast Tiamat had prepared.

“A honeymoon...?”

Shirou’s chopsticks stopped.

Tiamat nodded. “Yes. Newlyweds go on honeymoons. Mother wants to go on a honeymoon with Shirou, too.”

The corner of Shirou’s mouth twitched. “Just so I know, who told you that?”

“The Greater Grail,” Tiamat replied.

Damn you, Solomon! Filling Mother’s head with unnecessary knowledge again...!

Tiamat tilted her head, quietly watching Shirou’s reaction. “Can we not go? On a honeymoon?”

“It’s not that we can’t, exactly, but...”

But Tiamat was a Beast of Calamity, one of the seven Evils of Humanity.

Things were fine here in the abyss, but there was no telling what might happen if she returned to the surface.

Gilgamesh had said it himself: Mother had been exiled because there was no place for her on the surface once its ecosystem had been established.

Put simply, Tiamat’s mere manifestation on the surface would have an enormous impact on the planet’s ecosystem.

It would not simply return the world to the conditions of the Age of Gods. It would turn it into a