Yukari Yakumo: I Think I Can Still Be Saved! / Other People's Pain Is the Source of My Happiness!

"There wasn't anything like that. On the contrary, I asked just now, and Chu Chen said it was fine to bring Mother along, as long as we didn't somehow leave the main group and get lost. Seriously, do we look like the kind of people who would get lost? Did he really have to remind us over and over? Am I really that unreliable?"

Ereshkigal: "..."

Quetzalcoatl: "..."

We just wanted to ask: when had you ever been reliable?

The sudden silence made Ishtar instinctively look at the two beside her.

In an instant, Ishtar's gaze fell upon Ereshkigal and Quetzalcoatl.

"Why are you two suddenly looking at me? Do I look like someone who'd get lost?"

Ereshkigal and Quetzalcoatl both nodded, thoroughly agreeing with what Ishtar had just said.

Ishtar: "..."

Believe it or not, I'll beat the hell out of all of you!

As if sensing Ishtar's dissatisfaction, Ereshkigal merely asked calmly.

"Ishtar, if there were a gemstone in front of you filled with a thousand or ten thousand years' worth of magical power, but Mother wanted to visit another shop, what would you do?"

"Of course I'd leave Mother with you first. No matter what, I'd have to buy that gemstone!"

Ishtar said it as if it were only natural.

"See... aren't you still planning to leave the main group? Dropping the ball at the crucial moment is our trait. It's also the trait of this body's host..."

"But..."

"But nothing. Have you forgotten how you lost the Bull of Heaven?"

Ishtar: "..."

The moment the Bull of Heaven was mentioned, she had nothing more to say.

That thing really did seem to have been lost because of her carelessness.

The auction was proceeding smoothly.

Everyone's intentions were basically obvious. People like Yuyuko, who had come specifically