"Yo, busy?"
Gilgamesh stepped out of his bedchamber, intending to head to the front hall to find Siduri, only to see a certain shameless goddess lying in ambush in the sky outside his door, striking seductive poses.
?
He took a deep breath, slowly let it out, then pinched both temples between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand and pressed hard twice.
"I need to take a break soon. I'm even starting to hallucinate."
Saying this, he walked past Ishtar as though he had seen nothing at all.
Ishtar's expression froze.
H-He ignored her!?
"Hey!" She hurriedly turned around and called out, somewhat angry.
"Huh? So it wasn't a hallucination?" Gilgamesh turned his face toward her with an expression of obvious annoyance, clearly doing it on purpose to avoid looking at Ishtar.
But now that she had called him, he had to respond, right?
"Ishtar, why did you stop me? More importantly, why are you outside my bedchamber? Aren't you afraid of scaring my lion?"
Gilgamesh kept a lion because it looked rather like Ugal, which he found amusing.
"What do you mean, scaring your lion!?" Ishtar nearly choked on Gilgamesh's words, her eyes widening. "Look, your lion is already completely infatuated with me, a goddess!"
She pointed at Gilgamesh's lion. Hearts had already appeared in the beast's eyes as it desperately tried to break free from its chains and throw itself into Ishtar's embrace.
But if it really broke free, Ishtar would probably kill it with a casual flick of her hand.
"Tch." Gilgamesh clicked his tongue in displeasure.
The concept of beauty, huh. Wonder if lion meat tastes good.
"So? Did you need something from me?" Gilgamesh looked at the goddess in the sky and said coldly, "Normally, shouldn't you be flying your Maanna all over