"Where the hell is this...?"
Lawrence followed Nanshe out of Uruk, heading toward the mountains.
They were moving fairly quickly, and Lawrence was having a little trouble telling which direction they were going.
Probably... west?
"Are you sure this method will actually work?"
Before coming here, Nanshe had told Lawrence what she intended to do.
There were an absurd number of Servants who had been summoned to Mesopotamia, especially goddesses.
However, the strength of those goddess Servants varied wildly.
But the one Nanshe was taking Lawrence to find was definitely extremely powerful.
Because her name was Ishtar.
After being summoned to the Mesopotamian Singularity, the Goddess of Venus had embarked on a journey of doing absolutely nothing.
Not only had she failed to go to Uruk and help Gilgamesh resolve the calamity that had appeared in this era, she had not gone to join Tiamat either. Instead, she had chosen to build herself a rather nice little room in these mountains, complete with a bed.
Then she lay down on it, and there had been no word from her ever since.
Lawrence's expression became rather complicated.
Why did this Ishtar feel a little different from the one he remembered?
Wasn't this woman supposed to love causing trouble more than anything?
Why was she behaving herself when the world was in crisis?
"Forget it. I'll make some first." Shaking his head, Lawrence stopped dwelling on the matter and earnestly began carrying out Nanshe's proposal.
The so-called—
Gemstone Operation!
Fundamentally speaking, Nanshe did not really know what Ishtar liked.
But in this world, aside from things you liked and things you hated, there were also—things you simply could not refuse.
"She really likes gemstones." Nanshe picked up one of the gems in Lawrence's hand and clicked her tongue in amazement. "The gems