"...You really do love making trouble for me."
Gilgamesh looked at Kurgarru and Galatur lying on the bed as if asleep, then gave Annanu a helpless glance and spoke in a vicious tone.
"If you were planning to complete the two of them, couldn't you have picked any other time? You had to do it now?"
Gilgamesh chose to retaliate against Annanu.
He tied Annanu's yellow hair into a knot across Annanu's face.
"Well, I do know Uruk is rather short on manpower right now, but..."
With an aggrieved expression, Annanu untied the knot Gilgamesh had made in his hair and looked at Kurgarru and Galatur. "Gil, this time, none of us know whether we'll survive."
"Whether it's Enkidu and me as Servants, or all of you who are still alive."
"No one can remain uninvolved in this disaster, whether living or dead. So..."
Annanu's eyes met Gilgamesh's.
"This may be the last chance to complete them."
If they died in this battle against Tiamat, then Kurgarru and Galatur's forms of life would be completely fixed. Even if they became Servants after death, they would still be unable to find their answers, only accumulating even more confusion.
Forever.
"...Then at least tell me in advance next time." Gilgamesh folded his arms and sighed, unsure of what else to say.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, the two of them seemed to sense something at the same time and looked in a certain direction.
Then, they smiled in unison.
"See? New labor has arrived already. That's what I call foresight."
"Oh, give it a rest. All you ever do is cause trouble for me."
Though he said that, there was a faint smile at the corner of Gilgamesh's lips.
Ishtar... Though his bad memories of her far outnumbered the good ones, she was, overall, still