"Uruk... had still become like this."
Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash stood atop Uruk's city walls, beside a Divine Authority Seal that had already been scrapped.
Mash looked down into the city from the wall, her eyes trembling.
Uruk had been destroyed. That had not changed. This prosperous, beautiful city had still been destroyed.
Mash looked deeply saddened as well.
"Don't be so sad. At least the black mud has receded. That's enough, isn't it?" Nanshe stood beside the two girls, with Lawrence floating beside her, wrapped in a current of water and barely alive.
If nothing unexpected happened, Lawrence would probably be returning to Chaldea lying down again this time.
"Gilgamesh... in the end, he protected this land as he always had."
"At least he didn't let this land become a paradise for Demonic Beasts."
"Though they were all children of the Mother Goddess, those things were born from her grief and rage. Without question, they were 'twisted' and 'harmful.'"
Nanshe tried her best to appear normal, but the exhaustion and weariness in her eyes could not be concealed.
In order to win, Annanu had shattered his Saint Graph alongside Enkidu. Just as before, they had become Gilgamesh's [weapons].
They had become the simple force that saved the world.
Come to think of it, weren't the things Ereshkigal had already done exactly what she herself had wanted to do?
Nanshe's expression became distant.
"So you were here. I've been looking for you for a while."
Whoosh—
The familiar sound of Maanna swept past, and Ishtar stood on the other side of the city wall, looking at Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others with delight.
"After arriving on the surface, it seems everyone ended up separated." Merlin walked over as well, looking into Uruk alongside Fujimaru Ritsuka. "I don't know whether it