Sending a Living Sacrifice to the Gods, Have More Humans Killed Each Other Than This? (2nd update)

In the Light Screen footage, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others discovered that Ur City was effectively a village of widows, and many people in the real world realized the same thing as they observed alongside Fujimaru Tachibana's group.

It simply had not been confirmed before; only now did they know for certain.

Faced with this situation, Fujimaru Tachibana wasted no time seeking out the person in charge of Ur City.

She was a middle-aged woman living in a building before the city's central square. She was currently one of Ur City's administrators, a priestess of the Forest Goddess chosen by public recommendation.

Fujimaru Tachibana and the others had learned this by asking the city's residents. When they found the priestess, the middle-aged woman and the two female attendants with her were somewhat nervous. Unlike Siduri, a priestess with an air of holiness and wisdom, they were clearly ordinary people forcibly elevated into their positions.

If they had to put it another way, they were probably the sort who were comparatively capable and respected among ordinary people, which was why they had been selected.

They could handle ordinary neighborhood matters just fine, but before Fujimaru Tachibana and the others, who had come as "envoys of King Gilgamesh," they clearly could not hold up. Their anxiety was impossible to conceal.

Forcing herself to face Fujimaru Tachibana and the others despite her nerves, the priestess asked in a subdued voice, "Envoys of King Gilgamesh, what business do you have here?"

Fujimaru Tachibana instinctively looked toward Merlin, who gave the girl a serious nod.

This should have been the work of Merlin, the court mage, but as part of Fujimaru Tachibana's assessment and training, it had all been entrusted to the girl.

Thus, Fujimaru Tachibana, who had already been through much, stepped forward without