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In the real world, as Merlin recounted this little-known story, people immediately thought of the scene shown earlier, where the goddess who appeared to be Ereshkigal, goddess of the underworld, had been summoned.
Those who still did not know that the goddess sisters Ishtar and Ereshkigal shared one body with two souls in the Singularity were instantly stunned.
After all, many had guessed that the one summoned back then had been the goddess of the underworld, not Ishtar.
Yet now Merlin said that Ishtar had been the one summoned at the time, and he had even revealed the truth behind why she had possessed the young Tohsaka Rin.
That came as quite a surprise. Why had such a thing happened?
Could their guess have been wrong? Could that blonde goddess really not have been the goddess of the underworld, but Ishtar herself?
So, had Ishtar destroyed the city-state of Kutha?
No, probably not. Although Ishtar was willful, she was not the trashy goddess Merlin had described in the original myth. She was a goddess of good whose personality had merged with Tohsaka Rin's, and who had been deeply influenced by her.
She was someone who did not even want to kill ordinary people, someone who protected them. Though her habits and behavior often left people speechless, she truly had been protecting Uruk and the humans of the Singularity.
There was no reason for an Ishtar like that to suddenly become a butcher.
Therefore, Kutha's destruction must have been the work of another god.
After pondering it for a while, many people thought of Ereshkigal, goddess of the underworld.
Even if that blonde goddess truly was not the goddess of the underworld, Ereshkigal had every ability and reason to strike at Kutha.
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