Ereshkigal shut herself off.
There was no doubt about it.
Fujimaru Tachibana's words had directly caused her to shut down. It could basically be summed up as: "She really has poor psychological resilience."
In any case, the people of the real world did not know what to say when they saw the dignified goddess of the underworld reduced to this state.
Ereshkigal was displaying the behavior of a complete weakling.
Honestly, no one even knew how to mock her.
Yet her frail appearance also made her pitiable.
Especially when combined with the innocence and easy-to-win-over nature she had shown before, people could not help but feel sorry for her, their hearts aching a little.
Humans and gods could not understand one another, just as humans found it difficult to truly understand other humans.
Everyone perceived and endured things differently. Claiming to understand others was nothing more than talking big when one had never been in their shoes.
That was how Ereshkigal was now.
The girl was easy to understand, yet utterly impossible to understand.
She was easy to understand because of her innocent, naïve personality—she was very easy to win over.
She was difficult to understand because no one could comprehend the loneliness in Ereshkigal's heart or the pain she had endured.
This was destined to become an unsolvable mystery.
Meanwhile, in the Light Screen footage, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others returned to Uruk shortly before dawn.
Their day-and-night operation had left Fujimaru Tachibana rather exhausted. The girl had originally planned to seek out Gilgamesh tomorrow, since Gilgamesh should have been resting at this hour.
However, Merlin said they could go see him directly, because Gilgamesh definitely had not rested today.
Merlin proved to be right. When Fujimaru Tachibana and the others went to find Gilgamesh with mixed feelings of