Ishtar: I Believe the Gates of the Underworld Pose Questions Fairly and Rationally (1/?)

On the Light Screen, after listening to Ishtar explain all sorts of things about the Underworld, Mash looked at her with admiration. "As expected of Miss Ishtar—you know so much, even though the Underworld is the place you're least compatible with."

Fujimaru Tachibana smiled. "Well, Miss Ishtar is a goddess. Of course she knows things we don't!"

Mash nodded. "That's true. Miss Ishtar is very dependable."

After receiving all that praise and admiration, Ishtar became a little embarrassed—and a little ashamed. Her expression was impossible to describe.

In the end, Ishtar simply turned around, muttered something about how she had been to the Underworld before, and quickly headed deeper inside. She clearly did not want to continue this conversation with the other two.

Her dejected, self-abandoning manner left Fujimaru Tachibana and Mash confused. They hurried after Ishtar, unable to understand why she had suddenly started sulking again.

Many people in the real world were equally confused. However, those who were perceptive and knew the story of Ishtar entering the Underworld burst out laughing and shared what they knew.

"Ishtar feels like they're digging up her embarrassing history right in front of her. In mythology, she did go to the Underworld and caused trouble there, only to get beaten up by her sister Ereshkigal and outright killed."

"If Ishtar's father, the king of the gods, hadn't revived her, she would have become a dead goddess. With Ishtar's prideful tsundere personality inherited from Tohsaka Rin, having Fujimaru Tachibana and Mash say that to her face is basically like digging up her dark past and stomping all over it."

"If we didn't know Tachibana and Mash's personalities, we might think they were being sarcastic. But precisely because Ishtar knew they weren't mocking her, she could only run off in frustration instead of immediately