In the Light Screen footage, after Ereshkigal manifested an avatar, she fully displayed her malice toward Ishtar. In a cold voice, she mocked Ishtar, saying that coming to the Underworld was the stupidest thing she could have done.
Once Ishtar's failed descent into the Underworld had been engraved into myth and legend, she could no longer escape the curse of the Underworld.
The seven gates of the Underworld would, just as in the myths, strip Ishtar of seven of her authorities, steadily weakening her.
Because Ishtar no longer possessed the body of a true deity and only existed in the Singularity after being downgraded to a Servant, the extent of that weakening would be even more terrifying.
In the end, once Ishtar passed through the seven gates of the Underworld and reached her final destination, she would become something as fragile as a flying insect.
Faced with Ereshkigal, who was brazenly taunting her while wearing a giant skeleton avatar, Ishtar was naturally frustrated and irritable, seeing as she was the target of the mockery.
As Fujimaru Tachibana looked at that giant skeleton and thought of Ereshkigal's adorable, beautiful appearance, she could not help but interject as a fellow girl. "Um, Ereshkigal, why are you using an appearance like that? Is it something you have to do as the goddess of the Underworld?"
"But Ereshkigal is obviously so pretty. Even if you need to use an avatar, you don't have to use the appearance of some giant skeleton, do you?"
Those words immediately turned the tense, solemn atmosphere created by Ereshkigal and Ishtar's confrontation into something absurdly comical.
Still, this was Fujimaru Tachibana. It really was the sort of question she would ask.
Then Ishtar bristled. She was displeased that Fujimaru Tachibana had called Ereshkigal pretty, while Ereshkigal...
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