The Foolish Goddess Was Easy to Pacify

Speaking of reunions after a long separation, there actually were not many people who truly had ties to him.

On this worldline, the only ones whose fates had become intertwined with Yuan Shikai's were Yuan Ayaka, Ishtar, and Tsubaki Kuruoka.

Although he had interacted with the others, Yuan Shikai had not changed their fates much.

Tsubaki Kuruoka had been clinging to his back and acting spoiled, demanding that Yuan Shikai carry her while telling him about everything she had achieved after joining the Clock Tower.

Ayaka also kept calling him big brother and staying by his side, telling him about what had happened after he left.

Only Ishtar sat alone atop the tallest building at Atlas Academy, looking incomparably lonely.

Yet her eyes would occasionally sneak a glance at Yuan Shikai, as if saying, I won't go join the fun. Come up here and coax me yourself. If you don't make me happy, don't expect to have an easy life from now on.

That was Ishtar. Anyone could see through her tsundere personality at a glance.

After finally shaking off Tsubaki Kuruoka, that little attachment, and sending Ayaka off to practice using the power of the dining table, he finally had time to go see Ishtar.

Of everyone there, Ishtar was actually the easiest to appease, because she was the loneliest.

She had revived in the form of divine remnants, only to awaken and discover that her people had long since vanished, her era had long since ended, and barely anyone even remembered her.

That was why she had planned to destroy the Quantum Record Belt, alter the rules of the world, and restore Mesopotamia. She had simply been too lonely.

Ishtar had long prepared herself to perish should her plan fail.

It was Yuan Shikai who had intervened of