E12 - Death of the King
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I can't believe this.
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Oh!
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How terrifying!
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King Gilgamesh?
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What in the world is the matter?
[00:15] ---
The blueprint for the Fangs of Napishtim
is finally complete!
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Look here and feast your eyes
on its magnificence!
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This is prized work!
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This is...
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truly the work of a genius!
[00:29] ---
My king, perhaps you should consider
becoming an architect!
[00:34] ---
Don't tempt me.
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I'd seriously consider it.
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Then, I shall go take this to the armory.
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So please, rest up for a short while.
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I may have overworked these past few days.
[01:01] ---
A throne is here
to show authority, not to rest.
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But now, I have no choice.
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And I returned to see the king
on his throne in eternal slumber.
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Impossible.
[02:50] ---
That's ludicrous!
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He's a man who saw the future
and voluntarily became a Mage!
[02:57] ---
He promised to focus on giving orders from
the throne to prevent dying on the battlefield!
[03:03] ---
There is no way
someone like King Gilgamesh could die!
[03:08] ---
My thoughts exactly!
[03:10] ---
Death by overwork of all things?
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If he died from working too hard,
the same thing can happen to me!
[03:16] ---
Keep at it, Romani!
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If you don't properly deny all this,
your life is also in danger!
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Besides, if it were so easy to kill him,
he would've died dozens of times by now!
[03:26] ---
Indeed.
[03:28] ---
I-I lost my cool in the heat of the moment.
[03:35] ---
Lady Siduri, after we headed to Ur,
did something strange happen here in Uruk?
[03:41] ---
Strange?
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Let's see! We had many reports
of deaths from weakness within Uruk!
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Deaths from weakness?
[03:50] ---
Yes.
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I was rather shook by the king's death,
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but an abnormal number of reports
have been coming in.
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It is as if the entire city of Uruk
has been enveloped by death.
[04:01] ---
I see.
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Unnatural, you mean to say?
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Which means the Three Goddess Alliance
must be responsible.
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You say the Three Goddess Alliance, but who...
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Why, Ereshkigal,
the Queen of Kur, of course!
[04:16] ---
Queen of Kur?
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Ereshkigal?
[04:19] ---
Huh?
[04:20] ---
Did you just say "Ereshkigal"?
[04:22] ---
It is Ereshkigal's scent of death
that fills Uruk now.
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Ereshkigal's gallû spirits remove souls
from the weak and exhausted first.
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One such spirit must've taken
King Gilgamesh's soul to Kur.
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Kur?
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Hold on a bit! The Three Goddess Alliance
consists of Gorgon, Quetzalcoatl and...
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I'm not one of them, okay?
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The members of the Three Goddess Alliance
are Gorgon, myself and Ereshkigal, right?
[04:57] ---
What?
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Ishtar isn't one of them?
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My, oh, my.
[05:01] ---
Is there some sort
of misunderstanding here?
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More like, what's going on
if Ereshkigal has been revived, as well?
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Hey, Roman over in Chaldea!
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Right here!
[05:14] ---
Yep, let's organize our thoughts a bit.
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For starters,
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the third and final true member
of the Three Goddess Alliance,
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Ereshkigal has shown herself.
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The only Sumerian deity left in this era
should be Ishtar, right?
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Yeah, that's right!
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Let's see.
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In the Sumerian myths,
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Ishtar is the "Queen of Heaven,"
and Ereshkigal is the "Queen of Kur."
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I see.
[05:41] ---
I'm starting to figure out the trick here.
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What is it?
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It's you.
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When you were summoned,
Ereshkigal was summoned, too.
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Ishtar was summoned
by the priestesses, right?
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When she was, did the temple matron,
who successfully summoned her, died.
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The most likely answer
is that Ereshkigal killed her.
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Oh, so that's what this is about.
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I see.
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Ishtar, the goddess of bountiful harvest,
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can be seen as the Great Earth Mother
symbolizing human life.
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On the other hand, Ereshkigal symbolizes
human death, and is the Terrible Earth Mother.
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Does that mean the two goddesses
are two sides of the same coin,
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and perhaps born from the same deity?
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Does that mean she might have been active
using this body of mine?
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The possibility does exist.
Ereshkigal can't leave Kur.
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Nooooo!
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So, that was...
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If Ishtar was summoned, then by extension,
Ereshkigal would be, too!
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Furthermore, they're the same deity,
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so that's why we only counted
a single Sumerian goddess!
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I see.
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I see!
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But anyway, Ereshkigal, huh?
We're in luck here.
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What's lucky about this?
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If she's involved in King Gilgamesh's death,
we can do something about it.
[07:02] ---
Is that true?
[07:03] ---
Yes. Actually, we'd be in trouble
if we lost him now.
[07:08] ---
Lady Siduri, what of the king's body?
[07:10] ---
Yes. We haven't yet buried
the king's body.
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If you are saying
the king's soul is still in Kur...
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If we defeat Ereshkigal
and liberate his soul,
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he should wake up once more.
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Then, we should head out right away!
Let's go, Senpai!
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Defeat...
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Well, a battle would be inevitable.
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Senpai?
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Yep. I'll be okay.
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You really plan on heading there?
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I have to do what I can.
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It's the underworld!
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A world where every Heroic Spirit
and deity is powerless!
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Are you seriously saying you'll defeat
someone under those circumstances?
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I'll decide whether or not
we defeat her once we meet her.
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Fujimaru...
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Hold it right there, Ishtar, yes!
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You know how to get
to the underworld, right?
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Ishtar, please,
I want you to take us there!
[08:05] ---
Oh, fine! I get it!
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You won't be satisfied
until I take you there!
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You guys should stay behind.
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In the worst case scenario,
come over to Kutha!
[08:18] ---
Negotiate with Ereshkigal and have Fujimaru
and Mash be returned to the world above.
[08:23] ---
All right, consider that done.
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I'll head over later, as well.
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I'm useless in the underworld!
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So, I'll wait here for Fujimaru's return!
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In the underworld, they say
Ereshkigal is the ruler supreme.
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I see!
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So, in the meanwhile,
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I'll stay in the world above
and investigate the city of Uruk.
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The city?
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There are people
who died from weakness?
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Whether or not there is another cause...
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Whether or not someone has passed away
without anyone knowing...
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there should be things that I can do.
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Yeah. I'll leave you to do that.
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Okay.
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This is where we came to look
for the Tablet of Destinies earlier.
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I know I'm nagging,
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but are you really going to go?
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We'll either all return
after defeating Ereshkigal,
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or we fail and everyone is trapped.
It's only one or the other.
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I'm sure Ereshkigal is not a bad goddess.
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Senpai...
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All right.
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I'm betting on those words.
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Mash...
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I trust you'll be covering for me!
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O-Okay!
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Load the tide-convergence rounds
in Maanna's bow cannons!
[09:42] ---
Output at isosceles of 1/3 the lapis lazuli!
[09:45] ---
Gate of Kur, shatter!
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Let the light of An
shine through the skyless Ki!
[09:51] ---
- What?
- What?
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Go!
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Ow...
[10:12] ---
Are you okay, Master?
[10:14] ---
Somehow...
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All right, success!
[10:19] ---
Ishtar, why do you have to be so...
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like this?
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Wh-What?
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We properly made it here
to the underworld, so it's fine, isn't it?
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This is...
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the underworld?
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This is...
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We can observe them,
but we can't communicate, it seems.
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I guess we just have to do
what we can on our end, too!
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To think that Kur was located
underground of Kutha...
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It wasn't an area in another dimension,
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but it really and honestly
was physically linked.
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Of course! In the Age of Gods,
the heavens, Earth and the underworld...
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are all situated on the same layer of scroll.
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Those are the souls of the humans
who have died on the surface.
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Souls trapped in there aren't allowed
to disappear, either.
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Ereshkigal cages up
the souls of humans she likes,
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and keeps them at her side to enjoy
for tens of thousands of years.
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The souls that withered to death
on Earth are here, too?
[11:36] ---
Most likely. There are more
soul cages here than before.
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She probably got more after joining
the Three Goddess Alliance.
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I wonder if she's trying
to make a kingdom of the dead.
[11:46] ---
Where is Ereshkigal?
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A bit further. Ereshkigal's palace
is beyond the seven gates.
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That's where she is.
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Ishtar, you're really versed
in the underworld.
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You knew where it was, and you seem
to know a lot of the rules down here.
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Come to think...
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H-How do you put it? You know...
Goddess power or something?
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But if I recall, your Divinity
doesn't work here in the underworld.
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Oh, but Ishtar is a goddess,
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so maybe she naturally knows things
we don't know anything about!
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You're so right! Ishtar is so trustworthy!
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Oh, jeez!
[12:25] ---
I've come down here
to the underworld before!
[12:30] ---
I wasn't planning
on telling you this...
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Um, I feel apologetic somehow.
[12:35] ---
No need to apologize.
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I mean, I'm just taking
my frustrations out on you.
[12:41] ---
I screwed up when I came down
to the underworld.
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Screwed up?
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Right. I felt nothing was impossible
for me after conquering Mt. Ebih.
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So, I got carried away,
and marched into the underworld.
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But the result was a miserable defeat.
A complete, total loss.
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They stripped away my seven Authorities,
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and in the end, I was dragged
in front of her all naked,
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and skewered over and over with spears!
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Indeed, that would be...
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...something you don't want to talk much about.
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Since then, I really have
a hard time dealing with her.
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And we're about to go
face someone like that.
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Master!
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Answer me.
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Answer me.
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The gate...
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You who live... You who have fallen
into the underworld...
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Tell me how your soul should be.
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Now, you'll get questions
with two possible answers.
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The underworld gates are fair and logical,
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and their job is to test
whether a soul is good or evil.
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A soul being good or evil?
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You will have seven in total.
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These gates are what stripped me
of my Authorities the last time I was here.
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Now, sinful Fujimaru, answer me...
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He got called by name?
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Standards of beauty
seem diverse but are absolute.
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Black wins over white,
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and Earth wins over the heavens.
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Then, Ereshkigal or Ishtar...
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Which is more beautiful?
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Hold on a sec!
That's different from before!
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This is an extremely difficult question!
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Answer me.
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Answer me.
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There's no reason for you to hesitate, right?
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M-My answer is "Ishtar"!
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Good going, Fujimaru!
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It's not a hard choice
when one is a goddess of rot and decay,
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and the other beauty and bounty!
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If it's a beauty contest,
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one thousand out of one hundred people
will choose me of course!
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I-Ishtar?
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Are you all right?
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Nitwit...
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My answer is "Ereshkigal"?
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Very well.
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L-Let's go.
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- I'm so tired!
- It must be tiring.
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I didn't think Whose Goddess Is It Anyway
would continue for so long!
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That was the sixth gate.
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There is only one gate left!
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I ended up looking like this,
but we still have to go forward!
[15:57] ---
Ishtar, are you really fine physically?
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It doesn't look like I'll be able
to join you in battle,
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but I was fully aware of that all along.
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I'll protect myself so that Ereshkigal
doesn't crush me with her hand, so don't worry!
[16:12] ---
That's reassuring,
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but please don't be too reckless.
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H-Hold on!
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King Gilgamesh?
[16:26] ---
Good work coming to retrieve me!
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W-We thought Ereshkigal captured you!
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I did accidentally die,
but the underworld is like my backyard.
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I was easily able to let them pass by me.
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Before the gallû spirits came,
I hid in the shadows.
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There, I held my breath and meditated,
and then, Presence Concealment.
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After I got away from them,
I was looking for a good opportunity.
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Hold it! Stop! Let me go! Damn you!
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This was such a hysterical situation
that even I couldn't hold myself back any longer!
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So, I couldn't help but to appear
before you with a hearty laugh!
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Fujimaru, what is this ever-so-slightly
adorably sized Ishtar about?
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That is due to Ereshkigal's curse.
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Have you finally decided that your insignificance
should be reflected in your appearance?
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He's been telling you,
it's Ereshkigal's curse!
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Ishtar was apparently cursed when she failed
her previous descent into the underworld.
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That's why each time
I go through one of those gates,
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they take my Divinity away,
and I keep shrinking!
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Th-This fool...
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I knew I shouldn't have come to save you!
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This fool!
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You? Come to save me?
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Did I somehow die again
while I was down here and start hallucinating?
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Yeah, if that was the case,
we could've just left you here!
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Why don't you just sink
further down into the abyss?
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There's no way
I'd do something that boring!
[17:54] ---
There are things that I still need to do!
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You're not just going to go
straight back to the world above?
[18:02] ---
Impossible!
[18:03] ---
For the time being,
my current self is that of a dead man!
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I wouldn't be able to leave the underworld
without her permission.
[18:10] ---
I see.
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That is all the more reason
to punish that wretched Ereshkigal...
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and leave the underworld with pleasure!
[18:19] ---
So, this is what you call the gate?
[18:21] ---
There's no need to listen to the question!
The answer is "me"!
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It is not you.
[18:35] ---
If Ishtar is in this state, I assume
fighting Ereshkigal will be difficult.
[18:39] ---
I'm of no use here in the first place!
[18:43] ---
Just how much strength
does Goddess Ereshkigal have?
[18:47] ---
Mash?
[18:48] ---
Just like King Gilgamesh says,
we'll likely enter battle after all this.
[18:52] ---
Therefore, I'd like to know
what kind of powers she has.
[18:56] ---
If I have to make a comparison,
she's not quite on Ishtar's level.
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So, you know about Ereshkigal, as well?
[19:05] ---
Well, to a certain extent.
[19:08] ---
If Ishtar is the goddess who has obtained
everything she's ever wanted...
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Ereshkigal is the goddess
who did not desire anything.
[19:18] ---
Not one thing?
[19:19] ---
When the underworld was created,
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she was sent to become
its ruler and foundation.
[19:25] ---
Someone had to maintain the underworld,
[19:29] ---
and Ereshkigal was unlucky enough
to have that responsibility thrust onto her.
[19:33] ---
Ereshkigal had only just been born
when she was cast into the underworld,
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and was the goddess who managed the spirits
of the dead for tens of thousands of years.
[19:43] ---
That's so sad.
[19:46] ---
It's not just that she couldn't leave.
[19:50] ---
I think the worst part is that she couldn't see
new worlds or meet new people.
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In exchange, Ereshkigal
became invincible in the underworld.
[20:02] ---
Even Heroic Spirits and the gods
lose their powers here in the underworld.
[20:07] ---
But things are different
if she's up against someone who's alive.
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Then, she has to kill them first,
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or the laws of the underworld
won't go into effect.
[20:14] ---
In other words,
Mash and Fujimaru can deal with her.
[20:17] ---
I'd say she's about mid-level
in terms of Divinity and Authority.
[20:21] ---
We have a good enough chance to win.
[20:24] ---
Okay.
[20:27] ---
Well, I think that's enough chitchat.
[20:34] ---
This is Ereshkigal's palace.
[20:39] ---
Is this...
[20:45] ---
Romani...
[20:47] ---
There's a vast space
in front of Fujimaru's group.
[20:51] ---
No changes in current status.
The local area is stable...
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Um, it's just a wasteland.
[21:05] ---
That's what the underworld is.
[21:07] ---
Not one gorgeous thing exists here.
[21:11] ---
Isn't that right?
[21:19] ---
O queen of the gallû spirits
who gazes at the sky of darkness!
[21:28] ---
The barometric pressure is at 500 hPa?
[21:30] ---
The temperature drop
is from adiabatic cooling.
[21:33] ---
It must feel like
negative six degrees Celsius now!
[21:35] ---
That's the lower limit
for biological activity!
[21:38] ---
Fujimaru! You need
to get out of there right away!
[21:48] ---
Fear...
[21:49] ---
pray...
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and despair, humans.
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I am the keeper of death,
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ruler of the underworld.
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The one who tramples
the sacred mountain.
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I am Ereshkigal!
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Death of the King
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