# 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?
**[00:09] ---**
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!
**[00:26] ---**
This is...
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truly the work of a genius!
**[00:29] ---**
My king, perhaps you should consider
becoming an architect!
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Don't tempt me.
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I'd seriously consider it.
**[00:39] ---**
Then, I shall go take this to the armory.
**[00:45] ---**
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.
**[01:09] ---**
But now, I have no choice.
**[02:43] ---**
And I returned to see the king
on his throne in eternal slumber.
**[02:48] ---**
Impossible.
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That's ludicrous!
**[02:53] ---**
He's a man who saw the future
and voluntarily became a Mage!
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He promised to focus on giving orders from
the throne to prevent dying on the battlefield!
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There is no way
someone like King Gilgamesh could die!
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*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!
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Keep at it, Romani!
**[03:17] ---**
If you don't properly deny all this,
your life is also in danger!
**[03:20] ---**
Besides, if it were so easy to kill him,
he would've died dozens of times by now!
**[03:26] ---**
Indeed.
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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!
**[03:49] ---**
Deaths from weakness?
**[03:50] ---**
Yes.
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I was rather shook by the king's death,
**[03:54] ---**
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.
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I see.
**[04:03] ---**
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...
**[04:12] ---**
Why, Ereshkigal,
the Queen of Kur, of course!
**[04:16] ---**
Queen of Kur?
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Ereshkigal?
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Huh?
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Did you just say "Ereshkigal"?
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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?
**[04:41] ---**
Hold on a bit! The Three Goddess Alliance
consists of Gorgon, Quetzalcoatl and...
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I'm not one of them, okay?
**[04:51] ---**
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.
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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!
**[05:12] ---**
*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?*
**[05:29] ---**
*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.
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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.
**[05:52] ---**
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.
**[06:51] ---**
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.
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Is that true?
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Yes. Actually, we'd be in trouble
if we lost him now.
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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.
**[07:37] ---**
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!
**[07:47] ---**
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!
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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.
**[08:16] ---**
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.
**[08:24] ---**
I'll head over later, as well.
**[08:27] ---**
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.
**[09:07] ---**
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!
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Output at isosceles of 1/3 the lapis lazuli!
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Gate of Kur, shatter!
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Let the light of An
shine through the skyless Ki!
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- What?
- What?
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Go!
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Ow...
**[10:12] ---**
Are you okay, Master?
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Somehow...
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All right, success!
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Ishtar, why do you have to be so...
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like this?
**[10:23] ---**
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?
**[10:43] ---**
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,
**[10:57] ---**
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.
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Where is Ereshkigal?
**[11:48] ---**
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?
**[12:08] ---**
But if I recall, your Divinity
doesn't work here in the underworld.
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Oh, but Ishtar is a goddess,
**[12:15] ---**
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.
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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.
**[15:45] ---**
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!
**[15:53] ---**
I ended up looking like this,
but we still have to go forward!
**[15:57] ---**
Ishtar, are you really fine physically?
**[16:01] ---**
It doesn't look like I'll be able
to join you in battle,
**[16:03] ---**
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,
**[16:14] ---**
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.
**[16:38] ---**
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!
**[16:55] ---**
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!
**[17:04] ---**
Fujimaru, what is this ever-so-slightly
adorably sized Ishtar about?
**[17:08] ---**
That is due to Ereshkigal's curse.
**[17:11] ---**
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!
**[17:17] ---**
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!
**[17:27] ---**
Th-This fool...
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I knew I shouldn't have come to save you!
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This fool!
**[17:37] ---**
You? Come to save me?
**[17:39] ---**
Did I somehow die again
while I was down here and start hallucinating?
**[17:44] ---**
Yeah, if that was the case,
we could've just left you here!
**[17:48] ---**
Why don't you just sink
further down into the abyss?
**[17:51] ---**
There's no way
I'd do something that boring!
**[17:54] ---**
There are things that I still need to do!
**[17:59] ---**
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!
**[18:06] ---**
I wouldn't be able to leave the underworld
without her permission.
**[18:10] ---**
I see.
**[18:11] ---**
That is all the more reason
to punish that wretched Ereshkigal...
**[18:14] ---**
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"!
**[18:24] ---**
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.
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If I have to make a comparison,
she's not quite on Ishtar's level.
**[19:01] ---**
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...
**[19:15] ---**
Ereshkigal is the goddess
who did not desire anything.
**[19:18] ---**
Not one thing?
**[19:19] ---**
When the underworld was created,
**[19:21] ---**
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.
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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.
**[19:57] ---**
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,
**[20:12] ---**
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...
**[21:00] ---**
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...
**[21:51] ---**
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!
**[22:06] ---**
Death of the King