My mother's love song

"what's up?"

"From now on, the goddess' tone and persona have completely changed." Rhodes said with a smile.

Ereshkigal: "...Gu."

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It all started a few months ago when monsters started wreaking havoc in the northern part of the plains.

While King Gilgamesh was opening the Babylonian treasury and building a fortress north of Uruk, the witches of Uruk secretly performed a ritual without the king's knowledge.

That was an attempt to summon the urban god Ishtar.

Although Uruk was ruled by a monarchy, it was not united.

The separation of powers among the royal power, the sacrificial site and the goddess's palace.

Among them, the goddess values ​​the city god more than the king.

When they discovered that this era was about to become a sign of a singularity, they regarded the instability of time and space as a godsend.

The head priestess took the lead in summoning "a soul that matches the goddess's divinity", that is, Rin Toosaka who lives in modern times.

The goddess summoned Ishtar through the soul of Rin Toosaka, which is also known as a pseudo-Servant.

This is why all Mesopotamian gods have blonde hair and red eyes like Gilgamesh, but Ishtar has black hair.

However, what King Gilgamesh, the witches, and even Ishtar herself did not know was

The goddess being summoned is not one pillar, but two.

As the base, Rin Tousaka has a rather twisted personality and independent character, and her good and evil nature are perfectly separated.

One of them became Ishtar and the other became Ereshkigal.

As for which side is good and which side is evil... let's put it aside for now.

Ishtar is the earth goddess who represents human life.

In contrast, Ereshkigal is the terrifying mother goddess of death.

In Type-Moon, these two pillars are one and the same, and it is even possible that they were born from the same divinity.

Two sides of the same God.

The goddess who gave birth to life eventually became the goddess symbolizing death.

The same is true of Astarte, Astaroth, Aphrodite, and Izanami in Japanese mythology.

In short, whenever Ishtar is summoned, Ereshkigal will be chain summoned.

Although she has an independent spiritual base, she is still unable to leave the underworld and has been like this for tens of thousands of years.

However, Ereshkigal can log into the "Tousaka Rin" account [Container] after his sister falls asleep.

After her encounter with Rod, Elle became somewhat uneasy, so she decided to hypnotize Ishtar and come up to get some fresh air.

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The Temple of Inanna at the highest peak of Mount Ebif.

Ereshkigal, who had acquired the five senses of a human, did not open his eyes immediately.

For her, who has been watching alone in the underworld for tens of thousands of years, it takes great courage every time she opens her eyes and faces the beautiful world above ground.

It was quiet all around, it must be night time now and everything was silent.

Ereshkigal felt the silence.

"……Um?"

The goddess's pretty face had her eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Why does it seem like there is something?

But also

Ereshkigal opened his eyes in confusion and looked down.

"This, this, this...what is this!!!"

The boy who just seconds ago was talking to Ereshkigal in the underworld was now in her arms.

Moreover, he showed such a happy expression...

When Ereshkigal realized what he was doing, his brain short-circuited and his cheeks flushed a deep red.

"Aiya! Stupid Ishtar, what are you doing!!!"

The screams of the pure Queen of the Underworld echoed in the temple.

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“Oh… I finally made it to the end.”

Ereshkigal wrapped her arms around her knees, curled up and hugged her chest tightly, her beautiful face as red as a ripe apple.

She muttered with a pout.

"Because he looks really satisfied..."

Rod was lying next to her.

The boy had a calm and peaceful sleeping expression on his face, and he was smacking his lips in his dream, murmuring classic lines from anime girls.

“Haha… I can’t eat anymore…”

Until now, Ereshkigal's mind was still confused and he didn't understand what was going on.

The young man next to him was indeed the human he had imprisoned in the Fever Temple.

After the soul entered the underworld, his body still lingered on, which was very normal in the Age of Gods.

But why did the goddess Ishtar save him?

The violent goddess of war is not someone who would help others. Ishtar claims that anyone who touches her skin will be punished by death.

Ereshkigal puffed up his little face in dissatisfaction and poked Rhodes' sleeping face.

“Lover? No, even Ishtar wouldn’t do such a thing…right? Could it be that he is Ishtar’s child?!”

Ereshkigal stroked his chin and thought: Well, if it was that dissolute half of me, it is indeed very likely.

It is more surprising that she has not had any children in these tens of thousands of years.

She put her face close to Rod's and sniffed.

"Hmm... Indeed, I can feel a faint feeling from him... Is this, the protection of the goddess of beauty?"

Although it was hard to believe, Ereshkigal was convinced.

The young man in front of him, the soul that he had imprisoned, was the son of the goddess Ishtar.

“This would also explain why he wasn’t afraid of me in the underworld.

Even if all the gods in Mesopotamia are afraid of me, that fool Ishtar alone will not be afraid of me.

She even went to the underworld to cause trouble for me. Even after being beaten up, she didn't learn her lesson. I really don't know what she was thinking.

And since this child is the son of Ishtar, he has of course inherited his mother's brawn and idiotic mind, and he dares to speak rudely to me in the underworld.

Not only that, Ishtar and I are each other’s halves.

Her child is my child, so there is no reason for him to be afraid of his mother...Huh? Huh?"

Ereshkigal turned around and looked at Rhodes, blinking her beautiful red eyes in a silly manner.

"So, I really am, this child's mother...?"

Chapter 141 The Obedient Mother

Underworld, fever temple.

"Aige, let me introduce you... She is my Sky Mother, she is my Earth Mother... and this one is my Sea Mother... Uh ah!"

When Rod woke up from a horrible and absurd nightmare, he found that the mother earth in the dream was observing him through the cage.

"Good morning, goddess."

"Good morning... No! This is the underworld, there is no difference between day and night!

You will be imprisoned by my side forever, so remember this, okay? "

Ereshkigal, in the form of Garula spirit, immediately distanced himself from the cage and spoke to Rhodes in a cold voice.

"If you use the surface greeting of 'good morning' again, even if you are mine... well, I will never let you off easily!"

What am I to her...?

Rhodes frowned, not understanding what Elle wanted to express.

but.

It is indeed as the Queen of the Underworld said, the Underworld is a lightless underground where it is impossible to distinguish between day and night.

Here, all that accompanies death is eternal darkness and cold.

"No, that's not the case."

Rhodes suddenly stood up from the cage and looked directly at Ereshkigal.

“What’s wrong…?”

Ereshkigal was startled.

Does this child no longer intend to acknowledge that I am his mother?

It was obviously you who called me "Mom" first!

Have you forgotten who was holding me and making carbs all night last night?

It was obviously very embarrassing, but I still endured it for you.

"...Woo!"

Ereshkigal felt a pang of sadness in his heart: At this point, you, you, you, are you planning to default on your debt?

Rhodes was unable to read Ereshkigal's anger and grievance from her skeleton appearance, and continued talking to himself.

“Although there is no day or night in the underworld, there is only one sun.

The fever temple Meslamthea, which means the sun god Nergal in Sumerian.

In other words, you, goddess of the Fever Temple, are the sun of the underworld."

"........."

This part of flattery, which even Rhode himself felt was very old-fashioned, had an unexpected effect.

Ereshkigal held his breath and looked at Rhodes in silence.

Fever Temple Meslamthea.

This name refers to both the temple of Hades and the name of Ereshkigal's spear.

And her spear does indeed contain the "power of the sun."

In the Mesopotamian world, the sun was a blessing, but it was also seen as a tyrannical force that would drive many humans to death.

In the distant past, when Ereshkigal took over the "power of Hades" from the gods, he also hoped that he could become the "light that warms the soul."

Why... does this child know all this?

This is obviously a story that has been forgotten by everyone.