My mother's love song

"Why did you show up?" Gilgamesh asked dissatisfiedly.

Not long after they left the city, they were discovered by Ishtar who was patrolling the territory in the sky.

"Ah! My Rhodes radar is reacting!"

The goddess forced herself into the team without saying a word.

"That's what I said! Why are you with my Rod?"

Ishtar glared back at Gilgamesh, who was sitting on the roof of the car.

"I see. Do you think you have a lot of free time?"

"Idiot, you're not idle at all! It's because you don't have time to play that you secretly come to find this guy to complete the mission together!"

"Is that so? Miss Siduri is currently searching for the king in Uruk?"

Rhodes felt a little sorry for the conscientious and responsible chief priest.

Ishtar put her arm around him and agreed, "Yes! Yes! It's a pity that Siduri has to deal with such a capricious king."

"I just don't want you to call me willful!"

After about 2 hours' drive, the group arrived at the observatory on the seaside.

It is a building that looks like a lighthouse by the sea.

The three of them filed into the observatory. When the researchers inside saw Gilgamesh and Ishtar coming, they were shocked... no, they were panicked.

"Lord Ishtar!?!?"

"...Run! It's Lady Ishtar!"

"Help, help! King Gilgamesh, please save us! Lady Ishtar is here!"

Wang laughed wildly.

"Hahahahahahaha! See, Rhodes? This is the reputation of this woman in Uruk."

"…Hold it back, hold it back, I! I have to behave like a lady in front of Rhodes!"

Ishtar clenched her fists and suppressed the murderous intent in her heart.

After that, everyone started to carry the seawater onto the truck.

The seawater in the mud jars is very heavy, so this is actually quite strenuous physical work.

What's even more hateful is that Gilgamesh has disappeared somewhere since a while ago.

Two hours later, today's work ended in the orange sunset.

"Huh, I haven't worked like this in a long time."

Rhodes stood on the beach and stretched lazily towards the boundless Indian Ocean.

Ishtar stood by and wiped his sweat with a towel in her hand. "Thank you for your hard work, Rod. I'll complain to that Jin Shanshan later!"

"Well, thank you, Ishtar."

The two sat down on the beach and looked at the horizon together.

The sea horizon under the setting sun seems to stretch endlessly, and the calm sea water gives people a sense of security as if they are back home.

However, this tranquility did not last long.

Rhode stared at the calm sea without any raging waves and whispered, "Ishtar... did you notice it?"

"Ah."

The goddess frowned and nodded, "The troublemaker is coming."

From a while ago, the concentration of true ether on the coast has been rising rapidly.

In the sky over the coastline, a shadow left a trail of airplane cloud and was speeding towards them at supersonic speed.

The white shadow began to fall.

Rhodes and Ishtar looked at each other and jumped to the left and right respectively.

boom!

The sand and gravel exploded like a pillar of fire, and a cloud of explosion rose from where the two had been sitting.

If they had hesitated for even a second longer, the two of them would have been caught up in the impact and crushed to pieces.

Amid the billowing smoke, Jin Gu appeared.

"We meet again, little human devil."

Jin Gu smiled cruelly, slowly stood up from the ground and looked up

"……Varied."

The hideous smile on the green-haired puppet's face froze.

As far as the eye can see, there are golden ripples that cover the sky and the sea, and an array of Noble Phantasms that number in the thousands.

Rhodes hooked his finger mockingly.

"Come on, new humans, we still have plenty of weapons, right?"

Chapter 168: Ti Ma: Good fight, you fought well!

"Come on, new humans, we still have plenty of weapons, right?"

Rhodes crossed his arms and gave the doll a wicked smile.

"……Varied."

Jin Gu stood in the rising white smoke, looking up at the purple eyes above him, trembling uncontrollably.

As far as the eye can see, there are golden ripples that cover the sky and the sea, and a formation of thousands of glittering treasures.

"That's... the Gate of Babylon!?"

The one who screamed was Ishtar behind Rhodes.

Precisely because she was very familiar with Rhodes, her expression was even more shocked than Jin Gu's.

Unfolding from behind Rhodes, countless swords, halberds and spears dyed the earth golden.

Each of them is a real treasure, and each of them reveals an extremely sharp edge and murderous intent.

The presence and majesty beyond imagination are undoubtedly the treasure of the king that the oldest heroic king, the original of human wisdom, is proud of.

"Why... do you possess that king's treasure!?"

Jin Gu asked through gritted teeth.

"Hmph, so that's what's going on. I never thought I would make a mistake of this magnitude."

Gilgamesh answered the question instead of Rhode who smiled calmly.

The wise king walked towards this side with a golden key in his hand.

"What's going on, Jin Shanshan!?"

Gilgamesh said with a wry smile, "This guy... on the way here, he took advantage of me not paying attention and used this fake to replace my key."

"……Why!?"

Ishtar and Enkidu were both stunned.

What Gilgamesh now holds in his hand is the [Key to the Golden City] from another world that Rhodes looted from Inanna.

However, it was not the so-called key sword [King's Key], but the spare key to the treasure house that Gilgamesh had never used during his lifetime and had long been forgotten.

On the way here, Rhodes took advantage of the King of Uruk's inattention and secretly swapped the key with the King's Key.

As for how the package was swapped? [The Emperor’s privilege] is omnipotent.

Rhodes had his own deep considerations for doing such a troublesome thing.

While preparing for the Three Goddesses Alliance, Gilgamesh made adjustments to the King's Key to make it easier for the soldiers on the north wall to use the treasure vault.

In this way, even Rhodes can use the King's Key to open the Gate of Babylon.

"But then again... even though it's just a fake, the workmanship is pretty good... Hmm, why does it look familiar?"

Gilgamesh fiddled with the key in his hand absentmindedly.

The wise king, who already showed signs of Alzheimer's disease, had long forgotten that he had made a spare key for the treasury, so he just thought it was a fake.

Jin Gu interrupted the king's moment of appreciation. He stared at him intently and spat out murderous words through his teeth.

“…What…you are Gilgamesh…?”

"What else do you think it is, idiot? You just glimpsed a glimpse of my treasure. Don't stare at me like a country bumpkin."

Gilgamesh said with a tense face.

"You used to be dismissive of treasures, didn't you? Now you have a yearning expression on your face. This is not like you at all, Enkidu."

"……Well."

Enkidu held his chest with a painful expression.

"Wait, Jinx. That's an imposter, not the real Enkidu."

“Oh, a fake… but he looks really like her.

Maybe it's even stronger than before? The flying speed just now was not there before, it seems that it has obtained a very good magic core. "

Jin Gu regained his composure.

"It's just that the machine has a new owner, but it's treated as a fake. Humans are really hopeless.

But well, you are right. I am indeed an impostor of Enkidu.

This point really needs to be made clear first. After all, if you have strange expectations of me in the future, that would be troublesome, right?

Until I break down, I will be an enemy of humanity. No matter what happens, that will not change.

Prove it now with your lives."

"Hey, fake Enkidu, are you okay?"

Ishtar put her hands on her hips and said, "There are three of us here."

Kingu is a stronger enemy than Enkidu when he was alive, but if Ishtar unleashes her power and joins forces with Gilgamesh, there is no reason why he would be defeated by her.

"No, his opponent is only one person."

Rhodes sneered and took a step towards Enkidu, "I am enough."

"...Hey!?" Ishtar was shocked. "How can I let you fight a monster like that! Rod, hurry up and hide behind me!"

"If you're too protective, the kid will hate you." The wise king said with a mocking expression.

"……What?"

The Hero King's words made the goddess's momentum vanish.

Will Rod hate me? Don't do that...!

The goddess stared at Rhodes' back in a daze.

Although he is very thin, the fierce fighting spirit and firm belief he exudes are genuine.

That's true... Rhodes has already experienced the taste of women... and he is a real man.

I had clearly made up my mind not to treat him as a child anymore, but in the end

Rod...

I want to believe Rod...

Ishtar clenched her fists.

"Be careful, this guy is much stronger than Gilgamesh...!"

Rhode turned around and smiled faintly: "Well... With Ishtar's protection, I can easily kill Gilgamesh or Enkidu MKII."

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