Chapter 480: Chapter 480: New Prophetic Dream
[The days are the same]
[While you are handling heavy government affairs as the Prime Minister of Uruk, you will also take time to accompany Ereshkigal, and also spar and adventure with Gilgamesh and Enkidu]
[Defeating monsters that humans cannot defeat]
[Solving disasters that threaten humanity]
[Going together to the wonderful fairyland that no one has ever set foot in]
[You are not only enjoying it with the two of them, but recently you have also brought Ishtar along to enjoy this happiness]
[Gilgamesh only finds it novel]
[He doesn't know when the goddess of the underworld started to like this, he can only attribute it to the power of love being too strong]
[So strong that it can make the goddess of the underworld ignore life and death]
[Enkidu finds it strange]
[She can sense Ereshkigal's strangeness, but she can't say what's wrong]
[Whenever Enkidu wants to ask Ishtar a question]
[When Ishtar is about to lose her composure]
[You will "inadvertently" come forward to help her cover it up, so that the two of them always think she is Ereshkigal]
[Looking at you coming forward to defend her]
[Ishtar's Complex Emotions]
[You will also feel puzzled afterward, feeling it wasn't necessary to go to such lengths for Ishtar. Even if exposed, there was no need to defend her so much]
[You didn't think too much about it]
[Rather than thinking, your body acted first]
[There was no reason]
[You also noticed Ishtar's changes, occasionally seeing her hidden troubled expression]
[You sensed that she seemed to want to distance herself from you]
[But, you repeatedly took the initiative to be intimate with her, and she never refused. This puzzled you]
[For a moment, you didn't know what Ishtar was up to]
[You didn't know what conspiracy she was plotting]
[However, you were sure she hadn't seen through you]
[If she had seen through you, given Ishtar's personality, she would have already been furious]
[During adventures and battles outside]
[It was truly exhilarating, and you also noticed that Ishtar often focused her gaze on you]
[At the same time, when you were close to her]
[You noticed that she blushed more often, and she denied her true feelings more and more]
[Like Ereshkigal in the past]
[For a moment, you found her beautiful and lovable]
Could it be… she really fell in love with me?
[Such terrifying thoughts sprouted in your heart]
[You just felt it was too absurd]
[This is Ishtar, the willful and savage Ishtar, comparable to a demon]
[The worst bad woman in Mesopotamia]
[No matter what, you felt it was too exaggerated]
[Unable to believe it was real]
[Of course, you weren't just playing around with Ishtar, and you didn't know what to consider your relationship with her]
[A romance that blossomed in deception?]
[What is this? It's really confusing]
[Maybe all of this is her acting, an overly exquisite performance]
[A performance that is enough to make people infatuated]
[However, you can't deny that you still want to continue playing with Ishtar. This goddess has a good side in her nature, but she has been given too much pampering for too long, and her values are distorted]
[These days, Ishtar, who is by your side, has restrained herself very well. You think that maybe you can change Ishtar's nature]
[Just like Gilgamesh]
[After Enkidu came to Uruk, this tyrant gradually learned to empathize with the world, stopped wars and unnecessary conflicts, and no longer implemented the absurd policy of collecting the right of the first night]
[He began to be diligent in government affairs, and on the basis of his original governance style, he managed Uruk and other cities in an orderly manner]
[You think that whether it is a human or a god]
[They will all grow]
[Even the unreasonable and cruel Ishtar, you want to give her trust, even though you can't find any reason]
Heh, could it be that I'm in love with Ishtar? That crazy woman who is willful to the core?
[You don't know, and you don't know what to say]
[You are scheming against Ishtar, and Ishtar is scheming against you]
[Now, neither of you knows who is scheming against whom]
[But, you want to take action]
[The reason why Ishtar is so cruel to humans is because the gods have endlessly doted on her and have not given her guidance]
[If you intervene, you are confident that you can change that willful and savage Ishtar]
[At least, that's what you think]
[You don't want to go back to the way you and Ishtar used to be, mutually hostile and hateful]
[You can't confirm whether your feelings for her are correct, and you don't know if you will be able to walk on the right path in the future]
[However, you still want to work hard]
[The gentle and tsundere Ishtar is still very cute and charming in your eyes]
[You will have to face Ishtar's matter sooner or later]
[The deception between the two sides lasted for several years, and neither of you thought it would last so long]
[One day, you had a strange dream]
[You dreamed that you were walking in a forest]
[The dense canopy blocked the sunlight. In the mist, a behemoth darted out. Its claws were like lion claws, its body was covered with thorny scales, its tail was a poisonous snake, and it had a pair of bull horns on its head]
[The most terrifying thing was its eyes, which were eyes of death]
[You dreamed that you were fighting this monster]
[Enkidu and Gilgamesh fought alongside you, and another person, you didn't know if it was Ishtar or Ereshkigal]
[In a critical moment, the sun shone in]
[You achieved victory]
[After waking up, you found Gilgamesh and Enkidu]
[Sure enough, it wasn't just you who had the dream, but the two of them had also had the dream on the same night]
[Gilgamesh's dream was exactly the same as yours]
[Enkidu's dream was different]
[You know why the three of you would have this dream, because you and Gilgamesh have Ninsun's blood]
[Ninsun's ability to foresee dreams]
[Was also inherited by you]
[Afterwards, the three of you went to the temple of your mother Ninsun and told Ninsun about these dreams]
[Ninsun frowned after listening]
[She knew the name of the beast in the dream]
[That beast was the assistant of the gods, the "fear of man" personally set by the god king Enlil for mankind]
[It is the monster—Humbaba]