Silence.
At this mont, the room was completely silent.
An atmosphere of stillness filled every corner.
After Emiya Shirou's bold declaration, everyone present stared at his back with different expressions.
Among all those gazes, rlin's eyes were filled with pure admiration.
As a self-proclaid romantic incubus, even rlin had never considered provoking a goddess like that.
In his eyes, goddesses were all terrifying existences.
He couldn't even properly deal with female elves, let alone goddesses.
Because of that, the look he gave Shirou was one of sincere appreciation.
And encouragent.
Ana, standing nearby, had a faint flush on her face.
It was obvious she had unconsciously linked Ishtar to soone else.
As for Mash and Fujimaru Ritsuka-
The expressions on their faces could only be described as frozen.
This scene was simply too shocking.
Their brains stalled completely.
They couldn't react.
That was, until a scream snapped them out of it.
"Eh-!!!"
Ereshkigal's mouth was slightly open.
Her face was completely red.
Tears had gathered at the corners of her eyes, and her expression was one of extre embarrassnt.
At the sa ti, her body-still bound tightly by chains-couldn't help but writhe.
Her two long, unrestrained legs kicked wildly in the air.
"Y-you you-what kind of joke is that supposed to be?!"
Ereshkigal shouted in a panic.
"Teasing a goddess is a capital cri! I'll punish you severely!"
Her words sounded vicious.
Extrely so.
But no one present sensed even a trace of anger from her.
What they saw was pure fluster.
Pure panic.
It was obvious.
Everything she was saying right now was nonsense born of embarrassnt.
"Haha, you got it."
Emiya Shirou laughed loudly, patting Ereshkigal on the shoulder.
"I was just kidding."
The mont those words landed, Ereshkigal suddenly went quiet.
She lowered her head.
Her body trembled slightly.
"...Eh?"
Shirou tilted his head.
"What's wrong?"
"Don't tell you're crying."
Seeing her like that, he reached out toward her head, trying to check her expression.
But at that exact mont-
Ereshkigal suddenly lunged forward.
She snapped her teeth toward Shirou's palm.
Fortunately, Shirou had been on guard.
He imdiately pulled his arm back.
Otherwise, he would've been bitten cleanly.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Are you a dog? You're actually trying to bite soone?"
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
Because of that sudden lunge, Ereshkigal lost her balance and fell from her seat onto the ground.
Even so, she continued to shout viciously.
"I'll kill you! I'll harvest your soul and roast it in hellfire for ten thousand years!"
"To toy with a goddess's feelings like that-this is a capital cri!"
Looking at the goddess rolling on the floor, the expressions of Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others were filled with helplessness.
"How did it end up like this?"
"Didn't we just offend her beyond saving?"
"It's over. Everything's ruined."
Feeling the gazes from all directions, Emiya Shirou scratched his head.
...Did I ss this up?
He asked himself silently.
But almost imdiately, his thoughts began to race.
He started thinking about how to salvage the situation.
Just as he fell silent, Fujimaru Ritsuka-unable to bring herself to bla him-was about to step forward and try speaking to the goddess.
At that mont, Fou suddenly cried out.
"Fou?"
Mash gently picked Fou up.
"What's wrong? Are you hungry?"
rlin's expression changed instantly.
As Fou's forr caretaker, he understood imdiately.
"Everyone, stay alert."
"Enemies may have appeared."
"Ana."
Hearing rlin's call, Ana imdiately rushed out the door to investigate.
What she saw made her eyes widen.
From all directions, countless skeletons were surging toward them.
"Doctor, it's bad!"
"The city is filled with skeletons!"
Mash, who had also stepped outside, quickly relayed the information to Roman back at Chaldea.
"Is that so?"
Roman stared at the monitor in front of him, fingers moving nonstop.
"But there's no reaction on our end at all!"
"There's only an enormous concentration of magical energy."
"No abnormalities detected so far."
As he continued checking the data, realization struck him.
"...I see."
"So that's how it is."
"No wonder we couldn't detect it."
"If this were A.D., this level of magical energy would've been flagged as abnormal long ago."
"But this is the Age of Gods."
"Moving corpses alone don't create detectable magical fluctuations."
"For that era, this level of activity doesn't count as anything."
"...This is troubleso."
Roman's voice grew tense.
"The number of corpses erging now already exceeds Cuthah's total population."
rlin looked outside and let out a whistle.
"Did eight generations' worth of ancestors all crawl out?"
"It looks like we need to retreat."
"Fortunately, we already recovered the Tablet of Destinies."
Hearing that, Roman imdiately shouted.
"Evacuate Cuthah at full speed!"
"If you don't, you'll be buried under skeletons!"
"Yes!"
Seeing how the situation had escalated, Emiya Shirou gave orders imdiately.
"Ritsuka."
"You four retreat first."
"I'll catch up after untying this goddess."
"Understood, Senpai Shirou."
"Please be careful."
Ritsuka understood.
Shirou was deliberately waiting until they left before releasing Ereshkigal.
He didn't want a potential clash between the two of them to affect the others.
"You liar!"
"Once I'm free, I'll definitely kill you!"
"Yes, yes."
"And then roast my soul in hellfire for ten thousand years."
Shirou nodded along casually.
"Right, Mistress of the Underworld."
"...Ereshkigal."
Ereshkigal froze.
Her eyes widened.
She hadn't expected her identity to be exposed at all.
The realization hit her so hard that even her anger toward Shirou was instantly pushed aside.
Panic filled her expression.
"When did you know?"
"When?"
Shirou tilted his head.
"Before you woke up."
"...Then that ans-!"
Recalling the things she had said while impersonating Ishtar, Ereshkigal's gaze darted away.
The embarrassnt was unbearable.
Being exposed after impersonating soone else to that extent-
It was far too humiliating.
After helping her back onto the seat, Shirou leaned in close.
He brought his mouth near her ear and whispered.
"Once I unlock the chains on you..."
"Whether you fight or not, I'll accept it."
"But in that case..."
"You need to be ntally prepared."
"...Prepared for what?"
Ereshkigal asked quietly.
Her earlier montum was gone.
"For becoming my possession."
"After your defeat."
"...?!"
Shirou straightened slightly.
"And just so you know."
"I wasn't joking about that part."
"The joke..."
"Was everything that ca after."
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