Chapter 364: The Mother of All (2)
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Neji was not Gilgamesh. Despite having replaced the King of Heroes down to his name and existence, the King’s past was not Neji’s own. Enkidu for whom Gilgamesh changed his whole being, was not someone Neji had any emotional attachment to.
In Neji’s mind, Enkidu was just a character from an extra-long movie, which was Gilgamesh’s memories. So when he saw the ashes that were Enkidu, the only reason he felt sad and angry, was on behalf of the main character of the said movie, rather than feeling as if something had been stripped from his own self.
This and that was, fundamentally, different.
At most, he felt a little regret that Enkidu was gone.
Unfortunately, even that feeling of regret did not last long.
As the mountain that held the cave was destroyed, erased from the face of the planet, a dot of red floated above it. The figure of a voluptuous woman with crimson-red hair and ash-white skin was visible in Neji’s zooming eyes.
[Tiamat (???) – Goddess of Creation – Tier 49]
