Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia

Lord of fertility, lady ruler of the heavens,

one who roars like a lion...

Save us from our hardships.

Grant us your glimmer.

Our prayer seems to have been heard!

We have been waiting for you, Goddess Ishtar!

Please save us from the harmful Demonic Beasts!

Save, huh?

I'll save you.

Roughly 30% of the defensive line at the Northern Wall has been worn down.

General Leonidas has been supporting them well,

but we are running short of arrows and medical supplies.

30% is within expectation.

Replace the wounded in order.

I will arrange for replenishment.

We are much blessed by your generosity!

Well then, we'll be returning out there right away!

Fool!

A fatigued soldier will only be a hindrance!

Rest for today!

Y-Y-Yes, sir!

General, off with all of you to the doctor!

Yes, sir!

All right, stand down. I see the next visitor.

Did you call for us, Your Majesty?

I remembered something, so I called you here.

Go fetch the Tablet of Destinies for me.

The Tablet of Destinies?

Right. It is a recording of a future that I saw in a past meditation.

But if it's something you wrote, wouldn't you remember what was written on it?

Why do I have to retain in my memory a clairvoyant premonition I wrote in a dream?

Then, do you now remember where the tablet is?

I wrote that thing down in Kutha on my way back to Uruk from the underworld.

So, it wasn't in the forest to the west.

The fact that he can return from the underworld doesn't feel too real for me.

I agree.

In my eyes, your world where neither the underworld nor the heavenly gods exist

is much more peculiar.

The city of Kutha is currently part of the area under Goddess Ishtar's control.

Ishtar...

We must face her someday. This saves the trouble.

These are the king's orders! Head forth to Kutha and return with the tablet!

After the formation of the Three Goddess Alliance,

Kutha disappeared without warning.

Disappeared?

One day, we suddenly lost all communication from there.

Leonidas' party that rushed there...

...saw a quiet cityscape.

No blood and no signs of combat.

All citizens had met their end as if they died in their sleep.

Everyone within one whole city.

Why did such a thing happen?

We still don't know the reason why.

--Yes, thank you for your patronage. --Since then, Kutha is said to be a cursed land,

--Since then, Kutha is said to be a cursed land,

and has become a wasteland that no man ever approaches.

I'm home!

Welcome back!

What's with the luggage?

Preparing for a new mission.

We're going to look for something called the "Tablet of Destinies" in Kutha.

The best part is, the pay is 20 Priestess Silver!

Twenty Priestess Silver!

If we have that much, we can fill the embassy with flowers.

I'll get ready immediately! Please stand by!

Oh, Ana!

She's so hasty.

A mission involving a journey... I'm jealous.

I'd love to accompany you, but...

You shouldn't, Ushiwakamaru. We must--

Say no more. As we're heading back to the Northern Wall...

I see. I would've liked to travel with you, too.

Ushiwakamaru is someone I admire.

Come to think, you guys are from the same country.

Yeah. A general who is well-known even in my time.

Admire...

Oh my, that is delightful.

-Yeah. Um, if you don't mind--

--Sorry to make you wait! --Yeah. Um, if you don't mind--

Now, let us depart!

We're departing tomorrow.

--You're getting too excited, Ana. --The sentiments are appreciated.

Merlin, you're being too lax!

Lord Fujimaru!

I'd like to ask you something.

U-Ushiwaka...

--What's wrong? --Well...

Are you not feeling well?

I-I-I-I-It's nothing.

Please be careful.

No matter how heroic,

a hero won't go unscathed if he gets hit in a bad spot.

I-I'll remember that.

So, what did you want to hear?

Um, what you said this afternoon... About admiring...

Oh, right.

The legend of Ushiwakamaru is familiar to people in my era, as well.

Like the story about the Gojyo Great Bridge that has turned into a nursery song.

Stories about me...

Atop the bridge of Gojyo in the capital!

I sang that song a lot while pretending to be you.

It's that popular? I somehow find it hard to believe!

I'm not lying, okay?

No, I'm not doubting you!

I didn't think people would ever familiarize themselves with me.

I had been fighting my entire life.

It was from a feeling of wanting to be of someone's assistance, wanting to help others.

However, such logic wasn't to be understood by anyone.

That's why...

I'm so happy that I find it hard to believe!

Ushiwakamaru, your will has resonated within many people's hearts.

I mean, your story has been told for a thousand years now.

And I can see why you were fighting, too.

I don't want to see someone other than myself crying.

If possible, I want to stop those tears.

Yes. Yes!

That's right! That's precisely it, Lord Fujimaru!

I'm so touched! You really are a marvelous fellow!

You understood me!

The first one other than my big brother!

Ushiwaka?

Lord Ritsuka Fujimaru.

I will swear this upon you.

King Gilgamesh is the one I'm currently serving under.

However,

as a warrior, I will protect the place you will return to.

Ushiwakamaru...

I am not your Master.

So,

I'll swear this as your friend... I will make sure to fulfill my destiny.

A friend...

That is a wonderful word.

Though our battlefields differ, our hearts will be together.

This is horrible!

There are holes as far as I can see!

There are people there!

Excuse me!

You can see the current state of my ranch.

I'm having a hard time just gathering the sheep that escaped.

What in the world happened here?

A catastrophe.

Was it a storm or some lightning?

The Goddess Ishtar.

This year's Goddess Ishtar is a big mess.

She blows everything up, Demonic Beasts and all.

Thanks to her, our land looks like this.

And then, she took every last gem we had in our place,

and said, "I'll let you off with this!"

It's a miracle that nobody has gotten hurt.

She is just like a burglar.

If she's anything of a deity...

Right. If she was in her original form, she probably wouldn't do anything like that.

Her original form?

Right when the Demonic Beasts showed up,

the priestesses of Uruk held a ritual

to get a human girl possessed by the Goddess Ishtar.

And they ended up getting the Ishtar you know.

The girl's and the goddess's senses of self fused together

and created a new personality.

In the first place, the gods of Mesopotamia all have blonde hair.

I'm sure she has black hair due to the elements within the girl.

I see.

Maybe that's why I just can't bring myself to hate her.

You may be right.

That Ishtar is ever so slightly human.

Oh, this is unusual!

Huh?

I thought you hated humans.

I hate both humans and goddesses.

And I hate you even more, Merlin!

Oh my.

Now, you can see it there.

That's the city of Kutha.

Just like what we heard. I don't sense anyone in the area.

Not only that, but I don't sense any signals of Demonic Beasts.

They're showing no effort to infiltrate this area, either.

Demonic Beasts seem to be afraid to enter the city.

Though we have no idea why.

But well, it's dangerous to go into the city at night.

Let's camp out here for today.

Yeah.

Oh?

You still have some time before dawn.

I wanted to get my daily routine done.

You're so spirited.

But is there any meaning for you to be working out?

I'm just an ordinary human and half-assed as a Master to boot.

At the least, I need to be buff.

I think you're doing quite enough already.

Thank you, but that's all thanks to everyone else.

Everyone else keeps saving me.

And Mash has been protecting me.

The reason why I was chosen to be the one who Rayshifts

is simply because I was the only survivor.

But that's all the more reason...

...that I want to do anything I'm capable of doing.

Even if it's something that may be meaningless.

I see.