Sword Art Online Crossover: They're all close friends, how did I become a player?

I met this goddess who represents harvest on a sunny afternoon.

A king whose fame is widespread, whose appearance is handsome, and who also possesses divine blood is naturally very attractive.

This includes Ishtar, the goddess who represents harvest.

The incredibly proud goddess proposed to Gilgamesh upon seeing him, arrogantly demanding that he become her husband.

But as expected, she was rejected. Gilgamesh showed no mercy and directly rejected the goddess's proposal.

“I refuse. King Ishtar does not like you, so he will absolutely not marry you,” the blond king said expressionlessly.

Ishtar was furious when her marriage proposal was rejected. She felt that as a god, it was already beneath her dignity to propose in person. Even if Gilgamesh had divine blood, it was only two-thirds of him, and one-third of that blood was still human.

This human king dares to refuse a goddess's marriage proposal; he's utterly ungrateful!

The goddess of harvest, Ishtar, glared fiercely at Gilgamesh, and like a villainous supporting character in a TV drama, she uttered harsh words like "You just wait," before storming off.

She's going back to complain to Father God!

"My friend, are you enjoying what you're seeing?" Ignoring the goddess's behavior, Gilgamesh focused his gaze on the pillar beside him. He had sensed the aura emanating from his friend earlier.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Jill, you just rejected the goddess's proposal like that. Judging from the goddess's expression, she seems like the kind of person who'll get revenge on you later."

Seeing that the farce was over, Yu Bai walked out from behind the pillar where he had been hiding, looking as calm as if he hadn't been the one secretly watching the show from behind the pillar.

"Ha, just a mediocre cultivator. I'd like to see what she can do."

Are you kidding me? This woman says she wants to marry me, so I have to listen to her? She's not even worth as much as my best friend's coattails!

……

Afterwards, the goddess of harvest kept her word and took revenge on Gilgamesh.

She placed the drought bull of her father, Anu, on the land of Uruk.

Because of the arrival of the Bull of Heaven, Uruk began to suffer from widespread poverty, and destruction, along with famine, began to spread across the land.

"Ha, that bastard!" The king sitting on the throne laughed in fury, his blood-red eyes filled with endless rage. How dare that damned goddess do such a thing.

“Enkidu, come with me to deal with that beast.” He invited Yu Bai.

Gilgamesh brought Yu Bai to the place where the Bull of Heaven was wreaking havoc, and the two of them worked together to kill it.

"What are you doing with this filthy thing?" Gilgamesh, who had just finished the battle, wiped the sweat from his face and wanted to go back with his friend.

As soon as he turned around, he saw his friend calmly pulling out the intestines from the body of the Bull of Heaven.

"It's nothing, I have a use for you. Gil, don't ask any more questions." The green-haired boy smiled, his aura gentle. The wind blew through the boy's hair, causing a few strands to dance in the air.

Yes, my best friend is just so good-looking, even the way he holds the dripping bloody beef intestines is handsome!

The king praised his friend in his heart.

“If you dare to harass Jill or sabotage Uruk again, this will be your fate.” Yu Bai smiled and tossed the beef intestines at Ishtar, but his smiling eyes were devoid of any amusement, as cold as a bottomless pool.

"You!" The goddess, who had been smeared with cow intestines, was about to get angry, but the moment she met the eyes of the person who came in, a sense of crisis surged into her heart.

This human was serious about dying. Why did this lowly human give him such a strong sense of threat?

Ishtar had never felt so premonition of her own death as she did now.

The goddess of harvest left dejectedly, filled with resentment, and Gilgamesh and Enkidu's prestige among the people of Uruk rose to another level once again.

In contrast, the goddess Ishtar, who had relinquished her reputation as the Bull of Heaven, was a figure of great renown. Although the people of Uruk dared not speak ill of the goddess openly, they always harbored some resentment in their hearts.

People of Uruk: The King and Lord Enkidu have slain the Bull of Heaven. Greetings, King and Lord Enkidu!

People of Uruk: Ishtar, the goddess of harvest, has laid down the bull of heaven! The goddess is evil!

The people of Uruk: If we dare not speak ill of the gods to their faces, we will stab them in the back.

Ishtar, who was closely monitoring the Bull of Heaven, received the news immediately that the Bull of Heaven had been defeated by the two.

Having been humiliated once again, Ishtar's anger flared, but she also felt a secret thrill.

With the death of the Bull of Heaven, he could use the deaths of Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven to incite the gods to punish one of the two, thus punishing those two despicable humans.

As he felt his body growing weaker, Yu Bai knew that the story was coming to an end.

Between Gilgamesh and himself, Yu Bai unhesitatingly channeled the divine punishment into his body. This was not only because fate had decreed it this way, but also because of Yu Bai's desire to protect his friend.

Just as Gilgamesh regarded himself as a close friend, Yu Bai also regarded Gilgamesh as his most important close friend.

Regardless of history, Yu Bai lived through the modern era and the Tang Dynasty. He had countless friends, but none of them were like Gilgamesh.

Enkidu is him, he is Enkidu.

So isn't protecting your friends a matter of course? Then the golden-glowing king should be ostentatiously on his throne.

And they will eventually meet again.

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