Gilgamesh in DxD

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Loneliness.

If there was one word to describe Gilgamesh's life, this would be it.

When his memories started to pass through me it wasn't just them.

It was his experience, memory and feelings.

All your pain, sadness, hate, anger, joy everything.

Gilgamesh was born the son of the King of Uruk Lulabanga and the Sumerian Goddess Rimatsu-Ninsun.

He was a supreme and transcendent being, so divine that he was two-thirds of the gods and one-third of humans, and no one else in the world could match him. He was a despot who possessed a high deity that he believed was invincible.

Born with a body that was of the highest degree by mortal standards and knowledge that attained the truth, Gilgamesh was born, appointed King and Wedge of Heaven to connect the ascending humans and the vanishing gods.

He was sent to secure the humans and hold the earth slowly leaving the Age of Gods. He was a being who personified the two sets of life forms, with the blood of those who ruled and the blood of those who would rule from then on.

He should be the last neutral party able to discern their respective flaws, judging from their respective positions.

There was no fault of the young King, during his first years of reign he was praised as a kind and gentle King, always being praised by his people, his only fault being that he had never submitted to the gods.

But as he transcended adulthood he was changing, the King at another gentle time became a tyrant, practicing absolutism, oppression, coercion, demands and the maximum decay of self-interest, the people of the kingdom lamented the change, and even the gods were perplexed by the extent of the expected transformation.

The reason was simply that he was born with the conclusion already drawn, existing independently as a being neither fully divine or human.

He acquired the characteristics of both, so that his field of vision reached beyond what the gods were able to comprehend.

Her request was granted and Enkidu, created by the gods, was unable to defy the decree.

It slowly weakened and returned to the clay, while Gilgamesh desperately held the crumbling clod in his arms.

He was irritated by this, believing he was the one who deserved retribution, should the need arise. Enkidu tried to calm him down, telling Gilgamesh that he was just one of the many treasures in Gilgamesh's collection, that he would find countless others greater than himself in time.

Gilgamesh declared: "You have value. Only you have that value. I declare: In all this world, only one will be my friend. Thus - not for all eternity will your value ever change."

Enkidu returned to its original state later, leaving only the shrill bang of Gilgamesh behind.

Until that moment, Gilgamesh had lived by his own standards, collecting wealth, laying down bedding, fighting with his friend, and purging the land of prohibitions.

Enkidu, returning to the dust, meeting death, changed his mind a lot. Death had never inspired grief or fear in him until that moment, and it had never been in his mind, though he knew he awaited everything.

Seeing the one who possessed a power equal to him perish before his eyes, he registered the true reality of death for the first time.

The despair Gilgamesh felt was because he saw death as an escape from his duty as an observer of humanity; in order to fulfill his mission completely, he must observe humanity's path to its end.

Falling into depression and lack of vigor, he sought the herb of immortality, a spiritual herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.

Gilgamesh hated and feared the death that took his friend, leaving him in fear of his own life for the first time since birth. He followed his journey, which he later called a farce, which lasted the same amount of time as he had lived up to that moment.

He wandered the desert for decades, as described in the epic "crawling pathetically" while thinking about nothing but not wanting to die.

He had the same motive as all humans, for not even a child of the gods was different when faced with death.

With "idiocy exceeding that of humans", he continued to try to overcome death, tossing aside the pride, authority and power of the king, not knowing a purpose for doing it or someone to do it for.