The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss-Chapter 186: Aradia is not a good negotiator

"First, we’ll talk about Echidna’s attempt to go to the mortal world," Aradia begins to speak as if it were a trial, although her tone is not one of judgment.

’I have to see this too...with the chaos I’ve created, I can help my mother reach the world where I am...’ I think about this for a brief moment.

"The expansion of the abyss’s territory may one day reach the planet where the races meet, and this expansion is currently prevented by the sky, which forms an obvious divider."

"This issue is complex, but I’m here to try to remedy this situation. Echidna, wouldn’t you be willing to forget the disagreements and stop this?" Aradia says with a certain composure, but to me, something is missing.

"No," my mother denies coldly, it’s obvious she won’t stop what she’s doing just because Aradia asked politely.

"Elysia, would you be willing to stop having Echidna as a target?" She slightly changes the question and then questions Elysia.

’Delphina seems uninterested.’ Many goddesses seem tired of this, as if this conversation had happened hundreds or even thousands of times.

"Never," Elysia also denies, this seems to be relatively recurrent, I wonder how often this happens.

’I think I understand...’ Aradia must always try to mediate in an attempt to obtain peace between the goddesses, but she is terrible at it, she displays little emotion and her way of speaking is not good.

She has no appeal, no good communication skills, and doesn’t inspire any real trust, it’s like trying to put someone who knows nothing about politics to try to appease two warring countries.

"..." Aradia falls silent as if she’s thinking, it’s both funny and sad, I don’t know why she didn’t acquire intellectual capacity from anyone, but she really needs it.

’I wonder if...that’s why she thanked me for the slight adaptation I obtained?’ With what she got, maybe she can improve in the future.

"Is there anything that would make them change their minds?" She questions, changing the approach, from a normal attempt to an attempt offering things.

"Her death," the two respond the same thing, it’s obvious that they hate each other too much to reach any balance.

’It must be because of my aunt...’ My mother’s sister was killed, it’s obvious she wouldn’t want peace, she suffered discrimination just for being a monster and had her sister taken from her, in my view, there’s no way to have peace between the two.

I myself would not accept it, if someone took an important person from me, I would make sure that person never wished to have been born, and I suppose my mother is similar in this regard.

Honestly, I don’t like Elysia, but if Elysia made peace with my mother, I wouldn’t do anything, my only focus is my life and my revenge, the setbacks will be eliminated.

However, the point is that there’s no way she’ll let me wander the earth doing whatever I want, after all, I’m a terrible and immoral monster.

"If you hate each other so much, why don’t you duel to resolve the difference?" I say to them, the entire table falls into a terrible silence as if the idea added more weight to the discussion, my mother seems to approve of the idea, but Elysia becomes more restrained because she understands that she can’t win in a 1v1.

"...Pandora, I ask that you not give the wrong ideas," Aradia says with a certain seriousness, it’s obvious that as someone trying to appease the situation, my idea is bad.

After all, I’m suggesting the opposite of a peaceful solution, but I’ll try to convince Aradia anyway.

"Aradia, think about it, the duel is perfect, no one other than them will be affected, they finally reach the answer they want," The answer will be Elysia’s death, although underestimating her is bad, I doubt she can beat my mother.

"And a fight is always a way to solve a problem, if one side is silenced, this feud ends, after all, all the goddesses here present were dragged into this fight because of Elysia’s fault."

"Many here, like Elowen, don’t really want to participate in this fight." I’m putting all the blame on Elysia.

"If this matter between the two is resolved, no one else here will start a fight, after all, Elysia and my mother are the two opposing points that generate this feud." If one side is no longer the problem, things will become slightly more peaceful.

I only make this suggestion because I believe 100% in my mother’s victory, and looking at my mother, she also has confidence in the victory, while Elysia obviously hesitates, after all, she is weaker.

"..." She doesn’t defend herself because obviously she can’t, she is the one blamed for many here being involved in this fight, without Elysia, fewer goddesses would pick a fight with my mother.

"What do you think, Elysia?" Aradia questions as if she were really considering that the idea might be good, this is a flaw in Aradia.

This option obviously favors me as well as my mother, as Aradia seeks a certain peace, this option is not as good and will only cause fear and indignation in some of the goddesses.

After all, this means there is one less obstacle in my mother’s path, Aradia really should learn how to make good decisions.

"...I don’t accept a duel," Elysia denies the option of a duel, she fled this chance to duel with my mother out of cowardice since she would almost certainly lose.

"...Coward," I murmur in a way that she can hear, a vein appears on her forehead indicating her anger at this situation, since I’m purposely provoking her.

"For a damn monster like you to propose this means you yourself are also included in this, aren’t you? So why don’t you duel with me?" Elysia says to me, probably trying to belittle me because she knows I would refuse.

"I’m not obligated to accept this when you cowardly fled the duel with my mother," I imply that if she hadn’t been cowardly and had fled the duel with my mother, I would have accepted the duel with her.

"!!!" This makes her have a look of hatred and humiliation.

"Ah, you speak as if this is an absolute truth, is it not just you being a coward and making excuses?" She says arrogantly, she really got angry with me.

"I bet with Morynna in exchange for her arm as a mere meal, do you think someone like me who bets their life for something to eat is really a coward?" That bet was really risky.

It was my life for just a piece of meat, but I’ve decided from the start to let my instincts guide many of my choices, because I have great instincts that, although sometimes make mistakes, still help me a lot.

"...Tsk" There’s no counterargument here, I who previously bet my life for something that clearly wasn’t worth it against her who did nothing, obviously she becomes the coward and I the one with courage.

"Don’t worry too much, Elysia, one day I’ll have your head served on a platter," I say with a malicious smile, someday I’ll probably have to kill her after all, we are enemies. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

"You filthy thing," She insults me, but Aradia intervenes, Elysia was ready to attack me, she even got up a little from the chair.

"You’ve fallen so much, Elysia, losing the argument to a child," my mother says with a mocking chuckle, increasing Elysia’s irritation, and Elysia chooses to direct the anger entirely at me.

"It’s better not to forget your filthy thing, I won’t forget this, one day I’ll make your existence disappear," I shudder slightly at the threat, but I still maintain the same confidence in my speech.

"I’ll be waiting, we’ll see if non-existence reaches me before I devour you," I accept her threat with open arms, she’s always considered me an enemy and I’ve also considered her an enemy.

We’re just making it official, and I’ll make sure that in the end I come out as the winner.

’May the best goddess survive in the end’ I think for a moment before paying attention to Aradia.

"Haaa..." Aradia sighs as if she were tired of the unproductive exchange of words.

"Let’s end this meeting here...I think everyone is feeling uncomfortable with the atmosphere...we can continue this later," Aradia says, and then everyone gets up to leave.

I also get up to leave, Aradia begins to guide each goddess to a rift in space.

"Mother, did you like the gift?" I approach my mother and ask if she liked receiving Morynna’s arm as a gift.

"Yes, my daughter, you are even better than I expected, although you seem more reckless than planned, but I understand that you are a child, just try to be less impulsive."

She praises and reprimands me at the same time, it’s really like a mother, and this puts a smile on my face.