Chapter 730: A Heiress of the Past

[Author’s Note: This Chapter takes place about 5,000 years in the future! I won’t give much information about Pandora’s wives or Pandora’s daughters, but this Chapter will focus on something that is important to Pandora!]

"So... I see you’ve grown well!" I say to the girl in front of me. She is indeed a beautiful girl, her long purple hair reminds me of Lilith, and even though her eyes are deeply black, they have that same lonely touch Lilith sometimes had. She has large breasts and a relatively slender build with an extremely suggestive tattoo right above her womb.

"Pandora... can you please call me Lily?" she says to me while I notice she prefers not to wear clothes. I wonder if Lilith was like this in the past.

"Alright, Lily..." This is the hydra I gave to Lycoris as a gift. Who would’ve thought she’d turn into such a beautiful girl in just 5,000 years? A true beauty. Lilith’s heir is indeed very good.

"You came to talk to me... why?" she asks, touching her collar and pulling it with one finger to stretch it out. She’s my daughter’s pet, but my daughter doesn’t take very good care of her. I expected more responsibility from Lycoris, but she focuses more on Aqua than anything else.

"I just came to keep you company. Lilith asked me to take good care of you, plus you might become a saint in the future." Lily still has a very wild look in her eyes. She evolved recently and can’t fit into society. Lilith herself wasn’t good at fitting into society either.

"...Lilith... that name is so... familiar. I wish I had met my predecessor..." Unlike Lilith’s more cheerful tone, Lily is much more severe and melancholic.

"She was cool. You would’ve loved meeting her, and I bet she would’ve loved meeting you too." Lilith would have teased Lily a lot.

"...Pandora, you’re a goddess... can’t you revive her?" Lily asks a complicated question. Pandora Omnipotent could easily revive her, but I don’t have that ability. Even if I did, I don’t think I would do it. Those who have died should remain dead, I suppose?

"It’s not her fate to be revived. She’s a monster like us, and I think when a monster dies, they should stay dead... She was my best friend, we had great fights, and she understood me in a way that no one else except my mother ever came close to understanding."

"She will always have a place in my heart and memories, and you, as her heir, can occupy a place in my heart in the future. I like you, I mean it."

"Having the company of another monster like me is great." I’m honest with her as she looks up at the sky. Even though Azraelith’s company is great, she’s a bit too rough and gets irritated at anything. You can’t have friendly provocations with her.

"You’re after my body? If so, you don’t need all this work. You can have sex with me whenever you want..."

"No, no hahaha, I’m not. If I were, I would just take your body and not try to talk to you about it. I’m serious about trying a friendship. We’re both practically the same physical age, I’m only a few years older than you." Even though I have a mental age infinitely greater than hers.

"I just think it would be good for us as monsters to have someone who understands us."

"...Your daughters are very carnal, and everything revolves around sex... besides, they don’t see me as a friend... why would it be different with you?"

"Because I know how to choose for myself." My daughters do everything for me or to impress each other, while I do everything for myself and no one else. We have very different minds.

"...Are you feeling sorry for me, Pandora?"

"A little, actually. You’re... pathetic, and I don’t want my friend’s heir to look as pathetic as you do." My honesty catches her off guard, making her look at me.

"You feel sorry for me?"

"Yes, I’m not going to hold back my words. You’re pitiful compared to Lilith, but you have potential, and not just potential. You have something my daughters don’t have, and that attracts me to a friendship."

"I want a friend. I already have too many sex partners, I already have enough wives and a great husband, and I already have many daughters, but I don’t have a single true friend."

"I even have ’friendships,’ but they aren’t best-friend bonds... Only Lilith was my best friend, but now it’s time to put that aside, and I want to try to have a new best friend. You can be that new best friend."

"But not a mere substitute. I want to experience something new with you, interesting fights, girls’ nights, hunting things together, doing everything I never did even with Lilith. Are you interested?"

"I have time, power, and money. You won’t have any problems you don’t want to face alone." She seems very thoughtful about everything I said.

"Why do you wear clothes?"

"...Because it’s more socially appropriate, and because of my wives." When I give this answer, she smiles, because the reality is that we both prefer to be completely naked. We’re monsters. Clothes aren’t for us.

"..." I take off my clothes, standing naked beside her as my tail touches the ground, pushing some of the stones aside.

"This is quite peaceful, don’t you think, Pandora?" she asks as if we’ve known each other for a long time, even though we’ve barely had a conversation before this.

"Yes, it’s a peaceful situation," I say as we watch monsters devouring each other in the distance, and you can even hear the sound of bones breaking.

"Pandora... I don’t want to replace Lilith... I don’t want to be a saint like the church servants tried to teach me to be... Can I just live like this? I don’t like having to live the way others live. This restrictive life isn’t for me." When she says this, I think of Lilith.

Making Lily live as a saint replacing Lilith would be the correct thing to do, but it wouldn’t be what would make Lilith happy, and it’s not something that would satisfy me.

"Do as you wish. I won’t force you to be a saint." When I say this, she pulls the collar on her neck, breaking it.

"Thank you... it’s great to hear that coming from the goddess who rules this world..." She gives a genuine smile as she lies down on the ground, looking at the sky. I do the same, just enjoying the calm.

"Pandora... I want a duel later. Would you go easy on me?"

"Hahahaha, I’ll be looking forward to it." Just like Lilith, indeed an heir who isn’t a copy of her, but who knows how to have fun.