The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss

Chapter 413: Contrast between Azazel and Eclipsya

"...Mama Grimm, do I really have to do this? This food is strange! And my little pot is mine! I've been saving important things in here!" Azazel asks me grumpily without wanting to try what I put on her plate while shaking a little pot full of things she's been accumulating.

"Yes, daughter, you need to eat this, it's part of your growth, and you have to stop hoarding these things inside this pot, they've started to rot and now you have to throw them away," I say, seeing Azazel's body, it seems to be changing, not physically, but directly in deeper areas, and I recognize that.

'She's evolving...' She's going to 'grow up' soon, it's happened once before, Azazel was a baby, and after a few months she told me the system said she was a child, and from what I can see, she'll soon evolve into a teenager.

This means she'll become mentally more mature, self-aware and...finally I won't have her 100% for myself, honestly I don't like how the Pandora race grows up too fast, this is now proving to be an inconvenience.

When Azazel becomes a teenager, it would be the human equivalent of being an 18-21 year old girl, that is, adult enough for Eclipsya to try to steal her from me, and I know Eclipsya knows that too, so that brat is going to steal my daughter from me.

'Haaa...I wish I could freeze her growth...but Pandora would hate me if I made Azazel stop growing' This is so unfair, soon she may be stolen from me, she's already started accumulating mana, the same thing Pandora did unconsciously when she was about to grow up.

'1 to 2 months is probably the maximum...I have to make the most of it while Azazel is still my little and innocent daughter' Eclipsya must also be going through the same process since the age difference between the two is not that great.

"Mama Grimm, will I grow up and become like Mama Pandoru? I want to be like Mama Pandoru!! She's beautiful, and strong, and smart, and amazing!" She says with a smile as I caress her head.

"Yes...you will..." I say, biting my lips hard, I really, really wish she wouldn't grow up at all, it's truly a cruel fate that my daughter will turn into a young woman who can be taken away from me.

'I need another cuteness like this! I refuse to not have a cute little girl to take care of!' I've become addicted to this, I need to have a small, cute little girl to take care of and teach! Having a daughter has created this.

It's stressful, it's hard, it's annoying and it's terrible in many ways, but still I love it, it's a fun and interesting thing that makes me not notice how the long life I have is boring for the most part.

Pandora also gives me this good feeling of love, but they are different loves, I love Pandora, but in a romantic and lustful way, while Azazel I love as a daughter that I want to keep and protect.

"But Mama Grimm, why can't I play outside then if I'm growing up? I want to go out too!" Azazel asks while I remember the past, she could barely speak, and when she did, it was strange and wrong.

Now she already speaks perfectly and can even formulate brilliant ideas and plans, her mental growth is as fast as Pandora's, which increasingly distances her from the cute little girl she was in the past, she's still cute, but now it's a different kind of cuteness.

'Well...even if she grows up, nothing prevents me from taking care of her as always...' I will fight for her! I won't let her be stolen from me! Even if Eclipsya wants her for herself, she'll have a hard time stealing Azazel from me.

Even if I can't just kill Eclipsya, I can still find a way to interfere and delay her as much as possible in her machiavellian plan to get my Azazel.

"Daughter, it's still not very safe, and you're still a child right now...but when you're a teenager, I'll let you go out of the castle and walk around the city to explore," I say, giving her permission.

With this, I guarantee that for the next few months she won't leave my castle to explore out there, after all, the more time she spends out there, the less time she'll spend with me.

"And little sister Eclipsya?" She asks, mentioning that annoying little pest, unfortunately Azazel likes Eclipsya too much, so she always puts that brat in the middle without even knowing that this brat wants to mess her up in the future!

"Your little sister will also grow up soon...and she won't go out to play with you, she's currently far away for safety reasons," I say with obvious disgust in my voice, I wish that brat would stay away from my daughter.

"Ah...I wish I could see her soon! She's cute and fun! I'm sure I can make her like me!" Azazel says as I slap my palm to my forehead seeing such foolishness.

'She already likes you, Azazel!! Stop throwing yourself at that damn little thief of daughters!!' I want to scream this at Azazel, that pest already adores Azazel, she just never showed Azazel that love, I don't need Azazel trying to increase the problems even more.

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"Eclipsya, you seem...bigger?" I say, finding it strange, Eclipsya seems different from yesterday, she's sitting there reading a book and something doesn't seem right even though she looks exactly the same as before, but I feel she's bigger, which is strange.

"Hmm? Ah, Master Thalruk, I really am 'bigger', my body is accumulating mana, and I've been past the child stage for some time and will soon be a teenager according to the system, but strangely my growth seems to be accelerated."

"Maybe because Mother Tsukuyomi is a goddess and her body is quite different from others, along with the fact that Mother Pandora grows up quickly, my growth rate seems accelerated," she says without taking her eyes off the book.

'Is this...not abnormally fast?' Eclipsya is not even a year old, but she has already reached the child stage and is close to the teenage stage, even Pandora took about two years before becoming an adult.

"Is there a problem, Master?" She asks with a slightly cute and confused look while I think about what to say.

"None..." It's slightly disappointing, I liked teaching her, but if she's growing up soon, she won't need me as her master anymore, which is a shame, and Pandora will probably take her back to her castle and I'll be alone here again.

"Well, how's your magic going?" I ask, changing the subject and sitting next to her to help her if she needs it, she's skilled, but still young and despite having a lot of magic compared to any normal being her age, she still has little magic to create a magic as complex as the one she wants.

"Hmm...it's going well, although still unstable, I need to improve this magic to be able to make Azazel mine," she murmurs without taking her eyes off the book.

"Mother Pandora said I should enjoy my childhood, and said I can only take Azazel for myself when I'm an adult, but mother is a hypocrite, she got into relationships when she was much younger than me."

"a-ah, don't tell Mother that I called her a hypocrite! It's not an insult! It's just that the act of telling me not to do something when she herself did it is hypocrisy," she quickly explains, takes a deep breath, and returns to the previous conversation.

"When I'm formally a teenager, I'll be the equivalent age of all adults, so although I'll obey mother, I don't know how to enjoy this limiting age," she says in a slightly grumpy tone.

"How do I enjoy this so limited age? I can't do anything without permission, I have low authority over others and over my own body, and I can't get Azazel out of my head."

"Everything I do reminds me of her, so all I can do is study magic to be able to make Azazel mine in the future...I...don't know how to have fun like a child should..." She speaks like a confession and a certain rebellion.

"Eclipsya, I think you're just not looking in the right direction," I say, trying to give this brilliant but too rigid disciple some advice.

"What do you mean?" She stops reading the book and looks at me.

"Why don't you look for hobbies that you can share with Azazel in the future, look for something you enjoy and that will be useful in the future, enjoying childhood is having fun while free from adult responsibilities," I explain to her.

"...Oh..."

"Thank you, Master Thalruk, you're quite smart...I understand...I'll try to look for something other than magic...by the way, Master Thalruk, I found that book on Mother Pandora's anatomy," she says with a smile.

'That book...' I thought Pandora had taken it with her.

"What did you think?" I ask curiously.

"Interesting, Mother Pandora's anatomy is very unique and interesting to observe and learn, unfortunately my anatomy must be quite different since I don't have a tail or a floating halo on my head," she says with a tinge of regret in her voice.

"Hahahaha" I laugh, leaving her confused.

"You're much more mature than Pandora was at your age...she was a difficult student, she was brilliant, but her personality wasn't the best for teaching," I say, remembering the time I trained Pandora.

"...Could you tell me more about Mother Pandora?" She asks curiously.

"Of course...your mother was a complicated person, but she learned quickly," I begin to tell stories about Pandora.