Published at 1st of June 2026 6:22 am

Chapter 1144: Empress Eyes.

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"Tell me, Eros, my son, are you a fool? Forget it, you are a Greek god." Aphrodite grumbled irritably.

"...Mother, you are insulting yourself. You are also a Greek goddess." Eros replied impertinently.

"Do not talk back to me." Aphrodite’s eyes glowed dangerously, and her mere existence made the former Greek god feel as if he were facing his own death. She did not like his tone at all.

Aphrodite was furious, and Eros knew it was his fault. Now, he didn’t know why she was furious at him, since he hadn’t done anything wrong yet.

"I warned you several times to keep your libido under control, I punished you severely, but it seems that just like Zeus’s trash, you cannot control yourself."

"I—"

"Silence."

"...." Eros screamed, but no sound came out, because Aphrodite’s word was not just a command to be silent, but a declaration to reality itself.

"You are an ungrateful son. I was around in Olympus, and you never visited me. When I exiled myself, you never cared. Now that I am ’important,’ you dare to call me Mother again. Do you think I am stupid, Eros? Answer me."

"...N-No."

"Yet it seems you think I am stupid." Aphrodite’s draconic eyes narrowed into vertical slits.

"Even knowing your attitude, I still accepted being called Mother by you again. I didn’t want to repeat the same mistakes of the past, and wanted to show myself that I had changed and grown, but... I was wrong to think that way. There is nothing wrong with me, the problem is you."

"Thanks to your connection with me, you were not caught in the conflict with the Greeks. Thanks to that same connection, you enjoy a relatively high status in the Empire, and because I am a goddess loved by many, you try to influence others for your own desires using my name."

With a gesture of her hand, several report screens appeared in front of him.

"...You were watching me?"

"Fool, you learn nothing. It’s not that you are being watched. EVERYONE is being watched." Personal privacy? Not even in their old world did that exist. Now, it exists even less.

"Using my influence, I suppressed the case and, fortunately, you did not do anything heinous, because not even my influence would protect you, but..." Aphrodite ground her teeth.

"You just had to set your eyes on my daughter, didn’t you?"

"....." Eros opened his eyes wide. He hadn’t done anything yet! He hadn’t even put his plan into action, how did she know?

"...It truly is a blessing that my daughter is very intelligent, perhaps it’s her father’s genes..." She narrowed her eyes slightly when she realized she had insulted herself, and became even angrier: "You are useless." She said in disgust.

"Who do you think is standing before you?" Enormous wings appeared behind Aphrodite, and two horns emerged on her head. "I am a dragon goddess whose mere word shapes reality to my liking. Do you think I cannot read your mind, you fool?"

The pressure was so unbearable that Eros could no longer stand, only able to lie on the ground with a bloodied body, looking at Aphrodite in fear.

"Disappointing! You did not listen to anything I said. You should be glad it was me who came to you... If it were my husband, death would be a merciful outcome compared to the horrors you would suffer." Her voice began to soften, the wings behind her retracted and disappeared shortly after, but the horns remained on her head.

"I was always monitoring your mind, because I knew something like this would eventually happen, because gods only learn when their pride is destroyed." This was a lesson she herself had learned.

"I tried to be a good mother, tried to show that I cared, but you did not care about me... And even harbored lewd thoughts, therefore..." She smiled gently.

"You will no longer be my son."

"...M-Mo—"

"Do not call me that, you are unworthy." She said with disgust. "Do not worry, even if you are trash, you are trash that can be recycled." Her gaze shifted from gentle to complete indifference.

"You may take him."

"Yes."

Eros was confused about who she was speaking to, but the moment he blinked, two hooded beings were within his field of vision.

If before he felt fear toward his mother, this time he felt existential horror when he looked inside the hood. The last thing he remembered was seeing thousands of violet eyes and a huge mouth that seemed to swallow his entire being, then he fell unconscious.

Looking coldly at Eros being taken away to have his soul recycled, Aphrodite spoke:

"Thank you for your help, My Empress."

Reality began to unravel as if a curtain had fallen, soon revealing the Empress in all her immortal glory.

Unlike the gentle expression Violet always had, her current expression was pure ice. "It is something I do for my sister, even if it is a thankless task."

Aphrodite sighed. "I tried, you know? I swear I tried... But it seems the relationship was worn out from the beginning, and everything on his side was in his interest. He is like all gods, and I was foolish to delude myself."

Aphrodite knew this would happen eventually, and now that it did... She felt nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Since she left to travel and settled with Victor, she tried to be better to the people around her, and it worked. It’s no wonder that, even among her sisters, she was very loved and cherished, but the same did not apply to her son.

From the beginning, there was only indifference between them. Eros only saw her as a means to gain more influence, and even harbored obscene thoughts toward her deep down.

The truth she never wanted to face was that she did not care about anyone except Victor, Anna, and her new family. She was just trying to cling to an illusion, or one could call it self-satisfaction.

"When I joined Darling in Nightingale after his tournament, where he presented himself to the vampires, many vampire lineages were extinguished that day, because those pieces of trash dared to show interest in my Darling. The same happened with Darling when he discovered the thoughts of the men... That night was a massacre." She showed a small, cold smile.

One could say that Violet and Victor truly matched each other. Both were extremely obsessive and possessive, and both improved their temperaments over time, especially now that they are parents and have a daughter. But at any moment, that extreme personality could resurface, and with the power they now have, the destruction they could cause could not be measured.

In this specific case, Violet’s possessiveness had evolved to encompass her entire current family, which is why her expression was now exceptionally cold. The only reason she did not touch Eros was at Aphrodite’s request.

Her hand itched to grab that fool and completely destroy him until even he forgot who he was, but...

Despite being obsessive, they still respected the family they built above all. It was that same respect that kept Victor from acting against Eros long ago; after all, nothing involving his wives escaped his sight.

"...I know, you told that story with pride to us in the past." She smiled a little tiredly when she saw Violet’s love pulse like a living heart, a love so intense that it encompassed everyone she considered precious, but it was a dangerous and extremely volatile love.

’Somehow, this woman still has more love than me, and I am the goddess of love here.’ She sighed, impressed.

"What do you want to happen to him?" Violet asked.

"An attendant like Jeanne’s, since he is my son from before I became a dragon, his soul is somewhat valuable." She felt that having another goddess of love as a subordinate was not a bad idea.

"A lesser goddess of love then."

"Yes."

"I will leave the reincarnation to our sisters," Violet said.

"Thank you again for the help, and I know that—"

"Shhh." Violet placed her finger on Aphrodite’s full lips. "You are my sister, my family, you don’t need to thank me..." She showed a smile that was both gentle and extremely possessive.

"Just knowing your feelings is enough." Violet removed her finger from Aphrodite’s lips and then spoke as she slowly disappeared. "Keep up the good work, soon the ritual will end, and Darling will need a long rest~" A small, indecent smile appeared on her face.

The implications of her words were more than obvious.

When Violet completely disappeared, Aphrodite touched her lips and blushed slightly when she remembered Violet’s expression. "She is the Empress and main wife for a reason." She laughed gently.

She looked at where Eros had been before and sighed tiredly. ’It’s a good thing Darling didn’t deal with this.’ If Victor had been involved, Eros would spend eternity in existential horror.

Even though she did not like her son’s attitude, she would not wish that kind of punishment on anyone... Well, unless they were their enemies, of course, if it were them, she would have no mercy.

One could say that not involving Victor was a small act of kindness for her former son.

...

"Eros, huh..." Persephone looked at the soul in her hands.

"How do you want to deal with him?" she asked the Empress.

"A complete reincarnation, erase everything from him, and leave only the divinity. A new lesser goddess for our sister will be created."

"I see, that will be a bit difficult, you damaged him a little."

"He should be grateful I didn’t hand him to Darling, or his punishment would have been much worse."

True to her nature, Violet still punished him, a rather ’light’ punishment by their standards, but, of course, that was just their perspective. If someone suffered such a punishment, at the very least, they would be mentally broken.

But indeed, it was a light punishment considering the type of torture Lily performs and the kind of punishment Victor and Azathoth deliver... Yeah, he was lucky.

Violet made a gesture with her hand, and using the power of order, she corrected Eros’s soul.

"...This power never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times I see it." Persephone sighed. To an outside observer, nothing really happened, but to her, who saw how souls functioned and was responsible for reincarnation, she could clearly see the kind of influence the concept of <ORDER> had.

"I’ll leave the work to you."

"Yes, my Empress."

Violet rolled her eyes when she heard the way Persephone addressed her. Lately, her sisters liked to act like that when she was serious...

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