Reborn As Hades In Olympus Chapter 146 The Origin Of Pandora (I)

Ch. 146: The Origin Of Pandora (I)

Talos led to one of the seats nearby and hovered over to the fridge. "What do you want to drink? Beer? Milk?"

I crossed my hands and leaned back into the seat and spoke. "You know why I'm here yet you choose to mock ."

She turned back to the fridge and I heard the clinking of glasses. "Beer it is then."

She really still never listened to . "So how did things go with Hephestus and you?"

She handed a bottle and sat next to . "As you can guess we made up. You were right about guilt holding down, it made irrational. Feelings sure are a drag."

I took a little gulp before setting the bottle back on the table. "I don't rember saying that ever but continue."

She took out her phone and started to tap on it. "What have you been doing all this ti? Wait, don't answer that. You've been training right? You got the ssage I sent to your assistant then but you ca late and sohow managed to co here. Does this an you're finally prepared for the war?"

As usual her mind was a crackle of firecrackers. "What war?"

She tapped relentlessly at the screen and then showed sothing. "Pandora has beco a rising celebrity lately because of her beauty, apparently in the original tiline this did not happen but sothing changed things."

"And that being?" I asked.

She looked at with a powerful gaze and said. "Hers apparently busted their facility where they used children for experints a few years back."

"And what does that all have to do with this?" I asked again.

She continued to stare at , aning she wanted to figure it out myself. Good to see she had that old habit of hers back. "If Hers was able to pull that off and co out alive, then their plans must be on hold. So you're telling Pandora will beco Mr Anonymous in future aning Apollo was also involved in the circle."

I thought harder, trying to reach the idea she was trying to hit.

"But how does it all connect?" I asked myself.

Talos looked back at her phone and mumbled. "Just a few years training and your brain has been clogged by excess muscle. And I used to see you as my rival."

"Well I'll tell you either way. After I recovered I devoted myself totally to this mission and was able to figure out a number of things. Rember how I told you my mories started in blood and waking up among so bodies? It appears I am one of the original test subjects for black amber, aning I was the only one who died and ca back. That infact leads to suspect the fact that I might also be an otherworlder such as yourself."

Now this was an interesting developnt.

"The second thing is the fact that I intercepted a key information about the circle. Due to Hers intervention they are planning sothing big a week from now. There will be a convention, for the rising Pandora brand and sothing will happen on that day. Pandora herself admitted this on the day we had an encounter."

"Another thing is that I already know of the true identity of Pandora."

I looked at her with more intent and asked. "Really?"

"Quit acting like a child, it's not in my nature to lie about such things." She dissed . "Pandora was apparently sothing from ancient tis. It's best for Hephestus to explain."

"Hey stubborn old man! Co over here!" She shouted.

A while later Hephestus ca back all sweaty from whatever work he had been doing. He sat down and after settling down decided to start the explanation of what or who Pandora was.

"Way back during the great war between the gods and titans, Titanomachy. Apparently all of the negative emotions of that battle blended into sothing horrendous, a great misfortune. So many evils bred from that battle, after the defeat of the titans we sought to lock them away."

"All the evils— sorrow, disease, vice, violence, greed, madness, old age, death— to plague the world was sealed away in a chest of my making. A chest that could not be opened easily, the gods tasked with such a task and I called this chest— Pandora's box."

He stopped and let the words settle into . I raised my head and locked eyes with him and said. "Are you trying to tell that Pandora is the contents of the box? The great evil?"

Hephestus' body trembled violently at the thought of it and said. "I am afraid so."

I banged by my fist on the tabled and bood with intent. "Just how did you let this happen? How did she or it escape the box?"

Hephestus looked at with his haunched figure, his eyes trembling slightly. He raised his head and sighed.

Talos that had been silent all this while spoke up suddenly. "Its was because of . Apparently the box always lay dormant unable to interact with the natural world but in a state of crisis and with the right conditions it could interact with it."

I looked over at her and said. "Make sense with what you're saying before I decide to get my answers more personally."

Hephestus motioned for her to keep silent as he took the helm and spoke. "I was looking for scraps, things I could recycle into newer designs when I found Talos as a child among the other bodies I could tell she was dying, moved by pity I brought her back and tried to save her."

"Pardon but you don't actually seem like a doctor!" I lashed out.

Talos glared at . "You are unusually cranky today."

"Continue!" I ordered.

Hephestus looked at with grim eyes. "There was no way I could take a child there without drawing unwanted suspicion. A day after I took Talos the bodies were gone like they never existed. I tried to stabilize her but I had never seen a posion like that before. I was just about giving up when I heard a resonance from the box, it called out to and gave a chance to save Pandora."

"It was like being possessed by the desire to save the poor girl . I took the chance and opened the box for a few monts enough for it to take her body but before it could possess her I shut it and she was fine."

I looked at his muscles flinch. "But that wasn't all now was it?"

His eyes started to tremble even more. "No it wasn't. Pandora infected and Talos, even after curing her it cursed both her and ."

I almost gasped as my head tried to wrap around the fact. "Could it be that the curses are gotten from those who have co into contact with Pandora herself?"