Saint Seiya: This Gemini is a bit of a trap.

If Jia Long hadn't mentioned this in the other dimension, she would have even thought that Jia Long had noticed her abnormality during the day and was deliberately playing a trick on her!

But now, she only has one thought.

"Damn you, Tiankui Star! If I manage to find Athena this time, when the golden apple ripens, the first thing I'll do is kill you as a sacrifice to the flag!"

Just as Esther was endlessly cursing Tiankui Star in her heart.

Jia Long had already come to her bedside with a pillow in his arms.

"Sister, I want to listen to your stories like before."

"tell a story?"

Esther was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, but she also breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that her wicked "brother" was just reminiscing about the past and wanted to relive the beautiful memories in his mind.

"Garon, what story would you like to hear?"

Upon thinking of this, Esther forced a smile that looked more like a grimace onto her pretty face.

"I want to hear the story of Troy."

Jia Long casually placed the pillow on Esther's bed, lay down beside her, propped his head up on his arm, gazed at the starry sky outside the temple, and said leisurely:

"Sister, you've been lurking by the side of the Goddess of Conflict all these years, so you must know the inside story of this war very well."

"The Trojan War?"

Upon hearing this, Esther's beautiful eyes flickered, as if she were lost in a distant memory. After a long while, she slowly said, "This was a war meticulously planned by the God-King, in which all the gods participated, but in the end, there were no winners!"

"oh?!"

Jia Long immediately became interested upon hearing this.

The Trojan War was a war that spanned the realms of gods and humans, and it was also the war that marked the decline of the Olympian gods. Its influence can be said to have continued to this day.

The account of this war in the Book of the Gods is very brief:

At a ceremony for the marriage of a human and a god, all the Olympian gods were invited to attend, but Eris, the goddess of discord, was conspicuously absent.

Eris then resolved to disrupt the wedding.

During the wedding ceremony, she threw a golden apple with the inscription "For the most beautiful goddess".

Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, the goddesses who attended the wedding, all believed themselves to be the most beautiful goddess. As a result, the three goddesses argued and sought the judgment of Zeus, the king of the gods.

These three goddesses each had a special status: one was Zeus's wife, one was Zeus's daughter, and one was Zeus's daughter-in-law. Zeus simply couldn't treat them all equally, so he had no choice but to pass the matter on to Hermes, the god of lies.

Hermes then invited the Trojan prince to be his judge. In order to win, the three goddesses offered him generous gifts: Hera offered him power, Athena offered him wisdom, and Aphrodite offered him beauty.

Ultimately, the Trojan prince, who chose love over power, opted for Aphrodite, deeming her the most beautiful goddess.

The goddess of love was thus called the goddess of beauty.

And the goddess of beauty kept her promise, giving the Trojan prince the opportunity to seduce Helen, the most beautiful woman of the time and the Queen of Sparta.

So the two eloped.

This sparked the war between Sparta and Troy. Driven by Hera and Athena, the war escalated until Athens, Macedonia, and various other human nations were drawn into it.

Even the gods are no exception.

Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, and so on—all the gods with names and titles on Mount Olympus participated in the Trojan War, whether actively or passively.

As a result, Athena made the final decision, instructing the allied forces to defeat Troy using the Trojan Horse strategy.

However, the gods who participated in the battle were not convinced.

Mount Olympus thus split apart, eventually evolving into a situation where each side formed its own faction. Once the King of Gods disappeared, the once mighty Olympian gods were engulfed in war and became virtually extinct.

Even in this human age, the Olympian gods who descended to earth still maintain the antagonism of the Trojan War.

The conflict is almost impossible to resolve.

The only way to win the Holy War is to rely on Athena and the Sanctuary to seal away the gods who are trying to start a war. This is one of the most important tasks of the Holy War and is also the origin of the name "Game of the Gods".

This is the Trojan War as understood by Jia Long.

There are so many suspicious points that this most famous battle of gods seems somewhat farcical, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a farce caused by an apple.

But Esther was telling Jalon a different story.

"The mastermind behind this war was Zeus, the king of the gods, because the Earth Mother had prophesied that when the goddess Thetis and a human were united, a powerful being like Athena, capable of threatening Zeus, would be born—the future Achilles. Therefore, the king of the gods bestowed the golden apple left by the Earth Mother upon Eris, the goddess of discord, so that she might go and disrupt the wedding."

"The reason why Hera and Athena, the goddesses of the heavens, fought over this golden apple was not for the empty title of the most beautiful goddess, but because this golden apple, which originated from Mother Earth, could solidify their positions as goddesses of the heavens and future kings of the gods. Of the three goddesses, only Aphrodite was truly after this meaningless title of the most beautiful."

"The gods were drawn into the Trojan War. Hera and her son were at odds, Hephaestus and his wife turned against each other, Apollo and his sister were seriously injured... and so on. Even Athena, who seemed to be the victor, suffered a great loss of prestige among mortals. You must know that Troy was the abode of the Sanctuary, and they worshipped Athena..."

"It can be said that this war damaged all the gods, making it impossible for them to unite and threaten the King of the Gods. Achilles also exposed his fatal weakness in this war, losing the possibility of challenging Zeus."

"In short, there were no victors, gods or men; the only beneficiary was Zeus, the king of the gods, who suddenly disappeared after the war."

"And having lost the protection of the king of gods, Eris, the goddess of discord, and Hermes, the god of lies who was also manipulated by Zeus, were both punished by Hera and sent to the terrifying abyss of Tartarus."

"This is the inside story of the Trojan War that you want to know. In the end, it was just a conspiracy orchestrated by Zeus, the king of the gods, with Eris, Hermes, and the Trojan princes bearing the blame to consolidate their power..."

The Trojan War as described by Esther is quite different from the one recorded in the Book of the Gods, but Jalon felt it was closer to the truth.

Eris may not have been a good bird, but the real mastermind was Zeus.

But even if we make a mistake, we can't make a mistake against the God King.

The only bad guy can be Eris.

That's just how things are in the world. There are many similar situations in history, and it's often difficult to distinguish them clearly.

"Garon, the story is over. Can you go back now?"

Having finished recounting the lengthy Trojan War and fulfilling Jaron's wish, Esther finally found an opportunity to get rid of him. However, she was shocked to discover that Jaron, who was lying on her bed, had closed his eyes and seemed to be fast asleep.

It even started snoring provocatively...

"You...you damned Tiankui Star!!"

Chapter 319 Dual Bodies! Pandora's Warning (Part 1)

All night long, Esther was on the verge of losing her temper. She stared intently at the sleeping Jalon, her sapphire eyes gleaming.

She wasn't afraid of what Jia Long might do to her.

She was simply weighing the pros and cons of killing Jia Long at this moment.

Killing her would ruin her entire plan.

She wouldn't kill him, but this wicked guy kept pushing her boundaries.

"Although this human deserves to die, I still need him to help me ripen the Golden Apple and restore my true form and power. If I kill him, I will have to find another suitable candidate. The Holy War is approaching, and I don't have much time left."

"However, since the age of mythology, no one, human or god, has ever offended me well. Gemini Galon, you'd better not do anything outrageous again, or else..."

Just when Ais had weighed the pros and cons and finally decided to continue to endure.

Suddenly, Jia Long, fast asleep, rolled over and rested his head beside her, murmuring as if in his sleep:

"Sister, it's so good that you're back. Your area is still as white as it was when you were little."

"what!"

Esther's barely extinguished anger was instantly reignited. She felt that if she stayed with Jia Long any longer, she would definitely go berserk. Suppressing her murderous urge, Esther gritted her teeth, got up, and went into the bathroom, wanting to take a shower to calm herself down.

But it didn't take long.

The bathroom door was pushed open, and Jia Long walked in, still half asleep. Looking at Esther, who was frozen in place amidst the rushing water, his face once again showed that nostalgic expression that almost drove her to despair.

"Sister, are you taking a bath? I really miss the times when we used to bathe together as kids and you would scrub my back..."

"Get out! Get out of here! Right now!"

"profound."

……

This time, Jia Long left very easily, not only leaving the washroom but also Esther's room.

Because he sensed murderous intent.

Boundless killing intent.

If Esther hadn't been in her most vulnerable state, she definitely would have pounced on him and bitten him to death.

So Jia Long wisely slipped away.

He slipped away.

Esther, however, broke down in the bathroom. She didn't even bother to fix her wet hair, threw on a coat, and disappeared into the void.

She couldn't take it anymore.

She was almost driven crazy after just one day together.

But she couldn't kill Jia Long.

She had no choice but to temporarily leave Mithril Demon Island and find someone to confide in about her humiliation and frustration.

The Eastern Dao Domain.

Inside an elegant villa in southern Xinjiang.

A stunningly beautiful woman in a black dress sat serenely beside a harp, her hands gently plucking the strings. Beautiful notes drifted out of the window, attracting many birds to land and listen.

"Pandora, you seem to be in a good mood, but I'm about to explode with anger!"

The void opened, and Esther, soaking wet, stepped out. Without asking her master's opinion, she angrily sat down on the large bed, seemingly quite familiar with Pandora.

"Oh."

Pandora merely nodded slightly at Esther's arrival, then her slender fingers began to pluck the strings again, seemingly uninterested in responding to Esther's complaints.

"Pandora, can't you give me some kind of response? Is there nothing in this world that you care about?"

“Estelle, you care too much about everything, that’s why you’re always surrounded by conflict and discord…”

Pandora gently plucked the strings, and the vibrating strings produced soothing notes. Pandora pointed at the harp and casually said to the agitated Esther:

“Esther, the difference between you and me is that I am always calm and still, so no matter how I pluck this harp, I will never produce even a single harsh note.”

Esther scoffed dismissively, "What do you mean by 'calm as water'? You're just cold-hearted, okay? Humph, looks like I chose the wrong person to confide in. I was actually planning to tell you about that jerk Galon I ran into these past few days..."