Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils

As the saying went, "You never knew what the future held!"

If you clung to the past and refused to strive for more, the price was that you would never know how far your enemies could evolve.

Even shameless people could be "invincible under heaven."

So what about shameless gods?

Cronus knew very well that even if they let him out and gave him another chance, he still couldn't beat Zeus and his band of New Gods.

Back then, he had rallied nearly all the Titan Gods to wage the Titan Battle, yet suffered a crushing defeat. Later, his mother Gaea had tried to give Cronus a hand by giving birth to a monster with a hundred dragon heads, a black tongue, eyes that breathed fire, a body taller than the heavens, feathers covering its whole body, and a pair of wings—[Typhon].

And what happened?

Typhon was also defeated by Zeus with his divine staff. After mocking it, Zeus buried it beneath Mount Etna on Sicily.

Cronus had long since lost the will to fight his dear son.

Lacking confidence was one thing, but the "father snarling at his son" act still had to be put on!

Cronus had once had a choice. When he saw the living Chaos tissue invade his prison, he'd had a chance to resist. If he'd simply called out to the Hundred-Armed Giants guarding him, they might really have helped him deal with the Chaos infestation.

However, when Cronus realized the power Chaos contained, his hatred of Zeus and of those rebels like the Hundred-Armed Giants—hatred that ran to the deepest part of his soul—led him to make a decision that went against everything he'd been taught.

As the saying went, once the thought of joining Chaos arose, the sky opened wide.

Whether that "sky"