Choice
Rosellia and Seaward had difficulty rebutting Cherie's words. This was something the two ahd, obviously, been quite aware of. But they were simply unwilling, and what made it all worse was that this had been caused by their greed.
Had they not attacked Earth back then, with how much the Ascension Empire had on their plate, how could they have time to deal with a scuffle between two Sixth Dimensional families? Had they not been on Earth's radar, they could have used this moment to make a final push into Midas and Radix territory, swallowing them up and secretly taking advantage of commotion to retreat in secret to digest their gains.
But now it was difficult even to make that argument. They were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They could either sit back and hope that Earth would forget their transgressions and not deal with them even after resolving their issues in the future, or they could rush forward with this and inevitably pop back up on their radar.