Chapter 21: Loki the Broken
At the dinner table, Odin and Frigga were both smiling as they ate today's dinner, while Loki looked at the roast chicken on the table with a worried face
Frey looked at Loki and smiled, brought the whole plate of roast chicken to Loki, and said with a smile
"What's wrong? Are you not happy to see my brother come back? If you are not happy, my brother will leave tomorrow. ”
Loki was also startled when he looked at the roast chicken that suddenly appeared in front of him, and heard Frey's words as well
"No, no, it's too late for my brother to be happy when he comes back, and I want to drive my brother away? It's just that since the Jotunheim incident, my body has been uncomfortable, and there is nothing else!"
Frigga heard Loki say she wasn't feeling well, and she said it
"What's the matter, Loki? Why don't you go to the infirmary for treatment when you're not feeling well? I'll call Freya and treat you later?"
"No need, I'll just pay more attention to rest, there's no need to let Freya come here!"
Loki replied
"Hmm...... Then you have to pay more attention to rest."
Odin also looked at Loki and said
"Well, I'm full, I'll leave my father first, and my mother and brother will go!"
"Well, pay more attention to rest when you go back!"
Odin commanded
"Got it!"
Loki turned and left.
In the middle of the night, Loki lay in bed, unable to sleep, he looked at his left hand, remembering that his left hand had been held by the Frost Giant in Jotunheim before, and slowly turned blue... The same color as the Frost Giant.
According to common sense, Loki's left hand should have been directly frostbitten, but in fact, instead of being frostbitten, Loki felt a clear stream entering his body, which was very, very comfortable.
Loki sat up, remembering what the Frost Giant had said before he died
"So you're one of our kind!"
The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became, and the only thing in Asgard that could be used to verify whether he was a Frost Giant was the Frost Box, a sacred artifact that once belonged to the Frost Giant, and now a more precious collection in Odin's treasury.
Loki dressed himself and made his way to Odin's treasury, where he used his magic and familiarity with Asgard to enter the treasury of Asgard.
He looked at the frost box at the end, and his heart was full of hesitation, if ...... What if he was really a frost giant? If he was really not a son of Odin, would he really be able to accept this answer?
Loki stood in front of the Frost Box and took deep breaths, and finally made up his mind, he firmly believed that he was Odin's third child, and that he would not be the child of the Frost Giant, so he picked up the Frost Box and channeled the power of the Frost Box into his body.
"Didn't you say you weren't feeling well? Now put that thing down! and go back to your room to sleep."
Odin appeared at the door of the treasury and looked at Loki's back
"Am I cursed by the Frost Giants?"
Loki asked Odin in a trembling voice
"Nope!"
Odin replied truthfully
Loki lowered the Frost Box in his hand, turned around, and stared at Odin intently
"So what the hell am I?"
"You are my third child, Prince of Asgard!"
Odin sighed as he watched Loki's skin slowly turn from blue back to white
"What else?"
Loki walked towards Odin
"After you signed the treaty with Laufey that day, you didn't just take the Frost Box from Jotunheim, did you?
Loki asked in a heartbroken voice
"Yes, that day I had signed the treaty and walked into their temple, and I saw a child, a very young child, who was congenitally deficient for a giant, and even though he was Laufey's child, he was still thrown on the cold rock, waiting for death. ”
Odin said, looking at Loki
"Laufey's child, Laufey's child?"
Loki repeats the same phrase over and over again
"Yes!"
"Why? Why? You and Frey have the blood of the Frost Giants on our hands, why did you bring me back?"
"Because you're just an innocent child!"
Odin looked at Loki, who was already on the verge of collapse, and said helplessly
"No!"
Loki shook his head and said
"No! you must have other purposes!"
Loki shouted in frustration
"Tell me!"
"Even though I used to have all sorts of purposes, those purposes have long since been canceled over time!"
"That'...... Then why didn't you tell me in the first place, tell me, I was what my mother told me and Thor every night when I was a child, those blood-drinking frost giants who were defeated by Brother Frey!"
"You're my child, I'm fine, Frigga is here, we've been guarding this secret for so many years, make sure you don't know!"
"Why? Afraid that I'm going to collude with the Frost Giants and go to Laufey?"
"No, just because we love you!
"No! No! I understand now! No wonder you've been in love with Thor for so many years! No wonder no matter what you say you love me, you won't let me follow you to the meetings and get in touch with those secrets! Now I understand it all!"
Loki cried out heartbroken to Odin
"No...... No, you don't understand!"
Odin passed out as he spoke.
"Father, Father, Guard, Guard, Guard, Come!"
Loki looked at Odin, who was suddenly unconscious, and shouted out the door
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Frey walked into Odin's bedchamber and asked as he looked at Frigga who was staying at Odin's side
"Mother, how is my father?"
"It's nothing, maybe because I've been overworked lately, Odin's sleep has come early! ”
Frey asked with a frown as he looked around and didn't find Loki's figure
"Where's Loki? Father is in a coma, why didn't he come for such an important matter?"
Frigga rolled her eyes and helped Frey straighten her collar
"He was the one who sent your father back! He was not feeling well, so I let him go back first. ”
"By the way, Loki's face was ugly just now, I was a little worried about him, you can go and see him!"
Frey nodded
"Well, I'll go check on him. ”
Frigga picked up Gungunir beside Odin and handed it to Frey
"Frey, before your father Odin wakes up, the whole of Asgard will be handed over to you!
Frey knelt down on one knee and took the spear, which symbolized the supreme power of all of Asgard
"Then I'll step back first, Queen Mother!"
"Go, your father has me here!