Chapter 1099: Father and Son (28)
"Hello, Your Majesty Odin, I would be more than happy to talk to you, but I just finished receiving a patient, I need to give some summary of his situation, and possibly follow up on the follow-up treatment, so we can make another appointment tomorrow",
As soon as Schiller said this, he heard a "click" of thunder behind him, he put down the phone, sighed helplessly, and turned around while whispering: "It would have been nice if they had come earlier"
"Do you think I'm late?" Odin's voice came from behind Schiller: "I thought that for a psychiatrist, any time should be just right. ”
Schiller turned around and saw a burly and imposing Odin, but to his surprise, Odin was not wearing the armor he usually wore, but in the traditional Asgardian attire, a Viking dress.
The traditional Viking costume does not actually look like a pirate, but bears some resemblance to the traditional Chinese image of an ancient soldier, with a soft inner lining of clothes, stiff chain mail tied on the outside, a sword and horn on his waist, and a horned helmet.
The dressed Odin was no longer as powerful as before, but a little more casual and wild, and his conversation and demeanor were the same, he did not think of himself as an outsider in the slightest step over the desk, strode to the sofa, sat down, patted the armrest of the sofa, and asked, "Is there any wine?" ”
"Of course, Your Majesty, but there shouldn't be any good wine like Asgard, only champagne." Schiller walked to the wine cabinet, looked at the wine in his wine cabinet, and seemed to want to pick out a good bottle of wine to entertain Odin, but Odin didn't care, pulled his beard and said:
"I've lived on Earth longer than you, and I know that you humans don't like to make too strong wine, bring me a glass of champagne, don't add ice, I hate wine with water."
Odin's voice was always full of breath, loud, and when he spoke, the whole room was filled with echoes of "buzzing".
Schiller didn't take out the champagne glasses that were as thin as he had served Howard, but took out two draft beer glasses and three or four bottles of champagne and placed them on the coffee table in the sofa area on a tray.
Odin poured a glass of wine first, put the glass on the table, wiped his mouth, straightened his beard, and said, "I'm in a bit of a hurry, let me moisten my throat first." ”
As soon as Schiller was about to speak, Odin stopped him and said, "Don't call me Your Majesty, just call me Odin." ”
Odin's series of movements look a little rough, but they are not offensive at all, but make people feel that he is a tough and straightforward person, and I have to admit that the greatest king of Asgard has his own uniqueness, exuding a personality charm from the inside out.
"No, Your Majesty, I rarely call each other by their first name at work, and during this time we try not to establish a relationship other than counseling, which allows me to be objective, and of course, if you allow it, I can omit honorifics." Schiller sat down across from Odin and said.
"Let's do it." Odin took another sip of wine, he rinsed his mouth with champagne, and said, "Lately, have you been with Loki?" ”
"No, the last time we met, it was just before Christmas, and he stayed with his brother, but I heard that Thor went on patrol after spending Christmas with Steve and the free members of the Avengers, didn't he bring Loki with him?"
Odin shook his head and said: "This is the first time that Loki has not gone with his brother to inspect the Nine Kingdoms, and Friga and I thought that he was greedy for fun, or stayed on Earth to deal with the business of the Holy of Holies, but I didn't expect that a few days ago, I heard his oath in Asgard, so, I want to ask you, what happened?" ”
It's like, "Isn't it?" "Do you think this is my plan?" Schiller pointed out what Odin was thinking, and Odin looked into his eyes with a big expression.
Schiller shook his head and said: "Some time ago, I was not in a good state, I hardly participated in any major events, and I have been recuperating. ”
"What's wrong with you?" Odin's only eye narrowed slightly, and he always spoke directly to the problem itself, without any politeness or tactfulness, but it was not unreasonable, but it seemed a little straightforward.
Anxiety attacks are just that. Schiller took a sip of champagne and shook his head slightly, and Odin put the glass down and said, "Then you shouldn't drink, take the glass away, and I won't drink it either." ”
"Your Majesty Odin, I really don't know where Loki has gone? Didn't you and Thor look closely? ”
Odin pouted, poured all the remaining wine into his mouth, and then said, "I asked Thor to bring his brother back, but Thor has been reluctant to go, and I don't want to move the fleet past him, so I came, please help find Loki." ”
"To tell you the truth, when we heard his vow, Frigga and I were stunned, I pulled out my three beards, and Frigga cried for two hours, but it was Thor who was the least anxious."
Odin shook his head, looking a little puzzled, and said, "Usually, he has the best relationship with his brother, but this time, he didn't show much worry, and he didn't seem to want me and Frijia Jia Shi to go to Loki. ”
"So. I came to you without telling him, and you say, what the hell is going on? I really can't understand the two brothers. ”
"Do you want to talk about the brothers Thor and Loki?" Schiller asked, Odin didn't understand the meaning of his question, Schiller asked in a different way, he said: "We can be from effect to cause, or from cause to effect, but either way, the logic is actually the same, just see how you are more accustomed to receiving information?" ”
"Let's start with the two brothers." There was a rare hint of hesitation on Odin's face, and he continued: "Since Thor succeeded to the throne, the relationship between the two brothers has become more and more incomprehensible to me. ”
"When Thor was still a prince, the relationship between the two of them was not very good, or rather, Thor wanted to do his duty as an older brother and wanted to take care of his younger brother, but it didn't work, Loki didn't want to be a younger brother at all, desperately trying to prove that he was the boss, but it didn't work."
"It's not the first time that Frigga and I have had a headache about this kind of thing, and we have tried some ways to improve their relationship, but the two of them are always perfunctory."
"Before Thor took the throne, the two of them behaved like brothers and sisters in front of us, but we also knew they were pretending."
"But after Thor succeeded to the throne, they became very strange, and on the surface they did not seem to get along, and they often quarreled not only in front of me and Friggya, but also in the court."
"However, Frigga and I both feel that the relationship between the two of them is much better than before." Odin smacked his lips, as if he didn't know how to express it, and he said, "It's intuition, you know?" From the gut feeling of parents. ”
"Just before Loki's disappearance, Frigga invited me and Loki to dinner, but Loki was like eating a few pounds of gunpowder, and rarely didn't give Frigga a little face, and we didn't know what happened to him."
"If I had to guess, I felt that he seemed to be very anxious and impatient, and he was confronting me at the dinner table, as if he was simply trying to fall out with me, and then leave quickly, and neither Frigga nor I knew what he was going to do."
Odin said a lot about Loki's performance in a few words, he and Howard are somewhat similar, except that Howard is also a bit of a literati and always pays great attention to his words, but Odin uses the most simple and straightforward words to describe his observations of Loki and express his views on other people.
Looking at the plainly dressed Odin in front of him, Schiller couldn't help but sigh, this father of the gods in Asgard can indeed be called the first emperor of the ages.
If Magneto has a charisma, but is not good at expressing it, and can only show one percent, then Odin completely magnifies his personality charm by two or three times through his actions.
Odin's every move is to show the best part of his personality, bold, atmospheric, full of energy, although full of power, but it does not make people feel superior, although some words are too straightforward, but also imply concern for others, it seems thick and detailed, worthy of reliance.
Schiller quickly made a mental profile, he took a sip of champagne, quickly typed the draft in his head, and then spoke:
"The family situation of the Asgardian royal family cannot be analyzed with the case of an ordinary family, because you are royal, so it is very special."
"One of the most special points is that there may be more than one family member in a certain generation, but there is indeed one on the throne, and the changes in family relations caused by this situation are much more complicated than ordinary families."
Odin waved his hand, as if it was completely inappropriate, and he opened his mouth and said to Schiller: "I know what you want to ask, many people are afraid to ask, but in fact, there is nothing to taboo, the throne must be Thor's, he is the undoubted first heir." ”
6 Of course, you may think that this is unfair to Loki, but from the moment they understood me, I told both of them very directly that the throne was Thor's, and there was no other possibility. “,”
Odin's straightforwardness made Schiller feel a little shocked, and looking at Schiller's expression, he shook his head and said:
"Otherwise, what else do you think can be done? There is only one throne, but there are two sons, and if I hadn't announced the correct answer at the beginning, and let the two of them guess, the result would have been a hundred times worse now. ”
"I don't understand who is telling the truth about this." A helpless expression appeared on Odin's face.
"I have said my conclusions more than once, both privately and publicly, and not when they grow up, I have long said that the next god-king will be Thor Odinson, and I have said it hundreds of times."
Odin leaned back on the couch, put his hands on the armrests, and said, "A lot of people say I'm biased, but do you think there's a better way to solve this matter?" ”
"There can only be one god-king in Asgard, which means that I have to choose one, and whoever I choose is not fair to the other."
"What I can do is try to choose one that meets my expectations and is more suitable for the position, and at the same time, tell them the answer before they think more deeply about the problem."
"I'm not the kind of bastard father who said to his two sons, whoever is better of you can inherit my inheritance, but in fact, I had the answer in my heart early in the morning, and then when they hit the head and bleed, I came out to pull the sidelines."
"When Loki was just sensible, I had already stressed to him that there was no possibility of him succeeding to the throne, but it was not his fault, but because there was indeed only one throne, even if it was in first-come, first-served order, it should be Thor."
Looking at Odin's face, Schiller's fingertips trembled for the first time, because he found that the draft he had prepared in his mind was completely different from the actual situation.
Schiller did not expect that this god-king would be wiser, more far-sighted, more decisive than he thought, and even a good father.