American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 491 Why should fate be decided by others?
Loki accepted the tissue anyway.

It's definitely not that he gets excited just thinking about seeing Thor naked.

'I just didn't want to disappoint him.'

Loki spoke with righteous indignation.

Prepare to examine the next segment of the film with a critical eye.

Then his heart broke.

He saw himself, arrogant and blinded by jealousy, uttering cruel words to the person who loved him deeply.

He realized that he had taken Odin and Frigga's tolerance and love as a license to be willful, and had hurt them time and time again.

Think about it carefully: a prince who wasn't even Odin's biological son forced Odin into slumber and plotted a rebellion to kill another prince, yet he was merely imprisoned. That alone is enough to prove everything.

But Loki just couldn't see them, or rather, he didn't want to see them.

He only feels inferior about his own bloodline and roars at the old man who raised him: You are not my father!

When the woman who loved him deeply said, "Then I'm not your mother either?" he, who was usually quick-witted, was speechless.

Am I really that stupid?

'There really is.'

Loki thought about it. If Bant hadn't given him a chance to be reborn on Sakaar, he might have really made the same mistakes as the Loki in the picture.

That's just how it is sometimes.

Möbius comforted him, saying, "People always subconsciously hurt those closest to them, only to realize their grave mistake much later. Unfortunately, by then, it's often too late to undo the damage."

"We've only just begun," Möbius thought.

You will only understand the meaning of the name Loki after you witness your mother's death and see your exiled father pass away.

Loki did see it.

He saw the dark elves storm the palace in Asgard, and at that moment, the misanthropic man was overjoyed and eager to pledge his allegiance.

The most unexpected thing was that Malekith was pointed to where Frigga was.

His mother, who loved him most, was killed because of him.

In that instant, Loki felt his whole body turn ice cold, his hands and feet go numb, and his heart felt as if something was blocking his blood vessels, making it hard for him to breathe.

"is this real?"

"Is this my original destiny?"

He looked at Möbius, a flash of sorrowful anger in his eyes.

Although he has never experienced these things, and could never experience them, because in his universe, all enemies have been eliminated by Bant.

All the people of Asgard now live in Regidoriri and are safe from any danger.

But he was still angry.

Why?
Why is this Loki's fate?
What authority does the Time Bureau have to decide a person's future?
He stood up angrily, about to do something, but in the next second, he instantly returned to his chair.

"Don't get excited."

Möbius is holding the remote control buttons in his hand.

"No matter what you want to do, it's useless. I only need to press a button to send you back to a second ago. Besides, your magic is useless in the Time Management Bureau, so don't even think about trying to fool me with illusions."

"If you don't want to be rewound, then sit down properly."

"..."

Loki gasped for breath in anger, his chest heaving violently like an engine.

He indeed found that what Möbius said was true; the Nine Realms magic he was so proud of was completely useless here, as if it didn't exist.

However, he also discovered that Tianneng was not subject to this restriction.

He is still able to utilize celestial energy.

But at this moment, Loki had calmed down. The Time Bureau was too complicated, and now was not the time to act rashly.

After a short pause, Möbius thoughtfully paused the film.

"I'm the one who killed her..."

Loki whispered.

"She loved me so much, but I killed her. If she knew everything, she would be very disappointed in me." That's not necessarily true.

Möbius gave him a sympathetic look, without giving away any spoilers.

Then, Loki saw himself fake his death and escape once again. During the years that Thor went to the Nine Realms to quell the war, he acted as if he hadn't killed his mother and never mourned her.

He banished Odin to an Earth retirement home, disguised himself as a king, indulged in a life of luxury in Asgard, and packaged himself as a great idol.

How ridiculous!

With your meager magical power, you dare to banish Odin?
But these "good days" didn't last long, because Saul returned.

This older brother knows his younger brother too well; he saw through his clumsy pretense almost instantly.

Loki, on the other hand, thought it wouldn't be bad if that bastard version of himself in the scene were just smashed to death by Thor's hammer.

But the one who died was not him, but Odin, who was tormented by Odin's Sleep and banished to wander the earth in the loneliest moment of his life.

No one knows how this old man, who had lost his magic powers and had no relatives or friends on Earth, managed to travel alone across half the globe from America to Northern Europe after his nursing home was demolished.

But no matter what.

Odin never blamed him for the foolish things he had done over the years.

Even though he stubbornly refused to acknowledge Odin as his father, Odin still treated him as his child.

But sometimes that's just how it is.

The father and son, who had hated each other their whole lives, finally reconciled, but it happened to be at the very last moment of their lives.

Is death the only way to achieve reconciliation?

Then Hela broke the seal, but his cowardice led him to make another foolish mistake, allowing Hela to successfully return to Asgard and regain the power of death.

However, he ended up on Sakaar with Thor, where he gained the Grandmaster's trust through his smooth talk.

Loki wondered if he could only come to his senses on Sakaar.

Is that a place of enlightenment?
Then, he saw himself and Thor return to Asgard and defeat Hela.

Although Asgard no longer exists, its people live on. Asgard is not a place, but its people.

Upon arriving here, everything seemed to be changing for the better, but before he could even relax a little, the dark clouds of Thanos covered their sky.

To save Thor's life, he took out the Rubik's Cube, but his petty tricks were nothing compared to Thanos.

"This time he's really dead."

Möbius said, "This is your fate, Loki."

"What about Thor?"

Loki asked.

At this moment, he didn't want to ask who decided his fate; he only wanted to know if his sacrifice had saved Thor and the others.

"According to the rules, I can't actually show you the rest of the content, but..."

Möbius pursed his lips and decided to make an exception.

He pressed the fast forward button, and the video continued playing.

Avengers: Infinity War began playing before his eyes. A brutal war ensued, and the heroes suffered a crushing defeat. Loki felt a stomachache watching it and cursed the stupid guy named Star-Lord.

How could you possibly cause Avengers: Endgame with a single punch?!

Next, we see Tony Stark building a time machine to travel back in time and collect the Infinity Stones.

“You were able to escape because of this operation,” Mobius said, thoughtfully transferring Loki to Thor and Rocket’s team.

Loki felt uneasy seeing Thor's obese and dejected state.

But when he saw that Frigga already knew about his death, Loki completely broke down.

"she knows?"

"She knew she was going to die, she knew her child would kill her..."

Loki's voice was trembling.

"But she never blamed me."

“What mother would blame her child?” Möbius said.

(End of this chapter)