The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2695 Hollywood Rhapsody (53)

Chapter 2695 Hollywood Rhapsody (Fifty-three)

Schiller probably understood the logic behind what Loki said. For a long time, probably during the time when they were growing from teenagers to young adults, Loki's identity was very embarrassing.

When they were children, they had no obligations or responsibilities. After all, no matter how cruel Asgard was, they would never let children go to the battlefield. According to Schiller, the fertility rate in Asgard was very low, and every child was a treasure. The childhood of the two of them was spent in a carefree environment.

But once they start to grow up, they have the responsibility they must bear, which is to contribute to their country with military exploits, just like every Asgardian.

War is a machine that once started cannot be stopped in a normal way. Every Asgardian involved has his own difficulties and is helpless, but they also enjoy the benefits brought by the war dividends, so naturally they cannot remain immune, and the same is true for Odin.

As a king, since he is the one driving this huge war machine, his son must also be able to drive it. As Thor is Odin's chosen heir, he must prepare early to take over the reins of the fiery horse from his father.

Loki is not the heir. To be more precise, Odin cannot let Loki inherit Asgard because he cannot bear such responsibility either in terms of his physique or status, so he'd better stay away from these things.

Even if he wanted to do it, Odin would definitely exclude him from the center of power early. This would be good for everyone. Thor would be able to take on responsibilities better, Loki would not have tasted power and would not have the loss of gaining and losing it again, and Odin himself would be able to smoothly hand over Asgard to his heir.

The only one who made a sacrifice was Loki, because in the environment of Asgard, everyone must contribute to victory. If you can't fight, then you go to manage logistics. If you can't manage logistics, then you go to do scientific research. If you can't even do research, then stay at home and have children.

But Loki couldn't do any of the above.

Firstly, due to his physical condition, he cannot fight. His deception magic is not suitable for the frontal battlefield and is not as efficient as the Asgardians in boarding battles. It would be a thankless task to force his way through.

He also cannot be in charge of logistics, as Frigga has always been in charge of this aspect. Only the Queen of the Gods is qualified to share half of the power of the King of Gods, not a prince. Odin will not give Loki such a specious idea.

He couldn't do scientific research either, because most of Asgard's weapons and spacecraft relied on divine power. Loki's divine power was weak to begin with, so he couldn't participate in most experiments. The rest was the same as logistical work. Mastering weapons was also a ticket to enter the core of power, and Odin would not give him such an idea.

There was only one way left, which was to reproduce. Although Loki didn't know at that time that he was the descendant of a Frost Giant, he also knew that his congenital weakness might be passed on to his offspring. Not only would he be unable to contribute to Asgard, but he would also be a drag.

But Loki has always had an obsession with offspring, just like he easily accepted the existence of Helen, and like he would rather go on a blind date across the universe to have a child, and he would not give up even after failing several times.

Schiller used to think that he regarded his reproductive value so specially because he wanted to use children to make up for his own shortcomings and realize his own wishes, just like some human parents.

People always have this vision, hoping to raise their childhood selves again and make up for their unhappy childhood in a completely different way without regrets.

Loki should have been like this. Existing in Asgard with such an identity, he must have too many regrets that always appear in his dreams. If he had descendants, he could make up for these regrets.

But now it seems that this is not the case. He does not need to raise himself again because there has always been someone raising him in a normal way, and that is his brother Thor.

Sometimes Schiller finds it difficult to tell whether Thor is truly innocent or wise, or whether he is actually a combination of the two.

Throughout history, there have been only a handful of people who could play the role of the simplest brother in the complex royal power struggle. Thor is one of them, and he has remained steadfast from beginning to end.

In the eyes of others, Loki has many identities, such as a non-heir who cannot access power, a frail magician, and an unpopular second prince. However, these perceptions of him by others do not seem to affect Thor, not even Odin's perception of Loki.

Thor's logic in treating Loki is always different from that of others. He excludes all complex identity cognitions and firmly and resolutely treats Loki as just a younger brother.

From this perspective, many of his shocking actions are explained. He brought Loki to the front line not to express his dissatisfaction with Odin or to intimidate others. He just wanted Loki to exercise his body, because he had also gained better physique through fighting and exercise.

He allowed Loki to do his mischief, not because he wanted to indulge Loki or flatter him, nor because he was really stupid and incapable of exposing it, but because he just wanted to give in to his younger brother and not bother with him.

He made Loki the prince not because Loki had the ability or there was no better choice besides Loki, but because he trusted Loki.

With Thor's attitude, those regrets that should have appeared in Loki's life don't seem to need to be made up for.

Then looking at it from the other side, Loki's desire to have a child may have the opposite motive. If Thor had a child and he also had a child, then there might be another pair of brothers like them in the world.

Loki thought this was a happy thing.

She said she wanted to use the child to distract Thor's attention, but in essence, that was all. Loki was getting more and more anxious, probably not because of Frigga's urging on him about his lifelong event, but simply because Thor's child was about to be born. If he didn't have one, the two children might have a big age gap and wouldn't be able to play together.

Loki actually hoped that his children could have a childhood like his own. When Schiller first came to this conclusion, he found it counterintuitive.

Because from the perspective of public perception, Loki's childhood was not very happy. After all, he was frail and sickly, always the one not chosen, and was inferior to his brother in every way. Each of these was an indelible shadow on his childhood.

Generally speaking, such people will have a decreased desire to have children, just like a person from an unfortunate family does not want his or her children to repeat his or her mistakes.

But Loki actually felt that such a childhood was very happy. He hoped that the arrival of a child would allow him to recreate all of this. Even though this child might be like him and not have such a good constitution, he believed that the child could get the same happiness as he did back then.

In other words, in Loki's eyes, Odin's choice not to do something, the Asgardians' disapproval, the weakness and torture of illness, all these negative emotions added together are insignificant compared to the positive emotions that Thor brought him.

Schiller was really curious about how Thor did it. After all, although he was Loki's psychologist, he had never interfered in the private lives of the two brothers. From Loki's words, Thor was just a reckless man and a fool, and nothing good was ever said about him.

After finally getting the chance to go back to the past, Schiller wanted to see what magic Thor had. Loki was not the kind of person who was easily satisfied, or it could be said that he and Schiller were essentially similar in that both were greedy and their need for affection was insatiable.

After a while, there was a knock on the door. When Loki opened the door, a tall figure blocked the light.

"Are you okay?" Thor asked in a muffled voice, "What happened to you? Sif said you had to wear that tattered dress. What good is that?"

"What does it have to do with you?" Loki rolled his eyes and walked into the room. Thor also walked in. He rubbed the bottom of his nose and said, "Um... you are not hurt, right?"

Loki opened his arms slightly. Thor looked him over carefully and said angrily, "Then why did you tell the doctors that you were injured? Didn't I tell you not to lie?"

"That's their own diagnosis." Loki rolled his eyes to the sky. He said, "I said I'm not sick, but they insisted that I was sick. And that Heimdall..."

"You must have lied to them." Thor had an expression that said, "I don't know you yet." He said, "Even if you didn't lie to them, you were planning to lie to others, but you can't lie to me. Go out on patrol with the patrol fleet tomorrow. I'm leaving."

He turned and walked out, but before he walked out the door, he couldn't help but look back at Loki. Loki turned his back to him and looked out the window, not even giving him a glance. Thor had no choice but to stand by the door and say, "If you really don't feel well, then go the day after tomorrow, but don't lie to me again."

Loki still ignored him. Thor stood there, sighed, shook his head, and turned away.

Schiller said in the newsletter: "What is his attitude? Why does he think you are lying?"

"Didn't I lie?"

"what?"

Schiller was stunned, then said: "But you didn't lie to the doctors. They insisted that you were injured."

"But didn't I lie to Stephen?"

Schiller paused and said, "But this is not the same thing, is it?"

"He didn't say I was definitely lying to the doctor. He knew I might be lying to other people, and he might even know I was lying to the vague shadow who had a fight with him, but he didn't stop me."

"so what?"

Loki stood by the window, looking at the planet that was passing by the side of the fleet, and said, "Neither you nor Stephen realized the seriousness of this matter. I, the second prince of Asgard, a man who would not have been on the front line, ended up being on the front line."

"Today he was dressed strangely and behaved abnormally. He disappeared for a long time without reason while the team was stationed at the base. Then a mysterious person attacked the crown prince of Asgard and kept questioning Thor."

"After being locked in a room by the Emperor, he disappeared again, and went to meet the fleet's stalker in a swaggering manner. After returning, he refused to explain and even tried to put the blame on the important minister Heimdall."

"Let me ask you, if this happened to a human royal family, what would be my fate?"

Countless fragments of China's five thousand years of history flashed through Schiller's mind, and then he said affirmatively.

"You can still stand here and breathe, while Odin and Thor are both labeled as indecisive."