The Destroyer had become so dented from all my hitting and smashing that it looked like a crumpled ball.
"Whew~ I feel a bit better now."
Thinking the Destroyer's remains might be useful somehow, I stored them in my inventory for now. Then I moved to the village where Thor and his friends were. When I arrived at the village, Thor and his group welcomed me with cheers, but I had some things to settle first.
"Wow~! You fought well, friend!"
"No! Why were you just watching and not helping?"
Thor scratched his head at my question and spoke.
"Well, my power is sealed right now, and your name is Jin, right? Anyway, Jin, you were fighting so well. And look over there."
Thor pointed to the place where I had fought. The area where the Destroyer and I fought was covered with countless craters, large and small, from the explosions.
"It was a bit hard to jump into a fight with explosions going boom boom like that."
I had nothing to say to Thor's reasonable point. Thinking about it, there was no need to join a fight that was already going well. And his friends and the village were unharmed.
'The lack of crisis led to this situation. Really... I should have just left it alone. Meddling unnecessarily has brought things to this state.'
Then Sif urgently grabbed Thor's arm and spoke.
"We don't have time for this now! We need to stop Loki."
"Right, let's go to Asgard first."
"I'm coming too."
Since I had Mjolnir, I decided to go along. As Thor, his friends, and I moved outside the village to take the Bifrost, Jane and the others followed from behind.
"I wanted to show you the bridge we talked about, but it's dangerous now. Once things are settled, I will definitely return to you."
Upon hearing those words, Jane grabbed Thor's face, pulled him close, and gave him a deep kiss on the lips.
'I did all the hard work, and these guys are just making me jealous here.'
Then Darcy suddenly approached, took my hand, and spoke.
"Chairman Jin, come back safely and don't get hurt."
"There won't be any incidents of getting hurt."
When Darcy let go of my hand, I saw something in it—it was a note with a phone number. Darcy looked at me, gestured as if to call, and winked. It was absurd, but she was a beauty and seemed worried about me, so I let it pass.
Thor and I stood on the ground with the circular pattern.
"Heimdall!"
Thor called Heimdall, but when there was no response from the sky, he called a few more times.
"Heimdall! We need your help now!"
"Heimdall!"
Then, just like when the Destroyer was summoned, clouds slowly rotated in the sky, and a rainbow-colored light fell to the ground, lifting us up. After rising for a while, we soon arrived at the Bifrost connection point. At the connection point, we could see the bodies of two frost giants and Heimdall lying collapsed.
"Take Heimdall to the healing room! I'll handle my brother."
Thor's friends supported Heimdall and took him away, while Thor hurriedly ran to the palace. I followed Thor. I don't know what confidence made Thor run so hard. He hasn't even been acknowledged by Mjolnir yet, how does he plan to deal with Loki?
'Is he acting like that because I'm here?'
Anyway, it seemed we would be late if things continued like this, so I grabbed Thor, picked him up in a princess carry, and started running quickly.
"Kkh... Such a humiliating thing..."
Ignoring Thor's words, I moved towards the most splendid and large palace. Seeing that Thor said nothing, it seemed we were going the right way. As we ran and reached the royal palace, Thor spoke.
"I think you can put me down now."
"Okay."
Thor got down from my embrace, cleared his throat, and quietly spoke to me.
"Ahem... Keep this a secret from others."
"Got it."
I felt like laughing but said I understood for now. We hurriedly moved to the room where Odin was resting. There were guards, but they recognized Thor and let us pass. As we reached the room where Odin was, a loud sound came from the room.
Boom!
When the loud sound came from the room, Thor urgently entered. I followed, and inside were Loki, Thor, and their mother, Frigga.
"Loki!"
"Thor!"
"Tell mother the truth. You sent the 'Destroyer' to Earth to kill everyone."
Hearing this, Frigga asked Loki.
"Is that true?"
Then Loki urgently spoke to Thor.
"I was following Father's orders."
"You're a born liar. You always were."
Seeing that lies wouldn't work, Loki openly revealed his plan.
"I must take my leave now. I have to destroy Jotunheim."
Loki had planned to destroy Jotunheim, home of the frost giants, with his own hands and use that achievement to seize the throne. With those words, Loki raised Odin's spear, Gungnir, and tried to fire an energy beam at Thor. In his current sealed state, if Thor got hit by that, he would be 100% dead, so I urgently blocked it by striking with Mjolnir.
Thud!
"You are the berserker who destroyed that Destroyer. Come under me. I will give you wealth and glory."
Loki was delivering lines worthy of a third-rate villain boss. And he must have seen my angry hammering as that of a berserker.
"I don't know about power, but I already have more wealth than I can handle."
"Is that a refusal? A pity."
Loki raised Gungnir again to fire an energy beam, but I used [Shunpo] to quickly approach, knocked the spear away, spun around, and punched Loki in the abdomen.
Thwack!
"Keugh"
Loki dropped Gungnir in pain and clutched his stomach. I picked up the fallen Gungnir and threw it to Thor.
"Use this for now."
"Got it."
Not missing that opportunity, Loki used illusion magic to create a duplicate of himself in his place and was slowly escaping while holding his stomach. I could see all of this with [Observation Haki].
'Did I go too easy on him? No, actually, this might be for the best? I should just let him go.'
He could go to Thanos like this or go to destabilize the Bifrost as in the original. Thor, unaware of this, aimed Gungnir at Loki and spoke.
"It's over now, Loki!"
"Hehehe, it's just beginning, Thor."
With those words, Loki's illusion dissolved and he disappeared.
"What is this... Where did he go!?"
Thor looked around to find Loki. Frigga watched this and spoke with a hint of pride in Loki.
"Loki's magic skills have improved again."
Frigga stayed to nurse Odin, so only Thor and I left the room and were looking around to find Loki. Then Volstagg, Thor's friend and a member of the Warriors Three, approached and spoke.
"You said you had business in Midgard, haven't you gone yet?"
Thor flustered and spoke.
"I never said that."
Thor thought for a moment, then understood the situation and spoke.
"That Loki!"
Volstagg spoke incredulously.
"So that was Loki transformed?"
"Yes! It was Loki, not me. Do you know where he went?"
"He asked for Heimdall's sword, so I gave it to him. He probably went to the Bifrost connection point, right?"
Loki seemed to have eventually moved to the connection point with Heimdall's sword to destabilize the Bifrost, as in the original.
"Damn it. You guard this place. Loki might come again."
"Got it."
Thor urgently rode a horse and galloped to the Bifrost connection point. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to ride a horse, so I just ran.
'I should learn horseback riding when I get home.'
Thus, we arrived at the connection point. We could see that Loki had destabilized the Bifrost and left it open to prevent anyone from stopping it. Due to the Bifrost destabilization, Jotunheim would be getting wrecked.
"Loki! Why are you doing this?"
"I'm going to smash 'Jotunheim'. When Father wakes up, I'll be the prince who saved his life. Then I'll become the true successor."
"You can't kill them all!"
"Why show mercy to monsters all of a sudden?"
"I've changed."
"I've changed too."
Suddenly, Loki swung Heimdall's sword at Thor. I urgently grabbed Thor and pulled him back.
"Berserker! You stay out. This is a family matter."
"What nonsense. A whole world is about to disappear right now."
I thought he was talking nonsense now. When his tricks didn't work on me, Loki spoke to Thor.
"Thor! Duel with me. Let's see who the true king is."
"Loki, I don't want to fight you."
"I'm not your brother! What on Earth did you do to become so tame? Was it because of that woman? Then I'll personally meet her after this is over!"
Loki kept provoking Thor. Hearing the girlfriend NTR declaration, Thor tightly gripped Gungnir with both hands and tried to go at Loki, so I grabbed his shoulder.
"Thor, don't listen to that. Loki knows you're weakened. This is a trap."
"I know. But this isn't out of anger. It's to save my brother."
Looking at Thor, whose veins were bulging on his forehead, face red, and breathing heavily, it seemed he was very angry about the girlfriend remark, but since he made the excuse of saving his brother, I just let go of his shoulder.
'Sigh... Whatever. He'll manage.'
Thwack! Crunch!
"Kkh"
Manage my foot. Thor was barely dodging Loki's sword and getting beaten like a dog. After watching them fight for a while, as the Bifrost gradually reached its limit and vibrated, I couldn't watch anymore and spoke loudly.
"Thor! It's the limit. I think we need to destroy the Bifrost. You decide."
Hearing my words, Loki spoke.
"If you destroy that, you'll never see that woman again! Are you okay with that!? And Berserker! You won't be able to go home!"
What Loki doesn't know is that I can go home anytime with teleportation. Thor, with a bruised face, swollen eyes, and nosebleed from getting beaten, spoke.
"Kkh... Damn it! Jane, I'm sorry. Destroy it!!"
I struck the rainbow bridge with all my might using Mjolnir, and cracks rapidly spread across the bridge.
Thud!
Crackle!
"No!!"
Loki urgently rushed towards me, who was striking down with Mjolnir. I used more strength to strike the bridge again.
Kaboom!
The bridge exploded, scattering fragments, and the Bifrost stopped destabilizing and began to collapse. Loki and I were lifted into the air by the explosion's shockwave and fell back down, but below us, the bridge was destroyed, leaving no place to land. I quickly reduced my weight with the [Kilo Kilo Fruit], took out an umbrella from my inventory, opened it to glide, used wind magic, and slowly moved to a remaining part of the bridge to land. Loki, I don't know when he got there, was barely hanging onto Gungnir, which Odin had extended. Loki, hanging from the spear, looked at Odin and spoke.
"I could have done it, Father! For all of us!"
"No, Loki."
Shocked by those words, Loki let go of the spear he was holding and fell into space. Thor watched the falling Loki and screamed.
"No, Loki! No!!"
Thor, perhaps shocked by Loki's fall, stood there staring into space. Odin sighed, walked to Thor, patted his shoulder as if to comfort him, and returned to the palace.
Thanks to Frigga's consideration, I was assigned a guest room and spent a day there. The next day, Odin called Thor and me.
"I wanted you to wield Mjolnir. But from what I see, you've gained much wisdom from the events that occurred this time. You will become a wise king."
"There is no king wiser than you, Father. I still have much to learn, Father."
"Noble one who wields Mjolnir. We are in your debt. Is there anything you desire?"
"Nothing. And I will return Mjolnir. Since I mainly use a sword, I don't need it."
If I keep it, it will only delay Thor's awakening.
"Now I understand why Mjolnir chose you. Since the Bifrost is destroyed and you cannot go to Midgard, I will arrange for you to rest comfortably during your stay here."
"I can go to Midgard. Since I am a mage, I can open a portal."
"Are you perhaps related to the Stones?"
Odin also seemed to know about the existence of the mages guarding the Time Stone on Earth.
"That's correct."
"I see. Very well. Then in my name, I grant you the title of Friend of Asgard. You may visit Asgard anytime, receive lodging, and request aid in emergencies."
"Thank you."
'Well, aside from Thor not awakening yet, things turned out pretty well, right? Thor's awakening will happen on its own if I leave Mjolnir here.'
Then Thor grabbed and shook me with a bright face.
"Is that true? That you can open a portal."
"Yes."
"Father, may I invite one person from Midgard to Asgard? It's someone who helped me while I was on Midgard."
"I see. But unlike the noble one here, we are not the ones who received help—you are. And we cannot recklessly bring a Midgardian here."
This is just my speculation, but I think Odin says that to prevent Asgardians, who have extremely long lifespans, from falling in love with short-lived Midgardians. And Odin couldn't possibly be unaware of Jane's existence.
Even while sleeping, Odin can know about most events happening around him. I don't know the exact range or how much he can see, but in the original, there was a scene where Odin shed tears when Thor was struck down by a fatal blow. Seeing that, it means he knows almost everything that happened to Thor on Earth.
"Just one day, Father. Please allow me to repay my debt."
"One day... Alright! I'll grant you exactly one day."
"Thank you, Father."
Thor was overjoyed upon receiving Odin's permission. He must really want to bring Jane here. After coming outside, I opened a portal to the village where Jane was, and Thor ran into the research lab where Jane was.
"Jane!"
"Thor!"
Thor hugged Jane for a long time without letting go, so I loudly cleared my throat.
"Ahem!"
"Ah, my apologies."
Only then did the two separate, embarrassed.
"Shall I send you to Asgard right now?"
"Yes."
I opened a portal again and sent the two to Asgard.