Chapter 609 Eccentric Family

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Loki looked back at Hel while narrowing her beautiful red eyes.

"Dear, since when have you been so attached to these mortals?" She asked. "I remember you never really cared."

"…I've changed, okay? People change!" Hel said while crossing her arms.

Loki smiled, knowing what was going on.

"Oh, it is your little Apostle? Is it?" Loki asked, whispering to her daughter's ears. "Maria, right?"

"Ugh…" Hel sighed. Loki was very good at reading people, especially her daughter. "So what if its about her? I've seen things through her. The journey and all… I've learned there's good people out there, not everyone is worth… killing."

Loki sighed.

"What an idealistic little girl I have here." Loki laughed, grabbing her daughter, and putting her over her beautiful thighs.

"H-Hey don't treat me like a little girl anymore!" Hel complained while blushing.

"Well, we don't truly know what might happen in the future. But for now my real goal aren't the mortals out there… Though, as the god of chaos, I cannot really side with anybody. It is within my nature, honey." Loki said. "You and your siblings are the only exception because you're my dear babies I love more than anything! Mooch~ Mooch~!"

Loki began kissing her daughter's cheeks like a mother that loved to spoil her adorable daughter.

"S-Stop it! Uughh…" Hel was getting tired of being treated like a little girl all the time.

Her two siblings, Fenrir and Jörmungandr were currently roaming the Underworld and growing stronger by devouring Undead and other monsters. This has been their training for a few years now. Because the two of them were always busy, she had to deal with her mother's affection all the time.

"What are you going to do about the Fragments of Tyr?" Wondered Hel.

"Huh? What with that question out of the blue?" Loki asked.

"The humans are using his fragments. And there are other forces doing the same around the world…" Said Loki. "Do you not intend to grab them back?"

"Well, Tyr is long gone. He's merely just another tool to cause more chaos, nothing more than that…" Loki smiled.

"Do you not regret what you did to him?" Hel asked.

"Regret it?" Loki wondered. "What? Are you pitying him?"

"No… I mean… No, not at all." Hel said.

"Hmph, well, I did what I had to do. I don't regret it, nor I care. I didn't liked Tyr anyways." Laughed Loki. "It was amusing how father asked me to do it though, I never thought my holy father would desire to crush his own son, he's really a monster, isn't he?"

"…You're not so different." Hel sighed.

"I am different!" Loki said. "I would never do that to you and your siblings, for example."

"Huuuh~" Hel sighed, quickly floating into the air as she transformed into her phantasmal form. "Fenrir and Jormungandr should be close by, let's go see them for now. You haven't talked with them in a while."

"R-Right! I should go meet them right away." Loki said, quickly generating bat-like wings from her back and flapping them rapidly, rising into the skies of the underworld. "Ahh~ I wonder if I look good or should I get some more makeup?"

"Leave it at that, you're already pretty as you are, geez." Sighed Hel.

"Aww! Your compliments always makes me so happy!" Loki tried to catch her daughter in midair to give her a hug, as the two flew towards the two other children.

Meanwhile, as Loki chased his daughter playfully, a massive black wolf with sharp red eyes and an utterly gargantuan, purple-scaled snake with a third red eye on the middle of his forehead looked around the horizons of the underworld. They were nobody else than Fenrir and Jormungandr, the Wolf and the Snake, "aberrant" children of Loki discriminated by the other gods.

"The world is changing…"

The enormous snake spoke, with a calm and composed androgynous voice. His true sex was never clear, not even to his own family. However, the beautiful and gigantic snake laid enormous eggs where her children slid out from, filling the world. She was the mother of all snakes, and also their father.

"Once more?"

Fenrir looked back at his sister… or brother. Jormungandr didn't mind being called either of the two. The tall black wolf, with his beautiful black fur let the winds of the underworld pass through his body, showing how indescribably fluffy he was.

"Yeah…"

Jormungadr looked into the distance. Her eyes opening wide.

"Hm?!"

She was suddenly surprised.

"What?"

Fenrir asked in surprise.

"S-She's coming…"

"Who?"

"M-Mother…"

"Mother? But she's- Ah, father, you mean?"

"Well she likes to turn into woman sometimes, you know…"

"Yeah I know… Wait, she's here?!"

FLAAAASH!

An enormous pressure almost made them fall into the ground, the chaotic divine aura of Loki emerged atop her two children, as she slowly descended with Hel at her side.

The moment she reached the ground, she ran at an incredible speed towards her two children in front of her, with arms wide open.

"My two little babieeeees!"

FLAAAAAAASH!

BAAAAM!

She hit Fenrir with her entire body, throwing him into the ground while hugging his entire face.

"Awooo! M-Mother! Do you have to be so rough?!" Fenrir cried.

"Aw come on, you're not a weakling to say that hurt you!" Loki laughed, kissing her son. "I missed you! Why don't you come to see your mother more?!"

"I-I was busy…" Fenrir actually didn't liked being with family as much, he wasn't really sociable. However he still loved his mother. He quickly licked her entire body with his gigantic tongue. "But I am glad to see you."

"Mother, you're back. It has been a while." Jormungandr greeted her mother. "Here, I've brough you a gift."

"Ooh, my little snake baby! You're so big! Did you grew a few more kilometers?" Loki wondered, suddenly receiving Jormungandr gift. It was an enormous dead rat. "A-And thanks for the gift…"

"It is a delicious treat; you should eat it whole." Jormungandr said with expectations.

"M-Maybe later!" Loki laughed.

Indeed, the entire family was eccentric, to say the least.

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