[The image continues.]
[Faced with Classic Loki's question, Loki hesitated and did not answer.]
[Seeing this, Boastful Loki at the side asked:]
["Did you leave some glorious mission of yours there?"]
[Loki looked at the condition of the shelter and casually replied: "More or less."]
[It could be seen that the shelter was messy and filled with things such as gaming consoles.]
[But in the most noticeable central area stood an extremely luxurious throne!]
[At this moment, the image suddenly changed and returned to the TVA.]
[Sylvie brought the black judge into the TVA courtroom.]
[Looking at this familiar place, Sylvie said with a cold expression:]
["You brought me here after stealing my life."]
["There is no more suitable place for your death than this."]
[Seeing that Sylvie was preparing to attack, the judge quickly said: "What if I told you that Loki is not dead?"]
["At least not yet."]
[Sylvie did not believe her at all:]
["How is it possible that he is still alive? And how can I save him so that we can get closer to whoever controls the TVA?"]
[The judge replied: "When we erase a branch of reality, it is impossible to destroy absolutely everything."]
["Therefore, we move that branch to another place on the timeline and prevent it from continuing to grow."]
["In other words, the timeline branch is not reset. It is only pruned."]
["Where did you move it?" Sylvie asked.]
[The judge spread her hands: "To the Void at the end of time."]
[Sylvie thought briefly, but decided to believe what the judge had said.]
[Then the judge took out a TemPad and summoned Miss Minutes.]
[Miss Minutes claimed that the Void at the end of time could be reached using a spaceship that passed through the Void.]
[But all of this was actually only a delaying tactic. Soon, a group of TVA guards burst inside.]
[Realizing her current situation, Sylvie reached out, snatched the judge's TemPad, and jumped behind the judge's platform.]
[Seeing that Sylvie was now alone against an entire group, the judge triumphantly shouted:]
["Sylvie, you have nowhere left to run."]
["It is only a matter of time before we catch you."]
[After exchanging several more words, the judge directly said:]
["All right, if you surrender, I will not kill you. Instead, I will place you inside a time loop."]
["Inside it, you will be able to continuously relive your most beautiful memories."]
["By the way, do you even have any beautiful memories?"]
[Hearing this, Sylvie stared at the pruning baton in her hand for a while.]
[She quietly muttered: "Actually, there is only one place."]
[After saying this, Sylvie took the TemPad she had stolen from the judge and activated the pruning baton in her hand.]
[Then she stood up and, without hesitation, stabbed herself with the weapon she was holding.]
["Shhh!"]
[A flash of fire appeared, and Sylvie's body completely disappeared from the courtroom, leaving no trace behind.]
["Where..."]
[The pruning baton fell onto the judge's platform in the courtroom.]
[Seeing this strange and terrifying scene, several TVA guards were completely stunned.]
[One of them turned and said to the judge:]
["She pruned herself."]
[The expression on the judge's face continuously changed. The scene from moments ago had obviously shaken her deeply.]
[But she still tried to remain calm and said:]
["Very good! That takes care of her."]
Silence.
When they saw Sylvie prune herself without hesitation on the screen, this kind of silence suddenly filled the live broadcast room of the other world.
The gazes of almost everyone present turned toward Loki.
"This is truly incredible."
Tony Stark sighed and said:
"I did not expect that in my lifetime, I would actually see someone willing to sacrifice herself for love."
Stephen Strange also shook his head:
"The TVA abducted her while she was still a child. Although she managed to escape, she had to spend the rest of her life constantly fleeing and moving from one place to another."
"It is truly difficult for ordinary people to imagine such a life."
Natasha Romanoff smiled and quietly said:
"Probably precisely because of such a difficult life experience, that girl never had the chance to meet a good man."
"That is why one liar conquered her so easily!"
"Hey, who are you talking about? Huh?"
Loki's eyelids twitched with anger because of their sarcastic words, so he shouted loudly:
"Who says Sylvie pruned herself because of me? Perhaps she was remembering her happy life in Asgard."
Even Peter Parker gently shook his head, looked excitedly at Loki, and said:
"Mr. Loki, if she wanted to return to Asgard, then why was she in such a hurry to prune herself?"
"You must know that Ms. Sylvie was not certain at that time whether the judge was telling the truth."
"If she was lying, then Sylvie would simply have committed suicide with this action."
"And there is only one reason she would take such a risk, and that is you!"
"She wanted to find you in the Void!"
Peter Parker's voice suddenly became firm. He looked at Loki and said:
"The beautiful memories Ms. Sylvie mentioned must refer to the final days she spent with you in that colony on the planet... Oh, no! I mean, that happy time."
Realizing that he had let something slip, Peter became embarrassed. Loki looked at him with his mouth open, but in the end said nothing.
At this moment, the heart of the God of Mischief was like a turbulent sea. His emotions shifted repeatedly, and he could not calm down for a long time.
No way, right?
Did there truly exist a woman in another universe who would risk even suicide just to see him again?
Something like that sounded completely unreal.
Seeing Loki's dull expression, Stephen Strange shrugged and casually said to Tony:
"Speaking of which, Sylvie truly is a clever girl."
Tony nodded: "Yes. Before escaping, she stole the judge's TemPad!"
Seeing the two of them understand each other almost instantly, Peter Parker beside them was shocked again and felt another blow to his confidence.
Was this how true geniuses communicated?
I say the beginning, and you immediately know what I mean?
Little Wanda was also extremely excited at this moment: "The TemPad!"
"Does that not mean Loki and the others can use it to escape from the Void?"
Stephen Strange and Tony Stark looked at each other, then shook their heads at the same time.
"It is not that simple."
"Remember the conversation between the judge and Sylvie from moments ago."
"It seems that the true mastermind behind everything, who controls the TVA from the shadows, may be hiding in a place connected to this Void!"
[The screen continues.]
[Inside the underground shelter, several Lokis sat in a circle, and even Alligator Loki had been placed inside a basin.]
["...After I defeated Captain America and Iron Man, I obtained unimaginable spoils."]
[Boastful Loki bragged about his previous achievements.]
["All six Infinity Stones!"]
[Hearing this, Alligator Loki opened his mouth and quietly growled.]
[Classic Loki nodded and smiled.]
["The alligator says in crocodile language that you are a liar."]
[Boastful Loki became somewhat embarrassed when he heard this, so he stared at Alligator Loki and said:]
["At least I was not pruned because I ate the neighbor's cat."]
[Alligator Loki became furious, crawled out of the basin, and bit Boastful Loki's hand.]
["Ow!!!"]
[Seeing the man fighting with the crocodile, Classic Loki hurried over, removed Alligator Loki from his hand, and returned him to the basin.]
[Loki stood beside them in astonishment.]
[At this moment, Kid Loki, who sat high upon the throne, pointed toward Classic Loki and said:]
["Loki, tell your story."]
["Me?"]
[Leaning against the chair, Classic Loki looked dejected.]
["No one wants to hear my story."]
[Loki: "Actually, I would like to hear it."]
["I have been thinking about it constantly, because..."]
[Loki's expression became more serious as he looked at the several Lokis around him: "We should be dead, should we not?"]
["Thanos killed all of us after Ragnarok."]
["Thanos..."]
[Classic Loki slowly spoke that name. It seemed that he finally became somewhat more alert.]
["On my timeline, everything went well, and my entire life was normal."]
["Until Thanos attacked our ship."]
[Loki flinched when he heard this and quickly asked: "Did you not try to kill him?"]
[Classic Loki smiled: "Of course I did not."]
[Looking at the several Lokis around him, Classic Loki said:]
["My friends, without intending to offend you, your weapons are worthless compared with Loki's magic."]
["Using weapons prevents us from realizing the full potential of our magic."]
[Boastful Loki, who held Mjolnir, quietly said: "But those weapons make us look fantastic."]
["Yes, you are right."]
[Classic Loki sarcastically said: "Especially while someone is strangling you, those weapons truly look very powerful."]
[Then he looked at Loki and seriously said:]
["At that time, I created an extremely convincing projection of myself. I even managed to deceive Thanos."]
["Then I pretended to be dead among the pile of corpses. That was the only way I managed to save my life."]
[Seeing that Classic Loki had managed to escape Thanos's massacre using magic, Loki's expression became serious.]
[While watching the recording from the TVA, he had also seen his own future.]
[If he had any choice, Loki wanted at all costs to avoid the scene in which Thanos strangled him to death from happening again.]
["After faking my death, I wandered through the universe."]
["I stayed away from Thor, away from everything."]
[Classic Loki's expression continuously changed. His feelings were obviously extremely complicated.]
["While wandering, I thought about my role in the universe."]
["And then I suddenly realized that wherever I went, I brought only pain."]
["Therefore, I decided to disappear. I went alone to a distant planet, where I lived completely alone and remained there for a very, very long time."]
In the live broadcast room, Loki's face at this moment became extremely dark.
"You bring pain wherever you go, idiot, because your life has been predetermined."
Loki gritted his teeth.
"If your life deviates from that painful path, some TVA guards will appear, prune you, and send you into the Void!"
Seeing Loki gritting his teeth, Tony and Strange exchanged glances and saw helplessness in each other's eyes.
It truly was very tragic to be bound by this terrifying Sacred Timeline.
"Fortunately, although my life has had several ups and downs, it has not yet become so miserable."
Tony quietly muttered several words and slightly shrugged.
[The image continues.]
[Loki asked: "How did the TVA find you?"]
[Classic Loki quietly replied: "I was too lonely."]
[When he said this, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.]
["Honestly speaking, I missed my brother."]
["I wondered whether he, or anyone else, might also be thinking about me."]
["But just as I intended to leave that planet, the people from the TVA appeared."]
[The expression on Classic Loki's face became somewhat helpless.]
["Because, my dear friend, we Lokis can play only one role."]
["The role of the God of Outcasts."]
[After saying this, Classic Loki raised the glass in his hand.]
["To the God of Outcasts. Cheers."]
[Boastful Loki raised his glass, and even Kid Loki on the throne raised his drink.]
[Seeing them like this, Loki shook his head and stood up from his seat.]
["I have to go."]
["Oh, where are you going?"]
["I am leaving this place, escaping this Void, and returning to the TVA," Loki decisively said.]
["Some of us Lokis are very good at surviving and escaping. Therefore, my chances of success are high."]
[Classic Loki coldly said:]
["You are not good at surviving or escaping. You will be torn into pieces."]
[Loki fiercely said: "Then I will accept that too! That is my destiny."]
[Kid Loki, who sat on the throne, looked somewhat surprised: "You seem different from us."]
[Hearing this, Loki immediately turned around and said to the several Lokis around him:]
["No! I am not different from you at all."]
["But did you know that a female Loki exists?"]
[Classic Loki: "That sounds terrifying."]
["Yes, she truly is terrifying."]
[Loki excitedly nodded: "But that is exactly what makes her attractive."]
["Sylvie is different from us. She does not want to take over the TVA, but to completely bring it down. And she needs me!!!"]
Watching Loki on the screen confidently point his thumb toward himself, Loki was completely stunned.
With such confidence, it seemed as though he had everything under control.
He was not worried about failure at all, nor was he even afraid of death.
Was that person truly him?
Did this mean that he could truly defeat the curse of Loki's destiny?
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