In Asgard.
"Ragnarok, what's that?"
Looking at the 'Destruction of Asgard' on-screen, Thor, with all his hair and beard, roared like a furious lion.
"Who is it? Who destroyed Asgard? Is it Thanos? I must kill him!"
Looking at his furious son, Odin lightly sighed.
"Calm down, Thor; it has nothing to do with Thanos."
Seeing Thor look at himself with a puzzled face, Odin spoke with a bit of helplessness.
"It's all my responsibility. I've spent my whole life trying to stop her, but once my time comes... She will emerge from Hell."
Before, after seeing himself disappear as a golden ray of light, Odin had already suspected, but now he was completely sure.
"Who? From Hell?"
Thor was all ears.
"It's Hela, the Goddess of Death."
Looking at Thor, Odin seemed to have aged a bit.
"That's my eldest daughter ... your sister."
"Sister!?"
Thor's expression suddenly changed. He could hardly believe his ears.
Wasn't he Odin's eldest son? Why was there suddenly another sister?
Odin calmly said...
"Before you were born, Hela had conquered the Nine Realms for me and gained a lot of battle achievements."
"But then her ambitions expanded beyond control. So, I had to lock her up."
"Once I die, the restraint on Hela will be broken, and then ..."
Odin's tone was full of worries. Thor suddenly laughed heroically.
"Hahahahaha, so that's how it is."
Waving Mjolnir in his hand, Thor spoke with carelessness.
"What is there to worry about? As King, you still have countless thousands of years left in you."
Looking at Thor's big grin, Odin smiled bitterly in his heart.
He had a faint feeling that he might not live long, so he held an enthronement ceremony to pass the throne of Asgard to Thor.
But looking at the information shown in the broadcasted future, his 'big day' will only come much earlier than expected!
What's more, the files Loki saw on the screen, even if only a few words, were enough to shock Odin.
Total planetary destruction!
The entire civilization was exterminated!
Even Odin had long been aware of the prophecy of the legendary Ragnarok. He didn't expect that ... this incident would actually have such horrific consequences!
But in addition to the shock, Odin felt puzzled.
What Hela wanted was to replace him and become the God-King of Asgard.
What was the point of destroying Asgard?
...
[The video continued.]
[Loki looked at the 'Destruction of Asgard' document, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely grave.]
[Then, he left the library with the file and went to the TVA's cafeteria.]
[Finding Moebius, Loki stated his conclusion as soon as he sat down.]
["He's hiding in apocalypses."]
[Loki directly reached for the salad Mobius was eating.]
["Let's say your salad is Asgard."]
[Loki took a bottle of salt.]
["I could go down to Asgard before Ragnarok causes its complete destruction, and I could do anything I want to."]
["I could... Let's say... push the Hulk off the Rainbow Bridge!"]
[Loki sprinkled salt into the salad.]
["And I could also! Um... set fire to the palace!"]
[Seeing his lunch was ruined like this, Mobius looked sad.]
["No... Just stop... Don't set fire to the palace...."]
["Do you understand?"]
[Loki excitedly said, "I can do whatever I want to do, and it would never matter..."]
["It wouldn't go against the dictates of the timeline, because..."]
[Loki took a juice box from Casey's table next to them and poured it into Mobius' salad.]
["The apocalypse is coming! Ragnarok! Surtur will destroy Asgard, no matter what I do."]
"Surtur?"
In Asgard, Thor's body shook as he listened, and a mad, murderous aura suddenly appeared in his eyes.
'So ... he destroyed Asgard?'
Raising Mjolnir, Thor roared up to the sky.
"Surtur! No matter where you hide, I will kill you, for Asgard!!!!"
Looking at Thor, whose eyes were red with murder, Odin shook his head gently and closed his eye.
'Forget it.'
That was it for this son; he couldn't control it.
...
[The video continued.]
["Ragnarok obliviates the salt. Ragnarok! There it is!"]
[Loki put the juice box in his hand to one side, with a satisfied smile on his face.]
["It doesn't matter, it could be any apocalypse, it could be a tidal wave, it could be a meteor, it could be a volcano or supernova."]
["If everything, and everyone around it, is destined for imminent destruction, then nothing that I say or do will matter... Because the timeline is not going to branch, cause it gets destroyed!"]
["Hence, the variant could be hiding in the apocalypse and doing whatever he wants. And we wouldn't know it!"]