[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

"die?!"

"Desire" sucked in a breath of cold air, his figure gradually became transparent between the black mountains and white waters, and he was about to disappear successfully——

"Since you're here, why leave without saying goodbye?"

The bright and cheerful black-haired girl grabbed "Desire" who was about to run away, with a friendly and lovely smile: "Don't be afraid, death is absolutely fair to all things."

"but you--"

"Desire" was terrified, because the other party was "death", and because of what he had done.

"I will always treat every life fairly."

The black-haired girl who was the incarnation of "Death" looked at "Desire" with gentle and bright eyes: "Whether it is a god, a human being, or a single-celled creature."

"I--"

"What are you afraid of?"

"Death" looked at "Desire" sincerely: "All living things are afraid of death, because the world after death is an eternal unknown to living things, and creatures are always full of fear and imagination about the unknown world.

But you, 'Desire', you are my family, you understand death better than anything in the world, and you also understand that you are an eternal existence, why are you still showing fear at this moment?What are you afraid of? "

"I...I...I don't want to talk to you! I'm leaving!"

"Desire" throws out the setting of "desire always appears suddenly and disappears suddenly", and tries to disappear again before "death" can answer.

"Death" did not stop him this time, and calmly watched "Desire" disappear from the dead Asgard.

Matthew didn't understand the active appearance of "Death" and the behavior of "Death" indulging "Desire" to escape from Asgard after death, so he asked puzzledly, "Why didn't you keep him?"

"He wants to leave here, why do I have to keep him?"

"Death" asked Matthew with a smile.

His eyes are so gentle, and his smile is so sincere, like a girl next door, without the chilling and cold imagery that is ubiquitous in the imagination of death.

Matthew couldn't help but stared blankly. After a long time, he came back to his senses: "You look completely different from what I imagined."

"What do you imagine me to be like?"

"Death" asked Matthew with interest: "Dark? Cold? Harsh? Cruel? Full of blood and violence?"

"It's not that exaggerated, but it's not too bad. After all, I grew up in Gotham..." Matthew stammered, "I never thought that death could be so gentle and lovely... like the girl next door... ...In the traditional culture of the earth, death is always associated with sadness, cold, and darkness..."

"Death is dark indeed, but so is the origin of all things—"

Speaking of this, "Death" put his hands behind his back, made a cute gesture common to girls next door, and circled around Matthew: "The ape-man civilization on earth has initially possessed the ability to leave the earth to explore the universe, help your scientists discover 90.00% of the universe is in darkness, and less than one percent is illuminated by light."

"Yes, the essence of the universe is darkness, and the source of life is also darkness, but the intelligent civilization born on the earth needs light. Whether it is the ape-man civilization that dominates now or the lizard civilization a billion years ago, light is the wisdom civilization of the earth. necessities of life, so we praise light and hate darkness, and therefore fear everything that has to do with darkness, such as death—”

Matthew's voice trembled when he said these words.

Even though he knew from the very beginning that the "death" in front of him was just one of the concretized forms of the "death" of the endless family, not the real "death" of the complete body.

"Death" also noticed Matthew's subtle emotions, smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Are you interested in traveling with me?"

"Hurry up? Where are you going?"

"Your destination, the volcano in front."

"Death" said with a cheerful smile.

Matthew: "We went to the volcano to..."

"You want to get out of here, thinking that the crater might be a shortcut."

"Yes……"

Matthew nodded...

"Death" smiled and said: "You are wrong. To leave here, the shortcut is not to find the so-called way to the outside world, but to get my approval. Death is everywhere, and only those who are approved by death can leave the territory of death." .”

"so--"

"Will you come with me?"

"Death" issued another invitation.

He is one of the most powerful eternal gods, even if it is only a round of concrete form, it still has unparalleled power.

But He is also the most gentle and fair god, never forcing anyone to do anything they don't want to do, and will still invite the most ordinary mortals with a smile, without any threat or coercion.

Matthew felt the sincerity of "Death", nodded, and accepted the invitation of "Death".

Together they quickly catch up to Captain America, Thor, and Loki ahead.

"Hey……"

"Hey!"

Loki's eyes were sharp, and his eyes quickly fell on "Death": "This beautiful girl is—"

"He is—"

"I am the eternal friend of all things, death."

"Death" calmly introduced his identity to everyone.

Hearing this, before Captain America and Thor turned around, Loki was already shaking: "What are you! Death! You are Death! My God! Death is actually a girl! And she looks like..."

"God can also be a girl, and gender is the shell for us..." "Death" said indifferently, "Our images are different in different planetary religious belief environments."

"Doesn't that mean that the way I see you is what you most likely look like in my heart?" Captain America asked half-comprehensively.

Like Loki and Thor, he can't accept that death is actually a lively and lovely girl.

"In order to avoid communication conflicts, when I appear in front of living beings of different beliefs and races at the same time, I will use my general image. What you see now is actually my general image."

Speaking of this, "Death" looked back at Matthew: "Of course, when I appear in front of the person who is about to die, I usually turn into the image he/she desires to see most in his/her heart, so as to reduce his/her fear of death , as the last tenderness."

"Gentleness? Death is gentleness?"

Loki felt unacceptable and shook his head vigorously: "I don't believe it! I don't believe that death can be described as gentle! If death is really gentle, why would Hela become the goddess of death! She is so harsh, fierce and cunning—"

"Death, which was born in the imagination of human belief, has nothing to do with me..." "Death" interrupted Loki gently, explaining, "I only represent 'death' itself, and have nothing to do with any religion or thought."

"Uh……"

Loki choked.

The rough-headed Thor still patted his younger brother on the shoulder and said, "Oh! Loki! Unexpectedly, you, who are the best at sophistry, will sometimes be deflated!"

"To shut up!"

Loki blurted out.

Thor closed his mouth obediently, and turned his head to look at "Death": "I...I want to ask a question..."

"About Frigg?"

"Yes, about Frigg."

Thor nodded painfully.

Loki's eyes welled up with tears because of the name.

Brother God looked at "Death" with longing eyes, and asked tremblingly, "When Frigga went to eternity, whose image did you use to greet her?"

"What do you say?"

"Death" asked God brother back.

Both Thor and Loki fell silent.

"She was perfect when she left, she was gentle and perfect." "Death" said slowly, "'Destiny' and I should turn her into light at her request, shining on your life path."

"What did you say!"

The answer of "death" shocked Loki, his hands trembled like he had Parkinson's: "Why did this happen! Mom...she...why did she treat us so well! Frigg...Frigga..."

"Loki, don't feel bad, Frigga is just... just..."

Thor tried to comfort Loki, but he was also in pain and blamed himself at the moment, and tears crawled down his cheeks as he spoke.

Seeing Brother God burst into tears because of his "death", Captain America can finally be sure that this bright, breezy and somewhat rebellious girl in front of him is the gentle god in charge of all things.

He couldn't help asking her the question that had been on her mind ever since the ice layer unsealed: "Bucky...my good friend Bucky...he...he..."

"He has not yet become a resident of Minecraft."

"Death" gently told the US team: "He is still alive, in another corner of the world."

"Really?"

"Death need not deceive anyone."

"Thank you! Thank you!"

The US team held the hands of "Death" with great excitement, and the simple and honest face was full of emotion.

……

The team continued on, towards the crater.

Halfway through, Loki came back to his senses and stopped: "We are now walking with 'death' in the kingdom of death. Why do we have to climb a distant crater to find a way out of here?"

"Because 'Death' wants to know what you're willing to pay to get out of here."

"Death" said playfully, with an amiable smile.

Loki but—

"I think you're playing tricks on us!"

He even had serious doubts and dissatisfaction with Matthew, grabbed Matthew by the collar, and roared: "Everything is your trick, isn't it! You deliberately let me fall into the world of death, and then put them Get it here too!

In the end even 'death' became our fellow traveler!You don't actually want us to get out of here!

You are the real 'death', right!So Imerton is so deferential to you!

And those demons!They all hate you and fear you at the same time!The commander of the undead knight bows down to you!

For you are death itself!Of course death can rule over everything related to death!And strike fear into all living beings who realize who you are!right! "

"You overestimate me."

Matthew said helplessly, pulling away Loki's hands clenched on the collar: "So far, I don't know anything about my truth."

"Know nothing?"

Loki didn't believe Matthew's words, and asked sharply: "How is it possible! How could you know nothing about yourself! There are so many unusual things about you!"

"There are many unusual things about you, are you not sure what you are?"

Matthew asked Rocky ruthlessly, and asked Rocky to let go of himself immediately.

Loki reluctantly let go of Matthew, and said to "Death", "Did I get too excited just now?"

"Full of anger and uneasiness towards the unknown is the inertia of living beings..." "Death" said, "Excitement shows that you still have great enthusiasm for the living world, and you are not yet ready to accept death."

"What? Prepare to accept death? I...I..."

Loki was shocked: "I don't want to die! I haven't lived enough! I haven't got what I want! I—"

"I didn't say that you will die, I just objectively evaluate your current mental state."

"Death" looked at Loki tenderly: "Death treats all life in the world equally."

"I... I don't want to treat people equally! I want to live! Live for a long time! Live to the last moment of time!"

Loki, who was extremely resistant to death, shouted excitedly.

He hates death, and he doesn't want to die anytime!

He likes to live, even if he is wandering in hell, he wants to live!

"Is this your hope? To continue living no matter what happens when?"

"Death" looked at Loki in surprise.

Loki's request seemed so stupid and ignorant to him, even pitiful and ridiculous.

Loki thought that "Death" agreed to his request, nodded firmly, and said, "Yes, I want to live, no matter when or what it becomes, I want to live! Live forever!"

"Won't you regret it? If I never come to you, you will live forever?"

"How could eternal life regret it!"

Loki blurted out.

When "Death" heard the words, the corners of his lips curled up with kindness and tenderness: "I agree to your request, and I will never appear in front of you until you take the initiative to summon me."

"really?"

Loki was surprised and delighted.

"Death" nodded affirmatively: "After leaving my territory, you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want. I will not appear in front of you unless you actively summon me and ask me to bring you back to death."

"awesome!"

Loki clenched his fists excitedly.

A fleeting sadness flashed in the eyes of "Death".

He has seen the future and also witnessed Loki's death.

……

After negotiating with "Death", Loki returned to Matthew again, looking at Matthew suspiciously: "Are you really not an incarnation of 'Death'?"

"Why are you always so keen to prove that I have a special relationship with 'death'? Because I seem to be inseparable from darkness?"

Matthew looked at Loki speechlessly: "Darkness is the true origin of all things, and all things are inseparable from darkness. I'm just more loyal to my feelings than most people."

"But you are indeed very different. You are full of..."

Loki frowned, thought for a long time, and finally thought of the right words: "Ancient! You are full of ancient flavors! Although everything comes from darkness, you are the only one with the ancient, primitive dark flavor, and you It can merge with the original darkness, and all kinds of substances derived from the darkness get along very well with you... Well, I know what Thor, the idiot, will say next! He will say—”

"Brother, you really think too much."

Thor couldn't bear to interrupt Loki's chatter: "I'm not stupid, I'm just lazy—"

"I know, you are stupid, and you are lazy."

Loki interrupted and distorted Thor's words confidently, overjoyed: "Speaking of which, Thor, have you ever thought about why?"

"Why? What why?"

Thor was confused.

Loki: "Why do we come to the territory of death to find things?"

"Matthew sensed that Hulk is here, we are here to take Hulk back..." Thor said frankly, "Hulk is our good friend."

"Now you are added..." Captain America said coldly, "Although I don't like you very much, you are Thor's younger brother after all."

"He's adopted," Thor interrupted.

"Well, you're adopted, but that doesn't seem to matter at all?"

Captain America shrugged indifferently, and continued to appease Loki: "We are now collectively trapped in the territory of death, and we must be single-minded to have a chance to leave. No matter how much dissatisfaction you have with us in your heart, you should temporarily put down your dissatisfaction and work together with us , get through it, don't you?"

"I didn't intend to betray you in the territory of death. Even if you want to betray, you must have a suitable betrayal object and exchange of benefits, don't you?"

Loki defended himself eloquently.

As the god of sophistry, he knows how to gain benefits through the power of words.

As a simple and honest old man, the US team is naturally not Rocky's opponent, and Loki was speechless after a few sentences, so he could only nod with a wry smile.

Loki won the US team, and then launched an attack on Matthew: "Do you have any clues or guesses about your true identity?"

"I……"

"'Desire' needs you, 'Madness' also needs you, and 'Death' has a good time with you—not counting the last one, it seems that 'Death' can have a good time with anyone..."

Loki said to himself, "But Emerton once bowed down to you, the commander of the undead knight offered his allegiance to you, and the First Fallen is your creator, but most of the time you are not bound by the First Fallen. It can be seen from this that you are a special existence, the most special existence."

"Everyone is special in the eyes of those who love him. I am so, and so are you."

"But Imerton doesn't love you! He respects you! He even fears you!"

Loki narrowed his eyes and thought back to the 1000 years when he was sent to Northern Europe by the goddess Sheba: "The way he looks at you is very similar to the way the Nordic people look at me, worship, fear, and at the same time contain powerless horror! Can make a powerful living How could you not be an existence beyond the gods when the ancient Egyptian magician for thousands of years showed such eyes. What's more—”

"What's more?"

Captain America, Thor, and Matthew asked in unison.

Loki glanced at "Death" with a carefree attitude, and said slowly: "Besides, you are not ordinary."

"you……"

"I peeked at Matthew Pender's personal file. I also dealt with many demons and angels, and obtained quite a lot of precious first-hand information about you from them."

Loki boasted proudly: "There was an angel, let's say he was an angel, and he lost a bet with me while drinking, and was forced to pay off his gambling debt with a secret that is said to be known only to the Supreme God, Michael, and him.

He said he was once ordered to deliver a baby with a reversed cross on a stormy night to the door of the Catholic Church in Gotham. "

"Why?" Matthew asked, "Why put a reversed cross on the baby?"

"When Michael handed over the child to him, the child already had a reversed cross..." Loki said happily, "I suspect that this child is actually the child of Lucifer, whom Michael loves and hates the most. .Of course, we all know that angels are energy bodies. They don't have human organs, and they can't conceive and give birth like humans, so..."

"So what?"

Matthew asked eagerly.

Loki showed a smirk: "It is said that Michael cut off Lucifer's wings when he left the kingdom of heaven, which proves that Lucifer has been abandoned by the Supreme God. Although after entering hell, Lucifer grew new wings on his back, But who can guarantee that Michael won't use the severed Lucifer's wings to create something? For example, a child related to Lucifer?"

"You want to say that I'm a child Michael made with Lucifer's wings?"

"It's just a sudden guess, don't think too much."

Seeing that Matthew was aroused by himself, Loki, who deliberately provoked trouble, began to pretend to be a good guy again, and used the trick of playing hard to get to lure Matthew to think deeper.

Matthew -

After thinking about it, he realized that he almost fell into Loki's trap.

"Loki, thank you for the information you provided. They seem to be very useful. When I return to this world, I must ask Michael or Lucifer." Matthew said politely.

"It's an honor to be able to help you."

Loki, who was once again seen through the trick, said reluctantly.

Matthew smiled and looked at "Death": "Why have we been spinning in circles since 10 minutes ago?"

"Because there are new students ahead, you are not ready to welcome the new students."

"Death" raised his hand and pointed to the crater that seemed to be within reach: "In this world, every large-scale volcanic eruption will bring disaster to a large number of living beings, but in the world of death, volcanoes are a symbol of new life. Only the dead can enter the volcano and go to their own new life.

And you, you are not the dead who need to be reborn through the volcano, you are the living who entered the world of death for special reasons—that is, you, Matthew—naturally, you cannot enter the volcano that guides the dead to rebirth. "

"In that case, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Loki muttered dissatisfiedly: "Tell the truth earlier, we don't have to waste time wandering around the crater!"

"You didn't ask, how do I know you don't know?"

"Death" smiled softly, looked up, and looked at the crater where the smoke suddenly stagnated, with happiness in his eyes: "The volcano is about to erupt! A new round of life is about to be born!"

"what?!"

Loki was shocked, and grabbed Thor reflexively: "Hurry up and wave your hammer and take me away from this dangerous place!"

"But--"

"No but! Take me away!"

Loki, who obviously holds a vital secret, frantically urges Thor who is in a daze.