Rimuru's lips twitched, but looking at Odin's wrinkled, stern, dignified face now, he somehow felt it had gained a few more shameless qualities.
"Fine. Since we're within the Nine Realms, our next moves are bound to intersect with Thor—"
Rimuru raised a brow. Seemingly thinking of something, he suddenly wore an amused smile. "Giving him some guidance won't be a problem, and helping him grow is even less so. But let's be clear—I won't protect him. You know your son's personality better than anyone..."
Guidance and fostering growth were not things only a teacher could provide. Just think of Red Fox... then you would understand that only enemies made the best catalysts.
Rimuru would not specifically devise anything to target Thor. Frankly speaking... Thor was not worthy of that.
But Thor truly was stubborn to the bone. Leaving aside his obstinacy, his ideals were also vastly different from Rimuru's. Rimuru genuinely did not think the two of them could coexist peacefully.
To say nothing else, the simplest way for Rimuru to obtain the Reality Stone would be to swallow Thor's girlfriend along with the stone after something happened to her...
Think about it. If someone ate your girlfriend, wouldn't you go insane?!
Still, as a future king, how could he be trapped by love? Right?
Rimuru glanced toward his own team and silently crossed that thought out—well, perhaps a king also needed someone behind him to offer support.
"Is that so? Then I have one more presumptuous request."
"Hiss, old man, aren't you asking a bit too much?! Could you at least settle the bill first? Like some Asgardian treasures or something..."
"I hope to spend my final days in Midgard. I ask that you permit it, Guardian of Midgard."
"...Huh?" Only then did Rimuru remember that there did indeed