Loki lay on the bed with her eyes half-closed. She turned her head away, not daring to look at Frigga's expression. She still felt somewhat guilty, but listening to Frigga curse Odin also gave her a certain satisfaction. Caught between the two emotions, she was deeply conflicted, just like all those people who had listened to Schiller before.
If a trap fooled people even after being set countless times, it naturally meant there was something ingenious about it. Loki thought this as she knew perfectly well that whatever Schiller offered her would surely be a rotten trick, yet she still could not resist wanting to see its effects.
The reason was that although Loki had begun considering the health of her future descendants, she still faced an urgent problem in the present: Frigga's pressure for her to marry. Loki did not truly want to attend that absurd matchmaking show. She needed an excuse to turn it down.
By then, Nick had already learned that Schiller had returned from the Death Realm, but he was extremely dissatisfied that Schiller had made Natasha skip work for so long. He demanded that Schiller pay the female agent's lost wages before collecting their two corpses, and guarantee that next time, he would not die so carelessly. At the very least, he had to arrange his work before dying.
Schiller could not be bothered arguing with Nick. He went straight to Loki and had her use illusions to fool S.H.I.E.L.D.'s security systems and steal their two corpses. Loki was already worrying over how to refuse the matchmaking event, so the two made a deal: Schiller would provide Loki with advice, and Loki would help Schiller retrieve the bodies.
Retrieving the bodies went smoothly, but the advice Schiller gave Loki could only be described as possessing