The smell in the crater was not pleasant.
The stench of scorched earth mingled with the sulfurous odor of molten meteorites, enough to make an ordinary person dizzy before long.
Fury pinched his nose and looked helplessly at the calm-faced Jino.
An alien "invasion" of Earth should have been a serious, terrifying matter.
Yet the way Jino told it, it really sounded like some absurd, melodramatic family drama.
A rebellious son, a rigid father.
Well, Fury did not know what to say for a moment.
"But honestly."
Jino winked at Fury and pointed at Mjolnir in the crater. "Why not give it a try? Maybe you'll seize the God of Thunder's power and become a god?"
"Think about it—commanding thunder and defending Earth!"
Fury shrugged. "Tony already tried it. He failed, and I don't think I'm the exception."
Jino was not disappointed that he had failed to fool Fury.
As they spoke, the blond, muscular man lying in the crater suddenly stiffened, kicked his legs, and snapped his eyes open.
"Father!"
He sprang to his feet, then slid forward and dropped to his knees. Throwing back his head at the night sky, he roared, "Why?!"
Like Hamlet in Hamlet, the man cried out in agony as a tear rolled down from the corner of his eye.
His sincere display of emotion did not move any of them. After all, who could take a six-foot-tall musclebound man seriously when he was kneeling there, bawling his eyes out with snot and tears all over his face?
Then, the grown man seemed to notice the strange looks around him.
He raised his head and looked around.
The four of them met each other's gazes and fell into an awkward silence.
Awkwardness—capital-A Awkwardness—filled the air.
Then, under the gazes of the other three, Thor