"Usurp the throne?" Wanda said uneasily.
"No, reclaim what was mine to begin with." Hela corrected her. "I am Asgard's eldest princess, the first in line to inherit the throne.
"I made tremendous contributions to Asgard's conquest of the Nine Realms, yet all I received was a seal that kept me in darkness for thousands of years. Is that fair?"
Wanda had no answer. "What are you planning to do with Thrór and Loki? They are your brothers, after all."
"That depends on whether they know what's good for them." Hela smiled meaningfully, then looked at Aaron. "I'm going back to Asgard. I'm going to kill that old bastard myself."
"You can leave whenever you want."
"You think I couldn't leave? Don't tell me you thought I spent all this time in Midgard lazing around in your house?"
Aaron shrugged indifferently. "While I was gone, you definitely used my compass to go out. More than once, too."
Hela neither confirmed nor denied it. "Midgard is at the center of the Nine Realms. When the Convergence of the Nine Realms occurred, it created quite a few hidden passages to other worlds.
"You may not have paid much attention to them, but I can sense Asgard's power and accurately locate passages leading there.
"With the divine power of the Goddess of Death, controlling and concealing a spatial tunnel isn't difficult."
"Besides the tunnel, I found some other good things too." Hela looked at Aaron with an amused smile. "Want to know?"
"Mm... no."
"What a pity."
"You wouldn't tell me anyway."
"I would. Before I leave, I might as well honor the... friendship between us.
"These past few years have been very relaxing. The exhaustion and repression of thousands of years have finally been released."
"You're welcome. You did sign a contract,