"What nonsense are you talking about?" Valkyrie asked with an intrigued smile. "He's connected to beasts too?"
"You didn't know?" Loki raised an eyebrow in surprise, a smile curling at his lips. "That makes it even more interesting."
"Stop changing the subject, Loki.
What exactly is wrong with Banner?"
"There's something wrong with him."
"A big problem," Volstagg added seriously.
"Impossible. No one is more reliable than Banner."
"Thank you, Thor," Banner said appreciatively. "I didn't expect you to trust me that much."
"Don't misunderstand. The problem you mean might not be the same problem we mean." Valkyrie explained helplessly. "The problem we're talking about is... luck."
"Luck? How is that a problem?"
"Luck itself isn't a problem. The problem is that his luck is too good." Volstagg explained, "When we ran into those patrolling skeleton soldiers in the city, we had to find ways to avoid them. If we really couldn't, we had to pick up weapons and fight."
"But he didn't seem to have to deal with that. He always passed right by those skeleton soldiers.
Whenever he walked down a street, a patrol would happen to turn onto another street. This didn't happen once or twice—it happened several times."
"Just a coincidence!" Thor said dismissively.
"Twice." Volstagg held up two fingers. "He was discovered twice. The first time, a lone skeleton soldier spotted him. I was just about to save him when a flower pot fell from upstairs and landed right on that skeleton's head."
"The other time, he was discovered by a patrol of skeleton soldiers.
But when those skeleton soldiers raised their swords to kill him, Loki's statue suddenly collapsed and crushed them all."
"Wait, my statue?" Loki's mouth twitched. "I thought Hela had torn it down long ago!"
"She did, but she only tore