"An investor?"
Odin's brow furrowed tightly.
He had lived for countless years, conquered the Nine Realms, and witnessed the rise and fall of life itself, yet he had never encountered anyone so absurd.
But he could clearly sense that Gungnir in his hand was being firmly suppressed by a force he could not comprehend at all.
That force did not belong to Divine Power, magic, or any known energy in this universe.
It was an incomprehensible existence.
"I don't care who you are." Odin's voice deepened, his single eye flashing with the majesty of the All-Father.
"Release my weapon. Then disappear from before me. Otherwise, I will regard you as an enemy of Asgard."
"Wow, big words." The smile on Xiao Han's face remained gentle.
"But before you make your move, may I ask a question first?"
Ignoring Odin's increasingly icy gaze, he continued, "You came to take your child home, didn't you?"
His gaze fell upon God King Loki, who was still kneeling on the ground, his mind on the verge of collapse.
Odin fell silent.
"Then tell me," Xiao Han spread his hands.
"After you take him back, can he truly go home?"
"He destroyed a world and slaughtered countless lives. Though he looks pitiful now, worthy of sympathy." Xiao Han's voice was soft.
"But sin was still sin."
"As the All-Father, as the guardian of the Nine Realms, can you pretend nothing happened? Can you ignore those souls he froze? You can't." Before Odin could speak, Xiao Han gave the answer for him.
"So after you take him back, what awaits him will still be judgment and imprisonment. You only want to move him from a small cage into a larger one. You still haven't thought about how to save him."
Odin's single eye suddenly narrowed, and