'Their' Intentions.

Over the month Loki had grown to be more and more suspicious. It was all due to him remembering a single phrase Snape had uttered on the night he was corrupted.

'Because it is not time yet.'

Although Loki had skipped over the statement then, thinking it was a random thing Snape was using to brush away his question, a stray comment from Hermione made him reconsider.

A month earlier, Hermione was working with Loki on the newspaper when she asked Loki a simple question, "When are your new cards going to get ready!?"

"Why? Want them for your collection?" Loki teased.

Hermione blushed softly and she opened her mouth like a goldfish, "H- How!?"

"Haha~ Although you're terrible at the game, I know you love the designs on the cards. And don't you already know? I'm a bonafide Seer! Nothing can escape from my sight!"

"Arghh!!!" Hermione stomped her foot and looked away with folded arms, but then she eventually spoke in a mumble, "When are the cards going to be ready? I'm asking because I have to include a promotional article about it, not for myself."

Loki smiled, amused by the girl's audacity to attempt to do damage control so he said, "Not now."

"Why!?"

"Because it's not time yet.", Loki said words that reminded him of his conversation with Snape.

"Not time yet? What do you mean?"

"There's still a couple of months left for school to end, I just wanted to surprise everyone with the new cards during our last publication for this year."

"*sigh* fineeee~!"

Upon thinking about his conversation with Snape more carefully, Loki felt the gears in his head turn.

'So 'Adam' is waiting for something to happen? A special event?'

'Something that 'She' and the Aurora Order have planned to do?'

'What would Adam need from 'Her' and the Aurora Order though?'

The question had irritated Loki for a few days since he couldn't just use divination to figure out its solution by peeking at their lives, but when he did figure it out it left him at a loss for words.

'The answer was staring me right in the face all this time and I didn't notice it.'

'Tsk. I'm dumb.' Loki chided himself.

'Although it is still a guess and not something that I have concrete evidence to support, it makes the most sense. But it isn't like I'm trusting my reasoning blindly, there's something even more damning than evidence that backs my reasoning.'

Beads of sweat rolled off Loki's forehead as he looked out the window and toward the Whomping Willow.

'~Come to me…'

'~Come to me now….'

Loki turned his head away and went back to focusing on his work to make more cards for the Arcadia Royale. It was a hard task to constantly keep changing the meta of the game to keep players interested in the game.

Just a few weeks earlier, Loki had an idea for a new series of cards which he wanted to use to surprise the players of the game at the end of school.

Except his perfunctory plan shocked and scared him when he realised that one of the cards he was making rough sketched for included 'Her'.

One of the cards had the drawing of a fair maiden. One that seemed tempting and elusive to get.

The event reminded Loki about Klein's conversation with Emperor Roselle. It was the fact that Emperor Roselle had warned Klein about.

'His' warning for Klein to stay away from the Moon card, suspecting it was filled with corruption from Mother Goddess of Depravity.

The defiling seed that was planted into Loki's body had started to dig deeper without his knowledge.

Loki hadn't even realised when the seed in him had started twisting his thoughts and perception.

He had to get rid of it.

'But it isn't like I can just ask 'Her' to remove it like a good child and expect her to agree.'

A certain amount of anger was bubbling within Loki after he'd unlocked all the secrets about what the gods were doing this year.

'Nutters the lot of them are.'

'How could they decide to risk the lives of all the children at school to achieve their goals!?'

'Hogwarts is the safest place in the world!?'

'I'd have to be a daft cow to believe such a thing!'

'Even a True God! Salazar Slytherin bailed the second he was awoken!!! Running away from the very school he and his friends created!'

'You would expect child-risking behaviours from 'Her' and the maddened one-eyed Jesus since they're probably mad! But not from 'Adam' at least!'

'If only half the people knew about what he was trying to pull off at the school, parents would probably leave on a witch hunt to take his head!'

Calming himself by taking a deep breath, Loki introspected himself and checked on his potion digestion.

It had risen to a whopping Eighty-two per cent.

A total of forty per cent from before when it was only forty-two per cent.

This was the main reason Loki trusted his reasoning of how the events were playing out. It was only after he uncovered the secrets of the games the gods were playing out that his potion had digested to such an extent.

Thinking back to the time he had figured everything out, Loki made sure that nothing about his conclusion was wrong since his plan to take advantage of the Gods' games had already been set into motion.

A stray thought had been the first thing that had set off a cascading ripple.

'What if 'Adam' is not really the 'son' of the Ancient Sun God? In that case would the One-eyed Jesus and 'He' truly be on the same side?'

'Since 'Adam' has a clear history of being born in this world and he isn't some secretive 'god' that has lived for millennia.'

This thought inspired Loki to think back to what Professor Snape had casually said when Loki asked him why Dumbledore hadn't fixed the problem yet.

'Perhaps, because it is not time yet.'

"If I go with the theory that 'Adam' is not really the son of the Ancient Sun God, then that could mean they are on opposing sides? Perhaps, 'Adam' is waiting for the right opportunity to weaken One-eyed Jesus?"

"In that case, is he waiting for One-Eyed Jesus to descend? So that he can kill him and make him lose some of his Beyonder characteristics?"

"Or it could also be because 'Adam' is wondering exactly where the founders are. Perhaps he is simply waiting for 'Her' to find out and then stealing the information from her mind. Or maybe even setting up a deal to know about it."

Loki thought about it for a while, a serious frown marring his face, but then he slowly shook his head.

"No. That seems too simple. Although that might be his aim, he could do that in other ways too. For example, fighting the True Creator to weaken 'Him', why not just go directly to wherever his real body is kept and consume him after fighting him? I'm sure 'Adam' has more than enough 'friends' to be able to gang up on the guy who is currently suffering from madness…"

"And learning about the founder's location in the castle, he is literally the Headmaster of Hogwarts. I doubt that much about the castle could remain hidden from him if he truly wished. He probably already knows where they are. But he is unbothered by it or doesn't want to interfere in it."

"So, 'Adam's' aim is likely to find out to use this confrontation to earn something from the two others involved."

"Let's start with what the True Gods involved in this want. They likely want a way to regain their sanity because the method to do so is probably held by the founders, who have clearly not gone mad and still communicate with their pathway Beyonders."

"But what would 'Adam' do in this?"

"If he's waiting for the right time, it is possible he expects them to fail so that he can be the sole provider of a solution for those gods. This means the right time to step into the situation for 'Him' is when the True Gods give up chasing after the method to regain their sanity from the founders."

"Either way…things on this level are going to be dangerous and full of a key ingredient, madness. I've already suffered from the stray interest of one of 'Them', I don't want to be dragged into it further."

"All I need right now is the ability to fix myself."

As soon as Loki concluded this much, his potion was digested by about fifteen per cent. The rest of the twenty-five per cent was when he'd figured out about 'Her' involvement in these matters.

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A/N : We're close to a hundred powerstones, expect an extra chapter tomorrow!

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