Side Story (3) : How Silly.

Loki looked at the book in front of him, specifically at the strange words in it.

"Now that you've studied the world of runes, do you want to know the last component of what made me smart enough to make this book?"

"Is it a secret or something?"

"It is. Just not a very well-guarded one. But where's the mystery in that. But…I have a secret that not even the teachers know about this world."

Loki was surprised by the last line.

'Is he being serious?'

'A secret about Beyonders that not even the teachers know?'

'That could only point to two things. Either he's talking about the chamber of secrets and something Salazar Slytherin left behind in it for his descendants, or it's about 'Her' and he wants to corrupt me.'

"Give me a moment. Sorry for ruining the mood, but I need to piss really quick. It's urgent." Loki wrote and paused.

".....Alright."

Loki sealed the book in a wall of spirituality using a purified silver knife he'd obtained from Kreacher and walked to the semi-official place of the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth Ritual, the washroom.

Entering the Sefirah Castle Loki pulled out his topaz pendulum and performed a simple divination.

"It is dangerous for me to know about whatever Tom Marvolo Riddle is trying to tempt me into knowing."

Repeating the sentence seven times, Loki opened his eyes and felt a little disappointed, the pendulum was spinning clockwise but just enough to show that it was spinning. It wasn't dangerous.

'Wait why am I disappointed?'

'No danger is the only good danger.'

Coming back down to his room, Loki walked back to Tom's diary before he wrote in it-

"I'm bac- wait a minute, I forgot to wash my hands, sorry."

Loki closed the book and sealed it for a minute before he left the book to wash his hands casually and walked back and opened the book with wet hands.

'Even if I'm using him, that doesn't mean I've to keep him comfortable.'

Loki reopened the book and wrote in it-

"Tell me, Tom, what's this secret of yours that not even the teachers at Hogwarts know?"

"Are you sure you want to know?"

"Of course, you're my senior, why wouldn't I want to know what a senior who's earned the Special Award for services to the school wants to tell me."

"Oh? You know about that?"

"I mean, I've polished the trophies at school in detention recently so don't worry about it."

"...sure, but this can't just be told to you. It's best if you see it directly."

"Wha-"

Before Loki could finish his words a bright light emerged from the book before it swallowed him whole.

Loki was about to resist and use the several abilities of the Ring of Harvest, but he trusted his divination in the Sefirah Castle and went with it.

Besides, he had a backup plan that he'd set up when he was washing his hands in the bathroom in case something like this happened.

Loki's vision shifted as he saw the world before him change when he suddenly found himself trapped in a colourful memory.

"Tom?" Loki asked looking at the school student Tom was.

Loki walked up to him and tried placing his hand on his shoulder but it pushed through it, much like his own illusions.

"I guess you aren't here?" Loki voiced out in an attempt to sound stupid.

Finally, Loki observed the room he was in and found Tom was serving detention with a young professor Loki couldn't quite recognise. But Loki didn't have to wait long.

"Professor Slughorn, I've heard things."

"What have you heard my boy?" the young professor asked looking away from the letter he was reading.

"Things about Magic not being the end. You know how it is in Slytherin, those nobles think they're better than the rest. It was just their conversations that I overheard."

Professor Slughorn's eyes widened slightly before he paid full attention to Tom.

"What exactly did you hear?"

"They were talking about how in a few experiments they encountered new powerful Beyonders they do not recognise?"

Slughorn's eyes widened for a moment before they sharpened as he looked at Tom with an absolutely serious gaze, "Could you tell me who they were Tom?"

"....to invite to your parties Professor?"

"No. Tom this is something that goes beyond fun."

Tom nodded as he saw the seriousness in Slughorn's eyes and spoke calmly, "Felix Malfoy and Asmon Lestrange Professor."

Slughnorn nodded and spoke quickly, "Your detention is dismissed for tonight Tom. I hope you go back to your room. I will introduce you to the dangerous world of Beyonders tomorrow. I never intended to hide it from you, in fact, I wanted to do it today, but things have taken a rather unexpected turn. Make sure you don't step out of your room tonight, is that okay Tom?"

Loki's vision shifted and he was kicked out of the book he was absorbed into.

Loki was calm and rational and pulled out a pen to scribble into Tom's book.

"Was that all?"

But there was no response from the book.

'He's pretending to be dead so that the mystery builds and I ask him how to become a Beyonder?'

'Does he want to make me a Beyonder too?'

'What's with all these random people in my life that all want me to become a Beyonder?'

'Was he lying to me when he told me that he knew about something that even the teachers did not know about?'

Loki sealed the book and walked to the bathroom where his shadow pet climbed back into the ring from the shadow of the bathtub.

Loki performed the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth to enter the Sefirah Castle and performed a simple divination.

"Tom lied to me about showing me information that not even the teachers knew anything about."

Loki repeated the statement seven times and the result was in front of him.

The pendulum was spinning clockwise.

'The heck?'

Loki thought for a bit and then realised the only other information revealed to him was about the 'new' Beyonders.

'New Beyonders?'

'Probably refers to their pathways…'

'And if they're not the traditional nineteen of this world they're the Lord Of The Mysteries Pathways?'

'Possible…but Walburga would've known about it if that was the case.'

'Unless 'Adam' did something to wipe it out of common memory?'

'But if that was the case Tom shouldn't know anything about it.'

'So it's a 'new' pathway out of the standard twenty-two.'

'A pathway from an outer god?'

Loki was confused a little and then he realised.

'He's just talking about 'Her'?'

'So he wants me to become a Beyonder dedicated to 'Her'.'

'All this just for that?'

'How silly.'

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