章 637: Contradiction and reconciliation

"We have a sanctuary that was built by the ancestors in the past! But if this place falls, our last remaining hideout is the Bifrost! But I suppose it was our only option as we couldn't stay on Asgard after that! Hela draws her power from Asgard, and as long as Asgard is still standing, there is no way she would lose!" Heimdall said as he talked directly into Dio's mind.

"Thor sad!" Hulk said as he looked at Thor's lonely figure.

"Shut up!" Thor said as he didn't want to hear it from the Hulk!

"Thor stop sad!" Hulk said as he ignored Thor and nudged him a little. The Hulk wasn't easy to be understood, but this time it was clear that he didn't want Thor to be sad. Still, Hulk didn't know how to calm Thor in the right way.

"Away from me, you stupid oaf! I am angry! I lost my father, I lost my hammer, and I lost my home, my brother! In case you didn't know, I even lost an eye!" Thor said as he kicked things around his feet.

"Thor cry like a baby!" Hulk said as he spread his arm like he was waiting for Thor to hug him.

"You aren't listening! You are a terrible friend!" Thor frowned as he looked away from the Hulk.

"You are a bad friend!" the Hulk said as if he didn't know what it meant.

"Do you know what we call you? We call you the Stupid Avenger! Do you know that?" Thor said hostilely.

"You are the trash avenger!" The Hulk said annoyedly. The Hulk then lifted some steel on the side and smashed it on the wall! Fortunately for Thor, he immediately dodged Hulk's attack. Otherwise, he would be caught in as a casualty.

"Are you crazy? You know what, you are right! Everyone on Earth does hate you!" Thor angrily said with some more ill words to Hulk, but after hearing such a sentence, the Hulk threw the steel that he got earlier and hammered his chest with a loud roar, but surprisingly, he didn't attack Thor! But the Hulk just sulks on the side as he didn't want to talk to Thor anymore.

It was like a kid that just got scolded and sulked on the corner of his room! But the Hulk was a naïve person as he had the personality of a child.

Seeing the Hulk's reaction, Thor felt a little bad. "Sorry, I went too far!" Thor said with a sigh. "You aren't the stupid Avenger. No one calls you that!" Thor said as he tried to cheer Hulk again.

"I don't care!" Hulk said as he was still sulking on the corner.

"You know, you can't just throw things at people. You almost killed me earlier!" Thor said with a laugh.

"I am sorry, I have always been angry! Hulk is always angry!" The Hulk said as he looked at Thor with a solemn expression. Thor was a little bit startled as this was the first time that he heard the Hulk apologizing!

"I understand. I guess we are just a pair of idiots here!" Thor said with a sigh as he sat beside the Hulk.

"Hulk is fire, Thor is water!" Hulk said as he tried to summarize his feeling.

"We are all fire!" Thor said as he disagreed with Hulk's view.

"Hulk is the fire, Angry is fire! Thor's fire is different!" Hulk said as he tried to reason with Thor. Thor just smiled helplessly, but still, Thor felt like his relationship with Hulk would get better from now on.

"Hey listen! I need you to do me a favour, Hulk!" Thor said solemnly. But before Thor could say anything else, a voice was heard from outside.

"Listen to me! Things don't have to be so troublesome!" the voice said. Thor stood up and immediately saw two people walking inside the room, one of them was Valkyrie, the one who sold him to the Grandmaster, while the other one was Dio! But Thor didn't recognize Dio's current face. All he knew was that the man who came in with Valkyrie this time was also there on the day of the Championship, and that man was in the Grandmaster's private room that day!

Should Thor ask the Hulk to get rid of this man and force the Grandmaster to submit? The idea was there on Thor's head, but before he could do anything, he was startled!

"Hey! Have you called Heimdall yet? It took a while to save you this time, but fortunately, the flow of time in this place is completely different from the outside world, so you don't need to worry about Asgard!" Dio said casually.

"Are you Dio?" Thor said as he was unsure, but the man's dialect resembled Dio too much!

"Sure I am! This is a little trick that I usually use when adventuring outside!" Dio said as he reverted his appearance back to normal.

"It really is you! Hahaha," Thor said as he was relieved to see Dio again. He immediately hugged Dio even though Dio immediately frowned and looked at Thor in disgust out of the skin-to-skin contact.

"Tell me what's going on!" Valkyrie said as she was confused by the current situation. So, Dio then told Valkyrie all about his identity that she needed to know. "So, your real name is Dio?" Valkyrie said as he glanced towards Dio.

"Yes, it wasn't such a complicated issue! Did you remember my story after conquering the Dark Elves?" Dio asked casually to Thor, and Thor immediately realised that this planet was the first planet Dio visited after conquering the Dark Elves!

"It was this planet, wasn't it!?" Thor said surprisedly.

"I have to say. You are getting smarter, Thor! That is right, I have been here before and participated in the Championship like you do, except my opponent at that time was too weak to my liking! However, the thousands of gladiators that come after Carol and me were reduced to mincemeat!" Dio said casually.

"Wait, you mean there is another person with you that time? Do you happen to be the legendary Phoenix Team that everyone worshipped in the past?" Thor asked curiously,

"Although I don't really want to remember about all that, yes, the Phoenix Team is Carol and me!" Dio said with an annoyed sigh.

"So, who is Carol?" Thor asked curiously.

"A friend, you will see her in a few days, so stop asking questions!" Dio said annoyedly.

After hearing Dio's word, Thor calmed down. He immediately realised that it wasn't a good time to ask a question and chat as Asgard was waiting for his return.

"Let's go save Asgard! But before that, help me get this thing off my neck!" Thor frustratedly said as he pointed to the black device on his neck.