Japanese notes: [1] Ano… : Er…/ erm…
DISCLAIMER: Matantei Loki Ragnarok and its characters do not belong to me.
TEA TIME CHAT
CHAPTER 8 --- Freya (2)
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"What is it?" Koutarou pushed his chair back , rose and walked towards Mayura, curious as to what had made Mayura react so violently. He stopped behind Mayura, stretched his arms out to reach the table so that he could lean his weight against it. With Mayura trapped in between his outstretched arms, he bent down to read the book, his face just besides Mayura's.
Loki frowned. He was obviously displeased with Koutarou's body posture. "Kou-chan! If you want to read, just lift the whole book up! Mayura, pass it to him!" Loki glared at Koutarou, as if daring him to disobey his commands.
"Oh, okay…" Koutarou muttered, puzzled by Loki's reaction. He took the book into his own hands and started reading: "Freya offered gold in exchange for the Brisings' necklace, but the dwarves refused. Instead they wanted her to sleep with each of them. She agreed."
"That's totally immoral! To sell your own body for material goods! Papa often says that that is the most low-down act a person can do!" Mayura gushed in a reprimanding tone.
"Hmm… so that's what got you so mad…" Koutarou rubbed his chin. "This is what people who call a… slut…"
"What?!" Freya jumped up, insulted and angered, ready to pounce.
"Freyr's precious imouto did that? How can it be?! How could you??!!!" Freyr shot Freya an accusing look, feeling betrayed.
"Oniisama! You stay out of this!" Turning back to Mayura and Koutarou, she continued: "I… well, when a goddess takes a liking to something, she goes all out to get it. What's wrong with that? And the necklace really suits her. It's meant to be hers! This only proves that her beauty is greatly admired by all!"
"But selling your body for anything means that you do not know how to respect yourself! What's the point of being so beautiful then? When you don't even know how to treasure yourself?! I'd say she's an UGLY woman!!!" Mayura debated fiercely.
"I-I… But I…" Freya sputtered, but failed to come up with any good explanation for her actions.
"Looks like her open ways doesn't end there…" Koutarou interrupted, still holding on to the book.
Immediately, Mayura snatched the book back. "Her husband is Od, who disappeared mysteriously. Freya cried golden tears for him… gold again?! And she had a family?! A daughter?! Doesn't that mean that she cheated on her family? It says here that she had various lovers among gods and humans, but disdains the giants. She owns Hildesvini ("battle boar") which is actually her human lover, Ottar, in disguise…… I can't believe that she's such a loose woman! Doesn't she have any morals? Aren't gods supposed to respect moral values much more than humans?!" Mayura was totally put off and furious by now. "And earlier, I thought that she was a great female warrior. Now, she has disgraced us females totally!"
"That's nonsense! A bunch of lies!" Freya waved her arms wildly in protest, then turned to Loki. "Loki! Please don't believe what they'd said! I'm not like that at al! Although it's true that I married Od, but he disappeared on me. He let me down! And after he left, I fell in love with you and only you!! Please believe me! I truly love you!!!" She flung her arms around Loki, rubbing her cheek against his.
Choking, Loki struggled to push Freya away, while Mayura and Koutarou continued discussing about Goddess Freya, oblivious to their surroundings.
Freyr shouted in fury and anxiety, stomping his foot on the ground: "Let Freyr's sister go, Loki!"
"Ano[1]… what exactly are you doing? Miss… oh, I don't even know your name…" Mayura frowned.
"Don't-don't tell… the-them your real… na-name…"Loki, still trapped in Freya's hug, managed to get his words across to Freya.
Obeying, Freya replied happily with Loki close to her: "You can call me Reiya."
Loki almost collapsed at Freya's brainless answer. That answer is just as bad…
"Oh! You share the same name as Reiya-chan. What a coincidence!" Mayura smiled. "Fushigi mystery!" Then, she turned serious again. "I really can't agree with the ways of Freya."
"Me too. Even though she's so beautiful, I can't imagine having a girlfriend who goes around cheating on me." Koutarou shook his head. "What a waste…"
Freya was close to tears by now. "Loki! Look! They're bullying me! Humans! How dare they do that?!" She released Loki and spun around, an evil glint in her eyes.
Wasting no time, Loki recovered himself and pulled Freya away from Mayura and Koutarou, afraid that she might use her powers on them. However, Freya lost her balance and fell on Loki, which caused both of them to CRASH backwards onto the ground. Hard.
Everybody looked at the 2 fallen gods before turning their attention back to Mayura, who went back to reading the book.
"She had a reputation for sexual adventures, for which she was often berated a 'she-goat'…serves her right!" Mayura smirked.
"Daidouji… erm… you had better be careful with your words…" Narugami warned, glancing apprehensively at Freya, who had just regained her composure.
Completely ignoring him, Mayura went on. "Ah! Jashin Loki's name is in this paragraph! Let me see… Loki once stole the Brisings' necklace from Freya and hid it in the sea at a place called Singastein. However, it was rescued by Heimdall. Both gods disguised themselves as seals to fight for the necklace, but Heimdall emerged the winner."
"That's but of course!" Heimdall gave a triumphant smile.
"Right… I'd say that you were just lucky…" Loki picked himself off the ground and glared menacingly at Heimdall.
Heimdall's smirk widened in response. "Sore loser."
"You-" Loki tightened his fist, looking a bit chagrined.
BANG!
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Mayura slammed the book onto the table suddenly, causing everybody to jump, startled.
"Don't start on the fighting again, okay? I don't understand what you two were quarrelling over, but let's just forgive and forget. Alright?" Mayura lectured Loki and Heimdall once again.
Forgive and forget? Over my dead body! Both Loki and Heimdall glowered, but decided to let it go as they were worried that Mayura would start nagging again.
Satisfied to see that Loki and Heimdall had stopped their squabble, Mayura resumed reading. "Eww… listen to this, Loki-kun. In Lokasenna (Loki's Flyting), which is a poem in the Elder Edda where gods (particularly Loki and Odin) trade insults, Jashin Loki said that Freya even let her brother Freyr into her bed! GROSS!!! This is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard!"
Silence filled the air. All the gods stared back, wide-eyed, at Mayura in shock, unable to move or speak. Sweat started trickling down Loki's forehead.
"Lokiiiii!!!!!" Freya and Freyr screamed at the same time, but for different reasons.
Freya, who was looking a bit sick, grabbed Loki by the collar and started shaking him hard, hollering: "How could you say that?! How could you do that to me?! I love you so much! How could you?!" She sobbed hysterically and continued shaking Loki with all her might.
"Loki-sama!!"
"Daddy!!!"
Yamino, Fenrir and E-chan tried to restrain Freya, but to no avail.
"Loki! Although Freyr does sleep with Freya-chan on stormy nights because Freyr's afraid of thunder, you shouldn't go around telling everybody that!!!" Freyr shook his fist at Loki, feeling embarrassed.
The gods turned to stare wide-eyed at Freyr this time, disbelief etched across their faces. Disbelief at his lack of brains.
"Loki! Answer me! Do you love me?! Say that you do and I'll forgive you!" Freya screeched, never ceasing her act of shaking Loki, who was dizzy and almost unconscious by now. He tried to force out an answer, but failed to do so.
"Hmm…" Mayura pondered for a moment, her forehead creasing in concentration, completely ignoring everything that was going on around her, seemingly more intrigued by what was on her mind at that moment.
"What is it, Daidouji?" Koutarou also chose to ignore his surroundings as he couldn't figure out the least bit what was going on. Besides, he was shocked to witness how violent Freya can be.
"Come to think of it, don't you think that Jashin Loki and Freya are quite compatible?" Mayura voiced out her question loud and clear.
"EH???!!!" Heads swiveled to face her.
"Both of them possess such loose moral values, have so many different lovers and so on. Boy, I wouldn't be surprised if they are involved with each other!" Mayura snapped her fingers, proud of her theory.
"Yamato Nadeshiko thinks so?" Freyr frowned. "But Freyr still can't allow it!"
Freya ignored Freyr and stopped shaking Loki. "You really think so?" She turned to Loki, who was weak in her arms. "Loki! You hear that? We're a perfect match! I love you!!!" She rubbed her cheek against Loki's purring with joy.
"Eh?" Mayura blinked in confusion. "I wasn't talking about Loki-kun, but Jashin Loki…"
"Ma-Ma-yu-raaaa…" Loki winced in pain, wishing for Mayura to stop reading the book, and for the book to disappear right away.
If she carries on spouting nonsense like this, I'll never make it pass this day alive… That was Loki's last thought as he lay limp in Freya's arm, eyes still swirling and bones aching from the previous bout of shaking.
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= end of Freya' part =
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Yes! Done! Actually, this chapter and the previous one… they were supposed to be 1 chapter. But I realized that it was too long, and my friend suggested that I split it into 2, so I did. I never planned to write so long about Freya. Only wanted 1 more chapter after that interlude… haha. Guess all the crappy stuff just came up.
It's 2.19am, so if I had made any typing error, pls tell me. I'm really worried about mistyping 'Freya' for 'Freyr' and vice versa. And forgetting to add "-kun" behind Loki's name in Mayura's speeches. Sigh… I'm really very tired now as I'd typed these 2 chapters at once. Wanted to put them up together…
Read the latest summary of MLR… I'm very worried for Loki!!! He can't be dead!!! NO! And poor Mayura… sob wanna read more…
Anyway, next up will be Freyr… till then, ta-ta!
