In the library of Asgardia, young Loki enters the dot below the final question mark to face his older self in the mystery limbo where he dwells. The older mischief-maker relates how Mephisto plans to seize the crown which will make him king of all Hell. Since the crown is made of young Loki’s thoughts and dreams, the only way to destroy the crown and keep it out of Mephisto’s grasp is for older Loki’s mind to overwrite the young one’s consciousness. Young Loki would cease to exist but so would the crown. Older Loki openly confesses that his is what he has wanted all along—for his younger self to rehabilitate his reputation so he could come back with a clean slate and start over. He grants young Loki a gift: he may return to existence for three conversations. Loki agrees and is sent back to his cave…
…where Leah is nursing the wounded Daimon Hellstrom back to health. Loki tells her to open a portal to Hel (in a monologue, not a conversation) and he leaps through. He meets with Brun of the Disir and asks to be devoured—but the Disir have been saved from that by Loki. He moves on to meet with Hela, Queen of the Dead, to request that Leah be sent into the ancient past—a move which enrages Loki’s best friend when granted by Hela. In Asgardia, Loki meets with Thor for a tearful farewell. Three conversations now finished (Disir, Hela, Thor in case you missed it), young Loki returns to the limbo where his older self awaits. Old Loki grants him a vision of the brighter future which will result from the fall of Mephisto—and young Loki will be sent to join Leah in the idyllic ancient past. The End.
…except that isn’t the end. In limbo, young Loki sends off his elder self with the prophecy that the older one will fail in his attempt at rehabilitation—where the younger one succeeded. He then tears apart the last magpie with his teeth, hurling the older Trickster God out of limbo. The young Loki then clutches the crown to his chest, and weeps in his exile….