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What could truly restore Star-Lord's sanity was never love or friendship.
No matter how Gamora and Rocket called out, Star-Lord would most likely not regain consciousness; at most, he would simply not attack them in his Celestial state.
But if you were to tell Star-Lord that Ego killed his mother, Star-Lord would surely awaken on the spot and turn against Ego without hesitation.
Don't let his rebellious appearance fool you; he actually loved his mother the most.
Not being able to fulfill his mother's dying wish to embrace her was Star-Lord's only regret.
So, when Kevin pointed out that Ego had killed his mother, Star-Lord immediately became enraged:
"You—killed my mom!?"
"Oh, Peter, are you sure you want to argue with me over such a small matter?"
Ego didn't think it was a big deal.
In his long life, Peter's mother was merely insignificant dust, and there were countless beings like Peter's mother throughout the universe.
She was just an ordinary mortal; her death was inconsequential and not worth Ego's concern.
Nor was it worth the concern of Peter, who possessed Celestial blood.
Although Ego did genuinely like Peter's mother, and even considered staying on Earth for her, Ego believed such a sacrifice was worth it for his grand ambition.
Ego thought this was a minor issue, and that after Star-Lord experienced a long Celestial life, he probably wouldn't think it amounted to anything.
But unfortunately, Ego was mistaken.
Star-Lord was not yet a Celestial; he didn't have the Celestial mindset; before this, he was just an ordinary person.
An ordinary person who cried and laughed, who missed the past, and who clutched the old Walkman his mother left behind, unwilling to let go.
So, upon confirming that Ego was the enemy who killed his mother, Star-Lord immediately abandoned the Celestial power he had gained from Ego, pulled out his dual guns, and attacked Ego.
Bullets pierced through Ego's body, instantly destroying the form Ego had constructed.
The surface was destroyed, revealing the blue human meridians Ego had constructed with his power.
He seemed to want to say something, but Star-Lord had no intention of listening to him; he continuously pulled the trigger, destroying most of Ego's body.
But this could not kill Ego.
The mutilated Ego's body recovered at an extremely fast rate, and the elderly form he had constructed roared at Peter:
"You actually attacked me for something like this!! Do you know how much effort I put into meeting you, into fitting the image of a father!?"
"You killed my mom!!!"
"Oh, alright, it looks like you really need to sober up, Peter!"
When Ego realized Peter's anger, he knew that words alone could no longer make Star-Lord submit to him.
Before Star-Lord could speak further, a thick, glowing blue tentacle, like a tree root spreading from underground, moved towards Star-Lord.
Star-Lord's rebellion made Ego completely lose interest in the 'father-son' game.
Even without Star-Lord, he could achieve his goal with just Star-Lord's power.
So, since Star-Lord didn't want to be with him, he could only pity his son and use him as a large battery to provide him with energy.
Energy that would allow him to expand throughout the entire universe.
Ego controlled the roots at an extremely fast speed, too fast for Star-Lord to react.
If the plot had developed normally, Star-Lord would surely have been impaled by Ego's tentacles, turning into Ego's humanoid battery, providing him with energy.
But often at such times, a hero always appears.
At this crucial moment, a hand made of red energy reached out from behind Star-Lord, gripping the blue tentacle that was about to shoot towards Star-Lord's back in the nick of time.
Behind the red hand, Kevin, who had arrived at the scene just in time through a portal, clenched his right fist, the gem on his ring gleaming brightly.
He leisurely walked between Star-Lord and Ego, smiling as he asked:
"I hope I didn't interrupt your... emotional exchange?"
"Kevin!!"
The moment he saw Kevin, Star-Lord showed a surprised expression; he seemed not to have expected Kevin to be here.
But Star-Lord quickly shifted his gaze back to Ego and said to Kevin:
"Kevin! You came at just the right time, this guy wants to devour all living planets in the universe and make them part of his body; we have to stop him!"
"Is that so? But how come I heard Rocket say you two were having a father-son reunion, in the midst of deep emotions?"
"What!?"
Star-Lord had a 'wtf' expression.
Rocket's voice came through the communicator that Kevin always had open:
"Hey! I clearly said he was playing a father-son game with a planet! Crying on his planet-dad's lap! Who said they were in deep emotions?!"
...Well, I used too polite a word.
"Please! I almost just got turned into a battery by my father, and the first thing you say after seeing me is this? And Rocket, I didn't cry! Absolutely not!"
Star-Lord yelled into the communicator on Kevin's person.
But strangely, the Guardians of the Galaxy on the communicator, and even Kevin, fell silent, looking at him oddly:
"No way, you really cried?"
"Hahahaha, if Quill says that, then he definitely cried!! Hahahaha, I can't, I have to record this embarrassing moment of his, I can laugh at him for a whole month!"
"I didn't!!"
Star-Lord retorted loudly, but seemed a bit flustered.
"Enough!!!!!"
And Ego, who had been ignored in the distance, finally couldn't stand the Guardians of the Galaxy's banter any longer.
He roared loudly and pointed at Kevin, who was standing beside Star-Lord, questioning him:
"Who are you!?"
"I thought you would have heard of me."
Kevin turned towards Ego, smiling, and said:
"Otherwise, why would you go looking for Peter's trouble when I wasn't around?"
"You..."
Hearing Kevin say that, Ego actually remembered.
A few weeks ago, during the battle on Xandar, the most prominent figure was not the Nova Corps, nor the Guardians of the Galaxy, nor Yondu's Ravagers.
It was a man named Kevin.
It was he who single-handedly destroyed Ronan and Thanos's fleets, and it was he and the Guardians of the Galaxy who personally eliminated Thanos.
Although Thanos was personally beheaded by Gamora, in the eyes of the world, the one who killed Thanos was Kevin, and that's what was spread on Xandar, so Ego believed it too.
Everyone said that this man, who possessed immense power and was like a Celestial, was a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Actually, at first, the person Ego was looking for wasn't Star-Lord, but Kevin; he thought Kevin was his son.
Because Kevin was with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Guardians of the Galaxy were connected to Yondu, plus Kevin, like Star-Lord, was also from Earth and had no particular identity in the universe, Ego naturally assumed that Kevin was the biological son who had been taken by Yondu but not returned to him.
When he found the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ego discovered that Star-Lord's body contained his Celestial genes, and that Star-Lord was his biological son.
After confirming Star-Lord's bloodline and power, Ego immediately brought Star-Lord back to his planet, forgetting about Kevin.
In Ego's eyes, no matter what others said about how much that Kevin resembled a Celestial, he wouldn't believe it.
The true Celestial was only himself, and Peter, who possessed his bloodline.
So Ego had long forgotten about Kevin until now, seeing Kevin in person, he finally remembered who Kevin was.
"Judging by your expression, you must have remembered me, so—"
Kevin's body suddenly grew taller in an instant, and countless blue streams of water gathered on his body.
In a flash, a giant tens of meters tall appeared before Ego.
The giant had Kevin's appearance, and it opened its massive mouth, roaring at Ego:
"—who gave you the courage to lay a hand on my friend?"
"!!"
Kevin's current form resembled the Dark Lord Dormammu, with a colossal body and a head seven or eight stories high.
Compared to Ego, Kevin's current appearance could truly be called a 'god,' and even Ego himself was intimidated by Kevin's appearance, instinctively taking two steps back.
But upon realizing he had retreated, a deep anger immediately surged within Ego.
He had actually retreated.
He, a Celestial, had actually retreated!
"You think you can scare me! I am also a god!!!"
After his anger, Ego's body was also covered in rock; layers of soil transformed into the hardest rock, rivaling the water giant created by Kevin.
The two looked at each other and then, without warning, attacked each other in the next moment.
Water and earth collided, and the bodies of the two giants grew infinitely taller in this collision.
The 'gods' waged war against each other, and Star-Lord, who had already detached from Ego's energy below and could not immediately use Celestial power, could only stare blankly as Kevin and Ego fought.
The Guardians of the Galaxy and others also fell from the sky at this moment, landing beside Star-Lord.
Once everyone gathered, Gamora immediately said to Star-Lord:
"While Kevin is holding him off, let's get off this planet quickly!"
"No, we have to help him!"
Star-Lord hardly hesitated, instinctively saying to Gamora:
"Ego's true form is this planet; as long as this planet isn't destroyed, he's virtually immortal. No matter how strong Kevin is, his energy is limited, and he can't destroy Ego!"
"Why do you care about these things? As long as we can escape, this monster won't come chasing us, will he?"
"Because this monster also wants to destroy the universe! And we can't live under Kevin's protection forever! He'd definitely laugh us to death!!"
Star-Lord's words made Rocket, who had originally planned to run away with Star-Lord, stop and agree:
"I agree with Quill; if Ego doesn't die, then later on, we'll really become Kevin's hangers-on, and I don't want to call him dad!"
"I don't want to either, okay!"
Star-Lord subconsciously retorted, then realized something was off and looked sharply at Rocket:
...Wait, he has that Hobbies too?
Everyone fell silent for a moment, and then Kevin's voice suddenly came from the side:
"I think you guys really deserve a beating; I was only gone for a little while, and you're already talking about me like this, huh."
"!!!"
Kevin's voice startled both Star-Lord and Rocket, who had just been teasing each other.
Rocket directly leaped onto Groot's head, pointed at the water giant above, and then looked at Kevin standing before them, asking:
"You... aren't you fighting?!"
"Because there were some things I hadn't told you, so I temporarily made a clone to talk to you."
Kevin explained, temporarily abandoning his plan to settle scores with them, and took out Ego's clone seed, coming to Star-Lord's side and saying:
"This is Ego's clone seed; later, you swallow it, and you should be able to use a portion of Ego's power. Use that power to find a way to blow up his core; I'll hold him off during that time."
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