Galactus paid no mind to Arale's mockery.
Why would an elephant care about an ant's taunts?
He turned his gaze toward Norrin Radd, who was no longer the Silver Surfer.
"Who restored you, Norrin?"
If Norrin could have freed himself from Galactus's control, he would not have waited until now. Someone else must have intervened.
Galactus swept his gaze over Kraft and the others, more or less seeing through their identities.
The two little girls were robots, nothing special. He dismissed them outright.
The older one was a planetary life-form, the meal Silver Surfer had chosen for him. The younger one was an ordinary human, but a strange power lay hidden within his body.
Galactus guessed that the planetary life-form had probably restored Norrin, most likely hoping to have Norrin remove the mark on him.
At that thought, Galactus sneered. "Fool. Do you think this will let you escape your fate as my food?"
Galactus opened his mouth, and Ego instantly felt an inexplicable suction tugging at the energy inside him.
"Kraft! Save me!"
Ego cried for help, then swiftly turned into blue light and plunged into Arale Star's core, fighting with all his might against Galactus's consumption.
Even so, the plants on Arale Star began withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Tch! That power's a bit unfair..."
Kraft, who felt nothing at all, brought up his Smart Glasses and switched to energy detection mode. All the energy belonging to Arale Star was flowing toward Galactus.
"Arale! Beat him up!"
"Okaaay!"
Arale sprang up and slammed a vicious headbutt into Galactus.
In the middle of feeding, Galactus suddenly felt tremendous force smash into his abdomen, making him involuntarily spit out all the energy he had just swallowed.
At the same time, Arale's headbutt sent his enormous body