It Was Hereditary

"Yondu didn't hand me over to you. He said that since I was small, I could slip into narrow places to steal, and he often threatened to eat me."

On Ego's ship, Star-Lord, who had found his father, chattered nonstop in front of Ego. He looked exactly like an orphan who had found his biological father.

Though that did seem to be the truth.

"What? Eat you? That bastard!"

Ego was furious. That bastard had threatened his son?

Even if someone was going to eat him, it wouldn't be Yondu!

Of course, Yondu had only been trying to scare Star-Lord.

"Exactly! That guy was such a complete asshole!"

Star-Lord naturally wanted someone to cause trouble for Yondu, so he added fuel to the fire as he described Yondu's crimes.

"Once this is over, we'll go settle things with Yondu!"

As a Celestial, how could Ego tolerate his offspring being threatened by a Space Pirate? He decided to finish what he was doing first, then go deal with Yondu.

And what was this matter at hand?

Naturally, it was activating Star-Lord's abilities and drawing him in to fulfill his ambition of "infecting" the universe together.

Of course, if Star-Lord refused, that was simple enough—he could just turn him into a battery.

Don't think Ego wasn't capable of it. Countless bones lay within his planet, all belonging to his offspring. Those who had failed to inherit his Celestial gene were nothing more than trash in Ego's eyes, and they had all become nourishment for the planet.

"Good!"

Hearing this, Star-Lord was overjoyed. At the same time, he thought of someone—someone who always wore a smile, yet could make him wake up in terror in the middle of the night: Chen Mu.

"There's another guy. He tortured me before, locked me in a