Ronan, Who Lost His Grandfather and Then His Father

The Kree Empire, Planet Hala, the homeworld of the Kree.

The leader of the Kree Empire, the AI God known as the "Supreme Intelligence," resides on Planet Hala. Correspondingly, the headquarters of the Kree Empire's elite management team— the Kree Supreme Accuser— is also located on this planet.

They rule the vast Kree Empire under the leadership of the Supreme Intelligence.

They are the true rulers of this vast cosmic empire.

Every Kree manages to join the Supreme Accuser is a genius among geniuses, one in a million in the Imperium. The Accuser' rigorous selection criteria have kept the number of members in this small group consistently low.

That is why the death of every Supreme Accuser is an extremely serious matter for the Kree Empire today.

This is something that deserves to be seriously discussed in a meeting.

According to the timeline of their Kree Empire, the last time they discussed this was two years ago.

Two years ago, Planet Hala received news of the deaths of two Supreme Accuser, led by Rob. Seven minutes ago, the Supreme Accuser headquarters received another death message sent by a member before his death.

"What happened?"

"How did Rocco die?!"

Some members of the Supreme Accuser were on good terms with Rocco were puzzled.

Xandar was in a brief period of peace at the moment, so how could it suddenly die?

[My fellow citizens of the Empire, by the time you see this message, I will already be dead.]

[I died at the hands of Beckett, the Son of Thanos, my father's killer.]

I underestimated my enemy's strength, and overestimated my own.

I lost this battle.

[...]

This is a short video that Rocco recorded beforehand after he sensed something was wrong. In the video, the Kree Empire's border official, with a solemn expression, looked very worried.

His uncontrollable killing intent ultimately led him to pay a terrible price: his life, along with the lives of five army groups, which perished in the vast universe.

"Beckett, Son of Thanos ..."

After the Accuser Rocco's voice abruptly stopped along with the video, the large conference room fell into a deathly silence.

At this moment, the same question flashed through the minds of everyone present—why is it him again?

The first time they heard this name, the price they paid was two Supreme Accuser and their legions.

And this second time...

Not only were the high-ranking officials on the frontier, who held a pivotal position in the empire, gone, but five elite legions were also taken with them.

That was a force that the Kree had armed with great determination, yet it was reduced to cosmic dust under Beckett's almost overwhelming power.

"Let's wait for news from the Supreme Intelligence."

The man at the head of the round table expressionlessly closed Rocco's death message, and his figure vanished without a trace.

With such a major change occurring, it is impossible for the Supreme Intelligence to remain indifferent.

If there's one, there's two, and there might be a third.

This is no longer something that Thanos can solve.

Regardless of the exact cause of this incident, it is undeniable that the Kree Empire suffered enormous losses.

The dignity of the empire would absolutely not allow them to continue to act as if nothing had happened.

Having too many lice doesn't make you itch; having too much debt doesn't make you worry.

At worst, they would have to fight the Skrulls, Xandarians, and Thanos simultaneously, which is not a problem for the Kree Empire, which is now a cosmic behemoth.

After all, neither the Skrulls nor the Xandarians possessed a being as powerful as Thanos. Even within the Dark Order, the Kree Empire considered only their leader, Thanos, capable of threatening them.

This is one of the key reasons why the Kree Empire was willing to act as if nothing had happened after the First Accuser were wiped out by Beckett.

Revenge can be taken, but it's unnecessary.

To paraphrase Thanos: Beckett is still young and doesn't understand.

But now, Beckett, whom Thanos called "still young," has once again taken advantage of the situation and stepped on the face of the Kree Empire. Who can tolerate this?

What to do when your "young" child is always naughty and mischievous?

A beating would do the trick.

For the Supreme Accuser, Cross, it wasn't just about beating Beckett up; he wanted to kill him outright.

After all, Rocco was his best friend whom he had grown up with.

"Beckett ..."

A middle-aged man in a formal suit stood alone by the floor-to-ceiling window of the conference room, gazing at the beautiful scenery that belonged only to Planet Hala below, lost in thought.

For a moment, he was unsure whether he should tell Gina Rocco the fact that she was dead.

She will be very sad.

And there's Rocco's son, who was just born not long ago...

"Well..."

A long sigh echoed in the conference room as the man named Cross finally decided to inform his friend's family of the news.

The poor Rocco family had just lost their elder Rob when Rocco, the pillar of the family, also passed away, following his father Rob.

"What did you say?"

"Rocco...?"

At Rocco's home.

As Cross expected, upon hearing the news of her husband Rocco's death, the dark-haired woman, who was playing with the baby in her arms, abruptly stopped what she was doing.

"Eee-yah-yah! Eee-yah-yah!"

The baby in the woman's arms blinked its eyes, happily tugged at its mother's right hand, opened its little mouth, and stubbornly tried to suck on her index finger.

The laughter was loud and clear.

"Who is it?" Gina asked, letting her son suck his index finger, her voice filled with a mixture of anger and sorrow.

"It's still that same man."

"Beckett, Son of Thanos."

Cross sighed, walked to the woman's side, and slowly took the baby away.

This is the only bloodline left in this universe by his friend.

"Has his name been decided?"

"Ronan." The dark-haired woman named Gina, suppressing her grief, raised her head and uttered the name of the baby in her arms.

"Are you still going to use Ronan?" Cross reached out and teased Ronan's tender cheek. The baby grinned and bit his right index finger!

"When he gets a little older, I will train him myself."

"If his potential meets my expectations, then I will tell him the truth."

"But if he doesn't meet my expectations..."

Cross didn't finish his sentence, but Gina already understood.

"I see."

"If he didn't have the power to avenge himself against Beckett, he naturally had no need to know the truth."

"Eeya eeya!"

Unaware of what the two adults were talking about, baby Ronan was overjoyed and stretched out his arms to his mother, asking for a hug.

"Good that you understand." Cross nodded, handed the child back to Gina, and turned to leave.

"Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the war between the Empire and Xandar should begin to gradually decrease."

"If Ronan asks about his father or how his grandfather died, just use Xandar as a shield."

If Ronan isn't strong enough when he grows up, it's better to hate Xandar than to hate Thanos' son.

After all, there's still hope of eradicating the former, while the latter...

"Eeya ee..." Baby Ronan clenched his little fists and blinked his big eyes curiously at the uncle whose back was now the only thing left to look at.