"Boom!"
On the rooftop, Rex, Kate, and Robot Jack watched the situation unfold.
Suddenly, a powerful gust swept over them!
Jupiter descended from the sky, a snow-white cloak draped over his shoulders.
"Things look pretty bad..."
Feeling the cold wind swirl around him, Robot Jack looked up and reported the situation to Jupiter.
"Jack, Kate, Rex—organize the rescue effort! As for those who interrupted my lunch, I'll teach them what it costs."
Jupiter spoke to Rex, Kate, and Jack in a firm tone. The next instant, he became a blur, shooting toward the Green Pickle Aliens emerging from the portal like a runaway cannonball.
"You think you can order me around?"
Rex glared at Jupiter's retreating back, thoroughly sick of being bossed around. He was a member of the Viltrumite Youth Group, not anyone's lackey.
"Sorry we're late."
Just as Rex yelled after Jupiter, Mark and Eve finally arrived, descending from the sky.
"Jupiter seems to be in a really bad mood. Did someone get on his bad side?"
Robot Jack asked Mark and Eve if they knew why Jupiter was acting so strangely.
"Probably because someone interrupted my brother's lunch."
"Ever since he was a kid, he's hated people interrupting him while he eats. He says it ruins his mood for the whole day."
As Jupiter's brother, Mark knew him fairly well.
"So he's angry just because the enemy showed up at the wrong time?"
"Honestly, your brother really is an Ancestor Person—in every sense of the word..."
Rex folded his arms and scrutinized Eve and Mark.
"And another thing..."
"Eve, have you been hanging out with these two flying brothers all this time? I think you owe me an explanation."
Rex looked from Eve to Mark, then toward Jupiter as he flew away. He felt like he'd been made a cuckold.
"We're just high school classmates."
Eve glared at Rex. She'd known he couldn't think of anything good.
"High school classmates, huh? How convenient..."
Rex sneered, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Cut the nonsense, Rex! We need to hurry and back up Jupiter! There are a lot of enemies, and I'm worried he won't be able to handle them all by himself."
Eve had no intention of continuing the argument. She rose into the air and flew toward the battlefield.
"Heh. Now it's 'Jupiter this' and 'Jupiter that,' is it? Heh..."
Rex kept grumbling sarcastically where he stood.
"Rex, maybe you should stop talking. We should focus on what's in front of us."
Robot Jack cut off Rex's incessant complaining. His analysis showed that they needed to go save the world.
"Fine! Fine! You're all on Jupiter's side, then!"
"Jupiter's the real member of the Viltrumite Youth Group. He's the one who's been through life and death with you. I'm just an outsider..."
Rex kept rambling sarcastically, but when he turned around, he realized the others had already disappeared.
"Hey! Come on, don't do that!"
Watching his teammates leave him behind, Rex suddenly felt a little pathetic.
Meanwhile...
Jupiter descended like a god. His sharp gaze settled on the Green Pickle Aliens rampaging across the battlefield.
"You may not understand how terrifying it is to interrupt my meal!"
Floating in the air, Jupiter looked at the groups of Green Pickle Aliens coming through the portal. He thrust out his hands and charged straight into the crowd.
"Fire! Fire!"
The Flaxan Soldiers shouted in their alien language as they watched Jupiter streak toward them like lightning.
"Pew! Pew! Pew!"
Laser blasts shot from the Flaxans' guns, striking Jupiter's broad chest.
"Pathetic attacks..."
Jupiter crushed the feeble attacks with his pectoral muscles alone...
"It's not working..."
A Flaxan Soldier stared wide-eyed at the ineffective attack.
"Pfft!"
The next instant, Jupiter crossed the hundred meters between them and appeared right in front of him, punching the Flaxan Soldier's head apart.
"Gulp..."
The other soldiers watched the bright red spray arc through the air and swallowed nervously.
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
Then, in an instant, Jupiter chopped off the heads of all the soldiers who had been looking up at him...
"Monster..."
"Run..."
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of cucumber heads flew into the air, terrifying the remaining cucumber people—no, the Flaxans—into a stupor.
The countless Flaxans stared at the mighty figure hovering in the sky, like a god straight out of a myth. One after another, they dropped their weapons, opened spacetime portals, and tried to flee.
"Pathetic..."
Jupiter had no intention of letting them escape. To him, these cucumber-shaped Flaxans were nothing but walking energy points.
Jupiter sped up, becoming an impassive scythe of death as he continued to reap Flaxan lives. Streams of pure life energy flowed into his body, replenishing the energy drained from the Spacetime Gate.
Unfortunately, the Flaxans were too weak. Their physical abilities were, at best, only slightly better than those of ordinary humans.
"Do we really need to help?"
When Eve and the others reached the city battlefield, they gaped at Jupiter slaughtering the enemy and chasing an entire Flaxan army all by himself.
"Just like Jupiter said, maybe all we need to do is help out around the edges!"
Robot Jack analyzed the scene before them. According to his calculations, the enemy had no way to break through Jupiter's defenses.
"Fight back! Fight back!"
"The enemy is only one man! Pick up your weapons!"
A Flaxan with one eye and a red cloak over his shoulders roared furiously. He was deeply disappointed in the Flaxan army behind him, routed by a single enemy.
He glared at Jupiter, seeming intent on etching his appearance into his memory.
"You're that eager to stay?"
"Then none of you are leaving!"
Jupiter looked at the Flaxan who seemed to be their leader, his expression icy. Then he turned into a bolt of lightning, grabbed the Flaxan Leader by the head, and flew into the spacetime tunnel behind the enemy forces.
"Brother!"
Mark cried out anxiously as he watched Jupiter fly into the spacetime tunnel with the Flaxan Leader's head in his grasp.
"Oh my God! Contact Cissels right away!"
Eve hadn't expected Jupiter to pull a stunt like that. Her heart pounded as she worried about his safety.
"I'm already contacting them..."
Robot Jack seemed more worried about Jupiter's safety than the others. The moment Jupiter entered the spacetime tunnel, he got in touch with Cissels.
Meanwhile, on the pitch-black Flaxen Planet...
Jupiter held the Flaxan Leader by the head and stood with one foot lightly planted on a Flaxan General.
"I'll show you what it costs to make me angry!"
Jupiter looked at the soldiers around him, his eyes icy. The next instant, he tightened his right hand around the Flaxan Leader's head. In a flash, he crushed it to pieces. The round ball burst like a watermelon, splattering blood across the ground.
"From now on, I'll attack this planet! You can try to resist. I'll allow that much."
At that moment, Jupiter attacked an entire planet all by himself.
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