Misery Upon Misery Upon Misery, Fate's Foolish Game!

After that, because Tony had only told Strange to seek reinforcements and had not revealed a word to useless teammates like Star-Lord Quill,

there were almost no differences from the previous attempts aside from a few details in the dialogue.

That was until Thanos was once again forcibly restrained by Iron Man Tony, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man Peter, Destroyer Drax, and Mantis using Mind Stone hypnosis.

Star-Lord Quill smugly descended from the air and swaggered up to Thanos.

"This was my—"

Before Star-Lord Quill could say the word "plan," Tony, who had anticipated this, quickly turned toward Doctor Strange, who was maintaining the scarlet chains, and shouted,

"Strange, now! Shut his mouth!"

"Huh??"

Before Star-Lord Quill could react, one of the dozens of scarlet chains Doctor Strange had summoned, all with the unsettling texture of Cthulhu, immediately split off and wrapped tightly around Star-Lord Quill's neck, effortlessly lifting him off the ground.

"Urgh..."

Star-Lord Quill's face instantly turned red from suffocation. Both hands desperately clawed at the scarlet tentacle around his neck, whose tip was firmly plugging his mouth, while his dangling feet kicked wildly through the air as he struggled.

"Wh-what are you doing?! Strange?!" Star-Lord Quill demanded in utter incomprehension as he tried with all his strength to break free from the scarlet tentacle.

"Sorry, Quill. I don't want to hurt you, but you need to sit this one out for now."

Strange offered no further explanation. The scarlet chain around Star-Lord Quill's neck tightened further, trying to choke him unconscious.

"I #￥%@"

Star-Lord Quill was so angry he laughed. You could've just told me! Why were you targeting your teammate??

Of course.

If Star-Lord Quill had seen the brilliant maneuvers he had pulled in the previous attempts to "help" Thanos turn the tide, he probably would not have