I've said it before I think, but I still find a bit funny WeirdWorld's choice for Malik bailing out the plot, like how S.I.N and HERO are going at it back on Earth, as the 'Definitive 100% endgame big battle!', with MC's group main concern being a couple level 4(at most) inviting themselves to R&X, meanwhile Malik's subplot is this:
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(Eldritch BiG thing swallowing a Sun for visual, Halona did said that the Wasting Mommy was massive after all.)
Like, guy is having his very own JRPG final boss battle out there for some reason, probably trashing the Outer Rim of the universe because(?, worse still, Ella said that the Wasting Mother was so far away that MC shouldn't even worry about her or other 'Gods', so Malik pretty much did go out his way to fuck with something far worse than anything happening on earth RN, bar Apostles Manifesting in the absolutely worst case scenario.