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"Joseph Joestar! If you can move freely like 'The World,' then go ahead and show me what you're capable of!"
Dio's face showed a hint of excitement. He ignored Joseph, whose body was covered in ripples, and walked towards Jotaro instead.
"One second passed."
"I, Dio, am the one who will defeat and reign supreme over all living beings and all Stand users! The current limit of time stop is five seconds, and it will only get longer and longer after that!"
"Joseph Joestar, just how powerful you are, let me see!"
As he spoke, Dio had already walked up to Jotaro.
But as soon as they got closer, they noticed that Jotaro's hand trembled slightly.
“——！！？”
The brain is shaking!
For a moment, Dior was completely bewildered.
He felt as if a virus was invading his brain at 180 miles per second.
You must lift both feet off the ground to shut down the virus and allow your intelligence to once again take over.
But soon, he noticed something else amiss.
Dio tentatively reached his hand toward Jotaro, then noticed that Jotaro's fingers trembled again.
Two seconds passed.
"Heh, heh heh heh, heh ha ha ha ha, hmph hmph ha ha ha ha..."
Dior couldn't help but laugh as he thought about how he had been fighting wits with thin air in fear.
He understood why Joseph and Jotaro's fingers were able to move.
Dior raised his wrist and looked down.
A magnet was visible on the metal ornament on her wrist.
After removing the magnet, Dio extended it towards Jotaro.
when!
With a crisp click, the magnet stuck firmly to the metal clasp on Jotaro's sleeve.
"They put a magnet on me..."
"Tch, was it placed on me when I was wrapped in 'Hermit's Purple'?"
Dio frowned, remembering how he had been trapped by thorns and unable to break free.
"It looked like a magnet taken from a wallet or notebook clasp; I almost fell for it. That bastard Joseph, what a cunning fellow!"
Having figured this out, Dior once again regained the arrogance he had shown when he first appeared.
"but!"
"This kind of deceptive trick is actually proof that your doppelgangers can't move in a frozen spacetime; it only prolongs your lives!!!"
Dio manipulated his Stand, The World, to step on the ground for leverage, and his whole body floated in mid-air as if he were flying.
He had already begun to fantasize about what he would look like at his peak after absorbing the blood of Joseph and Jotaro.
"Three seconds have passed!"
"You're hopeless this time! Die, Jotaro!!!"
Dio's face lit up with anticipation as he floated towards Jotaro.
As soon as they approached Jotaro, they discovered that Jotaro, who had been standing there like a statue, had clenched his fists.
"Ola——"
Dio's pupils contracted to their maximum size instantly. He wanted to escape, but he was already unable to break free from the shackles of inertia and could only watch helplessly as Star Platinum's right fist pierced through The World's chest.
puff-
"What?!?!"
The damage suffered by the Stand was transmitted directly to the original user without any hindrance.
Looking at the fist that had pierced his Stand, and at Star Platinum with its long hair billowing upwards without wind, Dio was momentarily bewildered.
"This...this guy...can actually move."
"The magnetism I discovered wasn't a disguise that he could move; rather, it was a trap to lure me into thinking he couldn't move!"
Dio's mind flashed back to the matter-of-fact expression on Grandma Enya's face when she learned of his abilities.
"Unexpectedly, it was a descendant of Joestar who mastered the secret of stopping time so quickly!!"
next second.
A burning sensation, like being exposed to the sun, began to spread from his chest outwards!
"Ripple!? How is this possible!? Jotaro, you...you bastard, you can actually use Ripple!!!"
“Waaaaaaaaaaaa——”
Dio screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"My body is melting! Aaaaaah—"
"This excruciating pain, this intense heat..."
This familiar feeling instantly transported Dio's memory back to that night 1.4 years ago, the moment when the blue-haired gentleman struck his own chest with a fist burning with flames!
"Ah, thanks to my old man, I can do this from birth."
Jotaro simply waved his hand dismissively, even wasteting the precious time he could have spent moving within the enemy's time-stopping ability by lighting a cigarette for himself.
Seeing that Jotaro didn't finish him off, Dio, who had been through this before, didn't know why, but he knew what to do to survive.
Moreover, this time there's no need to manually handle the interference from ripples, making it easier to control the precision.
"Za Valudo!"
The golden-haired Stand reappeared beside Dio, and with a swift motion, cleaved his head off.
At the same time, time began to flow!
Chapter 121 The Final Piece of the Puzzle for Reaching Heaven
With the Byakugan's enhancement, Xia Yan, who normally possesses a 360-degree field of vision, sensed Dio's location the moment time began to flow.
Looking at Dio, who was now just a head and was being held in the world's hands, Xia Yan couldn't help but shake his head.
There are actually people who are stupid enough to walk right into Jotaro's firing range.
Moreover, it was the invincible seventeen-year-old Hei Cheng, dressed in black.
You're saying it's still the third part, and Jotaro's Stand ability hasn't been revealed yet?
That's alright then...
This guy only has a head left, but he's still alive. It seems Jotaro must have held back.
Otherwise, given that Dio knew nothing about Jotaro's abilities...
With his intentions aligned with the unsuspecting, Dio had absolutely no chance of surviving.
Thinking of his beloved son, who, though he didn't say it, always had him in his heart, Xia Yan felt incredibly gratified.
The corners of his mouth turned up uncontrollably.
If Holly knew how much Jotaro cared about his family, she would probably smile and say that Jotaro was a good boy.
For some reason, at this moment, Xia Yan's thoughts drifted to his wife, who had been with him for over twenty years. 12
We'll be able to go back soon.
With that thought, Xia Yan smiled gently and walked to Jotaro's side.
He grabbed the cigarette from his mouth, snatched it away before the man could even take a puff, and stubbed it out in his palm.
He held up one finger and pointed at Jotaro, then raised his other hand to indicate the cigarette he was holding.
He then shook his finger, and finally clenched his fists, raising his chin at him with an unfriendly expression.
The meaning is obvious.
If I ever see you smoking again, I'll smash your ass into eight pieces.
'You old bastard, do you think you're Bruce Lee...?'
Watching Xia Yan's Bruce Lee-inspired pose, Jotaro lowered his hat brim in exasperation.
But since it was his own father, he still nodded slightly.
After receiving a satisfactory reply, Natsuhiko once again turned his gaze to Dio, who now only had a head left.
"You son of a bitch! You bastard! Toujou Natsuhiko!!!"
Looking at the man who walked up to him, Dio was filled with hatred.
If it weren't for him, Jotaro wouldn't possess such a powerful Ripple! That burning sensation even far surpasses Jonathan's Ripple.
Facing Dio, who was now just a head and howling like a defeated dog, Xia Yan simply smiled and didn't care.
The "Stairway to Heaven" spread its wings and slowly walked towards the "World".
"What are you doing?! Toujou Natsuhiko! You stay right there! Don't you dare come any closer to me!!!"
For some reason, an ominous premonition rose in Dior's heart.
As the other person's stand-in drew closer, he felt as if his most precious possession was about to be taken away.
If Xia Yan were to read Dio's thoughts now, he would probably say, "You guessed pretty accurately."
However, he now has all his attention focused on "the world".
As the "Stairway to Heaven" drew near, a faint light emanated from the "World," as if some strange chemical reaction was taking place between the two.
Dior's ominous premonition grew stronger.
"I told you not to come near me! Didn't you hear me, Toujou Natsuhiko?!"