Diavolo looked at the message from Bucciarati and immediately grasped the key words.
Johnson Joffrey and his new teammate Giorno Giovanna are brothers.
They rely on blood ties to find each other?! Is there such a coincidence in the world?
When Diavolo saw Bucciarati say that his teammate Giorno Giovanna was Johnson Joffrey's brother, it was as if something had completely struck him, or like a flame had burned away all the tangled mess in his heart.
Confused thoughts enveloped him like a thin mist, then were scattered by a breeze.
He carefully analyzed that if it weren't for Giorno Giovanna, he would never have known the whereabouts of the Assassination Team, nor would he have known that his daughter's name was Trish.
He would absolutely not tell anyone about his true identity. The reason he trusted Bucciarati so much was entirely because he had spent ten billion to buy the destiny predicted in Heaven's Whisper.
—The one who would end the Assassination Team must be Bucciarati and his team.
The person he referred to should be Giorno Giovanna.
Ah, I finally understand. So this is the key to ending the Assassination Team. The crux of the problem lies with these two people! He immediately pulled up photos of the two—
One was a photo of Giorno at the airport, and the other was a photo of Johnson Joffrey entering Prison.
Diavolo stared intently at these two people. He immediately ordered all intelligence agencies in the organization to thoroughly investigate them.
They share a common father, which will be the key to their extraordinary destiny. While Giorno was still on his side, he quickly transmitted the information to Bucciarati.
"I understand. Continue tracking."
Diavolo was no fool; was he going to wait for others to come knocking? He couldn't delay for a second. The Assassination Team, where Johnson Joffrey was, had completely given up on sleep, and so had Diavolo.
In just a few days, a moment of inattention could lead to the overthrow of his position as king.
The somewhat dilapidated fax machine made a buzzing sound, and several sheets of paper with information about Giorno and Joffrey were printed out.
Diavolo looked up, gazing at the fax machine continuously spitting out white paper. He slowly stood up, feeling that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.
Risotto's determination to betray was not just because of Sobel and Gerard's matters; they even rushed to revolt without holding funerals for Gerard and Sobel, which would be absolutely impossible if they truly cared about Gerard and Sobel.
The key to their betrayal lies with... Jotaro?! Kujo Jotaro?!
Diavolo's thoughts were interrupted, and he instantly scattered several papers on the ground, because written on them was—
Johnson Joffrey met with Jotaro at a cafe two days ago, and the next day he was picked up by Risotto, and then he betrayed the organization?!
Johnson Joffrey and Kujo Jotaro are connected to the SPW Foundation? Diavolo frowned, the anxiety and unease of a weak person lingering in his heart.
He detested this feeling of cowardice, because he was already the Emperor; he feared Jotaro, but then felt that this fear was beneath him, and so he detested this fear even more. This extreme way of thinking constantly influenced him, becoming one of the culprits behind his mental illness.
Tsk, Diavolo cursed under his breath, was he scared by a mere name? This was too humiliating.
He picked up the documents, and before he could finish the next line, he exploded again.
DIO?!
How could it be related to that vampire?
Johnson Joffrey was like a treasure boy; the more Diavolo dug, the closer he felt he was to the truth.
He feared Jotaro partly because Jotaro was indeed strong. If he had to name the Stand he least wanted to face, it would definitely be Kujo Jotaro. If Jotaro wanted to intervene in this matter, it would certainly not be without reason.
After all, Polnareff died by his hand, and if Jotaro knew, he would definitely come for revenge. He originally thought it was unlikely Jotaro knew, but now that he had a good relationship with Joffrey, it was a problem. The probability of him knowing had increased by at least ten percent.
Joffrey and Giorno were both Dio's sons. Was Jotaro sick? To actually pay attention to his enemy's sons? If it were him, he would definitely kill them all. He even let the SPW Foundation give Johnson Joffrey living expenses; this was something Diavolo absolutely could not understand.
The most infuriating thing was, did Kujo Jotaro and the SPW Foundation now consider themselves agents of justice? Preventing evil Stand Users from throwing the world into chaos?
These self-proclaimed righteous guys simply made Diavolo sick to his stomach.
He had to completely eliminate the Assassination Team before Kujo Jotaro intervened, especially Johnson Joffrey. This kid was not simple; he was the one who triggered the Assassination Team's betrayal.
And... Diavolo looked at the gradually dimming starry sky outside. He suddenly felt that it was almost time for him to act. If Squalo and his team had all been defeated, then even Korne could only stall for a while.
Now that Jotaro was involved, only he could personally take action.
Trish absolutely could not be found by the Assassination Team, because of their blood relation, he would be discovered. He casually picked up a pink sweater and put it on in front of the mirror.
—His body began to change drastically.
When his head emerged from his sweater, he already had a different person's face.
"Huh? When did my hair come undone?" Torbio curiously muttered to himself in front of the mirror, and then began to braid his hair.
—"Dorurururururu!"
Torbio's body seemed to pucker his lips uncontrollably, making a "Dorurururururu" sound.
"Ah! It's the BOSS!" Torbio's half-braided hair had to be let loose. He then pulled out a phone from a drawer, pressed the answer button, and put it to his right ear.
"Beep."
"Torbio, it's me."
The BOSS's voice was still as deep and reassuring to him. Through the glass, the half of Torbio's face holding the phone began to change, his right eye developing a double pupil.
"BOSS!"
"I have a new mission for you now," Diavolo said to his other personality, Torbio, in his inner space. "Torbio, go to Cagliari now. I will send you information at any time. The task of killing Trish is up to you."
"After all, you are the person I trust most. To me, you and I are like one person."
Torbio, the personality that had accompanied him since childhood, was, in a sense, truly the person Diavolo trusted most, because 'Torbio' seemed to be merely a tool.
'Torbio' was both gentle and irritable, the embodiment of his weak side, the culmination of all his misunderstood emotions, the endpoint of suffering.
He was the person Diavolo both hated and trusted most; he was his weakness, and his only companion.
The king with two souls in one body would never fall.
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Still owe 10 chapters, keke.