Naples, a quiet antique street.
Kira Yoshikage had just emerged from a black market, and he wasn't in a good mood. Yesterday, he had fought his way out of prison and walked right out, and Polpo's subordinates hadn't yet arrived at the prison, so he left with ease.
After all, those few people didn't have the Stands he wanted. If they didn't directly fight him, he could spare them. What he needed was to draw out the duo of non-combustible garbage or Diavolo.
So, yesterday, he casually robbed a bank, blew up a police station, hung a dozen or so teru teru bozu dolls on the street, and wrote on them, "Diavolo, I will find and kill you!"
As a result, he still hadn't encountered the assassins sent by him. As for whether they went to assassinate Shinobu...
He had already installed three small bomb cars, split from the Second Bomb, near Shinobu. As long as something happened there, even if he couldn't win, he could notify Koware Chimamire's main body, allowing Kira Yoshikage to reverse time and go back to rescue her personally.
"Speaking of which, Killer Queen has indeed made great progress. The Second Bomb can now split into five small cars, and they should all be at A-rank power. Their speed is also faster than the main body's, probably reaching a mid-level B-rank."
He found a random coffee shop and took a sip of coffee. Kira Yoshikage tidied up his clothes, maintaining elegance and neatness, and analyzed his current strength.
Ever since fate stopped bothering him, he had been smooth sailing, and his Stand had grown considerably again. "The First Bomb can now directly blow up a small building. The Second Bomb is equivalent to six remote, automatic Stands with A-rank power and B-rank speed. Although they are foolish, they can communicate with each other.
The Third Bomb itself hasn't changed, but it can inject power into the first two bombs. Now, I alone should be able to challenge the entire Passione."
Another sip of bitter coffee went down, and his mood improved slightly. He pulled out a nail clipper from his pocket and began to trim his nails, which helped calm his mind.
'If he doesn't come, then he doesn't come. If you can hold out for one day, I don't believe you can hold out for ten days or a month. I have all the time in the world anyway.
Although I don't know why, as long as Kishibe Rohan doesn't come looking for me, my time is plentiful.'
Then he thought of the black market he had just visited. He originally wanted to buy a suitable gift for Shinobu, but he found that this black market was truly black... which made him unable to resist and he casually blew up the black market too... But by trimming his nails, he still maintained his inner stability. After collecting all the nail clippings in a small jar, his mind had once again become rational.
"Never mind, I'll walk around more. I'm bound to find some traces, and I can also look for a suitable gift. At worst, I'll learn from Cioccolata in Naples."
After downing his coffee, Kira Yoshikage, carrying the bag containing the Stand Arrow, pondered his next target, his gaze casually sweeping over the storefront windows.
Just then, his steps suddenly halted.
In the display window of an inconspicuous stone carving shop on the corner, various marble and limestone sculptures were exhibited.
And in the midst of these sculptures, an uncarved, unusually smooth, oval-shaped piece of limestone seemed to possess life, slowly rolling on its own and stopping at the most prominent position in the display window.
And then, as if automatically carved, its shape began to change.
Kira Yoshikage's pupils suddenly constricted!
'A Stand? Wait, why does this thing look a little familiar?'
That stone... he recognized it! No, he had seen it in the manga in his previous life!
Rolling Stone!
The personification of fate!
The guy who indirectly killed three members of the protagonist group in Part 5!
That eerie Stand that automatically reveals the face of those about to die and relentlessly tracks its target until they accept their fate! Its prophecy is bound to come true; it's part of fate's script.
Why is it here?! According to the "plot," it should be looking for Bruno Bucciarati right now! What is it doing looking for me... Wait a minute, Kira Yoshikage seemed to understand.
"What the hell, why is Rolling Stone here?! Fate, you've been holding out on me for something big, haven't you?!"
"No wonder, no wonder I haven't been unlucky recently. It turns out it's all piling up..."
A cold, almost absurd chill instantly ran up Kira Yoshikage's spine. For the first time, he truly felt the malice and irrationality of so-called "fate"! This thing should not have appeared before him!
Moreover, in a sense, this thing itself is the embodiment of fate. Requiem should be useful, right?
Almost at the same moment he froze in shock, the Surface of the limestone began to undulate and distort like water! The stone dissolved and reorganized, quickly outlining the contour of a face.
That face, ordinary, with a hint of fatigue, was precisely the face of "Kosaku Kawajiri" that he was currently wearing! But the expression on the stone statue was not his usual numbness, but rather a look of extreme tranquility, even... a peaceful serenity of release!
The serenity of death!
"What a joke..."
Kira Yoshikage subconsciously took half a step back, his face becoming extremely grim. What did it mean for Rolling Stone to come for him?
It meant that in fate's "script," he, Kira Yoshikage, was already a doomed man?!
Anger instantly overshadowed the chill.
The Rolling Stone in the display window seemed to have completed its declaration, slowly rolling off its base and moving towards the shop door. It was coming out to "execute" its mission.
"Don't even think about it!" A fierce glint flashed in Kira Yoshikage's eyes. He didn't care about predestined fate! Anything that threatened his "peace" and life had to be completely destroyed!
Killer Queen instantly appeared, aimed at the Rolling Stone in the display window!
"First Bomb!"
The force of the explosion spread through the air, instantly engulfing the entire display window, along with the house behind it.
Boom!!
The violent explosion directly shattered the entire display window and the wall behind it! Debris flew, and smoke filled the air! The poor stone carving shop was instantly ruined.
However—
As the smoke cleared, the Rolling Stone was completely unharmed! It hadn't even been moved a millimeter by the impact of the explosion. It still unhurriedly, steadily, rolled through the rubble and onto the street, continuing to roll towards Kira Yoshikage!
The serene face of "Kosaku Kawajiri" on its Surface was facing him, as if silently mocking his futility.
As if urging him to accept his fate of death.
"What?!" Kira Yoshikage was shocked. Killer Queen's explosion was ineffective, and this was the power of the combined Third Bomb. Was this thing's priority so high? Was it really a Stand?
Rolling Stone rolled closer and closer, and an invisible, suffocating sense of oppression enveloped Kira Yoshikage.
It wasn't a physical attack, but a conceptual "destiny," a "result" that couldn't be destroyed by violence!
'I need to use Requiem to deal with this thing... Damn it, the current Killer Queen isn't truly mine. The Stand Arrow won't turn it into Requiem.'
Run? Kira Yoshikage instantly dismissed the idea. According to what he "knew," for someone targeted by Rolling Stone, escaping to the ends of the earth was useless.
Then... control it!
A crazy thought suddenly emerged!
The unformed, hungry dark Stand within him was violently agitated, not out of fear, but... an extreme anger!
In a flash, Kira Yoshikage made his decision.
He no longer retreated, but instead walked forward to meet Rolling Stone. Killer Queen protected him, but no longer tried to attack.
Rolling Stone rolled to his feet, lifting slightly, seemingly about to touch his body and draw him into that "serene" death.
Just an instant before contact, Kira Yoshikage suddenly crouched down, not with his hands, but by directly summoning the restless, vague dark Stand embryo within him!
That dark shadow, like a greedy, gluttonous maw, swooped down and swallowed Rolling Stone whole!
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, tearing pain instantly swept through Kira Yoshikage's entire body! It felt as if his soul was being forcibly ripped apart and reshaped by some immense, rule-defying power!
Inside the dark Stand embryo, the stone displaying his face was directly confined, but it was not absorbed.
Kira Yoshikage knelt on the ground, his body convulsing violently, veins bulging on his forehead, and he let out an uncontrollable, painful growl. At the same time, the surrounding ground suddenly exploded and twisted irregularly, forming faces that seemed to roar.
But a black layer emerged, covering these faces, and then these anomalies quickly disappeared, returning to normal ground.
Pedestrians on the street had long been scared away by the previous explosion, and no one saw this eerie scene.
A few seconds later, the intense pain receded like a tide.
Kira Yoshikage gasped for breath, soaked in cold sweat. He felt that the dark Stand within him had successfully imprisoned Rolling Stone.
He had thought before that since this Stand needed to devour other Stands as sacrifices, could he directly swallow and store other Stands?
Now it seemed perfectly possible. Rolling Stone was already trapped, but he could spit it out whenever he wanted.
"Looks like I need to take a boat out to sea. I don't believe that if I throw you into the deep sea, you'll be able to come out again."
Kira Yoshikage, clutching his already bleeding body, said breathlessly. However, just then, a bullet shot towards him.
It was a sniper bullet, aimed directly at the back of Kira Yoshikage's head.