The interior of the building was even more dilapidated than the outside, with collapsed rubble and charred debris everywhere.
Kira Yoshikage cautiously navigated through the ruins, following the direction indicated by the insect arrow, his senses heightened to the extreme, catching any abnormal energy fluctuations or life signs, and every step he took was silent.
Unbeknownst to him, his feet had already transformed from human feet into structures resembling octopus tentacles, complete with suckers, allowing for rapid gliding movement.
He estimated that if he developed one or two more deformities, his body would directly explode due to the immense energy it couldn't bear, with a power likely sufficient to evaporate half of Europe.
He would cherish these powers, and then give Kishibe Rohan or America a big surprise; of course, if he could end things peacefully, he would still be willing to forgo this massive explosion, as he still yearned for a quiet life.
Finally, after passing through a rubble-strewn corridor and entering a spacious area that seemed to be an inner hall, he felt it.
A faint gaze.
He was indeed here!
He was hiding here, barely clinging to life; that faint sound of breathing was exceptionally clear in Kira Yoshikage's ears, he was almost dead.
Kira Yoshikage did not immediately attack.
Like the most patient hunter, he slowly approached the pile of ruins, his deformed arms slightly raised, ready to unleash a thunderous strike at any moment.
Sitting there, he heard suppressed, painful gasps coming from behind the ruins.
"I am the Emperor..."
"Diavolo..."
Kira Yoshikage's voice echoed in the dead silent ruins, laced with cold mockery, "How does it feel to hide like a rat? Where is your imperial dignity?
Your meticulously managed 'Passione', your identity hidden for years, are nothing but a joke in the face of absolute power."
The gasping behind the ruins suddenly stopped!
The next moment—
"Ugh ah ah ah ah—!! King Crimson!!"
A roar filled with humiliation and rage exploded from behind the ruins!
Accompanying this furious roar, Kira Yoshikage's sense of time instantly became bizarre and viscous!
He vaguely seemed to see himself maintaining his forward walking motion and the opponent's charging motion; his adaptability to time abilities allowed him to slightly discern this.
But he could still only maintain his previous posture.
Diavolo activated his ability! He erased time!
However, Kira Yoshikage didn't care, because even if King Crimson struck him full force in the head, it wouldn't kill him; this absolute defense would last until he exploded.
Unexpectedly, however, the opponent had no intention of fighting him; Diavolo, despite roaring, was desperately trying to escape.
The moment time resumed its flow, Kira Yoshikage didn't even look at Diavolo's movements; his two deformed arms behind him, as if possessing precognitive abilities, suddenly snatched towards a predetermined position ahead.
Pfft!
"Ugh!"
A muffled thud and a cry of pain rang out simultaneously!
Diavolo, who had just lunged towards the doorway to jump out, was instantly impaled; Kira Yoshikage's move directly stabbed through his stomach, firmly pinning him in place.
The deformed claw moved slightly, fiercely tearing open Diavolo's shoulder, drawing a spray of blood!
With a flick of his hand, he directly slammed Diavolo to the ground, leaving him in such pain that he could barely move; his body had already been ravaged by previous explosions, and the subsequent radiation made it unbearable.
At this moment, Diavolo was in extremely poor condition.
His long pink hair was disheveled, covered in dust and blood, and his iconic mesh pattern was severely damaged, revealing scars from radiation burns and explosion impacts underneath.
His face was pale, his eyes bloodshot, showing both the weakness of severe injury and the madness and anger of his plan being completely disrupted and himself exposed to absolute danger.
"Kira Yoshikage!!"
Upon realizing he couldn't escape, Diavolo roared, King Crimson appearing behind him, still exuding a powerful oppressive feeling but seemingly unstable in form, "You damned jinx! You ruined everything!!"
"Ruined?" Kira Yoshikage approached step by step, a mocking sneer on his face, his dark Stand already manifested, biting Diavolo.
"I'm just cleaning up trash. And you, you're the biggest piece. Hand over your Stand...!"
Diavolo gritted his teeth, King Crimson's ability frequently activating, constantly erasing time, attempting to evade fatal attacks and find opportunities to counterattack.
His Epitaph was also frantically operating, but the future told him that he would definitely be bitten, he would definitely die... Boom! Boom! Pfft!
"It's over, Diavolo!"
Ultimately, despite erasing time multiple times, Diavolo struggled to crawl a few meters but still couldn't avoid Kira Yoshikage's Stand's bite; the black liquid Stand tightly bound Diavolo.
"Ugh ah!" Diavolo's eyes bulged, a strong sense of suffocation washing over him.
He was probably the most tragic boss; before he could even show his power, he was severely wounded by a nuclear bomb, and was taken down by Kira Yoshikage without a chance to resist.
His strength was clearly capable of rivaling Jotaro, yet he was completely suppressed before he could demonstrate it.
Kira Yoshikage pressed him firmly against the broken wall, and whispered into his ear.
"Your 'King Crimson' is mine!"
The darkness spread like a living thing, coiling around the struggling Diavolo and his Stand... The hunt was about to be completed.
And Kira Yoshikage, having devoured the time-erasing ability, would become even more terrifying.
The blueprint core sacrifice was completed at this moment; Killer Queen, the unformed Stand, and King Crimson, these three top-tier Stands began to merge and reorganize at this moment.
And the insect arrow silently floated to the side, waiting... As the darkness receded like a tide, Diavolo's last struggle was completely swallowed and absorbed, he was thoroughly transformed into a sacrifice and nourishment, becoming a victim of evolution.
Amidst the ruins, all was silent, only the insect arrow, as if drawn by an invisible force, slowly flew towards the nascent core.
The next moment, an indescribable torrent of energy swept through the entire space, yet instantly collapsed and converged.
A brand new Stand silently stood before Kira Yoshikage, this Stand entirely belonging to Kira Yoshikage.
Its main outline inherited Killer Queen's streamlined and agile form, still appearing as a beautiful pink feline.
But within that pink, flowed the ominous, lava-like dark red patterns of King Crimson, like a destructive bloodline surging beneath a calm pink exterior.
Moreover, this Stand was more slender and eerie than Killer Queen, exuding an almost divine oppressive aura, an influence from the insect arrow.
And most striking was its head.
In the position where a cheek should be, a cold and bizarre small face, identical to King Crimson's, rested upon it, its eyes indifferent, as if discerning all the mysteries of time.
This was the ultimate creation Kira Yoshikage had achieved after such long efforts, his very own Killer Queen: Bites the Dust!
His evolution was almost complete!
He just needed to absorb the remaining two arrowheads to reach a perfect state!