Just as the newly merged Pucci was feeling the surging power within him and planning his path to Heaven, a rapid engine roar approached from a distance, violently shattering the deathly silence of the prison area!
"He's over there! That priest!"
A furious roar came, and a roughly modified sedan, with a dent in its front, violently crashed through the prison's outer barriers and charged in!
No, that's not right. It wasn't the sedan that crashed through the barriers; instead, the barriers were all eliminated out of thin air, and the sedan was directly pulled forward, charging towards the priest at an unimaginable speed.
But it was directly shredded by a thread emerging from one of Dio's remnants, and three people immediately tumbled out of the car on the spot.
The ones who jumped out of the car were Higashikata Josuke, Nijimura Okuyasu, and Koichi Hirose!
They had tracked clues all the way, using Okuyasu's crude and direct path-clearing, and the memory disc from the criminal's mind. First, they found the ancient castle where the priest and others had hidden before, and then they followed clues from the castle.
After rigorously interrogating the half-dead old man and the timid, strangely dressed shadow pervert, they finally found this place.
Their gaze instantly locked onto the memory disc belonging to Jotaro, which was casually held between Pucci's fingers, like a slightly thicker piece of origami.
"Give Mr. Jotaro's memories back! You damned bastard! DORARARARARA!!"
Josuke's eyes were bloodshot, and he wasted no words. Crazy Diamond erupted with dazzling light, charging forward like a human cannonball, his fist aimed directly at Pucci's face!
Okuyasu followed closely, The Hand's ability poised. "You bastard priest! Watch me erase you and the ground you're standing on!"
Koichi, meanwhile, controlled Echoes ACT3, attempting to use gravity to suppress and restrict Pucci's movements. "Freeze! Pin him to the ground!"
Facing this sudden and fierce attack, Pucci's face remained unperturbed. His vertical pupils didn't even flicker with a hint of surprise, only an indifference like looking down on ants.
"Ignorant Joestar bloodline... ants unable to comprehend the grand willing of 'Heaven'..."
He murmured to himself, not even making any defensive or counterattacking moves. He merely inserted another disc into his head, looking disdainfully at the fist that was about to hit his face.
Just as Josuke's fist was about to touch his nose, C-Moon had completely formed.
Boom!!!
An invisible yet immense and vast power suddenly erupted from Pucci's center! It wasn't a direct Stand attack; it was more like space itself repelling them!
"Ugh!"
Josuke, Okuyasu, and Koichi were thrown backward even faster than they came, as if hit head-on by a high-speed train, crashing heavily against distant ruins and rubble, raising a cloud of dust.
At the same time, not only them, but Dio's remnants were also inexplicably slammed against the wall, the violent impact causing them significant injuries, each spitting blood.
"Cough... What's going on?!"
Okuyasu coughed dust, his face filled with disbelief. They hadn't even seen how the opponent's Stand was activated. It was as if the direction of gravity had suddenly changed, and its intensity had increased several times over.
"It's 'gravity'..."
Pucci spoke indifferently, as if stating a simple fact. "My connection to this planet's gravity has become tighter. Fine-tuning the gravitational field around me to repel you 'impurities' is as easy as turning my hand.
Now you are merely crickets in a child's toy cage. I can manipulate gravity at will, making you unable to distinguish up from down, or east from west. This is the power of C-Moon."
He didn't even glance at the three who were thrown back, nor did he pay attention to Dio's remnants behind him, who were even more fanatical because of his display of god-like power. None of that mattered now.
His gaze swept over the broken prison walls, looking south, as if he could already see that fated coast in Florida, Cape Canaveral.
"Time is running out, 'C-Moon' is coming. Tomorrow night, the peak of gravity awaits... Send me away, C-Moon."
He murmured, activating the disc he had just inserted into his head. A blue-white, translucent, half-human, half-snake Stand appeared behind him and swallowed him whole.
The next moment, as the three struggled to get up and prepare another attack, Pucci's figure began to blur and distort, like a sugar cube dissolving in water.
The scenery around him rippled like water into which a stone had been thrown. He and the Stand enveloping him slowly vanished.
"Stop!" Josuke roared, Crazy Diamond charging out again, its furious fists desperately smashing at the Stand.
But this time, the fists passed through the gradually fading afterimage, hitting nothing but air.
Okuyasu, on the other hand, said nothing, but desperately waved his hands, the four fleshy spheres on his hands trembling constantly, emitting a mournful cry of overuse and unbearable strain.
But despite also being a spatial ability, he couldn't affect the opponent in the slightest. Instead, the ground around the priest was all shaved away to who knows where.
Finally, Pucci, along with Jotaro's memory disc in his hand, vanished into thin air in broad daylight, as if erased by an eraser.
Only his last words, as if from a distant void, slowly echoed in the air:
"Want to reclaim memories? Want to stop me? Then try to keep up with 'fate'... At Cape Canaveral, all karma will be settled.
Do not stop them, let them come. This is their destined fate."
On the scene, only the stunned remnants of Dio remained, along with the furious, unwilling, and despairing Higashikata Josuke and his two companions.
"You... bastard..."
Josuke clenched his fists tightly, his fingernails almost embedded in his flesh. A reddish glow emanated from behind his hair, as if it were on fire, and his eyes stared fixedly, as if bleeding.
They had rushed with all their might, yet couldn't even touch the opponent's clothes, only watching helplessly as he walked away with the only hope of saving Jotaro.
Okuyasu angrily punched the nearby wall. "He got away again! And what's this about Cape Canaveral?! What the hell is that place?!"
Koichi panted, his face pale, with a hint of confusion and doubt in his eyes. His memory was better than Okuyasu's, and he remembered the place name the priest had mentioned.
"What did he mean by 'gravity' and 'C-Moon' just now? Isn't Cape Canaveral where we were a few days ago? Didn't we just come from there?"
Josuke looked up, an unyielding flame burning in his eyes. "No matter where he goes, no matter what we face... We must catch up! For Mr. Jotaro, for my parents..."
They had lost immediate track of their target again, but the needle of fate now clearly pointed to the final stage—Cape Canaveral.
After exchanging glances, Dio's remnants also ignored them and left the prison, packed their bags, and boarded a plane to Cape Canaveral. Since the priest had said it was part of fate, they naturally wouldn't stop them, as it would be terrible if their interference affected Lord Dio's plan.
Higashikata Josuke and the others also had no time to deal with these matters. They were also frantically rushing to catch a plane, wanting to go back. It was hard to say if they could defeat these remnants in a head-on fight, but time was definitely not enoug