Kira Yoshikage soared through the sky like a fighter jet, flying incredibly fast, probably at a speed comparable to a WWI jet fighter, exceeding 200 kilometers per hour.
Furthermore, he also seemed to be treated as an inanimate object... directly receiving the bonus of time acceleration! Reaching 40 times the speed of a fighter jet! (The current protagonist should actually be considered a nuclear bomb, not a person).
In the blink of an eye, he could fly an unknown distance; if it weren't for Killer Queen: Bites the Dust's current ability for area bombardment, he probably wouldn't fly far before colliding with things like birds, crashing to his death.
Of course, that would just be another Bites the Dust.
Meanwhile, on the other side, at Kira Yoshikage's destination, on the beach, Higashikata Josuke was engaged in a final battle with the priest.
Initially, the priest had an absolute advantage. After several unsuccessful attacks, he immediately chose to change his plan, using coconut trees to slingshot and accumulate energy for an extremely fast attack, which Higashikata Josuke couldn't even see clearly.
He couldn't even see the priest's shadow, only an illusory figure, with a hand-blade striking towards him, this time with extreme speed and accumulated energy.
His hand-blade directly slashed forward. Although Higashikata Josuke grew many hands in front of him, waving them everywhere to try and block, the priest retracted and extended his hand-blade, striking him on the back of his neck.
Higashikata Josuke's cervical spine was instantly severed, and the priest's hand cut deeply into him.
Feeling his hand clamped by two segments of bone, easily slicing through Higashikata Josuke's neck, the priest stopped. He stood on the ground, maintaining the posture of having cut Higashikata Josuke's neck, and couldn't help but let out a burst of wild laughter.
"Still, still, in the end, I still won! As expected, this is the predetermined destiny! The Joestar bloodline will become my wings! Praise be to you, Father in Heaven!
The new world is coming, Dio, it's almost here, almost!"
However, just as the priest looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, he didn't notice that several hands had quietly grabbed him from behind.
When the priest reacted, he was immediately held tightly. At the same time, Higashikata Josuke pressed his palms together, the gas in his hands changed drastically, and then, under his control, it surged into the priest's nose.
"How is this possible?! What did you do! Higashikata Josuke, wasn't your neck already cut off by me? How could you..."
The priest's voice gradually weakened. He felt that something was wrong; his body felt increasingly weak and dizzy. Higashikata Josuke, however, twisted his head to look at him in a bizarre way. Why bizarre?
Because he didn't move his neck; only the layer of flesh in front of him supported him. That flesh twisted strangely, exposing his spine, yet his eyes were incredibly calm, as if he hadn't noticed anything wrong with himself.
Watching Higashikata Josuke's twisting cervical spine, the priest heard a trembling and distorted sound from the broken neck, "It's very simple. You transformed, and I also transformed. I am only one step away from the last step, which is getting rid of you."
Higashikata Josuke's stand, as a stand one step away from the Golden Spirit, naturally has abilities on par with Made in Heaven. He has a very high mastery of life force and can recover from all injuries, but it will shorten his lifespan depending on the severity of the injury.
Wisps of flame generated at his neck, directly enveloped the priest's hand, and flames also began to appear on the priest's body, turning him into a golden fire-man, as he couldn't help but kneel and howl wildly.
"Ah! How is this possible?! This is predetermined..."
A wave of dizziness rose in his heart. Under the influence of time acceleration, pure oxygen quickly brought his body to the brink of collapse, while the golden flames kept him conscious, slowly turning his life force into fuel.
Higashikata Josuke calmly twisted his head back into the correct position. The flames between his neck interconnected, rapidly beginning to reconstruct his flesh, but his appearance was becoming increasingly aged.
In just a few seconds, it was as if twenty or thirty years had passed for him. He opened his mouth, trying to make a sound, but found his voice had also become hoarse.
"As expected, this kind of injury still consumes too much life force. This move probably cost me 20 years of my life? Or perhaps 30 years?"
But Higashikata Josuke's eyes were surprisingly calm. He saw various past events in the burning priest.
Mr. Jotaro, who sacrificed himself, Koichi, who was suddenly replaced and caused the death of his companions, Okuyasu, who wasn't very smart but persisted in helping him all the way, and his parents... All the past events flashed before his eyes, making Higashikata Josuke's eyes become hollow, but as soon as he thought of Mr. Jotaro saying they could be revived, his eyes became firm again.
"It seems you are not heading to Heaven as you said. More accurately, with these flames, you should be heading to Hell. With this endless sin, my pure oxygen was always a bit superfluous."
Watching the priest, who was about to be burned alive into ashes by the flames before being killed by pure oxygen, Higashikata Josuke felt that his earlier production of pure oxygen was a bit redundant.
But just then, time suddenly rewound one minute.
The priest's vision was reversed bit by bit, the flames on his body were instantly erased, and the poisoning caused by pure oxygen also disappeared.
He looked at his hands with some confusion, but quickly reacted. Looking at Higashikata Josuke, who hadn't reacted yet and was almost frozen in place due to the time difference, the priest's eyes instantly became firm.
"You naturally despicable Joestar brat, how dare you scheme against me and prevent the coming of the new world? What a heinous crime! I will personally get rid of you right now!"
But despite saying that, the priest very deliberately chose not to act himself, but quickly ran off to some unknown place and returned with a rocket launcher... At this time, Higashikata Josuke was still vigilantly searching for the priest. The priest's Made in Heaven, as a top-tier time-based stand, had a certain resistance to time reversal, and he retained a bit of memory.
But Higashikata Josuke didn't. The priest directly raised the rocket launcher and fired a shot behind Higashikata Josuke.
"Die, you damned Higashikata Josuke!"
With a sinister smile, the priest let out a roar. At this point, he no longer cared about his image; he realized that if he didn't get serious, he might actually lose.
Then... before Higashikata Josuke could react, an explosion occurred behind him. However, he was completely unharmed; instead, his gaze was attracted by the terrifying sound, and he immediately saw the stunned priest standing still.
"This... even the shockwave of the explosion shouldn't have had no effect..."
The priest's eyes were completely bewildered. Who exactly was the darling of fate, destined by heaven? Shouldn't he be the one to open up the new world? Why couldn't he ever hit the opponent?