After Pucci learned of Higashikata Josuke's abilities, he never approached Higashikata Josuke again. He only attacked from a distance with various weapons, such as throwing knives, pistols, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, and even cannons. He even tried to crush him with a tank... But it proved useless; it wasn't even as effective as his hand chops. His hand chops could at least injure Higashikata Josuke, but these things couldn't even touch a single hair on Higashikata Josuke.
Especially the tank crushing, that was even more useless. When the tank rushed towards Higashikata Josuke at a speed he couldn't react to, it inexplicably disintegrated... Yet, Higashikata Josuke, after picking up a gun Pucci had casually thrown on the ground, actually managed to hit him once, almost killing him... Of course, Fate also had something to say about this; it didn't want to kill Pucci, otherwise, wouldn't it have been easier to just make the cannon shells misfire? It also hoped that the time acceleration would be completed and the New World would arrive.
However, it didn't want that grandson Pucci to truly win. Fate had already set traps for Higashikata Josuke and Jotaro; they couldn't truly reach a level beyond Heaven. But if Pucci were to completely win, then something truly beyond Heaven would be created.
At that time, Fate, itself, would suffer greatly. Without the power of the Saint's Corpse, something beyond Heaven could truly kick it around like a ball... For Fate, the best scenario was for Pucci to barely survive, constantly on the verge of death, and finally perish just before the New World, yet still allow the New World to successfully arrive.
At the same time, it would be best if all these overpowered monsters like Higashikata Josuke, Kishibe Rohan, and Kira Yoshikage all perished together in the Old World, with none of them making it to the New World.
So Fate had been overtly manipulating things like this.
Thus, under its brain-damaging manipulation, Higashikata Josuke and Pucci were locked in a stalemate, fighting for almost an hour. Pucci didn't dare to fully accelerate time, fearing that he might accidentally accelerate the universe into the New World and then be immediately killed by Higashikata Josuke.
The Joestar bloodline must be ended in the Old World, but he felt like he might not be able to end it... And just then, without their knowledge, two pairs of eyes had already fixed on this spot. Above, Kira Yoshikage was circling in the sky. Through Killer Queen: Bites the Dust, he could see everything without needing his eyes.
He clearly saw Pucci and Higashikata Josuke inexplicably locked in a stalemate below, but he didn't immediately intervene because he suspected Fate was setting him up. After all, Higashikata Josuke's original Stand, Crazy Diamond, had left a deep impression on him.
Now his Stand had transformed into a strange, inexplicable Stand that could infinitely summon arms. It gave him a very unique feeling and had even stalemated Made in Heaven. He wanted to first observe what abilities Higashikata Josuke currently possessed.
Meanwhile, at a nearby airport, Kishibe Rohan was slowly descending in a plane. Of course, it was 'slowly' for him; for normal people, it was an indiscernible blur of speed.
After his clone was killed, Kishibe Rohan immediately flew over in a plane. He first wrote on his face, 'You can fly a plane,' and then he learned to fly a plane, and very skillfully at that.
Upon discovering that time was accelerated, he immediately wrote on his face, 'You can keep up with accelerated time.'
After that, for him, time no longer accelerated; it was just that other creatures were slowed down. He simply flew over normally... And this time, he brought a full 40 copies of himself. He refused to believe that 40 copies of himself couldn't defeat a mere pompadour-head?!
He must kill him!
Kill this pompadour-head who dared to insult him!
However, he didn't notice during the landing that the 40 soldiers behind him, who had become identical to him, were wearing eerie smiles.
One by one, small Heaven's Doors crawled out from their 5-minute mark, slowly transitioning into a giant stone in the air, identical to the giant stone in the Mountain God Temple... "Alright, next..."
When the plane came to a stable stop, Kishibe Rohan revealed a relaxed smile and picked up his staff from beside him. However, the giant stone behind him suddenly emitted a fierce light.
Kishibe Rohan looked back in confusion, and instantly, a golden light also erupted from the staff in his hand, injecting into the giant stone. The giant stone emitted a sky-piercing light, directly piercing through the passenger plane!
An incredibly massive eye was constructed in the sky. It was an eye that only Kishibe Rohan could see, filled with incredibly complex and profound patterns, seemingly narrating the truths of the universe.
The moment Kishibe Rohan saw that eye, he seemed to go insane. He screamed and knelt on the ground, drooling from his mouth, blood and tears streaming from his eyes, his eyeballs swelling as if about to explode, eardrums shattering, and skin shriveling.
A silent roar erupted within him, and various runes and incantations, identical to those on the eye, climbed over his body, instantly enveloping Kishibe Rohan. And at this moment, all 40 copies of himself that he had duplicated and modified revealed eerie smiles.
Their forty mouths, perfectly synchronized, sounded like one, their voices overlapping like an echo, "Time's up, you must repay your debt."
As the sound faded, the staff no longer emitted light but instead absorbed light from the stone. The giant eye in the sky erupted with incredibly powerful mental energy, which flowed through the stone into the staff, and then directly into Kishibe Rohan through the staff.
After the grating sounds of bones cracking and flesh tearing and reforming, Kishibe Rohan's entire body shrunk into a ball of flesh, leaving only a hand made of fleshy tentacles gripping the golden staff.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it expanded and returned to its original form, becoming Kishibe Rohan, but his hair had turned a silvery hue, and he had six fingers on each hand, with a sinister and terrifying smile on his face.
He opened his mouth, his voice ethereal and mesmerizing, "A perfect body, incredibly compatible with me. This world is mine. Hmm, my divine messenger, rest assured, I will fulfill your dying wish. Rest peacefully as you become a part of me."
Those 40 Kishibe Rohans intertwined with each other, eventually transforming into a giant hill of flesh, which the Mountain God absorbed in one gulp, causing a golden light to emanate from behind the Mountain God's head, like a great halo.
"Hmph, what a pity. I only cultivated for a month. If I could have cultivated for a longer period, perhaps my true body could have directly descended into this world. However, one clone is enough. This world currently has no gods in existence, so one is sufficient."
The Mountain God muttered to himself. No, this wasn't muttering, because as he spoke, he stared at Kira Yoshikage. Kira Yoshikage felt his gaze, and a chilling sensation from the depths of his heart swept through his body.
Earlier, through Killer Queen: Bites the Dust, he had noticed what was happening in this corner, so he secretly spied for a while... As a result, he seemed to have seen something he shouldn't have.
The Mountain God, with Kishibe Rohan's face, smiled inscrutably, but after looking at Kira Yoshikage in the sky, he seemed to realize something, sighed, and no longer looked at him, instead turning his gaze towards the battle between Made in Heaven and the righteous warrior in the distance.
"Forget it, this is enough."