Kira Yoshikage propped himself up and climbed to his feet, his exploded mouth recovering under the effect of pure energy.
As for the countless shadowy hands behind him... Killer Queen: Bites the Dust unleashed its full power, and terrifying explosions erupted on the hands behind Kira Yoshikage, instantly shattering two of them, accompanied by the wailing of a lost soul, and a pair of hands behind him disappeared.
The other hands seemed to sense the death of their companions, and it was a complete erasure at the soul level; this time, they couldn't even leave behind a lost soul. Instantly, the hands' strength diminished, and they began to tremble silently.
Kira Yoshikage easily stood upright; the hands behind him couldn't pull him at all. He even had the leisure to adjust his clothes and comb his hair, while the hands behind him even fearfully avoided his touch.
They didn't dare to touch him at all; ultimately, these ghosts also possessed intelligence.
Kira Yoshikage snorted disdainfully. His only obstacle to victory was Jotaro; as for these so-called specters, they might have been enough, even more than enough, to deal with the original Kira Yoshikage.
But that was entirely due to the priority of ghosts being higher than Stands, which resulted in brute force. Killer Queen couldn't harm them, so he could only die.
But when facing Killer Queen: Bites the Dust, which had the same, or even slightly higher, priority... they couldn't even tear Kira Yoshikage and Killer Queen: Bites the Dust. Yet, the Requiem could easily crush them. They instantly became afraid; they remembered their tragic deaths and grew even more terrified.
Ultimately, they were just a group of victims murdered, their souls coalescing in the alley. Essentially, they were no different from when they were alive, just a flock of lambs who had gained power.
Facing the tiger and wolf that had gained even greater power, they dared not resist. Even when they saw Kira Yoshikage turn his head, they didn't dare to pull him away directly, as the rules seemed to demand.
Instead, pair after pair of hands released their grip in terror and retracted, seemingly wanting to escape and retreat into the underworld.
But Kira Yoshikage would not let them off so easily. His eyes revealed a cold killing intent. Killer Queen: Bites the Dust crossed his fists. "Trying to leave now? Too late. You were all killed by me in your lives, and you all feared me.
So why do you think I would fear you after your deaths? You are still the ones who fear me! Killer Queen: Bites the Dust, blow them away!"
Facing the now visible specters, Killer Queen: Bites the Dust unleashed its full power this time. The terrifying explosive force directly enveloped these entities head-on.
It permeated them little by little from the outside in, causing their bodies to crack inch by inch, revealing brilliant sparks, and then exploding bit by bit, yet not killing them immediately, but making them watch themselves explode in terror.
Kira Yoshikage clearly saw each face; his eyes were very calm, reflecting those figures.
Some were women who had been brutally murdered by his original self in the past, others were passersby he had wantonly killed in actions like bombing shopping malls. But at this moment, they were all exploding little by little. Their dense black resentment was blown apart.
They showed expressions of pleading for mercy, but there wasn't even a trace of pity in Kira Yoshikage's eyes. He would have no sympathy for those who wanted to kill him.
At the same time, he would not feel any guilt for casually killing people; there would never be any mental exhaustion, because all of it was for tranquility, and it was worth it.
"Die. Disappear from this world forever. You are all my enemies."
Watching large swathes of these souls completely shattered, a pitch-black passage then appeared behind them. Perhaps it was a path leading to the underworld, where many more hands lingered, and faces peered out from the depths.
Those were also people he had killed, but because the path was too narrow, they couldn't squeeze out. Now, they had thus escaped a calamity. After giving their enemy a few final, unwilling glances, those specters completely retreated, and the path closed.
And the golden soul cloud in the sky had also quietly dissipated at some unknown time. Perhaps its appearance was originally dependent on Jotaro; now that Jotaro was dead, that cloud became rootless, and naturally vanished.
"Now all the enemies are dead, the threat is gone. Have I passed this tribulation? No, that's not right, there's still the priest, but where is he now? No, where am I now?!"
Watching the threats one by one completely retreat, Kira Yoshikage counted on his fingers and realized that only the priest remained as an enemy. But when he tried to find the priest, he suddenly realized a problem: he didn't seem to be in the real world right now... because the flow of time here was normal, which could be seen through the stones and their movements. Moreover, here, one could cross unknown distances, allowing the cloud of souls and the alley of no return to appear in one place.
Clearly, the laws of physics here were chaotic. This was probably a small space created by Star Platinum: Over Heaven, a grave and a dueling ground originally prepared for him.
But now he had won, and Star Platinum: Over Heaven's abilities would not disappear with death... How was he supposed to get out? This world was independent of the main world; who knew if destroying this small world would return him to the main world?!
Therefore, with hesitation in his heart, Kira Yoshikage chose to ask the insect arrow. This thing looked intelligent and should know a lot, and asking wouldn't cost him anything.
"insect arrow, if I blow up this small world, can I return to the real world?"
Hearing Kira Yoshikage's question, the sacred beetle lazily shifted its body, slowly crawling out of Kira Yoshikage's eye. It carefully surveyed the space, its intelligent eyes flickering, and immediately came to a conclusion.
"[No.]"
"[If a normal person destroyed such a space, there's a high probability they would return to their original location, a small probability they would be randomly teleported to any corner of the universe, and a very slim chance they would travel to other parallel worlds.]"
"[But you cannot. You are targeted by fate. If you destroy this space, you will absolutely be directly teleported into a vacuum, a distance so far that you won't be able to return to Earth before Made in Heaven is completed.]"
"Then what should I do?"
"[I can help you get out and help you find that priest, but you must also promise me one thing, how about it?]"
Kira Yoshikage's gaze sharpened. His undamaged eye rotated, directly fixing on the arrowhead that had emerged from his other eye.
"What thing? Let's agree on the conditions first; I wouldn't dare to sign an agreement with unstated terms."