"Idiot!"
Ray Chu's sudden insult cut Kars's manic rant short. His gaze was utterly calm. "The reason I chose this place is simple—the battle that follows isn't something others should witness. And you… are about to meet your despairing end."
BOOM!
Out of nowhere, thunder cracked beneath a clear sky. In a burst of white steam, Ray Chu vanished. In his place hovered a strange yellow creature, wrapped in a blazing golden aura, arms folded across its chest.
"You… what exactly are you?!" Kars staggered back a step, rubbing his eyes as he pointed at the short yellow figure, his face twisting in disbelief.
Pikachu vibrated the air in front of him with controlled bursts of energy—a fine manipulation technique he had mastered after training in Hamon.
"What a pain. In the end I still have to use this form. It's strong enough, but it just doesn't feel very majestic… Kars, as you can see, this is my true form—Pikachu!"
"Pikachu!" True to his nature as the Ultimate Life Form, Kars recovered from his shock quickly. "So you weren't human after all. Only a non-human like you could stand against my ultimate form for so long."
At that moment, Kars had perfectly convinced himself.
"Believe whatever you like." Ray Chu tied the Red Stone of Aja to the center of his forehead like the jeweled crest of some manga hero. It somehow made him feel slightly more handsome.
Of course, the Red Stone also amplified Hamon—barely qualifying it as a powerful item.
"Now then… let's finish this."
In the next instant, Ray Chu vanished.
When he reappeared, he was already in front of Kars. A devastating Iron Tail lashed out, sending Kars flying across the volcanic field.
Ray Chu extended a paw. An invisible Light Screen formed before him, blocking the black feathers Kars had fired. Blue light flashed in his eyes as his psychic power surged forth, shattering the tentacles erupting from Kars's chest into chunks of flesh that rained to the ground.
Over the next thirty seconds, Ray Chu unleashed more than two hundred attacks.
Each strike carried mountain-splitting force, hammering into Kars and reducing every bone in his body to fragments until he collapsed into a boneless heap.
Yet when the assault ended, Ray Chu frowned.
A golden energy wave formed in his palm and engulfed Kars's body.
Even though only his head and half his chest remained, Kars still wasn't dead. His voice croaked from the ruins of his body.
"You can't kill me… you can't kill me. Even if you grind me to dust, I'll slowly regenerate."
Ray Chu's expression didn't change.
Electricity erupted from the sacs on his cheeks.
"[THUNDERBOLT]."
The attack continued for a full minute. Kars's remaining body was reduced to charred carbon—but the life force inside him barely diminished.
"Kekekeke… This is the power of the Ultimate Life Form. I will never die. I'm only temporarily defeated. I'll recover soon enough—and your aura is already weakening."
Though the mechanism was unclear, Kars's body was the strangest Ray Chu had ever encountered. As long as Kars's mind remained intact, his cells could regenerate endlessly until his body fully restored itself.
To truly kill him, both body and mind had to be erased simultaneously.
In other words, Ray Chu's level cap simply wasn't high enough yet.
Ray Chu tapped one of his cheek sacs thoughtfully with his tiny forepaw.
Suddenly his eyes lit up.
Kars felt an immediate surge of dread.
"Hey—wait! Don't do anything reckless! Let's coexist peacefully! You're not human either—why don't we rule this world together?"
Some instinct deep in his biological core screamed danger. He couldn't identify the source, but it was undeniably connected to the creature before him.
Ray Chu ignored him completely.
His paws came together before his chest.
Threads of electricity began to form within his body, spreading across his skin in crackling arcs. At the same time, the energy inside him began to circulate, merging with the electric currents on his surface.
The two forces fused into something entirely new—an energy brimming with life.
Next, this energy stimulated his cells, causing them to vibrate and generate even more electricity and internal energy as raw material. The cycle repeated again and again, building momentum until Ray Chu used his psychic power to restrain and tame the newly born force.
"W-What are you doing?! Damn it—stop! You can't kill me! I won't die!"
Several tendrils sprouted from Kars's back as he desperately crawled away. At that moment, Ray Chu radiated a terrifying aura—one that truly seemed capable of annihilating him.
Lightning gathered around Ray Chu's tiny right paw.
Visible bolts struck the surrounding rock walls, melting stone instantly into vapor as thick white smoke poured into the air.
"Kars. Because of you, I managed to develop this brand-new power much earlier than expected. As thanks… why don't you experience it for yourself?"
CATASTROPIKA
The air tore apart with a shrieking roar.
A fist blazing with electric-blue light slammed into Kars. Everything in its path disintegrated, leaving only Kars's final, disbelieving scream.
"I am immortal… how… is this… possible…"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A massive crater exploded into the ground. At its base, rock had melted into molten lava.
After obliterating Kars, the power finally burned itself out. Ray Chu felt a faint trace of long-forgotten fatigue.
The only trace of Kars left in the world was a charred, human-shaped indentation at the bottom of the crater.
Ray Chu could state with certainty—the cells and will of that evil Ultimate Life Form had been completely erased from existence.
In other words, Kars was dead beyond all doubt. No chance of resurrection remained.
Stretching lazily, Ray Chu turned and flew down the mountain.
With Kars defeated, he suddenly felt that familiar pull again—the signal that it was time for him to leave this world.
But before that, there were still a few loose ends to take care of.
...
A few hours later, several German bases across France were suddenly attacked by an unknown entity. Not a single soldier ever saw the attacker clearly—only a flash of lightning before they lost consciousness.
Fortunately, no one was killed.
But the final reports revealed that large quantities of gold had vanished, along with several mysterious stone masks of unknown origin.
The incident infuriated the Führer back in Germany, resulting in harsh punishment for a number of mid-ranking Nazi officers.
As for the Allied forces, their successful execution of Operation Dynamo allowed 330,000 soldiers to evacuate safely. The Allies preserved their strength, laying the groundwork for their future counteroffensive against fascism.
During the great evacuation, many individuals were commended for extraordinary service—including the Hamon warriors who had secretly battled the Pillar Men and vampires behind the scenes. Their deeds were quietly recorded in classified files among several nations.
Yet after that night, Joseph, Caesar, and Lisa Lisa never saw Ray Chu again.
Only scattered intelligence reports suggested he might still be alive somewhere in the world.
As for Kars—the Ultimate Life Form—he never appeared again.
The one perfect being who had successfully evolved vanished into the currents of history.
Time flowed onward.
Soon, World War II erupted in full force, dragging billions across the globe into the largest conflict in human history. And because of one person's intervention, the destinies of certain nations—and certain individuals—shifted dramatically.
Six months later, a government official from the United States called Joseph.
"Sir Joseph Joestar, I've come on behalf of the President. You must stop the Nazi forces!"
Joseph Joestar—recipient of the Medal of Honor and the George Cross, head of the Joestar family, and America's most legendary adventurer—had grown noticeably more mature after marriage.
"Oh? And where exactly am I headed this time?"
"Our intelligence confirms the Germans are traveling to Egypt. Their objective is the legendary Ark of the Covenant, said to possess the power to destroy anything. Sir, the mission rests in your hands!"
"Good!" Joseph declared, throwing on his coat as he strode toward the waiting aircraft outside without looking back. "I, Joseph Joestar, will smash the Nazis' plot to pieces!"
"Tch. That guy…" Sitting on the sofa, Caesar shook his head helplessly.
But he still folded up his newspaper and followed behind.
A new legend was about to begin.
And Ray Chu had already embarked on the next journey…
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T/N: wowzaaaaaa CAESAR IS ALIVE!!!! AND PIKACHU IS BACK!!! YIPPEEEE!!!!!! oh it sucks webnovel doesnt allow heading for words, so when i transfer this to webnovel it will not be BIG WORDS