Kill Ghiaccio?
This is a very simple matter.
But Takatsuki didn't want to kill him just like that.
In this world, having lost most of his power, if he wanted to complete his mission, kill those who needed to be killed, and grant eternal life to those who sought it, the best way was to collect Stand abilities.
Among them, Ghiaccio's ability was one that Takatsuki desired.
How to grant Diavolo eternal life without Requiem?
Permanently freezing him is a good option.
If he was worried about humans dying from being frozen, then he would turn him into a vampire and then permanently freeze him.
Ghiaccio's Stand ability is very necessary for this.
Otherwise, Takatsuki would only need to turn the car they were in into a bomb to easily blow Ghiaccio to death.
But to get Ghiaccio's Disc, he had to give up this tempting idea.
Because as soon as Ghiaccio was pulled in, he used White Album to generate a thick armor to wrap his body. If there was direct contact, there was no doubt that even Heaven's Stairway's arm would be frozen.
So he chose to escape.
Beach Boy's ability can be used not only to fish for others but also to fish for oneself, making it a Stand ability with extremely strong developmental potential.
"What!"
Ghiaccio didn't expect Takatsuki to escape from the car so quickly. Mainly, he didn't expect Giorno to be able to turn the car into a living thing. This wasn't Giorno trying to help Takatsuki.
Rather, in that situation, Giorno in the car would inevitably do so to protect himself.
He already knew Baby Face's Stand ability, so he could avoid unnecessary probing and losses.
Takatsuki simply predicted his companion's actions.
"Don't think of escaping!"
Ghiaccio, relying on his armor, jumped directly out of the car.
The impact from jumping out of a high-speed car was perfectly resolved by the Stand's armor.
But he saw Takatsuki falling towards the bottom of the bridge at an even faster speed.
Beach Boy's ability is to release a fishing line that can reach nearly a hundred meters and a fishhook that will never break free once it hooks a target. It does not require the user's arm strength to pull the hooked target.
It possesses exaggerated strength on its own.
So after hooking onto the bridge outside, Takatsuki was pulled by the fishing line, falling directly towards the bottom of the bridge as if flying. With the fishing line, he could completely control his falling speed.
"In that case! I'll knock your fishhook down!"
Looking at the fishhook embedded in the bridge, Ghiaccio erupted with an extremely strong chill.
Beach Boy's fishhook and fishing line are indestructible.
Leaving aside the fishhook, the fishing line transmits all attacks into the target hooked by the fishhook.
So by simply attacking the fishing line, the place where the fishhook is hooked will also collapse.
As White Album's extreme cold spread to the fishing line, the spot where the fishhook was hooked suddenly shattered.
After the shattered part broke off, it revealed the whitened stones within.
The attack transmitted by the fishhook exploded directly from within the object, even more intensely than a direct attack.
"Fall to your death!"
Ghiaccio shouted at Takatsuki, who was falling below due to losing his anchor point.
Beach Boy's range is very far, but it also has a limit. Ghiaccio knew this well. As long as the opponent fell a little further, the bridge would be out of Beach Boy's range, and the opponent would only be able to fall directly onto the sea with his bare body.
Falling from hundreds of meters high onto the sea was no different from falling onto the ground.
Even if he didn't die, he would definitely be seriously injured.
However, the detached fishhook did not fall. Instead, defying gravity, it suddenly extended as if alive and rushed towards Ghiaccio.
"Nani!"
This distance should have already exceeded Beach Boy's range.
Ghiaccio thought this the moment the fishhook rushed over, but he dared not be careless, because he didn't understand the opponent's ability. Perhaps the opponent gained further enhancement after taking this ability?
If Takatsuki knew Ghiaccio's thoughts, he would definitely answer him: yes.
Many Stand abilities are closely related to their attributes.
Although there is no way to measure attributes in reality, if Takatsuki's Stand attributes were to be displayed using the six-dimensional stats from the anime.
The result would be a clean sweep of A's.
This was because the Stand panel's upper limit was A, just like Star Platinum.
After absorbing two Stellaron, the surging Imaginary Energy, most of its energy did not feedback to Takatsuki's body, but directly strengthened the Stand, directly maxing out the growth of the originally weak Heaven's Stairway.
After all, that was something that could destroy planets just by radiating residual waves.
One must know that the original Beach Boy's range was only B, yet it already had a range that could cross several train cars. So what about A-rank? What about above A-rank?
"It's useless! Even if your Beach Boy's range is longer than Pesci's, it can't penetrate my Stand!"
Ghiaccio realized he couldn't defeat the opponent by relying on range and immediately changed his strategy.
He directly grabbed the fishhook, holding the fishhook that could penetrate all matter, even human bodies, in his hand, preventing it from moving an inch.
Just as he expected, Beach Boy could not penetrate White Album's armor.
White Album's armor is not formed from ordinary ice, but is a manifestation of the Stand's power itself.
"I'd like to see how far your Beach Boy can extend! Actively putting the fishhook in front of me was your biggest mistake!"
Using his opponent's plan against him, Ghiaccio directly grabbed Beach Boy's fishing line and began to wrap it around his arm.
He had just seen that Takatsuki's Beach Boy was not like Pesci's fishing rod, but a fishing line connected to the finger of a humanoid Stand.
In other words, as long as he kept pulling this fishing line to its maximum extension, he could pull the opponent over.
White Album is not a Stand that excels at long-range attacks, but in close combat, it has an unparalleled advantage.
In Takatsuki's estimation, if he didn't use Time Stop, even Star Platinum would not be White Album's opponent, because he could constantly maintain a chill around himself that could instantly freeze the air.
Even an attack lasting only a moment would be frozen.
Although the fishing line held by Ghiaccio continuously released cold air from the fishhook, the cold air itself could not harm Ghiaccio. If it were just Pesci, fighting White Album would be a complete crushing defeat.
But... what he was facing... was a completely different person.
Not only was the Stand ability different, but more importantly... the user was different.
Ghiaccio laughed as he watched Takatsuki stop falling and begin to be pulled up by him.
"Haha! Reached the limit, huh! It's really long, twice as long as Pesci's, but it also has a limit. Even you can't cut the fishing line, can you? Once I pull you over! I'll show you what I can do!"