"Sorry, Yoshikage, my good son. It's all because your father is weak that your mother always abuses you at home.."
Hmm, what situation is this now, Fa…ther? Wasn't I going to cause trouble for that man...
"Yoshikage, just endure it a little longer. Is there any gift you want? Dad will buy it for you. And this money, take it.."
Money again. The old man always buys me useless things...
"My poor Yoshikage, how did you get the wound on your face? Did that bastard woman hit you again?!"
Even if you know, what can you do? You don't dare to do anything about her.
"Yoshikage, you are a child who absolutely won't shout or yell when you encounter something unpleasant. You just keep biting your fingernails like you are now... My poor child~~ When you're in despair, you even bite your nails until they bleed..."
So noisy. It's already so noisy I can't think normally. Can you just shut up!
"That woman is finally dead. That's great, Yoshikage. Let's move! Get far away from this terrifying nightmare!"
Move? To Morioh? Something like that doesn't matter.
"Yoshikage, look what gift Dad brought back for you from Egypt. An arrow. Here, take it!"
Wah——! I accidentally got cut by it!
...No. Killer Queen! This is my experience from childhood until now. What is Kira Yoshikage doing right now?!
It is said that when a person is about to die, important memories from their entire life will rapidly flash through their mind. They will see their own memories from infancy to the present. This phenomenon is called the revolving lantern.
Regarding the revolving lantern, there is a folk saying that it is the brain searching through memories for a way to save itself.
Clearly, in Kira Yoshikage's memories, there was no method to survive after simultaneously taking a hit from Heavenly Restriction and The World's power A punch, even if this was under the condition of Diego deliberately holding back.
Let us momentarily pull our gaze away from Kira Yoshikage's revolving lantern and return to the cruel reality.
Kira Yoshikage lay on the street, his entire face caved in, his nasal bridge shattered in a comminuted fracture, blood flowing profusely, as quiet as a sleeping infant.
"wryyyyyyy!!The World!!Quickly think of a way to save him!!" Diego held his head and shouted in collapse. "Heartbeat?! Why isn't his heart beating?! Breathe, you bastard!!"
Gazing at Kira Yoshikage whose head was bleeding nonstop and who was about to die, Diego's eyes were panicked. He hurriedly stabbed his dinosaur claws into Kira Yoshikage's neck, dinosaurifying him in an instant and forcibly snatching him back from the Grim Reaper.
Dinosaurification to stop the bleeding. The World turned into a heart pacemaker. Its intangible hand pinched his heart, simulating a heartbeat for Kira Yoshikage whose bodily functions were collapsing, to restore blood circulation in his body.
"You can't die yet!! Hold on!! I will definitely revive you!! Don't give up! Breathe, breathe!!" The kind (?) Diego was sweating profusely, both hands desperately slapping Kira Yoshikage's face.
At the same time, he angrily cursed in his heart:
For Jotaro's sake, who gave you the courage? Even though your body is so plain and ordinary like boxer briefs, how dare you bring your face over here?!
Don't you have a mother?! Didn't your mother teach you not to provoke people you can't afford to mess with?!
This bastard murderer. He didn't gather any intelligence at all and just rushed over in a hurry to die?!
Not good. Not good at all. If this guy dies, Reimi Sugimoto's obsession will disappear and her soul will return to heaven!!
My precious experimental material... Is there anyone else who can save this guy?!!
"The World!Stop time for me!!"
At the same time, on the other side.
——Inside the alley with no way back——
Reimi Sugimoto blinked at the scene of a man's illusory figure flickering on and off. Her small eyes revealed great confusion.
"What situation is this? Did the alley bug out?"
Reimi Sugimoto tried to understand.
She brought her beloved dog Arnold toward this illusory figure and reached out her hand, attempting to touch it to confirm the situation.
The instant she touched Kira Yoshikage, Reimi Sugimoto's palm passed straight through, as if there was originally nothing here and what she saw was merely an illusion.
In just the time it took to be stunned, this flickering illusory figure disappeared from the alley.
"Oh, Arnold. I think I've been under a bit too much pressure lately." Reimi Sugimoto closed her eyes and lightly rubbed both sides of her nose bridge. When she opened them again, she confided to the beloved dog beside her, "I don't know if Mr. Dio has properly told the people in town about the murderer."
"Woof!"
"However, he looks very reliable. I believe he will be able to bring that murderer to justice very soon!"
"Woof!"
...
"Dio, I healed him."
Josuke Higashikata withdrew Crazy Diamond. A light pinkish-purple glow flashed by. The bloodstains on Kira Yoshikage's body disappeared, and his caved-in face also returned to normal.
Afterward, Josuke Higashikata slightly tilted his head and glanced backward with a pitying gaze at Kira Yoshikage, whose muscles were still twitching unnaturally.
Such a terrifying injury. How exactly did this ordinary office worker provoke Mr. Dio?
It couldn't be that he confessed to Mr. Dio, right?
Seeing Josuke Higashikata's hesitant appearance, that almost pleading gaze made Diego unable to open his eyes. He could easily guess what he wanted to say.
Diego pressed his hat brim down, waved his hand, and pouted in displeasure: "Tch, I know, I know. Next time I'll be careful. I won't beat people half to death. Beating them to 0.25 dead is fine, right!"
There... there will be a next time?!
The light in Josuke Higashikata's eyes seemed to bloom even more. The frequency of his blinking also grew faster and faster.
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"kono Dio has had enough..." Diego almost gritted his teeth as he squeezed out this sentence. "Get lost and go back. Don't force me, Dio, to beat you up too. Don't forget that your Crazy Diamond can't heal yourself."
Hmph!
Stop acting cute and making demands with me. That's Alicia's patent!
"Fine.." Josuke Higashikata lowered his head dejectedly, scratched his cheek, then put his hands together and pleaded: "By the way, Mr. Dio, can you send me back? Just like how you grabbed me here. In the blink of an eye, whoosh, and I'm home. Before leaving home and arriving here, I was still playing video games. I haven't saved three months' worth of progress yet."
"Tsk..." Diego clicked his tongue softly. His hand patted in front of Josuke Higashikata's chest as he said in a deep voice, "Wind Spirit..."
Layers of emerald-green magic arrays appeared. Josuke Higashikata's face showed terror as his body uncontrollably floated into the air.
Like a falling meteor, he sped away.
After Josuke Higashikata left, Diego took out gloves from his clothes pocket and put them on himself.
Just thinking about grabbing Kira Yoshikage with bare hands would make him feel secretly pleased made Diego feel a wave of disgust.
Absolutely cannot reward him!
Afterward, Diego put one hand in his pocket and used the other to grab Kira Yoshikage's hair, calmly dragging him up from the ground.
The World helped take out a phone from his pocket and kept tapping the screen, sending a message to Enrico Pucci, indicating he wanted to pay him a visit.
Oh right, right! Almost forgot about her!
Diego stopped walking, released the hand grabbing Kira Yoshikage's hair, and flashed over to Sajuna Inui.
At this moment, she was terrified, thinking she had witnessed a murder scene. Diego pointed two fingers at her forehead and gently tapped.
"[Memory Oblivion]..."
The Memory Spirit erased the memories of seeing Diego today.
After finishing everything, Diego brought Kira Yoshikage to the front of the apartment where Enrico Pucci lived and knocked on the door.
Knock knock knock...
Click!
The instant the knocking sound rang out, Pucci pushed the door open and appeared in front of Diego, as if he had been waiting the whole time.
However, his mental state did not seem perfect. His head was lowered, and his other hand held a long blade. His entire body emitted an aura of killing intent and resentment.
"Is this the bastard who dared to make a move on my best friend?"
Seeing this, Diego took two steps forward, reached out to press down on the hilt of that long blade, leaned close to Father Pucci's earlobe, and said in a low voice: "Calm down. This guy still can't be killed."
"Best friend... You weren't injured, right?!" Pucci, who had lost his reason due to concern, regained his senses and threw the long blade away.
"It's nothing. That was just a Stand user with a combat power of five." Diego's expression remained normal. The hand grabbing the blond hair lifted upward, displaying Kira Yoshikage in front of Father Pucci, and continued, "Pucci, go get some water and splash it on him to wake him up."
Pucci nodded, turned around, went back into the room, and filled a bucket full of water.
Then, he poured it over Kira Yoshikage's head.
It was unknown how much time passed before Kira Yoshikage gradually regained consciousness. In his dazed state, he heard the conversation between the two.
"...So best friend's meaning is to ensure he stays alive while making it impossible for him to continue committing crimes against women's hands?"
"Pretty much. But we have to add one more condition: men's hands are also not allowed! Hmm... Why not just have Whitesnake pull out his Stand? Once and for all."
"That works too. However, I need to contact a professional medical team first. A Stand is the symbol of spirit and soul. If he lacks a Stand, his bodily functions will gradually lose activity."
"No need. I, Dio, have my own methods."
The cold tap water rinsing him, along with Diego and Pucci's unmasked conversation, stimulated Kira Yoshikage's nerves one by one.
Where is this? How did I suddenly faint?
Kira Yoshikage struggled to open his eyes, panting heavily. The first thing he did was check his own body, confirming he wasn't missing any parts and that his clothes were intact before letting out a sigh of relief.
Diego's hand rested on Kira Yoshikage's shoulder. The corners of his mouth stretched outward as he said with great interest: "Yo, you're finally awake?"
"How bold. You actually dared to make a move on my best friend..." Enrico Pucci's eyes carried hostility.
"Gulp..." Kira Yoshikage's throat moved as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Afterward, his gaze shifted backward. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at The World and Whitesnake beside him.
The two Stands had excited faces and kept rubbing their fists and palms, making Kira Yoshikage's heart turn half cold. Multiple labels surfaced in his mind.
Multiple people, kidnapping, imprisonment, coercion, gang (?), black person (?), beautiful hands, no! Why are they wearing gloves?!
In "J"eopardy...
" Killer Queen!!!First Bomb!!!"
If one does not erupt in silence, one will perish in silence.
Kira Yoshikage, who prided himself on never losing in battle, launched a sudden attack. The pink big cat named Killer Queen appeared behind him and touched Diego's body!
Just like always, I, Kira Yoshikage, won. Killer Queen has already turned everything except this guy's hands into bombs!
"Heh... Hehehe... Ahahahahaha!"
Immediately afterward, Kira Yoshikage, who believed victory was assured, laughed proudly.
No matter how strong you are, your Stand's speed can't possibly be fast enough that I can't even detonate the bomb, right?
This time I can finally bring my new girlfriend home!
Diego and Pucci merely watched Kira Yoshikage laughing with expressionless faces.
Kira Yoshikage stopped laughing. He felt offended by their gazes.
These two idiots don't even know they're about to die..
Kira Yoshikage became carried away with his success: "Let me tell you a truth. Evil spirits have a unique ability. Next time, don't casually walk into the attack range of a stranger evil spirit!"
Time to do it. Killer Queen! Right now! Right here! I'm going to press it! Press the switch!
Killer Queen slowly raised its thumb toward Diego.
Click!
The World appeared in an instant, grabbed Kira Yoshikage's thumb, and snapped it!
The injury simultaneously appeared on Killer Queen. The finger responsible for pressing the bomb detonation switch was clearly broken!
The sudden intense pain caused Kira Yoshikage to let out a wail: "Wuaaaaaaaaah————!!"
Diego and Pucci exchanged glances with each other. Neither could hold back their expressions and revealed smiles. Two fingers of different skin colors pointed at Kira Yoshikage.
Diego was the first to point at Kira Yoshikage's miserable state and burst into laughter, then began insulting him: "Let kono Dio tell you a truth. Don't walk into the attack range of a stranger Stand? Hahahaha..."
"Hmph. How could anyone think they could play some insignificant little tricks in front of the King?" Pucci's laugh was relatively not as rampant, but he still maintained a damaging insult.
Kira Yoshikage's eyes were bloodshot. His left hand tightly gripped the broken finger. The clenched fist had bulging veins due to anger and pain. He roared: "You bunch of bastards——!!"
At the same time, Killer Queen's left hand released the second bomb (Sheer Heart Attack). Its appearance was that of a small toy car wearing a skull head.
While Kira Yoshikage was unconscious, the two had learned from Kira Yoshikage's memories that this was a tank-type tracking bomb with extremely high defense that was almost impossible to destroy. It could lock onto heat-source targets.
"Hey! The roast chicken is about to be gone! (Look this way)"
The skull car's tracks slid as it aimed at Diego and Pucci and moved. Once it hit the two, it would explode.
Despite this, Diego and Pucci still did not choose yare yare daze. They were not panicked in the slightest, because...
Your body temperature is not as low as mine.
Click click... click click click...
After traveling a certain distance, the small car stopped in place and did not move.
"What's going on? Why did Sheer Heart Attack stop moving?!" Kira Yoshikage's pupils shrank. Cold sweat appeared on his cheeks. His tone was filled with disbelief. "Logically, it should keep pursuing until it blows the two of them up..."
Squeak squeak squeak...
"Do you like desk lamps? The kind with adjustable brightness." Diego looked at Kira Yoshikage playfully. His cold dinosaur tail tightly wrapped around his neck.
The dinosaurified Pucci enthusiastically explained: "Best friend means our body temperature is so low that we don't count as heat sources."
!!
Kira Yoshikage lowered his head in resignation. Both hands hung down powerlessly.
"Sniff. Can we reconcile?" Kira Yoshikage felt despair in his heart.
Unfortunately, at this moment, there was no arrow that could pierce into his body to help him awaken the third bomb Bites the Dust to rewind time.
"Reconcile? At this moment? Kira Yoshikage, you must be joking, right?" Diego's hand pressed against Kira Yoshikage's face. His low, emotionless voice carried a hint of oppression.
Kira Yoshikage finally let out a plea: "At the very least, when you hit me, take off the gloves..."
Smack!
"You really have a lot of demands. As the loser, just obediently eat dirt." Whitesnake's philosophically inclined face suddenly appeared behind him. Its single hand clenched into a fist and struck Kira Yoshikage's face. "Disc creation complete."
Two discs appeared on Kira Yoshikage's cheeks. Whitesnake extended its hand and pulled away the disc drawn with a pink big cat.
"What I mean is that you will turn into a desk lamp." Diego stabbed his dinosaur claw into Kira Yoshikage's cheek, turning him into a little dinosaur in an instant, then turning him into a dinosaur-style black desk lamp again.
"It just so happens that the desk lamp in my house was blown up by a little fairy. I was just worrying about where to buy furniture. I'll have to trouble you to make a cameo." Diego looked at the Kira lamp.
(Kira Yoshikage lamp, abbreviated as...)
An inexplicable mischievous impulse welled up in his heart. He greeted it: "Yo, Kira Yoshikage."