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Chapter 306 Kars and the Priest

A few days later, in Florida, a solemn church bathed in sunlight.

The stained glass filters the intense sunlight into colorful and soft bands of light, which are projected onto the neatly arranged benches and the devoutly bowed heads.

On the altar, a man dressed in a black priest's robe was explaining passages from the Bible to the believers below in a calm yet captivating voice.

His skin was dark, his lips were full, and although he looked young, his eyes revealed a wisdom beyond his years.

He was Enrique Pucci, Dio Brando's only close friend, a clergyman who combined faith with his devotion to that man.

The heavy wooden doors of the church were silently pushed open, and the intrusion of a figure instantly shattered this sacred harmony.

He was a man so tall he was almost inhuman, with long purple hair cascading down like a waterfall. His upper body muscles resembled those of an ancient Greek sculpture, exuding a primal and wild power.

His appearance was like a pagan god stepping into a mortal temple; the believers gasped for breath upon seeing Kars.

Kaz paid no attention to the stares around him, made no sound, and simply walked straight to a row of empty benches and sat down calmly.

Pucci, standing on the platform, also noticed this uninvited guest. His sermon paused almost imperceptibly, and a strange feeling welled up inside him.

This unique aura reminded him of his deceased friend…

But the composure honed by decades of clergy quickly brought him back to his senses, and he continued his sermon, though he could never completely tear his gaze away from the figure in that corner.

half an hour later
When Pucci announced the end of his sermon and the believers began to rise and leave, Katz also stood up and walked straight toward the altar.

"Father Pucci."

Katz's voice wasn't loud, but it reached the other person's ears clearly.

“I have something to say to you privately about your close friend, Dio Brando.”

Pucci's body stiffened abruptly, and his pupils contracted sharply.

Dior!

“I don’t know any Dio Brando, sir. You’ve got the wrong person.”

Pucci scrutinized Kaz before him, his vigilance heightened to the extreme.

If someone with that kind of temperament were one of his friend's subordinates, DIO would definitely tell him.

"is it?"

"What I want to talk about is his method of 'going to heaven'..."

A playful smile curved at the corner of Katz's lips. He could naturally sense Pucci's wariness, but he had a bargaining chip that Pucci couldn't refuse.

These words struck Pucci like a thunderbolt, exploding in his mind.

Go to heaven!
That was the ultimate ideal he shared with his close friend Dior!
This secret could not possibly be known to a third person besides him and Dio!
Pucci's breathing became rapid. He stared intently at Katz, his eyes filled with immense shock, doubt, and an irrepressible longing.

He knew that regardless of whether the other party was friend or foe, this conversation had to take place.

"……plz follow me."

He forced out those words through gritted teeth, then turned and led Katz toward a secret chamber at the back of the church.

The moment the heavy door closed behind me, it shut out all light and sound from the outside world.

Inside the secret chamber, Pucci suddenly turned around, his eyes no longer showing any semblance of the priest's composure, but instead filled with resolute killing intent.

"Who are you?! Dior would never entrust something so important to a stranger!"

The moment he finished speaking, a semi-transparent, humanoid stand-in emerged from his body. It was pure white, adorned with symbols resembling base sequences, and exuded an eerie aura capable of dissolving everything.

The White Snake!
Pucci launched his attack without hesitation. He didn't need answers; he wanted to use the power of the White Serpent to extract the disc he desired directly from the man's soul and memories!

However, just as the White Serpent's arm was about to touch Kars's forehead— "THE...world!"

A deep, resounding announcement, as if from another dimension.

The world froze at that moment.

Pucci's fierce expression, his forward-rushing posture, and the outstretched arm of the White Serpent all froze in mid-air.

The dust particles floating in the air also turned into fixed points of light.

Kaz slowly walked up to Pucci, who was unable to move, and calmly examined the face that was distorted by anger and determination.

He reached out and gently flicked the body of the White Snake, producing a crisp, metallic sound.

"The ability to steal memories and create substitutes... is quite similar to my power."

Katz muttered to himself, his tone carrying a hint of scholarly interest, "Very valuable for reference."

He did not kill immediately.

For Kars, Pucci's existence holds special significance.

In the original story's trajectory of fate that he knew, the only one who successfully reached the edge of "heaven" was the man before him.

Killing such a precious experimental subject would be too wasteful.

Kaz's finger transformed into countless tiny, invisible cellular tendrils, silently piercing Pucci's temple.

Instead of directly reading the memories, he began to tamper with them in a more domineering way.

He wanted to erase all traces of his existence and implant a completely new "fact".

The next moment, time began to flow.

Pucci's expression shifted instantly from fierce to one of extreme pain and astonishment.

He stood there, stunned, as if recalling what had just happened.

In his confused vision, the purple-haired man placed an old-fashioned notebook on the table in front of him.

"This is something left behind by Lord Dio."

He believed that only you could fulfill his unfinished wishes.

Upon hearing this, a crystal-clear "memory" surfaced in Pucci's mind:
A man claiming to be a former follower of Dior found him and, after verifying his loyalty, handed him Dior's last legacy.

"you……"

Pucci struggled to lift his head; the sharp pain and the newly implanted memories gave him a headache.

"Study it carefully."

"Looking forward to the day when you... bring 'new life' to this world."

Katz left with a meaningful remark and turned to leave.

The cells he left in Pucci's body would monitor everything for him, waiting for Pucci to walk step by step toward "heaven" according to the methods in the notes, while he would harvest all the experimental data of the entire process.

After doing all this, Katz left the church and returned to his laboratory to study the mechanism of arrow firing.

Until one day, after Katz finished a complex gene sequence comparison experiment, a long-lost, special feeling from the depths of his soul resurfaced.

This means that new people have arrived...

(End of this chapter)