"Of course! That way, it won't matter if Jotaro gets around here! As a human, Jotaro is probably middle-aged now. How many seconds can he pause in my Dio's time? Two seconds? Three seconds? Or... can he not even do one second anymore? After all, that guy had his 'Disc' stolen by Pucci's 'White Serpent'!"
"Decades ago, the blood of that old bastard Joseph Joestar alone could stop my Dio for nine seconds. The blood of Jonathan Joestar's descendants can help me ascend to heaven!"
Amid Dio's arrogant laughter, time rewinds to half a minute earlier.
When Lu Ye and others were at their wits' end with Dio, Weather Forecast came up with the idea of attacking Dio with an electric current.
Although Dio was frozen, it was intentional on his part.
He launched his attack when he saw the electric currents swirling in the clouds on the weather forecaster's hand.
That is, the pause time.
——【The World】·The World.
The ability is to pause time, for a maximum of nine seconds.
However, not long ago, after fully merging with the green baby, Dio's Stand evolved.
Dio not only began to sense the effects of gravity around him, but also accelerated his movements while activating his Stand ability, which is to stop time.
Dio has already tested this speed.
In one second, he moved forward three meters at a normal, unhurried pace.
That makes sense.
Even considering the uneven stride length of his left and right feet, Dio was fully capable of reaching Jolyne, killing them, and then returning to the ice.
In fact, if the weather forecast hadn't made the ground icy and slippery, Dio would have been able to take care of Lu Yi, Emporio, and Ames all at once.
However, this is only one reason.
Another reason that prevented Dio from taking action was the miasma emanating from the Mortal Blade.
Jolyne and Josuke survived because of the miasma emanating from the Mortal Blade, which was just as troublesome to immortal vampires as Joseph Joestar's Ripple.
However, Anna Sui's death was not without meaning.
In a sense, he protected Jolyne and Josuke.
Anna Sui isn't stupid; she won't expose herself to danger for no reason.
Before Dio paused time, he had already sent "Sea Drake" to the surface.
It wasn't just a simple infiltration; it involved infiltrating with a strong magnet.
During the pause, even a person falling from a great height would be frozen in mid-air.
However, there is one exception: Dio.
Dio is able to move freely, and the "force" acting on him will also take effect.
Although Dio was only wearing a black vest, he had a lot of metal items around his waist and wrists.
When Dio approaches, the "Raging Sea General" lurking on the ground will be drawn out by the magnetic force.
Of course, this might be able to attack Dio, that's what Anna Sui thinks.
But that's just a guess... nothing more.
Anna Sui only knew that Dio could pause for nine seconds, but he couldn't move briefly during the pause like Jotaro. During the pause, even his consciousness stopped, so he couldn't experience what it felt like to move within it, what the trajectory of objects was like, or how fast the speed of the raging sea monster pulled by the magnetic force was... All of these were unknown.
Anna Sui came up with this idea based on a detail that Lu Ye mentioned: during Jotaro's previous battle with Dio, Jotaro initially used a magnet to mislead Dio into believing that Jotaro could move during time stop.
Anna Sui only knew that Dio paused for nine seconds.
He estimated the distance and knew that Dio, with his nine-second time stop, could probably only reach this area.
So, after all the preparations were done, all he could do was draw lots.
"The Fury of the Seas" is quite aggressive; if it draws a favorable lot, it might be able to deliver a heavy blow to Dio.
If Dio draws the winning number, he will be shocked by the appearance of the Raging Sea General, thus wasting precious attack time and causing his attack to fail. In this way, nine seconds will pass, and Dio will not be able to activate a second time stop for a short period of time. Josuke and Jolyne, two Stand users with high attack power, will be able to join forces to attack Dio. With the help of others, they may be able to defeat Dio successfully.
If Dio draws the worst possible outcome, he will quickly realize the old trick that Jotaro used before and kill Anna Sui. However, even so, he will still waste time due to the appearance of the Sea General. Killing himself will also take time, thus allowing Jolyne and Josuke to escape Dio's attack.
Of course, the worst possible outcome is that his efforts will be in vain, and Josuke, Jolyne, and Anastasia will all die at Dio's hands.
Judging from the results, Anna Sui drew a bad lot.
The miasma spread out in a splashing pattern, not enveloping Jolyne and Josuke in a large area. If Anna Sui hadn't blocked Dio's path, giving him an extra two seconds, Dio wouldn't have had time to attack Jolyne and Josuke, or at least not to throw his throwing knives.
Because Jolyne had already woven a "protective suit" around her and Josuke's bodies with thread, protecting vital organs such as the heart. As long as they didn't die immediately, no matter how serious the injury or even if they were on the verge of death, they could be pulled back immediately even if they were detonated by Kira Yoshikage's first bomb.
However, Jolyne hadn't finished weaving Anna Sui's protective suit, which was farther away, when Dio pierced his chest.
Having understood the current situation and the abilities of Dio after his evolution, Lu Ye began to feel a headache.
Why did DIO choose to attack at this time instead of searching for the so-called "singularity"?
After all, he can move at three times the speed within nine seconds of stopping.
Given that Dio can sense changes in gravity, theoretically, as long as he is cautious enough, keeps his distance from Lu Ye and the others, and continuously uses his ability to search for singularities, he could successfully reach Heaven ahead of schedule.
But he chose to attack.
Is it because Jolyne and the others were able to capture them all at once when they were all gathered together?
Yes, but not entirely.
In reality, Dio's goal was to leech off the Joestar family.
Jolyne and Josuke, the combined blood of these two could even allow Dio to surpass his peak condition.
Most importantly, I no longer "existed".
A question arises if you think about it carefully.
With Dio possessing a 9-second time stop and triple acceleration, based on his baseline speed and the time perception of others, it would be equivalent to Dio pausing for a full 27 seconds for Anasu and others.
A full 27 seconds.
Running 100 meters in 27 seconds is not a problem for a normal person.
After all, a normal, healthy young man can usually finish the run in 16 to 17 seconds.
So, theoretically, it should be possible to cover a distance of 200 meters in about 30 seconds.
Not to mention that Dio is a vampire, whose physique and stamina far surpass those of normal people.
If it weren't for the weather forecast causing the ground to freeze over and slow down Dio, he could have killed Jolyne, Josuke, and Anastasia, then rushed over to kill Rukia and the others, before returning to the ice and allowing time to resume its flow.
Dio felt there wasn't enough time after killing Anna Sui, but that was without continuing the attack.
If he continues the attack, he will have ample time to find a place not shrouded in miasma and launch a fatal blow against Jolyne and Josuke.
But he didn't do that.
why?
One reason is Jotaro.
Dio could sense that Jotaro was nearby, but that was all; he couldn't pinpoint Jotaro's exact location.
In other words, if Josuke and Jolyne hadn't come to Kennedy Space Center, and if the Joestar family wasn't present, then Dio wouldn't have been able to identify who had come there.
Is it Jotaro? Josuke? Jolyne or Joseph Joestar?
He can't do that.
He couldn't just focus on finding the "Singularity" and ignore the possibility of Jotaro's arrival. With Star Platinum's power, it was entirely possible that he could tunnel under Dio's feet and then suddenly emerge.
Secondly, there is Lu Ye.
For vampires, who are immortal beings, the Mortal Blade is their natural enemy.
When Dio first saw the Mortal Blade, he sensed something was wrong.
So after he killed Anna Sui, he did not continue to attack, because the hand of Lu Ye extending from Josuke's body and the Mortal Blade, as well as the miasma emanating from the Mortal Blade, were enough to make him wary.
Once injured by the miasma, Dio's proud, immortal body, which surpasses that of humans, will completely lose its "immortality" attribute. In this way, even if his physical abilities remain in a vampire state, a single bullet can take his life!
It was with this mindset that Lu Ye risked placing his hand on Josuke.
He had a very accurate grasp of timing, and was able to precisely catch the Valkyrie Mariania's countless blade strikes and counterattack and parry them.
That miasma was not only used for protection, but also for attack.
However, like Anna Sui, Lu Ye didn't really feel the time stop either.
Once time stops, it means that everything tends to stand still, except for Dio, who can move freely. The qualities that have occurred in him will continue to flow. For example, if Dio is not present, then if you put two magnets with their sides pointing towards each other very close together, they will not attract each other.
In a world where time has stopped, the miasma emitted will naturally also stop.
However, the moment Lu Ye used his ability to "strip" himself away from this world...
Everyone in this world has forgotten his existence.
Including dio.
Dio kills Anna Sui and then returns to the ice.
This was intended to make Lu Ye and the others believe that he had awakened a new Stand ability, thus preventing them from acting rashly and allowing ample time to search for the singularity.
But after realizing that Jotaro Kujo had arrived nearby, he set his sights on Josuke and Jolyne, wanting to obtain as much Joestar blood as possible to accelerate the fusion of his body with Jonathan.
Even though his abilities have evolved, he still chooses to do this.
This is what they call "once you've been hit by Euler, you'll be afraid of Taro for ten years"... right?
However, DIO was wary of Mortal Blade.
However, after Lu Ye used his ability, Dio forgot about Lu Ye and his related existence.
In other words, the only person who could prevent Dio from acting rashly never existed in his mind.
Therefore, Dio launched an attack without hesitation.
Watching Dio's departing figure, Lu Ye felt relieved.
Although they missed the opportunity to attack.
But the lives of the others... are temporarily saved.
"Luckily you still remember what I said, the weather forecast..." Lu Ye said softly.
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