"What? Gone? Impossible! He was seriously injured; he couldn't have recovered so quickly!"
Dio's brain paused for a moment to think.
Then, taking advantage of its absolute speed, it searched the surrounding area, including the seabed.
But they still couldn't find any trace of Lu Ye.
"Hmph... So this kid seems to have some ability to pull objects into another space, just like he pulled his own vital organs into another space to protect them. Has he even hidden himself this time?"
“I didn’t expect him to still be conscious, and to play such a little trick while I was distracted… But it doesn’t matter. When he shows up again, I will tear him to pieces. Now, let’s go get that arrow and completely extinguish Jotaro’s hopes.”
Dio turned his gaze to the right, preparing to grab the arrow.
But what came into view was not just arrows.
There's also Polnareff and Luye.
To be precise, it was Polnareff and Luye who emerged from the jewel behind him.
"What!?"
Dio looked at Jotaro and Jolyne in the distance and understood everything.
So this was the real plan all along.
Just like the magnets of decades ago, Jolyne's threads are also an "illusion."
When Jotaro threw the throwing knife, the thread wrapped around it also pulled Polnareff, who was in his turtle form, along with it.
Because there was a risk of being exposed to Dio's vision, Jotaro first threw a knife, and in the instant that time flowed, he used Jolyne's threads to bind Polnareff's body.
Polnareff was thrown higher into the air by Jolyne's string, so what Dio saw and what reached him was just the throwing knife itself.
The thread extending from the throwing knife became entangled with the arrow, thus ending the illusion.
Because Polnareff had already arrived beside Lu Ye and used his ability to store him in the space behind the turtle shell.
Although Dio is extremely fast, he still needs to confirm the location of the arrow before he can act.
Lu Ye's Imperial Arms was already prepared. Regardless of whether Dio wanted to deal with the arrows first or Lu Ye first, he could instantly teleport to the side of the arrows and seize the insect arrows!
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It worked!
Just as Lu Ye's hand was about to touch the insect arrow...
"puff!"
Lu Ye suddenly coughed up blood and fell towards the sea.
"Kid!!" Polnareff shouted.
"How dare you try such a petty trick! Too slow! Your speed is nowhere near that of my Dio!!"
Dio instantly rushed towards Lu Ye.
He did not activate time stop, because once time stops, the effect of time acceleration will be temporarily interrupted.
In other words, the speed acting on him will also disappear, thus returning to normal speed.
Starting from this distance, the time stop would only allow Dio to barely reach Ruye's side.
However, in this world where time is constantly accelerating, Dio is the only one who can keep up with this accelerating time.
Although Lu Ye's fingertips were almost about to catch the insect arrow, that moment felt incredibly long to Dio.
To Dio, Lu Ye's actions were like an old-fashioned projector playing a picture in slow motion; Dio could easily grab the insect arrow before Lu Ye could.
And that is indeed the case.
Dio arrived at Lu Ye's side at an extremely fast speed.
Only Jotaro, the Platinum Star, with his exceptionally sharp eyesight, noticed this and discerned the trajectory of Dio's movements.
Luye, Polnareff, and Jolyne were not even aware of Dio's approach.
"Don't even think about using arrows to do anything, it's useless!!"
Just as Dio summoned the world to completely kill Lu Ye, Lu Ye reacted at the last second.
His exceptional perception and crisis warning abilities allowed him to sense the threat of death even without seeing Dio.
Damn it...
Dio actually saw through our plan right away...
Does this mean that as speed increases, so do our senses and thoughts?
This is really tricky.
Lu Ye had no intention of retaliating, because it was too late.
Dio's attack from behind was very close.
At this close range, if we go all out, we might still be able to confront Dio.
But Lu Ye had no intention of doing so.
Because Dio's ability is to "overwrite reality" by making contact with his fists.
Even if they are not at a disadvantage in terms of strength, as long as Dio rewrites this fact and overwrites it with new facts, they will definitely be defeated.
The only chance is for Dio to pierce his Stand with his insect arrow before he completely dies by cutting himself to pieces, and then turn the tide with the evolved Stand.
This is the only way...
Although death is but a fleeting moment, this "moment" itself belongs to time.
Just like a ruthless bandit who gets blown in the head by an AK, the process from the bullet making contact with the head to destroying brain tissue, though brief, still takes time.
Ultimately, time is just a concept defined by humans.
The only thing that exists in this world is "movement".
What Lu Ye needs to do now is to give up this "momentary" chance to resist and evolve his Stand through the Insect Arrow before he reaches the fact of "death".
Given the speed at which he could catch a bullet with his bare hands during the "Gray Era," he should be able to do it.
Although Dio was much faster, Lu Ye was very glad that he had injected himself with the Panacea when he used the Teigu.
In this way, even if Dio intended to shred his own body, the healing effect of the potion would quickly repair his body the moment he was injured, thus indirectly delaying his death and buying him more time to obtain the insect arrow.
The next second, Dio launched an attack.
At the same time, Lu Ye, who had suffered a penetrating wound, also came into contact with the insect arrow.
Indeed, he had the insect arrow firmly in his hand.
Success!
However, just as Lu Ye was about to stab his own substitute with the insect arrow, the arrow seemed to turn into a ghost without any physical contact, passing through his hand and falling straight down.
With several bloody holes ripped into his body, Lu Ye fell from the sky and could only watch helplessly as the insect arrow fell into the sea.
"Hmph... Fool, my ability, Dio, can overwrite reality!" Dio appeared at that moment, stopping his acceleration. "The instant your body was struck by me, the 'reality' you gained from the Insect Arrow was already rewritten by me! But unfortunately, the ability to rewrite 'reality' can only be used once. I've discovered that obtaining a new Stand after reaching Heaven seems to require the energy of the soul. Fortunately, your souls can make up for this. One day, I, Dio, will be able to manipulate 'reality' at will... Die! Your soul, I, Dio, will take it!"
"Kid!!!"
Polnareff shouted, but it was too late.
Although Lu Ye, who was seriously injured, was still conscious, he was no longer able to move.
Dio rushed towards the direction where Lu Ye had fallen, but at that moment, he discovered something else.
The insect arrow has disappeared.
"What?" Dio's pupils contracted.
At that speed, the insect arrow shouldn't have fallen into the sea.
Could it have been blown away by the wind after time accelerated?
Or perhaps Lu Ye used his Stand ability to hide the arrow, intending to save it for Jotaro as a trump card against him?
Dio did not approach Lu Ye rashly, but made a judgment after careful observation.
"No, his Stand has a limited range, so that's Polnareff... Wrong, Polnareff is gone too. If it's the ability of Polnareff's turtle body, then he wouldn't have disappeared on his own... Well, just in case, let's finish him off quickly."
Dio didn't show much surprise.
No matter what tricks Lu Ye is playing, the truth has already been overwritten.
No matter what he does, Lu Ye has no chance of getting the insect arrow!
The string binding Jolyne's Stand, Stone Freedom, to the arrow had also been cut earlier.
Although he was somewhat concerned about the insect arrows, Dio was more interested in confirming the complete severance of the Joestar bloodline.
He now feels extremely safe, but he will only be truly at ease when the Joestar family bloodline is ended, including the Joestar family's helpers.
and many more……
helper?
A sense of foreboding rose in Dio's heart.
So it seems there was another "helper" who hasn't shown up since he arrived at Kennedy Space Center.
Yes, there's one more person.
Although I have never seen this person in person, he helped Luye and Josuke Higashikata break through Ideg's encirclement at the mansion in Egypt.
According to Ideg's report, this guy is a greenhorn who, although he did not inherit the bloodline of the Joestar family, is nominally a descendant of the Joestar family.
“Speaking of which, when I killed that old bastard Joseph and his wife, the old woman seemed to be muttering a name…” Dio murmured, “If I remember correctly, the name was ‘Jing,’ ‘Jing Joestar’!”
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Jing Joestar.
Dio remembered.
She does not have Joestar blood, but she is Joseph Joestar's adopted daughter!
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