Chapter 319 Diablo's Conflict
Morioh-cho Tram Station.
After thinking of a way to lock down Diablo, Li Qing quickly put it into practice.
He immediately used his body, which was as strong as Star Platinum, to carry Giorno all the way to the Morioh-machi train station.
It was faster than a car, and it wouldn't explode suddenly like the cars they had ridden in before.
It combines speed and safety, and its only drawback is that the riding experience for passengers is not good.
When Giorno came down, his hair had been blown into flowing straight curls by the strong wind. It took him a while to fiddle with it before it returned to its normal natural curl.
He spent another half a minute calming his slightly dizzy brain, and finally followed Li Qing's instructions to observe the road surface:
"Is this the place?"
As Li Qing said, there were indeed large patches of dried blood on the road.
But Giorno was a little confused:
"How do you know this is Diablo's blood?"
"How could he bleed so much? Who could beat that guy like this?"
Of course it’s the invincible Star Platinum.
Li Qing gave the answer in his heart.
But this is no longer important now, so he immediately said:
"It's a long story. I'll explain the reasons later."
"We should quickly track down Diablo's whereabouts to avoid any more accidents."
"Yeah." Giorno nodded.
Since Li Qing doesn't want to say anything, there's no need to say anything for the time being. His trust in Li Qing is enough to make him put aside his doubts.
“Golden experience!”
Giorno immediately summoned a Stand.
The golden fist shadow quickly gave life to the mottled black blood.
A few tiny flies emerged from the dried bloodstains.
As soon as they were born, they flapped their wings in the same direction, following the inexplicable mysterious connection and flying straight towards the former owners of the blood.
"Follow him."
Li Qing and Giorno acted quickly.
They followed the flies in quick steps and soon left the Morioh-machi tram station.
At the same time, they also called Jotaro and others who stayed at the Higashikata family and asked them to be ready to provide support at any time.
Just like that, Li Qing and Giorno kept walking behind the fly...
As I was walking, I suddenly realized something was wrong:
“This route seems familiar.”
Li Qing felt something was wrong.
"Isn't this the same road we took when we came here?"
"Just walk two blocks further and you'll be back at Dongfang's house."
"etc…"
Giorno's expression suddenly became stunned.
"Is it possible?"
The two looked at each other, and each saw surprise in the other's eyes:
"Is Diablo near the Dongfang family now?"
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Indeed, Diablo is now near the Dongfang family.
Li Qing and the others didn't have to look for him, because Diablo came to them on his own accord.
But now he is still hesitating, hesitating whether to take that last step.
At this moment, Diablo was standing carefully on a road about a hundred meters away from the Dongfang family.
It seemed that this avenue had suffered some kind of hardship recently, so much so that a construction team was needed to carry out large-scale repairs.
After a whole day of construction, the road surface became smooth again, but the cement had just been laid and had not had time to dry yet.
A group of road construction workers who were about to finish their work were busy beside Diablo, just enough to hide Diablo 's presence in the crowd.
Diablo stood by the roadside and pondered:
"Do you want to continue..."
"If I take that one more step, there will be no chance for me to turn back."
He actually came there because of the arrow and Kira Yoshikage.
Kira Yoshikage left the arrow in the hotel room and generously told Diablo two important pieces of information in the form of a note:
"1. Li Qing has another arrow in his hand, which he saw outside the Nijimura house yesterday."
"2. The arrow he left for Diablo can indeed grant the user unimaginable power, but the way to use this arrow is..."
"Put yourself in a desperate situation where there is no chance of survival, and use extreme despair to provoke a reaction from the arrow."
Diablo got the arrow and saw the message from Kira Yoshikage.
It was indeed a pleasant surprise to learn directly how to use the arrows.
But this method of use made him entangled:
Do you want to put yourself in a desperate situation first? Do you want to use the power of the arrow of extreme despair?
Isn't this forcing him to seek his own death for excitement?
What if he really went about seeking death and let himself despair, but in the end he still didn't have the power to trigger the arrow... wouldn't that be ridiculous?
Diablo instinctively declined the instructions.
So he took the arrow back to his temporary residence and concentrated on experimenting, trying to see if there was any other way to activate the power of the arrow.
And the result is, there is none at all.
Diablo tried to stab himself, his double, and even stabbed the Crimson King with arrows, leaving several bloody holes, but to no avail.
He also took all the mystical knowledge he had collected in the past few days, and performed various strange rituals with the arrow like a blind cat catching a dead mouse - but the arrow still refused to give him face.
A whole day passed, and Diablo was unable to extract any strength from the arrow.
"It seems that the method Kira Yoshikage said is correct."
"He and I are on the same side, there is no need to lie to me..."
"Apart from plunging oneself into utter despair, I'm afraid there is no other way to use this arrow."
With this thought in mind, Diablo gradually gained courage amidst his helplessness.
“Maybe I should really push myself.”
"After all... as long as you can awaken that powerful power, you will be able to turn the situation around even if you are in danger."
Diablo couldn't help but think of the power Kira Yoshikage indirectly displayed.
Although he, like everyone else, could not sense the reversal of time, he could remember that it was Kira Yoshikage's ability that saved him from the brink of death and made time jump directly to the next day.
The power to directly reverse adversity and change the world is so terrifying and so enviable.
"It means being a sewer rat that cannot see the light of day for the rest of your life..."
"Or will you risk your life for this last time and put yourself on the throne again?"
At this time, Diablo's heart was surging, stirring up countless waves.
He was unwilling to continue hiding in the dark.
He wanted to defeat the enemy of his destiny.
He wants to regain his former glory.
In this rare state of excitement, Diablo mustered up the courage to lock onto a target:
The Higashikata family, the headquarters of Li Qing's faction in Morioh Town.
"Li Qing still has an arrow in his hand. That arrow should be stored in the Dongfang family now."
"I'm going to grab the arrow now—"
"If I succeed, I can get the second arrow, and maybe I can explore different uses for that arrow."
"If I fail, I will be forced into an unprecedented desperate situation, which will be a good opportunity to unleash the power of this arrow in my hand."
According to this line of thinking, the act of seeking death at someone else's door seems to have become a business that will never lose money.
So, after a fierce ideological struggle, Diablo walked out of his residence with the arrow and headed towards the Dongfang family, which was extremely dangerous to him.
Courage is surging and fighting spirit is surging.
Diablo attacked the enemy crystal alone, with a tragic and heroic feeling like the whistling wind and the cold Yi River.
However, at the last moment when he was about to break into Dongfang's house, he couldn't help but stop.
There was no way, Diablo's nature was to be careful, cautious, and follow his heart. As a cautious person who was so timid that he didn't even dare to show his face to his employees, he had never done such a thing as actively seeking death.
Ultimately, it comes down to that lingering worry:
What if he gambled his life and the arrow still had no effect, wouldn't he have lost his life in vain?
To gamble or not to gamble, that is really the question.
"What should I do...how should I choose?"
Standing beside the newly paved cement road, Diablo fell into deep thought.
He thought for a long time, so long that the road workers nearby were almost packing up their tools and equipment to leave.
In the end, Diablo's side as the Dark Emperor barely defeated his cautious side in a difficult struggle:
"Bet, I must bet!"
"The power is already in my hands, don't I even have the courage to activate it?"
Diablo tightly grasped the arrow in his hand:
"As long as you can awaken that power, any danger can be resolved."
"If a guy like Kira Yoshikage can awaken, I can do it too!"
In his eyes, Kira Yoshikage is just a third-rate country murderer and a rookie Stand user who knows nothing.
Since even this guy can be favored by fate and gain the powerful force that can change the world, why can't he, the Dark Emperor, do the same?
"Power. I must gain that power."
Diablo was envious of the power displayed by Kira Yoshikage:
"As long as I have this power, I can truly become invincible."
"When the time comes, whether it's Li Qing or Jotaro, they will all be helplessly crawling at my feet!"
The fear of death may be heavy.
But the temptation of power can move people's hearts even more.
When Diablo thought that he would soon become invincible like Kira Yoshikage, he immediately felt excited and wanted to rush out to fight.
However, just when Diablo mustered up the courage to seek death...
He heard a conversation between a road worker and his foreman not far away:
"Brother, the municipal staff of Morioh Town just called us."
"What could possibly happen to them?"
"Tell them the road is almost ready and there's no need to rush."
"No, they are not asking about the progress of the project, but they are assigning us a new project."
"It is said that the 'Bald Superman' suddenly appeared in front of the Guiyou Department Store this morning and smashed up half of the road."
"Bald Superman? You believe in this kind of urban legend!"
"Those citizens also said that the road we built was destroyed by that bald superman. Do you think it's possible? Even if he really has that kind of power, why would he come and destroy a road for no reason?"
"No, brother, this time the situation is really different!"
"It is said that this time the guy beat a man to death and the body was rotten into mud . There were many police officers at the scene, so it can't be fake."
"The person who died seemed to be an employee of the nearby Kameyou Department Store."
"I think his name is something like...Kira Yoshikage."
"Is there really someone who was beaten to death? Is there really a monster called 'Bald Superman' in the world?"
"It seems that something is wrong with Morioh Town. We should wrap up our work and go back to report to the boss."
"Yes, brother."
"What's the response from the Morioh Municipal Government? Should we take on the restoration project in front of Kameyou Department Store?"
"Answer? Answer that! !"
"Asshole, do you really think you're here to repair the road?"
The foreman cursed and hit his subordinate on the head, and the two men stopped talking.
Diablo, who was standing by, turned pale when he heard this:
"Kira Yoshikage is dead?"
"Or was he beaten into ?"
"Bald Superman... isn't that Li Qing?"
A chill ran up his spine, and Diablo suddenly felt cold all over:
After just one day of no contact, Kira Yoshikage was already dead.
Hadn't he already unleashed the power of the arrows and awakened some invincible ability?
How could he be beaten to death by Li Qing!
At this moment, Diablo was completely confused:
If even the power of arrows can't defeat Li Qing, is there any chance he can turn the tables?
"Fortunately, I haven't taken the last step impulsively yet."
"Otherwise, the situation will be irreversible."
A certain belief quickly collapsed in my heart.
Diablo was shocked and then felt a little scared.
He began to feel grateful for his caution just now, grateful that he had the soberness to leave a way out.
Keep living, as long as you keep living, there is still a chance for everything.
As long as he turns around and runs away now, Li Qing will never find him.
With this thought in mind, the steps he had originally prepared to take to move forward began to unconsciously move backwards.
And Diablo still hasn't discovered...
Not far from him, a few flies were buzzing and flapping their wings.
