Chapter 321: Ouroboros
March 27, 1999, 20:21.
In the center of Rome, inside the ancient Colosseum.
Polnareff was sitting on the second floor holding a bug arrow.
He had just spoken on the phone with his long lost friend Jotaro.
Jotaro has arrived in Rome and is taking a bus to the Colosseum.
Giorno and Mista stood on the first floor, waiting for Polnareff to tell them how to use the insect arrows.
None of the three people present noticed that Diablo was hiding in the shadow of the Colosseum.
Diablo is also waiting, waiting for Polnareff to hand over the final secret of the insect arrow.
After a long wait...
Polnareff's final answer was:
"How to use this insect arrow..."
"I won't tell you yet."
“Huh?” Diablo, cursed in his heart:
You said you would entrust the insect arrow to someone else? Why the hell are you not keeping your word!
But Polnareff still said with a shameless face:
“It’s really embarrassing to say this, but…”
"Since Jotaro is nearby, we won't be able to use this arrow this time."
Bug Arrows have the power to change the world.
Given the choice, he would of course give priority to Jotaro rather than Giorno and Mista, two young strangers who were very different from him.
Giorno and Mista could still barely tolerate such inconsistency.
But Diablo, who was waiting anxiously in the dark, could no longer endure it.
"Asshole—"
After waiting for so long, the final result is “there is nothing below”?
Diablo couldn't stand it any longer, he wanted to grab the insect arrow directly:
"The Crimson King!"
"Let time fly!"
Time is easily shaved off like a soft piece of butter.
Diablo entered a timeline that belonged only to him.
The river of time that was flowing straight forward now created a wave because of him.
And Diablo himself never discovered it, nor was he able to discover it...
The time that is cut off becomes a buoy fixed in the long river of time, an anchor point that disturbs the stability of time.
And under the guidance of this time anchor...
Diablo is here.
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"Where is this place?!"
Diablo was shocked.
Just a second ago, he was hopelessly trapped by Li Qing and others on the wet cement road.
And the next moment after the arrow pierced his body, he suddenly appeared in a completely different place.
The sky was dark and the lights were dim, it was obviously night time.
Look at the building you are in now... Hmm... Why does this building feel so familiar?
Wait…isn’t this the Colosseum?
Why am I in the Colosseum now!
Diablo's expression suddenly became extremely interesting:
He activated the power of the arrow, and then was inexplicably sent to his hometown in Italy on the other side of the world?
Could it be that the power he awakened is some kind of space teleportation or instant movement?
Diablo was thinking this.
Suddenly, a familiar yet strange voice suddenly echoed in the Colosseum:
"Hahaha."
"With such a crippled body, you still want to take back the insect arrow from me?"
"Useless trash should stay in the garbage dump!"
Diablo peeked out from the darkness where no one could see him, and followed the sound to the second floor of the Colosseum.
Although the light was dim, he could still vaguely see...
At this moment, on the second floor of the Colosseum…
There was a pink-haired middle-aged man wearing a black see-through corset who was shouting wildly and unscrupulously.
"Why is this guy wearing the same clothes as me..."
Diablo took off his coat with a dazed look, and touched the black see-through corset he was wearing:
It is light and breathable, tight and shaping, and very low-key.
He wouldn't attract attention even if he walked in a small place like Morioh Town wearing that kind of clothing, and no one could tell from his clothes that he was a Stand user.
I didn't expect that there are people who share the same taste in clothes as him. Great minds see things in a great way...
Same ghost!
"Isn't that person me?!"
Diablo was shocked to find that the pink-haired middle-aged man standing on the second floor of the Colosseum was himself!
He then saw Polnareff, who was still disabled, and Giorno and Mista, who were standing nervously in fear.
"This…this is something that happened in the past."
"It was the scene at the Colosseum in Rome when I tried to steal the insect arrows."
Diablo immediately recovered from his shock:
"The ability I awakened is not space teleportation at all, but time travel!"
"I went back in time, back to the night of March 27th!"
As soon as this thought came to mind, Diablo's mind suddenly gained a lot of knowledge out of thin air.
After the Stand User awakens his Stand, he can immediately know the name and abilities of his Stand. This ability that comes from the soul usually comes with its own instruction manual.
At this moment, Diablo also knew the true nature of this ability:
"The Crimson King's third ability—"
"Ouroboros!"
[Ouroboros], this is the name of his ultimate ability.
The effect of the ability is that one can use Diablo's memory as the time axis, and the time that Diablo has erased in the past as the time anchor point, and travel back to the past, to the side of his past self.
Each time he travels through time, Diablo can stay in the past for a maximum of 1 hour.
Each time you use [Ouroboros], you need to wait 10 minutes before you can activate it again.
At the same time, Diablo could clearly sense:
His spiritual energy was as vigorous as a blazing furnace, and the Scarlet King's basic abilities had been enhanced in all aspects after his recent awakening.
Its strength, speed, and endurance suddenly increased to an exaggerated level.
Diablo even vaguely felt that the current Crimson King was strong enough to compete with Lee Sin on equal terms with speed.
Under normal circumstances, this unimaginable improvement in basic abilities would be enough to make him ecstatic.
But now, Diablo's attention is focused on the power of the ability "Ouroboros":
"Travel through time and space, back to the past..."
"This is simply an invincible ability!"
It was like a sudden downpour of rain on the dry land.
Diablo, who had fallen into complete despair, suddenly saw infinite hope:
Lee Sin can only punch, Jotaro can only stop time, but he, who possesses the [Ouroboros], can travel through the river of time at will!
With this ability, why worry about not being able to reverse the defeat?
Thinking of this, Diablo suddenly raised his head again:
He looked from afar at the second floor of the Colosseum, at himself on March 27th.
At that time, he thought he could easily seize the Bug Arrow, but ended up being ridiculously defeated by Giorno and Mista.
It was this failure that completely kicked him out of the game.
He was driven out of Italy and fled in disgrace to Morioh Town on the other side of the world.
“That was the original past.”
"But now that I'm here..."
"As long as I take action, I will definitely win before that insect arrow is destroyed!"
Diablo thought anxiously.
One Diavolo can beat Giorno almost to death, and two Diavolos can obviously make Giorno despair.
He subconsciously wanted to take action, but was still instinctively cautious:
"Let's take a look at it first..."
"Hmm...why can't I see it?!"
Only then did Diablo realize that his "Epitaph" was useless in the past.
That is the ability used to peek into the future, and it is ineffective in the time waves disturbed by the time travelers from the future.
"Fortunately... at least [Time Destruction] can still be used."
Diablo soon discovered something more interesting:
When he used the Time Cut, he was the only one who reached his own timeline, and even the past Diablo could not detect it.
Correspondingly, when the Diablo from the past uses Time Cut, the Diablo from the future will also fall into an unconscious state like an ordinary person.
The two sides do not interfere with each other and play their own games.
It’s just that time cannot overlap, and a period of time can only be deleted once.
Therefore, when the past Diablo uses Time Cut, the future Diablo will be directly kicked out of the Time Cut state.
"interesting…"
"Then let me help my past self!"
Diablo became even more restless.
In his mind, he had already seen an interesting scene in which he easily seized the Insect Arrow during the time-consuming process, and his past self suddenly realized that he had obtained the Insect Arrow after a moment of daze.
He wanted to change the past in this way, to directly and fundamentally erase the despair and pain he had experienced in these days.
But just as Diablo was about to step out from the shadows...
His body suddenly began to tremble.
An unprecedented fear enveloped my heart.
It seemed as if some great power had descended from the long river of time.
If Diablo takes one more step forward, something terrible will happen.
"Paradox... is [paradox]!"
A layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Diablo's forehead:
"If I had gotten the bug arrow on March 27th , I wouldn't have gone to Morioh at all."
"If I hadn't gone to Morioh Town, I wouldn't have been able to obtain the 'Kirara Arrow' and gain the ability to travel through time."
"This ability to travel through time is based on my memory and the time I have deleted in the past."
"That is to say..."
"I can't change what happened in my memory."
"I also can't let my past self know about my future self's existence."
"Otherwise, the axis of memory will be disrupted, the anchor of the past will collapse, and the [paradox] of time will happen to me!"
Fear, horror, helplessness, disappointment.
These emotions kept changing in Diablo's heart:
If you can travel through time but cannot change the past, what is the use of this ability?
Does he want him to go back to the past and watch his past self experience that tragic failure again?
Wouldn't this ability become a useless "live replay"? !
On the second floor of the Colosseum, Diavolo was laughing wildly in front of Polnareff.
In the darkness of the Colosseum, another Diablo sighed helplessly in disappointment:
"Ouroboros..."
"Why on earth did you send me to the past?"
