Chapter 323: Encountering the Platinum Star Again

It has been a long, long time since Jotaro was so angry as today.

He just found out that his long-lost friend Polnareff had been in danger.

A minute ago, he even heard Diablo's crazy roar on the phone after he forced Polnareff into a desperate situation.

One minute has passed, and Polnareff is still facing a powerful enemy in the Colosseum, and his life or death is still unknown.

Jotaro blamed himself, was anxious and angry.

This man, who has always been as steady as a mountain, was rarely in a state of confusion.

He hurriedly got out of the taxi, summoned Star Platinum, and walked quickly towards the Colosseum with a sullen face and feeling uneasy.

But before Jotaro could take a few steps, he bumped into a pink-haired middle-aged man wearing a black see-through tights.

I don't know if this guy is in a trance or is busy with something...

It was not until Jotaro was five meters away from him that he finally noticed Jotaro's presence.

Then, Jotaro looked straight ahead calmly, and the pink-haired middle-aged man turned his head and looked back.

As soon as their eyes met...

The middle-aged man with pink hair and black stockings immediately retracted his gaze as if he had been electrocuted.

"C-Cho Taro?"

"When did this guy show up?!"

Diablo was shocked :

He was just lost in thought for a moment, and this evil star had actually approached him unknowingly?

Is this another evil joke fate is playing on him? !

Diablo's body was stiff and he dared not move.

However, Jotaro took a tentative step forward:

"You...know me?"

Diablo's expression changed:

It’s too close. The distance is really too close.

Although the Crimson King's strength and speed were enhanced to an extreme level after being awakened by the arrow.

However, facing Star Platinum, which can stop time, at such a close distance, no matter how powerful the Crimson King is, he cannot ensure his own safety.

What should I do…should I just cut off the time and escape?

But this would definitely expose my identity and make him think that I am the current Diablo.

This could lead to a series of chases and fights.

Will this have any impact on the past and will it create a time paradox?

Since Diablo has no memory of himself during this period of time, he doesn't know what to do to ensure that he doesn't change the past.

But he had to deal with it carefully. After all, the time paradox would definitely be more terrifying than the Star Platinum hitting him in the face.

"Oh, I just thought of it..."

"This guy has just arrived in Rome and has not yet joined up with Polnareff and the others."

"He probably only knows my name, not what I look like."

"I just need to pretend to be a tourist passing by. He is a righteous man bound by morals and principles. He will not attack me if he is not sure."

The Colosseum in Rome is very famous. Even when it is closed at night, there are often tourists coming to the Colosseum to play and take photos.

This is not surprising at all and is a perfectly valid reason.

So Diablo hesitated for a moment, then said calmly:

"I... don't know him."

"It's just that your expression is a little scary, so..."

He also has more than ten years of experience in hiding, and his acting skills are not inferior to the movie emperor Kira Yoshikage.

"Oh..." The hostility in Jotaro's eyes suddenly eased.

It was as if he just regarded Diablo in front of him as an ordinary passerby and had no doubts at all.

However, the next second...

"Star Platinum!"

The burly figure behind Jotaro flashed out:

“The World!”

Time stood still, and Star Platinum swung his fist forward.

"Do you think I can't hear your voice?"

"Will I forget those who hurt my companions?"

"I still remember the voice of you yelling at my best friend during that phone call just now... Diablo!"

All of Jotaro's suppressed anger erupted at this moment.

"Ola Ola Ola Ola Ola!"

“…”

Finally, the time stop ended.

Diablo's body was like ten thousand time bombs stuffed into it, and began to explode wildly under the tsunami-like punch force.

Bones shattered, skin cracked, and blood gushed out.

"Damn it... again!"

Diablo thought in great pain:

He had just experienced this once yesterday afternoon at the entrance of Morioh-machi tram station, and today he experienced it again.

Why do I have to keep paying back the debt I owe to your best friend? !

The pain came like a tide, and Diablo could barely hold on.

At this time, Star Platinum stepped forward and started to "Ora Ora" towards Diablo who was still in a stiff state.

"I will definitely die if I continue like this..."

Diablo was shocked.

As a warrior who had been beaten with all his strength by Star Platinum but had survived to this day, he was well aware of the limits of his physical endurance.

This is actually a blessing in disguise. Fortunately, on March 27, Jotaro's time stop was only 2 seconds, unlike when it recovered to 3 seconds after a week of training.

If Diablo had been stuck in time stop for 3 seconds by Ora like yesterday, he probably wouldn't even have the strength to save himself at this moment.

But fate still left him a glimmer of hope:

"The King of Red—"

"Eliminate the time!"

Stimulated by the strong desire to survive, Diablo finally regained the last bit of clarity in the endless pain.

He instantly entered his own timeline and escaped the deadly iron fist of Star Platinum.

While Jotaro was still unconscious, Diablo quickly dragged his broken body away.

After a dozen seconds, the time cut ended.

Jotaro stood there in a daze, and Star Platinum was punching the air.

Only a mottled bloodstain was left on the ground.

In the distance, there could be faint sounds of messy footsteps coming from the street.

"Did he escape in that direction?"

Jotaro frowned slightly.

But after a moment of silence, thinking of his best friend whose life or death was still uncertain, he finally withdrew his gaze.

※※※

About 55 minutes later.

A dark alley in Rome.

The seriously injured Diablo fled here in a panic to rest.

He knew that by this time Li Qing had already taken control of the technology group and indirectly taken over the powerful intelligence capabilities that once belonged to him.

The technology team is monitoring all of Italy, especially Rome tonight.

Therefore, even if Diablo was seriously injured, he could not go to the hospital for treatment openly, and he could not mobilize the organization's logistical medical personnel.

He could only flee to this deserted dark alley like a stray dog, leaning against the cold wall, struggling to survive in the stench of garbage:

"Damn... I actually ran into Jotaro and Star Platinum there."

"And that's without even getting into the time paradox..."

"Does that mean I'm destined to get beaten here?"

Diablo suddenly felt the deep malice from fate.

Although he has never been a favorite of fate, he often shouts that he wants to change his destiny.

But this time, he really felt that the goddess of fate was targeting him too much.

"Ouroboros is not without effect."

"Without this ability to travel through time, I would have died on March 27th."

"But...but this ability still cannot solve the dilemma I'm facing now!"

Diablo 's mood became increasingly heavy:

You can participate in the past, but you cannot change the past.

So how should he use this ability to solve the difficulties he will face in the future?

Ouroboros' ability can only last for one hour at a time, and this one hour is almost over.

He was about to return to the evening of April 6, back to the road paved with despair.

And that evening, Lee Sin, Jotaro, Josuke Higashikata...these tough guys were still standing there with murderous intent.

"I will definitely return to the next instant after I cross over."

"To Li Qing and the others, I just disappeared for a brief moment."

"That is to say..."

Diablo carefully recalled the scene before he traveled through time:

At that time, I had just awakened after being shot by an arrow.

Li Qing noticed something was wrong and shouted loudly.

Jotaro activated the time stop and "teleported" in front of him together with Star Platinum.

In front of you…in front of you?

"'Right now' Jotaro is squatting right in front of me."

"Then when I go back, won't I be tortured by Star Platinum Ola again?"

Thinking of this, Diavolo's face suddenly became as ugly as when he just woke up from the sewer.

Once yesterday, once today, do I have to do it again when I get back?

Even an iron man can't stand this kind of torture!

Diablo wanted to die.

That one hour is almost up.

He was about to drag this body, which had been severely damaged in the past, back to the future he wanted to escape from, back to the presence of Jotaro and Star Platinum.

"Ouroboros..."

"Did this ability awaken just to torture me to death?"

Diablo's face turned pale, and his severely injured body trembled.

But he could still feel that the one-hour time limit was coming to an end .

A powerful and mysterious force is dragging him into the indescribable river of time, and he will soon meet up close those people he least wants to see.

"No...I will die if I go back now!"

"We have to run for our lives! We have to find a way to survive!"

In his panic, Diablo instinctively wanted to escape death.

But the one-hour time limit for traveling finally arrived.

Diablo's figure quickly became transparent, and his existence was quickly erased from this point in time, and he was irreversibly sent back to the future.

And at this desperate moment, when he was trying randomly in despair...

He was surprised and shocked to find...

It seems that his new ability [Ouroboros] can always be used again.

That’s right…on March 27th, Diablo can also use [Ouroboros].

It's just that he had always been trapped in despair, confusion and pain, so he never thought of trying.

"I see…"

"The cooldown time of [Ouroboros] is 10 minutes."

"But every time I use [Ouroboros], I can move around a certain time anchor point in the past for an hour."

Diablo's body was being rapidly pulled back to the future by the force of time and space.

But an idea suddenly occurred to him, and at that moment time seemed to freeze.

My thoughts suddenly became clear, and many troubling problems were solved in an instant.

Diablo suddenly realized that his awakened third ability didn't seem to be so useless.