Chapter 324: Usage of Ouroboros

April 6, 1999, 18:08.
Amid the astonishment and confusion of Li Qing and others, Diablo's figure turned into a shadow and disappeared in just 1 second.
Then, with almost no interval, in the next instant, he mysteriously reappeared at the same place.
When he appeared again, the Diablo, who had been intact before, had now turned into a bloody man with rotten flesh and twisted bones.
As soon as he appeared, he sat down on the ground helplessly, and the blood all over his body dyed the silver-grey wet cement beneath him red.
Look at Diablo's miserable appearance, with no way to breathe in...
It seemed that there was no need for anyone to do anything, he would die in pain.
"What the hell..."
Everyone was shocked by Diablo's incredible actions.
But Jotaro didn't hesitate.
He was closest to Diablo, and the seriously injured and paralyzed Diablo was right in front of him and Star Platinum.
Although he was somewhat concerned about Diablo's behavior, the moment Diablo reappeared before him...
Jotaro suppressed his hesitation at the first moment and made the most correct choice:
"Attack, Star Platinum!"
The Platinum Star, which had been ready for a long time, once again set off a storm at this moment.
The immense power contained in those muscular muscles burst out at this moment like a flood, and it seemed that it would swallow up Diablo in the next moment.
Star Platinum explodes with all its might, attacking a vulnerable human who is seriously injured and in close proximity.
The outcome of this attack was almost certain.
However, amid the surprised and suspicious eyes of the crowd...
Star Platinum's fist actually went straight through Diablo's body.
Diablo seemed to have turned into a ball of air, a phantom, and no matter how powerful the power of Star Platinum was, it could not affect him.
"The attack penetrated again..."
"What happened just a second ago is happening again."
"His body became 'empty' again the moment he returned, and Star Platinum's attack had no effect at all."
Jotaro frowned slightly, and a bad feeling quietly came over him.
He couldn't understand Diablo's abilities at all. He didn't know why this guy would vanish, reappear, and then vanish again.
The unknown always makes people nervous and anxious.
What made Jotaro feel even more uneasy was the expression Diavolo showed at that moment.
When he first disappeared a second ago, his face was full of despair and confusion.
But now, after reappearing with serious injuries, Diablo's expression became firm and confident:
"I understand... I finally understand."
"There is no such thing as a useless Stand ability, only a useless Stand user."
"I actually wasted so much time because of despair and confusion, and never explored the potential of [Ouroboros]."
Fanaticism surged in Diablo's eyes, and he muttered to himself in words that no one could understand.
At the same time, his body was rapidly becoming virtual and transparent.
An invisible force of time and space is rapidly transforming his body and will soon throw him into the unpredictable river of time.
Diablo is now "invincible" and no one can hurt him.
And with the Ouroboros that can refresh the cooldown time infinitely, he doesn't have to worry too much about protecting himself after returning again.
"but…"
"Planet Platinum's time stop is a problem after all."
Diablo realized long ago that compared to Lee Sin who can only punch, Jotaro who can control time is his real threat.
If Star Platinum seized the opportunity to stop time, he would not be able to use his abilities no matter how strong they were.
"How can we solve this problem?"
"Wait... I figured it out!"
An idea flashed through Diablo's mind:
He seemed to have discovered another use for Ouroboros besides "refreshing cooldown time".
"Jotaro Kujo."
At this moment, the flow of time seems to have stopped.
In this almost still time, Diablo silently recited the name that once frightened him.
Looking at Jotaro and Star Platinum, with whom he had had two close encounters, his eyes seemed extremely calm.
"Yes... although I spent a full hour on March 27th."
"But for the Jotaro of today, April 6th... he should have only spent less than 1 second."
"And in such a short period of time, he has just used the ability to stop time once!"
Because conversations, thinking and psychological activities become time-saving under the influence of some mysterious world rules.
Therefore, the timeline experienced by Jotaro and others is actually like this:
1.1 seconds ago, Diablo was awakened by an arrow in despair, and the ability of [Ouroboros] began to activate.
0.8 seconds ago, Li Qing noticed the arrow and shouted to Jotaro to stop it.
0.5 seconds ago, Jotaro received the reminder and reacted, quickly approaching Diablo in the stopped time.
0.1 seconds ago, Diablo completely vanished.
0.1 seconds ago, Diablo returned with severe injuries and used [Ouroboros] again almost at the same time.
In other words, the last time Jotaro used time stop was just 0.5 seconds ago.
"That ability to stop time should also have a 'cooling time', right?"
"Otherwise, if it could be used continuously, you should have used it when you attacked just now."
Diavolo suddenly said to Jotaro with a playful look:
"Well, since you can't use Time Stop continuously..."
"You just used this ability 0.5 seconds ago. Can you use it again now?"
He just smiled sinisterly, as if he had discovered something interesting.
However, Jotaro's bad premonition suddenly became stronger:
Indeed, the ability [Time Stop] cannot be used continuously.
[Time Stop] has a cooldown period, but it is actually very short, so short that you only need to rest for a breath before you can use it again.
One breath lasts about 1 second.
And now only 0.5 seconds have passed.
This means that in the remaining 0.5 seconds, Jotaro will not be able to use the time stop ability - there is no doubt that this short gap of 0.5 seconds will be the time when his defense is the weakest.
"But... does Diablo have the ability to defeat me?"
"It's only 0.5 seconds. How will he break through the defense of Star Platinum?"
Jotaro still hasn't seen through Diablo's trump card:
Even though he couldn't stop time at will during these 0.5 seconds, he still had humanoid beasts like Star Platinum to protect him.
Want to take out Star Platinum in just 0.5 seconds?
Jotaro didn't think that the seriously injured Diablo would have such ability.
Diablo did not give an answer to this.
He just lowered his head and glanced at the watch on his wrist during this nearly stagnant time:
This was a top-of-the-line watch that he had purchased as a rare luxury when he was the boss of the organization. It had extremely high time accuracy and almost no error.
When Diablo looked down, the second hand on the dial just pointed to the next scale:
"Second 21."
"19:08:21."
He calculated and thought quickly in his mind:
"Subtracting the 1 hour I spent in the past, the exact time now should be..."
"18:08:21."
Diablo remembered this time clearly.
Then, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said something shocking like a prophet:
"Jotaro, let me tell you..."
"You will die at 18:08 and 21 seconds——"
"In this very second, in the next instant."
Jotaro remained silent.
He had no idea where Diavolo's confidence came from.
But it was precisely because he didn't know that he felt nervous.
At this moment, Diablo's figure has turned into nothingness. He is now completely in an 'invincible' state that cannot be attacked .
However, Star Platinum's time-stopping ability has not yet been restored.
Jotaro could do nothing but try his best to guard against Diablo's possible attack at any time, and he didn't know what kind of attack it would be.
"What exactly is Diavolo's trump card?"
"How is he going to defeat me in this short 0.5 second gap? From which direction will the attack come?"
The doubt still lingers in my mind.
And in the next moment...
Unexpectedly, the ground beneath Jotaro's feet suddenly exploded with a wave of fire!
And this wave of fire was not just blooming under his feet.
This road, which had just been repaired and leveled, was now engulfed in flames!
Flames shot up into the sky, and the road was completely obliterated.
“It worked.”
Diablo's ethereal body was looming in the waves of fire.
The impact of the explosion couldn't hurt him at all.
He would soon go back in time to personally experience what he was witnessing:
“Plant the seeds in the past and reap the victories in the future.”
"This is the true power of Ouroboros!"
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boom!
The explosion spread in all directions.
The huge sound wave was like a tsunami.
In the distance, the road construction workers who had already evacuated the scene stopped because of the loud noise coming from behind them.
"Brother, is this deal done?"
Looking at the smoke from the explosion rising on the distant avenue, a road worker asked the foreman nervously.
The foreman did not answer directly, but first looked down at his watch:
"18:08:21."
"Not a second off. The bomb exploded at the time the client requested."
He heaved a long sigh of relief, and then said to his brothers with a sense of relief:
"Our mission in Morioh Town has officially ended."
"Let's go back and report to the boss now."
As he spoke, the foreman looked back with a complicated expression at the place where they had worked all day:
"It's better to stay in Morioh Town for a while. "
"Yeah!" All the younger brothers nodded in agreement.
This quiet and peaceful suburban town seemed strange to them from the beginning.
Because the mission they received was full of evil spirits:
Two days ago, on April 4, a mysterious client placed an order from the dark web to the society they worked for.
The big client paid them 500 million yen and asked them to quietly bury a large number of time bombs on a road in Morioh Town.
This mission is weird.
If the society had not been experiencing a business slump since the Great Bubble, with its economic situation so bad that its members had to run construction companies part-time to supplement their income... they would not have taken on such an obviously suspicious commission.
After these gang members took over the 500 million yen order and came to Morioh Town, something even stranger happened:
They were originally struggling with how to plant a bomb on a town road silently without being discovered by anyone.
But it was like a sleepy person meeting a pillow. On April 5, a so-called "Bald Superman" appeared from nowhere and smashed the road designated by the customer into pieces.
The road was broken at this time, and these gangsters could disguise themselves as road workers to carry out their mission.
This is certainly a good thing for them.
But thinking back carefully, it seems as if the mysterious customer had known that the road would be damaged at this time, which seems very strange.
Not to mention, there is also a "Bald Superman" here who can smash an entire road into pieces.
The foreman originally thought it was just a ridiculous urban legend.
But later, after the road repair work really started, he witnessed with his own eyes the huge fist marks deeply embedded in the ground in the ruins of the shattered road.
"Weird... This place is too weird."
"Let's go quickly!"
The foreman shuddered unconsciously.
He took one last look at the explosion site in the distance, then left with his brothers without looking back.
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April 4, 1999, 17:01.
In Morioh-cho, in an ordinary convenience store.
Diablo was waiting in line at the cashier counter to pay.
He just discovered that the blond man in a suit standing behind him had a faint smell of blood.
This of course caught Diablo's attention.
But the blond man's temperament was too ordinary, as ordinary as a stone on the roadside, and would not leave an impression on people no matter how many times you saw him.
He doesn't look like a Stand user at all, nor does he look like a fellow traitor with blood on his hands.
After some hesitation, Diablo gave up further investigation.
He began to concentrate on waiting in line to pay, while the blond man behind him was also waiting boredly for Diablo in front of him to pay and leave.
The blond man's name is Kira Yoshikage, and all he wants now is to go home quickly with his "girlfriend" in his pocket.
If nothing unexpected happens, these two strangers who met by chance will never have any contact with each other again.
But accidents always happen at the right time as fate has written:
“Swipe the card.”
Diablo handed over his card to pay the bill like an ordinary person.
There was a huge sum of 500 million yen in this card, which was enough for him to continue living a wealthy life without having to worry about money even after he fled to a foreign country.
However, in Diavolo's eyes, which were unique to rich people, he looked cool, confident, calm and gentle...
The cashier suddenly looked up with an embarrassed look and said:
"Sir, it looks like there's no money in your card."
"ha?"
Diablo's face froze:
Are you kidding me, where is my money?
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