JOJO, The Escape from Real Diavolo

Chapter 31 You're Dead

"I guess after he realizes what's happening, he'll just search slowly. His overly cautious mind won't allow him to use his teleportation ability again, because he's too afraid—afraid that if he gets close to me, he'll run into those two missing pilots."

Chen Miaowen lay on the bed with his eyes closed, while the Crimson King stood by the half-open window, observing the situation.

"Heh, let him search. He'll get tired of it eventually. He probably won't believe that I'd be hiding here right here at the church. I doubt he'll find it anytime soon."

He was tired from the long battle, but he couldn't sleep and couldn't calm down.

Because no one will protect him on his way to sleep, and if he's unlucky enough to fall asleep in a daze, it's not impossible that Yedan might suddenly take advantage of the situation and kill him in one fell swoop.

He seemed to have gotten used to the pain in his body. Bored out of his mind, he began to stare at his Stand, something he had wanted to do for a long time. He wanted to see more closely just how ferocious the Crimson King really was.

"Wow, that's a bit scary, but he's actually quite handsome!"

He opened his mouth, and the Crimson King opened his mouth as well.

......

"What happened? Why is everyone here? Have they all vanished? Could it all be the work of the Crimson King?"

During his flight, Yedan finally realized the strangeness of this world.

Even though it's 11 or 12 at night, not all buildings in Sicily, including shops and high-rises, are closed or completely dark. He had already opened seven or eight doors, and the furnishings inside were all there, but there was no one there.

He was trembling with fear. It was bad enough that the pilots had disappeared, but now ordinary citizens were also going missing en masse. It was no wonder he was terrified.

"What happened? What on earth happened?!"

He didn't realize that it was all his fault, and he found it hard to accept.

"Crimson King, what have you done? Where are you?"

He wanted to confront Chen Miaowen directly, but he didn't say it aloud or give the order.

However, Satan began to cast a spell, clasping his hands together and spreading his six wings.

In contrast, Yedan looked completely bewildered. He turned to look at Satan, who was about to unleash his power.

"What are you doing, Satan..."

Buzz---

The ability to make your wishes come true is successfully activated.

He tore through space and instantly appeared in front of Chen Miaowen. Looking at the other party, who was bored and making faces at the Crimson King, he was speechless.

Chen Miaowen turned his head and looked at Yedan, his smile stiff, clearly very surprised.

"King Crimson!"

He subconsciously entered the world of time deletion, took a big step back, and stared intently at Yedan, who had no protective measures in place but stood behind him like Satan.

"Should we make a move here? But Satan behind him has extremely fast reflexes; I reckon it'll be difficult to kill him here..."

He believed that while King Crimson's punching speed was fast, it couldn't match Satan's reaction speed. Even if King Crimson's fist was about to pierce Yedan's heart, he estimated that Yedan's Stand would be able to react in time.

Although the ability to grant one's every wish has a time interval, in a life-or-death situation, it can passively defend itself, break through its limits to activate its ability before death, and then use three layers of protection to recover itself... Anyway, he believed he couldn't win.

"Did he sense something was wrong, realize the pilots were no longer there? So he was willing to sacrifice his protection and come to me to kill me?"

Regardless of the circumstances, Chen Miaowen felt he couldn't stay put and wait to die, so he turned around and jumped out of the window to escape.

"...Where is he? Did he escape through time travel? Why would he escape?"

Yedan was initially terrified. Satan's sudden spell meant he might face three Stand users and be surrounded and killed. However, to his surprise, what he imagined didn't happen; instead, the other side was scared away first.

"So that's how it is... You've been lying to me all along. So this isn't your ability. The pilots won't become Stand users either, because everyone in this world has disappeared. No matter where they went, they won't affect me, right!?"

Yedan gritted his teeth, his eyes blazing with fury.

"You've deceived me and mocked me time and time again, hahaha... Crimson King! I don't care why you haven't disappeared from this world. Since you haven't disappeared, I'll pulverize you to pieces. You're fucking dead. You can't live for another fifteen minutes. It's no use running away anywhere!"

"Satan, I must appear behind the Crimson King immediately and pierce his heart!"

Buzz---

As Chen Miaowen fled to a distance, a chill ran down his spine. He looked back as he ran and saw Satan almost touching his face. He immediately activated his power.

It is known that Satan's ability activation interval, or the pre-casting animation, is three seconds, while Crimson King's ability activation interval is three and a half seconds. The difference is extremely small. After the time deletion ends, Yedan will have a moment of daze, so this 0.3 seconds can be ignored.

He chased him, he fled from him, but they could not touch each other.

And so began a chase that seemed to never end.

......

"The drunk man reappeared where he was, still holding the phone. It seemed that in that world, the boss's phone was fake."

"Yes, the drunkard was unharmed and was sleeping soundly, with the smell of alcohol on him becoming even more pungent."

"In other words, apart from the priest who was killed in that world, everyone else is fine. The boss seemed to have said that this might be a world in the dreams of the six people. I thought he was just saying it casually, because only the three of us, the priest, the drunkard, and Jedan appeared in that world. Looking at it this way, it seems that what he said makes sense."

Theresa pointed to the baptists slowly walking away in the distance.

"Because they are nearby, but none of them have appeared in that world, and the time is not quite right. It should be eleven or twelve o'clock there, but in reality, time has hardly moved. In dreams, time is so chaotic... Remember, we exchanged greetings with these baptists before entering the church, and they have only walked this far so far. I estimate that in the hours they have been there, only two or three minutes have passed in reality."

Yefeng nodded.

"That's right, but why are there six of us? Is there some kind of rule?"

"Grandpa, I have a question. What happened in the last second before your grandson lost his memory?"

Ye Feng seemed to be deep in thought.

"Sometimes, he loses his memory after leaving home. I never followed him. I only know that after he was tired from playing and ready to come back, he didn't recognize me and just wanted to lie in bed and rest. Other times, he would get out of bed, see me, and call me 'Grandpa,' and then he would change his appearance, glance at me, and run out."

"It seems that there are conditions for pulling people into the dream, but I guess Yedan himself doesn't know that, because even now, he probably doesn't believe that he exists in the dream."