"My name is Yoshikage Kira. I am thirty-three years old. I live in the villa district in the northeast of Morioh Town, and I am not married yet."
"Because I've just arrived in this world and haven't found a suitable job yet, but I'm confident I'll be employed within this month."
Yoshikage Kira gently bit his fingernails, constantly imagining the wonderful life he would have in this new Morioh Town, using this method to ease his urge to kill.
He was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car. The one driving was Tooru, while Killer Queen and Wonder of U were seated in the back.
In Yoshikage Kira's hands was a surveillance monitor.
The people on the screen were Ryosuke, Madara, and Hot Pants.
This was the deal Yoshikage Kira had struck with Dio.
As long as Ryosuke was killed, Yoshikage Kira would be able to live in Morioh Town forever without being disturbed.
Even if someone blind enough really did find him in the future, Tooru and Dio would handle everything for him.
The heaven Father Pucci talked about every day, Yoshikage Kira couldn't understand it. He only knew... Morioh Town was his heaven.
Back to this operation.
Extortion Road was a specially chosen ambush point.
Just like the "Alley That Cannot Be Turned Back" that Yoshikage Kira was familiar with, Extortion Road was also a Stand not controlled by humans.
[Stand Name: Les Feuilles]
[Stand Ability: Small Stands hidden beneath the ginkgo leaves of "Extortion Road" can teleport any substance on the leaves from one side to the other.]
First, using calamity, the leaves that Killer Queen had touched were sent onto Extortion Road.
Then, under the effect of Autumn Leaves, ignoring distance and giving Ryosuke and the others no chance to defend or dodge, the "exploding leaves" were instantly moved onto their bodies.
And then...
One hit kill!
Yoshikage Kira thought of the scene where he was killed by "Hayato" with an iron ball.
This was an extra memory he had gained.
Dio told him that this had happened in a parallel world, and that it was a ghost named Ryosuke who had possessed Hayato, giving him that terrifying ability.
Yoshikage Kira didn't understand parallel worlds, but he understood what hatred was.
"You killed me once. I'll return it once. That's fair, right, Ryosuke?"
Yoshikage Kira stretched out his hand, staring intently at the screen, waiting for the exact moment the exploding leaf hit its target to press the detonation button.
At that moment, Ryosuke placed one hand on Uchiha Madara's shoulder and the other on Hot Pants's.
Their bodies deformed and stretched like noodles, falling into Ryosuke's pockets and disappearing.
Ryosuke sent them back to the Ghost Room.
If it were only Wonder of U, with Madara's combat strength, he could still fight.
But adding Killer Queen changed everything.
To be safe…
Ryosuke would fight alone.
His gaze swept over the leaves flying toward him, and he softly called out a name, "C-Moon."
Whoosh!
A gravitational field appeared centered on Ryosuke.
All the leaves were blown away. The entire street became spotlessly clean, not a single leaf remaining.
One simple move directly broke the enemy's coordinated attack. The next step was, "Hermit Purple."
Purple vines appeared. Ryosuke used spirit writing, and within a ripple crystal in his palm, Tooru, Wonder of U, and a shocked Yoshikage Kira were reflected.
Ryosuke glanced in the direction indicated by the vines, and an iron ball slowly rotating appeared in his hand.
He did not summon a horse.
Wonder of U was the embodiment of calamity. As someone who possessed Tear Blade and Dragon's Dream, Ryosuke knew very well how powerful calamity-type abilities were.
The more complicated the methods, the more scheming and calculating they were, the easier it was for unexpected things to happen under the influence of calamity.
It was entirely possible that a summoned horse would run itself to death without ever escaping the Golden Rectangle.
This was also why Ryosuke hadn't let Madara take action.
With Obito's Kamui Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Madara had the ability to become intangible. No matter how much calamity there was, it couldn't attack him while he was intangible.
But who could say for sure?
What if, halfway through becoming intangible, a sudden rejection reaction occurred and Madara was dragged into a spatial rift and died? That wasn't impossible either.
So Ryosuke chose the most straightforward method.
Flying straight over.
When Yoshikage Kira saw the iron ball in Ryosuke's hand, his instinct was to leave.
He had been beaten before and knew very well how much that thing hurt when it hit.
Just as Yoshikage Kira was about to open his mouth to warn them, he saw Wonder of U place both hands on its cane, its tone still relaxed.
"Heh heh… once the torrent of calamity is activated, it will not stop."
"Ryosuke, as long as you still maintain the thought of 'pursuing,' what awaits you will be death."
Wonder of U snapped its fingers.
The sky darkened, bolts of lightning rolled, calamity actually drawing down thunder.
A bolt of lightning suddenly struck down.
Wonder of U could greatly amplify the power of calamity.
In the original work, even dense rain could pierce the human body like bullets. The power of this single lightning bolt was enough to blow up an entire city block.
Yoshikage Kira narrowed his eyes at the screen, waiting for Ryosuke's death.
However, the roaring thunder dragon descended like a pet into Ryosuke's hand, turning into a silver-white bolt of lightning that drilled into the iron ball, becoming part of its rotational force.
"T-this… what's going on?!"
Tooru, who had been relaxed and leisurely driving the whole time, suddenly sat upright.
He leaned toward the screen and saw clumps of clouds appear behind Ryosuke, forming a humanoid Stand.
Weather Report.
With just a casual wave, all the calamity-formed storm clouds and lightning vanished, and the sky returned to clear.
Calamity might be able to manipulate the weather.
But its authority could not be above Weather Report.
Ryosuke was closing the distance at extreme speed.
The thunder attracted the attention of Morioh Town's residents. They looked up and saw Ryosuke flying through the sky, holding a high-speed rotating "magic ball" in his hand.
"What the hell?!"
Higashikata Joshu saw Ryosuke flash past and shouted in shock.
His sister, Higashikata Daiya, had suffered from weak eyesight since childhood, almost equivalent to blindness. Hearing people on the street exclaiming "What the hell," she hurriedly asked, "What happened?!"
Joshu licked his lips.
"A god just flew past!"
Daiya didn't understand, but Joshu had always been a bit of an idiot. Clearly, getting a satisfactory answer from him was impossible. She muttered softly, "If only Josuke were still here."
Most of the Higashikata family were members of the protagonist group. However, due to Part 8's special mystery-focused style, not all of them had combat-type Stands. They were more like a sitcom ensemble, each Stand and personality having its own traits.
Now, Morioh Town had already been captured, imprisoned, and controlled by Tooru and Dio. They had also restrained this part's protagonist, Josuke Higashikata, mainly to guard against him awakening Soft & Wet, Go Beyond.
But afterward, they did not lay hands on ordinary people. They didn't even bother with the Higashikata family.
The reason for this wasn't "kindness," but rather Dio's philosophy, a chef has a chef's talents, a king has a king's talents. Only when the right people bring out the right talents does the world become interesting.
If everyone were turned into slaves, zombies, or simply killed off, it would instead be boring.
The composure of being able to choose freely whether to disturb ordinary people's lives or not, that was the true power of a ruler.
Tooru and Wonder of U also acknowledged and enjoyed the sense of superiority brought by that composure.
But today…
Storms, collapsing houses, flying steel nails, steel plates falling from airplanes…
When C-Moon compressed its three-kilometer range down to within ten meters, not a single calamity attack could touch Ryosuke.
The iron ball in Ryosuke's hand spun at high speed.
Ripple crystals and silver-white lightning clung to it, resonating with the world.
Space was subtly pulled, then torn apart and rebounded, equivalent to thousands of tiny spatial slingshots.
At this moment, Ryosuke stood in the sky a thousand meters away, slowly raised his hand, and aimed at the vehicle where Tooru was.
Tooru swallowed.
His composure… wavered.
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