Plop!
A fair, delicate hand with gentle lines, just one glance was enough to make it feel incomparably soft and moving, fell out of Yoshikage Kira's exploded body.
Ryosuke picked it up. It felt warm and smooth in his hand, like a living thing, and it even seemed to have... a beating pulse?
'Isn't this Yoshikage Kira's dream hand?'
An uncontrollable question rose in Ryosuke's mind, 'Where did he even get this thing?'
Unfortunately, Yoshikage Kira had already been blown into dust. There was no one left to answer Ryosuke's question.
Looking around at the chaos, Ryosuke let out a light breath.
The battle itself hadn't lasted long, but fighting it had been truly exhausting, and it was completely different from fighting the Otsutsuki.
Isshiki, Momoshiki, Kaguya, Kinshiki, although none of those four were good people, they really fought head-on. You could say both sides showed off their skills, battling to their hearts' content.
Wonder of U… was purely disgusting.
If not for borrowing the power of the Saint's Corpse, Ryosuke's fight with Wonder of U would have gone on indefinitely.
Under the obstruction of calamity, Ryosuke couldn't kill Tooru.
With an Ultimate Lifeform body plus healing potions, Tooru couldn't kill Ryosuke either.
Their fight would have dragged on into the distant future.
Either Ryosuke's healing potions would run out first.
Or Tooru, as a Rock Human, would eventually reach the end of his long lifespan and die of old age.
It's just that…
Ryosuke thought of the Wonder of U that had left.
It was still alive.
In the original story, after Tooru's death, Wonder of U indeed still "lived," even invading Higashikata Norisuke (the head of the Higashikata family), like a vengeful spirit from a ghost story, reaching a hand out from Norisuke's mouth.
How much destructive power it had, Ryosuke didn't know.
He only remembered that the first time he read that part, it was late at night. He had just thought the protagonist group had won and finally relaxed, only to be startled by that ghost-story-like reversal.
He thought it was going to turn into another DIO-steals-Jonathan's-body situation.
But when he turned the page, Higashikata Josuke performed the Joestar family's once-in-a-lifetime flash move, appeared in front of Wonder of U, and with one Soft & Wet, Go Beyond, completely killed Wonder of U's remaining shadow.
Ryosuke remembered clearly that Wonder of U, existing in a "ghost" state, was completely different from how it had been before.
When Tooru was alive, Wonder of U was scheming, cunning, and insidious.
After Tooru's death, the Wonder of U that appeared beside Norisuke was more like a beast obsessively fixated on attacking.
Same condition, Tooru dead.
In the original, it was a mindless beast.
Here, it still had its wits and knew to run.
The only explanation for the difference between the two was the pitch-black light shining on Wonder of U.
This wasn't just speculation. When Ryosuke threw the "Saint's Tear Blade," piercing through the ice layer and stabbing into the big fish named Tooru, although it only lasted for one second, within that second Ryosuke clearly sensed, an oppressive, terrifying power, and within that terror, a hard-to-describe, irresistible charm.
The source of that power… was DIO Brando.
It was precisely that pitch-black light, not inferior in the slightest to the power of the Saint.
"So… what exactly is this black light?"
On the way over from the Naruto world, Ryosuke had reread JoJo Parts 1 through 8 in full, and he hadn't found any plot where DIO became this powerful.
After being killed by an enraged Jotaro Kujo in Part 3, DIO Brando never appeared again, except in people's memories.
As Ryosuke was thinking, suddenly, a cute little face pressed close.
Along with it came Higashikata Daiya's overly full chest and flat little stomach.
Because of her poor eyesight, her face was very, very close. Her nose moved closer, sniffing constantly like a kitten, her expression intoxicated.
"You smell… really nice."
After a series of battles, constant bodily regeneration, plus the earlier plantification and reversal, Ryosuke's Ultimate Lifeform physique had been fully unleashed.
To enemies, it felt like facing the terrifying pressure of a prehistoric monster.
But to the opposite gender, it carried an indescribable charm, especially for a sheltered, slightly lustful girl like Higashikata Daiya.
Ryosuke reacted, chuckled softly, reined in all his aura, returned to an ordinary human state, and gently pushed Higashikata Daiya away.
"How about we make a deal?"
A small chess piece spun at the tip of Higashikata Daiya's finger.
"You seem to care a lot about that pervert from earlier."
"There are his memories inside this. I'll recount what's in them for you, and you…"
She tilted her head toward Higashikata Josuke lying on the ground.
"You save Josuke, okay?"
So this was Higashikata Daiya's little scheme.
She really was interested in Ryosuke, but she cared even more about Josuke as her "family."
The Higashikata family didn't know how Josuke had been abducted. They only knew that from one day on, they never saw him again, just like how he had suddenly appeared, he had suddenly vanished.
Ryosuke was already planning to purify Josuke, so naturally he wouldn't refuse this deal.
Compared to the deal, what he was more curious about was, how did Higashikata Daiya take Yoshikage Kira's memories?
Her Stand's name was, California King Bed.
The Stand's activation was divided into two stages.
The first stage was establishing rules.
The second stage was the target violating the rules, allowing her to steal memory fragments.
If the opponent broke the rules Daiya had set, causing her to feel doubt or distress, Daiya could steal part of their memories.
The memories would be sealed into a chess piece. She could view the memories by touching the piece, but if the piece was destroyed, the memories inside would be lost forever.
The method to release the memories was also simple, if Daiya stepped on the shadow of the person whose memories were taken, the Stand ability would be undone.
Higashikata Daiya's usual rule was, "Don't treat me specially as a blind person. That makes me feel very troubled."
Higashikata Daiya was a smart girl. When Yoshikage Kira was rambling on to her about his background and crimes, she was also introducing her own "rules" to him.
Kira's mind was completely focused on Ryosuke and Bites the Dust. How could he care about a little girl's rambling?
By the time he came to his senses, he had already violated the rule, "He treated Higashikata Daiya as a blind person, intended to target her with Bites the Dust, and said many obscene things that someone her age shouldn't be hearing."
Thus, California King Bed's ability activated.
A small portion of the memories Yoshikage Kira was thinking about was stolen.
Ryosuke took the chess piece and examined it carefully.
The piece was grayish-white. Just touching it made dust fall off, as if it were about to shatter at any moment.
In the middle of the piece was set a semi-transparent blue sphere about the size of a fingernail.
Inside it was sealed a small fragment of Yoshikage Kira's memory.
Of course, like the chess piece itself, the memory fragment was also full of cracks, and wisps of black light lingered around it.
Ryosuke leaned in to look.
The person in the memory fragment… was DIO.
This was also expected. With Bites the Dust failing to activate, the person Yoshikage Kira thought of would naturally be DIO, who had revived him.
The question was, why didn't White Snake's disc extraction work?
During his fight with Ringo Roadagain, Ryosuke had already thought of extracting a disc to take the Stand and memories.
But the moment the disc was pulled out, it disintegrated, and a wisp of black light even spread up along his arm.
Seeing the memory fragment sealed in the chess piece, and thinking of the full disc White Snake had extracted, Ryosuke formed a guess.
The memories and Stands of the people revived by DIO were like peach pastries left in a backpack for a week.
White Snake pulled out the whole thing at once, so it shattered all over the floor.
California King Bed pinched out a tiny fragment from countless pieces, so it naturally wouldn't shatter so easily.
Ryosuke looked closely. The memory fragment inside the chess piece was also slowly fading, and it probably wouldn't be long before it disappeared along with the piece.
As for the black light, this thing was inside the piece, and once read, it would contaminate the mind and body.
Fortunately, Higashikata Daiya had been completely focused on saving Josuke and hadn't had time to view Yoshikage Kira's memory fragment.
Otherwise, by now, her mind would already be contaminated, and she would have become a puppet controlled by DIO.
"Then let me take a look."