"Then, Takatsuki, aren't you buying anything for yourself?"
Listening to Mei, Takatsuki looked at the bag of clothes next to the counter.
"I already bought mine while you were trying on clothes."
Takatsuki was quick at buying clothes, and it had always been like this. He would just roughly try on the size, look at the style, and then decide to buy it directly.
"Just like that? No way!"
Kiana jumped up, completely mismatched with her young lady attire, and pulled Takatsuki towards the men's clothing section: "Let me pick out an outfit for you!"
And Raiden Mei followed along.
It turned out that even when buying men's clothing, if left to girls, it would take a long time.
Fortunately, Takatsuki stated again that he had already bought some and could only buy one more set, which made Kiana and Mei give up their plan to "torment" Takatsuki. However, even this one outfit took over half an hour to try on.
And they also demanded that Takatsuki must wear the clothes they picked out when returning, as for the old clothes? They just casually threw them into the mall's trash can.
Takatsuki paid a shipping fee and arranged for the mall to deliver the clothes to their hotel. Then he took the two girls to dinner. After a day of shopping, the three of them didn't look like they were preparing to kill someone, but rather genuinely seemed to be on vacation.
After all, compared to the matters of the Honkai world, in this new world, they could completely cast aside all their past worries.
At first, they were worried about staying too long in this world, which might cause something to happen on the other side. However, the system replied that one day in the instance meant one minute in their original world, after which they relaxed.
Even if I stay for a year, it's only six hours, so it's not bad to forget about my original world and take a trip.
"Ah... I'm so tired from playing today."
On the way back after dinner, the three of them chose not to take a car, but instead walked slowly back to the hotel under the night sky, enjoying the scenery along the way.
Kiana had been wandering alone for a long time, and for her, friends and companions were a luxury, so once she had them, she didn't want to let go.
Raiden Mei had also long been accustomed to walking home with Takatsuki. After her father was imprisoned, many people approached her, trying to deceive her to seize the Raiden family's remaining assets.
Those people would stop at nothing, and the most direct way was to wait for her on her way home from school.
After learning about this, Takatsuki initially followed her home every day after school, and after helping her out a few times, it became a routine of picking her up from school every day.
Although there was an additional Kiana, having another friend was not a bad thing for her.
After walking for a while, the three noticed a man wearing a cowboy hat running towards them. He was completely different from the Singaporean style, full of Western charm.
Just as he brushed past the three of them...
"King Crimson..."
The suddenly appearing red and white Stand punched the man in the abdomen, sending him flying.
"Ah! Takatsuki, why did you suddenly attack him?"
Raiden Mei was also startled, but quickly reacted, "Is he an enemy?"
King Crimson stood in front of the three, facing the cowboy on the ground. Takatsuki nodded, "Yes, the Emperor's Stand, Hol Horse."
"It's him? Then how could he..."
Before Kiana could finish her question, three familiar figures ran into view from a distance.
"Finally caught you! Try running again!"
Polnareff, who had run over, angrily kicked Hol Horse, who was lying on the ground, sending him back down just as he was about to get up.
Kakyoin nodded towards the three, "Good thing you stopped him, otherwise he would have gotten away."
"Let me heal you first."
Looking at the bloodstains and injuries on the three, Raiden Mei summoned Crazy Diamond to heal Jotaro, Kakyoin, and Polnareff, and then asked, "Were you injured by him?"
Polnareff kicked Hol Horse again, who was lying on the ground, after hearing this, "How could I be injured by such trash? It's all because of that guy named J. Geil."
"Yes, that's right. There were too many reflective objects around, so it was hard for us to guess his movement trajectory. But fortunately, Jotaro was there."
Kakyoin briefly described the situation at the time.
Originally, Polnareff discovered, or rather, Hol Horse and Hanged Man's Stands targeted Polnareff, and a battle began. The surrounding tourists were scared away by the inexplicable attacks, and he and Jotaro happened to be nearby and rushed over to provide support.
They then found the injured Polnareff.
After that, the two of them were also brought into Hanged Man's attack range. As a result, Jotaro somehow managed to suddenly send the repositioning Hanged Man flying.
Jotaro only spoke a sentence when several people looked at him.
"That guy used his ability."
"..."
Others might not have reacted yet, but Takatsuki had already realized that Jotaro was referring to Dio.
Because he had told Jotaro during the spoilers that Star Platinum had the same ability as Dio, Jotaro had been trying to sense changes in time. Dio would use time stop several times a day for training, and this ability had a global range, affecting Jotaro as well. So, over the past few days, he had grasped a bit of the time stop technique.
However, he dared not use this ability, fearing that Dio would discover it, so he could only secretly move to get used to the feeling whenever Dio stopped time.
During this battle, Dio coincidentally activated his ability again, pausing the constantly repositioning Hanged Man in mid-air. Star Platinum took advantage of this opportunity to defeat him and then found his true body.
Hol Horse started to flee after discovering that Hanged Man had been hit, which is why the others were so far behind.
"Then you guys can deal with it yourselves. We'll head back first."
He glanced at the system's gains, which had increased by 100 crystals. It seemed the system had judged that Hol Horse and J. Geil had been defeated.
Takatsuki naturally had no interest in Hol Horse's subsequent fate.
In the original work, this character always played the role of an enemy, and he was a pure mercenary. When he was defeated by the Joestar group, he never thought of quitting, but instead went back to find Dio.
Takatsuki knew that the few people probably wouldn't kill him, and he also wanted to see if, should this guy escape and return, he would get another reward settlement.