Chapter 325 Usage of Ouroboros

April 6, 1999, 18:08.

Amidst the astonishment and confusion of Li Qing and others, Diavolo's figure first turned into a shadow and disappeared in just 1 second.

Then, there was almost no gap. In just the next moment, he strangely reappeared in the same place.

And when he reappeared, the previously intact Diavolo had now turned into a bloody man with corroded flesh and twisted bones.

As soon as he appeared, he slumped on the ground helplessly, and the blood all over his body dyed the silver-gray wet cement beneath him red.

Look at Diavolo's miserable look, with air coming in but not going out.

It seemed that he would die in pain without anyone taking action.

"What are you doing?"

Everyone was shocked by Diavolo's incredible operation.

But Jotaro didn't hesitate.

His position was closest to Diavolo, and Diavolo, who was seriously injured and paralyzed, was right in front of him and Platinum Star.

Although he was a little concerned about Diavolo's performance just now, the moment Diavolo reappeared in front of him,

Jotaro suppressed the hesitation in his heart immediately and made the most correct choice:

"Attack, Platinum Star!"

Platinum Star, which had been preparing for a long time, once again set off a storm at this moment.

The vast power contained in the knotted muscles poured out like a flood at this moment, and it seemed that Diavolo would be swallowed up and drowned in the next moment.

The Platinum Star exploded with all its strength, attacking a vulnerable human being who was very close and seriously injured.

The outcome of this attack was almost beyond doubt.

However, in everyone's surprised and doubtful eyes,

Platinum Star's fist actually passed directly through Diavolo's body.

Diavolo seemed to turn into a ball of air, a phantom, and no matter how powerful the Platinum Star was, it could not affect him.

"The attack penetrated again."

"What happened a second ago is repeated again."

"His body became 'nothing' again the moment he returned, and the Platinum Star's attack was not effective at all."

Jotaro frowned slightly, and an unpleasant feeling quietly came to his heart.

He couldn't understand Diavolo's ability at all, and he didn't know why this guy would disappear, reappear, and then disappear again.

The unknown always makes people nervous and entangled.

What made Jotaro feel even more uneasy was the expression Diavolo showed at this moment.

When he disappeared for the first time a second ago, his face was full of despair and confusion.

But now, after reappearing with serious injuries, Diavolo's expression has become firm and confident:

"I get it. I finally get it."

"There has never been any substitute ability for waste, only substitute messengers for waste."

"I wasted so much time because of despair and confusion, and never explored the potential of "Ouroboros". "

Diablo's eyes were filled with enthusiasm, and he was mumbling words that no one could understand.

At the same time, his body was rapidly becoming blurred and transparent.

An invisible force of time and space is rapidly transforming his body, and will soon plunge him into the elusive river of time.

Diavolo is now "invincible" and no one can hurt him.

And with the Ouroboros that can infinitely refresh the cooldown, he doesn't have to worry too much about self-protection after returning.

"but."

"Star Platinum's suspension is a problem after all."

Diavolo has long realized that compared to Li Qing, who can only box, Jotaro, who can control time, is his real threat.

If Star Platinum seizes the opportunity to stop time, no matter how powerful his ability is, he will not be able to use it.

"How to solve this problem?"

"Wait. I thought of it!"

A flash of inspiration flashed in Diavolo's mind:

He seemed to have discovered another use of Ouroboros besides "refreshing the cooldown".

"Jotaro Kujo."

At this moment, the flow of time seems to have stopped.

During this almost still time, Diavolo silently recited the name that once frightened him in his heart.

Looking at Jotaro and the Platinum Star who had had close contact with him twice, his eyes looked extremely calm.

"That's right. Although I spent a full hour on March 27th."

"But for the current Jotaro on April 6th, he should have spent less than 1 second."

"And in such a short period of time, he just used the ability to stop time once!"

Because conversations, thinking and mental activities all become time-consuming under the influence of some mysterious world rules.

Therefore, the timeline experienced by Jotaro and others is actually this:

1.1 seconds ago, Diablo stabbed an arrow in despair and awakened, and the ability of "Ouroboros" began to activate.

0.8 seconds ago, Lee Sin noticed the presence of the arrow and shouted to Jotaro to stop it.

0.5 seconds ago, Jotaro received the reminder and responded, quickly approaching Diavolo during the stopped time.

0.1 seconds ago, Diavolo completely disappeared.

0.1 seconds ago, Diavolo returned with serious injuries, and almost at the same time used "Ouroboros" again.

In other words, the last time Jotaro used it was only 0.5 seconds ago.

"The ability to stop time should also have a 'cooling time', right?"

"Otherwise, if it could be used continuously, you should have used it long ago when you attacked."

Diavolo suddenly said to Jotaro with a playful expression:

"Well, since you can't use it continuously."

"So you, who just used this ability 0.5 seconds ago, can you use it again now?"

He just smiled conspiratorially, as if he had discovered something interesting.

But the bad premonition in Jotaro's heart suddenly became stronger:

Indeed, the ability of "Time Stop" cannot be used continuously.

"Time Stop" has a cooling time, but its cooling time is actually very short, so short that it only takes a breath of rest before it can be used again.

One breath takes almost 1 second.

And now only 0.5 seconds have passed.

This means that in the remaining 0.5 seconds, Jotaro cannot use the time-stop ability - there is no doubt that this short 0.5-second gap will be the time when his defense is weakest.

"But does Diavolo have the ability to defeat me?"

"It's only 0.5 seconds. How will he break through the Platinum Star's defense?"

Jotaro still hasn't seen through Diavolo's trump card:

Even though he couldn't stop time as he wished during these 0.5 seconds, he still had humanoid beasts like Platinum Star as his guards.

Want to get rid of Platinum Star in just 0.5 seconds?

Jotaro didn't think that Diavolo, who was seriously injured, would have such ability.

Diavolo did not give an answer to this.

He just looked down at the watch on his wrist during this almost stagnant time:

This is a top-notch watch that he rarely purchased as a luxury when he was the boss of the organization. The time accuracy is extremely high and there is almost no error.

When Diavolo lowered his head to check, the second hand of the dial pointed to the next scale at exactly this moment:

"The 21st second."

"19:08:21."

He quickly calculated and thought in his mind:

"Minus the 1 hour I spent in the past, the exact time now should be."

"18:08:21 exactly."

Diavolo remembered this time firmly.

Then, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said astonishing words like a prophet:

"Jotaro, let me tell you."

"You will die in the 21st second of 18:08-"

"In this second, in the next moment."

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, Diavolo's figure has turned into nothingness, and he is now completely in an 'invincible' state that cannot be attacked.

And Star Platinum's time-stopping ability has not yet been restored.

Jotaro couldn't do anything. He could only try his best to guard against Diavolo's attack that might come at any time. 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?"

Questions still linger in my mind.

And in the next moment.

Caught off guard, the ground under Jotaro's feet suddenly exploded into a wave of fire!

And this wave of fire didn't just bloom under his feet.

This avenue, which had just been repaired and smoothed, was now submerged in the flames!

Fire shot up into the sky, and the avenue was wiped out again.

"Successful."

Diavolo's ethereal body loomed in the waves of fire.

The impact of the explosion couldn't hurt him at all.

He will soon go back in time to personally realize what he is witnessing at the moment:

“Sow seeds in the past and reap victory in the future.”

"This is the true power of "Ouroboros"! "

boom!

The flames of the explosion swept across all directions.

The huge sound was like a tsunami.

In the distance, the road construction workers who had evacuated the scene early stopped because of the loud noise coming from behind.

"Brother, is this business settled?"

Looking at the explosion smoke steaming on the road in the distance, a road repairman asked the foreman nervously.

The foreman did not answer directly, but first looked down at his watch:

"18:08:21 exactly."

"Within one second, the bomb exploded at the time requested by the customer."

He breathed a long sigh of relief, and then said to his brothers with relief:

"Our mission in Morio Town is officially over."

"Let's go back and find the master 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 Morio Town for as long as possible."

"Yeah!" All the boys nodded in agreement.

This peaceful suburban town seemed eerie to them from the start.

Because the mission they received had a sinister atmosphere everywhere:

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 offered a reward of up to 500 million yen and asked them to quietly plant a large number of time bombs on a certain section of road in Morio Town.

This mission is very strange.

If the society hadn't been in sluggish business since the bubble period, and the economic situation was so bad that members of the society would have to run part-time construction companies to subsidize them, they wouldn't have accepted such an obviously fishy commission.

And just after these gang members took the 500 million big order and came to Morio Town, something even stranger happened:

They were still struggling with how to quietly plant a bomb on a town road without anyone noticing.

But just like being dozed off and encountering a pillow, on April 5th, the so-called "bald superman" appeared out of nowhere and smashed the road designated by the customer into pieces.

The road was broken down at this time, and these gang members could just pretend to be road construction workers to perform their tasks.

This is certainly a good thing for them.

But looking back and thinking about it carefully, it was as if the mysterious customer had known that the road would be damaged at this time, which seemed very strange.

Not to mention, there is a "bald superman" here who can break an entire road into pieces.

The foreman thought it was just a ridiculous urban legend.

But later, after the road repair work really started, he saw with his own eyes the huge fist marks deeply embedded in the ground among the ruins of the avenue that was shattered into powder.

"Evil. This place is too evil."

"Let's go quickly!"

The foreman shivered unconsciously.

He took one last look at the explosion site in the distance, and left with his younger brothers without looking back.

April 4, 1999, 17:01.

In Morio Town, an ordinary convenience store.

Diavolo was waiting in line at the checkout counter.

He just noticed that the blond man in a suit who was lined up behind him had a faint smell of blood.

This, of course, caught Diavolo's attention.

But the blond man's temperament is too ordinary, as ordinary as a stone on the roadside. No matter how many times he sees it, it never leaves an impression on people.

He doesn't look like a substitute messenger, nor does he look like a fellow with blood on his hands.

Diavolo gave up further exploration after some hesitation.

He began to concentrate on waiting in line to check out, while the blond man behind him was also waiting boredly for Diavolo, who was in front of the queue, to pay and leave.

The blond man's name is Kira Yoshikage. He just wants to go home quickly with the "girlfriend" in his pocket.

If nothing else happens, these two strangers who met by chance will never have any interactions with each other.

But accidents always happen at the right time as fate has written:

"Swipe your card."

Diavolo handed over the card to pay the bill honestly like an ordinary person.

This card contains a huge sum of 500 million yen, which is enough for him to continue to live a wealthy life without having to worry about money after escaping to a foreign country.

However, in Diablo's eyes that are unique to rich people, they are free, confident, calm and gentle.

The cashier suddenly looked up in confusion and said:

"Sir, there seems to be no money in your card."

"ha?"

Diavolo's expression froze:

Are you kidding me, where is my money?

Something was delayed. I started coding at 8pm. I felt that my condition was a bit poor and the quality of the output was average. Let’s just update it today (〃ω)