stand-in creed

Chapter 53

in a dim room.

Jotaro and Polnareff fell down the long "slide" onto the floor of the dark room, like adventurers who had triggered a maze mechanism in a traditional RPG game.Accompanied by a wriggling of the freighter, the slide that brought the two of them gradually merged with the hull of the ship and disappeared without a trace.

What caught the eyes of the two were all kinds of equipment.

"...Sorry, I was impulsive."

Polnareff had a look of embarrassment on his face.

The young French swordsman understood that it was his own impulsiveness that caused Jotaro to fall with him.

Jotaro just handed Polnareff a cigarette: "If it wasn't your sister who appeared there just now, but my mother-in-law, I would probably do the same thing as you? Don't worry, Polnareff Nareff."

pat.

Platinum Star lit cigarettes for the two of them.

Although Polnareff was still feeling a little sorry, he put aside his entanglement for the time being and just looked at the surrounding environment.

"here is……?"

"Fuel pumps, lubricating oil pumps, heat exchangers, ship shafts, reducers, clutches, diesel engines, steam boilers, air conditioners... This is the engine room (Engine Room) of this freighter. But it is probably because it is parked on land. The devices didn't work."

"It's a shame you can recognize it!"

"It can be regarded as my personal interest. After all, I plan to become an oceanographer in the future, and I have learned a little bit of related knowledge outside of class."

"...?"

Polnareff looked at Jotaro beside him as if looking at an alien.

Oceanographer?

Kujo Jotaro?

What are the two words that carbon-based organisms can associate with?

Before Polnareff recovered from his bewilderment, Jotaro said again: "The height of the room in this engine room is about ten meters. Have you seen the escalator over there? This engine room "passes through the second, third, and fourth floors." The deck, normally, along the escalator over there, we can choose to go to the floor we want to reach. "

"Normally?"

"The enemy's purpose is to disperse us and defeat them one by one. Since they deliberately disperse us with violence, they will never allow us to easily reunite.

"From the perspective of "the size of the cabin", since the enemy sent us here specially, it means that the enemy we have to face is a substitute who needs the "field" and "vision" to display his abilities—right?The guy hiding there quietly! "

No one answered.

No answer does not mean that there is no enemy, it can only mean that the enemy in front of him is by no means a third-rate guy who can be tricked out with a few words, but a guy who can hold his breath.Combined with the surprise attack encountered in the corridor before, the two of them now realized who the enemy they were facing was.

"...Vanilla Ace."

Polnareff read out the enemy's name lightly and looked at Jotaro.Seeing Jotaro nodded, it seemed that the two had reached an agreement at the moment.

Then Jotaro took a deep breath.

"Platinum Star——!!!"

Unlike the blind man like the silver chariot, Platinum Star has eyes as precise as a high-powered microscope.

In this dark room, even if only a fly flies by, Platinum Star can accurately identify the most detailed features of the fly, and hand over a sketch with the level of an immortal fairy cartoonist.

It's just that within two or three seconds, behind the "row of equipment" four or five meters in front of Jotaro and Polnareff, there was a vague sobbing sound.

"Well……"

The weeping was soft.

But it was as if a light fart in a quiet classroom would be noticed by the whole class, and it was sent to the ears of Jotaro and Polnareff accurately.

"Polnareff, there's someone there!"

"—Silver chariot!!!"

Polnareff took two steps forward and came behind the row of equipment.

However, the figure that came into view made Polnareff stop.

"... Shirley?"

"Why is it your sister again?!"

Carefully observing the surroundings, Jotaro came behind Polnareff, and felt more and more strange looking at the beautiful figure in front of him.

"……elder brother?"

"Shirley—!"

This is a play of brother and sister charging.

However, in the face of such a situation, Jotaro did not feel the slightest warmth, but was angry with a strong sense of strangeness.And when Polnareff was about to step forward to his sister, Jotaro stretched out his strong right hand and pressed Polnareff's shoulder.

It hurts to press.

Immediately, Jotaro pointed his left hand at "Shirley" in front of him and said, "Just stop there! Don't "get closer" even a step forward! "

"……Hey?"

"Hey, hey, Jotaro!"

"Shut up, Polnareff." Jotaro stared at Shirley in front of him, "Are you really Polnareff's sister——you who were on the first floor just now, how did you compare?" We who took the direct passage appeared in this cabin even faster"?

"But don't say that you walked down the stairs and opened the door!"

Jotaro has a reason.

However, in the face of Jotaro's well-founded questions, "Shirley" in front of him and Cameo who controls "Shirley" behind him performed just right.

"I don't know... I don't know! Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"Xue Li" didn't approach, but just sat down on the ground and covered her face and began to cry.

While crying, he said intermittently: "I really don't know anything, I woke up suddenly that day! When I woke up, I found that I was in the cemetery, and then I was forcibly brought to Egypt by that man named Dio... …I really don’t know anything, brother!”

Jotaro's face darkened.

That's why he hates these women. When it's time to argue with reason and evidence, he starts to cry for no reason, repeating to himself that I don't know.

"It's so noisy!

"Cry, cry, cry, what's the point of crying, you bitch! Now we are the ones asking the question! How did you appear here before Polnareff and me, explain it to me!"

"I, I, I..."

"Xue Li" cried louder, and immediately looked at her elder brother with tear-filled eyes: "Brother, I'm so scared!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Shirley, I'm right here."

Polnareff gently lifted Jotaro's right hand from his shoulder, and immediately walked towards Shirley in front of him.

Jotaro's face turned darker: "Polnareff!"

However, Polnareff ignored Jotaro, just squatted down and hugged his sister with a smile: "Don't be afraid, Shirley, don't be afraid, my brother is here."

"Shirley" also hugged Polnareff: "Brother..."

Polnareff said softly: "No matter what you become, you are my favorite sister. When everything is over, let's go to the amusement park together like we did on your birthday last time? "

"Okay... uh!"

As soon as Shirley finished speaking, her eyes suddenly widened.

A sharp silver sword pierced her throat from top to bottom, and the powerful thrust caused her hands to separate from Polnareff, and she fell on her back.

Not only nailed "Shirley" to the ground, but the sharp sword pierced through a face hidden in Shirley's shadow.

The face of "Vanilla Ace" who was hiding in the cracks in the miasma below and watched the outside world, waiting for an opportunity.

"You are Vanilla Ace, the bastard who hid in the corridor and attacked you just now?

"Your intelligence work is not very good. On Shirley's last birthday, she and I went to the Rhine Falls for a trip. It's not an amusement park at all."

Chapter 54

The sharp sword of the silver chariot pierced "Shirley"'s neck.

The sword passed through, and the curved scabbard directly pressed "Xue Li"'s neck and continued to exert force, thrusting abruptly towards the ground, piercing through with the cover of "Xue Li" hiding on the floor, revealing a small Slowly observing Vanilla Ace around him.

"You don't think I, Polnareff, are really that stupid, do you?

"The first time I was hooked by Shirley's voice when I was going down the gangway, and the second time I was lured away by Shirley at the corner, but now it's the third time! Although my head is not that smart , but if I can’t react the third time, then I’ll just use this sword to kill myself!

"Since Shirley is fake.

"Since there is no trace of you, Vanilla Ace, in the front, rear, left, right, or even up and down, where will you hide? Where is the most suitable position to launch a sneak attack? What role does this Shirley have for you?

"No matter how you think about it, hiding under Shirley's shadow is the most suitable tactic."

"Po, Poru...Naleff."

on the ground.

Relying on the power of sub-air miasma to hide underground, Lu Xiaosiao watched the outside world of Vanilla Ace's mouth and throat being pierced.

If it was a human, he would have been on the verge of death under this blow.

But today's Vanilla Ace is no longer a human who fought Nero in the past, but a vampire resurrected by Dio.Without the slightest hesitation, Vanilla Ace directly controlled the sub-air miasma to close the small gap, and retreated deeper underground.

at this time--

"—Platinum Star·World!!!"

Time is stopped.

Jotaro's figure came to Polnareff's side and looked towards the ground.

"Eura!"

Boom!

The floor was blasted away, revealing the circular tunnel created by Vanilla Ace's sub-air miasma.

What came into view was the figure of sub-air miasma that had just fled down more than [-] centimeters, leaving only a gap between fingers.

"The moment you were pierced by the silver chariot, you chose to "retreat" to distance yourself?Maybe he wants to hide and find the right time to do it again.

"Besides, Polnareff's blow, which is enough to kill a normal person, is so painless in the eyes of a vampire? That's what the so-called immortal body is like."

Jotaro muttered.

The index finger and middle finger of Platinum Star's right hand were brought together, aiming at the gap where the miasma of sub-air was about to close.

"The gap is too small, Platinum Star's fist can't fit into such a narrow gap. But although the fist can't fit in, I can't pull you out, but I don't plan to restore the flow of time without doing anything, Let me make you suffer a little—"

"—Meteor finger stab!!!"

puff!

The index finger and middle finger of the Platinum Star stretched out, piercing through the small gap that was not completely closed in the miasma of sub-air without error, poking Vanilla Ace's right eye.

And all of this, Vanilla Ace in the time-stopped world knows nothing about it.

"Since it's a vampire, if it suffered such a serious injury during the "retreat", I'm afraid it would be more cautious to lie dormant and wait for the injury to heal before launching an attack? "

"Time resumes its flow."

"Ugh-"

The moment the time resumed, Vanilla Ace could not restrain a deep cry from his throat, and immediately disappeared completely in the world of sub-air miasma.

However, the corners of Vanilla Ace's mouth turned up, revealing a cruel smile.

"You fell for it, Kujo Jotaro.

"You probably think that after being hit by Polnareff's sword, I started to "retreat", and I would want to lie dormant and look for another opportunity, right?

"You are wrong! I have no intention of going into hibernation at all! The retreat is just a fake action I made on purpose, the gap is the bait I deliberately showed you, and even Polnareff was not the one I was eyeing from the beginning, It's you who can pause time!

"Polnareff is just a means for me to attract you to me, otherwise why do you think I didn't attack the first time Polnareff approached the "doll"?

"Although I don't know what method you used to attack, I am sure that you, who have the same ability as Lord Dio, must have a way to successfully attack me through such a gap, and you will definitely not miss this opportunity!

"And all I need to bet is that I can still maintain consciousness after this blow, instead of dying on the spot——

"—I won the bet!