Chapter 263: Forcing the issue
Baby Face struggled to get up from the rubble.
As a special stand with a physical body, flesh and blood, and an existence form that is almost the same as that of a human, it also perfectly restores the fragility of the human flesh and blood when it is injured:
I saw its thin body twisted like a dough stick under the intense pain, and blood kept flowing out of the corner of its mouth like a faucet that couldn't be turned off.
Although the body appears to be intact on the surface, it can be seen from the blood flowing down like a stream that the situation inside the baby-faced man's body must be quite bad.
Fortunately, this is not a real flesh and blood body.
If the baby-faced creature had vital points, weaknesses and internal organs like humans, that blow just now would probably have killed it instantly.
"It hurts... this guy... is so scary."
Silent wails echoed in the baby-faced boy's heart.
And this wailing was not for itself, but was transmitted to Meloni through thoughts.
Ordinary remote automatic substitutes, such as Polpo's Black Sabbath, are completely unable to communicate with the original body when they are performing tasks far away from their master.
They are like vicious dogs that are let out of the house. Even if they die outside, their owners won’t even know.
But Baby Face is different.
This substitute actually has to be divided into two parts: the original person, and the child.
The original body looks like a laptop computer, while the baby-faced child is more like an intelligent robot that .
Through this "computer", Meloni can communicate with Baby Face remotely in real time.
Babyface's thoughts will appear directly on the "computer" screen in the form of text, and Meloni can communicate with Babyface remotely by typing on the keyboard.
To put it bluntly, Babyface can remotely chat with Meloni via text.
so…
When Meloni was nervously waiting for the news of victory in the rear, the following words suddenly appeared on the "computer" screen in front of him:
"Dad, let me go back."
"I can't kill this man."
The text from Baby Face was like a shower of cold water, which made Meloni's passion evaporate:
"Can't kill? What do you mean can't kill!"
"You were born to be a killing machine. Can a hair dryer not blow air or a meat grinder not grind meat?!"
"If it can't do these, then the 'machine' has no meaning to exist!"
Meloni typed out these angry words on the keyboard:
Ten seconds ago, Baby Face’s report was “the prey is about to fall into the trap.”
It's only been a few blinks of an eye, and this guy can't be killed?
It's obvious that this guy is the one who got scared!
"Asshole..."
"I should have drowned you in the toilet!"
Meloni felt a little regretful. He regretted that he shouldn't have been so optimistic and fantasized that this timid loser could be successfully trained.
Now it seems that his education of this baby-faced child was a complete failure.
When it really needs to fight, this coward will expose its cowardice.
"dad…"
The baby-faced boy's answer was very aggrieved:
"It's not that I didn't try hard, but the enemy was just too strong."
"Too strong?"
Meloni calmed down a little and questioned:
"So how strong is he, and what are his Stand abilities?"
"No, I don't know..."
"He didn't use his Stand ability at all."
Babyface is still defending himself:
"But he saw through my disguise right away, and used his double to step on me, severely injuring me."
“Nonsense!!!”
Meloni was so angry that he pounded the "computer" loudly.
Because the force of the blow was too great, the damage fed back from the "computer" stand-in even caused him to feel some pain in his chest:
"You say he's strong without even seeing his Stand's abilities?"
"And they saw through your disguise at a glance... Then how are you still alive now?"
"I see that you are clearly afraid to fight, so you lied about military intelligence and tried to escape!"
Meloni scolded Baby Face harshly.
This series of insults and misunderstandings made Baby Face unable to suppress his anger:
"If you can do it, go ahead!"
"If you think the enemy is not strong, then don't just hide behind and type on the keyboard!"
“…”
Hearing such rebellious words, Meloni was so angry that he was speechless.
He didn't know how strong the enemy was, but he knew that his stand-in must be extremely cowardly.
"Shut up!"
Meloni directly used his authority as the main body and issued an irresistible death order to Baby Face:
"Go kill that guy right now—"
"Right now! Immediately!"
"I…"
Babyface wanted to say something else.
But its body was already moving uncontrollably.
It had no way to resist Meloni's orders and could only move its legs , watching itself getting closer and closer to the "monster" in front of it.
"It's over..."
The baby-faced man followed Jotaro fiercely and chased him, with hot tears streaming down his face:
"I'm dead!"
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Jotaro didn't notice what was happening behind him.
He was just trying his best to move forward at high speed in the direction where Polnareff might appear.
During this process he had to concentrate all his attention, because the power of Star Platinum was too strong. The acceleration load of high-speed movement and the reaction force of stomping on the ground were far beyond what the human body could withstand.
If you don't carefully adjust your body posture and grasp the strength and direction, even someone as strong as Jotaro can get hurt.
But now, in order to rush to help his best friend as soon as possible, Jotaro can't care about so much.
Fortunately, his little adventure didn't last long.
Because Jotaro had just left the station a few hundred meters away when he saw his best friend in front of a wide bridge.
Polnareff is on the bridge.
Blood was constantly flowing down his body, and it looked like he had been seriously injured.
But he did not walk towards the station. Instead, he turned his back to Jotaro and walked unsteadily towards the other end of the bridge.
By this time, the enemy had disappeared without a trace.
Next to Polnareff there was only a car parked abruptly across the bridge, and a few passers-by with terrified looks on their faces.
These passers-by all leaned over the railing with a look of horror on their faces, pointing at the bridge, and no one knew what they were watching.
Jotaro didn't pay attention to the passers-by, but hurriedly caught up with the bridge:
"Polnareff?"
"Where are you going?"
"Um?"
Polnareff was slightly stunned.
He turned around and looked at his best friend who suddenly appeared in front of him:
"Jotaro, why are you here?"
"I went back to the store to get some ice... The ice I just got was kicked into the river by the enemy. You know I will never go back empty-handed."
Polnareff briefly explained the situation on his side.
Jotaro heaved a sigh of relief:
It looks like Polnareff is fine.
Although he looked seriously injured, since he still had the strength to turn around and find more ice, it was obvious that the injury was still within the range that Polnareff could barely bear.
"No need for ice."
"That young man named Li Qing is stronger than we thought."
"The enemies in the station have been defeated by him and I working together."
Jotaro said neatly.
"Is that so... That's great."
Polnareff breathed a sigh of relief.
He instinctively wanted to lean on something to relax.
But when he saw the car parked not far from him, Polnareff thought for a moment and took two more steps before leaning against the iron guardrail further away.
"Ahem... I haven't experienced such an intense battle in a while. My body still can't take it."
"Now that everything is fine over there, I can finally rest assured and take a break."
Polnareff sighed with relief.
Such a scene should have been relaxing and comforting, but just as he was sighing at his victory, waves of screams came from the sea under the bridge, affecting the atmosphere.
Such screams had actually been going on, but Jotaro was so anxious to care for his best friend that he didn't pay attention.
And now, looking down the bridge following the scream...
Jotaro immediately knew what those passers-by were looking at by the bridge:
In the azure blue water, there was a human-shaped fireball with smoke coming out of it, struggling desperately.
He seemed to be trying to put out the flames on his body with sea water.
But after realizing that such behavior would only make his death more painful, he tried his best to swim to the shore.
However, even passers-by could see that such a struggle was completely futile - he was burned like this, and there was no way he could be saved.
"Is this... an enemy?"
Jotaro roughly guessed the situation:
Apparently, he arrived at the right time.
The battle on Polnareff's side had just ended, and the enemy was still holding on tenaciously.
"Yes, this guy's name is Illuso."
Polnareff said with some regret:
"This is a very tough enemy. It took me a lot of effort to defeat him."
"Besides... he seems to have his own 'dignity'."
Looking at the humanoid fireball under the bridge who was still struggling to get ashore, his tone became complicated:
"After I set him on fire, I gave him a 'dagger' so that he could not bear it and committed suicide."
"Now it seems that I was meddling in other people's affairs."
"this…"
Jotaro's expression became a little strange:
He had seen such a scene before.
However, it was Polnareff who was lying in the fire at that time, and the one who donated the dagger to him was another long-passed friend.
When I thought of this, the glorious years of the past uncontrollably came to my mind again.
"It's been so long..."
Jotaro was also slightly moved by the scene.
The screams from under the bridge were still ringing intermittently.
The two close friends were reminiscing about the past and lamenting the past on the bridge.
Of course they didn't realize...
On the bridge deck, silently, a raised piece of "cement" was slowly approaching.
Babyface is here.
