Chapter 278: Catch Someone Off Guard
In just a few seconds, Diablo had completely seen through the true intentions of the father and son in front of him:
Kira Yoshikage's Stand ability seems to turn anything touched by the Stand into a bomb.
This ability is neither weak nor ineffective, but this pure, instantaneous physical attack, which can be easily avoided with a short 0.5-second slash, happens to be the type that the Crimson King is least afraid of.
Kira Yoshihiro's stand ability does seem to pose some threat at the moment - at least, Diablo currently doesn't know how to deal with an old ghost hiding in a photo.
But unfortunately, the old man exposed his irredeemable "kind father" attribute.
He regards taking care of his son as the whole meaning of his life. His son is his obsession and everything to him.
This is Kira Yoshihiro's biggest weakness.
Diablo has been in charge of the underworld for more than a decade, and he knows very well:
Family, love, friendship, and some messy emotions, these bonds are a person's biggest weaknesses.
This kind of weakness in human nature is far more fatal than the weakness in the stand's ability.
Diablo had no doubt that as long as he could take down Kira Yoshikage as soon as possible, and then use his past experience to show off his skills on Kira Yoshikage -
The loving old father would do anything to give his son a quick and painful death.
And that is exactly the case now.
Even though Diablo coldly rejected his proposal, the grumpy old man still pleaded pitifully in order to save his son's life:
"S-Sorry, we were wrong before."
"Please take the arrow and go directly—"
"Think about it... You hold our secrets in your hands, too. How dare we expose your whereabouts?"
"Believe me, no matter who comes to investigate later, my father and I will not say anything."
"That's enough...Father."
But it was Kira Yoshikage who stopped his father from begging.
He sees the situation more clearly than his dead father:
"That guy is right. Ants are not qualified to negotiate with humans."
"He has made up his mind to kill."
"Then, my son can run away quickly!" Kira Yoshihiro said in panic: "I will send you out of the room, and I will cover you here."
As he spoke, he manipulated the photo he was parasitizing to slowly fly to his son's side.
With the tragic feeling of wanting to live and die together with his son, he controlled the floating photo in front of his son, as if he wanted to bid farewell to his son with an affectionate look.
But Kira Yoshikage had no intention of saying a fond farewell to his dead father.
“…”
He lowered his head and fell into deathly silence.
Just now, in order to avoid the deadly pursuit of the Crimson King, he had been forced from the door to the center of the room.
Even though the exit was only a few meters away, facing the enemy's powerful and unpredictable abilities, Kira Yoshikage had no confidence that he could walk those few meters safely.
Actually, he does have a trump card called Withering Piercing Attack, but if the enemy can be completely unharmed and can change location in an elusive way, this so-called trump card will hardly be able to play a role in his escape.
After all, it was just an automatic bomb vehicle - Diablo could dodge Atomic Heart Father's sure-hit attack, so this simple explosion attack would probably be even more powerless.
“Damn it…Damn it…”
No matter how hard he thought, Kira Yoshikage couldn't find a way to guarantee safety.
If you really want absolute safety, you have to kill Diablo.
But how easy is this?
When Kira Yoshikage thought that his ordinary life would end in blood and death, he couldn't help but bite his nails in despair.
But Diablo no longer intended to give the father and son time to say goodbye.
He slowly approached with the Crimson King, without using his Stand ability, but simply forced Kira and his son to attack passively as if in a provocative manner.
The injured Killer Queen was also completely defeated on the front battlefield, so Kira and his son naturally had to step in to stop her.
"Don't come over here! Don't come near my son!"
In the photo, Kira Yoshihiro is stabbing Diablo's heart frantically with a kitchen knife.
The kitchen knife in reality also flew up.
But all this was just a replay of what had just happened.
Diablo skillfully activated the Time Slash, rendering Kira Yoshihiro's attack ineffective, and finally used the same trick again to move behind Kira Yoshikage.
After being stunned and injured once, Kira Yoshikage reacted much faster this time.
He controlled the Killer Queen to dodge as hard as he could, but in the end he only suffered some minor injuries.
The injury was not fatal, but it made the situation worse.
Kira Yoshikage's body became more broken and weaker. He didn't know how long he could survive in front of that monster, and how many times he could block those incomprehensible attacks.
Seeing his son being beaten so badly, Kira Yoshihiro was already in tears.
There was only despair left in his evil mind.
But just then...
Kirara Yoshikage seemed to have thought of a way to defeat the enemy, and his expression suddenly became firm:
“Don’t stop!”
"Keep attacking, don't stop for a second—"
"His ability to ignore attacks must have some consumption. As long as we can hold on until he is exhausted and needs to rest, we still have a chance!"
“Is that so?”
Kira Yoshihiro's eyes began to light up.
He believed in his son 100%, and his son's words immediately gave him hope.
Then, Kira Yoshihiro began to stab Diablo in the photo frantically.
Looking at his passionate demeanor and excited expression, it seems as if he can't wait to equip himself with a full set of attack speed equipment so that he can achieve the effect of five strikes per second.
But in reality, the old ghost's movements were extremely slow, and his stabbing speed was shockingly slow.
Diablo sneered at Kira and his son's reaction:
"You want to wear me down to the point where I can't activate Time Cut anymore. Can you hold out until then?"
Without saying anything, he started the time-cutting again.
It was another unskillful short cut to dodge the flying knife, followed by a dodging move behind him, and finally a methodical and deadly chop with the hand.
This time, Kira Yoshikage was injured even more seriously.
It's so serious that it looks like it's about to fall apart.
"S-son?"
Kira Yoshihiro couldn't help but have great doubts about the plan his son had just proposed.
He never questioned his son's decision, but this time it was about Kirara Yoshikage's life, so he had to think more:
“Will this really work?”
"Your injuries are so severe, how are you going to hold on until you can wear down your opponent to the point where he can no longer activate his abilities?!"
"continue--"
"This is our only option, keep going!"
Kira Yoshikage was like a rebellious teenager, and responded to his father's questions directly in such a cold tone.
Kira Yoshihiro was a little confused:
It was obvious that the tactics adopted by the son were not working.
His injuries were already very serious and he couldn't hold on for much longer.
Besides, who knows how many times the enemy will have to use his abilities before he is exhausted.
They will never be able to win if they continue fighting like this foolishly .
So, what exactly does Kira Yoshikage think?
Has he decided to take a heroic gamble because he has lost all hope, or is he hiding some real killer trick?
Kira Yoshihiro manipulated the photo to float next to his beloved child and looked at Kira Yoshikage with a worried look on his face.
And just at this moment…
Killer Queen moved, in a way that Kira Yoshihiro did not expect.
It was so tiny that Diablo could hardly detect it, pretending to be protecting its own body, while quietly, quietly...
He reached out to the photo where Kira Yoshihiro was staying.
“…”
At this moment, time seemed to freeze.
Kira Yoshihiro was not a stupid man, he was just often distracted by worrying too much about his son.
But now, at this moment, he felt that his brain, which had turned into a spirit, became unusually clear.
He could even instantly see through the problem he didn't want to see through in this almost static time -
What is Killer Queen trying to do by reaching her hand towards the photo?
The answer is certainly not that Kira Yoshikage wants his stand to be intimate with his own father.
The answer is actually very simple:
1. Killer Queen can instantly detonate anything she touches, and the explosion speed is so fast that people cannot react at all.
2. As long as the photo is destroyed, everyone in the photo will disappear along with the photo - whether it is Kira Yoshihiro or Diablo.
"I'm sorry, father."
Kira Yoshikage didn't say anything.
But Kira Yoshihiro could read what his son wanted to say from his son's cold but complex eyes:
"You're right. I can't survive by stupid methods."
"That so-called tactic is just a trick I use to make the enemy let down their guard."
"There is actually only one way out—"
"The enemy's invincibility must be actively used."
"Then, as long as my attack is unexpected enough that the enemy can't react, I will have the chance to seize that split-second opportunity and kill the enemy."
In the final analysis, he wanted to catch the enemy off guard and strike them by surprise.
But Killer Queen’s ability has obvious “pre-action”.
The contact mine that explodes upon contact needs to be thrown out, and the action is extremely obvious.
The incendiary bomb that automatically detonates does have the "accidental" property of a landmine, but Killer Queen must perform an unnecessary action such as [pressing the right index finger in Section 282] when detonating it, which will give the enemy time to react.
But directly detonating photos is different...
It only takes a moment to blow up the photo in his hand, and it only takes a moment to turn Diablo into ashes.
Diablo currently knows very little about Atomic Heart Father's abilities, and he probably doesn't even know that destroying the photo will kill everyone in the photo.
Even if he knew...
Could he have imagined that Kira Yoshikage would even blow up his own father?
There is no trick that could be more surprising than sacrificing one's own father.
By the time Diablo really reacted, he might no longer have the chance to activate the so-called "invincible" ability.
This is all Kira Yoshikage's idea, a cruel, but extremely effective tactic:
"I'm sorry, father."
"If we don't, we'll all die."
Kirara Yoshikage bids farewell to his father with his cold eyes:
"You can go with peace of mind..."
"I will live well and live happier than anyone else!"
