Chapter 286: The Nature That Cannot Be Hidden

Kirara's house was burned down.

After Li Qing explained the news in a language that everyone could understand, everyone finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

"It must be Diablo."

"It seems we didn't make the wrong choice this time."

Apache confirmed the enemy's identity very decisively:

Diablo is well aware of the power of Melancholy Blues. Only he would be so "prophetic" as to make such a big move to erase his own traces.

"This is good news. At least our trip was not in vain."

"However, judging from Diablo's cautious behavior today, it may not be that easy to find him in this town."

There was a hint of solemnity in Giorno's calm eyes.

Because he has seen the current situation clearly:

Now it seemed that they had cornered Diablo, but in fact they had no useful clues at all.

Morioh Town is not big nor small, and it is not easy to find a guy who has been hiding for more than ten years.

"If we can't find the person, we can look for the arrows!"

Polnareff pointed out a direction:

"Didn't Diavolo come here just for the arrows?"

"Let's go look for that arrow too, maybe we can run into that guy."

"But…"

Giorno looked at Polnareff helplessly:

"We can't find the arrow either!"

"Mr. Jotaro only knows that a mysterious man with an arrow might appear in Morioh Town. Based on this little information... it's easier to find the man than the arrow."

As soon as these words were spoken, the discussion came to an end.

If the person cannot be found, the arrow cannot be found either.

Everyone suddenly realized that they couldn't find a breakthrough that could lead to Diablo.

Thinking of this, the initial momentum of the divine soldiers descending from the sky to subdue demons and eliminate evil unconsciously dissipated by a large part.

Only Li Qing's eyes remained unchanged.

Because other people couldn't see the clues, he had already found a breakthrough:

"Kirara Yoshikage..."

Li Qing turned his gaze silently towards Kira Yoshikage, who was sitting at the dining table with a sad look on his face.

Others can't see the clues because they all use their eyes to see, but Li Qing is better at listening.

Kira Yoshikage's acting is superb.

Now he plays the role of a broken family and excessive grief very perfectly.

But Li Qing had just clearly heard that when he heard from the radio that his ancestral house was burned down by fire, Kira Yoshikage's heartbeat suddenly slowed down.

This guy must be hiding something.

Li Qing remained calm on the surface.

He chatted with Giorno and the others for a while, then turned back to look at Kira Yoshikage:

"Mr. Kira, I would like to ask a few more questions."

"You just mentioned that Diablo cut off your girlfriend's hand and put it in his pocket to torture you mentally."

"But, as far as I know... Diablo is a habitual murderer, but he always kills people cleanly and neatly, and it seems that he has never had the perverted hobby of carrying severed hands with him."

"Why didn't he just kill you to silence you, but instead used this unusual method to make your death painful?"

"Can you tell me in detail what happened yesterday? I can analyze it."

Li Qing asked a series of questions.

This is also a suspicious point that can be seen on the surface:

Kira Yoshikage described Diablo as a perverted murderer, but this does not match Diablo's past killing pattern.

This is not to say that Diablo is incapable of doing this:

When this guy was executing two traitors from the assassination team, he tied one of them up and made him watch, then sliced his friend alive in front of him.

Diablo is completely capable of the bad behavior described by Kira Yoshikage.

But the problem is, he doesn't have to do it.

He had previously made human slices to serve as an example to others, not out of personal interest.

What on earth did Kira Yoshikage do now that could make Diablo use the same methods he used to clean up his house on an "ordinary citizen" like him?

“Can you tell me more about this…”

Li Qing asked slowly, but his ears were firmly capturing the faint sound waves coming from Kira Yoshikage's body.

"I...yesterday..."

Kirara Yoshikage's face was calm, but his heart was filled with endless waves:

This bald guy is really a big trouble!

If you keep asking me questions like this, the more I answer, the more mistakes I’ll make.

Lies will be exposed sooner or later!

Thinking of this, Kirara Yoshikage's heart churned, and then...

Two lines of hot tears rolled down again:

"Miyuki... I just went to the beach with Miyuki yesterday..."

"And then... and then..."

"Ah - my head hurts again."

Kira Yoshikage once again burst into tears and held his head in his hands. His expression was obviously exaggerated and overdone, but with his superb acting skills, he was able to perform it without any sense of incongruity.

Old veterans like Jotaro and Polnareff were fooled into it, and young people from small towns who "had never seen the world" like Josuke Higashikata showed undisguised sympathy.

"Playing amnesia again..."

The corners of Li Qing's mouth twitched slightly:

Kira Yoshikage simply used the excuse of being too sad to avoid all questions that might reveal his true identity, which really made it difficult for him to start.

"Okay... I still won't force you to think about these sad things."

Li Qing stopped asking questions, but his heart was full of doubts.

He withdrew his gaze and stopped putting pressure on Kira Yoshikage, while thinking about those doubts that could not be explained at all:

Why would Diablo do something unnecessary like that?

If he was just an "ordinary citizen" who happened to see the incident by accident, why not just kill him to silence him? Why bother with such a perverted drama that tortures the soul?

That hand...was it really used to torture Kira Yoshikage?

So, why hands?

Wouldn't it be more convenient to dig out an eye and cut off an ear and carry them with you?

Could it be that Diavolo showed this trick to Kira Yoshikage before disappearing, in fact, he was conveying some special message to him?

The more Li Qing thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

But too much key information was missing, and he couldn't speculate the truth out of thin air.

"What is certain is that Kira Yoshikage is definitely hiding something..."

"But it's hard to say whether there is any other connection between him and Diablo."

Li Qing was thinking carefully in a daze.

At this moment, a pleasant female voice suddenly sounded in the room:

"You are all friends that Jotaro brought from Italy, right?"

"I knew everyone was coming, so I prepared breakfast in advance."

"Josuke—"

Dongfang Pengzi came over from the kitchen carrying a plate:

"Help me serve breakfast to the guests."

"It's Josuke's mother..."

As soon as Li Qing entered the house, he was busy interrogating Kira Yoshikage, but he had not yet met the hostess of the Dongfang family.

But now he was busy thinking with his head down, and was not in a hurry to see what Higashikata Josuke's mother looked like.

Li Qing was still thinking with his eyes closed.

Dongfang Pengzi had already walked to the dining table with a plate and tea.

"Um?!"

Li Qing suddenly opened his eyes.

It's not that he suddenly became interested in Josuke's mother, but...

The moment Higashikata Tomoko approached, he clearly heard Kira Yoshikage's heartbeat became irregular and his breathing became heavy.

"No way..."

"This guy is interested in middle-aged women?"

Li Qing raised his head with a strange look on his face.

Then...his heart skipped a beat.

There's no way around it. Ever since he traveled through time, he's been hanging out with all kinds of muscular men in strange costumes, and has been hanging out with a group of exhibitionists who like to show off their chests and abdomens.

Now I suddenly saw a beautiful girl. Although she was Josuke's mother, she still made me feel bright:

"Ahem... Why does Josuke's mom look so young..."

“Is this really the woman whose son is already in high school?”

Li Qing suddenly understood Kira Yoshikage's strange physiological changes.

However, just a second later, he discovered something wrong:

Although Kira Yoshikage concealed it well, his eyes were always secretly fixed on Tomoko Higashikata's hand.

As long as Dongfang Pengzi's hand moved a little closer to him, his heart would beat steadily like an old tractor.

As soon as Higashikata Tomoko turned around, although he was still very close to Kira Yoshikage, as long as he didn't see those hands, this guy's heartbeat would immediately calm down like an old monk in meditation.

But as long as those hands were slightly exposed, even just a silhouette, it was enough to make Kira Yoshikage's heart surge.

“Something is wrong…”

"If one is attracted by beauty, it is impossible for a person to calm down instantly after turning around at such a close distance."

"Could it be that this guy is not just coveting my body, but is only coveting..."

"hand?!"

Li Qing suddenly thought of something:

Does the move that Diablo showed specially have any special meaning to Kira Yoshikage?

Maybe that wasn't torture at all... it was a reminder, a threat!

That severed hand might not have been Diablo's work at all. After all, there was no need for him to make such a fuss for an "ordinary citizen".

This kind of thinking is a bit far-fetched and difficult to prove with evidence.

But in this way, Kira Yoshikage's attempt to conceal the truth can be vaguely explained.

"Hands? Maybe I can find a way to verify it."

Li Qing narrowed his eyes and his gaze became sharp.

After Tomoko finished setting up breakfast and left the restaurant, and made sure that the room was full of Stand users with good psychological endurance, he turned around and said to Giorno:

"Girondo, do me a favor."

"I want to recreate the scene of yesterday."

"Reconstruct the scene?" Giorno couldn't keep up with Li Qing's erratic thinking: "How can I help with this kind of thing?"

“It’s very simple.”

"I mainly want to experience Diablo's situation yesterday by putting myself in the role."

"I am now experiencing the role of Diablo, so I need you to help me make a prop."

Li Qing made up a story.

"Will this really work?" Giorno's face was full of doubt.

"Of course, no one knows Diablo better than me."

Li Qing said with a shy face:

"All you have to do is help me make that prop - a beautiful woman's hand."

"I'll put it in my pocket and feel it. Maybe I can figure out something."

“…”

Giorno's expression became even weirder:

"Hand, you want me to be a beautiful woman's hand?"

“That’s a little difficult…”

He stopped shirking his responsibility and simply stated his difficulties:

"You have to give me a template. I can't just shape a 'beautiful' hand out of my imagination."

"In fact, I have rarely seen girls' hands."

"Huh?" Li Qing asked in surprise, "You are so good-looking, aren't there any girls chasing you at school?"

The topic suddenly became strange.

Giorno sighed softly, then turned to Li Qing with a strange look and said:

"You may not understand this kind of trouble, Li Qing."

"It's because there are too many girls around me that I can't look at them for too long."

"If you look at them for a few more seconds, those girls will cling to you like melted molten taffy... It's very annoying."

"Yeah yeah!"

"Those women are the most troublesome. You can't get rid of them no matter what you do."

Higashikata Jousuke sighed with deep emotion.

"Yes, I often had this kind of trouble when I was in school..."

Even the taciturn Jotaro couldn't help but recall the past.

“…”

Li Qing, who had lived a monk's life since childhood, was silent for a while:

These JO family members... are really... out of touch with the people and have no idea of the sufferings of the world.

"alright!"

Li Qing was inexplicably shown off, so he could only say unhappily:

"Just make one... You may not have seen a pretty girl, but you must have seen Mona Lisa, right?"

"Just press that!"

He just gave a random template out of anger.

But somehow, as soon as the word "Mona Lisa" was uttered, Kira Yoshikage next to him couldn't help but feel his heart beating again.

"Hmm?" Li Qing felt something strange.

But Giorno had already summoned the golden experience. He first carefully recalled the world-famous painting, then picked up a plate as raw material and started to work on it with ease.

It was only a brief moment, and in Kira Yoshikage's horrified gaze...

Giorno turned the plate into a hand, which was almost exactly the same as the hand in the famous painting "Mona Lisa".

This hand looks like a 1:1 replica of the portrait, but it is more real, more vivid, with flesh and blood, and warmth.

Because it is "alive", it is a real human hand.

"Mona Lisa..."

Kira Yoshikage's eyes widened:

It was because he saw Mona Lisa's hands that he discovered that he had a quirk of boki when he saw hands.

And now, the boy with the curly hair actually used a plate to create the perfect hands he had always dreamed of.

Kira Yoshikage's gaze suddenly became extremely complicated.

At this moment, Li Qing even saw the faint glimmer of tears from the corners of his eyes:

"Wrong awakening..."

"Why was the ability given to me Killer Queen instead of Golden Experience?!"

Kirara Yoshikage was so greedy that he even wanted to stab himself with an arrow again:

If he also had such a useful Stand ability, why would he go out and kill people? It would be much better to just make a hand and play with it at home!

"Hmm... this heart is beating..."

Li Qing has basically verified his idea.

Then, as if he was teasing a dog, he pretended to casually wave the Mona Lisa's hand in front of Kira Yoshikage.

Kira Yoshikage's heart immediately started beating wildly with greed.

A normal person would definitely find this severed hand creepy, but this guy was actually quite excited by it.

"Hey, Li Qing..."

Seeing Li Qing "playing" with the severed hand over and over like a madman, Giorno couldn't help but ask:

"Can you really understand Diablo's thoughts this way?"

"Have you figured out any clues?"

"I figured it out..."

Li Qing sighed softly and slapped the severed hand on the table.

At this moment, he could even hear the sound of Kira Yoshikage secretly swallowing his saliva.