Chapter 288: Heaven's Gate
The situation was extremely strange: they had just arrived in Morioh Town not long ago, and not long after they stopped at the Higashikata family, they welcomed such an uninvited guest.
This guy's arrival was too coincidental.
And now, Kishibe Rohan, who claims to be just an ordinary cartoonist, mentioned Li Qing's name as soon as he opened his mouth.
It is obvious that Kishibe Rohan had already known about Li Qing and his group, and his arrival was not for the purpose of collecting materials, but was premeditated and had ulterior motives.
Thinking of this, the harmonious atmosphere in the living room suddenly changed.
"Who are you?"
Six muscular men with gloomy faces surrounded them.
Even Giorno, who is relatively the most handsome and thinnest, has a body of strong muscles that show his strength at a glance.
Li Qing immediately turned on the data mode and was staring at the uninvited guest with his creepy gray eyes.
Surrounded by six strong men, the sky seemed gloomy and dark.
But Kishibe Rohan's expression remained calm:
"who I am?"
"Please buy a comic book... I told you it has my picture on it."
"I am Rohan Kishibe, an ordinary cartoonist."
“Nonsense!”
Li Qing scolded with a serious expression:
"How can an ordinary cartoonist know so much about our situation?"
"Tell me, did Diablo ask you to come?"
"Ha ha…"
Kishibe Rohan smiled lightly but did not give a direct answer.
"Everything I said is true."
"I came here just to collect materials, and I have absolutely no ill will towards you."
"Aren't you doubting my identity as a cartoonist? Look at this. If you're not a cartoonist, you can't draw a manuscript like this..."
As he spoke, as if to prove his identity as a cartoonist, Kishibe Rohan raised his hand and showed the sketchbook he had been holding in his arms.
It turned out that he was not writing or drawing in the sketchbook to record anything, but was just improvising a cartoon draft.
Although the original manuscript is simple, it depicts the background and characters vividly.
Looking at the vivid image of the comic protagonist depicted above, a handsome young man in a tuxedo and a top hat - the style of the painting is so exquisite that it is hard to imagine that this original manuscript was completed by Rohan Kishibe in just a dozen seconds of chatting.
This is indeed top-notch, no, it is the skill that only god-level cartoonists can achieve.
Of course, Li Qing has turned on data digitization now, so he can’t see all of this.
But everyone else saw the manuscript, especially Jotaro Kujo, who was standing at the front and closest to the manuscript.
This manuscript seems to have some special magic.
The moment it was shown by Rohan Kishibe, Jotaro was immediately attracted to it.
Then, just when everyone thought it was just an ordinary "art exhibition"...
A strange smile suddenly appeared on Kishibe Rohan's lips:
"You saw the manuscript first, Mr. Jotaro."
"So--"
“Heaven“s Door!”
With a thunderous shout, the young man drawing on the manuscript suddenly solidified into a three-dimensional shadow.
This human-shaped shadow, which looked almost like a stand, suddenly flew out of the painting and touched Jotaro's cheek with lightning speed.
Jotaro didn't even have time to use Time Stop—
To be precise, when he saw the original manuscript of the comic, he was caught off guard and lost the ability to resist.
The young man's shadow touched Jotaro's cheek without any hindrance, and Jotaro's resolute and cold face suddenly spread out like pages of a book.
He was turned into a "book".
Every page of the book open on that cheek is filled with rich text and pictures.
These are Jotaro's past memories, but now they are materialized in the form of pages.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Kishibe Rohan couldn't help but let out a wild smile.
Seeing the "page of life" opened on Jotaro's face, he was like a vulture smelling rotten meat. He immediately licked his tongue and laughed wildly and came to Jotaro's side.
Then, he looked through Jotaro's past memories with a fascinated look on his face.
Jotaro now seems unable to move at all.
He was still conscious and able to speak, but he was unable to stop Rohan Kishibe from touching him.
Rohan Kishibe quickly flipped through the pages of the book that was open in front of Jotaro's face. The speed at which he inputted thousands of lines of information at a glance was enough to shock people.
As he watched, he exclaimed:
"Story... This is the story I'm after!"
"This guy... this guy's memory... is a perfect work without any modification!"
Although Li Qing couldn't see the specific expression now, just by listening to the suddenly excited heartbeat and breathing of Rohan on the shore, he knew...
This guy was inexplicably excited.
Just because I saw the few pages of paper that appeared from Jotaro's body.
This indescribable abnormal reaction made Li Qing think of Kira Yoshikage who got the severed hand.
"Why do I always run into perverts today..."
Li Qing was secretly complaining in his heart, his body tense as he prepared to take action.
But someone else took the lead and launched an attack:
"asshole!"
"What did you do to Jotaro!?"
The first person to take action was Jotaro's uncle and the host of this house, Josuke Higashikata.
This gentle and kind young man suddenly showed unprecedented anger at this moment:
Because this is his home, and Jotaro is his relative.
The last enemy who came to his house and did evil things, the bastard Angelo who attacked his relatives, has now been turned into immortal stone by him using the power of Crazy Diamond.
And now, this guy named Rohan Kishibe did something similar to Angelo.
This is obviously a dead end.
"The same thing will not happen a second time."
"Crazy Diamond!"
There was a blazing fire in Higashikata Josuke's eyes.
The powerful humanoid named Crazy Diamond suddenly appeared in front of Rohan on the shore at this moment.
It was only two meters away from Rohan on the shore, and the fist shadow it unleashed at this moment was even slightly faster than the sound.
Everyone could foresee that in a brief moment, not even enough for a blink of an eye, Kishibe Rohan's face, which was distorted by a smile, would be swollen by Crazy Diamond's extremely powerful fist.
Whatever he did to Jotaro, it should end here.
but…
At this critical moment...
Kishibe Rohan suddenly picked up the paintbrush and began to write and draw on the pages of the book that were spread out on Jotaro's cheek.
Logically speaking, writing can never be faster than punching.
However, I don’t know if it’s because of the ability of the Stand or some other extraordinary setting, but Kishibe Rohan can write faster than Crazy Diamond!
Just now he only took a dozen seconds to finish a manuscript, and now he finished writing a whole sentence in just a moment.
With such a terrifying creative speed, even if the passage of time were accelerated ten thousand times, this strange cartoonist would probably be able to submit his work on time.
At this time, Crazy Diamond's fist finally hit him.
But Rohan Kishibe had already finished writing on Jotaro leisurely, and even had time to put away his brush.
He didn't dodge or evade, just let Crazy Diamond's swift iron fist hit him on the head.
Crazy Diamond's fist is indeed powerful. If he continues like this, he will surely beat Rohan Kishibe to the point where he cannot take care of himself in a moment.
However, just when all this was about to become a reality...
"Star Platinum—"
"The World!"
"Huh?" The moment he saw Star Platinum blocking the way ahead, Josuke Higashikata's expression became extremely surprised.
And this surprise was frozen on his face, because he and his Crazy Diamond were both trapped in the time stop of Star Platinum at this moment.
"Ola Ola Ola Ola!"
Star Platinum threw punches in time stop, and each punch hit Crazy Diamond's chest without reservation.
Even though he was facing his uncle, Jotaro was now merciless.
"Damn it... my body is completely out of control."
"What the hell did that guy just do to me?"
Looking at the heartbreaking scene of Star Platinum beating Crazy Diamond, a complex throbbing finally welled up in Jotaro's eyes, which were always as calm as water.
Soon, the time stop ended.
Crazy Diamond was knocked flying backwards, and the real body of Higashikata Josuke was also thrown into the air and crashed into the wall.
Fortunately, Crazy Diamond has thick skin and high armor. If any other plastic substitute was replaced, this set of Ora-Ora alone would be enough to seriously injure and kill the original.
However, although Higashikata Josuke was only slightly injured, the situation seemed extremely serious.
At this moment, Jotaro was standing in front of Rohan on the shore with a gloomy face, and even the invincible Star Platinum became that guy's personal bodyguard.
Kishibe Rohan just stood there leisurely, chuckling and saying to everyone:
"Don't bother me, I just want to read the story."
"I have already written an order to Mr. Jotaro to 'protect Kishibe Rohan'."
"If you must disturb me..."
"Let's just defeat him and his Star Platinum first!"
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PS: Stand-in panel
Alternate name: [Heaven's Door]
The main character: Kishibe Rohan
Destructive power: D
Speed: B
Range: B
Sustainability: C
Movement precision: B
Growth: A
Ability to turn the subject's brain into a book and view their experiences and memories.
Heaven's Gate can also write orders in the book, and the object receiving the order cannot violate the implementation of the order - even if the order is beyond the object's own ability or the object does not have the ability to understand the order.
In the early stage of awakening, Rohan needs to complete a comic manuscript and let the subject see it first before he can activate the ability of Heaven's Gate.
