Chapter 296: The Story of the Nijimura Family
Nijimura Okuyasu is now being suppressed by the Silver Chariot, and Nijimura Kyosho's stand ability is mindlessly restrained by Lee Sin's digitized body.
These mysterious brothers who live in a spooky haunted house have been completely defeated.
Li Qing quickly reaped the fruits of victory:
He beat up the Nijimura brothers severely—
Li Qing controls the strength very well and can accurately beat the enemy to death.
The Nijimura brothers were now like two broken motorcycles with damaged parts and exhausted gasoline. They could still be pushed forward, but there was absolutely no way they could be started again.
This is not a personal revenge; it is a safety measure taken to prevent an enemy counterattack.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the brothers from Hongcun are now covered in bruises and bruises, and look extremely miserable…
This was actually Li Qing showing mercy to the other party because he was not very smart and posed little threat.
After all, when it comes to profit, the insurance measure they take is always to kill the enemy directly, and never leave those deadly snakes any chance of survival.
"Okay... Nijimura Gyoucho..."
"Can you now say that this is the reason why you two brothers are lurking here?"
After taking a set of insurance measures on the Nijimura brothers, Li Qing immediately went straight to the point and interrogated Nijimura Kyosho, who had been beaten into a pig's head.
“…”
Nijimura Keicho was silent for a while and did not answer.
But what was revealed in his eyes was not the determination to die rather than surrender, but a deep and indescribable complex emotion.
"You won't tell me?"
Li Qing did not rush to ask further questions:
"Okay, let's put this question aside for now."
"I'll go solve the puzzle that's within reach first."
He suddenly raised his head and looked towards the attic of the old house with lifeless eyes:
"There's another person in the attic on the third floor."
"From the sound of it he seemed to be bound by a thick iron chain."
"Who is that, your prisoner, brothers?"
Upon hearing this question, Nijimura Keicho and Nijimura Okuyasu both changed color.
Their lips moved slightly, as if they were about to say something.
Li Qing did not expect to get the answer directly from the brothers. He preferred to go to the site to investigate and confirm the situation.
Anyway, the mysterious man is locked in the attic. If you have any questions, you can go upstairs and take a look.
So, Li Qing took the lead and walked into the old house without hesitation.
Giorno and Polnareff each escorted the two Nijimura brothers and followed Li Qing up the stairs.
"The man locked up upstairs..."
"Something seems to be wrong."
Giorno reminded seriously.
The closer we got to the attic, the more clearly we could hear the strange noises coming from there:
The sound was like a man's painful groan and also like a wild beast's mad roar .
This weird and creepy sound effect, combined with the eerie environment of this old house, is a standard horror movie scene.
"Everyone should be careful."
Polnareff became cautious again.
The last time he ran into such a gloomy mansion where "monsters" lived, it was not a pleasant memory for him.
Just like that, in that cautious atmosphere, Li Qing and his party held their breath and walked up to the attic carefully.
At this moment, the attic door suddenly opened.
A fat and bloated arm suddenly stretched out from behind the dim door.
"monster!"
Li Qing suddenly felt his scalp tingling.
Although he couldn't see it, he could clearly sense the outline of the monster behind the door:
The guy had short limbs, was fat and bloated, and was covered with shocking tumors from head to toe. He looked like a swollen corpse that had been soaked in water, or a half-transformed toad spirit.
In Li Qing's impression, except for the piece of meat he met in Naples, there is no creature in the world that looks more unique than him.
And because of the uncanny valley effect, the piece of meat that looks like a non-human alien doesn't look that scary. This monster that looks like a human is more likely to give people goose bumps.
"Something is wrong!"
Polnareff walked over with a serious expression.
Compared to Li Qing who only sensed the outline, he and Giorno who saw the monster with their naked eyes suffered a greater visual shock.
Without hesitation, Polnareff took the initiative and attacked the monster:
"Silver Chariot!"
The silver sword blade suddenly slashed out, and a stream of light appeared in front of the dim attic.
However, the monster's performance was far less terrifying than its appearance. Instead, it was... a little slow.
Facing the high-speed blade of the silver chariot, he just stood there and was slaughtered.
The sword light cut off his arm in an instant, and the monster only realized it belatedly and covered his broken arm with his hands, letting out a heart-wrenching wail.
Then, something even more horrifying happened...
Suddenly, a stream of blood and flesh surged from the monster's severed arm.
Just like the Great Demon King Piccolo in the comics, the surging flesh and blood instantly extended and multiplied outward, and in the blink of an eye it grew into a fresh arm covered with juice.
"This, this super-fast regeneration ability..."
Polnareff's heart trembled violently.
He had only seen this incredible self-healing ability in one species of creature:
"He's a vampire!"
"There are still vampires left in the world!"
"Don't be nervous...Polnareff."
It was Li Qing who stepped forward to calm down the overly cautious Polnareff:
"I heard the guy's heartbeat and breathing... This monster was scared."
"He doesn't seem to be a threat to us."
"So…"
Li Qing turned to look at the Nijimura brothers:
"Now can you tell me who this monster is?"
Nijimura Kyōcho and Nijimura Okuyasu looked at each other with extremely complicated expressions.
In the end, it was Nijimura Keicho who stood up in silence.
He dragged his severely injured body to the front of the crowd and pushed open the attic door.
As soon as the door was opened and the monster saw the figure walking towards it, it immediately made strange noises that were difficult to understand.
And in the midst of that strange cry, he seemed to have suddenly gone mad, roaring and turning around and rushing towards the foot of the wall, towards a heavy wooden box placed at the foot of the wall.
"this…"
Li Qing and others were shocked for a moment.
But this expression was not because of the monster's strange behavior, but because...
After the door was pushed open, they clearly saw (felt) a bow and an arrow hanging on the wall of the attic room.
"Arrow, that's one of the six arrows!"
Polnareff carefully observed the pattern on the arrow and soon confirmed the true identity of the arrow.
They were still struggling in the morning about how to find the arrow in this small town with a population of tens of thousands, but they didn't expect that the arrow was placed so close to the Dongfang family!
"etc…"
Polnareff reacted instantly:
"The arrow is in your hand. Are you the one who indirectly released Angelo?"
"Why are you creating Stand Users everywhere? What is your purpose?!"
He questioned Nijimura Keisuke with a serious expression.
Nijimura Gyosho slowly walked forward, took the arrow from the wall, and finally stroked the arrow handle and said with a sigh:
"Yes, I am the arrow bearer you are looking for."
"As for my purpose... it's because of him!"
Nijimura Gyosho suddenly pointed his finger at the monster who was crying while holding the wooden box:
"This monster is actually my father."
"He was working for an evil man named 'Dio', and that scary guy implanted a kind of bud that could control his mind."
"And ten years ago, on the day Dio died..."
"The implanted granulation is out of control!"
As if thinking of some unpleasant memories, Nijimura Gyousho's eyes became extremely dim:
"From that day on, my father turned into a monster."
"He had no wisdom or consciousness, and he didn't even recognize his own son. All he did was cry while holding that broken wooden box."
"The man who could be called a father has completely disappeared just like that!"
After hearing this story, Polnareff and Giorno's expressions became quite subtle:
Dio, it's Dio again!
Although this man died long ago, the tentacles he left behind still linger and influence the world.
I don’t know how many people are suffering because of his evil deeds, and the Nijimura family in front of us is just the tip of the iceberg.
Polnareff knows Dio very well. He himself was even implanted with the same control tissue as Nijimura's father. Therefore, he can accept and adapt to the tragedy that happened to the Nijimura family.
But Giorno is different:
He only knew that Dio was his father, and vaguely knew that he was not a good person.
Since both Jotaro and Polnareff took the initiative to avoid talking about the past, Giorno was also tactful and did not ask any more questions.
Because he knew that he would most likely reveal some horrible truth.
And now, the truth, the true face of his biological father, was laid bare before Giorno.
"Dio..."
"Is this his true face?"
Giorno's mood, which had never wavered, suddenly became turbulent:
He knew that his father was a bad guy, but he didn't expect that guy to be so bad.
Seeing the Nijimura father who was turned into a monster and the Nijimura brothers who suffered endless pain as a result, Giorno's expression was indescribable.
"call…"
He sighed deeply, and asked Nijimura Kyōsho in a complicated tone:
"So, you're carrying arrows around and creating Stand users, in fact, you're looking for the Stand ability that can heal your father, right?"
"No…I'm not trying to heal him."
Unexpectedly, Nijimura Keicho answered the question in the negative.
He clenched his fists tightly and answered through gritted teeth:
"He's just a bastard who sold his soul to Dio and got what he deserved!"
"This bastard has brought us endless suffering. I just want to kill him! Kill him!"
"Only by killing him can my brother and I start anew! Only then can the suffering of this bastard be truly ended! "
"But, he just happened to become a monster that can't be killed no matter how hard we try..."
"That's why I have to keep creating Stand users, and find the Stand ability that can kill this monster!"
At this point, tears welled up in the corners of Nijimura Keicho's eyes.
His father had turned into a monster, but he couldn't even end his father's suffering with his own hands.
Because this monster has no weaknesses, is not afraid of sunlight, and has the ability of super-fast regeneration, it will not die even if its brain is chopped off.
Xing Zhao's Evil Squadron was completely ineffective against his monster father.
The same is true for Yitai’s bombing space:
The bombing space can only eliminate the target and send it to an unknown different space, rather than directly wiping out the target.
If the bombing space were allowed to execute their father, their monster father would not leave peacefully, but would be exiled to some other space and imprisoned for eternal life.
Therefore, Nijimura Gyosho can only continue to create Stand users, hoping to find a Stand with the ability to truly kill his father.
“This train of thought…”
"You're shooting people with arrows just to kill your own father?"
"In order to end your own father's suffering, you can inflict suffering on others at will?"
Giorno and Polnareff were both more or less shocked by the story of Nijimura Gyosho.
But Li Qing was not moved at all.
Not only was he not moved at all, but he approached with murderous intent:
"Nijimura Kyōsho."
"I thought your brother was not very smart, but now it seems..."
"You have a real problem with your brain!"
