Chapter 202. [Cream]
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However, the fear sted only for a moment.
Just like Iggy's pitch-bck will to take on DIO, which genuinely scared them.
But that fear also revealed another message.
It made them feel so excited that they fot the fear!
Because of DIO!
Ever since DIO was revived and awakened, he had been staying in the mansion for a long time. Now, finally, led by the vengeful Iggy, he appeared before them!
They had been waiting for this moment for far too long!
Was Iggy's awakened bck will frightening?
It’s good that it’s frightening!
For a vampire like DIO, who isn't even human, they worried that Jotaro and the others might not be able to beat him to death!
So even when Jotaro and the others were about to step into this mansion…
Green Dolphin Studio and “Stardust Crusaders” kly what their audience wao see and what they were eagerly waiting for. Immediately, they gave them an infamous “←—To Be tinued.”
They dragged the storylio the week.
And even that wasn't enough.
One of the final Nine Glods’ Stand users stood in Jotaro and the others' way, blog their path.
But is that really an issue?
No, it’s not an issue at all!
pared to the DIO looming right in front of them…
How could a mere Nine Glod Stand user possibly make the audience feel impatient?
Not to mention, this Stand user folloattern the audience had already identified about the Nine Glod Stand users:
As long as the Stand isn't based os…
The Nine Glod Stand user, oheir Stand ability is broken, would turn into a Teletubby-like figure. This pattern applied even to Darby, the final Nine Glods Stand user!
Of course, as the st noal Stand user among the Nine Glods...
Darby's Stand ability, [Atum], was truly sidered invincible.
It’s not only simir to [Osiris], where winning a gamble would cim the oppo's soul…
It also came with the added ability to read minds.
Even if this mind-reading only gave “YES” or “NO” responses…
In games, as long as you ask whether the oppo will go left ht, defend or unleash a special move, charge or attack…
...knowing the ao these questions would make you almost omnist.
And since [Osiris] was once scared into losing by Jotaro's bluff…
Knowing this, Darby was absolutely not going to fall for the same trick.
So, after enduring a week, the audience…
Upon seeing Darby and his invincible [Atum], they truly believed Jotaro and the others could only defeat Darby by physically attag the Stand user.
Otherwise, within the game world where Darby excelled, Jotaro and his team had no ce!
Until they saw, ier episodes, just how absurd things would get when Joseph, the old trickster, wasn’t plot-killed off…
A gaming expert?
A genius pyer?
A mind-reading ability that predict your move?
…
All of that? Muda Muda Muda!
The invincible [Hermit Purple] would show Darby what it means to cheat like a master!
Teaming up with Jotaro’s bluffing skills…
They made Darby, who could only read one person's mind, with the limited range of “YES” and “NO,” get so mentally broken that he had to admit defeat. In doing so, the souls Darby had collected using [Atum] to threaten Jotaro and the others were instantly returo their rightful owhe moment he ceded!
And when they saw Darby, this maniputor of minds…
Seeing the sight of [Star Ptinum] behind Jotaro, he cried out for mercy while being “Ora Ora” punched into the air.
His body, sent flying, revealed to Jotaro and the others that what looked like a seaside isnd was just a background, an illusion.
They had been in a single room all along. By following the rge hole left by Darby’s body, they could find their way out.
Seeing this se, the audience…
Their hearts felt as refreshed as if they had just downed a cold soda on a hot summer day, cool and exhirating!
“Satisfa!”
Until…
“Avdol... he has already turo dust.”
On the s of “Stardust Crusaders”, pig up Avdol's fallen hands, the floating Stand calmly said, "My mouth is a tuo a dark space that even I do not know."
“He pushed you all away earlier. Now it’s your turn. If you dare to think of defeating Lord DIO, such treacherous thoughts must be purged!”
Saying this, the Stand personally demonstrated what it meant to “turn to dust” and “a dark tuo nowhere,” by swallowing those severed hands.
“I’ll drag you in, one by one, into my Vanil Ice’s dark space!”
This was the ability of the Stand.
An uable spatial ability.
Anything that came into tact with the Stand would be swallowed like falling into a bck hole.
It was the MAX of both offense and defense!
Even his weakness of needing to breathe was eliminated after DIO turned Vanil Ito a zombie. He no longer o breathe.
He was an invincible force, only able to attack others while his oppos could only flee in despair!
And the most important thing about the Stand was its name – [Cream].
“That’s not even one of the nine Nine Glods!”
“It's not eveely reted to the Tarot cards anymore! This is the name of a band formed in 1969!”
This was the pint about the name [Cream].
But siand names didn’t necessarily have to follow the Tarot cards or the Nine Glods, this was already well established.
So the pint was just that—a pint.
More importantly, the pint was about another matter… or rather, it was a loud protest directed at Green Dolphin Studio—
“Av↗dol↘!”
“You @#&%! You %#@! What the %@&—! Bastard! Pucci!!”
“Beast! …No, I need a word more vicious tha'!”
“Lies! There’s no way Avdol could be dead! He hasn’t even gohrough the staircase se!!”
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