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Chapter 187. DIO's Faith
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DIO.
What kind of person is he?
If this were during the airing of "Phantom Blood", almost every viewer would say that DIO is something even more disgusting than vomit!
No, even now, after "Phantom Blood" has aired, this impression of him hasn't ged at all.
Many evehat Speedwagon's description of DIO was too mild.
More disgusting than vomit? Even more revolting?
DIO is filthier than frog urine!
This is why, when the viewers were clued in by [White Shat the new OP for "Stardust Crusaders" might hold clues about DIO being the final boss, they all rushed back to watch it repeatedly.
It's not so much that they admire DIO.
It's more like they admire him by hoping he dies soon!
Of course, if during this process, DIO could be brutally tortured to death, that would be eveer!
sidering all the things DIO did in "Phantom Blood", the highest praise the audience give him is that he is a purely evil vilin who is beyond redemption.
Other than that, refer to the admiratiohods mentioned above.
Doesn't that sound unbelievable?
Or perhaps, how is this different from how DIO influenced viewers in Pucci's previous life?
Though he was just as much of a vilin, just as wicked, it's clear that the DIO from Pucci's previous life was a bit more unique pared to this world's DIO.
Initially, Pucci didn't realize the differeweewo.
Because of his past life memories, he projected the DIO from his previous life onto the DIO here.
Naturally, he didn't sense any issues with this.
But Jotaro in "Stardust Crusaders" is different!
Even though he heard most things about DIO from Joseph,
And Joseph heard them from Erina,
Who, in turn, heard them from Speedwagon.
Through this cycle of storytelling across several people, much of the information about DIO should have been distorted by now.
But just seeing how DIO used his flesh buds to brainwash Kakyoin and the others, ruthlessly killing even i bystao achieve his goals, vinced Jotaro that DIO was ihe pure evil Joseph had described!
An irredeemable scum who deserves to die!
With that uanding, Jotaro couldn't prehend why N'Doul would worship DIO so fervently.
He incredulously asked, "Are you crazy? You used your own Stand to it suicide!?"
That's right, even when Jotaro offered to spare N'Doul's life,
N'Doul chose to kill himself rather than reveal any information about DIO!?
"Why would you do this...?"
"Jotaro, you must be thinking... you're trying to get me to spill information about the eight enemies you'll soon face..."
With his brain pierced by [Geb], and due to its ck of precision, N'Doul was still alive for the moment, speaking haltingly to mock Jotaro: "Joseph Joestar's Stand—[Hermit Purple]... I know it read people's thoughts, but I won't leak a si of information..."
"Not a shred of information that might harm "that great man"... heh heh heh..."
Despite fag his owh, N'Doul was ughing joyfully.
Witnessing this, Jotaro felt a kind of spine-chilling terror he had never experienced before, and he couldn't help but mutter that name.
"DIO…"
"Why are you all so loyal to DIO, so fearless in the face of death?"
This question was shared by the audieg "Stardust Crusaders" as they saw this se.
They couldn't uand it either.
After all, uhe previous Stand users,
The battle between N'Doul and Jotaro, even for viewers already used to Stand battles, was incredibly thrilling!
Especially after learning that N'Doul was blind,
And that [Geb]'s stats, as dispyed in the six-dimensional chart in the animation, were rgely inferior to [Star Ptinum].
The fire abilities of [Magi's Red] were its natural ter.
Yet N'Doul, using [Geb], still mao push Jotaro and his team to the brink of defeat!
If it weren't fy, a Stand user previously unknown, whose dog-like traits—being a Boston Terrier with keen senses—
And his Stand, [The Fool], being able to briefly fly in the air,
Whieutralized N'Doul's only advantage of surprise,
Leading to a heart-pounding battle of attad defeween N'Doul and Jotaro after the tter found his position and blocked his heariion with high-altitude flying.
And even then, Jotaro almost lost!
Of course, the key was that Jotaro had found N'Doul.
For a le Stand user like N'Doul, being fronted by a cle powerhouse like Jotaro should have spelled the end.
Yet N'Doul, unlike Hol Horse who tried to flee, or Alessi who begged for mercy, remained determined.
He was so resolute that he engaged Jotaro in a "shootout" duel with their Stands, just like a protagonist in a shonen manga.
It was utterly unreasonable, pletely uhe previous behavior of DIO's other Stand users.
Unknowingly, this gradually started to ge the audience's impression of DIO.
And the tipping point of that impression was…
"Jotaro, as for death... I'm not afraid of it in the slightest!... heh heh heh, because of my Stand, I've been fearless ever since I was a child..."
N'Doul tio ugh: "No matter who I faced, I always won! Crime and murder were everyday occurreo me, and I hought anything of the police..."
"That dog must uand my feelings..."
N'Doul poi Iggy.
When he saw Iggy, N'Doul immediately realized—this is one of his kind.
A Stand user with aal Stand, sharing the "I do whatever the hell I want" attitude.
"But for the first time, this fearless me had a thought sprout in my heart—"
"—'I absolutely don't want to be killed by him!'"
