Chapter 213. The Tsundere Soul

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  That's right!

  It's Iggy!

  At the final moment, it was his Stand, [The Fool], that used sand to lift Polnareff!

  Just like Vanil Ice, who came out of the dark space of [Cream], speaking fidently, he too is heavily wounded.

  Even as a vampire... no, not just a vampire.

  Even as a high-level vampire.

  Without any energy to replenish his life force, he 't stay immortal forever.

  Otherwise, DIO, who was fished out from the sea, wouldn't still o lie in this Dio Mansion, stantly draining blood to fuse with Jonathan's body.

  Not to disappoint DIO.

  The obsession to defeat Polnareff and Joseph is what is currently driving Vanil.

  But this obsession is like a curse, binding him.

  It forces him to eh victory and enough strength to face the uping battles.

  That's why he only attacked once around him.

  And that's why he ighe ceiling, not including it in his attack. This is all due to that reason.

  But, most importantly—

  "Vanil Ice just said—stray dogs have no resolve, no prideful soul."

  "But a Stand is the maion of the soul! Iggy's soul (Stand) acted on its own; it simply couldn't sit bad do nothing!"

  That's right, before this, Vanil didn't take Iggy seriously at all.

  …No, actually, many people, including the audience, didn't take Iggy seriously.

  Even though he had the victory over Pet Shop.

  But the previous impressions and Iggy's repeated begging for mercy against Pet Shop, only fighting back desperately at the end, weren't easy to shake off.

  But now!

  With the narration in "Stardust Crusaders", the audience realized just how deeply rooted their prejudice was.

  Iggy has a Stand.

  He's a Stand user.

  A dog with a spirit and soul strohan most humans!

  And his Stand ability, being elemental, isn't particurly powerful.

  Which means, like some other Stand users who bee overly reliant on their Stand and have weaker spirits than normal people, this could never happen to Iggy!

  What caused people to uimate him?

  Hiss————!!

  After realizing this.

  The audience, who were already bewildered by "Stardust Crusaders" unventional twists, collectively gasped.

  Was all of this part of your pn, Pucci!?

  Once upon a time, Iggy was so zy and indifferent.

  They didn't expect Iggy to py any signifit role in the mission to gang up on the old man.

  But Iggy first regained his lost dark will itle against Pet Shop, a fellow animal Stand user with aal Stand.

  Then, during Vanil Ice's first attack, he was saved by Avdol.

  His inner pride wouldn't let him run away with his tail between his legs. He began to gradually reach out for that "Golden Spirit".

  After that, fag Vanil Ice's overwhelming power and [Cream], Iggy was forced to team up with Polnareff. When Vanil Iched a furious atta him, and after witnessing Polnareff's determination to save him till the end…

  Iggy finally started to ponder a question—

  Should he follow Polnareff's st order, py dead, and wait for Jotaro and the others, hoping to survive?

  Or should he just go for it and take revenge on Vanil Ice?

  Heh, was there even a choice?!

  Iggy, as a proud emperor among dogs, wouldn't just follow orders from others!

  Nor would he let anyone who dared offend this empero unpunished!

  So there was o hesitate!

  The "Bck Will" is the spirit of doing whatever it takes to achieve a goal, no matter how despicable or what the cost.

  The "Golden Spirit" is ce—the determination to carve out a bright path through a dark wilderness.

  They aren't that different.

  The former just uses more ruthless means. As a certain president once said, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.

  The tter is about believing in oneself and one's panions, like a certain rabbit who often preached Love & Peace.

  So a dog with both the "Bck Will" and the "Golden Spirit", like Iggy, had only ohing to do: kill Vanil Ice, even if it meant trusting Polnareff!

  Save Polnareff and leave the hope of killing Vanil I his hands!

  "Thinking about it, Iggy's kind of a tsundere, huh."

  Seeing the barrage of ents fly across the s, many of them interpreting the story this way, Mista let out a relieved ugh and said, "Stray dogs may not have a proud soul, but they definitely have a tsundere soul!"

  However, Mista didn't get to ugh for long.

  He didn't eveo expin why he was ughing to Narancia.

  Because on the s in "Stardust Crusaders"—

  The sand began to fall.

  And Iggy, coughing up blood, finally colpsed to the ground...

  "?!"

  "From... from the feeling of this sand... no way, how could this be, damn it!"

  Polnareff, trying to grasp the falling sand, could only watch helplessly as it slipped through his fingers. His heart cried out in anguish, "Ay shell, the cold vanishing of a Stand, a Stand's disappearance... damn it! Why is it always me... surviving?!"

  "I... IGGY, NOOOOOOOOO——!!!"

  Polnareff roared.

  Anger and sorrow surged and raged within him.

  And with the aid of gravity from the fall that Iggy gave him, accelerating him further!

  The attack, carried out with Iggy, will not fail this time! Vanil Ice!!!

  "You're too slow!!!"

  CRACK!

  With a final thrust, Polnareff pierced through Vanil Ice's skull again, and with the falling force, his Stand, [Silver Chariot], twisted Vanil Ice's head like a wrench, snapping it backwards!

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