Chapter 239. Why is it the Other Way Around?

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  As a vilin.

  As the savior of evil, DIO certainly embodies the ultimate quality of a true antagonist—

  It's not just the ing evil radiating from him.

  But rather, as a vilin, DIO is incredibly smart!

  And he never gets flustered or enraged over a momentary setback.

  Instead, he's highly observant and reflective, analyzing his failures to correct his weaknesses.

  Just like in "Phantom Blood", when DIO first lost to Jonathan.

  He realized his temper was a fw and decided to ceal his emotions, pretending to be Jonathan's best friend for seven years.

  And upon learning about Hamon's effects, he immediately developed the Vapor Freeze Teique to ter it.

  When DIO was jolted out of his fantasy that [The World] was invincible by a punch from [Star Ptinum],

  His innate wisdom and calm naturally reasserted themselves!

  "You kept your eyes on me in the frozen world, didn't you? It's like you could clearly see my every move, Jotaro."

  Time suddenly stopped.

  When it resumed, DIO had already moved several meters behind Jotaro, how Jotaro still kept his gaze on him, unwaverie the time stop.

  He sneered, "It seems Kakyoin did quite the job. Thanks to Kakyoin unraveling the mystery of [The World], you realized you could move in stopped time and mao enter my world…"

  Time stopped again.

  DIO's voice echoed from a different dire, saying, "So now I wonder, how long you move in the frozen world?"

  "Two seds, three? Or maybe five like me, and you're just pretending otherwise?"

  No one uands time stop better than DIO.

  And no one uands Jotaro's current state more than DIO.

  Even for him, it took substantial practice to extend his initial time stop from a fleeting moment to the current five seds.

  With that experience, DIO couldn't believe that Jotaro, having just learime stop, could wield it with such mastery.

  Actually, the fact that Jotaro tricked him into thinking [Star Ptinum] couldn't stop time roof of Jotaro's inexperience, wasn't it?

  "Acc to my reasoning, you should only be able to move once."

  "But since you've grasped the knaoving in stopped time, it wouldn't be wise to uimate you or approach you carelessly anymore."

  After all, oten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years.

  Though DIO was very fident in his dedu,

  He couldn't be sure he'd be as lucky as before if Jotaro mao nd another punch.

  "So, Jotaro, I've e up with aiohod that will definitely kill you, no matter how long you move in stopped time!"

  With a smile, DIO revealed the rows of knives he had swiped from a store earlier.

  That's right! From now, [The World] would now take on the role of a le stand!

  Or rather, this strategy was inspired by Kakyoin and his [Hierophant Green].

  For cle stands like theirs, the wide-area attacks of le stands are always the hardest to ter.

  Otherwise, DIO wouldn't have used time stop to deal with [Hierophant Green]'s barrier.

  That moment exposed [The World]'s true ability, allowing Kakyoin to pass on this intel, which ultimately led Jotaro to learn time stop.

  In other words, if he couldn't hahe barrier without time stop,

  Then [Star Ptinum], a simir stand, would face the same issue!

  So, by stopping time ahrew all of them surrounding Jotaro with a rain of knives. Unless Jotaro also used time stop to move in the frozen world, he'd be pierced to death!

  And with that, Jotaro's hidden ace would be exposed!

  DIO: In other words, the advantage is mine!

  ....

  "...Uh, Jotaro, are you sure you went to find Dio to ask him how to beat him, and not to tell him how he could beat you?"

  Watg the se unfold, Polnareff couldn't hold bad asked this soul-pierg question.

  Although earlier, Polnareff and the others were pretty worried about Jotaro.

  But her Polnareff and his friends nor Jotaro, they are not the kind of people who would hide words.

  …At least, not from each other.

  So upon learning that Jotaro wasn't as defeated as they had thought,

  But instead was trying to figure out the best way to defeat DIO with minimal sacrifice,

  Polnareff's worry turned into curiosity about whether Jotaro had actually figured out a method and what that method was.

  After all, with full-dive filming, there was no fixed script.

  The oute depended on both the crew's dire and the actors' efforts.

  Whether they steered it toward success or ruin…

  Otherwise, why would Jolyne fantasize about using a chaotic group of actors to ruiire produ?

  As a result, they always felt that in "Stardust Crusaders", Jotaro, although gaihe power to stop time which allowed him to fight DIO on equal terms, why did his situation not only didn't get better, but instead became worse and worse?

  Did Jotaro really not give away how to defeat him?!

  Otherwise, why was DIO throwing knives from a distance, but worried that it would not kill Jotaro, so he chose test Jotaro by attag Polnareff, and listening for Jotaro's heartbeat to firm he was dead or not…

  As if he wouldn't be satisfied until scattering Jotaro's ashes?

  "Yare yare..."

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