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  Chapter 108. The Enlightened Ones are Forever Blessed

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  The enlightened ones are forever blessed.

  Although Caesar didn't know this saying, as an actor who had ehe script world of "Battle Tendency" and engaged in a life-ah battle with Wamuu in the role of "Caesar A. Zeppeli," he clearly uood ohing:

  If you don't have the resolve to kill the enemy without hesitation when necessary, and only act after the enemy attacks, or react betedly due to character and plot prompts, you won't stand a ce against a determined Wamuu.

  It's like a 50-meter or 100-meter sprint exam, where the gym teacher tells students not to sider the finish line as the end, but rather to imagihe finish line a bit further beyond, so that when they are close to the end, they won't sck off ahe thought of being almost finished slow them down.

  The differen resolve mas in those one or two seds. This is why Caesar so desperately hoped Gintoki could break free from the script.

  Ihe existence of the script determihe rules for victory. But if there's a dey in achieving victory acc to these rules, oill win?

  In a sprint exam, a dey of one or two seds might mean the differeween passing and failing. But in a battle, if there's a dey of one or two seds while the oppo doesn't dey, the result is obvious.

  In the fight against Joseph, Wamuu suffered tinuous setbacks. Not only were all his moves predicted and tered by Joseph, but even his proud teique, Divine Sandstorm, was broken. Joseph everickery to secretly ripple-infused reins around Wamuu's hands, causing him to break his own hands.

  This humiliation undoubtedly made Wamuu exhibit a resolve far strohan when he fought Caesar.

  "Because I relied too muy sight, I allowed him to exploit that vulnerability!"

  Wamuu, after violently gouging out his own eyes and using his trol over his body to prevent them from healing, fixed his rotating, blind gaze on the once again leading Joseph, using the horn on his forehead.

  "From now on, I will forsake light and rely only on this [horn] to sehe [wind]!"

  But the problem doesn't stop there. The actor pying Joseph, Gintoki, hasn't yet realized this in his subscious.

  Self-mutiting one's eyes is certainly shog, but Joseph, who hasn't suffered any losses yet, doesn't think Wamuu, despite his resolve, is doing anything particurly signifit.

  As they fihe first p, the onry automatically refreshed at the start of the sed p. This time, two crossbows—e and one small—were pced orack.

  Even though there were noeapons instead of ohe rule of first e, first served still applied.

  Having already seen how Wamuu smashed his war hammer with the rge stone pilr in the first p, Joseph quickly grabbed the rge crossbow, which had greater range and power than the smaller one.

  All he had to do now was maintain his lead, stay out of the smaller crossbow's maximum range, and find the right moment to shoot Wamuu in the face. Victory would be his!

  Moreover, Wamuu, having forsaken his sight and relying solely on his powerful trol over his body to sehe wind, now had no way to perceive Joseph's small tricks. But Wamuu, who was using the wind to sense his surroundings, would naturally be affected by the wind too.

  For example, the hot wind stirred up by the bonfire in the ter of the track, which disturbed the airflow around it!

  These favorable ditiohe source of Joseph's fidend the reason he didn't feel the o show the same level of resolve.

  But as mentioned before, the enlightened ones are forever blessed!

  Gulp, gulp! Bang, boom——!!

  These were the sounds of the metal ball shot from Wamuu's small crossbow rolling along the wall of the track.

  And then, the sound of this ball boung off a protrusion in the wall and hitting Joseph squarely!

  "Hmph, how o avoid being sensed by Wamuu, JOJO could only position himself at a 180-degree angle, symmetrically opposite Wamuu! And he had to be he bonfire!"

  "This ractically announg his location to Wamuu!" Kars mocked.

  This battle was oween the enlightened ohose without resolve, who avoided danger and sought safety, could never win.

  As Wamuu used the wind to identify the best angle on the wall to eliminate Joseph, while tinuing to drive and map out the track, Joseph, struggling to draw the rge crossbow and under stant fire from Wamuu's small crossbow, lost his ce to fight bad could only flee, ging to a false hope.

  In doing so, he lost his ce at victory.

  Had the rge crossbow not been so difficult to draw, thus redug the power of Wamuu's small crossbow after it bounced off the wall, Joseph would not just be lying on the ground struggling to breathe after being hit—he'd be split in two!

  So, seeing all this unfold, Kars fidently said, "Finish him off, Wamuu!"

  "But JOJO is a ing man. Be cautious when you approach him!"

  "..."

  Has he been found out?

  Hearing this, Joseph bitterly looked at the rge crossbow that he had finally mao draw, after leveraging the gravity from his fall.

  But even without this warning, Wamuu would likely have noticed.

  Carefully loading the iron ball, Joseph, unsure whether his movements had been sensed by Wamuu through the wind, could only prepare for the worst.

  To be ho, this was Joseph's st ce.

  Yet, even now, he struggled to muster the kind of all-in resolve that Wamuu had.

  This wasn't because Joseph—or rather, Gintoki in his subscious—feared death.

  Rather...

  "Because of me..."

  Watg this se through the fully immersive device, Caesar bitterly said, "Because I took off Wamuu's lip ring at the st moment, Gintoki's subscious now 't fight without holding something back."

  "He o fulfill his promise to me, to drink the antidote after defeating Wamuu. Because only by doing this he ensure my sacrifice wasn't in vain. Naturally, Gintoki 't accept the possibility of failure, and so he 't fully it."

  And perhaps most importantly, I'm right here...

  Because of Akiyuki's attempt to use this typical hot-blooded story trope—having a friend's spirit awaken a miracle and push the actor's subscious to break through limits—Gintoki's subscious is even less likely to break this promise.

  After exging gnces, both Caesar and Akiyuki realized they might have made an unnecessary move, and they sighed deeply.

  "Fet it, let's just forcibly end the full-dive filming here."

  Akiyuki said, "Although doing this might pnt a seed of never being able to win ior's subscious, it's better than the worst-case sario where Wamuu truly defeats him, and that seed takes root and grows."

  "At least this way, we minimize the loss... Wait! Don't stop yet!!"

  "Is this...!!?"