This massive tempered glass had a crack from a previous bullet. Reversed Hierophant used this bullet hole to shatter the glass with a punch and successfully hit Polpo's face.
With a crisp shattering sound, glass suddenly splattered, disrupting the Prison Guards' actions. They even thought Polpo was trying to escape.
Polpo's face was almost driven into his head, and he fell against the wall like a balloon. The immense Clash knocked him completely unconscious.
Reversed Hierophant's speed is extremely fast, capable of reaching supersonic speeds in an instant burst, but only for an instant.
This narrow Prison seemed like a fighting arena tailor-made for him.
Black Sabbath let out a roar like it came from hell, constantly struggling with the lines between objects, but it didn't last more than a few seconds before it was completely pierced through.
The powerful force between objects was beyond ordinary imagination, and the magnitude of the force also depended entirely on the thickness of the line.
According to Johnson Joffrey's observation—
The line was not related to life; it was more like energy.
Previously, Johnson Joffrey believed that this line was an energy conduit, but the vibrant life force told him that it was energy itself.
Black Sabbath simply couldn't prevent its body's energy from returning to its body; this was like a law.
Energy pulled out by Reversed Hierophant was bound to return to the main body.
But!
The scene before him showed results completely opposite to multiple previous experiments—
Was the arrow absorbing Black Sabbath?!
Why?
Before, it was the cat absorbing the beer bottle, Tang En absorbing the house, and now it was the arrow absorbing Black Sabbath...
If they were all the former, then it could be explained by things with higher energy absorbing things with lower energy.
If that was the case—the arrow's energy was above Black Sabbath's.
That ordinary, simple arrow was actually something that ran through the entire JOJO series, the thing that truly triggered human evolution, containing an unexpectedly huge amount of energy...
Reversed Hierophant, due to its short range, stopped at the glass, and hitting Polpo's face could be said to be quite a stretch.
Now Polpo had already left Reversed Hierophant's attack range.
The center of human energy should be the heart! The heart's beating is what produces blood circulation and energy!
It must pass through the heart to draw out the line and control Polpo.
He wished he had shot him in the heart instead of the face; that way, Reversed Hierophant could have shattered the glass at the heart and simultaneously passed through his chest to draw out the line.
—But, that face of his was truly disgusting.
Because he used his hand to catch the arrow, Johnson Joffrey's hand was pierced by the arrow, and flesh began to peel and rot from his hand, revealing bone.
Mainly, it really hurt a lot.
Polpo's arrow should be an ordinary arrow.
He remembered that Giorno was also pierced by Polpo's arrow in the original work, and he didn't awaken anything like Bites the Dust, which indicated that this arrow was truly just an ordinary arrow.
Taking advantage of Polpo's immobility, Johnson prepared to go forward and finish him off.
"Bang!!!"
A bullet, carrying scorching heat, shot out from an unknown corner...
A gunshot struck Johnson Joffrey's thigh!
He couldn't help but kneel directly onto the broken glass, and intense pain instantly swept through his entire body.
Reversed Hierophant also couldn't help but stop.
"Don't move," the brown-haired female Prison Guard yelled in italian with a heavy Southern accent, her gun-wielding hand trembling, "Move again, and next time it'll be your head that explodes!"
Her italian dialect was too heavy for Johnson to understand much, but it was probably the usual nonsense police used.
So, enduring the severe pain in his leg, he raised his hands.
It was too easy to deal with ordinary people who didn't have Stands and couldn't see Stands.
Reversed Hierophant immediately stood up, wanting to reach for Polpo's chest.
But… Polpo, that fat slob, was too big, and the Reversed Hierophant was still an inch short of reaching his chest. The Reversed Hierophant kept shouting "Muda!" to cheer itself on, changing various poses, hoping to reach him, but in the end, it was left with nothing but frustrated exasperation.
Johnson's leg gushed blood like a fountain, perhaps from hitting a femoral artery… The Prison Guard watched Johnson's continuous bleeding indifferently, unmoved.
The Prison Guard was also outside the Reversed Hierophant's range.
Damn it.
The Reversed Hierophant's strength was too small; one punch merely knocked Polpo unconscious, and waking up was only a matter of time. Most importantly, several Prison Guards were all out of range… and if the armed Prison Guards fired simultaneously, the Reversed Hierophant couldn't block all of them.
Johnson pressed hard on his gushing wound. After the Hierophant realized it couldn't touch Polpo, it had no choice but to retreat.
His right hand was basically half-flayed.
I can only wait for the Prison Guard to get closer to me.
Less than a minute later, the Prison Guard indeed thought Johnson had completely surrendered and prepared to try and approach Johnson.
"Officer Mori!" the female Prison Guard from Southern Italy shouted loudly, "Don't go near him!"
The female Prison Guard's eyes were firm and cold, as if still waiting, waiting for Johnson's life to completely ebb away… "Cough, cough—"
Polpo coughed several times forcefully, stirring awake… Then he saw Johnson Joffrey seriously injured and collapsed on the ground. He was greatly alarmed and quickly retreated several steps, completely moving out of Johnson's range.
"You… you actually… you and your Assassination Team are all dead," Polpo gasped.
But suddenly—
The entire cell began to shake violently, and the ceiling started to merge with the floor!
"You fellow, did you connect the lines between the ceiling and the floor?" Polpo shouted.
"I connected all the lines I could," Johnson whispered, "including the generator under the floor."
Who says a C-rank Stand can't cause destruction?
Polpo knew what Johnson Joffrey was going to do; his surroundings were already entangled with lines, thick and thin.
The Reversed Hierophant, agile and lithe, stood like a spider on countless flashing lines. It was the center of all the lines, and its crimson vertical pupils seemed to carry a sense of mockery… "Stop!!" Polpo shouted, "You can't do this, if you do this, everyone in the Assassination Team will die!!"
Johnson Joffrey smiled indifferently and said, "Arrivederci."
The Reversed Hierophant expressionlessly released these seemingly ordinary lines… The moment it let go… —the entire cell was turned upside down. Shards of glass flew, and crumbling floor and ceiling debris splattered. The Prison Guards had to duck and hide, their aim becoming erratic.
The Reversed Hierophant grabbed Johnson's hand, and taking advantage of the chaos, using the regularity of the lines, it swiftly left the Prison at supersonic speed.
"BANG!!!!"
Dozens of explosions threw Johnson Joffrey back. The wound on his thigh was too severe for him to walk. He tied a bandage around the blood vessel in his thigh, clenched his festering right hand, and crawled on the ground.
Until he was completely out of the explosion's range, he turned his head to look at the Prison and said to himself, "You're really lucky, Johnson Joffrey."
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Stand Panel
Stand User: Johnson Joffrey
Stand Name: Reversed Hierophant
Power: C
Speed: A
Range: E
Persistence: C
Precision: B
Potential: A
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Black Sabbath
Stand User: Polpo
Power: A
Speed: A
Range: A
Persistence: A
Precision: E
Potential: E
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Only three updates today. I originally wanted to add more since I made it to the top few ranks, but I was really too busy today.
Adding more updates is my professional integrity!
Also, a quick plug for a book written by a friend of mine. Although it's not doing very well, you can check it out if you're interested.
"The Demon King Still Wants to Go Home Today"