I, Johnson Joffrey, have always been pondering a question.
I have been transmigrated into the JOJO World for a full four months. In these short four months, I have narrowly escaped death several times. From a simple office worker, I awakened my Stand, rolling between life and death again and again, breaking through myself. In times of fear, I can still remain calm, casting aside pain. The old me would never have been shot multiple times, thrown by an explosion, and still be able to jump around, thinking about how to achieve victory.
Especially one thing, wherever I go, there's an explosion. Explosions seem to particularly like me, to the point where people think my ability is explosions.
I don't know whether to cry or laugh, but at least it confused my opponents... right?
Good thing I didn't go to Morioh, otherwise Kira Yoshikage and I would definitely have a good relationship.
But why did fate choose me?
I've killed people. I killed Tang En and Polpo, but this is the first time I've seen how short a person's life actually is, for example, Ghiaccio, who is currently in my arms.
He was so strong, so cool and arrogant, flying into a rage over the slightest thing, but now he is struggling with his life, which is like a flickering candle in the wind.
Ghiaccio's entire face had turned a deep purplish-red as he desperately fought for the thin air.
That little girl's Stand should be a supportive Stand. If it hit Johnson, maybe its effect wouldn't be that great, but on Ghiaccio, it was completely different; it was practically tailor-made for him. If it hit others, at least Johnson wouldn't fly into a rage just because the little girl threw a plane at his head.
Johnson Joffrey looked at Ghiaccio, analyzing carefully. The Stand, named [I'm So Sorry], actually showed no apologetic attitude at all. It was more like forcing others to forgive her. When the little girl angered Ghiaccio and he developed a negative desire to apologize, the Stand would seek out Ghiaccio.
It forced Ghiaccio to forgive her, meaning Ghiaccio couldn't do anything detrimental to the little girl while angry, and he also had to stop his companions from attacking the little girl due to his anger. Johnson looked from afar; the little girl was sitting at the other end of the terminal, calmly seated amidst countless shards of debris carried by streams of light, seemingly waiting for their deaths.
Why isn't she leaving in this explosion? Johnson looked at Ghiaccio again. Ghiaccio was already too angry because he couldn't control his emotions at all.
When angry, one can have thoughts of cursing, which is also detrimental to the little girl. Therefore, the Stand was still preventing Ghiaccio from cursing the little girl internally, so it manifested as a pair of hands firmly strangling his neck.
"Ghiaccio, hold on a little longer. I'll think of something," Johnson Joffrey said, but what could he do? Unless Ghiaccio stopped being angry, but he was even more like a bomb fanatic than Johnson.
However, a Stand is a manifestation of a person's spiritual energy. Logically, Ghiaccio, being prone to fits of rage, should have a similarly explosive Stand. Could it be that extreme cold is actually a gentle burn?
What kind of pretentious, rotten sentence is that! The Stand named 'Apology Letter' was like a tattoo on Ghiaccio's neck, tightly constricting his carotid artery. He wouldn't last much longer.
"Ugh… ugh… John…" Ghiaccio was in too much pain. Johnson could even clearly feel his life ebbing away. Johnson carried him on his back, and Ghiaccio's hands, gripping Johnson's shoulders, were almost digging into him.
The dynamic robot was still frantically searching for Johnson, constantly running. Its explosive ability was too strong. Johnson could only rely on Reversed Hierophant's extremely fast movement speed and the constant use of its strings' pulling force to move.
The explosive robot would announce its distance, but the distance it announced was actually the area that wouldn't be attacked.
Johnson calmly analyzed, meaning that approaching it would actually prevent him from being scorched by the explosion. So, what if I use Reversed Hierophant to stick tightly to it? But my Reversed Hierophant's ability to pull strings is quite useless; I have to touch the opponent to pull out a string. Since I've already touched him, what the hell am I pulling a string for?!
How close is its safe zone exactly? I must approach it at super-fast speed, touch it, and while pulling out an energy string, determine the safe zone and adjust the string's length so that I can both remain within its safe zone and ensure I won't be absorbed because my energy is inferior to its.
But the safe distance it's announcing now seems to have no pattern. And it's a Stand; Reversed Hierophant can't guarantee to shatter it in one blow, and even if it does, it's uncertain if it can immediately revive.
The safe distance it announced was—
The first time was 2 meters, the second time was 1 meter, the third time was 0.8 meters. So, what about the fourth time?
Judging from the pattern it announced, the numbers it reported were getting smaller and smaller, meaning the safe zone was also getting smaller and smaller.
If it's a one-meter radius, then the area within one meter of its center won't explode, while areas beyond that will explode out of thin air.
Explode out of thin air?!
It can explode out of thin air? There must always be explosives, right? Could the explosive be air, and a vacuum wouldn't explode?
If that's the case, then if I find a vacuum, it won't explode. But where can I get a vacuum? Ghiaccio could freeze the air, but I completely lack that ability!
Suddenly, Ghiaccio's hand, which had been tightly gripping Johnson's shoulder due to lack of oxygen from behind Johnson, fell limply… Johnson watched Ghiaccio's hand fall from his neck, his body jolted, and he tentatively asked, "Hey, Ghiaccio…"
The other party no longer responded.
What's going on? Are you dead?
Honestly, Ghiaccio's ability was too strong; the ability to instantly change the environment was practically a bug. If it weren't for finding the air vent on his back and encountering Mista, who had EX luck and a Stand that specifically manipulated bullets, almost no one could defeat Ghiaccio. This was also why Ghiaccio had the confidence to reveal his Stand Ability first and come to the terminal alone.
He had this confidence; he was truly strong.
However, who knew that in this world, there was such an insidious Stand… Hey… Ghiaccio.
Johnson didn't know whether to be sad or not. Anyway, although Ghiaccio had a bomb-like temper, he never flinched in a fight, always rushing to the front. And Johnson had been in the Assassination Team for so long, only Ghiaccio had never targeted him, because he was someone who wore everything on his sleeve.
Johnson felt a self-pitying sadness in his heart, and as he put Ghiaccio down, he saw an astonishing scene… Ghiaccio had frozen himself?!
More precisely, he had frozen his own brain?!
Johnson, while being carried away by Reversed Hierophant, touched Ghiaccio's head. The icy temperature indicated that beneath the thin skin were cold ice blocks… By freezing his brain, the brain temporarily wouldn't need oxygen, and at the same time, it would stop thinking. Although Ghiaccio had been struggling with the thin air, he clearly knew why he was like this.
It was because of anger and unforgiveness, but he couldn't stop being angry.
So he stopped thinking?!
... Ghiaccio, you're a goddamn genius!
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Stand Name: I'm So Sorry
Stand User: Gloria Albrecht
Power: E (Suppression Power: Infinite)
Speed: E
Range: A
Durability: A
Precision: E
Development Potential: E