As dusk gradually settled, the entire Assassination Team was still drifting on the sea. The brilliant sunset shone on Johnson Joffrey's golden hair, as if giving him a halo.
His golden hair was a bit too dazzling, almost merging with the sunset, and his red eyes seemed somewhat unreal.
Prosciutto listened carefully as Johnson Joffrey candidly explained his ability, which left the Assassination Team members confused, not because they were stupid, but because Johnson Joffrey's italian was very poor.
It couldn't be called poor; this child had only been in Italy for less than three days, and to be able to speak to this extent was already very clever.
Prosciutto looked at the lingering sunset with an unforgettable nostalgia. The sunset turned blood red, staining a corner of the sky. The vast sky was cloudless, divided by the sunset into two halves: one brilliant, one dark blue.
Prosciutto, with his neatly combed golden hair, disliked Johnson Joffrey's casual attire. His golden hair fluttered in the golden wind dyed by the sunset as he haltingly explained his own confusing ability in italian.
"Ghiaccio, you're completely out of it!" Melone said with a smile, one hand on his hip, the other on his chin, pondering. "Your ability is a bit like maxwell's demon."
"Huh?"
"I was just kidding, just saying whatever came to mind." Melone shrugged.
"No, I'd like you to clarify," Johnson Joffrey calmly pressed.
"Oh, it was something I heard in a physics class back in college." Melone looked up, trying hard to recall. "Generally, doesn't energy transfer from objects with higher energy to objects with lower energy? And maxwell's demon is a mechanism that can sort things with different energy levels, allowing higher energy to get even higher, and lower energy to get even lower."
"Something like that, I guess?" Melone answered hesitantly.
"Unbelievable!" Ghiaccio roared. "Melone, you actually went to college!"
Johnson: You're missing the point, aren't you?
"Eh, is that so strange? I even used to be a teacher!"
Don't just go along with him!
Prosciutto put one hand on his hip, thought for a moment, then continued, "Melone's understanding of maxwell's demon isn't entirely wrong. If your Stand, Reversed Hierophant, can absorb lower energy from higher energy, shouldn't it also be able to change this rule?"
"I don't think that's very likely. What does maxwell's demon have to do with Reversed Hierophant?" Illuso interjected. "maxwell's demon is a mechanism that can detect and control the movement of individual molecules."
"If that were truly possible, Reversed Hierophant would be too overpowered. And from Johnson's actual operations, it seems more related to life force. That kind of thing isn't related to energy, is it? And if Reversed Hierophant were maxwell's demon, then he could manipulate entropy?"
As expected of the most educated person here, Illuso accurately stated the definition of maxwell's demon and even elevated it to the noble level of saving the universe from chaos.
Perhaps because his words were a bit difficult to understand, everyone suddenly fell silent.
He, Illuso, was indeed the Assassination Team's king of awkward silences.
After a while, Formaggio told a bad joke to lighten the mood.
"I've only heard of Schrödinger's cat."
Formaggio himself liked to keep cats, but that was because he found it very amusing to watch cats scratch people after he'd shrunk them. He also liked to put cats that annoyed him into bottles, which aligned with the half-dead, half-alive Schrödinger's cat.
What a bad joke.
Johnson Joffrey didn't quite understand what he was hearing, mainly due to a language barrier, but Melone had indeed given him many hints. He concentrated his will slightly, and a flash of light appeared behind him. A well-built Stand, gold and red in color, suddenly emerged.
It tilted its head, seemingly unaware that it had become the center of attention.
Johnson Joffrey thoroughly considered the relationship between maxwell's demon and Reversed Hierophant in his mind. He dared not imagine what it would be like if Reversed Hierophant were maxwell's demon… Johnson Joffrey sighed silently inwardly, thinking that it might already be at the level of a Reversed Hierophant Requiem.
Silver Chariot's Requiem involved soul exchange and biological invasion, capable of completely destroying the Earth's 4.6-billion-year-old biosphere in just half an hour. In comparison, Gold Experience Requiem, which resets all actions and wills to zero, wasn't as shocking.
If Reversed Hierophant also gained a Requiem, would it be like maxwell's demon?
Then Reversed Hierophant would become a mechanism in nature that could counteract entropy.
Damn (Chinese), I can't even imagine.
"Melone!" Johnson suddenly shouted. "You truly are a genius!"
Melone: "?"
"You can praise me, now let me have your baby!" Melone suddenly showed a perverted smile, licking his lips with a slurp.
"This," Johnson Joffrey calmly waved his hand in refusal, "is not necessary."
The arrow also chooses people; you must pass the test of the special virus contained within the arrow to obtain Requiem.
This was Johnson Joffrey's guess, but it is absolutely reasonable for the arrow to choose people. If it didn't, and every Stand User who got an arrow just stabbed themselves with it, wouldn't the world fall into chaos?
"By the way, Johnson, is Polpo's arrow still with you?" Risotto suddenly asked.
"Ah, yes, I casually took it," Johnson Joffrey knew that the fact he obtained the arrow when saving Ghiaccio had been exposed. Hiding it was impossible. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before the Assassination Team questioned him about the arrow.
The Assassination Team didn't show much surprise; it seemed they all knew. It was a good thing he didn't pretend to be ignorant and say he didn't have it, or it would have been a public execution.
Ghiaccio, that loudmouth.
"I understand. That arrow is yours. You defeated Polpo, so that arrow is your spoils of war," Risotto said calmly, "It seems to suit your ability very well. Of course, if the team needs it during this critical period, I hope you can temporarily use it for the team."
In short, it's yours, but don't keep it to yourself.
"Ghiaccio said you absorbed the Stand with the arrow?" Prosciutto asked.
The arrow itself is an extraterrestrial virus, and a virus is also life.
The arrow is a plot hole left by Araki; at least in the manga Johnson Joffrey read, Araki had no intention of filling that plot hole.
My ability might be able to unravel the mystery of the arrow.
"Yes, because of my ability," Johnson said candidly, "I found that the arrow's energy is incredibly vast, at least exceeding all objects on Earth that I know of."
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Whenever I write here, I can't help but spoil it.
I'm sorry, although I've been professionally trained, I really can't help it. [Reversed Hierophant Requiem] is a Stand that can never appear.
Because I won't arrange for anyone to get the arrow!