"Bang!"
Mista suddenly fired a shot at the black shell.
A pair of crimson eyes slowly opened. Johnson Joffrey frowned. The feeling of breathlessness and splitting headache gradually disappeared, and air began to enter his lungs. He had never felt air so sweet.
The immense pressure vanished after Mista shattered the black shell.
Inside the black shell was Reversed Hierophant, whose extended fist shattered the shell, giving it the feeling of breaking out of an egg.
In Johnson Joffrey's eyes, this was not a pleasant development.
The thing he had always worried about had happened: does a Stand truly have its own consciousness? It seems the entire JOJO series avoids discussing this. If a Stand is truly an embodiment of one's own innate qualities, like Ripple.
Then why does it present itself like a friend? And when influenced by an arrow, it even leans towards the arrow. For example, when Giorno wanted to pick up an arrow, Gold Experience actually stopped him.
For instance, Gold Experience even claimed to possess abilities unknown even to Giorno Giovanna.
Johnson Joffrey grew more and more puzzled by this, but with his current strength, he was helpless against King Crimson, let alone researching the arrow.
He still had an arrow in his arms, but this arrow was different from the arrow and Kira Yoshikage's arrow; it could only kill Stands.
Reversed Hierophant shattered the eggshell from the inside and slowly crawled out, as if shedding excess material from its body. Its former golden shell had turned black, with black and red as its main colors, appearing more agile and exuding a mysterious sense of majesty.
"This is… Reversed Hierophant?!" Mista asked in surprise.
Johnson nodded numbly. This should be similar to Koichi Hirose's evolution.
"That's enough. It looks like Koichi Hirose's Stand is the same type as mine."
Johnson had experienced several battles in the past few days, having walked the line between life and death multiple times. He had already completed the achievement of'Survive a Desperate Situation' twice.
Reversed Hierophant itself should have reached its limit too.
"This should be a Stand upgrade."
"?" As expected of Johnson, a Stand can even upgrade.
Reversed Hierophant broke the black shell and crawled out. The car was small, making Reversed Hierophant appear somewhat large. It slowly crawled out of the black shell, and under the astonished gazes of Johnson and Mista, slowly straightened its body… "Bang!"
With a soft thud… Reversed Hierophant quickly clutched its head and curled up.
Mista: "What's going on?"
Johnson Joffrey: "It probably hit its head."
Mista's mouth twitched. In any case, Reversed Hierophant had just risen from inside as if reborn, then hit its head. Before it could taste the happiness of life, it understood the bitterness of fate and obediently stayed in the back seat.
"Now what? Does it have any abilities after evolving?"
Johnson heard Mista say this and sighed, shaking his head.
"Hey! Reversed Hierophant, do you have any abilities?" Mista asked it seriously, just as he usually spoke to his Sex Pistols.
Of course, it didn't answer at all.
"That's enough. It's still different from Koichi Hirose's Stand."
Mista looked at him in surprise. "When did you start using 'That's enough' as a catchphrase?"
"Saying that catchphrase makes me feel like my Stand will get stronger."
Mista looked incredulous, then said, "Really?"
Johnson didn't answer him, but instead said, "Mista, shoot it twice."
Mista always trusted Johnson's words, so he raised his pistol and aimed at the Reversed Hierophant.
Controlling a Stand only requires giving it commands. Johnson gave the Reversed Hierophant a vague command: "Protect yourself without letting Mista get hurt."
Mista took a deep breath and fired a shot at the Reversed Hierophant.
"Bang!"
The bullet had just left the barrel and was rushing towards the Reversed Hierophant when, at a certain distance from it... it stopped... The bullet just hung in the air, motionless.
Time stop?? No, if so, how can Mista and I move?!
Johnson Joffrey and Mista looked in astonishment at the bullet suspended in mid-air... "What kind of ability is this?!"
Hearing Mista's words, Johnson Joffrey was not confused. Because the moment his Reversed Hierophant acted, he understood everything.
"Within a certain range, it can make the energy of an object that is about to or has already done work on itself disordered."
Mista: "???"
"My Reversed Hierophant essentially manipulates energy in a physical sense, Mista, do you know what energy is?"
"??"
"My physics and math are terrible," Johnson Joffrey said. "Why did it give me such a mathematical Stand?"
"I believe energy is a measure of a physical system's ability to do work, and also a measure of the transformation of matter's motion."
"Among all material properties, motion is the most fundamental. Other properties are manifestations of motion, and energy is the measure of the transformation of an object's motion."
"Please explain it clearly! Otherwise, don't say anything at all," Mista said, on the verge of tears.
"Indeed, speaking broadly makes it strange. Simply put, energy is the ability of one object to do work on other objects, and the Reversed Hierophant can eliminate this ability."
"Take that bullet, for example; it eliminated the bullet's ability to do work on itself."
As if to verify Johnson's words, the Reversed Hierophant extended its hand and flicked the bullet down. This action imparted new kinetic energy to the bullet. If this were the case, even gravity could no longer do work on the bullet, meaning it endowed the bullet with the concept of infinity.
"That looks really strong!" Mista said excitedly.
Johnson Joffrey frowned, looking at the distance between the Reversed Hierophant and the bullet. It was about half a meter, only within half a meter. Within half a meter, it could erase the energy from an object.
It's not easy to deal with only one object at a time, and it's still damned close-quarters combat.
If I can touch objects, why don't I just use Muda or strings?
Also, it's not what I thought before; if I make the energy within an object disordered, it will only increase entropy, not decrease it.
Entropy is inherently a measure of the disorder of energy, so this would contradict maxwell's demon.
No, no, no, the true essence of maxwell's demon is not to order energy; its essence is the ability to track the speed of any single molecule's movement.
If one can track the speed of any single molecule's movement, then one can also know the past, open the path to future causality, and achieve true omniscience and omnipotence.
How is that possible? Even an arrow probably can't do that.
Erasing the energy from a single object would make it static. How can I apply such an abstract ability in actual combat?
I also need to see if its power, speed, and range have changed. Erasing an object's energy could be applied to King Crimson. Is this a reaction of my will, allowing me to naturally counter King Crimson?
My ability is a reflection of my inner self, and this reflection extends to my ability against King Crimson.
I really want to defeat King Crimson.
My Stand is very similar to Koichi Hirose's Stand; his grants gravity to an object within a certain range.
Johnson mentally rehearsed it. This skill is actively activated. If King Crimson uses Time Skip to attack me, as long as I can detect that he has deleted time, I can directly erase his kinetic energy!
Then he won't be able to attack me?
However, I still can't deal with his 'first blood blind spot'. The key is to know when he activates Time Deletion and then counterattack as quickly as possible.
And if he uses Epitaph to see the future, that would be very troublesome. If he sees his future self having his kinetic energy erased by Reversed Hierophant through Epitaph, then he won't attack me.
Wait, a person doesn't just have kinetic energy, but only kinetic energy does work on me. What about Fugo's poison gas? Is that chemical energy?
Johnson knew that although going to the hospital was urgent, understanding his Stand Ability was also very important.
"Get out of the car!"
Reversed Hierophant opened the car door and stepped out. His physique had become more robust than before, and his color scheme had darkened.
After walking about two meters, Reversed Hierophant stopped.
Reversed Hierophant's current range reaching two meters is within the normal range. Compared to gaining the ability to eliminate energy, it's even stronger, making instantaneous movement via strings possible.
Johnson Joffrey felt the new ability expanding in his hands, then smiled, looking ahead, the Cagliari map he'd only seen once flashing through his mind.
"To the hospital now."
Johnson Joffrey floored the accelerator, the car roared, spewing out a beautiful exhaust, and disappeared down the road.