"Well, what do we do now? The helicopter hasn't exploded yet, but it definitely can't take off again."
Emporio pointed at the helicopter, which was deeply embedded in the swamp, his face filled with sadness.
This crash left a heavy mark on his flying career.
It would be a stain on his life.
"Relax, compared to a certain man who crashed four times in his life, this is nothing for us," Kai Ishida said nonchalantly, pouring mud out of his shoes.
"Four, four times?!" Emporio froze on the spot.
The expressions of the others were much the same.
It wasn't their fault; after all, the probability of a plane accident is about one in three million.
Yet, the old man experienced it four times in his life.
This wasn't a 1+1+1+1=4 probability.
Coincidentally, despite experiencing four crashes, the old man wasn't harmed in the slightest.
Honestly, if the old man had used that luck to buy lottery tickets, he probably could have covered the travel expenses to Egypt to fight DIO.
"Alright, we should keep moving. There isn't much time left until New Moon. Jolyne, can you still sense Father Pucci's presence?"
"Mhm." Jolyne nodded, "He's in the city ahead, and also…"
Her voice trailed off, and Jolyne's expression was somewhat puzzled.
"I can feel that Weather seems to have escaped from prison too."
"Weather? Weather Forecast?!"
Kai Ishida fell silent.
That's right, although Weather's memories were taken by Father Pucci, in his heart, he still considered Father Pucci an enemy.
Now that Father Pucci had left the prison, Weather naturally had no reason to stay there either.
"…" After a moment of silence, Kai Ishida spoke again, asking, "Can you determine his current location?"
"There…"
Jolyne pointed in a direction… "So, that's how it is."
Somewhere on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas.
Inside an SPW Foundation facility.
Jotaro's memory disc had been entrusted to the Foundation's doctor, and Kai Ishida, led by a staff member, had changed into clean clothes.
Afterward, he sat in a chair, recounting to Anasui and Weather everything that had happened from Jolyne's prison break to his reunion with them.
Five minutes later.
A doctor walked out of the intensive care unit, bypassed Weather and Anasui, and went straight to Kai Ishida, saying indifferently, "Dr. Jotaro wants to see you."
"Me?" Kai Ishida nodded silently, then followed the doctor into the ward.
The ward was sparsely furnished; apart from some sophisticated equipment, there was only one hospital bed.
Kujo Jotaro was leaning on the bed, holding a photo of Jolyne Cujoh.
"Click—"
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Jotaro instinctively looked up.
Seeing a complete stranger he didn't recognize, he paused for a moment, then reacted.
He pointed a finger expressionlessly, then continued to look at the photo in his hand.
Seeing this, Kai Ishida also sat on a chair beside Jotaro's bed.
Sitting on pins and needles!
This was Kai Ishida's innermost thought, and also how he felt at that moment.
Although the man in front of him had lost his Stand, and although he had been unconscious in the hospital bed for many days, without any vital signs during that period.
Yet, he still brought immense pressure to Kai Ishida.
It was as if just sitting in front of him made breathing difficult.
After a long while, Jotaro put the photo aside, then looked at Kai Ishida and finally spoke:
"Can you tell me about Jolyne?"
"Eh? Good… good." Kai Ishida hadn't even reacted; for a moment, he didn't know where to begin.
Like Anasui, he had been thinking on the way about what his first words to Jotaro should be.
However, what surprised him even more was that the first thing this invincible man said to him was about his daughter.
"Hmm, what's wrong?" Jotaro asked indifferently.
"No, I just don't know where to start, after all, Jolyne and I only started interacting recently," Kai Ishida waved his hands repeatedly.
"Is that so? It doesn't matter. You must have seen my memories. The time I spent with Jolyne might not be much longer than yours."
Jotaro picked up the photo from the table again, his eyes filled with tenderness as he looked at it.
"Just tell me about her recent situation. Stand Users are attracted to each other. Many things must have happened while I was in a coma."
"Is that so? Alright…"
"Such and such, this and that…"
Within a short twenty minutes, Kai Ishida clearly recounted everything he knew about Jolyne to Jotaro.
Jotaro's brows would sometimes furrow, sometimes relax.
Finally, after Kai Ishida finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.
"So many things have happened…"
The room fell silent once again.
Another five minutes passed.
Jotaro looked at Kai Ishida again, then said indifferently, "You can leave."
"Eh?!"
"Did I not make myself clear? There shouldn't be much time left until the next New Moon."
"Eh?!!!"
Kai Ishida's emotions became even more agitated.
"I understand!"
After returning the chair to its original position and bidding farewell to Jotaro, Kai Ishida left the ward.
After he left, Jotaro also lay down again.
His aura had weakened considerably.
His current body could no longer support him in prolonged combat.
"However, from Matthew's (the SPW employee responsible for driving to pick up Kai Ishida and others) description, he must be using Star Platinum very well. White Snake, I'll leave it to you all to defeat him."
Outside the room.
Anasui was pacing back and forth in front of the door, his face filled with impatience, but he dared not push the door open easily.
Fearing he would leave a bad impression on Kujo Jotaro.
"Ahhh, I wonder if Kai Ishida said good things about me to Mr. Jotaro. It's already been half an hour!" Anasui ruffled his pink long hair, sweat already soaking his forehead.
He wasn't even this nervous when facing Star Platinum's iron fist!
Even Weather, who was beside him, showed a hint of impatience on his face.
He no longer had the mind to read the manga in his hand.
"So, why don't you use your Stand ability to eavesdrop? Just one ear shouldn't be noticed," Weather said casually.
"Oh, right!" Anasui slapped his palm with one hand. Weather hadn't mentioned it, and he was too nervous to remember.
Diver Down possessed the ability to dive into other objects!
No sooner said than done!
Anasui walked to the door, and the figure of Diver Down appeared behind him.
But just then, the ward door was pulled open.
Kai Ishida walked out, expressionless.
Looking at the Stand behind Anasui, he said somewhat unexpectedly:
"You already know?"