"All right, let's go."
Without further delay, Giorno and Trish boarded the plane.
As the plane took off, Kai Ishida finally turned to look back.
Although ten years had passed since Giorno's original timeline, his general appearance hadn't changed much.
He had only become more mature than before.
"Is it the butterfly effect, or has Father Pucci's ´´Gravity´´ become so powerful?" Kai Ishida frowned as he watched the helicopter, which had flown far away and become a small black dot.
At the same time, he summoned Star Platinum and took off the ladybug brooch pinned to his back.
"Is this Gold Experience's ability? Just holding it in my hand, I can feel the life force contained within..."
After a moment of silence, Kai Ishida still put away the brooch.
At least from the current situation, the other party hadn't shown any ill will.
Moreover, what they were about to face next was Father Pucci, who was on the verge of completing his metamorphosis, and the danger was incomparable.
One careless mistake could lead to serious injury, and with this ladybug brooch, it was an extra layer of protection.
With that thought, Kai Ishida no longer considered why Giorno appeared here.
The most urgent task was to take down Father Pucci first.
"Weather, can you sense Father Pucci's location?" Kai Ishida asked Weather.
Hearing this, Weather was silent for a moment, then nodded, pointing in a direction, "He's in that direction."
"That's...?" Kai Ishida followed the direction he pointed and then looked at the road sign nearby.
He quickly came to a conclusion.
"The hospital!"
"Let's go quickly! If Weather can sense Father Pucci's location, then Father Pucci can definitely sense Weather's presence. We need to find him and defeat him before he reacts!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Kai Ishida flagged down a taxi.
At the same time,
Inside a hospital in downtown Orlando.
In an ordinary hospital room.
Father Pucci was sitting at a dining table, with a freshly delivered meal in front of him.
He also sensed that Weather and Jolyne were approaching, but he showed no sign of panic, instead falling into thought as he looked at the meal in front of him.
It was an exquisite molecular cuisine, but Father Pucci was allergic to shellfish.
Although the ingredient list didn't mention shellfish, his intuition told him that things weren't that simple.
With that thought, Father Pucci suddenly spoke, "Excuse me, Versus, I'd like to hear your thoughts on this dish. Just one bite is enough. I'd like... to ask you to taste it."
Hearing this, Versus, who had been sitting in the corner of the room, also looked up.
This man's name was Versus, the second son among DIO's four children, drawn by ´´Gravity´´, and also awakened his Stand ability due to Father Pucci.
But unlike Ungalo and Rikiel, he still didn't know what his ability was.
Hearing Father Pucci's words, he nodded and then tried to Stand up from his wheelchair.
At this moment, Father Pucci stopped him, saying, "You don't need to get up. I'll move the table over to you."
"Although you can walk now, it wouldn't be good if the gunshot wound on your leg reopened."
As he finished speaking, Father Pucci moved along with the table to Versus's front.
He then used a fork to dig out a piece of the pudding dish and fed it to Versus's mouth.
"I'd like to ask you to taste it... I want to hear what ingredients are in it. If there's shellfish, that won't do. I'm allergic to shellfish and can't eat it."
Seeing this, Versus hesitated for a moment, but finally opened his mouth.
He savored the dish carefully.
"..."
After a moment of silence, Versus spoke again, "This is white fish, the type of fish is flounder."
"This is a dish where it's sliced with asparagus, then ground crab meat is added, and it's steamed into a pudding shape."
"There are no shellfish in it."
Hearing this, Father Pucci also smiled.
However, just then, Versus spoke again, "But please wait, can I have another bite with the sauce?"
"I smell a faint aroma in the sauce, and I suspect it's a sauce made from crushed scallops, accompanied by fresh cream."
"You may."
After getting Father Pucci's permission, Versus picked up the spoon on the table, scooped a bite of the dish, and put it into his mouth.
After a brief taste, he said with a look of regret, "Unfortunately, as you suspected, there are indeed shellfish in the sauce."
But Father Pucci's gaze was now attracted by Versus's shoes.
"Your shoes are 27 cm?"
"I apologize, though it might be rude, please Stand up for a moment."
Hearing this, although still somewhat confused, Versus still stood up.
The two stood side by side, and their heights were exactly the same.
"Your height is 181 centimeters, and your weight is exactly 72 kilograms?"
"Your clothing size is 52?"
"The watch strap is fastened on the second hole?"
Hearing Father Pucci's questions, Versus became even more confused, but still nodded, "...Yes."
Father Pucci, who received an affirmative answer, smiled again, "That's really interesting."
"Although I can't eat this dish, the fact that you can taste shellfish components in the sauce means you have a very similar sense of taste to mine."
Immediately after, Father Pucci also measured his own blood pressure using an instrument in the room.
The result showed that it was exactly the same as Versus's numbers.
"This is truly fascinating..."
But Versus, seeing this, couldn't help but say, "These aren't important things, are they?"
"Compared to these trivial matters, I've been able to feel someone approaching since just now, but I still don't know what my ´´ability´´ is."
To this, Father Pucci merely said indifferently, "There's nothing to be done about such things."
"For this kind of power that ´´can only be allowed to take its natural course´´, one cannot forcefully resist it..."
"Because what is called ´´going to Heaven´´ is precisely to have such a mindset."
"By the way, I ordered this dish specifically because it didn't have shellfish. If you don't mind, you can eat it for me."
Seeing Father Pucci's attitude, Versus also calmed down and looked at the dish on the table.
But at this moment, he noticed that a finger had appeared out of nowhere in the originally exquisite dish.
"Father..."
And just as Versus was about to turn to call Father Pucci, an eight-year-old boy emerged from inside.
There was also a slowly bleeding gunshot wound on his neck.
"Bang--"
The sound of a gunshot echoed in the room.
At this time, Kai Ishida and the others had also arrived at this hospital.
"Gunshots!"
"Father Pucci and his group are very likely in there!"
Kai Ishida said.
He then rushed directly towards the room where the gunshots came from.
He pulled open the door to the hospital room.
"This is...?!"