In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.
After Kai Ishida and the others delivered the good news to Jotaro, they decided to take a trip to Sardinia, Italy, with the full support of the SPW Foundation.
Sunlight!
Beaches!
Sunscreen!
Just thinking about it made Kai Ishida incredibly excited.
After months of hard work, he could finally get some rest!
On the beach in Sardinia.
Kai Ishida set up a parasol, then comfortably reclined on a beach chair, holding a chilled fruit juice—what a pleasant scene.
Not far away, Jolyne Cujoh and Anasui were building sandcastles.
During this time, with Kai Ishida's help and Jotaro's tacit approval, their relationship had rapidly warmed up.
Their current status was beyond friends, but not yet The Lover.
Weather, seeing this scene, also offered his most sincere blessings.
Ermes, F.F., and Emporio, having no particular fondness for the beach, were currently gorging themselves in a restaurant beside the beach.
The scene was exceptionally harmonious.
Seeing this, Kai Ishida smiled contentedly.
Just then, under another parasol not far from Kai Ishida, a pair of blonde, blue-eyed sisters with hot figures also invited Kai Ishida over.
They held a tube of sunscreen in their hands, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Kai Ishida gladly accepted the invitation.
Meanwhile, inside a guesthouse by the beach, it was a different scene.
Though the sun was shining brightly,
the curtains in the room were tightly drawn, completely blocking out the midday sun.
Inside the room, Versus's eyes were cold.
His centaur-shaped Stand appeared behind him.
This was his Stand that evolved during the New Moon, but because he had absorbed Father Pucci's blood and indirectly merged with the Green Baby,
the Made in Heaven he possessed was incomplete.
While he could still accelerate time, he could only accelerate time within a three-kilometer radius of himself; beyond this range, his ability would not work.
It was precisely because of this that his Made in Heaven could not fully accelerate the time of the entire universe to reach a new world.
But it was undeniable that his Stand was still a very powerful Stand.
It was more than enough for "revenge"!
"Laugh! Laugh! When the sun disappears, I will drain every drop of blood from each of you!"
"Who should I choose first? It's truly a dilemma! Yehahahahahahaha!"
On the beach, Kai Ishida and his group had not yet realized that danger had already arrived.
Kai Ishida was currently having a great time with four bunnies.
But things did not go as planned; heavy rain suddenly poured down from the sky.
The hot sisters screamed and ran towards the guesthouse.
Leaving Kai Ishida petrified in place.
Seeing this, Kai Ishida couldn't help but gaze resentfully at the sky.
"What a buzzkill!"
After giving the heavens an international gesture, Kai Ishida cast an eager look in Weather's direction.
He hoped this true god among men could fulfill his humble wish.
Weather, in response, shook his head helplessly.
Then,
his Stand, Weather Forecast, appeared behind him.
At the same time, with the appearance of Weather's Stand, the heavy rain in the sky stopped instantly, though the thick cloud cover still remained.
Seeing this, just as Kai Ishida was about to ask Weather to disperse the dark clouds as well,
something unexpected happened!
A dark shadow flashed by, and a large hole was instantly opened in Weather's chest!
Blood flowed endlessly!
"Weather!" Kai Ishida shouted.
"Star Platinum!"
With a loud cry, Star Platinum instantly appeared behind him.
Time stopped!
Kai Ishida took advantage of the stopped time to quickly run to his backpack on the beach, where he kept his belongings, and rummaged out a ladybug-shaped brooch.
Then he ran swiftly towards Weather.
At the moment time stop ended, Kai Ishida placed the brooch on Weather's chest, which now had only a large hole.
The brooch also changed upon contact with the wound.
A large amount of life energy surged into Weather's body.
At the same time, the brooch automatically transformed into body tissue, filling the wound on Weather's body.
"Cough—"
Weather spat out a mouthful of blood, but his breathing stabilized.
Seeing this, Kai Ishida also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Good thing I brought this with me, otherwise it would have been really bad!" Kai Ishida said with a relieved expression.
But even though Weather's body had been refilled, his injuries were still very serious.
He would be unable to use his Stand ability to fight for a while.
And the enemy was still lurking in the shadows.
The situation was very passive!
"Damn it, could it be that Father Pucci turned into a zombie?" Kai Ishida was furious, but more than that, he was confused.
He had witnessed Father Pucci's death with his own eyes.
Moreover, Father Pucci's White Snake was still in his hands; even if Father Pucci had turned into a zombie and risen again, he wouldn't have a Stand that could evolve into Made in Heaven.
Or was the enemy just a Stand User with extremely fast speed?
For a moment, Kai Ishida was a bit flustered.
Meanwhile, the others on the beach also noticed Kai Ishida and his group.
Anasui and Jolyne Cujoh were running quickly towards their location.
"What happened?!" Jolyne asked frantically.
Anasui also summoned Diver Down, constantly vigilant of his surroundings.
At this point, Kai Ishida slowly said, "The enemy should be a Stand User, with a speed at least exceeding the Flying Rod we encountered before; it's very difficult to observe with the naked eye."
"What?!" Jolyne exclaimed in shock.
Stone Free was instantly summoned, and Jolyne released a large amount of threads, weaving them into a twenty-meter radius thread barrier.
Within the range of this barrier, no disturbance could escape Jolyne's perception.
However, Versus, lurking in the shadows, had already anticipated this.
He was currently standing on a coconut tree that had been pressed out of shape.
His body was taut.
He was preparing to use the coconut tree, combined with his time acceleration ability, to instantly catapult himself to Kai Ishida and their location.
And the air was precisely the loophole in Jolyne's thread barrier!
However, just as he was about to catapult himself out,
Kai Ishida once again activated his time stop ability.
"Za Warudo!"
"Time, stop!"
In an instant, the world fell silent again, and Kai Ishida took this opportunity to look around with a telescope.
And just one second before time stop ended,
he finally discovered Versus standing on the coconut tree.
"How is this possible... Shouldn't this guy's arms be completely broken?"
"What's with the Stand behind him?!"