"Oh, Jotaro, Kakyoin, you're here so early."
The next morning, after Takatsuki and Polnareff finished washing up, they came to the hotel restaurant together. Two people were already sitting there.
"I thought we would be the earliest."
After getting some food from the self-service window, Polnareff and Takatsuki sat down opposite the two: "Speaking of which, where are we planning to investigate today?"
"The old man and Avdol are going to try to contact the local underworld figures; they know this city better than us."
Jotaro said while swallowing his food.
Soon after, Joseph and Avdol also came down, followed closely by Raiden Mei.
"Hmm? Mei, where's Kiana?"
Seeing Mei come down alone, Takatsuki asked somewhat strangely.
"Kiana is still sleeping in. I came down to get some food to take back to the room for her."
Raiden Mei took some bread and grilled meat from the window. Although eating grilled meat so early in the morning seemed a bit strange, grilled meat was almost everywhere in Egypt.
And Kiana was also someone who couldn't go without meat, and the fact that she didn't gain weight no matter how much she ate made Mei very envious.
"Mei, don't spoil Kiana too much. Look at the time."
Takatsuki shook his head: "You eat first before going up. Anyway, she's still sleeping."
"In that case, Kiana will probably cause a fuss later."
Mei chuckled twice: "Alright, I'll go up first. We'll come down when it's time to leave."
"Hahahaha."
Joseph also sat down at a nearby table: "You must be tired from all the rushing around these past few days. There's no need to be so anxious. It's probably impossible for us few outsiders to find it on our own. Today, Avdol will take us to find local gangs for help."
"Yes."
Avdol nodded beside him: "In Cairo, even the beggars here are organized. They have strange rules among themselves, not only dividing territories but also having very well-informed intelligence."
Takatsuki nodded. He remembered that although Dio's mansion wasn't found by beggars in the plot, that person still found their target, but was killed by the hawk Stand user guarding the gate.
"It's indeed a good idea, but it's important to note that Dio's mansion has a hawk Stand user guarding the gate, and ordinary people would definitely be killed by them."
Avdol nodded in agreement: "Although it might be a bit slower, we can just follow them when the time comes."
Causing innocent people to die because of their own affairs was not something they could do. Since they already knew there was danger, slowing down a bit was acceptable.
Just then, Mei suddenly rushed down.
"Oh no! Takatsuki! Kiana is missing!"
...
Time rewinds to ten minutes ago.
Mei had just reluctantly gone downstairs alone to get breakfast because Kiana was still sleeping in.
An unfamiliar set of footsteps approached the door of their room.
"Hmph, that damn Takatsuki, how dare he hypnotize me? I'll make you regret what you've done!"
He extended a finger, and a yellowish viscous liquid flowed along his finger into the keyhole.
Although it was a fluid, a Stand itself could not be understood by common sense. With a click, the hotel room door's lock was easily opened.
If it were a modern electronic lock, there would be no need to worry about such a thing, but in the era of JoJo, there were only these ordinary door locks.
Pushing open the door, Rubber Soul stepped into the room, not bothering to conceal his footsteps, and passed through the entryway into the hotel bedroom.
The first thing he saw were two neatly organized bags of luggage on the TV cabinet. Opposite the TV cabinet were two single beds. One bed was empty...
Indeed, there was no quilt or pillow on it, while the other bed was bulging. The pillow and quilt from the other bed were both on this one, and a disheveled white-haired girl was curled up in one quilt, tightly clutching another quilt and pillow.
Although no one was on the other side, even seeing the current situation, one could tell what happened last night.
If it were an ordinary teenage boy, seeing the beautiful girl asleep might stir his heart, but standing here was an assassin who had long lost his humanity.
"Hehehe, just die ignorantly in your sleep. If you have to blame someone, blame your companion."
A large amount of yellow viscous liquid suddenly surged from Rubber Soul's body. This was his Stand, Yellow Temperance.
Although it seemed like a mere minion because it was manipulated by Takatsuki, Yellow Temperance itself was a very powerful Stand. As a Stand, it had almost no weaknesses; its only weakness was its user.
The moment a large amount of Yellow Temperance surged towards Kiana, Kiana, who had been sound asleep, suddenly opened her eyes. Without even assessing the surroundings, she kicked off the quilt covering her, blocking the surging Yellow Temperance.
At the same time, her body sprang up from the bed, and she even conveniently took out the black and white dual pistols from under the pillow.
Yellow Temperance's attack was blocked by the quilt, but under its immense power, the quilt was quickly torn to shreds, and dozens of bullets flew towards it.
"It's useless, useless."
Yellow Temperance acted like a curtain, blocking in front of Rubber Soul, deflecting all the incoming bullets. The immense impact of the bullets had no effect on it. Yellow Temperance caught the bullets as easily as catching a high-tossed badminton shuttlecock.
"You clean your earwax with a straw and listen carefully! My Stand, Yellow Temperance! Has no weaknesses!"
Kiana fired several more shots without a word, but this time the bullets didn't fly in a straight line; instead, they formed an arc and shot towards Rubber Soul's body from both sides.
Kaslana Family's Gun Kata. Although Kiana was only half-trained, she could still perform operations like bullet bending, which relied on physical prowess.
But Yellow Temperance merely flowed slightly, blocking both bullets simultaneously.
"Are you deaf, bumpkin! My Stand is like an energy-absorbing armor! It's an attacking defensive wall! No matter how fast your bullets are, or how large their caliber, they are meaningless in front of my Yellow Temperance!"
"Do you understand!"
A large amount of Yellow Temperance suddenly erupted from Rubber Soul, surging like a broken dam.
The battle had only lasted a few seconds, and Kiana had already sobered up from her initial instinctive reaction.
Yellow Temperance?
Her sluggish brain briefly started working from its instinctive daze.
Takatsuki seemed to have mentioned something?
Something about defeating it with water?
Kiana couldn't remember the information Takatsuki had mentioned. After all, both Mei and Takatsuki were very reliable, and she only needed to follow their instructions.
So Kiana had never memorized this information. After acquiring an external brain, Kiana had given up on deep thinking.
But years of wandering instinct quickly led her to the correct choice.
Her Stand appeared, smashing through the room's window glass behind her, and Kiana jumped from the third-floor room.