stand-in creed

"It's just troublesome."

"Heh." The old man smiled, "So, what about the order?"

"The execution of the Bugarati team—including the newcomer "Giorno Giovanna" I heard for the first time, all members were executed. "

"I see, boss."

beep.

The phone hangs up.

Diablo put down his phone.

"No matter how you say it, until the Bugarati team is dealt with, the poison 〇 team can't be dispatched as a combat force... huh?"

"Drip drip drip drip—"

Diablo received a new email in his mailbox, and the moment he saw the content of this email, Diablo's pupils shrank suddenly.

——Nero Zeppelin was last seen moving northwest, and has lost his target so far.

"Northwest?

"Giocolat and Serco met Nero in Reggio Calabria! If we go northwest from there...

"Sardinia? Where am I?"

Diablo froze.

However, the next moment, Diablo had a thoughtful expression on his face.

"I see. It seems that my daughter Trish remembered the existence of that photo. The place where Nero Zeppelin and the others are going now must be the place where I met Donatella Una back then. The "Emerald Coast"!

"The jackals are running to my door!

"The poison 〇 team can't get out, and there are many other stand-in envoys, but only some useless gangsters are left, and Nero Zebelin is taking "Melancholy Blues" to the place where I can reveal my true face!My true colors must never be revealed, whether by enemies or by passionate others.In that case, there is only one person who should attack——

"—It's me, Diablo.

"No one can question my authority, my power is infinite!"

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Poison 〇 team comes from the official fan "Shameless Purple Smoke". Considering that readers who have read the original work should be out of ten, I will explain it as a background board, and I won't write it in detail. Lati and Giorno's boss.

Chapter 8.9 The Secret Emperor Part Three

Sardinia, Olbia.

In the luxurious hotel suite, Diablo overlooked the night scene of a corner of his empire through the floor-to-ceiling windows, lost in thought.

"More than ten years ago, when Nero Zeppelin saw me for the first time, he saw "Tobio".

"And between the death of the man named Dio and his graduation from university, he traveled to every corner of Italy looking for Tobio's whereabouts, until he was fired by the law firm and he embarked on a journey around the world. The journey gave me respite and single-handedly built my empire during the years he had been away from Italy.

"That is to say, although I will appear in front of people as "Tobio" most of the time, but only when facing this Zeppelin, I have to do it the other way around!Even though Tobio's face may have been vague in his mind, when he saw Tobio's face, he would definitely think of it.It takes ten seconds to switch personalities, and Tobio may not hold on for ten seconds before being removed by him. At that time, even I will be powerless.

"The person who will walk under the night tonight is not Tobio, but I, Diablo."

Thinking like this, Diablo came to the cloakroom and began to choose his outfit for tonight.

A pink sweater was worn over a black lace top that looked like sexy lingerie.

The lower body is a rough designer belt, black ripped jeans, and a pair of black Martin boots.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Diablo hesitated for a moment, but still took a slightly loose black coat with a hood and put it on his body.It is slightly similar to Risut's, but the decoration and pattern are slightly different.The wide hood was worn on the head, covering most of the face in shadow, making it hard to see clearly, only a strand of long pink hair protruding from the brim of the hat.

Finally, I put on a cross-body backpack, which contains a mobile phone wallet, hotel room card, and a stack of important photos in envelopes. These are all Diablo's outfits tonight.

"—The Crimson King."

Accompanied by Diablo's voice.

As if time had been erased, Diablo disappeared into the suite of the "Cala di Volpe" hotel.This hotel is the hotel where he and Trixie's mother, Doratena Una, met and fell in love at first sight on the Emerald Coast 16 years ago.

Diablo is not worried about being replayed by Apache's "Melancholy Blues" when he lives here, because if the other party successfully replays and confirms his real body, based on his love for Apache and another unknown Japanese girl With the understanding of his stand-in ability, Nero and his party are enough to complete all the investigation work on the Emerald Coast, and there is no need to come here at all.

When Diablo hummed the song of his favorite band "King of Crimson" and walked out of the hotel with steady steps, he couldn't help but look back at the hotel's signboard, and couldn't help but feel emotional.

"...16 years.

"It's been so long before I know it."

With a soft mutter, Diablo disappeared under the night, set foot on the streets of Olbia, and walked towards his destination without haste.

However, just a few minutes after he left the hotel, when he was walking quietly on the streets of this city with a total population of less than 5, he was suddenly stopped by a voice.

"Don't come...cough cough cough! Do you want to have a divination, sir?"

"……Um?"

Diablo deliberately kept a distance of several meters from the few passers-by on the street, so he could be sure that the owner of the voice was talking to him.

Gently turning her head, she saw a woman dressed as a gypsy sitting quietly in front of a booth in an alley with a cigar with green smoke floating in her mouth.

"Are you... talking to me?"

Just in case, Diablo couldn't help asking.

The fortune teller nodded slightly.

Diablo shook his head: "Let's find someone else, I don't like this kind of..."

However, the fortune teller suddenly interrupted Diablo: "Are you looking for someone? Looking for your worst enemy."

"Um?!"

Diablo was taken aback.

At the same time, the Crimson King had already appeared by his side, raised his fist and slammed towards the fortune teller fiercely, but just rightly stayed a few centimeters in front of the fortune teller.And after completing this set of actions, the fortune teller still sat calmly in his position, his expression didn't change much, and he was still smoking a cigar leisurely.

'This fortune teller is not a stand-in messenger. '

Diablo made such a judgment.

Immediately afterwards, Diablo heard the fortune-teller cough again, and said softly, "So do you want to do a fortune-telling? It's free."

"……it is good."

Diablo wanted to see what kind of tricks this fortuneteller was playing.

Immediately, Diablo gently put his hands on the table, and slowly spoke to the fortune-teller in front of him.

"Past, present, Future."

Unlike Tobio's stunned young man, Diablo still understands these routines.

However, the fortune teller suddenly asked, "Whose?"

"...?!" Diablo's pupils shrank.

"Light and shadow, exterior and interior, dual personality... For people like us, we can understand many things just by looking at the "palmist" of your hands on the table at the moment. "

"...Huh?" Diablo slowly summoned the Crimson King that he had just taken back, grabbed the fortune teller in front of him by the neck and lifted it up, "It seems that you are not some fake money-swindler. .Since your divination is so powerful, do you know what the consequences will be when you say this?"

"You will want to kill me. You only need to move your thoughts slightly, and I will die in your hands, but——are you really not curious about your fate?" Obviously dying, The fortuneteller's face was still calm, which made Diablo feel a little uneasy.

After a moment of hesitation, the Crimson King let go of the fortune teller's neck.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The fortune teller coughed again.

This time he coughed badly, but he took out a handkerchief and covered his mouth.Diablo clearly saw the blood coughed up from the handkerchief.

Diablo didn't bother to ask, but just said indifferently: "What I want to see is the fate of "my". "

The fortune teller nodded, took out 22 cards of the Major Arcana, shuffled and cut the cards.After Diablo confirmed that the other party was not a stand-in messenger, although he thought it was enough to record all the card sequences at the moment the other party shuffled the cards, but that kind of practice was meaningless for divination, and he did not do it.

Diablo wanted to see what tricks the fortune teller was playing.

A moment later, the card group was turned into a fan shape by the fortune teller, and presented in front of Diablo.

"Please draw cards."

"it is good."

Diablo gently drew out three cards.

However, when the fortune teller turned over the Tarot representing the past, Diablo frowned slightly when he saw that card.

--emperor.

Chapter 90 The Secret Emperor Part Four

"Past Tarot, Emperor.

"It seems that there is no need to explain at all, my guest?"

the fortune teller asked softly.Seeing that Diablo nodded his head lightly, as a sign of approval, the fortune teller turned over the next tarot card.

Represents the current Tarot——

——Pope Reversed.

"The Pope is originally a Tarot that symbolizes "assistance", and the most direct explanation when this Tarot card is reversed is——

"Isolated.

"In addition to this, there are some other bad omens, such as wrong information. But this reversal does not completely represent bad things, there are other interesting things, such as no longer rigid Following the old ways, choosing to make some different choices than in the past... Am I right?"

All right!

Whether it was being isolated and helpless, or making a choice different from the old one—tonight’s self replaced Tobio and appeared in front of people—all matched!

At this moment, Diablo's heart was beating even faster.

Originally, he didn't care about the tricks of divination, but at this moment, his eyes were already wide open and he looked at the last cover card, which was the Tarot symbolizing "the future", and he was staring at the fortune-teller. Turn over this tarot card.

However, when Diablo saw this tarot card, he stood up suddenly, and the chair behind him slammed on the ground with a bang.

"how can that be?!"

Diablo's eyes widened, staring at this tarot card——

--grim Reaper.

"The tarot that represents "the end"?

"My di... how could I have such a future! I don't accept it, how could I accept such a future!!!"

Diablo was instantly irritable.

The fortune teller was silent for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but finally swallowed it back.

"Enough is enough, stop talking nonsense!"

"Is it really nonsense?" The fortune-teller asked back. "If you really think it is nonsense, why do you have such a big emotional change? Normally, you should laugh it off?"

"I said...enough!"

Whoa!

The table was overturned.

The Crimson King abruptly lifted the fortune teller's neck and pressed him against the wall of the alley.

"cough!"

The fortune-teller coughed fiercely, spat out a mouthful of blood, and rolled the cigar in his mouth to the ground.

However, Diablo didn't care about it, he just took out a photo from his pocket and showed it to the fortuneteller.The fortuneteller recognized the person in the photo as Nero Zeppelin, whom she had read for Nero 13 years ago in Rome.But seeing Nero's photo at this moment, the fortuneteller couldn't help muttering.

"So that's what happened."

Before Diablo asked questions, the fortune teller first expressed such emotion.

Diablo was taken aback: "What do you want to say?"

The fortune teller's gaze was still so calm: "Did I just say it? Light and shadow, exterior and interior, dual personality... Normally, as long as you exist in secret for a day, the death of others can bring you happiness. Honor is inexhaustible! But why would you be forced to the path of "death" by him?Take a closer look at his face——

"You are light and shadow, he is life and death.

"You are exterior and interior, he is yin and yang.