stand-in creed

Jotaro suddenly said,

"Is Mr. Brown back?"

"He's back! Mr. Brown just came back not long ago. I heard that some of you are coming. He is waiting for you in the "study on the second floor"..."

Normally, there is nothing wrong with such a conversation.

But Jotaro keenly noticed something was wrong, because the relationship between Smokey and Joseph was so good.So good that whether it was Joseph visiting Smokey or Smokey visiting Joseph, not to mention just the security guard standing at the door to welcome each other, it was always Smokey or Joseph who went out to greet each other in person.

Even on crutches or even in a wheelchair.

The relationship between Smokey and Joseph is so good.

But today, Smokey just sat in the study to greet him?

"..."

Jotaro felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it for a while, Platinum Star took out the phone from the inside of his coat and dialed.On the other end of the phone was Smokey Brown, but what came from the phone were endless beeps.

Seeing this scene, the security guard in front of the door showed a trace of panic on his face.

Jotaro keenly caught the panic.Even if there is no evidence, but combined with the sudden change of the situation tonight, Jotaro immediately felt something was wrong, and immediately shouted.

"Polnareff.

"Take the old man and grandma first, Mr. Brown seems to have had an accident."

"...?!"

Polnareff was taken aback.

But the next moment, Polnareff jumped from the co-pilot into the main driver, and drove away skillfully.

"Be careful, Jotaro!"

"it is good!"

The car leaves quickly.

And Jotaro's Platinum Star suddenly appeared at this moment, directly strangling the security guard's neck: "What the hell is going on!"

"I, I, I, I..."

The security guard opened his mouth.

However, the next moment, the security guard's face gradually showed a dazed and confused expression.

"I... I don't remember!

"I just remember being here to greet guests... Wait, who ordered me to come? Other things, other things... Eh? Why? Why can't I remember them all?"

The guard's eyes became more and more blank.

Jotaro didn't know what the security guard was doing, and if he intended to fool him, such words would be too outrageous.Immediately, Jotaro simply controlled Platinum Star and threw the security guard into the pond. With the sound of splashing into the water, the white coat danced under the night and strode into Brown's house.

The empty hallway.

Empty living room.

The empty kitchen.

The empty bathroom.

In Jotaro's eyes, there was no one in Brown's house, only the strange movement in the kitchen attracted his attention.

"squeak--"

That is a kettle.

The kettle that has been boiling has been left unattended, and it creaks on the stove. The billowing steam is ejected from the spout and echoes in the kitchen with closed windows, and then floats into the living room along the kitchen door, lingering in the room. above.

"- Euler!"

Platinum Star casually unscrewed a button from Jotaro's coat and flicked it towards the stove, turning the turntable of the stove to turn off the fire with precision.

And Jotaro himself walked cautiously towards the second floor.

Before the stairs, Jotaro took a deep breath.

"It's a trap.

"Mr. Smokey is just an ordinary person without the ability to stand in. There is no need to go to war against him. Then the reason why the enemy chooses to attack Mr. Smokey must be because the enemy has calculated that I will come to Mr. Smokey to seek information tonight." !

"The enemy's target is me.

"Who is the enemy? Katz? No. That guy Katz turned a blind eye to Nero, the descendant of Cesar Zeppelin, so he has no reason to go to war with Mr. Smokey..."

Jotaro's brows were furrowed more and more, carefully observing the surrounding buildings and structures, confirming the possible angles of every enemy's attack.

Yet no attack came.

Nothing happened on the huge first floor except for the weird unturned boiling water on the stove in the kitchen.Even when Jotaro carefully stepped up the stairs to the second floor and came to Smokey's study, nothing changed.

Only the wide open door of the study room sent the scene in the study room to Jotaro's ears.

"Mr. Smokey?!"

"Well!"

Standing at the door of the study, Jotaro saw Smokey who was tied up on the chair behind the desk by Wuhuada, and the sobbing sound came from the gagged Smokey's mouth.

Smokey couldn't move.

But after seeing Jotaro, he kept warning Jotaro with his eyes and shook his head hard.

"Are you trying to tell me that there is an enemy ambush in the study, and tell me not to come in?"

"Well!"

Smokey stopped shaking his head and started nodding.

However, after hearing Smoky's words, Jotaro took a step forward more firmly.

"That means the enemy is waiting for me in the study, right—

"—Platinum Star·World!!!"

Time stops here.

The blue smoke from the burning cigar on the desk ashtray stagnated in mid-air.

And in this still time, Jotaro rushed into the study in stride.

Check behind the door.

Check the ceiling.

Check the gaps in the bookshelves.

Check under Smokey's desk.

Even when there was still time to spare, Jotaro rushed to the window to quickly check whether the enemy was under the window sill or lurking by the upstairs window.However, it was while inspecting the windows that Jotaro noticed a strange presence.

"Is that... a model satellite?"

Platinum Star's microscope-like eyes captured a faint figure floating about "[-] meters away" under the night.

But in the next moment Jotaro understood.

"No, it's not a model satellite at all, but—

"—The enemy's double!

"That's what Mr. Smokey wanted to imply to me. The enemy will launch an attack after I step into this study! The enemy's double is not in this study, but is a hundred meters away. This matter is a little out of my expectation It was expected, but now that the enemy's double is known, the enemy's sneak attack plan has mostly failed.

"The question now is, what kind of "ability" will the enemy use to attack me? "

At this point, five seconds are over.

The gears of time resumed their flow.

Under Smoky's astonished eyes, Jotaro, who was outside the study just now, appeared behind him.And at the moment Jotaro appeared, a muffled muffled gunshot sounded hundreds of meters away, and a bullet pierced the night sky and pointed at the double under the night sky.

Star Platinum stared at this scene, and synchronized the image to Jotaro.

"That's... a bullet?

"No, it's not an ordinary bullet, but a high-velocity armor-piercing ammunition with a caliber of 14.5×114mm from the former Soviet Union! The ammunition used by the anti-materiel sniper rifle... what?!"

The bullet hit the double in mid-air with precision.

Immediately afterwards, just like Hall Hess' "Emperor" controlled the bullet to turn, like Gado Mista's "Sexy Pistol" played football with bullets, the 14.5mm caliber bullet that hit the satellite changed its trajectory in the air, precisely Unmistakably roared towards Jotaro at the window.

John Gerry A, who is hundreds of meters away from the neighbor's window, is holding an NTW-20 steadily, feeling everything around him through his stand-in.

"My life can only begin when I deal a fatal blow to your lineage! For the sake of Dio-sama, for the pillar of my heart, I must end it! Kujo Jotaro, let's start revenge from you, use my stand-in-

"—Manhattan Transit Station."

Chapter 20 White Snake Part Five

It was a bullet that hit Jotaro.

The famous stand-in messenger Nero Zebelin once said that if you are a fighting stand-in messenger, if you can feel threatened from a "toy" like a bullet, then it is recommended not to fight and kill all day long. Wash your hands as soon as possible and find a serious job to live a solid life, so as not to die one day.

Although Gedo Mista and Hol Hess disagreed with this statement.

But not important.

The important thing is that Jotaro happens to belong to the category of people who agree with this sentence very much—even if the bullet in front of him is a 14.5×114mm anti-material sniper rifle bullet with an initial velocity exceeding twice the speed of sound.

"The enemy's ability is to use a substitute to change the trajectory of the bullet, just like Nero found a substitute for his subordinate "Guedo Mista" in Italy.

"The difference is that the Italian gangster's ability can only be effective for a short tens of meters, but he can change the trajectory of the same bullet multiple times. The substitute envoy in front of him has only one chance to correct the trajectory, but the range is terrible.

"If an unsuspecting attack came at me from the blind spot of vision, it would be somewhat difficult. But since the enemy's double was discovered at the beginning, if this kind of attack can't be prevented, it will be ruthless by Nero. Let's laugh hard--

"—Platinum Star!"

Jotaro had just paused for a time, and it was time for him to take a breath.

But that doesn't matter.

This "mere" attack at twice the speed of sound is not even necessary for the Platinum Star to pause time.

"Olahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Ding!

Accompanied by a crisp sound, Platinum Star knocked the bullet away with a punch.

At this moment, Smokey, who was sitting on the seat, came back to his senses belatedly, and looked at Jotaro who had appeared behind him in astonishment.

"Well……"

"I'm sorry, Grandpa Smokey. Although you said not to go into the study, wouldn't it be impossible to save you if you don't come in?" Platinum Star continued to stare out the window, while Jotaro said without any apology It can be said that, on the contrary, there were some proud words that tore the seal on Smoky's mouth.

However, Smoky yelled loudly the moment Jotaro tore the seal.

"There is more than one enemy, Jotaro!"

"Um?!"

"In addition to the security guards I have been bribed for a long time, there is also a person who planned tonight's operation! That's what my security calls him-Puqi! I don't know which room this Pucci is in, but there is one thing I'm pretty sure that's the Pucci in my villa.

"Also about the ability of this man named Puqi... I am not a substitute messenger, I can't see what his substitute "White Snake" did, but from the behavior when my family was attacked, and what he said to me Part of his ability can be judged——

"The ability to dominate the minds of others!"

"……what?!"

The voice fell.

The second bullet fired from the Manhattan Transfer Station in the sky was still shot down cleanly by the Platinum Star.

Jotaro thought for a while:

"Family? Speaking of which, the first floor was empty when I entered the house... Could it be that they are not not at home, but they are at home but have been attacked by the enemy, Grandpa Smokey? Do you know where your family is hidden?" Was it, Grandpa Smokey? Was it moved, or was it just hidden somewhere in the house, like the basement or..."

"Leave us alone, Jotaro!"

Pain and entanglement flashed in Smokey's eyes, and then his eyes widened, shining with the brilliance of consciousness.

Smoky said sternly: "Even if I'm not a stand-in messenger, the story JOJO told me when he didn't suffer from Alzheimer's, let me know a little about the world of stand-in messengers! Puqi Since this guy is so scheming about you, it means he doesn't have the confidence to fight you head-on, but even so——

"They are not two, but "three"! "