JOJO, The Escape from Real Diavolo

Chapter 25 Satan vs. King Crimson

Theresa was speechless, stunned by the ever-changing battlefield.

"Hey, miss, there's something we can do to help you, sir. Stop daydreaming!"

"We can't get close to him! Look at those stone ruins over there! And that eerie sphere, do you dare go over there? Aren't you afraid of dying?"

Yefeng Yemen was speechless. Asking him to approach the boss at this moment was indeed asking too much of him.

"But, but Yedan..."

"We'll see! I'll try to get closer to him..."

……

Chen Miaowen hid under the stone bricks to observe the situation.

"What's going on? There's been no movement at all. If Wish Fulfillment is only for protecting that madman, then it shouldn't have any other abilities to appear outside the sphere, right?"

Having figured this out, Chen Miaowen decided to crawl out first and then think about a solution.

He stared at the sphere above his head, slowly stood up, thinking that nothing strange would happen again.

However, a rapidly spinning screw suddenly appeared in front of him and, in an instant, pierced his right eye.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!"

The intense pain made him cry out, mixed with a hollow sensation from the spinning sensation, making him realize that his right eye was completely blind.

"...King Crimson!"

Even though he was in excruciating pain, he still stopped time.

The screw stopped spinning, and he staggered backward, pulling out the bloody screw, which floated in mid-air.

This pain made him weak all over and he collapsed in the ruins.

"Ouch... Phew... What's wrong? It hurts so much, it hurts more than if I broke countless bones..."

He covered his eyes and gasped for breath.

He had never felt such pain before. Even when he went to the hospital to treat his damned paronychia in reality, he had never been in so much pain that he was rolling around in the ruins.

"Huff... I'm going to die... I think I'm about to die..."

He seemed about to lose consciousness, but he didn't.

The pain of dying is just an exaggeration; if you survive, the pain is nothing.

He covered his eyes, endured the pain, and crawled through the ruins, finding a more comfortable spot to catch his breath.

"Ouch...it hurts...how does the screw know where I am...?"

The wound wasn't fatal; after the intense pain subsided for a while, it actually cleared his mind.

"Besides, wasn't Yedan protected...? Inside that sphere, how could he accurately observe me?...Why? Why would it appear directly next to me? Is Satan beside me? Able to break free of the protective shield to lock onto me?...This, this doesn't make sense."

With a painful glance at the spot where the screw had been, the one-eyed man looked at it with disbelief and bloodshot eyes. Then, as if out of nowhere, the screw had vanished into thin air in the still world, just as it had appeared out of nowhere.

"...Where did it go!?"

This was the second time Chen Miaowen had been so surprised. He had only heard of a few people with both strength and speed A-levels who could move in a static world, but he had never heard of anyone who could traverse the space of a static world. This was another breakthrough in his understanding of the basics of the JOJO universe.

Theresa also witnessed this scene. She had just noticed her boss appear and was about to go over to help him when the screw, which suddenly appeared and then disappeared, deterred her.

"That's... a screw? Did it pierce the boss? He even yelled?... Grandpa, wasn't your grandson inside that ball? How could that screw, unable to escape from his vicinity, suddenly appear in front of the boss?"

Asking was pointless. The old man became even more anxious, both for Chen Miaowen and for his grandson. If the screw appeared next to Chen Miaowen, it might mean that his grandson was also in those ruins, even though he clearly saw Yedan being swallowed by that sphere.

As for the sphere in the sky, he wanted to understand and touch it, but he knew that would be presumptuous.

"Sigh, let's wait and see. If the boss doesn't come out, we can't risk our lives to help, and besides, it's not even certain... In short, if we go now, we'll only be causing trouble for the boss..."

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Chen Miaowen felt he had no other options.

He couldn't even stand up from the ruins. The screws were no joke; if they dared to stick their heads out, they would appear and spin, threatening to drill Chen Miaowen to death.

"I can show myself in the static world. But after leaving the ruins and dispelling my abilities, I'll still be locked in by the screws... So what am I supposed to do? Just stand here and wait to die?"

He had tried risking it, but as soon as he left the ruins, the screw would relentlessly bite him. Even in the world of Time Deletion, it would quietly appear under certain conditions, though it would neither rotate nor move.

Moreover, although the single screw was only the size of a bottle cap, it was extremely fast, so fast that the Crimson King had no chance to punch it or catch it.

So he had to lose a piece of flesh from his shoulder as the price for that adventure and escape back to the ruins.

Having lost an eye and a piece of flesh, he felt somewhat desperate.

"Hmph... Is there some kind of limitation on the stone brick ruins? Why... is there only one screw?"

Staring at the sphere above him that remained motionless and was getting further and further away from the ground, he covered his eyes, blood still dripping from his shoulder, and lay on the ground, unable to come up with any solution.

So he crawled through the ruins, trying to find the secret that this flesh-and-blood angel, broken into bricks, might still exist.

As he climbed, he found no secret and instead found himself in a dilemma.

The cut in his shoulder, where a screw had pierced through and even exposed part of his scapula, was excruciatingly painful, not to mention his blind eye. Sometimes the pain would leave him so weak that he couldn't even crawl.

He even suspected that the special screw was contaminated with poison, causing the wound to become increasingly painful over time.

Moreover, this ruined road is extremely difficult to climb. The stone bricks after the collapse of the angel have formed ruins. Below the ruins is a very damp muddy ground where the stone bricks have been dug out due to the third layer of protection.

He had to be careful not to let bacteria from the soil get into the wound as he crawled around, so he carefully covered his right eye and crawled very slowly and with great difficulty.

But even after climbing for a short distance, he found an intact clearing in front of him. This clearing was a few centimeters higher than the ruins and was not covered by bricks. It was a clear stream in the ruins. There was only one such clearing that was neither damaged nor oppressed.

"What happened? How come this area is completely undamaged? Is there something wrong here?"

He suspected something was amiss and dared not leave the ruins rashly. However, lying prone on the ground, his two wounds would bleed profusely, and he could not return to the ruins, nor could he delay treating his wounds.

Therefore, he was caught in a dilemma.

After thinking for a long time, he endured the excruciating pain, reached out and touched a brick, quietly placed it on the undamaged ground in front of him, and then, with a determined heart, placed his hand on it as well, placing it under the brick.

He figured the screw would lock him in place, so he decided to test it on his hand. Even if he got pinned down, he was prepared to endure the excruciating pain.

But when his right hand left the ruins, the screw did not appear.

"What do you mean? Is this operation safe?"

A brilliant idea suddenly popped into his head.

He reached his hand back and began building a brick road on himself.

Stone bricks were pressed down on his head, his back, and his entire body. There were probably more than a dozen of them. They were so heavy that he could hardly breathe. But if he could get through the ordeal of the screw-like enemy, it would be worth it.

"Give it a try."

He began to wriggle, slowly climbing the steps where the soil had turned into bricks. During this process, he had the Red King maintain the balance of the bricks, pausing after each step, until the entire "brick" body was exposed in the open space, but the screws still hadn't appeared.

"Perhaps the object outside the stone bricks is its target."

If that's the case, then why not just become a brick?

He went from lying down to kneeling, and the Red King followed him, stacking bricks behind him like an assistant and maintaining his balance, but the screw still did not appear.

He became bolder and slowly sat down on a stool, with his knees and head on top, plus the stone bricks that the Red King had fixed to his back. To outsiders, he looked like he was doing weight training or a one-eyed monster who liked to cosplay in armor.

The screws were not found.

He breathed a sigh of relief, covered his eyes, and slowly stood up. This time, Teresa, who was in the distance, also noticed Chen Miaowen's bloated body.

"Hey... uh, isn't that the boss? He seemed to have been attacked by a screw just now, but what's he doing now?"

Just as Chen Miaowen straightened up, supporting himself on his knees and using the bricks as a makeshift brace, and just as he was beginning to relax, the screw still appeared.

"Damn it!"