"That could work... or rather, it would be incredibly simple."
Stand: Wonder of U.
Its ability was to manipulate the Principle of Calamity. Anyone who investigated or attacked the user or the Stand, or even merely thought of pursuing them, would be marked and fall into continuous misfortune until death.
Calamities came in many forms, including accidental injuries, attacks by environmental objects, coincidences becoming inevitabilities, worsening illnesses, self-harm, friendly fire from companions, and even objects touched by the Stand or its user spreading calamity.
It looked like a perfect Stand, but Chen Li happened to possess a Miraculous Item—Candle in the Wind.
As long as its holder was attacked to the point of sustaining a fatal wound and their HP dropped to one point, the attacker would suffer the curse of fate until death.
The hidden effect of this Miraculous Item was that when its user was fated to be defeated by the opponent, once the enemy's HP reached zero, their side could seize everything the opponent possessed.
And if magic techniques could be used, the fated-defeat requirement in that hidden effect should be avoidable.
That way, as long as the holder of the Miraculous Item wanted to investigate Wonder of U, Wonder of U would remotely kill the item's user. Once the user died, the item would activate, kill Wonder of U's user in turn, and seize that Stand.
Although Chen Li himself was hard to kill, and he was worried about having his mom killed, couldn't they just find some villain instead?
They could have him hold the Miraculous Item, then punch him into puzzle pieces once he acquired Wonder of U.
"Would that really work?" Li Changxi's eyes lit up.
"Yeah, it would."
"My precious son, you're amazing."
"But we'll have to wait a while."
Because Chen