Becoming a Weird Tale Counts as Success
Chapter 292

Out Of Sight

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Name: Out Of Sight (Following the usual naming conventions for Outside of Line of Sight, it comes from the Western music scene; in Japanese, the misheard version would be something like "Out of Sight" or "Okuto Mu Saito").

Destructive Power: A

Speed: A

Precision of Movement: A

Durability: E

Range: B

Growth Potential:?

"Why is Growth Potential a question mark? And the stamina is too weak, isn't it?" Looking at the stats Feng Xue Xuedi gave her, although a Strength, Speed, and Precision 3A stats was already god-level for a melee Stand, she still had some reservations about the E stamina.

"There's nothing I can do, who told you to be so weak?" Feng Xue shrugged, casually sat on the sofa, crossed her legs, and said nonchalantly.

"I'm really sorry I'm weak!" Baihe Hua looked at her Stand with a subtle expression, slowly fading from her initial excitement.

This stand, which calls itself "Out Of Sight," looks like it's made of a mixture of smoke and water, with various eye patterns on its body, and at first glance it's even a little creepy.

Its appearance does not have obvious gender characteristics, and its voice is also inorganic, only occasionally using some masculine words when speaking.

"What are your abilities?" she asked.

"The Unknowable."

"The Unknowable? It can't be that it doesn't exist, can it?" A hint of disappointment appeared on Baihe Hua's face. Could it be a blind substitute like Silver Chariot? Should she then find an arrow to poke it again?

Okay, Baihe Hua admits she's a little excited, but this is a Stand! No JoJo fan wouldn't be excited, right?

"It's not that I don't know, it's just that the ability is 'The Unknowable'." Feng Xue shrugged and stood up from the sofa. Although she looked like a human, she was essentially something that was formed after Baihe Hua's spirit was corrupted by demonic energy. If she were in the previous Wuxia World, she would be no different from the Gu worms of Gu Cultivator or the physical growths of Monster Cultivator.

In more widely accepted terms, it's like an alien that has absorbed the DNA characteristics of its host.

He strode over to Baihe Hua with a JoJo-esque gait, and the simple, line-drawn eye symbols on his body began to close one by one. Baihe Hua looked at the Stand that was two heads taller than her and couldn't help but swallow hard.

But in that instant, the perfectly clear stand-in suddenly vanished without a trace.

I could clearly feel that extension of my body before, but now it has completely disappeared, as if everything before was an illusion.

"Hello!"

Baihe Hua panicked slightly. She looked around but couldn't find the rather conspicuous body, until the inorganic voice rang in her ears again—

"The Unknowable means invisible, intangible, inaudible, silent, invisible, undetectable, and incomprehensible."

As they were speaking, Feng Xue reappeared in front of Baihe Hua and waved again, saying:

"Of course, since it's a stand-in, limited alterations to the body structure are possible, like this..."

In Baihe Hua's eyes, the stand-in's fingers suddenly stretched out a lot longer. But just as she was about to shout "Star Finger Stab," she stared in disbelief as the stand-in's height decreased slightly, and in his place, two mounds appeared on his chest.

"Hey, this one works too, then..."

The moment Baihe Hua's thought arose, the two lumps of earth, like mounds of dirt rising from the ground as people burrow underground in anime, moved downwards, turning into bulging bellies, and finally into a tail!

"Oh my! What are you doing? Why are you conjuring up something like this?!"

Baihe Hua waved her hands frantically, squinting her eyes but secretly peeking. Feng Xue smiled, reverting to her default posture as Gu Poison Body, and shrugged, saying:

"Because you were just wondering if you could conjure this up!"

"Nonsense, I never thought that!" Baihe Hua vehemently denied it, but Feng Xue gave her an unsettling smile and said:

"Please, I'm your substitute. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking?"

"Ahem, so your abilities are basically changing your body and becoming invisible, right?" Baihe Hua abruptly changed the subject, and Feng Xue stopped pressing her. In the end, the Gu Poison Body itself was controlled by the Main Body, only the authority was lower than his.

However, since his Main Body is still in Different Dimension, if he doesn't want to cause a misunderstanding by fighting for control with the host and resulting in Mental Wear, it's best not to push her too hard.

So he nodded and said:

"If it's just a superficial appearance, you can understand it that way, but it's actually more special than invisibility. In general, you can think of it as me being able to attack others, but others not being able to attack me; I can see others, but others can't see me."

"Isn't that just an ability that Stands inherently possess?" Baihe Hua thought to herself, realizing that she really was a blank Stand, and it seemed to not even share her vision, so she was practically blind? She wasn't going to be facing a situation where the person upstairs was a time-stopping vampire, and the person downstairs was Time Erasure Mafia, was she?

"Ah..." Feng Xue sighed speechlessly. It seemed to make sense. Seeing that Feng Xue no longer objected, Baihe Hua sighed helplessly, picked up an Energy Bar from the table, and said while taking a bite:

Do you know what those Weird Tale are all about?

As soon as she said those words, Baihe Hua felt the atmosphere was a bit strange, because the stand-in in front of her was looking at her with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot, which made her feel that her personality had been insulted.

Why are you looking at me like that?

"My master, I've only been alive for a few hours! I can only know what you know, understand? How could I know things that you yourself don't even know? I don't even know where the end of the universe is!"

"..." Baihe Hua's eyes turned somewhat cold, then she forced herself to say:

"But I don't know a name like 'Out of Sight'! How did you come up with a name for yourself?"

"You really don't know?" Feng Xue's lips curled into a subtle smile as she spoke, just as Baihe Hua's unease began to rise.

"My master, should I remind you, during your Chuunibyou) phase, you fantasize about yourself..."

"Quack! Stop talking, I don't want to remember!"

Seeing Baihe Hua begin to crouch and defend herself with her head in her hands, Feng Xue immediately knew that she had made the right bet. The Gu Poison Body did not have the ability to read minds, and it could only absorb life essence rather than the ocean of subconsciousness. It could sense the surface thoughts with the Heart of Clear Water, but it was completely helpless against deep memories.

However, since he's a JoJo fan and used to have Chuunibyou), how could he not have searched through various Western songs for his favorite Stand name?

They might even have written their own Stand's stats and abilities!

The practice of using Voodoo Doll (portraits, names, birth dates, etc.) to cast curses in religions such as Voodoo, Shamanism, and Shintoism... actually has a much longer history than we imagine.

It can even be traced back to the Paleolithic Era.

Because many animal images in existing ancient cave paintings have been found to have been carved or smeared on their vital parts, some archaeologists speculate that there may have been witchcraft practices of "destroying paintings to curse the target" at that time (this is just a hypothesis in the archaeological community at present, after all, no one knows what the ancients were thinking).

Some even claim that the discomfort modern people feel when they find their photos or even pieces of paper with their names on them being stepped on might be related to the perceptions ingrained in our ancestors' DNA—similar to how people who have never seen a snake in their lives are afraid of snakes.

P. S.: JoJo is National Manga in Japan, but it's not as popular as Shonen Manga. Its real strength lies in its influence within the ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) community.

Guile from Street Fighter bears a resemblance to Stroheim, while Red Maru Nikaido from King of Fighters is a direct copy of Polnareff.

The main plot of OreShura" is based on JoJo Meme, with various JoJo Famous Lines from No Game No Life," and even a Stand Battle"Food Wars!".

While JoJo's Bizarre Adventure didn't have the same massive impact on the general public as Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, and One Piece, it directly influenced ACG Professionals. From voice actors to authors, from producers to editors, JoJo fans are everywhere. You could say that you can find traces of JoJo anywhere related to anime and 2D.

Of course, this excludes works before JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and works by other great artists.

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