To Lin Qing, gambling at a card table had long since become an utterly boring game.
Memorizing cards and calculating odds were easier for Lin Qing, now an Ultimate Lifeform, than deciding what takeout to order for lunch.
Cheating?
Lin Qing did not believe anyone could cheat right under his nose, within Star Platinum's Time Stop range.
And if it came down purely to luck, he still had the Tear Blade.
The Tear Blade's side effect was withering limbs. After Lin Qing swung it once, his index finger had shriveled up. Cells capable of rapid regeneration were slowly repairing the limb.
A single withered finger was expected to heal in one or two minutes.
Before his finger had even recovered, he had already won back Gyro, Robert E. O. Speedwagon, and the souls of the D'Arby Brothers.
"The Gambling God from the East!"
Seeing Lin Qing win four rounds in a row, the gamblers nearby could no longer contain their excitement and began shouting.
They gathered around Lin Qing and cheered.
It was unclear whether they were celebrating Lin Qing's victory over the D'Arby Brothers or rejoicing that they would not have to repay the gambling funds they had borrowed.
Lin Qing drove the gamblers away.
They left in small groups, each with a smile on their faces. From their conversations as they departed, it seemed they intended to take advantage of their good luck today and head to another casino to "make another score."
Lin Qing made no comment on that.
"Over here!"
Jonathan Joestar pried open the basement door, took one look inside, and shouted upstairs.
Gyro and Speedwagon were terrifyingly thin. Calling them skeletons would not have been an exaggeration.
Because the distance between spacetime dimensions had been stretched unimaginably far, the flow of time in each