Yellow Temperance / A Brief Respite

"All right, but why was she lying here?"

Crazy Diamond's treatment was swift. Raiden Mei looked around at the corridor, with rows of rooms, carefully laid carpets on the floor, and potted plants placed every few meters. Other than that, there was nothing.

The carpet on the floor was not red, yet there were no bloodstains anywhere except beneath that woman.

That meant she had been attacked here.

"Ugh..."

Perhaps because her injuries had been healed, the person in Kiana's arms gradually regained consciousness.

"You two are... Ah!"

The woman immediately reached behind herself after waking up. "The wound is gone..."

Neither of them knew how to explain this to an ordinary person, so they changed the subject. "When we got here, we saw you lying on the ground covered in blood. What happened?"

Neither of them admitted that they had healed her.

"I remember... I was on my way back to my room when I suddenly felt like something slashed me. When I turned around, there was nothing behind me. Then I lost consciousness."

"Do you need to go to the hospital?"

Although Crazy Diamond had already healed her, Kiana could hardly tell her that she was fine. Wouldn't that expose them? She could only pretend not to know anything.

"No need. I don't feel like there's anything wrong with my body..."

The woman stood up and looked at the blood beneath her and on her clothes. "Thank you, both of you, but I'm fine now. Besides, this would be hard to explain."

The two of them nodded as well. Since nothing was wrong, they went their separate ways.

"Mei, could that have been a Stand attack?"

An invisible attack immediately made Kiana think of the special power in this world: Stands. After all, she had not had a Stand herself just a few days ago, so she understood perfectly what it felt like for an ordinary person to watch Stand users fight.

"Yeah. We should be careful, Kiana. I don't know why that lady was attacked."

"Maybe someone just didn't like the look of her. Didn't Qin Mo say there were plenty of people here who killed without batting an eye? But if they dare come after us, I'll make them see how powerful Killer Queen is!"

While they were at sea, Qin Mo had found an opportunity to give Killer Queen to Kiana. However, since they had little privacy, Kiana could not exactly take off her outer clothes. Qin Mo could only avoid the others and touch the skin on her back with his hand.

"Finally, I can rest. I'm taking a shower first. My hands are covered in blood from before."

The moment Mei opened the door, Kiana rushed into the bathroom and washed away the blood on her hands.

Mei smiled, then walked into the room, pulled open the balcony curtains, and carefully checked the room.

Touching the clothes she had worn for several days while drifting at sea, Mei sighed helplessly. As a girl, going several days without bathing was truly unbearable.

Although White Album could create fresh water for them to drink while they were at sea, taking a bath was still impossible, and they did not have the conditions for it anyway.

Kiana had wandered for a long time and was already used to it, but Mei had been a young lady before this. Even after her father was imprisoned, she had never been left homeless. This was her first time experiencing something like this.

Still, everyone had endured the same thing, so kind-hearted Mei never mentioned it.

Seeing unfamiliar sights was interesting, but in this era, it was bound to be anything but easy.

"What is this?!"

While Mei stood on the balcony enjoying the breeze, Kiana let out a scream from the bathroom.

Crazy Diamond appeared instantly. Raiden Mei rushed to the bathroom door and smashed the lock with one punch before charging inside. "Kiana! What happened?!"

"Mei..."

Kiana sat collapsed on the floor, staring at her hands. When she saw Raiden Mei rush in, she instinctively wanted to hug her, but then she suddenly remembered something. "No, Mei, don't touch me. I might have been attacked by a Stand!"

"A Stand attack!"

Raiden Mei looked at Kiana's hands and found them covered in strange dark-red swelling. Her skin was discolored and swollen, as though she had suffered an allergic infection.

"This is... Empress!"

"Empress?"

Raiden Mei looked helplessly at Kiana. "Kiana, you weren't paying attention to the intelligence from before again, were you? It's a Stand that infects through blood. Wherever the blood comes into contact, it creates a face-like boil."

"So you really do know about us!"

As soon as Mei finished speaking, a mouth appeared amid the large swollen patch on Kiana's hand.

"Aaaah! It talked!"

Kiana stared at her hand and felt awful all over. Were Stands really this disgusting?

"Don't panic, Kiana. This face-like boil is the Stand. As long as we destroy it, it'll be fine."

Raiden Mei spoke, but the face-like boil on Kiana's hand showed no fear. "Then come destroy me, if you can. Unless this little girl doesn't want her hand anymore."

"Aaaah! Watch me cut you off!"

Killer Queen appeared behind Kiana in an instant and extended its right hand toward Kiana's hands.

"Wait, Kiana."

Crazy Diamond stopped Killer Queen in time. "The damage caused by your Killer Queen can't be restored by my Crazy Diamond."

"Let's use another method."

"Haha, if you want to get me off this little girl, you'll have to cut off her hand!"

The face-like boil taunted them at just the right moment. Unlike Joseph's situation, a large area of Kiana's arm had been infected, making precise removal impossible.

"Defeating the user is another option. That woman from before should be the user, right?"

The user's identity was not hard to guess. After all, the only suspicious person they had encountered here was that woman. She had likely planned to lie in their path from the beginning.

"Idiots! Do you think you can still find me?!"

Yellow Temperance

"Qin Mo, you should shower first. Aren't you going out with your two little girlfriends later?"

The moment he entered the room, Polnareff tossed his luggage, which looked like a garbage bag, beside the bed.

"Yeah, I'll go first."

Qin Mo had not brought any luggage. More accurately, neither he, Kiana, nor Raiden Mei had brought any. They had been dragged here suddenly. He had already mentioned this to Joseph while they were on the ship, so Joseph said that once they reached Singapore, he would pay for them to buy some clothes. After all, this journey would not be over in a day or two.

"Oh, right. This thing won't be convenient to bring in."

Qin Mo took a small notebook from his pocket and tossed it onto the table beside the television.

"What's this?"

"Oh, nothing. Just some information about Dio. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget."

With that, Qin Mo walked into the bathroom.

Listening to the sound of running water from the bathroom, Polnareff's eyes shifted toward the notebook on the table.

After standing there for around half a minute, Polnareff reached out and opened the notebook.

However, instead of any so-called intelligence, he saw a clown-like doodle.

"!!!"

He quickly snapped the notebook shut, only to suddenly realize that he could no longer muster any strength.

"What..."

As his body collapsed to the floor, the bathroom door opened.

There was not a single drop of water on Qin Mo's body. He simply stared expressionlessly at Polnareff on the floor.

"Qin Mo... What's going on... What did you do..."

Ignoring Polnareff's words, Qin Mo walked over to the notebook he had tossed aside, casually picked it up, and threw it into his system inventory.

"That should be about right."

As Qin Mo spoke, Polnareff's face suddenly burst apart and melted into yellow liquid on the floor, revealing the person inside. That person's face had become pages of a book.

Heaven's Door!

After entering the bathroom, Qin Mo had switched to Kishibe Rohan's character card and used the Stand ability that turned people into books by making them look at his drawings.

After all, he could not be sure whether the Polnareff before him had a problem. If there was no problem, this ability would not harm an innocent person by mistake. But if there was a problem...

"Let me see..."

Heaven's Door's ability was practically unsolvable. Or rather, Stands with "Heaven" in their names were all incredibly powerful. There were only two possible outcomes in a confrontation with Heaven's Door: either the ability could not activate, or it activated and directly suppressed the opponent.

"This time, Emperor, Empress, The Hanged Man, and Devil have shown up too."

Other than Devil and the Yellow Temperance before him, the others should have appeared only after they reached India. It seemed his appearance had still changed things.

As for Polnareff, once Qin Mo saw that The Hanged Man had come too, he understood. Polnareff had probably been tricked away by him.

After all, Qin Mo had already told Polnareff that The Hanged Man was his enemy.

After flipping through two pages, Qin Mo's guess was confirmed. However, Yellow Temperance did not know the later parts of the plan. It seemed they had each chosen different methods to prevent information from being exposed if they were captured by the enemy.

For now, all Qin Mo knew was that he had deliberately left some of Yellow Temperance's slime in Jotaro's room to mislead Jotaro and the others.

After all, according to that old woman, some information about their Stands had been exposed.

Qin Mo had not expected the information he had revealed just a few days ago to leak so quickly. He had no idea whether someone had overheard it through the walls or whether there was some other reason.

However, Qin Mo was not worried. He had long prepared himself for the possibility that others would discover his Stands whenever he used them. Even Heaven's Door was no exception. He directly wrote commands onto the face of Rabbaso, the user of Yellow Temperance.

"Do not use your Stand to become any of the eight of us. Forget everything that happened today. Develop an extreme hatred for Dio and immediately go kill Dio."

Heaven's Door's ability was extremely inhumane. It could completely manipulate a person's consciousness.

By writing on a person's pages, it could not only force commands upon them, but also alter their subconscious.

Qin Mo felt no psychological burden toward the Yellow Temperance before him. He knew what kind of person Rabbaso was, and in the original ending, Rabbaso had been beaten to death by Jotaro Kujo anyway.

Watching Yellow Temperance leave like a walking corpse under Heaven's Door's effect, Qin Mo once again sighed. For an A-rank character card, this Stand was absurdly overpowered.

Perhaps its rating had been lowered because Kishibe Rohan, its user, was not very strong?

Heaven's Door had only one activation condition: make the opponent look at a drawing he had made. In the original story, Kishibe Rohan used his Stand by drawing in the air or tricking others into looking at his work. Qin Mo found that terribly cumbersome.

As long as he shamelessly drew pictures on his clothes, wouldn't merely seeing him fulfill the activation condition?

Still, Qin Mo chose to seal this method away himself. He hardly used this ability at all in ordinary circumstances. The feeling of being able to control others without restraint was too terrifying. It was like a beast locked in a cage. If it was not restrained, then once released, it would cause enormous harm.

Just as Qin Mo left the room to find the others, he saw two girls running toward him.

"Oh, Kiana, Mei, you're here."

"Qin Mo! How are things on your end? Mei and I were attacked by a Stand user!"

After running over, Kiana hurriedly spoke in a fluster.

"I was attacked by Yellow Temperance, but it's already been dealt with. What about you two?"

The moment she heard Qin Mo's words, Kiana immediately took a stance. "Yellow Temperance! Are you really Qin Mo?!"

Everyone knew that Yellow Temperance could transform into other people. Seeing Kiana become wary of him, Qin Mo said somewhat irritably, "Your vigilance is good, but that's not how you use it."

"But if you insist on proof..."

Qin Mo took a bouquet from his inventory and handed it to Mei. "I haven't had the chance these past few days. I finally found some flowers today."

"Qin Mo, these flowers..."

Seeing Qin Mo's actions, the two naturally knew that he was the real Qin Mo. After all, only the three of them knew about this in this world. Still, Kiana wore a strange expression. "Those are flowers from the vase in the guest room, aren't they..."

"Ahem..."

Qin Mo coughed twice and looked at the unknown flowers in his hand. "I thought they looked pretty nice."

"It's fine. As long as they're from you, I like them."

Before Qin Mo could say anything else, Raiden Mei smiled and accepted the flowers, leaving Kiana grinding her teeth beside them.

Temporary Safety

"Earlier, we encountered Empress's user outside our room. She pretended to be injured and got her blood onto Kiana."

Raiden Mei still remembered the important matter. Holding the bouquet wrapped with materials available in the guest room, she said, "But we already cut it off. I don't know why, but Moon Veil can harm Stands."