Flash with No Cooldown

After figuring out the enemy's Stand ability, the battle quickly became clear:

"Teleportation makes no sound, but it absolutely leaves traces."

"Since its teleportation coordinates and medium are water, then..."

"Water has ripples, and where there's water, there's fish!"

"As long as I listen for the tiny ripples of stagnant water on the deck being disturbed by an intruder, I can detect the Stand's position immediately!"

Li Qing abandoned his old method of judging the enemy's actions by listening to airflow changes and instead focused his attention on the new idea of monitoring the rhythm of the surrounding water.

In that instant, Li Qing could clearly hear the surge of the vast ocean waves and the ripples of the shallow water on the deck.

Then, during the third activation of "Clash's" attack, Li Qing heard the unusual ripple it created when teleporting.

"Found it!"

"Nine o'clock, less than half a meter from me."

"There's movement in the stagnant water on that section of the deck!"

After being outmaneuvered twice in a row, Li Qing finally gained the initiative.

Just as "Clash," which had teleported into the stagnant water, leaped up from the deck using the same trick again, he moved as if he had foreseen it, suddenly throwing a punch in the direction the enemy was lunging from.

Li Qing's fist, imbued with all his strength, collided head-on with "Clash's" ferocious shark head in mid-air.

Bang!

With a muffled roar, "Clash" was sent flying back like a broken kite.

"Argh!"

On the speedboat fifty meters away, Squalo let out a cry of pain.

A Stand is the manifestation of a Stand User's mental energy. In a sense, it's equivalent to the Stand User themselves.

Therefore, any damage inflicted on the Stand is fully reflected on its user.

Just like now, "Clash's" shark head was brutally punched by Li Qing, and Squalo's young, handsome face instantly swelled with a bizarre lump, mirroring his injured Stand.

"Damn it!"

"Teleportation makes no sound, how could he find 'Clash's' position!"

"Could it be... could it be that this blind man figured out my Stand ability in just a few seconds?!"

Squalo, covering half of his swollen cheek, his expression quietly turned serious:

"As expected of the man the boss personally ordered to be killed..."

"It seems I was too careless this time."

Despite suffering a minor setback, Squalo remained unfazed.

The "silent assassination technique" he had just employed was merely a tactic conceived on a whim, intended to exploit Li Qing's blindness and end the fight easily and effortlessly.

For Squalo and his Stand "Clash," silent assassination wasn't their usual fighting style.

What they truly excelled at was... direct combat!

"Go, 'Clash'!"

"Full power burst!"

At Squalo's command, "Clash's" mode of operation underwent a complete 180-degree shift:

It no longer lurked silently or launched sneak attacks. Instead, it moved around Li Qing with an incredibly sharp, unpredictable, and unrestrained posture.

The yacht Li Qing was on was a small one, with a low, small deck covered in water splashed up by the waves.

These pools of water, scattered across the deck and surrounding Li Qing, now became launchpads for "Clash's" teleportation.

It unleashed its ultimate speed, teleporting back and forth through these "portals" formed by the stagnant water.

"So fast..."

"Its speed is just too great!"

"One moment it was in front of me, the next it appeared behind me."

"Even if I can pinpoint where it appears, I can't keep up with its movements!"

Facing this situation, Li Qing felt a massive headache coming on:

The enemy's "flash" had no cooldown!

At this moment, he could only watch helplessly as the opponent "repeatedly hopped" around him, hesitating about which direction to strike.

And "Clash's" teleportation speed kept increasing, its frequency getting higher and higher.

The ripple from one water wave had barely reached Li Qing's ears before the ripple from the next wave appeared in a completely different location.

As a result, in Li Qing's perception, "Clash" seemed to possess countless shadow clones, able to appear in different places simultaneously.

Finally, just as Li Qing's head was about to spin from "Clash's" infinite "flashing," "Clash" took the initiative.

It leaped out of a puddle of water, once again baring its devastating, bone-white shark teeth.

As a long-range manipulation Stand specializing in speed and endurance, with a destructive power rating of only D (slightly weaker than a human), Clash's offensive capabilities aren't actually very strong.

However, it's worth noting:

Panel stats are only for reference and don't represent a Stand's true combat ability.

Clash looks like a shark, and its actual attack power, much like a shark in nature, is largely tied to its own body size – the larger its body, the stronger its destructive power naturally is.

Its size also automatically adapts and changes based on the amount of accumulated water it's in, meaning the size of the "portal" on the water's surface.

If it appeared in a small teacup, it would only be a "goldfish" a few centimeters long.

If it appeared in a washbasin, it would become a "grass carp" about a dozen centimeters in size.

But now, the diameter of this pool of water is nearly a meter. Emerging abruptly from this accumulated water, Clash's body is a full half-meter long!

From a distance, it truly resembles a shark leaping from the sea to attack, swift, sharp, and full of killing intent.

Li Qing was instantly "terrified."

He seemed so afraid of Clash's pounce that he was "scared" into sitting on the ground.

Then, like a monkey with its butt on fire, unsure how to put it out, he began to roll around on the small deck, trying to escape in a very undignified and utterly comical posture.

"Hahaha!"

"Is this all you've got, blind man?"

"Scampering around in a panic like this won't let you escape my pursuit with Clash!"

Squalo shared vision with his Stand, allowing him to control everything happening on the battlefield from fifty meters away.

Seeing Li Qing's pathetic rolling and fleeing on the ground, he quickly directed his Stand, Clash, to continuously teleport through the "portals" formed by the accumulated water on the deck.

The "shark" then kept biting tightly at Li Qing's heels, refusing to let up even for a moment.

Then...

Squalo noticed something was off:

During this easy "beating the dog in the water" process, the puddles of water scattered across the deck, which Clash used for its back-and-forth teleports, had actually disappeared by more than half in just these few seconds.

The number of "teleport points" Clash could reach had unknowingly decreased, and it could no longer use its repetitive teleportation tactics to disorient Li Qing's senses like before.

"Damn it!"

Squalo immediately realized:

"That blind man wasn't running away at all..."

"He was deliberately rolling on the ground, using his clothes like a rag to soak up all the water on the deck!"

"This, this..."

His expression convulsed violently –

from laughter:

"This is too stupid!"

"Hahaha..."

"Did you misjudge my abilities because I held back and didn't use my full power?"

"The idea of wiping up the water and restricting my teleports isn't wrong, but..."

Squalo laughed so hard he could barely stand up straight:

"This is the ocean!"

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