Killer Queen

The footsteps outside the door stopped.

"Son!"

"That bastard—Dad has already trapped him for you!"

Yoshikage Kira Sr. spoke excitedly to his son, who appeared outside the door, in a tone full of doting affection.

His tone was so humble and overly ingratiating that it sounded less like a doting father and more like a sycophant meeting a goddess.

Yoshikage Kira seemed to have long been accustomed to his father's excessive pampering.

This overflowing fatherly love did not move him in the slightest.

He completely ignored his dead father, instead casting his murderous gaze at the intruder in the room.

Upon closer inspection...

Even the usually composed Yoshikage Kira couldn't suppress the violent twitching of his facial muscles:

"It's you! You're that foreigner from the convenience store!"

"Damn it. You really were after me."

Upon recognizing the intruder, Yoshikage Kira broke out in a cold sweat:

The other party had silently tracked him from the convenience store to his home, and he remained completely unaware.

What does that mean?

This means that his intimate interactions with his "girlfriend" just now, and his biggest secret in life, have been discovered by her 99%!

If such information is allowed to leak out

His beautiful, ordinary daily life will soon be gone forever.

"Hey, I'm not here for you, you pervert," Diavolo said.

"Perverted. Perverted?"

The doctors all said he was perfectly normal, but this guy started calling himself a pervert.

It's obvious that this guy really saw something he shouldn't have seen.

Yoshikage Kira felt a chill run through his body, but Diavolo remained calm.

Having weathered countless storms, he certainly wouldn't be overly alarmed by such a small ripple.

All I want is that arrow.

"Hand over that arrow back to me obediently, and I'll spare your lives, how about it?"

Diavolo presented a very reasonable condition.

In his more than ten years in the business, no one had ever been qualified to get such a condition from him that would stop the killer.

However, Yoshikage Kira Sr. showed no appreciation whatsoever. Upon hearing this, he immediately began spitting excitedly in the photo:

"Wishful thinking!"

As he activated his ability to allow his son to enter the isolated room to assist in the battle, he roared furiously:

"It was this arrow that brought 'happiness' to my son."

"It has the power to bless my son with a lifetime of happiness, and I will never let you take it away!"

As a crazy old father who dotes on his son to the point of covering up murder and acting as an accomplice, Yoshikage Kira Sr. has a special affection for this arrow.

Yoshikage Kira has been committing murder and dismemberment since he was 18 years old.

But at that time he did not yet have the Stand ability of Killer Queen, and the solid waste disposal technology he used was relatively primitive.

The simple processes and outdated equipment have resulted in most hazardous waste being illegally transferred and discharged into the natural world after only simple manual treatment.

If criminal investigation methods hadn't been so outdated fifteen years ago, the sheer glaring flaw of not being able to clean up the mess after committing murder would have been enough to expose Yoshikage Kira's identity.

Therefore, at that time, Yoshikage Kira lived almost every day in fear and shadow of "possibly going to jail".

This changed completely after Yoshikage Kira Sr. brought back that arrow from Egypt.

This arrow triggered Yoshikage Kira's Killer Queen Stand ability, which can turn anything it touches into a bomb and blast it to ashes.

This Stand ability was practically tailor-made for Yoshikage Kira. From then on, he could commit murders without any scruples and no longer had to worry about leaving any traces that would attract attention.

Because of this arrow, Yoshikage Kira was able to live the ordinary life he wanted.

"I want to live a peaceful and comfortable life. I want to be happier than anyone else!"

"Therefore, you must die, for only the dead can keep secrets."

Yoshikage Kira uttered this declaration, word by word.

He planned to do what he had done for the past ten years or so: to wipe out anyone who knew his secret from the world.

"Son, let me put the arrows away for you!"

"I'll be in the photo, and you'll be outside the photo; we'll launch a two-pronged attack!"

Yoshikage Kira Sr. was completely unaware of what he was facing, and was even excited about this rare "parent-child activity".

Meanwhile, the photograph on the table began to exhibit strange behavior.

It suddenly floated up from the table without any wind, and then quickly flew to the long arrow that was already stuck in the table, which was very close by.

Then, the arrow somehow "changed from three-dimensional to two-dimensional," and under Yoshikage Kira Sr.'s guidance, it entered the photograph from reality and became an image in the photograph.

Diavolo did not stop the enemy's little trick of hiding arrows in the photograph.

His previous experience had taught him that he had no right to take the arrow until he could figure out a way to completely defeat the old man.

Moreover, Diavolo did not rush to launch an attack.

He was waiting, waiting for Yoshikage Kira to also demonstrate his Stand ability.

As expected, faced with the intimidating presence of the King Crimson's ferocious appearance, Yoshikage Kira quickly summoned his own Stand.

It was also a pink-toned, burly humanoid Stand, but Killer Queen had two small cat ears on her head and her features were quite ordinary, making her look much prettier than Diavolo's pink octopus head.

But being pretty can't put food on the table.

When Killer Queen made her move, Diavolo knew that the game was most likely won.

"Killer Queen!"

With a soft shout from Yoshikage Kira, Killer Queen immediately ripped a button off his suit and tentatively threw it at Diavolo.

This button is no ordinary button; it's a bomb modified by the Killer Queen.

At the same time, Yoshikage Kira Sr. in the photo also launched an extremely vicious attack.

He pulled out a sharp kitchen knife from somewhere and then stabbed it hard through the image of Diavolo frozen in the photograph.

In that instant, the events depicted in the photograph came to life:

Suddenly, a kitchen knife exactly like the one in the photo flew out of the cabinet in the corner, flying straight toward Diavolo's heart with an unstoppable momentum.

There are bombs in front and sharp blades behind.

But Diavolo remained completely calm:

"King Crimson— "

"Let time fly!"

The blade pierced through his chest without achieving anything, then fell limply to the ground.

The button bomb also passed through Diavolo's "empty" body, eventually crashing into the wall behind him and causing a powerful explosion.

But none of this affected Diavolo.

He moved like a ghost in this isolated time and in this cramped room, appearing behind Yoshikage Kira almost instantly with the King Crimson.

"Time Erasure are over."

The King Crimson raised his hand high behind Yoshikage Kira, delivering a swift chop.

At this moment, Yoshikage Kira was still in a daze after experiencing the Time Erasure.

It wasn't until the sharp hand slash behind him stirred up a gust of wind carrying a chilling killing intent that he finally realized the death that could befall him at any moment.

"W-what?!"

Yoshikage Kira was thrown into a panic.

He had never experienced a proper Stand battle, let alone witnessed such a bizarre and powerful Stand ability.

This brutal battle far exceeded the imagination of this ordinary citizen—

Just a second ago, the father and son were probing and launching an attack, how come they are about to die the next second?

Yoshikage Kira could do nothing but instinctively ask the Killer Queen beside him to pull him up.

This had some effect, at least slightly tilting his body and preventing him from suffering a fatal injury.

But the King Crimson's sharp hand chop was like a hot knife through butter, instantly slicing through half of Yoshikage Kira's shoulder.

"Aaaaaaah!!"

Yoshikage Kira let out a bloodcurdling scream.

He staggered backward, clutching his bleeding shoulder, while ordering the Killer Queen to throw punches at Diavolo to block him.

But the result was actually worse.

Diavolo didn't even have a Stand ability; he simply had King Crimson meet his punch head-on.

The Killer Queen, who was already slightly inferior in strength and speed and had lost half of her shoulder due to her own injury, was immediately defeated.

Killer Queen suffered repeated defeats, Yoshikage Kira coughed up blood incessantly.

Yoshikage Kira Sr. looked terrified and bewildered.

"I've been spacing out again. Was that just my imagination?"

"But, but, my attack should definitely happen in reality!"

"Why isn't it working?!"

Yoshikage Kira Sr., a fellow rookie stuntman with a mentality far worse than his son's, was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

"Hmph." Diavolo gave a completely baffling answer with a mocking expression, "Your attack did happen, but I skipped the 'process' in between."

The battle situation changed in an instant, in an unimaginable way.

Both Kira and his son were stunned by the King Crimson's strange and inexplicable abilities.

Seeing Diavolo about to lead the Crimson Demon forward step by step, Yoshikage Kira Sr., who had been threatening to kill him just seconds before, immediately panicked:

"No, don't kill my son!"

"I... I agree to your conditions, okay?"

"Take this arrow. Just don't kill my good, poor child!"

Seeing his father's drastic change in attitude, Yoshikage Kira's face turned extremely gloomy.

He genuinely wanted to eliminate the threat and silence the witnesses, but now it seems he can't eliminate the threat; instead, he's the one who's going to be eliminated.

From this perspective, bowing down and compromising has become the best option.

However, Diavolo's answer was:

"I refuse."

The expressions of Kira and his son froze instantly.

"To negotiate terms, you need to have the right to negotiate terms, and you don't have that right now."

"Besides, you reminded me as well."

Diavolo coldly stared at the heavily injured Yoshikage Kira:

"I haven't figured out how to use the arrow yet. Before I fully master the ability to change power, what I need most is to keep a low profile."

"It would be troublesome if those bastards found out what I was doing too soon."

"So."

Diavolo smiled and returned Yoshikage Kira's words:

"You must die, for only the dead can keep secrets."

PS: Substitute Panel

Stand name: "Killer Queen"

Body—— Yoshikage Kira

Destructive power: A

Speed: B

Range: D

Endurance: B

Precision of movement: B

Growth potential: A

It can turn anything touched by the Killer Queen's hand into a bomb, causing it to explode. The outcome of the explosion is either "the bomb itself remains intact" or "the bomb itself is destroyed".

It can also create a situation where the bomb is "partially destroyed and partially intact".

Killer Queen's bombs are divided into two types: "Contact bombs" which explode automatically upon contact with an object, and "impact ignition bombs" which explode after pressing the button located on the second joint of Killer Queen's right index finger.

Killer Queen can only create one bomb at a time, and cannot create another bomb until the previous one detonates.