How's My Hairstyle?
The guy who emerged from the crowd looked to be about 16 or 17 years old, wearing a Morioh High School uniform.
However, this does not mean that he is an ordinary student who is easy to deal with.
This can be seen from their appearance:
He was tall and robust, with a strong and muscular build. His face was resolute and sculpted, and his bulging muscles stretched his oversized school uniform into a taut line. His meticulously styled hair was also sticking up slightly towards the sky in a strange and eye-catching way.
This student is clearly not an ordinary student.
He's definitely a troublesome delinquent.
Diavolo, of course, wasn't afraid of any delinquents.
But at this crucial moment when the arrow was about to be in his grasp, what he feared most was an unexpected event.
But now, an unexpected event has occurred:
"Hey—what's going on here?"
The delinquent, sporting a strange hairstyle that seemed to tremble in the wind when he walked, hurried over.
Ignoring Diavolo's murderous glare, he approached Yoshikage Kira and spoke with a serious yet warm tone to his clearly seriously injured opponent:
Are you alright?
"How could you have suffered such serious injuries?"
The delinquent boy, quite familiar with Yoshikage Kira, asked him about his situation.
Diavolo immediately cast a subtle, cold glance at Yoshikage Kira: "What, you know this guy?"
"I don't know him." Yoshikage Kira shook his head slightly.
"If you don't know him, get rid of him quickly!"
Diavolo conveyed this command with his eyes.
In order to avoid any unnecessary trouble, he specifically asked Yoshikage Kira to deliver the arrow secretly, without letting any passerby discover its existence.
So, once that meddlesome idiot came over, the transaction couldn't continue.
If it weren't for the fact that there were too many people around and it wasn't convenient to take action, he would have definitely killed that annoying troublemaker.
But the situation is different now, and Diavolo, who prefers to keep a low profile, has no choice but to try to get rid of this annoying dung beetle in a gentle way.
"I... I'm fine."
"I just fell off a cliff on the coast."
"Don't worry about me, my friend will take me to the hospital."
Yoshikage Kira tried his best to appear calm and composed, even enduring the humiliation by referring to Diavolo as his friend.
Diavolo also tried his best to put on a small, friendly foreign friend's appearance.
Even so, the kind-hearted "delinquent" did not leave immediately.
He carefully examined Yoshikage Kira, who was already extremely weak from excessive blood loss, and said with great determination:
"No, your injuries are very serious."
"This injury can't be delayed any longer. Let me treat you."
"You... you're going to heal my wounds?" Yoshikage Kira was slightly taken aback by this unexpected answer, "How can you heal this kind of wound?"
"Yeah, stop joking."
Diavolo also started seeing his guests off in his broken Japanese:
"How are you, a student, supposed to treat your injuries?"
"Let's not delay my friend's trip to the hospital!"
The two mortal enemies, singing in unison, actually seemed to share a common hatred for the enemy.
Surprisingly, this bullying not only failed to drive the delinquent away, but also earned him a confident smile:
"I can cure it."
"This level of injury is nothing more than a trivial matter that I, Josuke Higashikata, can resolve in an instant."
This young man named Josuke Higashikata said this with confidence and enthusiasm:
"Because I am a Stand User, just like you."
As he spoke, Josuke Higashikata's gaze was fixed directly on the Killer Queen.
Upon hearing this, both Yoshikage Kira and Diavolo felt a jolt in their hearts:
I've run into someone like me again?!
Yoshikage Kira's feelings were simply one of surprise.
Diavolo, however, was both surprised and deeply wary:
Stand User. This kid is different from Yoshikage Kira, that country bumpkin; he knows what "Stand Power" is!
The concept of Stands cannot be learned without a teacher. In other words, this meddlesome guy in front of me must know some senior Stand User understands the world of Stands.
Morioh is only this big. Maybe this kid in front of me knows Jotaro?!
The thought of this made Diavolo extremely wary.
He never expected to encounter a second Stand User today, especially at such a crucial and sensitive time.
What was originally a simple transaction suddenly became complicated and dangerous.
"You can't just start a fight here."
"Try not to give yourself away and try to get rid of them with words."
Diavolo was thinking just that.
The kid named Josuke Higashikata suddenly summoned his Stand: "Crazy Diamond!"
A burly humanoid figure with explosively bulging muscles and an aura of immense power suddenly appeared before Diavolo.
Diavolo tried his best to pretend he couldn't see it, but the unconscious pressure emanating from that close proximity still made him very uncomfortable.
If he hadn't completely failed to sense any killing intent from Josuke Higashikata, he would have instinctively summoned his Stand and immediately distanced himself from the tall figure in front of him, who was clearly a powerful melee-type Stand.
Josuke Higashikata summoned his Stand not to kill, but to save people.
Although he didn't know Yoshikage Kira at all, Josuke Higashikata was always cold on the outside but warm on the Josuke Higashikata and always willing to help others. He would never leave someone seriously injured and on the verge of death on the street.
However, before we begin treating the injury.
Josuke Higashikata still kept a little bit of caution in mind:
"Did you really get this injury from falling off a cliff?"
He glanced at the Killer Queen beside Yoshikage Kira, a vague suspicion creeping into his heart:
"You're also Stand User protected by a Stand, how could such an accident happen?"
"I"
Yoshikage Kira was speechless for a moment.
He couldn't very well say that he was actually hacked to pieces by his "friends" next to him.
Meanwhile, his good "friend" Diavolo was still staring intently at him with that veiled murderous gaze, forcing him to quickly find a reason to get rid of the big trouble in front of him.
"It was indeed me who fell."
Yoshikage Kira forced himself to speak:
"I... I just awakened this ability myself, and I'm not very familiar with using it."
"So this ability is called a 'stand-in'? This is the first time I've ever heard of it."
"I don't know anything yet, I'm just calling it out to help me walk."
This was basically a natural performance; he really didn't understand the concept of a stunt double.
Yoshikage Kira's shoulder was almost cleaved apart by the King Crimson; the mangled mess made it hard to tell whether it was from a fall or a chop.
Josuke Higashikata gradually put aside his doubts and then readily said to Yoshikage Kira:
"It's okay, I'll heal you quickly."
"Watch closely—"
Crazy Diamond!
As soon as he finished speaking, the Stand named Crazy Diamond suddenly unleashed a storm of afterimages:
"Du la la la la la la ah!"
The Riot Games was extremely fast.
It was so fast that Diavolo, who was on high alert, could barely react.
As the exact target of this fierce punch, Yoshikage Kira was terrified out of his wits.
He instinctively tried to dodge, but his battered body was no match for the lightning-fast punches.
Yoshikage Kira was hit.
Then, the next second.
Yoshikage Kira's body recovered at an astonishing speed.
Yes, that severely injured, near-death body, which had lost a lot of blood, was healed just like that.
Yoshikage Kira's injuries disappeared almost instantly, and even his pale face suddenly turned rosy.
"This, this..."
Yoshikage Kira's eyes lit up instantly:
"That's amazing!"
He looked at the miraculous doctor who had cured him instantly with great enthusiasm, his eyes filled not only with gratitude, but also with a profound emotion.
Diavolo, standing nearby, immediately sensed the threat:
Crazy Diamond's speed has already subtly surpassed that of King Crimson.
Its domineering healing ability, capable of instantly restoring the human body, left Diavolo with lingering fear.
After all, his specialty is to "Flash" into someone's back and stab them in the back.
Now that Crazy Diamond can revive the dead in the blink of an eye, it's really hard to say how effective his sneak attack tactics will be in a real fight.
"No, we have to get this kid away quickly."
"This kid is far too threatening!"
Diavolo's vigilance had reached its peak.
However, things didn't go as planned. After recovering from his injuries, Josuke Higashikata didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stayed and chatted with Yoshikage Kira.
He seemed quite interested in this fellow being who also possessed a Stand.
Yoshikage Kira seemed to have some ulterior motives as well. Instead of seeing the guest off as Diavolo had hoped, he started chatting casually with Josuke Higashikata, his intentions sly and unsettling.
"Alright!"
"Once you're cured, hurry up and leave!"
"We two haven't resolved our own issues yet, have we?"
Diavolo spoke in a low, deep voice, urging Josuke Higashikata to leave, and also reminding Yoshikage Kira to recognize the situation.
Before Yoshikage Kira could speak, Josuke Higashikata had already frowned deeply:
What kind of attitude is that?
"I just saved your friend, and you dare talk to me like that?"
"Etc."
As they were talking, Josuke Higashikata suddenly realized that something was amiss:
"I cured your friend in an instant, and you weren't even that surprised?"
"Weren't you just acting like you couldn't see the stand-in?"
"I"
Diavolo's expression froze:
Oh no! I was so focused on analyzing this kid's abilities and threats that I forgot about his character.
Now that his weakness had been exposed, he had no choice but to stubbornly insist:
"I'm also Stand User, is there a problem?"
"Who said I couldn't see it? I was just momentarily stunned and didn't react."
Even when their reasoning is flawed, their arrogance is undeniable, which does have a certain effect of dispelling doubts.
Josuke Higashikata's gaze wandered for a moment, but in the end, he didn't pursue the matter any further.
But he was still dissatisfied with Diavolo's attitude:
"Being rude to someone who has helped your friend is a very bad thing to do."
"You shouldn't talk to me like that."
"Okay, okay."
Diavolo said impatiently.
He knew that his public image had now become that of an "rude foreigner," so he decided to play along and try to Josuke Higashikata away with an even worse attitude:
"The person is all saved, what are you still doing here?"
"Don't waste your time!"
"You'd better hurry home and fix your utterly boring cow dung hairstyle!"
Diavolo said this in a sarcastic tone.
He believed that since he had said all that, this meddlesome, overly kind person would definitely be so angry that he would leave.
And he was right.
Upon hearing this, Josuke Higashikata was immediately enraged.
However, Diavolo misjudged one thing.
This kind and helpful young man can be quite frightening when he gets angry.
"Hey, uncle!"
A face contorted with rage, devoid of expression, blocked Diavolo's view like a towering, imposing wall of rage.
"What did you say about my hairstyle?"
The good news is that my physical condition has improved and my spirits have finally lifted.
The bad news is that this improvement came too late, so I'm currently typing this in the hospital's isolation ward.