The Nijimura Family's Story

Keicho Nijimura is currently being overwhelmed by Silver Chariot, and Okuyasu Nijimura's Stand ability is being mindlessly countered by Li Qing's data-driven body.

The mysterious brothers living in the eerie haunted house have been utterly defeated.

Li Qing quickly reaped the rewards of victory:

He gave the Nijimura brothers a good beating—

Li Qing controlled his strength very well, and could accurately beat the enemy to the point of being half dead.

The Nijimura brothers are now like two broken motorcycles with damaged parts and run out of gas. They can be pushed along but there is absolutely no chance of them starting up again.

This isn't about settling personal scores; it's all a precautionary measure to prevent a counterattack from the enemy.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Nijimura brothers are now covered in bruises and have swollen faces, looking utterly miserable.

This was actually Li Qing showing mercy because the other party was not very bright and posed little threat.

After all, Italy, their safety measures always involve eliminating the enemy outright, leaving no chance for those deadly vipers to breathe.

"Alright, Okuyasu Nijimura."

"So now you can say that's why you two brothers were hiding here?"

After implementing a set of safety measures for the Nijimura brothers, Li Qing immediately went straight to the point and interrogated Okuyasu Nijimura, whose head had already been beaten into a pulp.

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Okuyasu Nijimura remained silent for a moment, offering no reply.

But what his eyes revealed was not the unwavering determination to die rather than submit, but a deep and complex emotion that was hard to describe.

Aren't you going to tell me?

Li Qing, however, did not rush to ask further questions:

"Okay, let's put this issue aside for now."

"I'll go solve that puzzle that's within my grasp first."

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the attic of the old house with lifeless eyes:

There is another person in the attic on the third floor.

"Judging from the sound, it seemed like he was bound by a thick iron chain."

"Who are those? Are they prisoners of you two brothers?"

Upon hearing this question, both Okuyasu Nijimura and Keicho Nijimura's expressions changed.

Their lips moved slightly, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.

Li Qing didn't expect to get the answer directly from the brothers; he preferred to investigate and confirm the situation on-site.

Anyway, that mysterious person is locked up in the attic. If you have any questions, just go upstairs and take a look.

Without hesitation, Li Qing led the way into the old house.

Giorno and Polnareff each escorted the Nijimura brothers, following closely behind Li Qing as they ascended the stairs.

"The person locked up upstairs"

"Something seems amiss."

Giorno reminded him with a serious expression.

The closer they got to the attic, the clearer they could hear the eerie noises coming from inside:

The sound was like both a man's painful groan and a wild beast's frenzied roar.

The eerie and unsettling sound effects, combined with the gloomy and terrifying environment of this old house, create a scene straight out of a horror movie.

"Everyone be careful."

Polnareff became cautious again.

The last time he ran into this gloomy mansion inhabited by "monsters" was not a pleasant memory for him.

And so, in that cautious and careful atmosphere, Li Qing and his group held their breath and carefully walked up to the attic.

Suddenly, the attic door opened.

From behind the dimly lit door, a fat, bloated arm suddenly stretched out.

"Monster!"

Li Qing suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

Although he couldn't see it, he could clearly perceive the outline of the monster behind the door:

The creature had short, fat, and bloated limbs, and was covered from head to toe in horrifying lumps of flesh. It looked like a rotten, swollen corpse that had been soaking in water, or a toad spirit that had only partially transformed.

In Li Qing's memory, apart from the Meat Chunk he encountered in Naples, there was no creature in the world that looked more unique than him.

Moreover, due to the uncanny valley effect, those obviously non-human, alien-like Meat Chunk are not so scary, while this monster that looks like a human is more likely to give you goosebumps.

"Something's definitely not right!"

Polnareff went to meet him with a solemn expression.

Compared to Li Qing, who only perceived an outline, he and Giorno, who saw the monster with their naked eyes, experienced a greater visual shock.

Without hesitation, Polnareff struck first, launching an attack on the monster:

"Silver Chariot!"

The silver blade flashed out, and a streak of light appeared before the dimly lit pavilion.

The monster's behavior was far less terrifying than its appearance suggested; in fact, it was rather sluggish.

Faced with the high-speed blades of the Silver Chariot, he simply stood there dumbfounded, letting himself be slaughtered.

In an instant, the sword light severed his arm, and only then did the monster belatedly clutch his severed arm and let out a heart-wrenching wail.

Then, something even more horrifying happened.

Suddenly, a surge of flesh and blood appeared at the point where the monster's arm had been severed at the root.

Just like Piccolo Daimaō in the manga, the surging flesh and blood instantly extended and multiplied outwards, growing into a fresh arm covered in juice and water in the blink of an eye.

"This... this super-fast regeneration ability..."

Polnareff's heart trembled as he watched.

He had only ever seen this incredible self-healing ability in one type of creature:

"He's a vampire!"

"There are still vampires left in the world!"

"Don't be nervous Polnareff."

However, it was Li Qing who calmed down the overly cautious Polnareff:

"I could hear that guy's heartbeat and breathing. This monster was scared."

"He doesn't seem to pose a threat to us."

"So."

Li Qing turned to look at the Hongcun brothers:

"Can you tell me now who this monster really is?"

Okuyasu Nijimura and Keicho Nijimura exchanged a glance, their expressions incredibly complex.

In the end, it was Okuyasu Nijimura silently stepped forward.

He dragged his badly injured body to the front of the crowd and then pushed open the attic door.

As soon as the door opened and the figure walked in front of it, the monster immediately let out another strange, inexplicable cry.

Amidst that strange cry, he seemed to have suddenly gone mad, roaring as he turned and charged towards the corner of the wall, towards a heavy wooden crate placed there.

"This"

Li Qing and the others were instantly shocked.

But this expression wasn't because of the monster's strange behavior, but because...

After the door was pushed open, they clearly saw (sensed) that a bow and an arrow were hanging on the wall of the attic room.

"The arrow, that's one of those six arrows!"

Polnareff carefully examined the patterns on the arrow and quickly confirmed its authenticity.

They were still struggling with how to find the arrow in this small town of tens of thousands of people that morning, but they never expected that the arrow would be placed so close to the Higashikata Family!

"Etc."

Polnareff immediately realized:

"The arrow is in your hand. You're the one who indirectly released Angelo?"

"Why are you creating Stand User everywhere? What is your purpose?!"

He pressed Okuyasu Nijimura.

Okuyasu Nijimura slowly walked forward, took the arrow from the wall, and finally stroked the shaft, saying with a sigh:

"That's right, I am the arrow-wielder you are looking for."

"As for my purpose, it's all because of him!"

Okuyasu Nijimura suddenly pointed at the monster who was hugging a wooden box and weeping bitterly:

"This monster is actually my father."

"Back then, he worked for an evil man named 'Dio,' and that horrible guy even implanted a mind-controlling bud into him."

"And ten years ago, on the day Dio died."

"The implanted granulation tissue has gone out of control!"

Seemingly recalling some unbearable memory, Okuyasu Nijimura's eyes turned incredibly somber:

"From that day on, my father turned into a monster."

"He has no wisdom or consciousness, he doesn't even recognize his own son, and all he does all day is hug that broken wooden box and cry."

"The man who could be called my father has vanished completely!"

After hearing this story, Polnareff and Giorno's expressions became quite subtle:

Dio, it's Dio again!

Although this man is long dead, the tentacles he left behind still haunt the world.

Countless people suffer because of his evil deeds; the Nijimura family in front of us is just the tip of the iceberg.

Polnareff has a deep understanding of Dio; he himself was even implanted with the same control granulation tissue as Nijimura's father back then. Therefore, he was able to accept and adapt to the tragedy that happened to Nijimura's family.

But Giorno is different:

All he knew was that Dio was his father, and he vaguely knew that Dio was not a good person.

With both Jotaro and Polnareff deliberately avoiding discussing the past, Giorno wisely refrained from asking further questions.

Because he knew he would most likely uncover some horrific truths from his questions.

And now, the truth, the true face of his biological father, is laid bare before Giorno.

"Dio"

Is this his true nature?

Giorno's unwavering resolve was suddenly stirred:

He knew his father was a bad guy, but he never imagined he could be this bad.

Seeing Nijimura's father, who had been turned into a monster, and the Nijimura brothers, who had suffered endless pain as a result, Giorno's expression was conflicted and indescribable.

"Call"

He sighed deeply, then asked Okuyasu Nijimura:

"So, you've been going around creating Stand User with arrows all this time, actually to find a Stand ability that can cure your father, is that right?"

"No, I don't want to treat him."

Unexpectedly, Okuyasu Nijimura gave a negative answer.

He clenched his Riot Games tightly and answered through gritted teeth:

"He's a bastard who sold his soul to Dio and deserves what he got!"

"This bastard has caused us endless suffering. I just want to kill him! Kill him!"

"Only by killing him can my brother's and my lives truly begin anew! Only then can this bastard's suffering truly end!"

"But he just happened to become a monster that couldn't be killed no matter what."

"That's why I keep creating Stand User and searching for a Stand ability that can kill this monster!"

At this point, tears welled up in Okuyasu Nijimura's eyes.

His father has become a monster, but he can't even end his father's suffering with his own hands.

Because this monster has no weaknesses, is not afraid of sunlight, and has the ability to regenerate at supersonic speed, it can survive even if its brain is chopped up.

The Bad Company of the Omen was completely ineffective against his monster father.

The same applies to Yitai's Explosion Space:

Explosion Space can only eliminate the target and send it to an unknown alternate dimension, rather than directly annihilating the target.

If the Explosion Space were to execute their father, their monster father would not only not depart peacefully, but would instead be banished to some alternate dimension and imprisoned in eternal life.

Therefore, Okuyasu Nijimura could only keep creating Stand User, hoping to find a Stand ability that could truly kill his father.

"What a thought process."

"To kill his own father, he went around shooting arrows at people?"

"Is it acceptable to inflict pain on others at will just to end one's own father's suffering?"

Both Giorno and Polnareff were more or less shocked by the story of Okuyasu Nijimura.

But Li Qing was not moved at all.

Not only was he unmoved, but he also approached menacingly.

"Okuyasu Nijimura".

"I used to think your brother wasn't very bright, but now it seems..."

"You're the one who really has a problem with your brain!"