Bites the Dust

The road workers Li Qing hired—no, the gangsters—were indeed professional gangsters.

Only a dozen minutes have passed since Li Qing issued the mission, and they have already devised a feasible assassination plan against Yoshikage Kira:

"We will send someone to drive a dump truck from the construction team to ambush near Kame Yu Department Store."

"Then, by pretending to be a customer, they will try to lure Yoshikage Kira out of the Kame Yu Department Store."

"Once the target walks out of the department store and stands on the roadside, our men will drive a dump truck into him and smash Yoshikage Kira to pieces!"

The foreman confidently outlined his perfect murder plan.

Li Qing, however, had some reservations:

Why make it so complicated?

"Why don't we just send someone in and stab him to death?"

"Well, of course you have to consider the aftermath of a murder."

The foreman then said, somewhat embarrassed:

"This way, the murder can be made to look like a traffic accident, avoiding investigation by the police."

"Killing someone in a car accident won't get you many years in jail. If you manage things well, you can just pay some money and get released on the spot."

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Li Qing was increasingly speechless:

This Japanese colleague's style of doing things is indeed very different from that of the Passion Organization.

In Italy, both the police and prison systems are key areas of control for the organization.

They always commit murders in public places. When have they ever worried about the police or going to jail?

In Japan, even gangsters have to carefully disguise murders as traffic accidents.

It seems my Japanese colleagues aren't having a very good time.

Thinking about it this way, the joke about using road repairs to supplement family income isn't impossible.

Li Qing shook his head helplessly, and finally agreed:

"Let's do it this way!"

"However, it was agreed beforehand that I would be on-site to participate in the operation."

"I'll take charge of luring Yoshikage Kira. I know how to get him out of the company."

Anyway, he just wanted to test what kind of traps would be triggered if he asked someone to assassinate Yoshikage Kira.

Replacing a brutal, direct attack with a carefully orchestrated truck crash might reveal more to him.

"No problem."

The foreman bowed slightly to the important client with utmost respect.

"The people and the vehicle are ready, and we can set off now."

April 6, 8:50.

Morioh is not big at all.

The dump truck driven by the gangsters quickly arrived near the Kame Yu Department Store.

All that's needed is for Li Qing, who's in charge of luring out Yoshikage Kira, to send the signal to act. Then, this ruthless yakuza assassin will roar in, driving a dump truck loaded with construction waste, just like he's been on Mount Akina.

Meanwhile, Li Qing, who had also arrived at Kame Yu Department Store, drove a car alone and stopped some distance away, hiding in the car to quietly observe.

To be on the safe side, he carefully started the data processing as soon as he arrived at the scene.

Then, he took out two cell phones from his pocket and placed them on the dashboard of the car.

A phone was constantly on the line, connected to a high-security prison in Rome on the other side of the world. The person answering the phone was a serious criminal, so nervous he barely dared to breathe.

According to his number, he is prisoner number 2, which is also the Reader No. 2 that Li Qing prepared for himself.

Once everything was arranged, he used another phone to dial Yoshikage Kira's number.

"Hello? This is Yoshikage Kira, an employee of Kame Yu Department Store."

"How can I help you?"

"Oh, so it's you, Li Qing."

That familiar voice quickly came from the other end of the phone:

"Wait a minute."

"Let me find a place where it's easier to make the call."

As expected, without Li Qing even having to say anything, Yoshikage Kira walked out of the company on his own.

Because Li Qing had already experienced these things the previous morning, he knew that Yoshikage Kira didn't like making personal phone calls at the company.

And so, Yoshikage Kira walked out of Kame Yu Department Store with his phone in his hand.

Kame Yu Department Store is located in the commercial center of Morioh, right next to a wide, bustling avenue.

Although there were relatively few pedestrians early in the morning, there was a constant stream of cars coming and going on the road.

Yoshikage Kira walked to the sidewalk by the roadside.

He didn't see Li Qing nearby, so he picked up his phone and started chatting with Li Qing:

"Hehe, Li Qing"

"Bites the Dust should have been triggered already, right?"

"How many times has it been triggered? Have you realized the true power of Bites the Dust now?"

Yoshikage Kira spoke sarcastically into the phone with a nonchalant expression.

While jokingly teasing Li Qing, he also habitually strolled casually along the sidewalk, phone in hand.

His relaxed and casual steps made Yoshikage Kira appear even more confident.

"What do you want to say when you call me now?"

"If it's just some meaningless threats, then there's no need to waste words."

"You bastard!"

Li Qing roared angrily.

His Japanese counterpart's dump truck was almost there, so he had to delay for a few more seconds.

However, this anger was not feigned; it was genuine hatred from the bottom of his heart.

He cursed Yoshikage Kira bitterly over the phone, uttering many harsh words filled with resentment.

Yoshikage Kira seemed quite pleased with Li Qing's display of impotent rage.

The more fiercely and angrily Li Qing cursed, the wider the smile on his face became:

"Go ahead and curse, what else can you do?"

"I am invincible with Bites the Dust protecting me."

"All your efforts will only be a joke."

As Yoshikage Kira strolled along the roadside unconsciously, he cheerfully teased Li Qing on the other end of the phone.

At that moment, the swift and terrifying figure of the dump truck, fully loaded with construction waste, finally appeared on the wide road.

The road killer hired by Li Qing has arrived!

The gangster hitman carefully drove his dump truck from the opposite direction.

As he sped towards them, he continued to quietly accelerate.

Once he arrives at the entrance of Kame Yu Department Store, he will pretend that the vehicle has lost control and suddenly swerves, crashing into the pre-targeted object on the side of the road at maximum speed.

The weight of a dump truck, weighing tens of tons, combined with its speed that would definitely get it a ticket, is enough to crush any obstacle in its path.

"They're here!"

Li Qing pushed his perception to its limit:

He had been waiting for this moment, the instant he would launch a full-scale attack on Yoshikage Kira.

He wanted to see what would happen if he directly attacked Yoshikage Kira.

So, with Li Qing feeling both expectant and nervous, the dump truck finally approached Kame Yu Department Store.

The next step is to swerve and crash into Yoshikage Kira.

However, at that very moment, just as the assassin driver was preparing to take the most crucial and fatal final step...

A wave of heat instantly engulfed it!

The explosion occurred, right on the assassin.

He was blown into nothingness in an instant, as if his entire existence had been erased from the world.

The dump truck suddenly became "driverless," and no one knows how its driver vanished into thin air.

When the driver loses control, the steering wheel automatically shifts slightly.

Instead of swerving to kill Yoshikage Kira as planned, the dump truck veered slightly and collided with a car traveling at high speed from the opposite lane.

Heavy trucks are always the undefeated kings on the road; even a slight scratch is enough to seriously damage a car.

The front left side of the car twisted and deformed instantly, and the entire car went out of control and crashed into the Kame Yu Department Store on the side of the road.

However, Yoshikage Kira did not encounter any danger.

The most fatal truck collision never happened; the car, which had gone out of control due to the traffic accident, simply sped past him from several meters away.

Yoshikage Kira was unharmed; at most, he was only slightly frightened.

"Damn it, how could they have such an ability?"

"Before the attack was even fully launched, the attacker instantly turned into a bomb and detonated!"

"Moreover, this explosion didn't even trigger time rewind!"

Li Qing's face darkened considerably upon sensing all of this.

The attack will detonate instantly and will not trigger a time rewind.

If that happened to him, wouldn't he have died instantly?

This idea has only just begun to emerge.

The lingering heat of that unfortunate killer hadn't even had time to dissipate yet.

A wave of heat suddenly erupted from Li Qing's body.

"W-what!"

"Even I, the employer hiding behind the scenes, can't escape?"

Li Qing was increasingly horrified.

And that familiar heat wave had already exploded from within him.

The terrifying impact destroyed every cell in his body almost instantly.

Even the strongest flesh and blood body could not withstand such a cellular-level attack. Li Qing even felt that such an explosion could instantly kill Giorno's father.

Fortunately, the data-driven Li Qing is even more of a monster than Giorno's father.

The car's interior had become much hotter due to the explosion, but Li Qing only lost about 46% of his health and was not affected in any other ways.

"Luckily, I would be dead if the datafication hadn't been activated."

"I couldn't withstand more than a few explosions of that magnitude."

"If they hit me a couple more times, I'm done for."

This thought had just popped into Li Qing's mind.

Then he suddenly felt a familiar warm current rapidly brewing within his body.

"Damn it! Again?"

Li Qing's face immediately turned extremely ugly:

These explosions targeting attackers are unlimited in number!

Bites the Dust is a move to wipe out everyone who attacked Yoshikage Kira!

"Number 2! Number 2!"

"Please respond if you hear me! Please respond if you hear me!"

Li Qing grabbed the cell phone that he had placed on the car dashboard.

"Hello? Sir, what are your orders?"

The hardened criminal on the other end of the phone knew he was speaking to the rulers of the underworld and responded with unusual speed.

Listen up—

The heatwave from the explosion once again engulfed Li Qing.

He quickly recited the spell that could manipulate time into the phone:

"Yoshikage Kira is a serial killer!"

PS: Bites the Dust Ability Introduction:

The Killer Queen herself is transformed into a bomb and possesses an ordinary person. After that, as long as someone obtains any information about Yoshikage Kira from the possessed person, Loser to Dust will be activated, killing the person who obtained the information and causing time to rewind one hour.

Fate will not be changed; things destroyed before (including people killed in the explosion) will still be destroyed in time, unless Kira cancels his ability midway.

After time rewinds, neither Kira nor anyone else will retain their memories from before the rewind; only the person whose time was reversed will remember their memories from before the rewind.

The revised and added parts of this book:

If Li Qing (the one who was set up) and those who came because of Li Qing attack Yoshikage Kira, it will directly trigger Killer Queen's first bomb.

The explosions of the first bomb will continue to occur on the attacker until the attacker is killed.

The starting point of Bites the Dust is 8:00 AM on April 6th; Li Qing can only rewind to this time at the earliest.