Purple Haze's fist ultimately struck empty air.
The pale violet toxic mist curling around its fist gradually spread through the air beyond its control, then rapidly lost its potency under the sunlight, faded in color, and finally vanished completely.
Meanwhile, Li Qing had already shifted to Giorno's side without a scratch.
The battle had returned to the initial standoff across the street. The only difference was that Li Qing's side had already obtained what they wanted.
"Well?"
"Do you have anything to say about that blond brat?"
The moment Li Qing steadied himself, he began directly exchanging information about the battle with Giorno.
Although his senses were sharp enough to detect the toxic mist in the air through the minute changes in sound waves passing through different mediums, a blind man with superpowers was still blind. No matter how good his hearing was, it could not completely compensate for the shortcomings of lost vision.
Fortunately, he had a reliable teammate beside him to help:
"Yes."
Giorno answered without hesitation:
"You said the outlines you can sense are extremely blurry, so you probably can't notice such subtle changes."
"The poisonous smoke released by that Stand has color. And with that Stand—the source of the gas—as its center, the poison grows lighter in color from the inside out until it completely disappears."
"That means..."
He briefly organized his thoughts.
"The gas released by that Stand probably loses its potency within a few seconds after leaving its storage device."
"So the gas can only linger around that Stand, at most about two meters away—it doesn't have time to spread any farther before rapidly vanishing into the air."
"I understand."
Li Qing understood what Giorno meant.
"As long as we don't get within two meters of that Stand, we should be safe."
"Then let