With no leads to go on, Dio stopped stubbornly pursuing questions he could not answer.
Because the Hotel was already right in front of him.
Thud-
Dio leaped off Cloud and landed solidly on the island.
When he looked up, the Hotel's rather sinister gates were already before him.
The once gleaming black iron gates had acquired a layer of rust. The marble pillars standing on either side were covered in a thin film of dust, with a few lonely cobwebs clinging to them.
Above the iron gates, a large plaque bearing four characters stood in plain sight.
The gold paint on the lettering had long since peeled away, exposing the dark red base of the copperwood beneath, as red as blood splashed straight from a heart.
A flicker of astonishment crossed Dio's eyes.
Because the four characters on the large sign before him were not [Shizai Hotel], as he had imagined.
He frowned and softly read out the four characters before him. "Four-Calamities-Ho-tel-?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
A woman's delighted laughter seemed to suddenly ring through the air.
Dio's mind abruptly went blank, and the scene before him changed in an instant, like a revolving lantern!
Whoosh!
His surroundings instantly dimmed, and darkness followed.
A Dark Red Corridor appeared before his eyes without warning. At some unknown moment, he had suddenly moved from the gates into an unfamiliar corridor!
"What!?"
Dio's pupils contracted sharply, his mind reeling. Instinctively, he roared, "Who's there!"
His aura erupted reflexively. Terrifying [Ren] surged up in an instant, billowing waves of aura churning through the corridor with muffled, thunderous rumbles.
The instant thick [Ken] wrapped his entire body, Dio seemed to hear a completely unfamiliar man's voice beside his ear. "I have-"
Have my ass!
Without hesitation, Dio raised his hand and struck at