Seeing Chrollo's severed left arm-
Dio immediately understood what had happened. This had to be the contingency Chrollo had left behind.
Dio was not surprised that Chrollo had prepared a contingency. If anything, it would have been strange for someone like him to panic so badly that he fled without even leaving a trap.
Even Chrollo's willingness to sacrifice an arm outright for a chance to escape had not shocked Dio. Wasn't that standard procedure for a desperate outlaw?
But one thing about what had just happened genuinely shocked Dio. Chrollo thought I would stop hunting him because some civilians got infected? Dio instinctively assumed that Chrollo had gone to such lengths to infect these civilians through his ability because he wanted to keep Dio busy saving them from the fungal infection threatening their lives.
After all, judging by what he had just seen, the strange fungus spreading over a wide area was practically inevitable.
No matter how powerful someone was, they could not disperse so many people all at once-unless some murderous maniac showed up and sent them all sky-high with a single explosive blast.
Honestly, Dio really could not do something like that. He was not actually DIO.
But he was not so stupid that he would give up his chance to hunt down Chrollo just to save a few civilians.
If Chrollo could make Dio back down with a few civilians today, he could use the same method to force Dio to do anything the day after tomorrow.
Dio still knew what mattered more.
In the manga's Chimera Ant arc, most of the Hunters on the Ant Extermination Team already occupied the moral high ground. Yet even when the people of East Gorteau were being killed en masse during the selection ceremony, they had not impulsively gone