Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: A New Universe
Chapter 182: The New Crusaders
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Jolyne quickly jumped after Rainbow. "What are you doing?," Anasui asked, "Rainbow seems to have this." "Maybe," Jolyne said, "But we're supposed to be a team. Like Dad and his friends heading for Cairo. Plus, me and Rainbow kinda bonded, if you take my meaning." Anasui shrugged. "Well, I'm not about to just let you get killed because you rushed headlong into a fight you're under-prepared for." He, Atroe, and Wes joined Jolyne as she leapt down into the execution chamber.
Down below, Kenzo was chuckling. Rainbow had just wound up alighting on the electric chair in the execution room. "It seems as though fortune has yet to leave me. Once I gain fame from killing you and Jolyne, I will become a saint rivaled only by Buddha himself!" "And just who told you that malarkey?," Rainbow asked, "No wait, let me guess. It was Pucci, wasn't it?" "He is working on a grand vision," Kenzo admitted, "And promised me my former glory when it is complete in exchange for keeping you from the bone by whatever means necessary."
"Oh, well if it was something sensible," Rainbow said, "Then I guess it wasn't such malarkey. But too bad, I've no intention of dying so soon. Certainly not before my prison sentence is up." Kenzo grinned. "We'll see about that. Now, show me, Dragon's Dream." The ring moved as normal, but Rainbow didn't seem to do anything but stand there and wait. 'She's trying the neutral approach again,' Kenzo thought, 'But my advantage is that I have far more experience in the ways of feng shui. I'll find the means to break through her defense soon enough.'
The ring stopped, pointing to a spot. "Now! Feel the force of my Feng Shui Assassination!" He stepped over to a small spot and phased his hand through Dragon's Dream. "What's that supposed to do?," Rainbow asked. "Simple," Kenzo replied, "I can trick my opponents into touching Dragon's Dream, or focus my next attack through him. Then that attack becomes extended by feng shui. That is the secret of the Feng Shui Assassination!"
His arm seemed to come loose, but no blood was squirting out, and hit the generator for the electric chair. The sparks from the loose wires caused Rainbow to stumble off the chair in shock as some of the wiring hit the trail of sweat leading to Kenzo. He looked dumbfounded just seconds before he got electrocuted. "Ah, I probably should have mentioned this," Dragon's Dream said, "But when you were checking the energy of the room earlier, it wasn't me directing you. Well, it kind of was, but I wasn't attached to the ring."
Kenzo looked back at his ring and saw there was a blob of water in the middle of it, reflecting Dragon's Dream's main body. "Thought this might work," Atroe said as she appeared, "Using the plankton created by Foo Fighters, I can control a certain amount of water. I used it to create a mirror of Dragon's Dream as it pointed in the direction of the luckiest spot in this chamber. As a result, you were tricked into moving into an unlucky spot!"
"And in the meantime," Dragon's Dream noted, "Rainbow seems to have slipped onto the lucky spot I was trying to direct you towards." Sure enough, Rainbow had landed on the rubber matting used by the executioner to ground himself when he hit the switch for the chair, landing that far away thanks to using her wings to prevent a serious fall. "And those A-holes I beat up said they'd make sure I'd get the chair," Rainbow said, "Wish they could be here so I could see the looks on their faces."
Kenzo growled. "Impressive that you were able to turn my Stand's power against me, but don't think you can do so again!" He summoned the ring compass again, only for Jolyne wrap her strings around his hands and legs. "Wha...!?" "You can't move to the next lucky spot if you can't actually move," Jolyne noted, "This is why we Joestars prefer to make our own luck. It's too much of a hassle waiting for fate to favor us." Kenzo looked at the compass ring and grinned. "I can still reach that spot easily."
He jumped backward a bit, slipping on a puddle when he landed which sent him flying into a nearby column. However, he flipped and hit the pillar with his legs, letting him springboard right at Jolyne. "It's over, Jolyne Kujo!" However, he got surprised when Diver Down leapt out of Jolyne and smashed its fist right into his face. "I've already sworn to protect Jolyne," Anasui said, "I won't allow you to kill her." Kenzo wound up slipping on the earlier puddle. "Come to think of it, where did this even come from?"
Wes walked over to Rainbow and helped her up. "Weather Report! I manipulated the moisture in the air. You were set up to fail in spite of your good luck." Kenzo growled. "This is still a lucky spot! I'll just attack from a different direction!" He turned his feet to the column again, but got surprised when his legs started acting like springs. "Let me explain the primary ability of Diver Down," Anasui said, "It's an extension of my pathological desire to disassemble things. It can break down anything it enters at the molecular level, and rearrange them how I want. It's just altered your bone structure to turn you into one giant spring."
Kenzo screamed in agony as he went rebounding across the room until he finally landed neatly inside a blue bucket, completely harmless. "Well how about that?," Dragon's Dream said, "Your safe spot is in the northeast, and your lucky color is cerulean blue. But it looks like it's only enough to keep them from finishing the job. Or at least wanting to finish the job... Because at this point it doesn't look like you can keep fighting." Jolyne smirked. "I guess he's right. We still have those last two Stand users and the bone to worry about."
"Still," Atroe said, "We're making a pretty good team." "Yeah," Jolyne said, "Kinda like Dad's team back in the 80s." Anasui shrugged. "I guess saving the world is something to do in our spare time. I mean, none of us are in here for a serious length of time." Atroe smirked. "So, let's hurry and track down that bone." The group headed off, not sure why the bone was so important to Pucci. They knew it came from DIO, but not how it pertained to Pucci's plans. They hoped they would never find out.
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