Chapter 141

The giant spirit Stand wearing golden armor flashed in front of DIO in an instant.

But neither Kakyoin nor Joseph saw anything clearly.

However, the next moment, a dull thud came.

Kakyoin didn't even notice it himself; his whole body had already flown backward, being slammed into a groove on the roof of a house behind him by a huge force.

Blood gushed out from his abdomen like an uncontrollable fountain.

"Again!?"

Countless netizens saw this scene and couldn't help but shout the same sentence.

Just like the two previous situations with Polnareff's stairs and that vampire minion appearing out of thin air in the coffin.

They had no idea what happened.

"What on earth... uh, no, it seems to be a fatal wound..."

"The time is 5:15... It should be 11:00 PM in Dragon Country... Have Mom and Dad gone to sleep? I'm sorry... for making you worry..."

At this moment, Kakyoin, whose body was completely embedded in the box, couldn't say a word; he didn't even have the energy to miss his parents far away in Dragon Country.

He just used his last bit of strength to ponder DIO's ability during the countdown of his life.

"I can know everything that touches the Hierophant Barrier, but just a moment ago, the barrier was cut off by DIO all at once..."

"Why wasn't it cut section by section, but all at once in a 20-meter radius... there wasn't even a ten-thousandth of a second difference..."

Seeing Kakyoin, whose stomach had been ripped open with a large hole and was bleeding non-stop, still pondering the secret of DIO's Stand.

The audience couldn't care about scolding Xu Feng, who wrote such a heartbreaking plot, and couldn't help but shout:

"Don't! Don't push yourself anymore!"

"Where are the teammates? Where are the teammates? Save him! Oh my god!"

"I felt something was wrong when he entered that memory! Sure enough, it turned out like this!"

"Can you stop stabbing us!?"

And in the scene, DIO, confirming that Kakyoin was beyond saving, no longer took him seriously.

Instead, he locked his target on Joseph of the Joestar family.

"To make my body and Jonathan's body perfectly fuse together, the blood of the Joestar family is the most suitable, isn't it?"

DIO lifted his collar to reveal the scar, and the next moment he rushed toward Joseph with a grin.

"Joseph Joestar!"

Just at this moment, Kakyoin used his last strength to summon Hierophant Green.

The gems bursting out from the spring surging between his palms shattered the clock on the top of the clock tower opposite!

"What are you doing? Attacking a meaningless place? Do you want to die more beautifully? Heh, what a dying struggle."

DIO was full of disdain.

"Impossible, Kakyoin is not someone who would do such a meaningless thing! What is the reason? Attacking that place, is he trying to tell us something?"

Joseph turned his brain quickly.

"The, the final Emerald Splash... this is a hint... Mr. Joestar... please must... understand... tell everyone..."

Kakyoin, who could no longer speak, became paler and paler, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier.

His heart was still thinking about his companions in desperate straits, and finally, he slowly closed his eyes.

And the subtitle group also displayed a line of text at this moment—

[Kakyoin Noriaki, Deceased]

"Wooo!"

At this moment, countless people in front of their computers or phones had no room to express their feelings with comments; one by one, they covered their faces and wailed loudly.

Even if it is a fictional story, rendered by emotion, people will rejoice or grieve for these vivid characters.

This flower-like boy withered away like flower petals in his most beautiful years.

17 years of loneliness, 50 days of friendship, the final Emerald Splash.

The fans who had accompanied the Stardust Crusaders all the way could no longer suppress the tear glands in their eyes.

They lay on their desks and wailed endlessly.

And the industry insiders who were watching this show with a mentality of reference, or rather, plagiarism.

At this moment, their hearts were also filled with mixed feelings.

Writing a popular character to death requires great courage in itself.

Not to mention rendering the tragic atmosphere to this extent.

This man, Xu Feng, is too terrifying...

I must think of a way to handle it that everyone can accept; if you have recommendations, you can put them in the book review section, thank you for your support.

If you had to say what the biggest characteristic that distinguishes *JoJo* from other two-dimensional works is...

*JoJo* fans would probably give all sorts of different answers.

Unique art style, bizarre poses, magical lines, or a one-of-a-kind type of combat...

And Xu Feng would say without hesitation—

Killing off characters!

That’s right, Xu Feng felt that the level of *JoJo*’s character deaths was unique in the two-dimensional world.

Even *Dragon Ball*, which Xu Feng personally considered the greatest hot-blooded manga in history, was three points inferior.

Although the Dragon Balls in *Dragon Ball* were a bug, at least in the early stages, there was a restriction that one person could only be resurrected once.

So when scenes appeared where Krillin was sacrificed, or Goku was willing to sacrifice himself to defeat Raditz...

The audience was still very moved.

But later on, this restriction was directly removed.

No matter how many times you die, you can be resurrected with the Dragon Balls.

This directly made fans feel numb to the death of characters.

Anyway, you’re going to be resurrected, so it doesn't matter if you die or not.

Another counter-example is *Fairy Tail*.

This one is even more heavy-duty; no matter how desperate the main cast is forced into, or how desperate the atmosphere is created...

"I’m going to die, sigh, I’m alive again~ eh, just playing~"

So much so that when Xu Feng watched this show in his previous life, he would often have the thought, "Holy crap, they didn't die from this?"

In contrast, *JoJo*’s character deaths were for real.

When it was time to die, letting these important characters, created with painstaking effort, go offline was done without any hesitation.

Go die already!

And there were no cheats like the Dragon Balls or the Rinne Rebirth technique.

This was what made the death of every righteous character in *JoJo* appear so tragic and unforgettable.

"Kakyoin... Kakyoin..."

At this moment, countless *JoJo* fans were still immersed in the grief of Kakyoin’s death.

"Dio!!"

Finally, Joseph’s roar woke up the fans who were bowing their heads in sorrow, and they looked at the screen again.

"Hermit Purple!"

Joseph waved his hand and threw out purple thorns to wrap tightly around Dio’s body.

"Now take this! The energy of the sun! Ripple!"

"Old man! Your Stand is the most useless one!!!"

Before the Ripple could be transmitted to him, Dio shook his arms and shattered the thorns wrapped around his body.

Coupled with his usual exaggerated facial expressions and sharp-witted remarks...

It instantly made many viewers, who still had tear stains on their faces from Kakyoin’s death a minute ago, burst out laughing and snorting.

Originally, Hermit Purple’s performance in this work was mostly for information gathering or cooperating with teammates.

Compared to the Stands of the other Stardust Crusaders, it really seemed stretched thin.

— Author's Notes —

PS: I am still conceiving "Naruto," mainly about how to handle Uchiha Itachi, this filial son; deleting him is impossible because he is one of the most important characters driving the plot.