The JOJOLands - Chapter 10
Summary
Paco looks in awe at his impersonator as Jodio falls to the ground with his neck slashed, toppling over some chairs. As Paco demands to know who the person is, he swings his knife toward Paco. Paco quickly parries the strike by using THE Hustle to grab a food tray onto his arm, using it as a shield. Paco activates his Stand once more, commanding it to "do the hustle", which vibrates his muscles. He punches his impostor in the face, before grabbing a chair with his back and throwing it, launching the fake Paco into a pile of chairs and tables. Paco wonders whether the dirt-like material floating around the man's face is a Stand. He feels that it has a texture like real sand, and every bit of it is a rock fragment with unique colors. As he gets back up, the man sheds his disguise and reveals his true appearance.
Paco asks the enemy how long he was following them for, but gets no response. He interprets the silence and the man's stance as a threat of violence and asserts his own expertise in handling such situations, adamantly refusing to hand over the Lava Rock. The enemy makes repeated swings at Paco with his knife, but Paco swiftly dodges them all and is about to counter with a punch. The foe nearly slashes him, but Paco retracts his arm and blocks the knife with his forearm, using THE Hustle to make his muscles grab the blade. Paco then punches his own elbow, vibrating the blade trapped in his muscles. Suddenly, the enemy's muscles on his entire arm holding the knife start intensely vibrating and bulging out on the brink of bursting. As the man screams from the pain of his forearm bending over from his inflated muscles, Paco grabs his neck. He notes that the neck feels strange, like coarse sand.
As Paco decides to strangle him, his arm suddenly emerges from a cloud above Paco, pointing his knife toward Paco's head. Paco senses it before he's hit, and quickly uppercuts the man's chin with his other arm, stopping the attack and sending the man flying. He realizes that the enemy's dirt fragments can gather together to somehow distort Paco's perception of how far away the enemy really is. The man had fused his left arm with the image of the clouds behind him. Paco wakes up Jodio and asks him to stick a band-aid on his wound. Jodio realizes that Paco saved him by tapping his back just before he was cut by the knife, as THE Hustle controlled the muscles on his neck so the wound wouldn't be too deep. He wonders whether their foe is actually human or not, since the man's skin feels like sand.
Usagi and Dragona exit from Diamotch, drinking the wine they stole from Rohan in celebration for their Lava Rock test turning out well. Dragona feels that what they did was illegal, but Usagi thinks it isn't something they could be arrested for since the Lava Rock draws valuable things toward it through people's feelings, which isn't their fault. They greet Jodio, who tells them they're being attacked by the mafia. However, Paco believes the enemy's moves are too sloppy to be a mafioso, so he was most likely lying to scare them. Paco worries about the enemy's Stand, since he couldn't tell the difference between him and far away clouds.
A couple passes by the group, with the woman thanking her lover Leo for buying her a luxury watch. Dragona and Usagi quickly notice that it's the same watch that was drawn toward the Lava Rock when they were in the shop. While they're excited about the watch returning, Jodio and Paco tell them that they should all go back to the car, since the enemy has too many opportunities to attack them in an open area. Meanwhile, Leo puts sunscreen on the woman and Dragona reacts angrily toward seeing the woman put her expensive watch on top of a napkin with food scraps and sauce on it. Usagi tries bringing Dragona to the car, but Dragona is still upset about the woman's lack of hygiene dirtying the watch before it returns to the Lava Rock.
A flock of birds suddenly swoops by the couple, eating food dropped on the ground near them. One of the birds takes the watch and flies away. Dragona is happily surprised to see that the bird is actually flying with the watch toward them. However, Jodio and Paco notice something is wrong and try stopping Dragona from touching the watch. They then realize that what they just saw was a trick messing with their perception, as the woman actually still has the watch on her wrist. As Dragona is about to try grabbing the "watch" from the bird, the enemy's body emerges from the birds and clouds, with his skin blending into his surroundings. Jodio, Paco, and Usagi watch in horror as the fake watch and birds crumble into his body at the same time as he stabs Dragona's neck with his knife and grabs the pouch holding the Lava Rock. Dragona collapses, losing a severe amount of blood from the neck injury. Jodio rushes to his brother's aid, trying to close the wound with his hands. He quickly activates November Rain so the enemy can't escape, and successfully manages to strike the enemy's foot with his heavy rain, making the man fall down. Losing consciousness, Dragona desperately summons Smooth Operators to perform an emergency operation by sliding the skin around the wound.
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Ultra Jump January 2024 Issue
