[JOJO] Corinne's Wonderful Journey

——Ten six minutes ago——

Colleen wakes up at the stronghold established by the SPW Foundation.

When she woke up, she found herself lying on a wooden bed, covered with a reddish-brown woolen blanket.The yellowed incandescent lamp flickered above her head, making her dizzy.

She was dazed for a while, then stretched out her hands and squeezed her face hard.Pain in her cheek woke her up.

She is still alive.she is still alive?

After realizing she was still alive, she recalled the situation.

At that time, she was stabbed in the throat by Dio with a sharp weapon, took out a pocket watch and an arrow before she became unconscious, and managed to leave a message——

However, she woke up in such a quiet room, probably because Joseph and Jotaro found her in Dio's big house and brought her here.

So where are they?

Kelin threw off the blanket, sat up, and touched her neck.

There was no wound where it should have been, but a hard triangular object was buried beneath the skin and muscle.

Colleen knew what it was.

At that time, at the end of her increasingly blurred consciousness, she suddenly remembered something.When she first met Granny Enya and gained the ability to stand in, she was pierced by this arrow in the palm of her hand, but the wound healed immediately.So she held the mentality of a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and stabbed the arrow into the wound on her neck.

Although she immediately lost consciousness and fell into a coma after that, she didn't know what happened.But she is still alive, probably because of this arrow.

"--knock."

A clear sound echoed in the room, as if someone was tapping the table with their fingers.

Kelin immediately looked in the direction of the sound, but was stunned after seeing it.

This is an ordinary room, only about ten square meters in size.There was a round tea table near the window, on which sat a snow-white figure.Its limbs are slender, with distinct joints, and its limbs are covered with fluorescent dark blue lines.When meeting her eyes, the figure tilted its head.

It was both familiar and unfamiliar to her, different from how she remembered it to look.But she could clearly feel that it was of the same heart as her different body.

That's her stand-in.

Her stand-in raised her right hand, raised it flat, and pointed to the door.

Then the door was opened, and a female employee wearing the overalls of the SPW consortium walked in, holding some clean clothes in her hands.She went straight to Kelin, and found that she had a surprised expression when she woke up.

"Miss Ke Ruiwen, how do you feel about your health?"

Before Kelin could answer her, the scene in front of her suddenly disappeared.It was still just her and her double in the room.

But a few seconds later, the door opened, and the woman she had just seen walked in with the same clothes and the same posture, and asked her the same words.

Colleen's eyes widened as she looked at her double.

Her stand-in tilted her head slightly, as if she was not surprised by her surprise, and looked confident.

Colleen was a little confused.Her double had undergone a wonderful transformation during her coma, never before had it shown such apparent self-awareness.

Moreover, she could vaguely feel its thoughts, what it wanted to show her was far more than what she had just seen.

"I……"

As soon as Kelin opened her mouth, there was a dull pain in her neck.It was as if a blunt knife was rubbing against her vocal cords, making it difficult for her to make a sound.

She quickly stood up from the bed, looked around the room, and broke out of the room without finding a suitable tool.

The room is located on the second floor of the house. The overall structure of the house is simple and the decoration is also very simple.It was originally a private house, but now it is rented by the staff of the SPW Foundation as a base.

Kelin walked quickly through the corridor and stairs, and after entering the hall, she saw three staff members sitting on the sofa, one of whom was writing something with a notebook and a pen.She unceremoniously snatched his pen and notebook, flipped to a blank page and quickly wrote: [Tell me about Joseph and Jotaro's current situation! 】

All the staff left in the stronghold knew her identity.The few people who often contacted her were also among them. They were colleagues she had known before.

As soon as she asked, someone answered her: "Mr. Joestar and the others said they went to fight Dio."

She then asked them, and found out that it was less than 10 minutes before Joseph and the others left the stronghold.

[Joseph still has a multi-function walkie-talkie on him, is that thing here? 】

What Kelin was talking about was the vehicle positioning radar matched with the multi-function walkie-talkie.When she asked the people from SPW to help prepare these things, she just had the idea that they would be used in case, but it happened to be used now.

Kelin ordered the SPW staff to turn on the positioning radar and tell her Joseph's position in real time through positioning.

The staff got ready after receiving her order.

Kelin walked out of the stronghold quickly, and a brand new motorcycle was placed at the door.It is said that it was originally prepared for Polnareff, but after he met Joseph and the others, he drove away with them in the car.She took the headset and helmet that the staff handed her, put them on, then pinned the walkie-talkie to her waist, and finally grabbed her scarf.

Joseph and the others had just left not long ago, as long as she hurry up, she should be able to catch up with them.

Following the route instructed by the staff, Kelin stepped on the accelerator of the motorcycle to the bottom, and chased after Joseph at full speed.

The motorcycle was speeding through Cairo's night wind, and she shuttled between the flow of people and traffic, and soon approached Joseph and the others.

According to the radar positioning, Joseph has stopped, and the straight-line distance from her is about 20 meters.

But when she got there, all she saw was Joseph's car abandoned on the side of the road, with no one in it.

Another white car with almost completely damaged shell was parked not far behind it, and a bloody man in a suit and leather shoes fell on the driver's seat.

Joseph's car was intact and did not appear to have been stopped violently.Did they voluntarily abandon the car?

After being puzzled, Kelin hurriedly looked around carefully.Between the tall buildings above her head and the gaps between the tall buildings, she saw a long bright green light flashing across the background of the night.

She immediately turned around and rode there.In that direction stood an Arabic-style tower about five stories high.The closer she got, the clearer she could see. High in the sky, there were long net-shaped green lines centered on the tower.It was a huge barrier made by Kakyoin using the emperor's green, and Kakyoin's figure stood faintly on the spire in the center of the barrier.

What does he want to do?

As soon as this question popped up, Kelin immediately spotted Dio again.He is located on the roof of the high-altitude building about 30 meters in front of Kakyo-in, and he is dodging the emerald spray sprayed by the emperor's enchantment.

She let go of the handle of the motorcycle, jumped up and stepped on the back of the bike.She kicked up hard, wrapped the scarf around the protruding decorative sculpture of the tower in mid-air, shook it vigorously to remove the impact, and then used the double to grab the uneven part of the wall to stabilize her body.

Without slowing down, the motorcycle rushed out and slammed into the wall heavily.

Kelin climbed up the tower, and finally climbed into a circle of balcony railings on the tower.

As soon as she landed, she had a thought and called out her substitute.

Although she didn't have enough time to test it, she had already found a chance to experiment on the road just now.In terms of length, what she saw was about "what will happen within 15 seconds after activating the ability", but it only took her a moment to see the whole scene.It's like dreaming that you have passed the day in a dream, and maybe only a few minutes have passed after waking up.

This time, she "saw" the Pope's enchantment activated, and the emerald water splashed towards Dio from all directions.But there was no transition in the middle, Dio suddenly appeared where Kakyoin was standing, and Kakyoin was knocked out with blood on his chest.

"—!!"

That unnatural moment is when Dio activates his ability!

Colleen's vision returned to the present.Kakyoin in front of her was still standing in the center of the barrier without incident, but 12 seconds later, what she just saw was about to happen.

"Would you like to go there?"

A voice suddenly sounded behind the ear.

Colleen turned back to see her stand-in looking at her.

"If you want, I will go."

Colleen knew her stand-in was telling the truth.

It was a wonderful feeling, she never thought that a double born from spiritual energy could communicate with herself like this.When it appeared beside her in the past, it was just a puppet without obvious consciousness.But now it, she even thinks that she can find a time to have a long talk with it.But not now, she needs to answer its questions.

The arrow rubbed against the depths of the muscle causing a dull pain, every syllable seemed to be cut.

Kelin gritted her teeth and tried to speak clearly: "...Go."

She stared intently at her double, who looked up at Kakyoin.

For a moment, the outline of her substitute seemed to blur, and then a short memory was stuffed into her brain.

That memory came from her double.It did "get there" just now.It reaches the moment when Dio activates the "world" ability, and moves freely in the world that seems to freeze everything.

Before she had time to be surprised by her substitute, Kelin ran towards the direction where Kakyoin fell.She tore off the scarf around her neck, poured ripples, and at the moment Kakyoin passed in front of her eyes, she wrapped the scarf around his arms and intercepted him from the air.

As soon as Huajingyuan landed, she picked him up with a substitute without saying hello, and took him to hide in the tower.They were in the blind spot of Dio's vision, and he probably didn't see their position.She ran down the stairs all the way, paying attention to the movement around her.There was no other movement until reaching the bottom of the tower, and Dio didn't seem to be chasing them.

"Miss Kelin...can't you talk?" Kakyoin asked her when he noticed that she was different from usual.

Kelin turned her head and smiled at him, and she told him "don't worry" with her lips.

It's not completely impossible to speak, and the wound will heal as long as the arrow is still there, but it is equivalent to the wound being cut in the same place over and over again.The two words just said made her scalp tingle with pain.

Kakyoin's expression was surprised and sad for a while, but he quickly said: "Dio's ability is to stop time."

Kelin vaguely felt that he might have misunderstood something, but the information given by Kakyoin was too important, so she nodded immediately.The scene in her memory that her double passed to her just now can also confirm this judgment of Kakyoin.

"Mr. Joestar is on the roof nearby. If Dio didn't chase us, then he must have gone to Mr. Joestar."

When they reached the bottom of the tower, she tried to put Kakyoin down, but Kakyoin seemed unable to use her legs to stand on her own.She had no choice but to find a piece of dry and flat ground near the wall for him to lie down on at the bottom of the tower.

"It's just a little pain... I'm fine, don't worry about me."

Although Kakyoin said so with a calm expression, cold sweat was seeping from his forehead and his lips were turning white. It didn't look like he was in pain at all.

But he's right... If Dio didn't go after them, then he must have gone to Joseph.

I'm sorry for Kakyoin, but now she has to leave him here alone.

However, with Dio alone as their enemy, Kakyoin should be safe staying here.

Kelin bent down, shook his hand, and still told him with her lips: "I'll be back soon."

After bidding farewell to Kakyo-in, Kelin ran quickly from roof to roof.

With the help of the stand-in, she jumped over the gap of several meters between the buildings, climbed over the gap between the floors with her bare hands, and chased after Joseph.

She soon saw the back of Joseph and Dio chasing from a distance.

When she was hundreds of meters away from them, they stopped suddenly and confronted each other on the top of the tall building for a while.Joseph seemed to want to attack Dio with the Hermit Purple, but Dio smashed the chimney with his double, "The World", and the rubble hit Joseph in the chest.Joseph couldn't stand still, turned over and fell off the tall building.

Dio jumped off after him.The two of them disappeared from her field of vision.

When Kelin rushed to the tall building where Joseph was just now, she didn't jump off immediately.Because she found that Dio didn't seem to attack Joseph right away, but was asking him questions.So she just climbed to a balcony four floors away from the ground, and lay there to observe the situation for a while.

The street below is not deserted, there are several open shops, and a dozen or so local residents are gathering at the open-air cafe to eat.Joseph was in the middle of this small street, and Dio stood about five meters in front of him.

Dio was asking Joseph: "What is that white double?"

"What did you say?"

Joseph didn't know her existence yet, so he showed an expression of genuine surprise.

"You really don't know, or are you playing tricks on me? Forget it, old thing, let me see, when you die, will that thing come to save you?" After looking at Joseph's expression, Dio said with a smile .

Kelin hurriedly activated her ability.

She "sees" a second later that a table knife appears out of nowhere and stabs Joseph in the throat.

It's there!

***

The time stopped by the "world".

There should be no more actionable things except Dio, but this time Dio saw the strange white stand-in again.

It suddenly appeared in front of Joseph, reached out and grabbed the table knife in front of Joseph, and separated the forward direction of the table knife from Joseph.

Dio's expression was unprecedentedly serious, he looked at this strange substitute with a stern look in his eyes, and finally smiled coldly.

Time starts to flow.

The flying knife flew over Joseph's neck and hit the ground with a ding.

The white double did not disappear directly.It was still staying beside Joseph at the moment when the time stop ended, and this time Joseph also saw it clearly.

"You are..." Joseph's eyes widened.

"Whose substitute are you? Joseph's Egyptian tour group does not have a substitute messenger like you, are you their new helper?" Dio looked at it and said.

Of course the white double would not answer him.

It disappeared in place after a while.

"Disappeared? Left? No. It was the same way before, leaving Kakyoin behind and disappearing." Dio said, "Can it only exist for a short time? Hmph. So, that person is nearby, I can see you and me place."

Dio seemed to be talking to Joseph, but actually looked around.But there was no suspicious person anywhere in sight.

His eyes fell on a pickup truck not far away.The van was parked in front of a small store that sold frozen goods, and it seemed to still contain goods.

"Let me, Dio, take a good look, you who hide your head and show your tail, who are you?"

***

Dio's expression made Kelin feel bad.

After she used up her ability, she needed about three breaths before she could see the "future" again.

Once the interval is over, she immediately uses the ability again.

In the "future within 15 seconds" she saw, a small truck full of goods suddenly appeared above Joseph, and fell on Joseph. Joseph had no time to dodge, and was crushed by the truck. under.

Her double travels to that moment again.Soon, the experience gained by the stand-in during that period of time was immediately stuffed into her brain.

During this period of stoppage, Dio's substitute "World" moved the truck on the side of the road, aimed at Joseph and smashed it down, and punched several times with both fists through the truck, aggravating it's pressure on Joseph Husband's strength.Her double tries to block the van, but it will only be there for a second after time begins to flow.If no one pulls Joseph out in time, or he fails to react in time, he will still be smashed under the car.

Dio.He wanted to force her to show up.

...and she had to show up.

Colleen leaves her hiding place, she jumps from the balcony, and when she lands about two meters, Dio will start the time stop.

She herself is neither mobile nor conscious during the stop of time.But at the moment time begins to flow, she lets the "now" double rush to Joseph in time to take the weight of the vehicle in place of the disappearing "past" double.

And she herself jumped over at the same time as landing, hugged Joseph's waist, and pushed Joseph out of the range of the vehicle.The two fell to the road in embarrassment together.

"Colin!"

Joseph was shocked when he came back to his senses.

"Dio... stand-in ability...is...stopping time..."

Kelin got up, time was running out, she endured the pain in her neck, and told Joseph about Dio's abilities.

Joseph looked at Kelin with a complicated expression, and there was a faint glint in his eyes: "Thank you for your hard work, Kelin."

Colleen shook her head vigorously.The final answer was verified by Kakyoin.She's just in charge of bringing it.

Colleen quickly looked back at Dio.When she jumped out of the balcony, she was also seen by Dio in the time stop, but Dio didn't attack her, probably because she was out of his attack range at the time.

But not anymore.She, along with Joseph, was exposed to Dio's attack range.

When Dio saw her face clearly, he showed a rare expression of surprise.

"So that's why you're not dead yet." Dio said, "The Ripple Messenger is still so disgusting, it's as tenacious as the cockroaches in the gutter, and if you don't cut off their heads, there will be no end."

He expressed his guess about Kelin's substitute with great interest.

"I've heard that the evolution of spiritual energy can lead to the evolution of a substitute. Is this the case with you? You can move while I'm stopping you but don't directly attack, because your strength and speed are not as good as mine. End. You can only exist for about a second at the end, and you can't act in the stopped time by yourself."

Colleen pursed her lips.

What Dio said is not wrong... It's just that he hasn't guessed all of her abilities yet.She can also look for opportunities.

At this time, Jotaro appeared on the other side of the street.He came running from there with big strides, the hem of his school uniform flying high.

Joseph was the first to see him.

"Don't come here! Jotaro! His ability, Dio's ability is to stop time!"

Joseph called to him from a distance.

Jotaro stopped in the distance, but he didn't look surprised when he heard Joseph's words.

Instead, when he saw Colleen who was with Joseph, he had a weird expression.

"I know, old man." He quickly retracted his gaze and said, "I saw Kakyoin just now, and he already told me."

Dio also looked back at Jotaro, wondering what he was thinking.

"Get back quickly! Right there, keep a distance from him!" Joseph was a little anxious.

But Jotaro didn't listen to Joseph's words, he started walking again, still walking towards Dio step by step.

"You're wrong, old man. How can I beat him up if I don't get close to him?"