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Its appearance is a dark green, muscular humanoid Stand with a small mouth and eyes and no eyebrows. Its arms are covered with blood vessels, its fingers have suction cups, and its lower body is covered by a thin mist.
Although he looks muscular, his actual stats are quite poor.
It is a purely special-function Stand, and it is unlikely to be effective in direct combat.
And its ability is—to extract souls!
When Dadbi gambles with his opponent, if the opponent says, "I'll gamble with my soul," and loses the bet, his soul will be extracted by the god Osiris and turned into chips by pulling them like ramen noodles.
It is worth noting that even if the game is not over, if someone wavers and admits defeat, their soul will be taken by the god Osiris.
Furthermore, if a written agreement is made, the souls of other close relatives can be wagered, and Osiris can still collect the souls after Darby wins the match.
Finally, if Dabi dies, the soul that was taken by Osiris will dissipate and never return.
If it weren't for his excessive focus on gambling skills and cheating, and his lack of mental fortitude, Jotaro and his group might have been completely defeated by him.
But now...
He was just unlucky to run into a young Joestar who knew his appearance and abilities beforehand.
"Hmm, it looks like I won't be able to walk out of the hospital for at least three months. Looks like my control over Ripple is still as good as ever, hahaha..."
After checking Darby's condition, Joseph let out a hearty laugh.
"Osiris," Daniel J. Darby—can't rise again!
Chapter 113 Iggy: Oh no, I've become bait!
Local time, 3:20 p.m.
Guided by Aresi and comparing information from Dadabi's memories, Xia Yan and his companions successfully located Dio's castle, near Al-Azhar University on the east bank of Cairo.
The group watched the ancient castle from a distance.
As dusk falls, the setting sun paints the entire sky red, and its warm light bathes the earth, giving people a sense of tranquility and comfort.
But all of this had nothing to do with the ancient castle shrouded in darkness before them.
Even under the warm summer sunset, this mansion still exudes a chilling and oppressive atmosphere.
That dark and chaotic feeling enveloped the entire mansion, making it look like a monster's lair from a fairy tale.
"There's no mistake, this feeling of pitch black chaos..."
Xia Yan and the others all looked at the magnificent mansion in front of them with solemn expressions.
This mansion stands tall before everyone, emanating an eerie, demonic aura. The instigator of everything, the source of all grudges, the embodiment of evil resides here!
"As of now, Dior has five men left!"
"These include the last two of the Nine Gods: Terence T. Darby, the younger brother of Atum, and Petsha 843, the Horus, whose true form is a peregrine falcon with a Stand."
"In addition, there are two Stand users, Kenny G and Vanilla Ace, and a vampire without Stand abilities."
Xia Yan then explained in detail the abilities of Dio's five remaining subordinates.
I wasn't originally planning to explain Little Darby and Petsha's abilities again, since Maria and Aresi had already explained them twice before.
However, Polnareff was in a daze both times and didn't hear, so at his insistence, Xia Yan brought the two of them along as well.
The Stand's abilities are as private as a person's buttocks to the Stand user.
As the saying goes, the battle of the doubles is an intelligence war.
Perhaps this is not very obvious now; it can only be said that it is just beginning to emerge.
After all, Jotaro at this time was still that seventeen-year-old black-clad boy whose face was full of invincibility, and he could brute force his way through with his invincible "Star Platinum".
However, starting from Part 4, battles between Stands are no longer about who has the better stats.
Furthermore, there will be more and more stand-ins with the abilities of their grandsons and grandfathers.
Fortunately, Xia Yan still possesses absolute information superiority, having a complete grasp of the enemy's information.
With Xia Yan's strong intelligence support, the young Joseph Joestar's intelligence, which could rival that of the ultimate creature Kars with an IQ of 400, was fully utilized, and a battle plan was quickly formulated.
……
"So why am I the one who's being used as bait!?"
Iggy walked toward Dio's castle gate with a disgruntled look on his face, looking like a very ordinary, silly Boston Bull Terrier.
After being persuaded by Joseph to go back and be promised a feast every day and a hundred beautiful female dogs to choose from, Iggy happily agreed to accept any instructions.
Then Joseph assigned her to be the bait to lure Petsha out.
Despite his inner complaints, Iggy didn't refuse. After all, he was a dog of principle, and he would always do what he promised.
With that in mind, Iggy cautiously approached Dio's hiding place.
Before he could even get close to the courtyard gate, Petsha, who was circling in the sky, spotted Iggy first and landed in front of him, spreading her wings and staring at him with sharp eyes.
The atmosphere instantly became heavy, and the characters 'gogogogogogo' seemed to float in the surrounding air.
"What the heck, this bird!? Even though I already know its abilities, and my Stand can definitely beat it, this feeling of danger is giving me goosebumps!"
Iggy couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Petsha is very strong.
If we were to rank them solely by combat power, the one ranked first among the Nine Gods should actually be this Egyptian peregrine falcon named Petsha.
Petsha's stand-in is named "Horus," representing the "Sky God" among the "Nine Egyptian Gods."
Perhaps this is also related to the fact that it is an Egyptian peregrine falcon.
Peregrine falcons, which soar leisurely over the Nile Valley, were used for hunting by the ancient Egyptians from a very early time. They were called "Horus" and were regarded as the guardian deities of the ancient Egyptian royal family, thus being given a supreme status.
Those sharp eyes, capable of discerning the shapes of small animals thousands of meters away, are known as the "Eyes of Horus." The design of the Eyes of Horus is a symbol of happiness and glory.
The Stand's appearance resembles a pterosaur skeleton, with six claws.
It can create and control ice at will, and shoot ice pillar bullets from its mouth and wings. After releasing its Stand, it can even launch six ice pillars at the same time.
Judging from his abilities alone, although they are not bad, they are too monotonous and have great limitations.
However, if combined with its peregrine falcon's racial advantages, the strength of this Stand will increase by more than one level!
Under normal circumstances, the peregrine falcon's maximum dive speed can exceed 300 kilometers per hour, a speed that no other animal in nature can match. Moreover, even while moving at 300 kilometers per hour, its eyes can lock onto the vital points of its prey.
In an open area, it would be practically a fighter jet.
In the Chaos Mode of the fan-made game "The Seventh Stand", if you try to repair the plane or take the plane again after the Gray Tower battle, the plane will be destroyed by Petsha when it reaches Egyptian airspace, resulting in an instant GAME OVER.
Then the photos of the five members of the hanging group will appear.
The reason why it was defeated by Iggy in the original story, creating the famous scene of Woof Woof breaking the ice, was entirely because it was too bloodthirsty.
They would rather give up their greatest air superiority and squeeze into a narrow space to fight a dog face-to-face.
However, this may also be because, as a bird, although it gained human intelligence due to its substitute status, it is not very bright.
Since the main purpose of this operation was to lure Petsha out, Iggy did not pretend to be stupid to get away with it.
After making eye contact with Petsha, he took off running.
Petsha was taken aback by his decisive manner.
Then, as if it had discovered something interesting, its hard beak curved upwards, revealing an expression similar to a smile.
Chapter 114 Dior Suffers NTR
Petsha soared a hundred meters in the air, his sharp eagle eyes fixed on the fleeing Iggy.
However, they did not realize that their surroundings had been shrouded in a layer of mist.
After defeating Granny Enya, Natsuhiko, being an enemy, naturally wouldn't choose to learn her Stand's abilities like he did with Jotaro and the others.
Instead, they brutally plundered "Justice's" ability to manipulate mist.
In his view, the greatest value of the "Justice" stand-in is not that it can manipulate the actions of its opponents by punching holes in them.
Rather, it is the ability to create illusions that are indistinguishable from reality.
Using the thick fog created by her substitute, Granny Enya managed to disguise an empty cemetery as a small town with nearly a thousand inhabitants.
Even when Jotaro and the others interacted face-to-face with the skeletons disguised as town residents, they couldn't detect anything amiss.
And this terrifying ability to create illusions was also inherited by Xia Yan.
Petsha, having entered the fog, had to lower her flight altitude to avoid having her vision obscured by the fog and losing sight of her target.
But for some reason, no matter how fast I flew, the dog always managed to keep the same distance from me.
His movements were exceptionally agile, and none of the ice spikes he launched managed to hit their mark.
As they flew, Petsha realized that she seemed to be lost.
……
"It's the mist of 'justice.' No matter how many times I see it, it's unbelievable that it can learn and steal the abilities of other Stands..."
Kakyoin sighed as he watched Petsha constantly circling back and forth in the small area of mist.
"So, Mr. Xia Yan, shall we launch the attack now?"
The "Green Emperor," who resembled a glowing cantaloupe in front of him, had water spraying between his hands, appearing ready to attack.
Beside him, the chicken vendor Red also had a blazing flame burning in his hand.
Clearly, these two were just waiting for Xia Yan's order to kill the silly bird that was circling in the fog not far away.
"Attack it... I feel like it would be a bit of a waste to kill it..."
Xia Yan touched his smooth chin and said.
He remembered that Dior seemed to really enjoy keeping birds.
After becoming a vampire, he even made a corpse bird with an owl's body as his pet.
In the manga, when she first met Polnareff, there was a parrot with a rather flamboyant hairstyle perched on her shoulder.
Although it was changed to Petsha in the anime.