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Chapter 124. Kars Finally Lifts His Loincloth
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"Is it finally about to begin?"
The clock's hands ticked forward. As they finally reached the pre-set time and started ringing loudly, a large hand swiftly silenced the alarm. The sequence of saving the game, exiting, and opening a video was done in one smooth motion.
The screen from the full-dive helmet was quickly broadcasted onto "Battle Tendency." From the audience's perspective, he immediately saw Kars under the strong ultraviolet light—a deadly attack that should have forced even a Pillar Man like Kars into a petrified state to avoid it.
However, Kars did not choose to petrify himself for safety. Instead, he actively faced the powerful ultraviolet light. He turned his face, now covered with a special stone mask capable of housing the Super Aja Stone, towards the direction of the light!
This scene, filled with a sense of déjà vu, reminded the viewer of when DIO first wore the stone mask. He couldn't help but mutter, "Let me witness the ultimate being's strategy..."
Perhaps even the viewer was unaware that his muttering was filled with anticipation rather than despair. How did this initial sense of despair arise? It was because Joseph Joestar previously found himself in a seemingly insurmountable predicament, where no solution appeared viable.
Unable to accept this fact yet having no choice but to admit it, they fell into despair. But how did "Battle Tendency" respond to this despair in its audience?
Very simply, by achieving the impossible!
This might sound difficult, but in reality, the answer might be straightforward. For those like Sora, who were not socially active but instead reclusive NEETs, they had long cultivated a habit of relying only on themselves and their sibling (brother or sister).
Even if facing a hundred people, they would challenge them together, and if it were a thousand or ten thousand people—or even just one—they would still face them together.
This habit prevented them from focusing much attention on anyone outside their sibling, and naturally, they wouldn't place hope in others. As a result, they overlooked the fact that the German military and the SPW Foundation had already started researching the Pillar Men.
The interception of the Super Aja Stone that Esidisi had smuggled out and the return of Stroheim as a cyborg were all carefully laid groundwork for this support.
Realizing this, and seeing Joseph defeat Kars, who held Lisa Lisa hostage, despite being in a weakened state, the audience finally remembered.
Despite "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure," whether "Phantom Blood" or "Battle Tendency," featuring enemies that seemed insurmountable at first glance—DIO, Tarkus, Wamuu, Esidisi, Kars—the vampires, zombies, and Pillar Men were all beings beyond human capability.
By normal standards, they were enemies that humans couldn't defeat! But despair was never the message "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" intended to convey.
The hymn of humanity is a hymn of courage! The greatness of humanity is the greatness of courage!
These words, spoken by Uncle Zeppeli long ago, encapsulate the true message of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure"! From start to finish, it has always been a story filled with hope and courage!
Only the audience had been crushed by despair and forgotten this. But the story itself never forgot!
"Seriously, isn't this just a roundabout way of saying we've forgotten the most basic things?"
Noriaki Kakyoin remarked, "Though it's true, after all..."
At some point, despite being actors in the filming of "Stardust Crusaders," every time "Battle Tendency" aired, they would gather—starting with Old Joseph alone, but eventually joined by Jotaro Kujo, Jean Pierre Polnareff, Mohammed Avdol, and himself—to watch together.
So naturally, today was no exception.
They each expressed their thoughts.
"You can't really blame us, can you? Who would have thought that Kars, the leader of the Pillar Men, who seemed so smart, would be so foolish?"
Polnareff defended himself, "But the ultimate being... According to the hints in the opening theme and the reason Kars and the others pursued becoming the ultimate being, Kars should no longer fear sunlight after becoming the ultimate being. So, would Hamon have no effect?"
Immortal and undying.
If Kars overcame the Pillar Men's only weakness—the sun—then how could they defeat an unkillable enemy?
Completely vaporizing every cell in Kars' body with overwhelming firepower might work, but was mid-World War II firepower capable of achieving this?
Moreover, as the ultimate being, Kars would have the abilities of all living creatures on Earth. This meant he could potentially split his body like a single-celled organism, reproducing and proliferating. As long as a single cell remained and could reconstruct his brain, Kars could regenerate in a new body!
The ultimate being is that monstrous!
If this weren't the world of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" but instead a world like "Ben 10" or some other with powerful aliens or magical beings, Kars would become even more terrifying!
"Mr. Joestar, how would you defeat Kars?"
Thinking of this, Polnareff couldn't help but ask Old Joseph.
Even though he had just defended himself against despair, the ultimate being was truly terrifying.
"Well, there is one more method..."
Watching Kars, who had transformed into the ultimate being and finally conquered the sun, Old Joseph raised a finger and said, "The Joestar family's ultimate secret technique!"
"?!"
Almost simultaneously with the Joseph in "Battle Tendency," Old Joseph, as if in sync with him, revealed the final secret technique—
"RUN AWAY!!" x2