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Chapter 190. The Truly Invincible Stand
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"My... my Stand, [Thoth], its prophecy will definitely come true..."
These hesitant, weak words were spoken by a child who appeared frail at first glance.
This was the Stand user following right behind N'Doul, the [Geb].
The one sent to assassinate Jotaro and his team.
The new enemy they would face in this episode of "Stardust Crusaders".
Compared to N'Doul...
That hardened Stand user who would rather commit suicide than reveal DIO's secrets, even when trapped in a desperate situation.
As for [Thoth] and Boingo, well...
They're weak.
Please, you're just weak.
Even though standing beside him was the tall and imposing [Khnum] user, Oingo, and they were acting together.
But the pressure they brought?
It couldn't even compare to what N'Doul alone exuded!
On the contrary, they seemed like they'd wandered off the set of a comedy show, here only to entertain the audience.
Perhaps to lift Jotaro and the others' spirits, who were feeling down after Kakyoin was severely injured by [Geb] and sent to the hospital.
It's like when a child throws a tantrum, and as soon as you put on a cartoon, they forget all their previous troubles for a moment.
But this impression and judgment were based on the Stand users' appearances and their weak manner of speaking.
Using N'Doul's steely resolve as the standard.
Boingo and Oingo naturally seemed utterly useless.
However, if you judge them based on their Stands...
Then the terror that Boingo and [Thoth] bring to the audience is nothing but pure horror!
Even people like Sora, Shiro, L, and Kishibe Rohan — all considered clever in the real world — who were watching "Stardust Crusaders", couldn't fathom that they would one day admit that they were utterly helpless.
"Fate... Although my job as a mangaka gives me a habit of always seeing things from the protagonist's perspective and considering all possible situations, I never expected that, as a mangaka, I'd have to think about what to do when the protagonist's enemy is myself..."
Kishibe Rohan said in frustration.
Boingo's timid words weren't just a bluff.
They were the truth!
Having witnessed how anything written in [Thoth]'s comic pages would inevitably happen in real life, the audience saw that soon enough...
Jotaro indeed entered the cafe that Boingo and Oingo had prepared for him, just as [Thoth] had predicted — using a cigarette butt, in a way that even they couldn't have anticipated, to determine where they'd rest next.
Even when Joseph wanted to be cautious.
After all, before they reached Egypt, they had already faced numerous assassination attempts.
Now that they were in Egypt, the enemy's home base, of course, the assassination attempts would continue. Thinking it would be safer to order a bottle of cola to avoid being poisoned,
It just so happened that the fridge broke down, so the cola wasn't chilled, which Joseph found distasteful.
They thought of changing cafes, but the neighboring one had accidentally caught fire from the cigarette butt they had discarded earlier, making them embarrassed to switch cafes.
...And so on. In a series of coincidences,
They returned to the same cafe, forgetting their earlier caution, or feeling Polnareff made a valid point, they ordered tea, which would be easier to poison.
At that moment, the audience fully understood what true despair meant.
That kind of complete and utter despair where hope had just started to rise but was immediately ripped away and destroyed at its roots!
Because everything happened just as [Thoth] had foretold!
Even though Joseph tried to use his wisdom to change their fate,
In the end, all he did was create a small ripple in the wave of destiny, only for it to return to its original course.
How could they possibly defeat such an enemy?
In fact, this was an invincible Stand!
For the first time, the comment section for "Stardust Crusaders" fell into a long, silent pause...
"Damn it, this is straight-up cheating!"
Sora angrily scratched his head.
In gaming terms, this was like having the game master (GM) come in with cheats... No! It was worse than that!
This was like playing a garbage game that only had Bad Ends, no other outcomes, and no alternative choices.
At least when the GM cheats, players still have a chance to fight back.
But with this, even the god of strategy couldn't beat this game and unlock a second ending!
[Thoth]'s ability was that broken.
"I wonder if things that aren't recorded by [Thoth] can happen or not," Sora pondered. "If it's the former, it's even more hopeless."
Because that would mean that as long as [Thoth] didn't show a prophecy of Boingo's failure,
They would never fail!?
This is completely unwinnable!
After thinking about it for a while, Sora finally came up with a 'solution' that wasn't really a solution.
Since [Thoth]'s predictions are absolute,
And there's no way to fight back against the prophecy,
Then just make sure [Thoth] doesn't make any predictions.
If they could deal with Boingo, the Stand user, [Thoth] and its prophecies wouldn't be so terrifying anymore.
"In theory, it's possible to change a fate that's not shown in the comic," Sora said. "Otherwise, Boingo wouldn't have dodged his own death fate by switching buses after reading the prophecy."
"But..."
Mid-sentence, Sora sighed.
This method would only work if they already knew that Boingo was their enemy's Stand user.
But [Thoth] is precisely the kind of strange Stand that can activate without alerting others.
Meaning it's almost impossible to find the user!
And if they can't find the user, then eliminating Boingo — the only solution — is impossible!
"How could there be such an invincible Stand?!"
While countless viewers lamented the power of [Thoth] and Boingo's abilities,
Fortunately, since [Thoth] only showed part of the future, leaving out the events that followed, Jotaro and his team, freed from the constraints of fate, narrowly escaped thanks to Iggy's sharp dog nose and a bit of chaos.
But as long as [Thoth] remained in Boingo's hands, and Jotaro's team remained unaware that they were already under Stand attack,
They could only avoid disaster temporarily, never for good!
Because a new prophecy had already appeared on [Thoth]'s pages...