Chapter 234. The Flow Has Changed
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The only thing Dio cares about is one thing.
Just like DIO in "Phantom Blood", he initially only wanted to be a wealthy man.
Later, his desire to rule the world and turn humans into food was simply a new dream that emerged after his original dream of becoming rich was shattered.
In fact, if it weren't for the unsportsmanlike actions of Jonathan Joestar, who immediately called a bunch of cops over…
If Dio had had plenty of time, without needing to take any risks, and had tested the effects of the Stone Mask, he could have turned into a vampire first and then returned to the Joestar house.
Instead of being caught red-handed by Jonathan and the others at the Joestar house, and only then taking a desperate chance to use the friendship between him and Jonathan, along with a bit of luck, to put on the Stone Mask just before being shot dead by a bullet.
Such recklessness.
And even a bit of a lucky mindset.
It's hard to say this would be the same DIO.
But it was DIO who did it.
So the only explanation is…
In DIO's heart, the desire to become a vampire and rule the world was far less important than the desire to be a wealthy man.
In fact, the former was just a substitute for the latter!
All this said,
The point is—under the relentless pressure of the wealthy Kujo Jotaro, Dio didn't hesitate for a moment to recruit anyone he could.
Even those who were hard to recruit, under Kujo Jotaro's ruthless financial power, ended up joining anyway.
Of course, there is still a difference between Dio and DIO.
Although they are technically the same person, in the real world Dio exists as Dio, while in scripted worlds or when playing that role, he becomes DIO.
But in the real world, Dio's dream of becoming rich has not yet been shattered and, with Pucci's help, it's going increasingly smoothly.
Compared to the DIO whose dream ended before it even began, they are completely different people.
If it weren't for the fact that full-dive filming has a memory-blocking feature, and the full-dive helmets also implant virtual memories, allowing the character to better align with the script and portray the essence of the character they play…
Maybe even Dio, as a chosen actor, wouldn't be able to portray the feeling of the villain as a savior.
Similarly, even though Kujo Jotaro dealt with Dio in the real world…
In the scripted world, Dio would still be the same DIO, facing the burden of a two-thousand-yen debt to Jotaro.
If Jotaro tried the same financial tactics on DIO from "Stardust Crusaders", even if he threw money on the street, it probably wouldn't work.
So the most important thing is...
…
"Hey, did the OP change?"
Mista couldn't help but pause the screen in front of him.
Then he rewound the progress bar and watched the OP again.
After watching the "Stardust Crusaders" OP from the previous episode again…
He reached a conclusion—
"Yeah, the OP definitely changed!"
"Well, that's obvious, Mista."
Narancia mocked, "No wonder you guys always call me dumb, turns out it's actually you, Mista, who's the real idiot!"
He said it!
Even though he didn't graduate from elementary school…
After going through Fugo's cruel genius teaching, Narancia felt he was definitely not worse than Fugo and could be considered a genius.
But why did not only Fugo, but even the others from "Passione" think otherwise?!
Is there any justice in this?
Any law?!
Looking at it now, it's obviously not his problem.
Others have a problem~~
With that thought, Narancia looked at Mista with a confident and caring gaze.
So this is how Mista and the others must have felt about him before?
From a different perspective, it actually feels kind of nice.
"I wasn't talking about that!"
Unaware of Narancia's "evil intentions," Mista, who had his full attention on the "Stardust Crusaders" OP, couldn't hide his excitement as he said, "Since the death premonition in the OP is absolute, then the Jotaro shown in the death premonition can't possibly escape."
That's right, strictly speaking, even Polnareff didn't escape.
After all, in that endlessly descending staircase, Polnareff never figured out the secret of the staircase, meaning that under [The World]'s ability, he could only be slaughtered by DIO.
"But now, this death premonition has changed!"
"Even though it's just the last part that changed, where they added a shot of DIO using time stop, the fact that Jotaro in this OP is precisely countering DIO shows that Jotaro has undoubtedly found the method to break time stop!"
Mista eagerly analyzed to Narancia.
Even though he didn't know how Jotaro did it.
But he did it!
This isn't just a small change in the "Stardust Crusaders" OP, is it?
No, it's not!
It's like [Thoth]'s absolute prophecy in "Stardust Crusaders" being broken and destiny changing!
Finally, Jotaro and the others won't just be at DIO's mercy during the time stop!
Now Jotaro can finally fight back against DIO during the time stop and even take revenge!
"Is that so?"
Listening to this analysis, Narancia stared blankly at Mista.
What's going on? Why does it feel like only he's still the one who's out of it?
"Definitely!"
Mista said angrily, "Damn it, why did that guy Abbacchio have to be chosen! I was the first one here, whether it was to fall in love with "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" or to come to Green Dolphin Studio, I was the first!"
"Not only did Abbacchio get to visit the set, but even after I begged him, Abbacchio wouldn't spoil the plot for me!"
"So I had to worry all this time before I found out that Jotaro actually had a chance to win... No! Actually, it's because it's "JoJo" that they found this opportunity to win!"
"After all, it's "JOJO"!"