JOJO: Bizarre Adventure

Chapter 100 A Rare True Brother

Shanghai, China.

Inside a street food stall.

Three men sat around a plastic folding table.

"Hiccup~"

A disheveled man with unkempt hair let out a burp and slumped onto the table.

"Sigh...when will this ever end?"

He was muttering something, as if he were talking in a drunken stupor.

"Brother Wang has had too much to drink again."

A thin man in casual clothes stood to the side, looking at the drunkard with a helpless expression.

"I told him to drink less, but he just wouldn't listen."

Sitting on the outermost seat was a cold-faced man in a suit.

"It's best to avoid alcohol."

The thin man looked at the two people beside him and often sighed.

The three of them are close friends and often get together to eat and chat.

Nevertheless, they could hardly be said to share the same interests.

Because the three of them have completely different personalities, habits, and ages.

The disheveled drunkard sitting to his left was the oldest of the three.

His surname is Wang, and his given name is Wang Xiaocheng. He is thirty-eight years old this year. Although he is said to be in his prime, he is actually middle-aged.

Despite his slovenly appearance, he's no ordinary person.

He runs three small shops, which he doesn't need to personally oversee. Although they are not large in scale, they are easy to manage.

Old Wang is all alone. He has been an orphan since childhood and has never married or had any family.

He likes to have a drink whenever he has free time, and he's usually quite drunk.

As the saying goes, when it comes to important matters of the world, one must drink alcohol, and the drinking never stops.

There's a saying that goes something like this:

Liquor is the essence of grains; the more you drink, the younger you become.

If others saw a guy like that, they would think he was a social idler.

The thin man in the middle, whose surname is Ma and given name is Ma Le, is twenty-five years old this year, still a young man in the prime of his life.

There's a saying that goes something like this:

Before the age of twenty-five, everyone is a hero among us.

After the age of twenty-five, people often find themselves "entering the world and time flies by."

However, although Ma Le is still in his passionate years, he has lost his passion.

He is a very reserved, introverted, and shy person.

His thin physique often led to him being looked down upon.

In the workplace, he was someone everyone could boss around.

However, despite his circumstances, Ma Leren still possessed a great deal of passion within him.

He is a kind-hearted person who always wants to lend a helping hand when something happens.

Unfortunately, he was too timid by nature, and there were many things he couldn't do.

Deep down, Ma Le always wanted to be a hero.

But how could someone like him be a hero?

The cold-faced man sitting on the far side is named Zhou Su, and he is exactly thirty years old this year.

He's a junior manager at a company, and he always has a cold expression on his face. I don't know what he's thinking.

Zhou Su seems to have some psychological issues. He sees a psychologist twice a week and has to go for a follow-up appointment with a regular psychiatrist every month.

I take even more medicine every day, and I don't even know what kind of medicine it is.

I don't know if it's related to his mental illness, but his habits are very strange.

He doesn't have many personal emotions, and he usually speaks and acts in a cold and aloof manner.

Nobody knows what he's thinking; even the best micro-expression psychologists would probably have a hard time deciphering anything from his face.

Let me put it this way: if Zhou Su were a county magistrate in ancient times, the moment he sat down in the hall, everyone below would tremble with fear.

It felt like he wasn't himself; he was just a machine.

That's why he was appreciated by his boss and became a junior manager.

There's a saying that goes something like this:

Ideally, a machine should transform itself into a human-like form.

The best thing a person can do is live like a machine.

Zhou Su was such a person; he lived his life like a machine.

He never drinks, no matter who he's with.

He was also clueless about social interactions, which is why he never got promoted and didn't have deep relationships with others.

Zhou Su is still single. He was abandoned by his parents when he was young and has never married.

This is the kind of person he is: he has no bad habits, lives a regular life, and doesn't like socializing.

These three people were actually very close friends.

The world is such a strange place. If you were to say what the three of them have in common... they don't have many friends.

My only true friends are two others.

When the battle began, the three of them were startled and immediately decided to go to Old Wang's house, which was the closest one.

There's no time to think about anything now, everyone just goes home.

But here's the problem: they only have one motorcycle as their means of transportation.

It can only carry two people.

Ma Le immediately made a decision to have Zhou Su carry the slightly drunk Old Wang back.

He ran after him.

After I deliver it, I'll have him come back to pick me up.

The ideal was wonderful, but halfway through his journey, darkness descended.

For some reason, the revolutionary army's attack on the government here has been delayed.

The Revolutionary Army didn't make their move until Qiao Zhou and his team had already defeated the boss in its second form.

Ma Le carefully avoided the creatures of the night, and whether by luck or not, he actually managed to run past them.

He was almost there when he witnessed an unexpected scene.

A man was being chased by two undead, but he couldn't outrun them and was eventually caught.

The moment he was touched by the corpse-man, he caught a glimpse of Ma Le in the corner.

He had no other choice but to instinctively ask Ma Le for help.

Ma Le was conflicted and helpless.

He really wanted to help, but he didn't dare.

The man's desperate gaze echoed in Ma Le's mind.

Ma Le has a secret.

No one knew this secret, not even Ma Le himself.

He is a stand-in.

His Stand was passively triggered, and even he himself was unaware of its existence.

From childhood to adulthood, this stand-in had helped him on numerous occasions.

Stand Name: Irreplaceable

Ontology: Ma Le

Destructive power: None — A

Speed None — A

Range C - None

Endurance B

Precision A

Growth potential B

Ability: The Stand itself has no offensive capabilities, shares the same field of vision as the user, and can stay no more than three meters away from the user.

When the original body receives a request, if the request is reasonable and the original body genuinely wants to help the other party, the substitute will enter a possession state.

In this state, the user will gain immense strength and speed, exceptional precision, and some simple superpowers that will help them complete the request.

The original body will not retain the memories of the possessed state.

As the Stand ability was activated, Marlo lost consciousness.

His originally thin frame suddenly swelled up, transforming him into a muscular giant.

After Ma Le tore the two corpses apart, the man had already disappeared.

But the matter wasn't over yet; their actions attracted even more nocturnal creatures.

"This is troublesome..."

Ma Le, or rather, "irreplaceable," lit a cigarette for himself.

He exhaled a smoke ring, and two blades materialized in his hand.

After all, when dealing with night creatures, fists are not as effective as blades.

After a while, Zhou Su arrived in the vicinity.

He also saw Ma Le fighting hard.

"This...that can't be Ma Le, can it...?"

The reason he could tell was simple: the clothes were the same.

Ma Le, on the other hand, is not having such a good time.

His transformation time is almost here.

"Irreplaceable" understands that once his abilities fail, he will likely die without a burial place.

He also saw Zhou Su rushing over, so he made a decision.

One of the abilities of "Irreplaceable" is that it can consume transformation time to gain some abilities that are not very strong.

He traded it for the ability of telepathy.

Some people think it's pretty strong, right?

This ability can only transmit a single sentence in one direction within a range of fifty meters.

"Run quickly, I don't have much time left."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Su was startled.

He made a decision.

He took out some reagents and syringes and pricked himself.

He has a secret, a secret he has never told anyone.

He is a stand-in.

All these years of psychotherapy have been for the purpose of controlling my abilities.

Ma Le fell down, but Zhou Su emerged.

The world at this moment was no longer a dark scene, but a world of clear black and white.

A highly disjointed stand-in appeared in front of Zhou Su. This stand-in was black on one side and white on the other, wearing clothes with black on the left and white on the right, and a hat with black on the right and white on the left.

On the shoulders of this double, there was a crow and a pigeon.

Stand Name: Mist

Ontology: Zhousu

Destructive power C

Speed C

Range B

Endurance B

Precision A

Growth potential C

Ability: Transforms the user's dream into reality, during which the user can act as a stand-in in the real world.

For so many years, Zhou Su has been controlling himself from dreaming.

But he was also preparing.