JOJO: Bizarre Adventure

"Did you notice? He really is a talented young man."

Luo Anke's lips curled into a smile, and he abruptly stopped what he was doing.

"The Messenger of the End!"

With a step back followed by a teleport, Loanke quickly created distance between himself and his opponent.

"What are his abilities?"

After standing next to Diablo, Loanke looked straight ahead and spoke.

"It should be 'damage transfer'."

Diablo shared his guess, though he wasn't sure himself.

"That's right, at least, it's the same conclusion I reached."

Hearing Loanke's response and seeing the battered villa gate, Diablo was momentarily agitated.

"Is this what a battle between Stand users is like...?"

Loanke stubbed out his cigarette and faced the enemy before him.

"Logically speaking, since you already know the other party's abilities, you should be the one to go up and fight."

Diablo was utterly shocked by these words.

"Dude, are you even speaking human language? You want me to fight a professional assassin with superpowers one-on-one?"

Of course, he didn't say that aloud.

"However, this guy's abilities are troublesome. If he gets the first move, I won't even be able to save you."

Luo Anke hadn't finished speaking.

"So I'll take care of him first, and then I'll let you practice on someone more suitable later."

He said this as if it were perfectly reasonable for Diavolo, an ordinary person, to kill a Stand user.

Stand Name: Overload

Original body: Oriko Seius

Destructive power D

Speed ​​B

Range: None

Endurance A

Precision D

Growth potential D

Ability: Damage Transfer. The tentacles attach to an object, and all damage received will be transferred to the attached object.

Appearance: A gray tentacle.

This is a pretty strong stunt double.

Thirty minutes later.

"This is such a hassle, I have to handle it."

In the basement of the villa, Loanke looked at Seuss, who was tied up and looked like he hadn't woken up yet.

“I’ll ask, you answer. If you try to be tough with me, I’ll tie you up three more times, weigh you down with stones, drag you to the edge of a cliff, and throw you into the sea to fend for yourself.”

He sat in a sofa chair, his eyes lazily fixed on the enemy he had bound like a dumpling.

That's right, solving Seuss's "overload" is that simple: just tie him up.

Because the Stand's power is extremely weak, he has no ability to break free from the restraints.

However, it must be said that it took Luo Anke quite a bit of effort to deal with him.

After all, Seuss wasn't just standing there letting him tie him up.

"Who sent you?"

"I can not……"

"I told you, if you don't want to be thrown into the sea to fend for yourself, answer my questions properly."

"It's the government! I'm an assassin from the government's special agency! My mission this time is to take down that prophesied guy!"

Loanke squinted and scratched his head.

"As expected..."

He then asked:

"If you die here, will new killers come?"

"It might... or it might not. After all, both missions failed, and the higher-ups might reassess the feasibility of this mission..."

But I will absolutely obey you, please don't kill me..."

Luo Anke waved his hand, signaling the other person to shut up.

"I won't kill you, that would be too much trouble. It would be too dangerous to let someone else do it, and it would be too much trouble for me to do it myself... In short, I won't kill you easily."

His nonchalant attitude relieved Seuss.

"Then tell me where you got this information from."

"This, this, I don't know either. I'm just an assassin who takes on missions. These things are never something that people like us should know."

"Okay, that's settled then. I'll ask you if anything else comes up. Please bear with it for now."

Loanke got up and walked towards the door behind him.

"I'll bring you food if you want, uh..."

He seemed to suddenly remember something, paused for a moment, and then turned around and asked:

"Your Stand tentacles should be useful for grabbing food, right?"

Seuss hadn't expected the other party to be so considerate, even taking into account how he would eat.

"Basic retrieving of items is not a problem."

After receiving a response, Luo Anke did not react and simply continued walking towards the door.

"Kid, learn something. To deal with Stand users, you need to find the right methods. Many seemingly unsolvable abilities actually have weaknesses. There are no perfect Stands, only incompetent opponents."

He added two more sentences after that.

"Including my 'Emperor of the End.'"

There's another sentence,

"And your Stand, no matter how powerful it is, will have weaknesses. Protect your weaknesses, don't let anyone discover them, and don't give the enemy any opportunity to target them."

These words were etched in the mind of the young Diablo.

"There are no perfect substitutes, only incompetent opponents."

After dealing with Seuss's problem, Loanke did not return to the second floor of the villa, but instead collapsed on the bed in the guest room next door.

Because the upstairs area has been completely ransacked by them, this is the only place downstairs that is still relatively intact.

"How did it go with the person I asked you to contact from [Hell]?"

"They said they would arrive soon and that the new accommodations were already prepared."

"Sigh... What a blunder. I should have let you contact the organization directly. You wouldn't have learned anything from watching this kind of battle anyway. Now I'm stuck in this lousy place."

Luo Anke lay in bed, but he was being rather talkative.

"To be honest, you are quite talented. Given time, you might actually surpass me and become a core member of the organization."

Diablo didn't know what to say, so he could only sit aside and force a smile.

Then, his tone changed again.

"You little rascal, you look very well-behaved, but you are actually ruthless and ambitious. With this talent, you are bound to achieve great things in the future."

Of course, Loanke could see through Diablo's little scheme. The first time they met, Diablo used the pretext of a fire to cause harm, and later he tried to ambush him and kill him to silence him.

As a veteran who had been in the underworld for many years, he could see the ambition in Diablo's eyes.

"Falinata's prophecies have never been wrong. Just how far can you go..."

Diablo was very curious about the Farinata he mentioned; he didn't know what the prophet was.

"Just who is this Farinata?"

"You'll understand when you meet him. He's a prophet who knows the future. His abilities are very strange, and I can't tell you the specifics right now."

Loanke did not want to answer Diablo's question directly.

"However, I can tell you that the ranks of these [Hell] cadres are based on hierarchy. He's at the 'Sixth Tier,' but of course, this rank has nothing to do with strength."

This is internal information about [Hell]. In fact, even Loanke doesn't know much about these hierarchical divisions.

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Storyteller Encyclopedia:

In fact, this matter shouldn't be explained in the encyclopedia, at least not now, because it might reveal some details about future events...

However, I still have to say that the ranks, names, and Stand abilities of the officers in Hell are all derived from Dante's Inferno.

These people's names are all ancient names mentioned in "The Divine Comedy," referring to those who were punished at some level.

Their Stand abilities are the punishments they suffer.

Therefore, all of their stand-ins were designed from the beginning, including Rinnell, Farinata, and Virgil.

Of course, these are the only characters; the others, like the "Seven Deadly Sins," are original characters.