A Saiyan's Journey

After obtaining the ability of Red Hot Chili Pepper, Zuke quickly put it to use.

"Red Hot Chili Pepper" is truly a versatile Stand. Beyond absorbing electricity to enhance strength and speed, and manipulating currents for attacks, it has another key advantage: intelligence gathering.

By transforming into electricity and infiltrating power lines, Red Hot Chili Pepper can observe almost every electrified home.

In the original series, Red Hot Chili Pepper monitored nearly all the protagonists' activities without them realizing it.

Now, Zuke had harnessed this power, and under his control, Blackbird transformed into electricity and entered the power grid.

The experience was surreal. Zuke felt his brain instantly flooded with chaotic information—details of what Blackbird "saw" inside various households' electrical systems.

Soon enough, Zuke extracted the intelligence he sought.

"Rohan Kishibe's house... perfect, right here."

Yes, Zuke was targeting the most practical Stand of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Rohan Kishibe's Heaven's Door.

Actually, it might be an understatement to call it the most practical Stand of Part 4—it's arguably the most practical Stand across the entire JoJo series.

Heaven's Door has the power to turn any living being into a "book" and flip through their pages.

By reading these "pages," one can learn everything about a person—their life experiences, personality, and thoughts.

Even more incredible, Heaven's Door allows its user to write on the "pages"!

For example, if you write "Cannot attack Zuke," that person will never be able to attack him. If you write "Commit suicide immediately," they will carry out the act at once.

Dubbed the "Reality Rewrite" ability by fans, its utility is undeniable.

Though Rohan Kishibe is a protagonist in Part 4 and highly popular…

Zuke couldn't pass up the chance to claim Heaven's Door. It'd be like walking past an open vault and not taking a single penny—an unthinkable waste.

Even Zuke himself would regret it.

"But it looks like he's with Koichi Hirose right now…"

From what Blackbird observed through Rohan Kishibe's outlet, Rohan was currently with Koichi Hirose.

Koichi was heading to Italy tomorrow, but since he was just an ordinary high school student, he didn't speak Italian.

So, before Koichi's departure, Rohan planned to use Heaven's Door to implant extensive Italian vocabulary into his memory, allowing him to speak fluent Italian.

It seemed Koichi would be spending the entire day with Rohan.

"...Looks like I can't make a move on Rohan today."

After some thought, Zuke decided to hold off on confronting Rohan.

Attacking Rohan now would disrupt Koichi's trip to Italy.

While Zuke could go to Italy himself, he wasn't confident he'd locate the Part 5 protagonists or Diavolo.

The awkward memory of searching for DIO in Cairo for ages was still fresh in his mind. Expanding the search to all of Italy? He had no idea how long that would take.

It was much easier to let Koichi lead the way.

With that in mind, Zuke temporarily set Rohan aside.

However, abandoning the plan entirely was out of the question. Once he wrapped up his business in Italy, he would return to claim Rohan's ability.

Unlike Diavolo, whose location was uncertain, Rohan's address was fixed. There was no rush.

"The Kira residence, huh… Apparently, the head of the household went on a trip abroad years ago and never returned."

Near the now-vacant Kira family mansion in Morioh, Zuke heard about the family's situation from an elderly local.

"And their son committed murder—not just one person, but several. He was sentenced to death right away."

The old man shook his head in lament as he recounted the Kira family's misfortunes, seemingly using them as a cautionary tale.

"So the house has been confiscated by the authorities and recently cleared out. It should be up for sale soon."

Seeing the mansion's nameplate already removed, Zuke nodded. Things were unfolding as he had anticipated—the timeline of this world had shifted based on his influence.

His actions were directly altering the storyline. There wouldn't be cases where he made significant changes, only to find everything unchanged the next time he entered a mission world.

This confirmed the wisdom of his earlier decision to mentor Sakura Matou during the Fourth Holy Grail War—his actions would indeed shape the future.

Without the "Arrow" from his father, Kira Yoshikage never awakened the Stand Killer Queen. Unable to cover his tracks, his crimes were exposed, and he was captured and sentenced to death.

Though, with the sluggish pace of executions in Japan, Kira might die of old age in prison before his sentence was carried out.

But that wasn't Zuke's concern. A Kira without a Stand held no value to him. Zuke couldn't care less about his treatment in prison.

"…Then again, maybe I could locate Kira in prison, force his Stand awakening, and seize Killer Queen for myself."

Just as Zuke prepared to leave, a bold idea struck him.

"With Kira's demonstrated Stand potential in the original series, he's bound to awaken Killer Queen if pushed."

The main quest might no longer involve Kira, but that didn't mean Zuke couldn't find his own way to acquire Killer Queen.

The ability to turn objects into bombs and detonate them might sound straightforward, but its applications were incredibly versatile.

If Zuke wanted to destroy something highly durable—even if it couldn't be blown up directly—he could turn the object itself into a bomb and detonate it.

In a sense, Killer Queen's ability to transform anything into a bomb was defense-piercing.

You might withstand the blast damage, but if you became the bomb, what could you do?

Though he wasn't sure if this trick would work on Frieza… it was worth a try.

"The problem is figuring out which prison Kira is in… When I was looking for Akira Otoishi earlier, I didn't find Kira in that facility."

To be continued...

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