[304] Sister's Stand

"Huh? What's this... Ah! I'm in another world?"

Kazuya was a bit bewildered.

Just following the awakening of his Stand ability, D4C, he decided to try the feeling. And then... he ended up in another world?

No sensation.

It was as simple as walking through a door in a room, just passing through.

His intuition, no... his Stand told him that this was another world.

"No, the first thing to confirm is whether we can go back—"

Thinking of this issue, he broke into a cold sweat. Too fast! He had no preparation; it would be disastrous if he couldn't return.

In that world, there were too many things he couldn't give up.

So...

First, try if it's possible to go back!

Stand, D4C.

It could be said to be a quite powerful Stand—

Apart from the ability to travel through parallel worlds.

Its attributes were also outstanding.

Looking at this familiar environment, Kazuya let out a slight sigh of relief. "I made it... But there's still something to confirm, and that is the version of my current D4C."

D4C had two versions, one was the original version, and the other was an evolved version after obtaining the approval of the Saint's corpse.

But both were capable of traveling through parallel worlds, with the second version being slightly stronger, having undergone some evolution based on the original.

However, Kazuya's current version of D4C was the original one.

Nevertheless, it was sufficient. Traveling through parallel worlds was all he needed.

As for D4C's attributes.

The first version of D4C, is like Star Platinum.

Destructive power, speed, durability, precision, and growth were all rated as A. The range was rated as C.

Of course, even so, it didn't mean he could go up against Star Platinum in close combat. After all...Star Platinum's A rating was due to the panel's upper limit being only A.

Stands didn't have attributes like A+ or EX.

The upper limit was A.

"Well... I'm quite familiar with it now. But there's one more thing to do."

The reasons for Stand awakenings were various, among them... awakening suddenly, even earlier than himself. He hadn't thought about it before.

But now that he had calmed down a bit, carefully thinking about it, he thought of a possibility—his sister, Kurokawa Kazumi, was in danger.

The outbreak of spiritual energy in danger brought forth the possibility of awakening her Stand!

If that was the case, he had to check it out.

The world... in front of him seemed to turn into pages of a book.

Each page was a different world.

In three of them, he sensed familiar auras, one—was the world where he currently existed.

He could feel that he could leave from here and come back whenever he wanted.

The second world was the one he accidentally went to when experimenting with his Stand ability D4C. These two worlds were revealed before him.

Now, the current world showed him the most. Although the world he had inadvertently visited also had a familiar aura, it was very weak.

Lastly...

He could sense, in one of the worlds, the presence of a familiar person.

That must be his sister, Kurokawa Kazumi, right?

D4C had many ways to be used, but there was one premise, and that was "to fold." Anything was fine.

Even a falling drop of water and the ground counted as folding.

In other words, rainy days.

He could traverse parallel worlds anytime, anywhere.

A sheet of paper was thrown up, covering Kazuya's head. When this sheet of paper slowly fell to the ground, there was nothing left in the original location.

Kazuya, once again, traversed through parallel worlds, heading towards the world where the familiar aura was—

...

"Phew—" Wiping away the blood on his forehead.

Kazumi leaned against the wall, trying to slow down her breathing. "Breathe... First, calm down your breathing!"

She didn't have the spare energy to think about other things right now.

She had to quickly restore her breathing, using Ripple breathing, generating ripples of energy, so she could survive!

Bang!

The entire ceiling collapsed.

A man descended from the ceiling, looking at Kazumi who rolled to the side, and smiled mockingly. "Found you~ little mouse."

Kazumi didn't say anything, just turned and ran—

But.

Just a few seconds later, she was caught up by that man. His arm pierced through her chest. "Stop running like this all the time, little mouse."

Crack, crack, crack—

The next moment, the man's face changed.

The person in front of him suddenly exploded, mercury carried a golden glow along his arm, trying to directly destroy his brain!

"What is this—?"

"You fell for it again?" Taking advantage of his distraction, Kazumi directly kicked him away and then turned and ran!

She didn't believe this move could take down that dead apostole. The previous move was a technique that only she in the entire Magic Association could use, developed by her sensei—El-Melloi II.

It used illusion magecraft combined with a small amount of mercury to create a puppet with illusion magecraft. But in this case, even an ordinary magus could tell it was fake!

The key was Ripple!

Ripple was the manifestation of life energy.

Compared to magic, it felt closer to Ripple and was incapable of various offensive uses. Still, it had more confusing properties.

Mercury was liquid, capable of perfectly conducting Ripple.

Making it look like a real person!

And relying on the small amount of volumen hydrargyrum, it could even make that existence move and had more confusing properties!

"You damn little mouse..." The dead apostle stood up, cutting off his own arm, or else the mercury would destroy his heart and brain through the blood vessels in his arm.

At that time, he would truly lose.

"Alright, let me teach you what a dead apostle really is—"

Kazumi's breathing was rapid, but it was still Ripple breathing. She didn't need to defeat the opponent; she just needed to buy time.

Now, someone had come to rescue her!

Her senior, a brand-rank magus—Svin Glascheit.

He should be here in a few minutes—

But, could she hold on for those few minutes?

"You damn—"

"Again?" Kazumi's face turned ugly. "When will this end! You, you annoying shit—"

In an instant... she felt like something had changed.

Was it the world?

Or something else?

In any case...

A pink figure appeared from behind her, just like a spiritual figure.

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