"I want to live a happier life than anyone else!!" Kira Yoshikage shouted with difficulty.
Johnson wanted to pull out the arrow, but there was no longer any opportunity. The arrow pierced Kira Yoshikage's throat through his hand, then exited from the back of his neck.
"Damn it..."
Johnson Joffrey immediately retreated several steps, completely leaving Killer Queen's range, but he casually took the arrow and also pulled out the thread from Kira Yoshikage's chest.
Johnson looked down at the arrow, then connected the arrow to the thread from Kira Yoshikage's chest, which finally put him slightly at ease.
Johnson Joffrey didn't know Kira Yoshikage had such a protagonist-like move. Shouldn't it only be protagonists who get shot by an arrow while on the verge of death and awaken some powerful superpower?
No matter how you activate your Bites the Dust, today you, Kira Yoshikage, are dead for sure.
Reversed Hierophant was about to let go, and at the same time, Kira Yoshikage barely regained consciousness—
Only if I am alive is there true hope.
I, Kira Yoshikage, just want to live a peaceful life.
I will definitely turn this losing battle around.
He reached out his hand and raised his thumb—
"Johnson Joffrey, our battle isn't over yet. I'm at my limit. I'm going to press it..."
Johnson Joffrey narrowed his eyes and frowned, watching Kira Yoshikage struggle like a trapped beast.
Kira Yoshikage had never suffered such a blow in his life, but he had always been clever. Sometimes his will would waver in despair, and he would do extremely impulsive things when at a loss.
(For details, see killing Hayato, revealing his true name at a crucial moment, getting agitated when nervous, biting his fingers frantically, and having an unstable will.)
Johnson Joffrey retreated again. Kira Yoshikage's Bites the Dust required strict activation conditions: someone had to be in front of him and speak his true name for it to activate. So, there was only one person who could serve as a condition for him to activate Bites the Dust, and that was his father.
He had to strike first. Johnson used a connecting arrow and Kira Yoshikage's string to design a noose, which he threw over his father's head, directly pulling him over. He held Kira Yoshihiro in his hand, preventing him from becoming a condition for Bites the Dust's activation.
Reversed Hierophant reached out—
He lightly released his hand from the control string.
The string tightened instantly, and at the same time, Kira Yoshikage pressed his thumb, as if the sound of a button being pressed could be heard.
Johnson Joffrey frowned in surprise. He had already completely moved out of Bites the Dust's range, so why did he feel as if it had already been activated?
Kira Yoshikage didn't even have time to say a word before being completely swallowed by that golden arrow.
"Is it over?" Johnson slowly asked.
Reversed Hierophant grabbed Kira Yoshihiro, confirming that he had no trace of Kira Yoshikage's Killer Queen on him.
The scene was a mess due to the explosion and the battle.
"Johnson Joffrey—"
Johnson's whole body trembled, his mind feeling as if a bomb had exploded. He stared intently at the golden arrow, but that familiar voice was not coming from inside it.
The voice sounded as if Kira Yoshikage was chanting his resolve to himself.
Calm yet arrogant and disdainful.
My name is Kira Yoshikage.
This voice came from the sky, from every tombstone, from the swaying dead branches—
"Our battle is not over yet. You are currently within the range of my Third Bomb."
"I will absolutely not lose, Johnson Joffrey. I, Kira Yoshikage, am always lucky."
"Killer Queen—Third Bomb: Invincible (Under Pressure)!"
As Kira Yoshikage's words fell, Johnson Joffrey raised his hand, only to see that his hand had begun to crack, and in the middle of the cracks, a glowing flame was emanating.
"This is..."
Johnson Joffrey tried to activate his ability, but found it was useless; he couldn't even summon Reversed Hierophant.
"Hehehe." Kira Yoshikage's uncontrollable laughter came from all around, "Haha, Johnson Joffrey, I've blown up all factors unfavorable to me. You've already lost."
Starting from his hand, Johnson Joffrey felt his life beginning to drain away. He was like the surrounding scene—
Even space itself had been blown open by Kira Yoshikage.
Everything seemed like a two-dimensional painting, and Kira Yoshikage was like someone outside the painting. He held the painting with Johnson Joffrey on it, lit a lighter, and burned the scroll containing Johnson Joffrey to ashes.
—Johnson Joffrey felt a familiar sensation, a feeling just like in that irreversible alley. He knew now that what Kira Yoshikage called range was actually the complete stripping away of a space.
This was his new ability —
If Diavolo's ability was to extract himself from the timeline and temporarily gain a higher-dimensional perspective, then Kira Yoshikage's ability was far stronger than his.
He could strip away a portion of space, what he called his 'range,' turning it into a lower-dimensional world, and then detonate it.
Diavolo elevated himself dimensionally; Kira Yoshikage truly delivered a dimensional reduction attack.
There was no point in thinking about Unlimited Domain anymore, because his ability and Kira Yoshikage's ability were completely different things now.
Johnson Joffrey thought, but it was too late; his body had already begun to silently explode, burn, and decompose, just like Killer Queen's first explosion.
Everything around him was like an old, burned photograph.
Johnson Joffrey's eyes widened; what surprised him wasn't just the burning sensation all over his body, because Killer Queen's internal explosion was silent and instantaneous—
"To think that my, Johnson Joffrey's, dream will end here?"
But no miracle savior appeared; he looked down at the arrow in his hand, deciding to stab himself with it, but in the next second, the arrow also exploded, and the pain of the explosion vanished instantly.
And then—
The ordinary graveyard returned to its usual state.
The sun had completely set in the west, hidden beneath the raven-black mountains, and Sugimoto Reimi's tombstone, along with the others, seemed like lonely, unwilling souls hiding in the pitch-black earth, constantly recounting their terrifying pasts.
Everything returned to its end.
Kira Yoshikage resumed his peaceful life.
"Hoo-hoo-hoo—"
Kishibe Rohan rushed over; he should have arrived earlier, but the old man suddenly had heart problems and was sent to the hospital, forcing him to wait for the ambulance.
But—
"Johnson…"
Kishibe Rohan's eyes widened, looking at everything here in disbelief.
It was as if no one had ever been here… Not even the initial traces of Sheer Heart Attack's explosion remained—
"What is going on?!"