"Hey, Manion, who do you think the Boss wants us to ambush?"
In a place that looked like a Bunker, two people were hiding. A man lying on his side on a large rock spoke to the other man, who was sitting with his arms resting on his knees.
"That's none of our business, Boult. You just need to maintain your labyrinth."
Manion looked up at Boult and said.
"Sigh, you're still so boring, so lifeless. No wonder your Stand is Requiem of the Dead, an ability that awakens the dead."
Boult shook his head with a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, my labyrinth is just as its name suggests: no escape. The people on the island will absolutely not be able to get out of this labyrinth, because this is a living labyrinth."
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Meanwhile, Takatsuki retracted the fishhook from Heaven's Stairway's finger.
"A labyrinth, huh."
The walls of these mazes were indestructible, but Beach Boy's fishhooks could pass through them. Relying on Beach Boy, Takatsuki was able to ascertain the architectural layout of the surrounding area.
These mazes were not only intricate but their walls were also constantly moving.
Therefore, Takatsuki couldn't be certain if a true exit existed; what he could be certain of was that this maze could be walked through indefinitely.
"But... do you think this can stop me?"
He returned to the real world directly through his phone screen, sent the surrounding zombies flying, and Takatsuki took out a card.
"Delaying me with an indestructible maze, and then continuously summoning zombies to harass me—if you think that's enough to escape, you're thinking too much."
Takatsuki had already thought of many ways to escape, but they all required some time, and with the harassment from these zombies, it would waste even more time. His goal wasn't to escape, but to capture the fleeing Diavolo.
Takatsuki was certain that Diavolo had not yet escaped the island's perimeter.
Although he didn't know why, these zombies didn't attack Diavolo, yet the maze still blocked him.
"Ai, are you sure it's okay to use the Multiverse Card like this?"
Takatsuki called out to Ai in his mind, asking.
Ai immediately replied, "Of course it's fine, Dad. You could say you are both Takatsuki and not Takatsuki right now, so summoning a past Takatsuki is completely fine. Don't worry, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much energy to let you draw this card."
"What do you mean 'spent so much energy'? It was my crystals, alright! At the cost of one less S-rank item, I spent a thousand crystals just to draw this Multiverse Card. If it's useless, it's a huge loss."
Despite saying this, Takatsuki still activated the Multiverse Card in his hand.
It should be noted that this S-rank item was the only Multiverse Card.
The moment it was activated, the figure on the Multiverse Card instantly transformed, becoming a person with short black hair, wearing casual clothes, and followed by a mechanical humanoid floating in mid-air.
The Multiverse Card, held between his sword fingers, was thrown out by Takatsuki. In mid-air, it instantly turned into a scorching flame, and from within that flame, a figure emerged.
"I can even summon myself, huh? So what's the situation now? I can only stay for three hours."
Although he had just been summoned, this summoned self already had some understanding of the situation, such as who the summoner was and how long he could stay.
Three hours was already a very long time.
After all, the duration of a Multiverse Card summon depended on the causal relationship and strength difference between the two. If Takatsuki's current strength wasn't so weak, he could even have this self stay for a whole day.
The causal relationship was directly maximized.
"The mission is to capture Diavolo and grant him eternal life, but also to kill Doppio. There are two unknown Stand users on the island now: one has the ability to create indestructible walls forming a mobile maze, and the other has the ability to summon zombie-like monsters to attack me."
Takatsuki succinctly explained the current situation.
"I see. I've already found those three people, but this wall really..."
Saying this, the summoned Takatsuki punched the wall hard.
But there was no reaction at all.
It neither broke it nor produced any recoil, as if he had just gently placed his fist on it.
"It seems so, after all."
Takatsuki No. 2 nodded.
"I tried it before. How's your current strength? How many methods do you have? Do you have a way to solve the mission?"
Takatsuki didn't stop his other self's attempt; he was more concerned about whether this self had the means to help him complete the mission.
"I'm the me from just after finishing the trial, you understand? Everything is available except for the system. But a temporarily summoned self couldn't possibly have a system, right? Otherwise, wouldn't it be an infinite recursion?"
Takatsuki No. 2's words made Takatsuki's eyes light up: "So, you have that thing on you right now?"
"Mm, that's right."
Takatsuki No. 2 smiled.
"Good, good, then I'll leave it to you. I'll step back a bit."
Takatsuki glanced at the ground and then said to Takatsuki No. 2.
"No need for such trouble, just leave it to me."
But Takatsuki No. 2 stopped Takatsuki's movement. With a stretch of his right hand, Takatsuki felt his feet leave the ground, and he floated into mid-air.
"Chicken Talisman, you haven't forgotten, have you? It's not just for personal use."
Takatsuki No. 2 smiled: "Just watch, I'll take care of the rest."
Saying this, he raised his fist, and red-black Haki wrapped around his arm.
And what about Diavolo at this moment?
After escaping Takatsuki's pursuit, he also got lost.
"That person couldn't possibly know Gold Experience Requiem's attack mechanism. Although I can't escape from this maze either, the possibility of two people meeting in this mobile maze is too low."
Walking through the mobile maze, Diavolo stopped, sat down on the spot, and began to rest.
He deeply understood the abilities of his personal guard squad.
He hadn't told them he would come here, only instructed them to ambush here and, upon receiving his command, to release their Stand abilities with this island as the range.
The range of no escape just happened to be up to the island's shore, so the order he gave back then was not to allow the Bucciarati Squad to land.
As soon as they landed, they would enter the range of no escape.
However, he wasn't sure if Bucciarati's Sticky Fingers could break through the no-escape blockade, so he still hadn't had the two people ambushed here activate their abilities.
But now there was no other way.
However...
"I just need to wait for that guy to be killed."
Diavolo thought this.
The two people in the Bunker at the center of the island were also waiting like this.
But soon, all three of them sensed something was amiss.
"What's that noise!?"
"Manion, did you notice it?"
In fact, Boult didn't need to say anything; Manion had already stood up first, wanting to figure out the source of the noise.
"Shh!"
Manion pressed his ear against the wall.
A sound was coming from the other side of the wall, like... the earth rumbling.
Crack...
Manion watched in horror as a tiny crack spread from where his palm was pressed against the wall.
"This..."
Boom!
Before he could say anything, a huge explosion suddenly echoed over the ocean.
Yes, the ocean, not the island.
Because this Isola Maggiore disappeared from the island; it was completely shattered into countless fragments and vanished into this ocean.