A few minutes ago...
Takatsuki, who was originally smiling as he watched Jotaro put psychological pressure on D'Arby, suddenly changed his expression.
"Takatsuki..."
Mei's voice from beside him also came at the right time, confirming the fluctuation he had just felt.
"It's Kiana!"
Takatsuki whispered, then said to Jotaro, "Jotaro, deal with him. Something happened to Kiana, no time to waste. Mei and I will go first!"
After speaking, Takatsuki took Mei and rushed towards the direction of the Honkai Energy fluctuation he had just sensed.
Sensing Honkai Energy in a world where it didn't exist, the only possibility was Kiana. Although Mei didn't know why, Takatsuki knew that such a violent Honkai Energy fluctuation was exactly like when Miss Lightning Herrscher appeared.
He hadn't expected that on this journey, two Herrschers would appear. Sirin shouldn't have enough power to come out, should she?
Polnareff still wanted to ask how Takatsuki knew, but all he saw was the hurried backs of Takatsuki and Mei leaving.
"Yare yare."
Pulling down his hat, Jotaro looked at D'Arby before him. Star Platinum also raised its fist under D'Arby's horrified gaze.
When Takatsuki and Mei arrived at the place where they sensed Honkai Energy, they saw widespread wreckage, and in the very center of this wreckage, a white-haired girl lay on the ground.
"Kiana!"
Mei quickly ran over and picked her up.
"Such serious injuries!"
Crazy Diamond quickly appeared to heal Kiana, but some of her injuries still couldn't be restored.
"What happened? Why aren't these injuries recovering?"
Takatsuki stood beside the two of them and saw the falcon's corpse lying not far away. He withdrew his gaze and knelt down to examine Kiana's injuries.
"Crazy Diamond's ability is repair, not healing, so it cannot create things out of thin air. These missing parts of Kiana's body should be because that flesh completely disappeared."
Looking at the missing flesh even after repair, Takatsuki made a judgment: "Just like the parts erased by The Hand cannot be repaired, this situation requires normal healing methods."
He took out a bottle of healing potion from his backpack, gently supported Kiana's head, and fed her the potion.
The system-certified potion had a remarkable effect; immediately after being administered, Kiana's flesh regenerated, and her eyelids fluttered open.
"Mei... Takatsuki... did you come to save me?"
Kiana, who had just opened her eyes and saw two familiar faces, only remembered up to the moment she collapsed.
"Kiana, are you alright? What happened?"
Although her memory was still stuck on the previous events, Kiana's body had fully recovered. Supported by Mei, she stood up and looked at her surroundings.
"I was attacked by that Stand called Yellow Temperance at the hotel, and he turned into a vampire. At first, he was chasing me, then I injured him with Hamon, and he kept fleeing until here."
Kiana, vaguely recalling the past events, suddenly saw Pet Shop's corpse not far away: "Ah! Right! Then that stinky bird killed that person, and then attacked me! Did you defeat it?!"
"Ah... no..."
"Yes, it was us. Everything's alright now."
Takatsuki interrupted Mei, giving her a look, and Mei understood, not continuing. Kiana, not suspecting anything, directly asked Takatsuki: "Takatsuki, quickly give me some clothes. I ran out in a hurry and didn't even change."
Kiana was still wearing her pajamas at this time. Although they had been repaired, wearing pajamas on the street was still not appropriate.
Takatsuki took out some new clothes he had bought earlier from his backpack and handed them to Kiana. However, there was no underwear, and the two wouldn't entrust underwear to Takatsuki for safekeeping.
It wasn't a matter of distrust, but entrusting such things to someone of the opposite sex always felt embarrassing.
After changing clothes behind a nearby bush, Kiana came out: "Alright, let's go back. Seriously, I haven't even had breakfast yet."
"We can't go back yet."
Takatsuki said, looking at the mansion not far away.
"Huh? Why?"
"Kiana, didn't you notice? This is the place Mr. Joestar and the others are looking for."
Mei saw Takatsuki's gaze and also noticed the mansion, knowing that their journey was finally about to end.
"But I'm really hungry..."
Takatsuki took out some food and gave it to Kiana, then casually opened the system's gacha interface: "Come on, Kiana, the final battle is coming. Let's see what we'll pull!"
After Kiana defeated Yellow Temperance and Pet Shop, Takatsuki's crystals finally reached 500 again, and D'Arby had just been defeated, exceeding it by fifty.
Takatsuki finally discovered that repeatedly defeating the same person could also yield rewards, but he had no intention of farming crystals anymore, having reached this point.
Kiana ate the food in her hand while tapping the gacha button.
Mei also leaned in to watch; gacha was always exciting, especially when the pulled items could materialize.
Seeing the gold only appear on the tenth pull, Takatsuki seriously suspected if this system's drop rate was only for the guaranteed pull.
"What did you get? What did you get?"
Takatsuki first clicked on the golden item. To make it immediately useful, Takatsuki chose to draw from the item pool.
"Don't rush, let me see."
Demonic Steel - Gilgamesh (S)
Effect: Can integrate with living beings, strengthening the body and imbuing attacks with impact force.
Description: Made from the special demonic metal, Demonic Steel. It can change its form according to the user's will, and when attacking, it generates massive shockwaves based on the user's strength.
Taking a deep breath, Takatsuki's eyes widened. Although it came from the same universe as Ebony and Ivory, this equipment was incomparable to two guns.
Although this equipment was not a demonic artifact, it possessed power comparable to or even surpassing demonic artifacts.
If the characteristic of a magic tool is growth, then the characteristic of Demonic Steel is that the stronger the host, the stronger its effect!
Looking at the mansion not far away, and then at this equipment and the Ox Talisman in the equipment slot, Takatsuki understood the meaning of this equipment appearing here.
"Takatsuki, what's this for?"
Unlike Takatsuki, who could see the effect of equipment in his mind, others could at most see only its appearance and name.
"This is a good item, a weapon of sorts. You'll know when I use it to show you later."
Takatsuki didn't explain in detail. He put Gilgamesh into his equipment slot, then opened the remaining ten purple items. The ten-pull yielded eleven items, which wasn't bad.
Shadowkhan Mask, Stone Mask, Blue Rose, Snowblade Dance, Holy Blessing Potion * 10, Pig Talisman, Rat Talisman, Kusanagi Sword, Kubikiribocho, and Ame-no-Murakumo.
The items weren't outstanding, but they weren't useless either.
Takatsuki was initially happy when he saw the Shadowkhan Mask, but when he saw the description that the user would release their inner darkness after wearing it, Takatsuki decided to put it aside.
This thing couldn't be removed once equipped, unless by special means.
The Stone Mask was even worse.
The few weapons that appeared were only average. The Kusanagi Sword was not the one from mythology, but rather from the Naruto world, along with the Kubikiribocho, possessing only the characteristics of sturdiness and sharpness.
However, the Holy Blessing Potion was very useful.
"You two drink this. It can protect you when you encounter danger."
The effect of the Holy Blessing Potion was simple: when suffering a fatal injury, it would induce a state of suspended animation and slowly heal injuries. It was different from the game, but it was still a life-saving measure.
Its biggest advantage was that it had no duration!
Once drunk, it was permanently effective until triggered!