On the bridge connecting Italy to Venice, without taking a plane, it was the fastest way to reach the location shown in Pericolo's photo.
Takatsuki only told them about the enemies they would encounter and their Stand abilities; he didn't say how to complete the mission, nor did he want to interfere with their decisions.
The result was that they still chose the same method as in the original story to go to the station.
That was to split into two groups.
One group would drive to the station as quickly as possible to retrieve the Disc, while the other would take a boat, a slower but relatively more covert way, to retrieve the Disc.
However, this time, Takatsuki was added to the group sent to retrieve the Disc.
Narancia, due to his Stand's extremely strong reconnaissance abilities, was assigned to drive the small boat with the turtle to Venice.
"The enemy must know our destination is Venice, and this bridge is the fastest and only way to Venice. If I were the assassination squad, I would definitely set up an ambush here."
Takatsuki said to the two from the passenger seat.
"Even if you say that, Fugo, there are no traces of pursuit behind us. The Stand ability you mentioned can't keep up with a car going over a hundred kilometers per hour, can it?"
Mista, sitting in the back, leaned against the rear window, looking behind them.
The city was still asleep in the dead of night, with no other vehicles.
How would the enemy appear?
Takatsuki observed the surrounding bridge. Although there was some fog on the car windows, it was indeed only caused by the temperature difference at night and high-speed driving.
"Ghiaccio might be hiding in the car, secretly lowering the vehicle's temperature. I'll roll down the window a bit to check the outside temperature."
Considering it was difficult to judge the outdoor temperature inside the car, Takatsuki chose to open the car window a crack.
The cold wind from the high-speed driving swept in through the gap in the window, but that was just the low temperature caused by high-speed driving, not the extreme cold brought by a Stand ability.
Looking at the bridge ahead, this bridge was only 3.5 kilometers long. At their current speed, crossing this bridge and reaching the station at the bridge's end would only take two minutes.
If the enemy didn't come now, they would reach the statue at the station first.
After some thought, Takatsuki said, "Mista, be careful when you look behind you. Don't directly touch the glass. Their Stand ability can rapidly lower the temperature. If the glass is rapidly cooled, it might freeze your body directly, or even tear it."
Although there was no cold wind outside, Takatsuki still reminded Mista.
Leaving aside the original story, Bronya also possessed White Album, and Takatsuki had fought White Album multiple times, so he roughly understood its freezing speed.
If he had the Demonic Fire on him, he wouldn't fear the cold, but now he was just a normal human body.
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Strangely, after Takatsuki's warning, he didn't hear any reply.
"Mista?"
Giorno also felt a strange sensation. While maintaining the car's speed, he glanced at the rearview mirror inside the car.
When he saw the scene behind him, Giorno's face changed drastically.
"Fugo! Be careful!"
Actually, Giorno didn't need to warn him; Takatsuki had already noticed.
Giorno's drastic change in expression wasn't because he saw something terrifying; on the contrary, he saw nothing at all.
That's right, Mista, who was originally in the back passenger seat, had disappeared.
"It's Baby Face! Be careful!"
Among the known enemies, only Baby Face could achieve such an ability to make someone instantly disappear.
They hadn't disappeared; they had been turned into inorganic matter by Baby Face and merged into other objects.
"You know me?"
A somewhat sharp voice suddenly echoed inside the car.
Although they were prepared, Giorno and Takatsuki's expressions still changed.
"Damn it! He turned into the car!"
The two instantly realized where Baby Face was hiding. The opponent had merged with the car; they were now like inside the opponent's body, completely within their range.
"The turtle isn't in the car. What do we do, Papa?"
Baby Face didn't immediately attack the two, but instead asked a question.
Papa?
Just as the doubt arose, a somewhat rough voice sounded inside the car: "Don't call me Papa! If he's not here, just kill these guys! Let me out!"
"Okay, Papa."
Extreme cold air permeated the car.
It turned out that Ghiaccio hadn't failed to catch up; instead, at some unknown point, he had been brought into the car by Baby Face.
Watching the car roof gradually decompose into a human figure, and an intense cold emanating from that person, it seemed to instantly freeze the two.
"Giorno, Baby Face is yours."
Looking at Ghiaccio who appeared in the back passenger seat, Takatsuki only had time to utter a sentence before disappearing from the passenger seat.
At the same time, Ghiaccio and the extremely cold air in the car also disappeared.
Ghiaccio's Stand was not another humanoid entity, but a special ability, just like a superpower.
However, thanks to this, Ghiaccio's freezing air was also brought into the mirror world, and Giorno, whose body had already been partially frozen, also got a chance.
After the temperature rapidly rose, he immediately summoned Gold Experience and punched the car.
On the other side, Ghiaccio realized something when he saw Giorno instantly disappear.
"This is... Illuso's Stand!?"
Ghiaccio looked at the car, which was driving as if someone were driving it despite having no driver, and looked at Takatsuki's direction with some shock.
"This Stand, you're not Fugo!? Can your Stand steal other people's Stands?!"
Although Ghiaccio was irritable, he wasn't stupid. In an instant, he judged Takatsuki's Stand ability.
"However, Illuso and the others' abilities are no match for me. Prosciutto's ability can be broken with just low temperature. Pesci's fishhook can't penetrate my armor at all, and neither can Formaggio. If you can't hurt the opponent, you can't shrink them."
Although he didn't know what other abilities Takatsuki had in reserve, Ghiaccio instantly guessed the abilities Takatsuki might possess. As a teammate, he was very familiar with the other's Stand abilities and understood the counter relationships between them very clearly.
It could be said that among the Bucciarati Squad, his ability was ranked first in a direct confrontation, even Risotto was not his opponent.
"Oh, is that so... but I don't need to fight you, Beach Boy!"
A fishhook and fishing line suddenly flew out from Heaven's Stairway's finger, directly out of the car, carrying Takatsuki with it.
It was then that Ghiaccio discovered that half of the car, which he had already frozen, had disappeared at some point.
There are no living beings in the Mirror World.
And Giorno's ability is to turn non-living things into living things, so what would happen if he turned the car into a living thing?
The answer is, it would instantly disappear in the Mirror World.
In the original work, to locate Illuso, he did something similar. To prevent it from completely disappearing in the Mirror World, he didn't even completely turn the brick that became a snake into a snake, keeping part of its non-living characteristics, and that was the reason.
So in the Mirror World, what he and Fugo saw was a brick moving on the ground out of thin air.