Looking at the distant, distorted, vaguely human-shaped giant rock outside the car window, Kira Yoshikage turned his head to look at the name of the street: Josenji Street.
"Well, it seems I'm still quite lucky."
After getting off the bus, Kira Yoshikage looked around. Josuke's house was nearby, close to that Angelo rock.
However, he couldn't quite remember which specific house it was, but he clearly remembered that the Higashikata House and the Nijimura family's house were neighbors, facing each other.
And the Nijimura family's house was very easy to find. After just a brief stroll, Kira Yoshikage easily located the abandoned house.
'Sure enough, just like in the original story, they live here.'
His gaze swept over the Nijimura family's front gate. Their house was easy to distinguish; first, it was abandoned and boarded up, and second, a specific feature was that one side of the gate was missing a character.
During the battle between Nijimura Okuyasu and Higashikata Josuke, The Hand's right hand, which could erase space, directly sliced off a character, and it hadn't been repaired yet. Kira Yoshikage, merely pretending to pass by, easily found the house.
But Kira Yoshikage simply walked past their door, doing nothing, just silently memorizing the address in his heart.
The time was not yet right; that damned bastard Red Hot Chili Pepper hadn't been dealt with. Making a move now would be a foolish choice.
His Killer Queen was inherently countered by Red Hot Chili Pepper, a super long-range Stand with extreme speed. Moreover, this damned chicken-like guy could freely move through power lines, making his mobility ridiculously high.
And Killer Queen, even if it could kill enemies with Stand explosions without touching the user, probably couldn't even touch a single hair of Red Hot Chili Pepper.
There was no way to fight this. He had to wait for him to be killed by the plot.
His moment to strike would be when Nijimura Okuyasu, with his astonishing wisdom, took down Otoishi Akira. At that time, he would directly target the protagonist group.
He would blow them all up!
He would never be like the original Kira Yoshikage, chased around like a stray dog begging for food by the roadside, only to be kicked away!
Finally, after walking back to the bus stop, he turned his head and took a deep look at the distant house. A beautiful woman with blue hair had just walked out of the room.
Kira Yoshikage immediately turned his head back to avoid eye contact, while silently memorizing the house number.
'Josenji Street, Block 1, Section 6. I've remembered it.'
'I will return.'
'Speaking of which, that woman named Tomoko Higashikata is quite attractive. I wonder if she meets Kira Yoshikage's requirements.'
Getting back on the bus, which was relatively empty, he casually found a seat, preparing to return to the original bus station and then drive his own car home.
Looking back through the window, the woman named Tomoko Higashikata was still tending to the yard at the entrance, completely oblivious.
Kira Yoshikage was completely relieved, thinking that he could stop to buy some ingredients for dinner on his way home.
Eating was also very important. If he wasn't healthy or developed problems, how could he defeat the protagonist group?
'What should I eat tonight? Should I buy ingredients and cook myself, as Kira Yoshikage usually does, or try to find that Italian restaurant?'
'That restaurant's food certainly looks very tempting. Even seeing it in the anime made my mouth water. It would be a shame not to try it myself now that I can.'
Thinking this, Kira Yoshikage once again took out the map he carried. He remembered that the restaurant was not far from Higashikata Josuke's house.
Soon, he could follow the map and his memory to walk around this area. Even if he didn't find the restaurant, he would familiarize himself with the surroundings, which would allow him to better ambush the protagonist group later.
However, when he looked up and put away the map, he saw an unexpected person... In a distant seat sat a strangely dressed man, his clothes peculiar and perverse.
He wore a loose, pink-and-white short-sleeved sweater that exposed his navel and lower back muscles, dark long pants, and spiky green hair with a pointed, ribbon-like band below it.
His pants were also held up by suspenders, revealing the inner layer of his pants, and he wore earrings on his earlobes. He looked somewhat handsome, but his expression was very gloomy and terrifying.
This person was none other than Kishibe Rohan!
At this moment, as if by telepathy, Kishibe Rohan suddenly looked at him, but only for a moment before lowering his head again, maintaining his gloomy expression.
He didn't know what Rohan was thinking, but judging by his gritting teeth, his mood was probably not very good.
He had gone out to gather material and inspiration. Although he seemed to have made some gains, these gains did not make him happy at all. On the contrary, he now didn't even feel like drawing his manuscript.
Kira Yoshikage's expression didn't change much on the surface, but as soon as he lowered his head, surprise appeared in his eyes, and his expression became somewhat difficult to maintain.
'How could this be? How did I suddenly run into him? I had planned to go to his house tonight, but now I've encountered him.'
'Should I eliminate him now, get rid of him? After all, we have a long-standing grudge. Tsk, Kira Yoshikage, you're truly useless for letting this guy survive after trying to kill him.'
Kira Yoshikage subtly raised his head again, his gaze towards Kishibe Rohan's direction, with a faint hint of killing intent in his eyes. But no matter what, there were still some people on the bus.
It wasn't a good place to make a move.
'Tsk, forget it, I'll wait for now. I'll see where he gets off, and then it will be easier to find out where he lives. It's better to go to his house and eliminate him.'
Meanwhile, Kishibe Rohan's heart was also churning. Earlier, in an alley, he had seen something that shattered his worldview—ghosts!
And not just one ghost! It was a family of ghosts, even with a dog.
After he discovered something abnormal in the alley, he wanted to run away quickly, but then he realized he couldn't escape.
Then he actually met a woman, a woman he didn't know but felt incredibly familiar with and incredibly eerie.
He had originally wanted to use Heaven's Door to investigate her information, but he never expected her to call him "Rohan-chan," which left him bewildered.
Then he discovered that she was his childhood neighbor, an older sister who had been very kind to him, and who had once, when he was being looked after at her house, done everything she could to help him escape from a murderer.
However, now her entire family was dead, killed by the murderer. They had all become ghosts, lingering at this boundary between life and death.
And this murderer was still active, still wantonly killing people in this Town.
Just today, a poor little boy was blown to pieces by that murderer, and his soul departed here.
The souls of her family could still not rest, still lingering here, waiting for outsiders to enter and carry out their message, to catch that murderer.
'Damn it, you damned bastard... Don't worry, I will avenge you all!'