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  Chapter 109: The Pilr Men, The Times Have ged

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  Joseph, who bears the weight of bonds and attats in his heart, is incapable of attaining the kind of resolve that involves abandoning everything.

  Even now, as he finds himself in a crisis like most protagonists in fial stories, he still 't achieve that protagonist's miraculous power-up.

  This isn't hard to uand, right?

  Bonds, friendships, and simir things are formed by es with others and are ied from others. Even the desire to avenge Caesar stems from these emotions being passed on to Joseph's heart.

  So, pared to Wamuu, whose heart is clear and purely focused on victory, Joseph, burdened by so many "unnecessary" things, is strained by them.

  Unless he decides to let go of these things, Joseph will never achieve true resolve and thus tain the hope and victory that "those who are resolved will always be happy."

  But if he were to abandohings, Joseph might not have a reason to fight Wamuu in this duel at all. After all, the antidote from the ring of death is already in Joseph's hands.

  So...

  Whoosh! The sound of a b slig through the air echoes.

  As Wamuu charges forward with his chariot, about to trample him, Joseph hurriedly picks up the rge crossbow and aims.

  But not only does he fail to engage in a showdown of resolve like an Old West cowboy with the simirly prepared Wamuu, his unsteady and indecisive hands cause the rge crossbow to slip, and the iron ball shoots off in the opposite dire of Wamuu, pletely missing its mark.

  "What a pity, what a pity. Who knows where that iron ball flew off to," the audience of vampires, including Kars, mogly ugh with the fidence of victors. "Although the fact that he chose to attastead of giving up at the st moment is endable, hahaha."

  Indeed, without resolve, the shot Joseph fired just now, as well as his current pitiful act of frantically throwing sto Wamuu to beg for merstead of being trampled to death, only demonstrate that he still ot let go of the things he bears.

  Or perhaps, this is Joseph's resolve—not the resolve to abandohing for victory, but the resolve to win while bearing everything!

  "W-Wamuu, the hing yoing to say is, 'Don't insult the duel, JoJo!'"

  "Don't insult the duel in front of me, JoJo! ...Huh!?"

  Blinded, Wamuu ot see Joseph's eyes right now. Otherwise, he would have seen that they are not the pleading eyes of a beaten dog, but eyes bzing with golden spirit, burning with the resolve like a raging fire!

  No resolve? No resolve to abandohing? That's true. But as I said before, weakening your oppo is just as valid a strategy in battle as strengthening yourself—sometimes, it's even more effective!

  If Joseph 't achieve the resolve to abandohing, then he doesn't have to. As long as he extinguishes Wamuu's resolve to abandohing, won't they be ba even ground?!

  And for Joseph, achieving this is quite simple. Because Wamuu respects the duel itself—so much so that his respect for the duel even surpasses his respect for Kars—he abandohing for the duel.

  In other words, if the saess of the duel in Wamuu's heart is tarhen the resolute Wamuu will also bear the burden of anger!

  …

  "What the hell, you really do that!?"

  Sora, who has seen through everything, gapes in astonishment at the se unfolding in the full-dive enviro.

  Yes, when Akiyuki Shinbo saw that Gintoki Sakata had also demonstrated his resolve in this duel, he hurriedly retracted his earlier and to stop the filming. Instead, he directed the crew to focus the cameras on Joseph and the iron ball that had supposedly gone off course. Ultimately, they successfully captured the episode of "Battle Tendency" and prese to the audience.

  Although the ahey felt during the filming wasn't disclosed, only Akiyuki Shinbo, the crew, and Caesar, who had been brought in as external support, knew how fortuhey were to plete this episode. However, as the saying goes, "a glimpse of a leopard be seen in a tube"—the nearly realistisation of fag Wamuu created in the full-dive state made the audieruly feel the disparity between Wamuu's resolve and Joseph's ck of it.

  No matter how much they racked their brains for the best possible oute, all they could envision was the typical sario from hot-blooded works, where Joseph would barely mao defeat Wamuu through a miraculous power-up. However, Joseph's move hit them like a bolt from the blue!

  Did Joseph power up?

  No. He still appeared to ck resolve.

  But did he win?

  Yes! By making Wamuu focus solely on him, Joseph successfully made Wamuu fet, and in turn, made the audience fet, that Joseph had fallehe only bump on the racetrack wall—a bump that Wamuu had tested and Joseph had personally verified as capable of allowing the iron ball to roll along the wall and hit the target.

  Exactly! The iron ball Joseph had supposedly shot off course wasn't off course at all! In fact, this "off course" was the correct trajectory Joseph had aimed for all along! Isn't there a saying? "The shortest shortcut is the long way around."

  After taking a big detour, the iron ball finally returo the wall and, from a blind spot unnoticed by Wamuu, with the superior power of the rge crossbow, it pierced through Wamuu's body!

  Of course, because the iron ball had been smeared with rd from Joseph's gloves wheouched it, not only did it carry physical force, but it also had Ripple energy, specifically targeting the Pilr Men!

  In essence, what should have been a dramatic Western-style cowboy duel of resolve was transformed by Joseph into something more akin to a le missile strike, where the enemy was still waiting to draw his gun while the missile had already been unched.

  The times have ged, Pilr Men.