After the two of them left the town, the sun had completely set.
“It’s not easy to travel when it gets dark, why don’t you wait until tomorrow to go?”
“I don’t know if they’ll still be there tomorrow, so I want to go and take a look now.
Though, there’s no need for you to come with me.”
Mountain Tim suddenly asked: “Your Stand’s ability isn’t actually about gathering information, you can see the future, right?
Otherwise, you wouldn’t need to go take a look at all.
And in this future you know of, you aren’t there.
You are afraid of your future destiny.”
His tone was undeniably certain; Lucian didn’t need to answer this question.
These people were truly sharper than the last.
He had only shared some information with them, yet they had already guessed most of his situation.
Lucian pulled his horse to a stop and asked: “You’re actually worried about the Saint’s Corpse, right?
But you don’t have the confidence to take it from me.
You don’t actually want the Saint’s Corpse, so what is it that keeps driving you forward?”
“Of course, it’s a cowboy’s honor.
Do you think death is something worth fearing?”
Having already died once, Lucian thought back seriously.
He used to despise death, but the moment he fell from the mountain peak, his perspective changed.
Only when truly facing death does one feel the most primal fear.
“Yes, death is something worth fearing.” Lucian nodded affirmatively.
“I felt that same fear of death when I was about to die of thirst in the Devil’s Palm.
But in the end, I realized that what I feared wasn’t death itself.
It was the loneliness of having nowhere to return to, that incomparably empty sense of loneliness.” He, too, was someone who had faced death.
Since everyone had their own values, no one was going to talk the other into changing their mind.
“The Saint’s Corpse will eventually gather together to form a complete whole.
This is the inevitability of fate.
So, there is no need to worry too much about the corpse.”
“I will die during this inevitable process, won’t I?
Just like how Gyro Zeppeli will also die under the torrent of fate.” Mountain Tim had already come to terms with this.
“Perhaps…”
Mountain Tim interrupted Lucian: “Since it is an inevitable fate, I suppose it cannot be changed.
In that case, I must find a place for my heart to belong while I am still alive.”
The two resumed their journey in the twilight.
After traveling for a while, when the two arrived at Sugar Mountain again, it was already late at night.
It was as if Sugar Mountain had never existed.
The tree had released everyone it had captured, but where were the traces of their departure?
Lucian searched carefully.
Mountain Tim watched Lucian’s actions and asked: “What did you discover?”
“This place was still like the Devil’s Palm this morning, but now that the power of the corpse has vanished, everything has changed.”
“I am asking what you learned about fate?”
“I learned nothing at all.
This place is as peaceful as if nothing had ever happened.
Their existence seems to have truly been just to hand over the corpse to those being tested.”
“What are you worried about?”
Lucian was worried that fate had gone to such great lengths to set up such a stage, and whether he had already been encompassed within it.
“There is a hollow in the tree here where we can rest for the night.
We’ll set off again tomorrow.”
“Don’t worry too much about fears that haven’t arrived yet.
Since it is inevitable, then the fear will descend upon you all the same.”
The two rested in the tree house until the next morning before setting off again.
After leaving Sugar Mountain, they resumed their journey forward.
On this trip, Lucian gained nothing.
By the time it was near noon.
Mountain Tim suddenly drew his pistol with a grave expression; an enemy was attacking.
By the side of the road, Lucian saw the most unexpected enemy.
Funny Valentine!
As the boss, shouldn’t Funny Valentine appear at the very end?
Why is he appearing here?
What kind of boss comes knocking on the door before the minions have even been cleared?
Lucian blurted out: “Holy sh*t!
How is Valentine here?”
Then, Funny Valentine disappeared from where he stood.
Soon, he reappeared.
Funny Valentine also spoke with some surprise: “I actually cannot find you in any parallel world.
It seems you are also unique.”
Funny Valentine had originally intended to use the fact that two people from different dimensions would annihilate each other to deal with Lucian, but unexpectedly, after searching through several worlds, Lucian did not exist in any of them.
Upon seeing the other Mountain Tim, Lucian warned him: “Do not touch the other you.
The same items from different worlds will annihilate each other upon contact.”
Mountain Tim felt that something was wrong the moment he saw his other self, and immediately replied: “I will be careful.
Will that me be our enemy?”
“I don’t know.
There are differences between parallel worlds.” If they weren’t fighting over the corpse, would Mountain Tim, as a sheriff, be one of Valentine’s subordinates?
Valentine gave Lucian a strange look.
“It seems you know a lot about me.
In that case, it is necessary for me to have you leave here for good.”
Suddenly, shots were fired at Lucian from all directions.
A Valentine appeared between almost every pair of surfaces.
It wasn’t just one or two of Valentine here; D4C had brought dozens of Valentines directly into this world.
They raised their guns and fired at Lucian in unison.
The bullets were too dense; they were flying in from every direction.
The condition of a “gap between two objects” was far too broad.
The Stand Heartsteel was immediately activated.
Skin, of course, is also a soft thing; at this moment, Lucian’s skin became as hard as steel.
This was a newly developed application of Lucian’s Stand ability.
The bullets hitting the surface of his body only caused a slight pain; the enemy’s bullets failed to penetrate his armor.
However, Lucian took the full force of the impact.
He could only be thankful that the impact force of bullets in this era wasn’t very high yet.
Next, Lucian shook out the cloak behind him.
As usual, the cloak covered Lucian to dodge the bullets.
Suddenly, the scenery around him changed slightly.
Most crucially, the Mountain Tim beside him had disappeared.
The Valentines from all directions had also disappeared.
Lucian immediately realized that he had been sent to a parallel world by Valentine.
The cloak he had always used for defense had been utilized by Funny Valentine; the cloak and the ground formed a “gap.” With the condition met, Funny Valentine could naturally activate his ability.
Thus, Lucian had been screwed over by his own actions.
Funny Valentine had turned the tables and used Lucian’s own actions to throw him into a parallel world.
Diego seemed to have been sent to a parallel world in this same manner.