Diego intended to stop his horse and have another bout with him, but considering there were unknown pursuers not far behind, he didn’t pay much attention to Lucian’s words.
After all, Valentine wouldn’t necessarily give him a chance to speak.
Moreover, Lucian was also currently on the run; he certainly wouldn’t stay behind intentionally to spread news about him.
Thus, he himself remained hidden for now.
There was no need to get tangled up with that Easterner right now; there would be opportunities later.
Watching Diego’s disappearing figure, Lucian didn’t know how much effect his words would actually have.
However, given the personalities of Diego and Valentine, the possibility of them collaborating again was slim; they were both self-centered individuals.
If hidden threats needed to be eliminated, then their confrontation was inevitable.
Between corpse parts, there would also be a mutual attraction.
Diego was also someone blessed with great luck; perhaps he had the qualification to kill Valentine.
Hopefully, he could cause some trouble for him.
In one parallel world, Valentine pulled out a Diego from a world with Stands; perhaps in that parallel world, Diego was the one who won.
If, by some extremely small probability, they set aside their differences and united…
Then one would have to think more metaphysically.
Diego was practically a teammate killer.
So, for the sake of his own life, it was better to keep a distance from Diego.
Thinking about it this way, Valentine certainly wouldn’t live much longer.
Lucian glanced back again; the path behind him was empty, with no pursuers catching up.
From the look of it, Valentine would likely intercept him somewhere else, and that place was very likely Philadelphia.
Once they reached Philadelphia, all The Corpse Parts would probably end up in one person’s hands.
While Lucian was encountering Diego, the assassins sent by Valentine had also met Johnny and Gyro.
Wekapipo was defeated by Gyro just like in the manga, and then convinced by Gyro using the matter of his sister, defecting on the spot.
Then, Gyro told Wekapipo to fulfill the creed he upheld, because a lady was also within his scope of protection.
Thus, he needed to protect Lucy Steel and Steven Steel.
Gyro’s eloquence was always very persuasive, and Wekapipo was easily swayed.
Continuing forward, the rest of the journey was smooth sailing all the way. Find the original chapter at g.com.
After chasing Johnny and Gyro for nearly a month, Lucian finally arrived at the church near Gettysburg on December 25th.
In the distance, a simple and dilapidated church appeared in Lucian’s eyes.
In this era, faith was no longer something many people needed, so a remote church like this naturally fell into ruin.
However, several groups of people had already arrived here today.
Except for the nun who arrived first seeking redemption, most of the others had little respect for God; they each believed in something else.
And even more people were also on their way.
Seeing the two figures galloping in the distance, Lucian realized he had finally caught up with Johnny and Gyro.
Their current destination was that abandoned church.
According to the plot, Civil War was in this church.
As for the name of Civil War’s user, Lucian didn’t know.
A distance that shouldn’t have been far took Lucian nearly a month to catch up, and he only managed it because the two protagonists had been attacked several times.
Lucian could only sigh sincerely at how fast those two were moving.
He then resolved to travel by train from now on; he couldn’t handle riding a horse at all.
Although Diego was initially ahead of Lucian, his horse had been injured previously.
Consequently, from a certain point on the road, he fell behind Lucian, though Lucian, in his rush, hadn’t noticed this.
Then, Diego quietly followed behind Lucian, always feeling that the Easterner held some secrets.
Therefore, Diego was in no hurry to ambush Lucian.
He planned to first see what kind of abilities and secrets he possessed.
This tracking lasted for nearly ten days.
During this time, Diego realized that Lucian was chasing someone.
They were practically the vanguard of this race; ahead of them, besides Pocoloco and Norisuke Higashikata who were seriously competing, only Johnny and Gyro remained.
The hoofprints Lucian left were very clear to him, so he followed behind Lucian just like that.
After all, he wasn’t a professional rider and didn’t know how to erase his tracks.
Most importantly, in Lucian’s subconscious, Diego was ahead of him.
And behind the two of them, there was a third person; Funny Valentine had also arrived in the vicinity.
Lucian’s previous guess wasn’t accurate; the race was more than half over, yet Valentine had only obtained the Saint’s legs and spine, which was far from his plan.
So, after learning about the others’ itineraries, he set out in person once again for Gettysburg.
Everything here was inevitable.
Since he saw the church, Lucian wasn’t in a hurry to enter.
Instead, he filled up on clean water from a nearby river.
He had three canteens in total, all prepared in advance; any more would hinder his movement.
Only then did he go near the church, tie his horse to a nearby tree, and take all the prepared canteens from the horse’s back to carry with him.
These were important props for dealing with Civil War.
Clear water has the ability to wash away sins in various civilizations.
Especially in this culture, the sacred meaning contained in baptism is even more profound.
After first checking the bullets in his pistol, Lucian cautiously walked toward the church.
As he walked, he secretly wondered to himself how the fight inside was going.
Lucian didn’t hear any violent noises coming from the church.
He heard no gunshots or sounds of fighting, but since Gyro used Steel Balls and Johnny used Tusk, neither would make much noise.
Watching Lucian walk into the church, Diego followed behind.
He had an intuition that this church before him was important, as if someone behind the scenes was driving him to enter.
Valentine, knowing that his subordinate Axl RO was in the church, prepared to see what his subordinate had been up to lately.
As far as he knew, Axl RO was a man of corrupt character, someone who could abandon his comrades and possessed no sense of patriotism.
It was very likely he had already obtained The Corpse but hadn’t told him.
So Valentine had to personally inspect the work.
In Valentine’s mind, with Axl RO’s ability, he could easily defeat Johnny and Gyro; the power of the Stand Civil War was beyond doubt.
The corpse part holders began to converge on the church at this moment.