“Bucciarati…!”

Apache shouted the name in surprise and opened his eyes from his coma.

Bucciarati, with a calm expression and not even a hint of weakness on his face, turned his gaze to Abbaccio. "What's wrong, Abbaccio?"

Abbacchio let out a breath in a daze, touched his neck, and his expression relaxed a little, "... No, it's nothing, Bucciarati--" He was only halfway through his sentence when he saw a hole and blood on Bucciarati's clothes, as well as the strange feeling in his hands. He lowered his head to look at the collar that was soaked with blood at some point, and immediately realized that the memory in his previous impression was not his nightmare, but something that really happened!

He suddenly turned his gaze to the members sitting aside, who were also questioning their lives, rubbing their necks and pressing their chests, as well as Giorno Giovanna, who was squatting aside to explore the environment, with a completely wrong look.

Giorno was very sensitive to sight. He turned around and looked at the ugly-looking Abbaccio, and said politely, "You're awake, Mr. Abbaccio."

"What happened?" Apache asked doubtfully.

The boy with golden curly hair blinked his eyes. He made a thoughtful expression and bit his thumb unconsciously. "Well, I'm sorry. Actually, I don't know what happened."

"If I may, allow me to explain from the beginning."

After Giorno said this, everyone's eyes were on him. Obviously, Giorno was just an outsider, an ordinary person who had never been involved in gang affairs and was a junior high school student two days ago. However, unconsciously, perhaps it was Giorno's own temperament and aura that made people want to center around him and trust and believe in him.

Giorno thought for a moment before answering, "Do you remember what happened before Kotobuki and I arrived at the restaurant?"

Narancia recovered quickly, or rather, seeing that he and everyone else were fine and alive, he naturally ignored this question. Anyway, as long as he was alive, Fugo and Bucciarati would be responsible for this kind of thinking. No matter what, it was not his turn. So now, Narancia thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I remember you and Oso looked very shabby! Dirty!"

Giorno nodded. "Yes, I remember explaining it at the time. I said that Kotobuki and I had encountered an enemy."

"...In fact, I felt something was wrong at the time, but because I didn't know much about the mafia and the organization Passion, I just explained it based on the most likely answer."

The enemy appeared inexplicably, and Giorno had no idea what kind of enemy it was at that time. Later, when he arrived at the restaurant, Bucciarati was also injured. After hearing their conversation, no matter who it was, they would subconsciously be led astray by the enemy's motives.

But Giorno always felt that something was wrong, and it was not until he met Polnareff that he began to think again. Who was the enemy who attacked Kotobuki?

Whether it is Bucciarati or Giorno, the understanding of information is actually unequal. Bucciarati can immediately realize that the enemy is against Kotobuki, but he did not think of the relationship between Kotobuki and the organization.

Giorno didn't even know what form the organization Passion had taken, let alone how to connect Kotobuki to the organization. But after meeting Polnareff, as long as Mr. Polnareff wasn't lying, everything would be connected.

Giorno naturally got the answer. The one who attacked Kotobuki was Diavolo, and the one who attacked Mr. Bucciarati was also the boss of the organization, Diavolo.

There was a possibility that I had guessed wrong or that Mr. Polnareff was lying, but after what happened before my eyes, with Diavolo attacking Mr. Bucciarati, it was hard not to believe it.

Giorno was not a member of Passion, so he didn't feel this deeply. But for Bucciarati, who had been in Passion for many years and had been loyal to it since he was twelve years old, this was really hard to accept.

The boss he revered betrayed him.

Narancia felt confused, "What? Giorno, you said it was the boss? But why - why did the boss want to kill Bucciarati? Did we make a mistake?"

Fuge stopped Naranja who was about to continue asking questions, and said with an unpleasant look, "Maybe it's because... we know something we shouldn't know."

This is what Fugo has been worried about from the beginning, and he has been deceiving himself into ignoring this problem.

The boss of the organization is a very mysterious person. He does not allow anyone to know any news about him. The information related to him has been eliminated from the beginning. Anyone who explores the boss of the organization will be executed as an enemy.

"Kokumi must know a lot about the boss, so the boss will completely deal with all the people who have come into contact with Kokumi during the period of amnesia. Only in this way can the boss feel at ease." Fugo's mouth felt a little bitter.

Abbaccio, whose loyalty to the organization was less than his feelings for Bucciarati, got the point. "And what? What does this have to do with you rushing in here?"

Giorno replied: "This was an agreement I made with... someone before you came here."

Abbazi narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean? Who did you make an appointment with?"

Giorno thought about it carefully and said, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I can tell you his information without his consent."

That being said, Giorno still explained, "That was a gentleman whom Kotobuki and I met when we were searching for our memories. He knew a lot about Diavolo and guessed that Diavolo might attack Kotobuki - the enemy Kotobuki and I encountered before was also a proof of that."

"Because of this, I chose to believe that gentleman. That's why I rushed in at that time."

Giorno is still a little immature. If Diavolo knew what he said now, and if someone present had bad intentions, then Diavolo would be able to detect Polnareff's existence through this information.

Fortunately, this will not happen, as the people present are more willing to follow Bucciarati than the boss of the organization. Bucciarati is betrayed by his boss and is now in a very low mood.

Bucciarati was not a blindly loyal person. When the organization sold drugs that he hated the most in his territory, he had already had differences with the organization. However, because of his loyalty, he kept holding on to hope and thought that the boss just didn't know about it. Now that he was informed, his subsequent betrayal became natural.

Giorno hesitated, and looked at Bucciarati's reaction calmly. Bucciarati did not disappoint him, and nodded calmly, "Please continue, don't worry about my thoughts, Giorno."

After calming down, Fugo was calmer than Bucciarati. He said bluntly: "I know what you are worried about, Giorno Giovanna."

"Since the boss chose to attack us, we have no place in the organization, or even in Naples, Italy. If it is for self-protection, our only choice is to leave Italy."

Mista was very unconvinced, "On what basis?"

Naranja also echoed: "Yes, yes!"

Fugo knocked on Narancia's head impatiently, "When did I say I would make this choice!" In the past, Fugo would never say such a thing, but since he had already "died" once, Fugo let himself go. Anyway, if the organization found out that he was still alive, he would definitely be hunted down. It would be better to have a big fight with Bucciarati now. Fugo, who has a very high IQ, has already thought of this thing that no one present had thought of, and even Bucciarati himself had not decided.

Anyway, the worst that can happen is death! Fugo, who has a more violent personality than anyone else, completely let himself go under the pressure of emotions and the present death, before he can really calm down. ——And after adjusting his thoughts in this direction, everything became clear.

Giorno chuckled, feeling that he had underestimated these people. He said, "Well, please listen to my explanation."

"I know Diavolo's ability. It is an unsolvable, terrifying ability related to time." He looked at Mista. "I remember that time, Mista, your bullet fell to the ground, but you didn't even notice it, right?"

Mista nodded. "What's wrong?"

Giorno's expression became a little hard to describe at this moment, "Jumping time, this is Diavolo's ability."

"At that time, Mista's bullet fell to the ground when Diavolo attacked Bucciarati. He should have used it once more afterwards... when Narancia discovered his position and moved his position."

Naranja raised his hand, "But what I found, shouldn't it be Oso's breath?"

"I hate to say this, but it was Oso who attacked Apache and me, right? I could feel it."

Giorno set his sights on Naranja, "What if I tell you that it's impossible for you to find the location of Kotobuki?"

Naranja waved his hands, "How is that possible! As long as it is a living creature that breathes, even if it is an ant, I can find its location! Not to mention Oso, a living... person..."

Narancia's expression was a little stiff. He looked at Giorno tremblingly, "Wait? It's not what I thought, right?"

Giorno replied: "...You already know my Golden Experience ability. I can confirm the life energy in living things. Although I myself also doubt whether it is my ability that is wrong, the fact is that I did not detect the slightest bit of life force belonging to living things in Kotobuki-san from the beginning."

The place fell silent in an instant, and no one spoke to break the silence. Everyone present unconsciously thought of the words that the silver-haired boy had said in the restaurant.

【Ghosts exist in this world.】

If this is the case, then it might explain why the boss, who doesn't trust anyone, would trust Kotobuki so much that he lets him know a lot of information...

Giorno seemed not to feel the stiffness of the atmosphere and naturally continued the previous conversation, "Narancia is right, it was indeed Kotobuki who attacked at that time... But there is one thing I must explain. Except for Mr. Bucciarati, I did not treat the injuries of others. But I also said before that I can't revive the dead."

Even if no one shows it, but for the killing - even if it has not become a fact, but it is just a small incident that happened in the past, no one can be indifferent and not have any shadow over it.

Even if he completely trusted Kotobuki, Giorno himself, who was aware of the violation at the time, felt the blood flowing, the coldness of his body and limbs, and the unconscious thought that he might really die at the moment the blade pierced his chest. This is a torment that people who have not experienced it cannot understand.

But Giorno still said: "It was not me who saved you, but Kotobuki-san."

The author has something to say: It’s already the hundredth chapter!