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Enrico chuckles to himself for a bit, biting his lower lip, before striking the officer with a serious expression, glaring at him.

"Have you, perhaps..."

He murmurs, sliding a finger down the rusty cell bar,

"heard about... ''...?"

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"W-What...? What are you talking about--?" the policeman stammers,

" What do you mean- What are these 'Stands'?!"

"Well, maybe I could demonstrate."

A cell bar snaps.

Forcefully bending and tearing away from the sturdy metal frame, letting out an ear-splitting tin cry. The bar of metal seemed to be torn away by an unknown, invisible force. It was shown to squeeze the solid metal with frightening ease, leaving a freakishly deep indentation of a handprint.

The uniformed man stumbles onto the floor, "Wh...What?!" He screams, frantically kicking his legs, which gave out from sheer shock and horror that hit him so suddenly.

"Even if we tried to explain, you wouldn't believe us," Pucci states in a calm yet unnerving demeanor, "We are not from here, and it is a fact. We can absolutely and definitely break ourselves out of here if we wanted to, but we decided to play nice around here."

The floating piece of metal falls onto the floor, ringing as it hit the ground.

"Now, shall we continue?" The priest raises a brow.

Instead of replying with a proper answer, the man stumbles away in fear and makes a break for it out the door.

"Why are you running?" Enrico says in a confused tone, clearly not getting the hint.

"Duh... I think you went a bit over the top there," Doppio points out, sort of worried for the officer's well-being.

"What do you mean?" he asks.

"Well, you scared the poor lad away," Diego groaned, face-palming with disappointment.

"Maybe that scare was needed to get us out of this cell answering questions I don't feel comfortable answering." Kira rolled his eyes at Diego, "Hopefully, we don't get gunned down in the next minute." He says as he calmly sits down on the dusty concrete floor.

"Say," Kars began," How do you get these odd powers? I see that you call them 'Stands'... If there is a way, I would like to get one for myself."

"For fuck's sake. The 'Ultimate life form' doesn't need a damn stand. That's way too overpowered?!" Diego yelled, "Besides, there isn't a corpse part for you to grab anyways!"

"Wait, I thought you could only get stands through the 'arrows'!" Doppio exclaimed.

"Now, now, we shouldn't discuss things of the past such as that. Instead, we should discuss what we should do at the possibility of being attacked. Of course, we have the right to defend ourselves. But, that would just cause more problems along the way." Valentine states, "That man is probably telling his peers about what had happened earlier... Maybe even calling special authorities to deal with special cases like us...?"

"Valentine has a point. We should think about it before things escalate quickly-" Kira immediately gets interrupted by a blasting kick and a thwack.

""

"Well, that was quick."

4 heavily armored men sporting hefty weapons break open the cell door on barges in. They all point their guns at them, ready to attack at any given moment.

Valentine takes a calm deep breath and heavily sighs, "Men, there is absolutely no reason for any of you to act in such an aggressive manner. Let's talk this out, shall we?"

One of them points a gun at Doppio's head, locking him into place.

He was paralyzed to the spot, the menacing aura holding him in a tightening grip, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"B-Bossu! H-Help me!" Doppio yelped in fear, clenching his jaw and shutting his eyes closed, shivering at every move the dangerous men made.

"If any of you make a move, this boy 'ere..." The armored man nudges Doppio,"...Gets hurt."

"I don't think even attempting to hurt him would be a good idea. He... No, the other version of himself has a terrifying power that even I don't understand." Kira warns the man as he slowly raised his hands to the air.

"We are prepared for events like that. We have been called to deal with special... cases such as yourself."

The fellow who underestimated Doppio/Diavolo's abilities was blissfully unaware of Doppio's sudden height change. His natural, hazel-colored eyes shifted to a sharp, bright green in a flash.

One of the men notices and aims a weapon at him, "Don't move."

"" Doppio growls in a voice that in no way, sounds like his, "King Crimson"

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Hey everyone, thank you for waiting! Updates have been hard because I have been really busy with other projects too!

Lastly, thank you so much for reading this pretty short chapter. Thanks for your support!

some art I made while experimenting with art styles :)