[He moved. He was able to move while Dio's Stand was in effect. He moved and he struck and that means finally, now, finally they have a chance.
He stumbles back when time resumes, shaken from his wounds and his success both, and sort of watches a little stupidly as Dio starts to scrabble away. He realizes late what the significance of his enemy's fumbling is; whatever he'd pierced in the brain must've disrupted his motor control, maybe his vision. In one strike he's gone from an insurmountable terror to a pest crawling along the ground.
He should just end it, right now. He could even justify it as putting Dio out of his misery.
But there's something that rebels in him at the thought of attacking Dio while he's in a state like this — blinded, desperate, fumbling. It's too close to watching The World rip Hierophant apart in stopped time. The oppressor who attacks while the victim is helpless, defenseless. And this is one way where he and Dio will always be different.
It rebels, at least, until he sees what Dio is really scrambling for. It's not just anyone's blood he's chasing after; if it were, maybe Jotaro would've been able to stay calm, and perhaps even feel bad for him.
But that's Kakyoin's blood he's drinking. Kakyoin's strength he's drawing on to make himself strong again. And Kakyoin is better than dirt to be sucked up for nutrients, and Kakyoin is never going to be forced to help Dio Brando in any capacity again.
Before he quite realizes it, he's wobbled to the car himself; Star punches open the gas tank and causes what remains of it to spill out into a crumpled piece of wreckage that will serve as a makeshift bucket. At first he thinks maybe he'll just taint the blood with the gasoline, poison him or at the very least render it ineffective. But with Dio lying half in the pool as it is, there's no way to do that without dousing Dio himself in it — and so he does.
He has a lighter in his pocket. Dio is dangerous. And maybe if it were just him, if he were the only one left, he would stay his hand. But every second he wastes on Dio is another second that he's not helping get Kakyoin to safety, and he genuinely doesn't know how many seconds Kakyoin has left to begin with.
So he doesn't think. He just acts. Star hurls the gasoline to soak Dio through, and without giving Dio even a second to process what the implications of that might be, he sparks his lighter and tosses it, catching the accelerant in its flame and setting him ablaze.]
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He stumbles back when time resumes, shaken from his wounds and his success both, and sort of watches a little stupidly as Dio starts to scrabble away. He realizes late what the significance of his enemy's fumbling is; whatever he'd pierced in the brain must've disrupted his motor control, maybe his vision. In one strike he's gone from an insurmountable terror to a pest crawling along the ground.
He should just end it, right now. He could even justify it as putting Dio out of his misery.
But there's something that rebels in him at the thought of attacking Dio while he's in a state like this — blinded, desperate, fumbling. It's too close to watching The World rip Hierophant apart in stopped time. The oppressor who attacks while the victim is helpless, defenseless. And this is one way where he and Dio will always be different.
It rebels, at least, until he sees what Dio is really scrambling for. It's not just anyone's blood he's chasing after; if it were, maybe Jotaro would've been able to stay calm, and perhaps even feel bad for him.
But that's Kakyoin's blood he's drinking. Kakyoin's strength he's drawing on to make himself strong again. And Kakyoin is better than dirt to be sucked up for nutrients, and Kakyoin is never going to be forced to help Dio Brando in any capacity again.
Before he quite realizes it, he's wobbled to the car himself; Star punches open the gas tank and causes what remains of it to spill out into a crumpled piece of wreckage that will serve as a makeshift bucket. At first he thinks maybe he'll just taint the blood with the gasoline, poison him or at the very least render it ineffective. But with Dio lying half in the pool as it is, there's no way to do that without dousing Dio himself in it — and so he does.
He has a lighter in his pocket. Dio is dangerous. And maybe if it were just him, if he were the only one left, he would stay his hand. But every second he wastes on Dio is another second that he's not helping get Kakyoin to safety, and he genuinely doesn't know how many seconds Kakyoin has left to begin with.
So he doesn't think. He just acts. Star hurls the gasoline to soak Dio through, and without giving Dio even a second to process what the implications of that might be, he sparks his lighter and tosses it, catching the accelerant in its flame and setting him ablaze.]