Chapter 199. This Pce is Already Full

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  In truth, it's not just Kira who is surprised.

  Eveher spectators were shocked that Iggy mao escape Pet Shop's attack. Without hesitation, Iggy cut off his own foot to escape.

  To put it nicely, Iggy is a member of the Egyptian DIO-Defeating gang.

  But to be blunt, he's just a filler character.

  It seemed as if Iggy was created specifically to ter N'Doul and his Stand, [Geb], with his owal Stand, [The Fool].

  Even his species— a dog with a highly sensitive sense of smell—was desigo ter [Geb], a le Stand.

  Aside from being coerced by Jotaro, Iggy had two choices: either get killed alongside Jotaro by N'Doul or help Jotaro find N'Doul's location.

  Forced to choose the tter, Iggy almost switched sides to N'Doul out of fear of dying.

  But Jotaro, always oep ahead, used Iggy's fear of death to make him fight N'Doul. That was the only reason Iggy had that initial battle.

  At other times, whenever Jotaro and the others were about to fight Stand users, Iggy would quickly use the Joestar family's signature move—"Nigerundayo!"—and run away without a trace.

  With this attitude, it was no surprise to any of the spectators that Iggy was defeated so miserably by Pet Shop.

  After all, they weren't watg "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" for nothing.

  What decides the oute of battles between Stand users, or even Ripple warriors?

  The strength of their Stand (or Ripple)?

  Their bat experience?

  Their wisdom in strategy?

  No, none of these.

  If any of that were true, then the absolute prophecy of [Thoth], or the thousands of years of bat experience of the Pilr Men, or their intelligen learniire nguages from just a few words would have meant that JOJO and his friends would have already lost.

  In "JoJo's Bizarre Advehese factors are important, but not decisive.

  As long as the gap isn't te, the key factor that decides victory is ohing: resolve.

  Only those who carve a bright path forward ich-bck wilderness have the right to bee victors.

  This is why her Kira nor the audience believed in Iggy.

  Based on Iggy's previous dispy of resolve, his ces of defeati Shop were slim to none—about as slim as dropping a marble from the top of Tokyo Tower and nding it in a gss bottle on the ground.

  Unless a miracle happened...

  "Waaah! My... my leg...! My leg was severed by those ice spikes!!"

  Iggy, who had narrowly escaped Pet Shop's attack by fleeing through a sewer to the bottom of a ke, cried out in agony as he clutched his severed leg. "But if I hadn't cut it off, I'd be dead by now!"

  "I'll... I'll just hide here for a while. For now, I'll lie low and avoid that guy. Then I'll ask the SPW Foundation to make me a prosthetic leg."

  Despite his fury, Iggy, who had never suffered such a humiliati before, wanted nothing more than to crush Pet Shop's bird head immediately.

  But the stant pain in his lower body, coupled with the fact that he couldn't beat Pet Shop at full strength—let aloh one leg gone—forced him to follow his instincts.

  "I'll settle this with you ter! Damn it!"

  Iggy's tough talk but weak resolve made the audieg this se uand why Iggy had mao perform a miracle earlier.

  It turned out he had cheated.

  Dropping a marble into a gss bottle from the top of Tokyo Tower is difficult, no doubt.

  But if you pce the marble itle first, then drop the bottle off the tower, it's much easier.

  That's exactly what Iggy had done.

  Having learned from Joseph's prosthetic leg that losing one foot wouldn't be fatal, Iggy had chosen to sever his leg to save his life.

  This decision was easy to make.

  But with only this level of resolve, could Iggy really escape?

  Thinking he could hide uer and protect himself by using [The Fool] to create a bunker-like structure around him, Iggy seemed tet one crucial thing:

  Birds eat fish.

  Seabirds that live he o only have one prey to hunt—fish living uer!

  And since Iggy had chosen to fight at the bottom of the ke, he had ed himself up with his Stand to survive.

  In other words, he had built himself a cage!

  Pet Shop didn't o do much.

  He just had to add a yer of solid ice outside the cage and seal off Iggy's air supply with ice, cutting off his path to the surface.

  Iggy would suffocate in his own trap!

  "No! He's n to suffocate me—he's going to crush me to death!"

  Iggy screamed.

  He had realized that as more and more ied around his cage, not only was his ce of escape diminishing, but uhe pull of the Earth's gravity, the sand shell of his bunker would be crushed by the weight of the ice, killing him in the process!

  Escape!

  He had to escape!

  After all, the water surrounding him was endless, a Shop could summon as much ice as he wanted!

  "I'll have to dig my way out!"

  Looking at the kebed—the only area water couldn't invade—Iggy, with one injured front paw, grimaced in pain. "What kind of horrible day is this? First, my leg gets cut off, and now this damn bird is s!?"

  But no matter how bad things got, he had to keep digging.

  Even with his injured paw, Iggy forced it to move and accelerate his digging.

  Unless he wao be crushed.

  But then...

  "Huh?"

  "What's going on? Why is there suddenly a hole here?"

  As Iggy furiously dug through the dirt, he noticed a strange sensatiohat felt pletely different from before.

  The hole, which seemed to be the same size as the cage he had built, erfectly waiting for him, no matter where he started digging.

  Realizing what this might mean, Iggy begaing profusely.

  Because his guess was absolutely correct!

  This pce was already full!

  "AAAAHHHH! It's that damn bird again—!!"