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[ WHAT IN THE GODDAMNED -

but that doesn't prove anything. a man has the same birthmark as he does and a stand as well. all stand users are drawn to each other, and this is a fact - so why does it matter if he had the same mark?

facts. stick to facts. giorno grits his teeth. he remembers the coliseum, still. not too long ago he had promised narancia he would bring him home. and he'd seen buccellati ascend like in those paintings in sistine chapel.

he doesn't really believe in fate; but inevitability is -

("i've got to tell my friends back in japan - !")

he can't breathe. ]

Is that mark really so valuable?

[ facts. stick to facts. ]

Yes.

[Not Jotaro, but yes.] My friend had it, as did his grandfather before him, and, apparently, if what this Jotaro says is true, his daughter as well as his grandson has it. Why?

[ why, he asks. "well it just so happens that my father had it. and he was blonde and he died in egypt. egypt, where all those arrows came from. do you know what those arrows are, caesar? remember when i told you about the mafia? what i didn't tell you was that i became the don just before i left, because i killed diavolo. my stand. it turned into requiem. it can manipulate time, just a fraction of it, and now you're telling me that all of this is a part of - a greater destiny.

all i need to know is whether or not you know dio brando. but given what i've heard, how can i trust any of you? you have some power beyond stands, and yet you are part of our world. okuyasu and jotaro have stands. what am i supposed to make out of this - " ]

It's just curious.

I know a very important man who has the same mark. [ a pause. ] But he died in Egypt.

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[JESUS FUCKING--what is with this place? There's exactly one person Jotaro knows of with that mark who died in Egypt and stayed dead, so:]

That man was a curse on the Joestar family and nearly killed my mother.

[ a hundred million hopes were placed on that photograph and here you are. ]

Then we need to talk, because he's important to me.

Who are you to him ....? To - [ let's face it. there's no avoiding it now. THERE'S NO QUITTING THIS RIDE. ] Dio Brando.

Important to you?!

[ That's the name of the man who put that fleshbud in his father's head. He's the one who turned his father into a monster. No, his father was already a monster, but -- ]

What are you to DIO?!

[ but why should okuyasu know his name too? jesus christ padre what the hell ]

- this is too much. You realize you're still on a hill?

[ not for the first time in his life giorno wonders why his mother never paid attention to the fact that she may or may not be banging a very handsome monster. giorno sighs. he feels so tired. so tired. and it hasn't even been a month. ]

We all need to meet.

I don't care if I'm still on a hill!

[ Yes, he does. ]

I ain't gonna just sit ... well, lie here... while all this is going off!

[ rather patiently, ]

You will. What's the point of asking you to do anything else otherwise.

Wait for Caesar. Or Jotaro. They will come and get you, and - [ and then what? ] Then we'll talk.

[ Angrily: ]

Fine! But I don't like this. I don't like all of this. I like some of it. But the rest of it is so damn confusing! I get it. I do get it. I mean, it isn't confusing! You know! Right! We're all gonna talk!

I'm the man [Jotaro shut up you're 17 for like three more weeks] who killed him.

[Yup, definitely winning friends and influencing people with that one.]

[ clenches his fist.

no. it doesn't explain anything. even if he is shaking and pale. how could he be born if he were dead?

( i have dreams, he reminds himself. i have dreams and a name that is entirely my own. ) ]

I see.

But that makes no sense regardless. You and I both know that he has the mark. And if what Caesar says is correct, then that means he's also part of the family.

I'll explain it in person.

[Because yeah, he's aired enough of the family drama publicly for one day, and the whole Dio thing is where shit gets really weird.]

Very well.

I'll see you later, Kujo Jotaro.

I'd say you must be joking but at this point I wouldn't rule out you being my cousin a thousand times removed if what everyone said was true, and, given that we're both Italians, and, thus, our family bonds are the strongest in the world, we were drawn together just to deal with this shit.

[ .... ]

If what Jotaro is saying is true, you wouldn't want to be my family.

Don't forget what I told you of Naples.

If what Jotaro is saying is true, I would've died long before what came of Naples happened. That said, you're right - I wouldn't want to be related to you. If what Jotaro is saying is true, that's one too many coincidences for me to deal with tonight and I still need to find Okuyasu who rolled down a hill.

[Mgr.]

[ too much. and how should he even fix this when he has to deal with the fact that whatever hopes and dreams he'd placed on that photograph, they may all have been for nothing. that he had been chasing the ghost of a man who had cruelly affected the lives of generations of men and women beyond the grave.

and jotaro. jotaro, who killed him. and caesar, who apparently died trying to secure his friend's future. he would've done the same. what does blood mean to him? except - ]

Caesar.

We cannot allow these conversations to continue. [ a pause. ] Not like this.

Jotaro and I will be a problem. We all have to meet. [ a pause, longer and well into its third trimester. ] We owe it to the dead and the living.

[...here's the worst part. He knows. He immediately knows, deep down, instinctively, knows. He's been in...maybe not the same situation, but similar enough, that he knows.] Somewhere isolated's probably the best. If we have this happen somewhere the...others are then we might be interrupted.

I'll bring in Okuyasu, find...someone, I don't know who, but there must be someone who can heal him. And then we can talk about where.

[ he shakes his head. ] We can't just bring in anyone. You know that.

.... since Jotaro's family is the cause, ask him if he knows someone else from his world who's been brought here.

As far as I know - I came alone. [ a hollow laugh. ] For all the reassurance that will be to anyone.

Of course I wouldn't. [And he'd say what the plan was - Could you heal my friend and coincidentally hang around and be available? No reason. Someone's testing their powers and needs a lot of space. Thanks. - but...] Normally I'd say that's impossible but apparently I'm a saint.

I'll figure out something.

[ he wanted to say something. it's at the tip of his tongue. a thanks, or even to just ... take care, or good luck. all pleasantries have left him and he's exhausted. he had told a girl that they would all be intruders, one way or another, in another world.

he did not expect it to come this soon.

he says nothing to caesar after. he cannot bring to say any of that to him, knowing what little he does of his fate from these hurried conversations; which are quickly leading to heated confrontations.

in any case he does not have a stand. and he's met jotaro. he did not need a stand to make his anger felt. okuyasu was also the same, though not as sharp as jotaro. he can handle okuyasu. he's predictable. jotaro, he doesn't know as well. and he killed his father. he doesn't know how he's going keep a hold of his emotions once he sees him; the same can probably be said of jotaro.

therefore, logic tells him that it is in his best interests to have caesar remain on his side, or at least even slightly sympathetic of his situation, even if it's not by his choice. an appeal to common bonds is a cheap trick, and at the end of the day caesar may not even agree to being used the way that giorno thinks of him, but a modicum of peace has to be preserved if all of them intend on being heard on their terms. and it's not like giorno likes his options.

his hand touches the mark on the back of his neck. luck, or a curse? he's not of their blood, he's at least certain of that. he belongs to passione; is passione. joestar or not, giorno knows who he is.

in the end, the only thing he says to him is, ]

Time and place. Let me know, and I'll come.

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