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...of course he got married to her. Of course that's why he wanted me to turn around the car. Of course that's why he...

[Sud- well, it's not like he was completely blindsided but it's kind of...

...

At the time he thought, "What the fuck, man, nobody's going to want to-" And then this.] Do you have it. He said that everyone in his family had it. [The birthmark.]

Yeah. Hold on.

[A few minutes and a hike to the bathhouse later, there's a video message incoming: one of the mirror shards they were all given, reflecting a second, larger mirror, which is itself reflecting a tank top-clad shoulder with a star-shaped birthmark near the person's neck.]

Mom has it, too.

Ah. [Shit. The one thing that'll convince him, staring at him.]

...well, thank you. Really, that's the one thing I needed to know - I've actually been trying to find a way back, unlikely as it might be...you know how they take things from you when you come here? We're all missing something. For me it was a ring. I don't know what Joj-...your grandfather has told you, but it contains an antidote. One your grandfather needs to survive. I've been trying to think of a way to return it to him before it was too late. And it would've been too late, but if you exist, and if what you're saying it's true, then that means that it worked out in the end.

Honestly, this explains a lot about you as well. Your mother's name?

[--Ah, yeah, he's heard a bit about this in whatever simplified version actually got told to young Joestars at all the family gatherings, so this gives him a better idea of when, exactly, Caesar was pulled from. Haha, sorry about your death?

They're gonna have to have a long talk after this. Preferably with beer, if someone has the power to make that happen. For now, Jotaro switches back to voice.]

Her name is Holly. Apparently Jiji picked it.

It's a good name. It's the sort of name he would pick. Hopefully he raised her well. I'd be mad if he didn't. [...they're never going to have that long talk.] What am I saying, of course he spoiled her.

I think if we didn't live in Japan we'd never see the end of him. [Said with exasperation, but also real fondness. Not like Jotaro wasn't already missing his family or anything...]

[ 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.

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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.

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