A Bizarre Adventure: Hidden Eastern Wonderland Chapter 2 - OP 2, a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure + Touhou Project Crossover fanfic

Author's Note:

Disclaimer Time: Touhou Project belongs to Team Shanghai Alice, whilst JoJo's Bizarre Adventure belongs to Araki Hirohiko. Credits to Ligoya and his Accelerator Getting Thrown Around in Gensokyo for the inspiration and permission to use the Pioneer Program for this story.

Hello there everybody. Thank you for deciding to spend some time reading this story. I'd hope you'd enjoy it, considering its myriad flaws, which I genuinely try to spot and fix despite my... seeming lack of care. Repeating Bellisario's Maxim, don't examine too much into it please.

Here's this chapter's note from the pre-rewrite version. I didn't remove or change it because I find it oddly fitting for the occasion (and because I felt nostalgic for some reason) though it gets a tad spoilery and off-the-mark at the end. Joseph/Alexander's listing is at the end of the chapter.

You want to know why I decided to make a new chapter? Well here it is:

...You know what? I'll let Tzeentch and Magnus say it.

"Ooh, daddy's boy is too good for me and my offers!"

"Stop it."

"Ooh, he's going to refuse my offer he can't refuuuuuuse!"

"Silence!"

"Ooohohoho! Maybe it's because he enjoys being the BOTTOM BITCH and because he doesn't have the balls to take his rightful place AT THE TOP!"

"Nnnnnn-NO!"

"I don't have to take THEIR shit, or YOUR shit! Fuck it! Fuck you! I am in!"

"Right on cue, genius!"

Yeah... That's basically what happened with me. I decided to screw it, and wing it from here on out. So no, I decided that I won't abandon this story unless I make it painfully clear that I have abandoned this story.

So, yeah, this chapter is basically a refurbished version of chapter 2 of "Accelerator Junior getting thrown around in Gensokyo" but with 100% less Akyuu and 100% less obvious pairing! No. There will be no pairing unless I say so. Oh, and a Yukari scene there just for the lols. Oh! And also the reveal that everyone in Gensokyo can perceive Stands! And Yukari learning about them, even if just a tiny bit.

And so, I hope you are enjoying this even if I make a lot of rookie mistakes, and for now, I bid you adieu.

A Bizarre Adventure: Hidden Eastern Wonderland

Chapter 2
Yukari Yakumo of Gaps

You can do this, Alex. You can do this.

You can do this, Alex. Not even the Youkai of Boundaries are going to stop you.

You can do this, Alex. You have a literal God backing you up.

You can do this.

I took a deep breath to calm my nerves...

"&^) ++$(# who +#("- (#?" Pardon me miss, but I do not speak Moonspeak. I can't even understand any part of that sentence.

I am confused and concerned. I am concerned that if I move even a single muscle, she may interpret it as a sign of aggression. You can't be too safe with eldritch beings like her (if what the fandom thinks of her is true in this world). And I am confused as to what she is saying. I've said it once, and I'll say it again. I don't understand Japanese.

"Sumimasen, miss. Could you reiterate that please?" I questioned in English, trying to be as polite as I could and emphasizing the "sumimasen", probably one of the few Japanese words I can understand fully.

Yukari blinked. Seems she just understood that I don't even speak her language. She nodded and pointed an index finger at me (and I involuntarily tensed up at that), and flicked it upwards as if she was turning the lights on.

"Can you now understand me?" Oh. Now I understand. She must have manipulated the boundaries of language or something. At least I can thank you for that.

"Yes," I lowered my head in a bow and continued, "Thank you ma'am."

She smiled at that, "My, you're a polite boy."

"Well my grandmother always told me to be polite, especially to ladies. Otherwise she'll smack my head or worse, deprive me of desserts." That was a lie really. I need to look as unsuspicious as possible. It looks like Yukari is enjoying it, if her amused expression is anything to go by.

During this time, I decided to take a peek at her level.

[Youkai of Boundaries]
[Lv. ?]
[八雲紫, Yakumo Yukari]

...Well, crap. She must've been powerful enough to elude the System like that.

[Subjects with the question mark for their Level rank meant that, generally, they are currently far beyond your league, so it should be in your best interests to not aggravate them, sir.]

I let a mental 'ah' of dawning understanding, that made sense. Thanks for the forewarning, System.

[Would you like a further run-down on the subject of Levels, sir?]

No thanks, I'm good for now.

"Ufufu, your grandmother must've been a wonderful woman then. But please, try to call me 'Yukari-oneesama' next time, I don't want to feel old with the way you called me 'ma'am'." Heh. Having that meme uttered by someone is one thing, but it's more hilarious when she herself use that. Not like I'd let that show on my face however. Dealing with Yukari can be difficult at the best of times, every piece of fanfiction points me to that.

"Please forgive my mistake, Yukari-oneesama." I repeated.

"Of course, you're forgiven."

Now, time to talk about those Pillar Men-like goblins (seriously those things sully the name of the Pillar Men!). "So, Yukari-oneesama, what are-" The fuck!? Where'd they go!? "Where did they go?!" I repeated, voice louder than before.

"Don't worry, little boy. I cleaned them up. Nobody wants to see corpses lying around in the open, after all." She replied.

...Fair enough. "I see." I nodded.

"Now that that's out of the way, I saw your battle just then, boy."

I tensed up immediately. Does she know?

"To be honest, I despise killing." Yes, you would rather have Ran or someone else to dispose people you don't like. Or just drop a train on them. "But this is a special occasion where you are defending yourself from those mindless fools. Though I admit I am quite surprised at the speed that you took care of them... and by those things you've summoned." Oh shit.

She knew. She saw my Stands. Welp, time to steer clear from that. I don't want to explain my power to a potential bogey. "...mindless?" I started my digression, "Yukari-oneesama, what are they and why did you say it as if you are very familiar with those monsters?" Yes. Take that bait, Yukari!

"Well firstly, they are called Youkai. And secondly, I know you are avoiding to talk about those spirits you summoned, so I won't answer yours until you answer mine!" She replied blithely, which prompted me to sigh.

God damn it Yukari! I grimaced inwardly, well there goes that plan now. I guess it would take someone of Joseph (not me, the namesake!)-level intelligence to fool someone like Yukari. And to hope nobody would know of their existence... oh well, it isn't like I would be able to keep them a secret for long. But still, to be found out so early and easily is kind of humiliating. "It's a Stand." I articulated.

"Oh?"

"It is, in a way, a physical manifestation of my spirit. It was named it a 'Stand' because... well, it stands beside you until your death. I had named my Stand 「We Are One」."

She blinked at that. Probably thinking I'd give it a more impressive name or something. "I thought it would have been given a more impressive name, but fair enough." Yep. "Are Stands limited to one per soul, then?" Shit. How is she so good at handing out questions i can't lie on! How many supernatural beings she has outwitted to even justify that kind of intelligence?

"No." I lied.

"Ara, ara, you are lying again~" She chastised with a cheeky smile.

Sigh, "How are you even doing this?"

She chuckled. "Boy, I've lived long enough and seen enough to know when people are lying to me."

I sighed again and slumped in utter defeat. "Fine. Yes they are, Yukari-oneesama."

Yukari hummed in thought. "So your Stand's ability is to summon other Stands?"

*Le Disc Scratch*

Okay. HOLD THE FUCK UP. HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE UP! Holy motherfucking God how did she figure out all this!? "How?" I uttered with fright.

"Well, that Stand, 「Hierophant Green」, appeared while your Stand, 「We Are One」, is active. And just then you just confirmed that one person can only have one Stand. So I put two and two together and discovered that summoning others of its kind is its ability."

I sighed again, "Yukari-oneesama is very brilliant. I can't even hide my and my Stand's power from you."

She chuckled at the compliment. "Thank you for the compliment. Well, back on the topic of youkai, I know many things about them because I am one of them." I immediately readied my knife and my Stands.

"Ufufufu, do not you worry boy, for I am not a cannibal like they are." She opened her paper fan and put it in front of her face, "Let me give you a little tip little one. Look at this road." She gestured with her head to point at the road, and my eyes followed. I made sure not to keep her away from my sight for too long however. "Just go straight and you will be out of this place in no time. That's all for my little tip, little boy. And also, there's a human village out there. If you arrive at the village, you'll be safe from preying youkai. Most of the youkai race have signed an accord on not attacking the village and claiming the humans inside. Youkai take oaths quite seriously, you see. I would even give you a reward for surviving as well."

In surprise, lowered my knife slightly. "What?" I said uncontrollably.

Yukari is getting back into her gap. "I'm quite sure you know what the red spider lilies are—though if you don't, just remember that their pollen are poisonous—and with your Stands you should be relatively fine on your brief stay here, boy." The gap is closing now. Good. "Oh, and also, if you wonder what this place is called, it's named Gensokyo." The gap stopped closing, it's so small that only Yukari's smiling face is visible through them. Stop being creepy, you old hag.

"And so, I welcome you to Gensokyo, boy."

And the fandom's favorite temporal anomaly had vanished. Wunderbar.

[3* Sudden Quest – Completed]
[Survive the encounter with the Youkai of Boundaries.]
[Rewards: 7,000 AP & 7,000 IP]

[1* The Youkai of Boundaries – Completed]
[Meet with Yukari Yakumo, the Youkai of Boundaries]
[Rewards: 3,000 AP & IP]

I pocketed my knife and sighed loudly once again from the exhaustion (and I wasn't even tired before that! Imagine that) of meeting one of the Sages of Gensokyo, and thinking about the noose she had wrung around my neck. 'Dear God, that's a LOT of points for something like that... but then again, it's Yukari.' I mused.

I crunched up my face in thought. 'Looking back, my guts didn't sense any actual danger coming from her despite the suffocating pressure she exuded. She said she didn't like killing, and as much as I'd like to believe otherwise I felt she ain't lying about it. Think, Alex. Think.' My face brightened as I remembered her usual motives to act in the canon games. 'Ah... of course, she wouldn't murder people who aren't a danger to Gensokyo's existence all willy-nilly. Silly me, I have little reason to fear her. But to be fair, that aura she does exude is so strong she is drowning me in it, though I guess being supernaturally powerful does that.' I brought my palm to my face to swipe the sweat that had gathered on my temples. "Well, time's as good as any to go." I muttered to myself and walked like an Egyptian to the distance.

[Level Up!]

Lali ho~

You're probably wondering how I am leveling up, correct? Well, I'll be brief. Goblins. 「Hierophant Green」. You can easily under-STAND how this ends. Or if you don't, those gretchins are all chocolate chip cookies now, if the cookies and the chips were greener.

...Why am I talking with myself again? Oh yes, because I have no friends, great.

Mission Update: Get some friends.

[You've created a Personal Quest!]

[0* Blessed are They With True Friends – In Progress]
[Make a few friends for yourself. For in the friendship of great friends, joy lies ahead.]
[Rewards: 8,000 AP & IP]

[Personal Quests]

[Personal Quests are a type of Quest that the Pioneers make for themselves. It is similar to self-imposed challenges, but with physical rewards involved instead of mere emotional satisfaction.]

I stopped walking as I stared the windows that appeared before my eyes, before laughing under my breath. Oh God, how nice of you to give this to me. Challenges you made for yourself can yield wealth now? Yes, I definitely made the right choice to join up the Program back there.

I wonder how much Points does saving mother would yield...

[You've created a Personal Quest!]

[5* Thicker Than Water – In Progress]
[Find a way to avert your mother from her deathbed and succeed, for your family's sake if nothing else.]
[Rewards: 10,000,000 AP & IP]

I gave the screen the stink eye. You mean you haven't made it into a Quest yet? That's quite loathsome, you know.

"Hey! You!" Aw poo, there goes my jolly mood. I turned my back to see a bipedal dire wolf.

[A Big Bad Wolf]
[Lv. 21]
[人狼, Jinrō]

I whistled at the number shown. Well damn, he's a big un'. If you still don't get what I mean, I'll show you.

[36th Pioneer Newbie]
[Lv. 5]
[Joseph Bernstein]

[Ability Points: 15,000]
[Item Points: 15,000]

Level five going against level twenty-one. How does that fare to you? Yep, I thought so too. Still, I find it to be quite a jump from the goblin fare; the highest-leveled one I've had the pleasure to meet had been ten.

"Are you a werewolf, mister?" I asked, stalling for time to devise a plan.

"What? Are you blind you lil' runt? Of course I'm a werewolf. I'm all hairy, fanged and all that!" The wolf-man sneered. How do I know he's a male instead of a she-wolf? You need to keep an ear out for voice; in his case, the voice was deeper, deeper than a woman ought to be. That underlying growl did mask it somewhat, but it's unmistakably male.

Alright, time to execute plan A. "O-oh... then if that is the case, 「Hierophant Green」!" I ordered 「Hierophant Green」 to bury the werewolf six feet under in viridian gemstones. The Stand gathered energy under both of it's palms which formed a flood of telekinetic sludge, and when my Stand notified me the attack is ready I commanded 「Hierophant Green」 to let loose. "NOW!"

"EMERALD SPLASH!" Hierophant yelled its eponymous attack, an explosive barrage of high speed telekinetic emeralds. All of the gems hit true, stabbing deep into the werewolf's body as he stumbled backwards.

"GAH!" And there I had thought he would keel over and die...

"No... no... IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Gr..." Yet he still stood up, even though he was cut and bleeding, his body chock full of emeralds which are now falling off of him. No... Hierophant's emeralds didn't cripple him! "Gh... damned little shit!" He snarled.

My eyes twitch as I try to zone in on him, as if trying to understand—and failing miserably—how the crap he just survived that. I felt like the answer was very obvious, but my mind decided to procrastinate right there and then and focus on what's in front of me and how to beat it.

It paid off, though unexpectedly.

Hoooo...? What an interesting trick we have here. I'll be sure to do something with it. Plan B! I choose you!

I unsummoned 「Hierophant Green」 before putting both my hands on my cheeks. Ow, just bitch slapped my own face there. "OH NO! YOU SURVIVED MY STRONGEST ATTACK!" For now, at least. "That should be impossible! Nobody can just deflect the Emerald Splash!"

The werewolf laughed evilly. "Bwahahahahaha! More like, belongs in the TRASH!" Heh. Just as planned.

"Y-You are to-too POWERFUL, Werewolf-sama!" I said in mock fear and awe, complete with shaking and falling flat on my ass on the dirty road. Yeesh, that stung harder than expected.

"Well of course I am!" Arrogant idiot.

"And as such, I'll use my FINAL trump card!" I said that part as I slowly stood up, still shaking to maintain the facade of FEAR and DESPERATION.

His mouth turned into a cruel sneer. "Oh? Pray tell, what could it be?"

"There's this an ancient technique belonging to my mother's lineage." The youkai lost his smug expression and tensed up at that, seemingly reminded of something. "The infamous and patented Joestar Family Secret Technique! Guaranteed to work against everything from humans to beasts..." I paused for extra dramatic effect. "...to even youkai." He definitely flinched at that addition.

"SO WHAT!?" He says in a trembling yet loud voice, trying to keep a semblance of confidence. Must have thought something that was passed on as a family technique to fight youkai to be powerful, my theory being the past Hakurei who's responsible. If that's true, I owe one to Reimu's mother.

Now, I am going to use my Ability Points to buy things that would ensure I don't get nauseous.

[Physical Enhancement Lv. 1 - Lv. 2]
[Strengthens the body of the Pioneer to better withstand physical punishment.]
[Cost: 8,000 AP.]

[Confirm purchase?]
[Yes] [No]

Cheap enough, I suppose. Why do I enhance my body to stop nausea? Well I don't know, I only thought of G-forces and then I thought of this.

"So? I am going to use my legs! It involves them, after all. And to make fate further favor my side, 「We Are One」!, 「Silver Chariot」!" I had summoned my own Stand and then Polnareff's Stand. It's going to be useful for this. I just noticed his eyes bulged at the sudden appearance of the mechanical rapier-wielding knight and the intimidating commissar flanking me. "Both of my spirit familiars are dangerous and more so for the knight, his rapier shows that well enough. Although, I don't really need his armor." 「Silver Chariot」 blasted off its armor. "While vulnerable without his armor, he is untouchable as he moves, all thanks to his amazing speed!" I even made it a point to show it off like Polnareff did, even rustling the spider lilies.

"Um, kid..." The big bad wolf is shaking in his boots (if he had boots that'd fit those claws)... should I attack him while he's at this state? Surely 「Silver Chariot」 can take him down...

...No, let's go according to the plan.

"「Silver Chariot」! Let's do this!" 「Silver Chariot」 grabbed me, which caught the werewolf off guard (he even jumped backwards at that!). "NIGERUNDAYOOO~!" And off we go to the sunset.

{Yukari Y. – Third Person}

Yukari watched as the arrogant little brunet she had just met (seriously, why did he think it was a good idea to lie to her of all people?) winded down after their meeting, sweating bullets all over. 'Huh, am I really that terrifying? Ah, who cares?' She thought.

When the boy had made his sudden appearance, she had been surprised. Not many people crossed Muenzuka—or even managed to get into Gensokyo, for that matter. And when she had found where he was, she found him in the company of those feral youkai, and had been treated to an admittedly very rare sight. The kid had summoned a spirit—which after a closer perusal had brought the Konpaku's ghosts to mind—and promptly "went into town", as Outsiders say these days, with those goblins. He had passed a knife to the spirit, who had charged after a goblin's missing lunge and tore the goblin apart not unlike a rabid beast. The boy had chuckled in genuine amusement then, fanning the other two's rage and hostility, and surprised her once again by destroying the remaining two by summoning yet another spirit—which bore no resemblance to the boy, spiritually or magically or otherwise. She had learned that this was because his "Stand" (the name tugged on her mind, as if trying to remind her of a distant memory), as it were, had the ability to call upon more of its kind. Not unlike what priests do to create miracles—but she hadn't known, at the time.

When she had decided to show up in person after he had killed those three ferals, the boy had immediately broke in cold sweat—an entirely expected response, given that she was not pretending to be a human. She had expected that he wouldn't have been able to speak Japanese, and was not at all surprised when he had informed her of this crippling disability—crippling indeed, considering where on Earth he currently is now. What had surprised her was the fact that yes, his Stand was similar to the Konpaku Clan; one can say that the ghosts of the loyal butlers of Yuyuko were something like a physical manifestation of their spirit—they were one, and yet divided, like this boy here. Briefly she had entertained the idea that the Konpaku had an unknown branch family that now lived in the West before squashing it, but it was quite amusing she found. Yukari silently made a mental note to have him and the current gardener of Hakugyokurou meet, just to gauge their reactions.

What she saw in his eyes also surprised her. People say the eyes were windows of the soul, and if they are correct, then what does it mean for this human child whose eyes shone with a confident, cautious and cold light to them? Likely it meant that this boy might shape up to be quite an interesting person in the future, she thought. Or maybe they'd screw over themselves and perish in the process, that could always happen as well. She also noted from the glint of his eyes that he seemed to recognise her when they've met, although that would be improbable; they had never met nor seen each other after all.

Yukari shoved the thoughts for later, seeing that the boy had walked down the road she had shown to him earlier after regaining his second wind. Along the way, he was ambushed by several more goblins, all of whom he dispatched easily using his 「Hierophant Green」.

"This Stand in correspondence with it's flimsy appearance, avoided the slashing and clawing of the lesser youkai rather than outright taking them, and returned their attacks tenfold with those high speed emerald barrages, fast enough and large enough to blow them to bloody pieces. His original Stand, 「We Are One」, seems content to laze behind, so it must've been too important of a piece to be left out like this. Maybe his own Stand is weak physically? Or maybe the true Stand shares their damage with the user? Hm..." Yukari theorized as to why the boy left out his Stand in practically every encounter after his first. "All signs point to it being alike to the King piece in chess as other Stands have to protect it, so it must be important."

"Hey! You!" Someone, likely a youkai, called out to the boy.

"Oh?" She saw who called: A werewolf. And it seems the little boy recognized that too.

"Are you a werewolf?" She huffed in amusement at his deadpan reply.

'He's stalling for time. I am sure it is so if how he tried to fool me before is any indication.'

"What? Are you blind you lil' runt? Of course I am a werewolf. I'm all hairy, fanged and all that!" It's obvious to her that this werewolf thinks he is just another foolish human. He have yet to see what he was capable of, then.

"Oh... then if that's the case, 「Hierophant Green」!" He ordered his Stand to create yet another one of its 'Emerald Splash'. "Now!"

"Emerald Splash!" The Stand shouted its attack yet again with its distinctive distorted voice.

All the emeralds hit their mark, but it didn't do enough damage to incapacitate the werewolf, though he was certainly maimed. "Gaaah!"

"No... no... impossible!" The kid did not expect the werewolf to be intact?

'Considering that attack was a one-hit kill on every single goblin he's come across, that kind of reaction was relatively justified.' She mused, nodding to herself.

"Gr... you damned little shit!"

"Language." Yukari whispered.

The teen gasped, after dismissing 「Hierophant Green」 and putting his hands on his cheek in a stereotypical image of horror. "OH NO! YOU SURVIVED MY STRONGEST ATTACK! That should be impossible! Nobody can just deflect the Emerald Splash!"

Yukari blinked. 'That must be the loudest I've ever heard him speak. Not even Reimu gets that loud. Let it not be said that he has not good lungs.'

"Bwahahahahaha! More like, belongs in the trash!" The werewolf gloated in response.

"You are too powerful, Werewolf-sama!" The boy cried in mock fear, complete with the stutters and shaking, even falling down to the ground with his right hand outstretched and an utterly mortified visage. If she focused a little more she could even see tears forming at the edges of his eyes, and no doubt the werewolf could see them due to his proximity and inhuman eyesight. An arguably quite convincing farce, in Yukari's opinion.

"A decent enough charade I suppose. I'll give him a B if only for effort." Yukari muttered again, with an approving nod.

"Well of course I am!" The werewolf replied in pride.

"And as such, I'll use my FINAL trump card!" The boy stated with steel, but still enough to scream desperation.

"Oh? Pray tell, what could it be?"

"It's an ancient technique belonging to my mother's lineage. The infamous and patented Joestar Family Secret Technique! Guaranteed to work against everything from humans to beasts..." He paused for dramatic effect, his visage now utterly smug. "...to even youkai."

Now she is intrigued. After all, he lost the telltale signs of fear and hesitation, instead his expression shows aside from desperation a smugness like that of a player whose victory is completely assured. Like someone who's putting everything into that one attack to finish their enemy off for good, and they know full well their enemy won't survive that. Yes, he was definitely preparing something. And from the looks of it, something big.

'So he has a secret trump card in his deck all along? Why didn't he use it earlier? Maybe it has a limitation or a cost; perhaps all that stalling was to prepare that one attack. But if so, why doesn't he feel any different? He felt literally the same throughout the period since he killed those goblins... ah, I see! Maybe now he's ready to summon a Stand that can turn the tables on the werewolf. He had nothing to show because it was his Stands who would do it!' Yukari determined.

"So what?" And it seems to her that the werewolf believed his words as well, though for an entirely different reason.

"So? I am going to use my legs! It involves them, after all. And to make Fate further favor my side, 「We Are One」!, 「Silver Chariot」!" His original Stand, as well as what looked like a living suit of stylized European plate armour armed with a rapier—which must be 「Silver Chariot」 by way of elimination—emerged in a sparkling puff. The werewolf was taken aback by their sudden appearance, he must've found the child recently then.

'Wait, it involved his legs?' Yukari frowned. 'I wonder how that would work. Not in a literal way perhaps?' Her lips cracked up slightly in remembrance. 'Euphemisms...'

"Both of my spirit familiars are dangerous and more so for the knight, his rapier shows that well enough. Although, I don't really need his armor." The new, golem-like Stand shed off its own armor which dissipates to nonexistence as it fell, showing a skeletal frame similar to a human's. "While vulnerable without his armor, he is untouchable while he moves, all thanks to his amazing speed." The boy even helpfully gave them a showing of the armor-less Stand in movement, 「Silver Chariot」 whizzing past the wolf-man and rustled the poisonous red flowers whilst leaving afterimages of itself. Definitely fast.

'Spirit familiars? I guess it can pass as such in the absence of scrutiny. So that Stand's main ability is having armor for defense and remove it for speed? A simple, yet effective ability with someone skilled enough.' The gap youkai thought, nodding to herself as she continued her train of thought. 'Yes, I can see this Stand cutting down the "big bad wolf" before he can muster up a proper response.'

"Um, kid..." The werewolf is trembling in fright.

'He's going to die like that.'

"「Silver Chariot」! Let's do this!" The Stand grabbed the boy, which caught both the gap youkai and the werewolf off guard. "I'LL HOTFOOT IT FROM HERE~!" And then he fled via the Stand, still following the road and kicking up copious amounts of dust and toxic spider lily pollen.

Yukari blinked multiple times as her brain tried to play catch-up from the sight before her and ended up simply goggling at it, before busting her ass off laughing at the sheer hilarity and unexpectedness of his ploy, not to mention the very fact that she, Yakumo Yukari, had been fooled by the boy she had insulted mere moments before. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" 'Well, I've been proven wrong, his aptitude in lying is sharper than I had previously thought. I need to be more cautious of possible attempts in the future. The next time he's going to pull off a bluff, I would immediately know. Hardly anyone fools me twice.' She decided. 'But still, he needs to be braver he wants to get any desirable results.'

{Joseph B. – First Person}

I feel like somebody just talked about me...

[Achievement Alert!]

[Making an Impression]
[Make a lasting impression to the Youkai of Boundaries.]

[Rewards: 10,000 Points.]

Holy shit. HOLY MOTHER OF JOSEPH-FRICKING-JOESTAR, I can't believe I just impressed Yukari of all people. I swear, Joseph's Indy Ploys and getaways always seem to have that effect on people.

Regardless, it seemed that even though I tried to not cause the poisonous pollen to fly up during my escapade, I failed. Good job, me~!

...Eh, not like I wasn't fanning them earlier.

"COME BACK HERE!" Oh, the big bad wolf is giving chase to me.

...And he is rolling through the dust and pollen clouds—as well as the flowers—like a tank. And from the looks of it, he's not going to run out of steam and curl up to die anytime soon. I narrowed my eyes, I held no illusion that these pollen would easily kill a grown human, so it seems to me that he needs more toxins to die from and the time for them to go to work.

"GET OVER HERE, YOU RASCAL!" Shaddup.

Tut tut tut tut tut~
Tut tut tut tut tut~
Tut tut tut tut tut~

Is he still chasing me?

[A Big Bad Wolf]
[Lv. 21]
[人狼, Jinrō]

"COME BACK HERE AND GET INSIDE MY BELLY!" Yep, he is still chasing me.

Sigh, why can't I get some peace of mind?

...

Is he... yep. He's still running.

...

"STOP RUNNING!" Still running~

...

I think seven minutes has passed.

...

"NOT EVEN A DIVINE SANDSTORM CAN STOP ME!" I swear, is his lungs made of iron? He should've been dead by now. And was that a Jojo reference?

...

Ten minutes has passed.

...

THIS. IS. BULL. FUCK. KING. SHIT!

Twelve minutes passed, and the supposedly lethal pollen isn't killing him yet! I'm calling hax on this guy! Yukari! Did you fucking do this!? You did, didn't you!?

{Somewhere in Gensokyo}

"Achoo!"

"Gesundheit."

"Thanks, Ran. I think someone just cursed my name again."

"...is it the miko again?"

"I... am unsure."

{Joseph B. – First Person}

Ghhhhhrrggg... You abominable gap hag...

Back to the issue at hand, me! I snapped myself back to reality. Okay, I think I can see the exit... or is it just me hallucinating thanks to the adrenaline...?

...

How much time has passed since I ran from this wolf?

[30 minutes and 15 seconds has passed.]

What?

That means you two have been playing cat and mouse for the past half an hour and 15 seconds.

Oh, shut up you. Anyway... thirty minutes had already passed since this getaway chase began. Guh... oh wait, that's... an open dirt road without any trees in it. Can this be the exit!?

~o0o~

{Early Night – Road of Reconsideration}

Guh? Eh? I'm... fine.

I'm fine! I'm perfectly fine! And now, let's see where is that wolf-man now.

...

The wolf is now prone on the dirty soil, body twitching minutely towards my direction before dropping silent a moment afterwards—he's dead, I realized. I chuckled, and from there it slowly grew into a near-manic laughter. "Yes! I did it! Fuhahahahaha! The Joestar Secret Technique worked, bitches!" Ok, enough with the damn monologue.

Wait, what's this? "Huh?"

[Level Up!]

Okay, that's enough level ups! Just show me how what my level is now dammit!

[36th Pioneer Newbie]
[Lv. 15]
[Joseph Bernstein]

[Ability Points: 27,000]
[Item Points: 35,000]

Ooh... dat's sum gud numberz roit dere.

Oooohhhh boooooyyy~

I think I'm dizzy. God, I'm gonna puke. Chariot dropped me hard. I have no time to reprimand my Stand, must hurry! I ran to... somewhere. And I puked.

When I felt somewhat better I took a bottle of cooled water and washed my mouth. Still dizzy, however. 'System?' It dropped a pill on my hand. What?

[Anti-Nausea Pill]
[A pill to instantly treat nausea.]
[Cost: 200 IP]

Eh!? Wuh...? Ah fuck it. I took out a bottle from my bag and gulped the pill down before guzzling myself on the cooled water. Yes, I had felt better immediately. Good, it lived up to its descriptor.

*Ding*

Hm?

[1* Judgment Test: Get Out of Muenzuka – Complete]
[Discover a way to get out of Muenzuka]
[Rewards: 1,000 AP & IP]

[2* Judgment Test: Go to the Human Village – In Progress]
[Search for and enter the Human Village for safety.]

Okay. "「Hermit Purple」!" Now this baby can show me the way. Thanks again, Joseph!

...

Okay. So the human village is just over there. In the meantime, I'mma buy myself a Stand. 'System, how much is the Stand Harvest costs?'

[Harvest]
[Harvest is the Stand of Shigekiyo Yangu, featured in Diamond is Unbreakable.]
[Cost: 10,000 AP.]

[Confirm purchase?]
[Yes] [No]

Kinda on the expensive side, but fair enough. Pressing Yes.

[Harvest (Stand) has been added to your Stand Arsenal.]

San-kyuuu~! Shigekiyo, thanks for your Stand. Time to put it to the test.

"「Harvest」." 「Harvest」 is now summoned. "Scavenge as much money as you can identify in this area, and quickly now. SO CHOP-CHOP!" The swarm Stand dispersed. "Now is the time to fucking relaaaaaaaaaxx~" I said as I sat and grabbed a bottle from my bag. I opened it, and drank. "Ahh~ so good."

Perhaps by accident, I looked up to the sky and promptly felt a chill. "Oh, fuck all kinds of duck."

It's night time.

...Welp, you know what time it is. "「Silver Chariot」, go on patrol, and rape anyone who dares to attack me." I ordered, and threw it a flashlight. The Stand caught the tool and stared at me in what seemed like puzzlement by the order, before doing what was asked of it—I worry about how sentient they are. I shifted my attention somewhere else. "Now System, would be the perfect time to read up on your specs as well as the various clauses of this contract. You've offered me the full description of Levels. Please enlighten me."

INFO DUMP, AHOY!

[As you wish, sir.]

[Levels]

[Levels—or "Lv." for short—are a measurement of how powerful someone is.]

"Mhm."

[However, this measurement calculates someone's power level using several methods: Measuring their true power, their skill with it, their willpower, their endurance, and their willingness to use said power. As a general rule, villainous characters tend to have Levels in the higher numbers up to the question marks, while heroic characters often are limited to the double digits—or three if they're a bit more vindictive. Do not take this measuring without a grain of salt, as heroes can have insanely high levels while still being very nice.]

[When you see someone with question marks above their heads, it is a warning that they are too powerful for you to possibly deal with, and is thus in your best interests to steer clear of them. Treat them with respect befitting of their station if you need to interact with them.]

"Nnnneat."

[However, Pioneers take this Leveling system to a whole another level.]

"Oh?"

[The Leveling system for Pioneers measured less on Power Levels and more on how much Experience Points (or "EXP") they've gotten over time. For Pioneers, Leveling Up on to the three digits are particularly easy, but leveling up after the 100 mark takes significantly more time than before. During the days of yore it was used to grant Attribute Points to Pioneers, allowing them to increase an Attribute of their choice, just like in an RPG game. But now, it is more of a prerequisite to unlocking and utilizing things. For example: You.]

"Me?" I redundantly pointed to myself.

[Indeed. Your Stand, We Are One, is limited in one of its inherent powers by this system. This Stand Ability is named Stand Ability Channeling, and it allows you to channel Stand abilities of Stands you already have on your Stand Arsenal without taking up a Summoning slot. It requires 21 Levels to be unlocked, and if you ever lose Levels to the point that you went under Level 21, this Stand ability will be taken from you until you've reached that Level once again.]

"That's nice to know."

[You're welcome, sir. Levels and Experience Points can be used for other purposes, such as utilizing the [Forge] feature, creating beings, and for a whole other assorted features. With this in mind, the Creator have also created Abilities and upgrades which effects tamper with the Pioneers' Leveling system. Those effects can range from increasing EXP obtainment rate to sapping others' Levels to resetting their entire Level count to 1 (Fun Fact: the latter Ability was notorious for being abused by many Pioneers to cheaply farm Attribute Points and Milestones during the first few Cycles of the Program before it was consequently nerfed and the abusers punished).]

"Hum, interesting. Wait, you said 'creating beings'. What was that supposed to mean?"

[It means exactly as it seems: Creating a sapient being of your own making.]

"Holy shit, that's awesome. It's like playing God."

[Well, to quote a Pioneer, "All Pioneers are basically gods with the amount of bullshit they can do with his [The Creator's] support". The same Pioneer had also jokingly suggested us to change the name from the "Pioneer of the Universe Program" to the "Become as Gods Program". We stuck to a more neutral name to not put off the irreligious and the faithful.]

[Back to the topic at hand, you can freely customize their appearance, race, focus, personality, hobbies and whatnot, as if you were making an avatar or a roleplay character. Or you could perhaps make an artifice entity (say, split personalities or artificial intelligences) into an actual being. Once you've finished and confirmed to create them, they'll be brought near to where you are, with exactly the same features you've specified. Of course, nature can only do so much, so take care to nurture them lest they start doing things you would not like—kind of like a Tamagotchi.]

"I'd refute that Tamagotchi part since they're technically now alive, but why bother?" I shrugged. "Oh yeah, you said there were once Attribute Points that you get every Level Ups. What's that supposed to be?"

[Attribute Points (ATP) are points that you can spend to increase your Attributes—frequently shortened as "Att"—which also improves the your abilities that are measured by that Attribute, like in an RP game. You may know them better as Stats and Stat Points. Pioneers gain 5 ATPs every level up, regardless of rank. Pioneers can spend ATPs wherever they like, but it is recommended to take a specialization, although being a Generalist isn't too bad either. When a Pioneer reaches 100 in one specific Att, otherwise known as a "Milestone", they gain a free Ability that fits with that Att, with each consecutive milestone granting them even better Abilities.]

[The Attributes are divided into six: STR, VIT, DEX, INT, WIS, LUK.]

[STR, full name Strength, is an Attribute that governs how physically strong you are. It increases your physical attack power, carrying capacity and physical toughness. At higher levels, STR, VIT and DEX sometimes overlap.

VIT, full name Vitality, is an Attribute that governs how durable you are. It increases your stamina, your physical durability, your Hit Point pool and your HP regeneration rate. At higher levels, STR, VIT and DEX sometimes overlap.

DEX, full name Dexterity, is an Attribute that governs how agile you are. It increases your physical flexibility, reflexes, and physical movement speed. At higher levels, STR, VIT and DEX sometimes overlap.

INT, or Intelligence, is an Attribute that measures how broad your knowledge is. It increases learning capability, increases your Mana Pool, better memorization capability, and higher creativity.

WIS, or Wisdom, is an Attribute that measures how wise you are: To take the best decision out of many in a most efficient manner. It improves your decisiveness, improves your intuition and sped up your Mana regeneration rate.

LUK, or Luck, is an Attribute that dictates your, well, luck and fortune/misfortune. Like a double-edged sword it is extremely good, but also extremely unreliable. It increases your chances of scoring either a 20 or a 1 on a roll and lowers the chance of rolling neither criticals, increases your chances of winning (and losing) in gambling, and basically turn any Luck-based game into a perfect 50:50 on Win/Loss.]

"That sounded kinda like 'The Gamer' thing I've heard about and seen once or twice... then again, it was based on an RPG, or so I've heard."

[Would you like to know more about the other features of the Pioneer System, sir?]

"I sure do. Give it."

{60 minutes later}

"Lali ho~" I hummed to myself. I'm in a pretty good mood all things considered.

So I tried to know how the Personal Quest system worked, and when I voiced the name here's what greeted me. Wait, let me show it to you a bit... "[Personal Quests]."

[Personal Quests]

[• Create Personal Quest]

[• Find Personal Quest]

"[Create Personal Quest]."

[Create Personal Quest]

[Quest Name: Insert Quest name here]

[Quest Location: Choose Quest location ↓]

[Quest Objective: Choose Quest objective ↓]

It was a very easy task to make a Personal Quest as I've learned. The Quest's name itself was entirely for flavor; I could name one "Dick Scratching" and it wouldn't bare any changes upon the ranking. No, what truly affects the rewards was the location and the objectives. If, say, the location was set at the Scarlet Devil Mansion or the PC-98 Makai or even the motherfucking Lunar Capital, then the mission would ramp up in difficulty accordingly whereas if the Quest was at some arbitrary corner store then it would be pretty unrewarding as it was anticlimactic.

Objectives were important as well. Just by setting a location comes with a few recommended selections that I could choose from. If I want none of that or if I was looking to find or do something a bit more specific than those then I could use one of the drop-down options: the "Custom Objective". The custom objectives were pretty dynamic as well. If I was looking for a specific object that I thought was there and didn't find it, but instead found a clue as to its location, then the custom objective would change itself to "find more clues" or something that eventually points me to what I seek. Naturally, there were some things that couldn't be changed on the fly, like killing a specific person. For whatever reason the dynamic nature of the objective can't deal with those, you either pass or fail on them. A shame that I couldn't spend some time out of my way testing that particular kink out just to make sure, however.

Aside from that, there was no particular reason for me not to indulge myself in a 100% mental chat with the System, and I managed to learn quite a fucking lot about the Pioneer Program. Did you know that there were a total of 5 ranks to being actual Pioneers and only one for the non-chosen? And did you know that I can have something similar to a Twitter account in the Program once I advance beyond being a newb?

You probably already knew about those, don't you?

Aside from the System's features, I've just found out that I can fuse 「We Are One」 with my body—well, not actually "fuse" per se, more like materializing it as an article of clothing like Ghiaccio and his 「White Album」, for example. It didn't malfunction its Stand Ability from what I can see. The end result looks rather impressive as well, though I decided to ditch the gas mask.

Commissar Joseph Bernstein of the Schola Progenium, reporting for duty!

All I need now is 「Emperor」 to complete this appearance. For rather obvious reasons really (that it being a rather large gun)... wait a moment.

The Emperor Card.

「Emperor」.

God Emperor.

I laughed at my accidental pun. "I'm going to keep it. That was a good one." Anyway, having my Stand covering me may look stupid because I could get hurt by a cut in a battle (it has an E in Durability and that says a lot about its fragility), but I wanna wear a Commissar coat and cap, and 「We Are One」's is the only one I can get in short notice.

Oh yeah, now on to talk about 「Harvest」. The swarm Stand had gathered quite the number of gold coins and whatnot. Yen notes, those outdated pre-Meiji era Mon things, even US Dollar notes... as well as some trash. Eh, what can I say? A man's trash is another's treasure. But seriously though, I didn't actually want all of these. I had stashed the currency on a pouch which I put inside the bag while I put the actual trash away. The not-so-trash trash (which is a damn low number) I kept. This amount of trash must be the work of 「We Are One」's Independent Action ability.

By the way, System, how much does 「Emperor」 cost?

[Emperor (Stand)]
[Emperor is the Stand of Hol Horse featured in Stardust Crusaders.]
[Cost: 0 AP]

Wait, what!?.

...

I palmed my face. You ditz, you used 「Emperor」 before you've even got here. How forgetful can you bloody get, you buffoon?! Anyway, how much does upgrading 「Emperor」 cost?

[What manner of upgrades for Emperor (Stand) do you require?]

Just turn it into a scoped Imperium bolt rifle with grenade launchers and dumb aiming please.

[As you wish, sir.]

[Calculating...]

[Upgraded Object: Emperor (Stand)]

[Upgrades:]

[• Aesthetic Change: "Stalker Bolt Rifle"]
[• Add Ability: "Grenade Rounds"]
[• Add Ability: "Dumb Aiming"]

[Cost: 10,000 AP.]

[Confirm purchase?]
[Yes] [No]

Not cutting back on the costs I see. Urgh, fine. Can't you use my Item Points in lieu of my AP for it, though?

[I'm afraid not, sir. These upgrades are related to your Ability, and so it spends your Ability Points.]

...So let's just hope this is actually good.

On second thoughts, remove the aesthetic upgrade.

[Upgraded Object: Emperor (Stand)]

[Upgrades:]

[• Add Ability: "Grenade Rounds"]
[• Add Ability: "Dumb Aiming"]

[Cost: 8,000 AP.]

[Confirm purchase?]
[Yes] [No]

For fuck's sake-! Yes, confirm.

[Emperor (Stand) has been upgraded.]

[Assembling Stand Stats...]

[Stand Name: Emperor]

[Stand User: • Hol Horse (Original)]
[• Joseph Bernstein]

[Namesake: The Emperor (Tarot card)]

[Stats]

[Destructive Power: B, A (with Grenades)]
[Speed: B]
[Range: B]
[Durability: C]
[Precision: C]
[Developmental Potential: E]

[Abilities]

[• Homing Bullets]
[• Point-Blank Summon]
[• Grenades]
[• Dumb Aiming]

Homing grenades. Fuck yes.

This is good. Life is good.

~o0o~

Tut tuuuut~ tut tut tut tut
Tut tuuuut~ tut tut tut tut
Tut tuuuut~ tut tut tut tuuuu
Tut tut tut tut tut tut tuuuu

I whistled one of my favorite tunes, Burnt Black Wings of Songbirds, which was used as the EX Stage theme for Len'en Ten'eisenki ～Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle. I know it might not actually be accurate note-for-note, but pardon my faulty memories.

As I droned what may or may not be a decent replica of a good tune, I heard a faint scream in the somewhere abouts. "Heeelp-pffm!"

[3* Sudden Quest: Save Him! – In Progress]
[Save the child.]
[Rewards: 4,000 AP & IP]

...Normally, I'd be moving along and pretending I didn't notice at all. But hey, I've got the power, I can afford to be a little lax with my rule of cold pragmatism. And I'd also get a nice 4,000 points to boot. So I just took a detour towards the noise, pretending I've gone lost in the woods.

I sneaked about and frequently took the chance to hid behind a tree before looking around. After the nth tree, I found the source; a sobbing boy, probably in his sevens or eights. He was sitting on the ground grabbing his knee, and there were several bleeding lacerations on his knee, most likely due to the hard soil and the protruding tree root not that far away from his location. The kid wore a grey yukata and a pair of wooden geta.

As the kid grabbed his injured knee, I heard the sound of rustling bushes and disturbed foliage. A youkai's movement, I'd wager. It's a shame that I didn't get any money, because a woman wearing a red yukata with extraordinarily long and sharp sable claws adorning each fingertip emerged from a nearby bush. To a normal man's eyes, at this distance, she would fit perfectly to human society—though those claws would be pretty eye-catching, likely reminding anyone of Wolverine. To mine, I can discern several decidedly inhuman features this youkai had: The aforementioned onyx claws, a pair of glowing amber eyes, dark brown whiskers, a pair of wickedly long sharp fangs, pointed ears and a decidedly feral look on her face.

[Red Tigress]
[Lv. 24]
[赤虎, Sekiko]

It seems that this youkai girl is of some minor importance, considering she was level twenty-four.

The boy scrabbled the ground and crawled away, seemingly afraid, but did not get very far—must be the pain from the injury. The youkai cackled and approached the boy leisurely. As she did, three more of her cronies appeared: A wolf man in an off-white yukata, a bird-winged male, and a catgirl. Yes, you heard me right, a catgirl. I don't see two tails, so I think she isn't a nekomata like Chen.

[White Direwolf]
[Lv. 17]
[白狼, Byakurō]

[Wings of the Ravens]
[Lv. 18]
[烏翼, Uyoku]

[Catgirl]
[Lv. 14]
[猫女, Nekome]

Her accomplices on the other hand... not so much. Seriously, what's with the redundant names?!

"Heheheh... hey, kiddo, you've been a veeery bad boy tonight, aren'tcha?" The first one called out.

"Yeah, you shouldn't sneaking around and playing in the forest at evening, you know? Or else you'll end up becoming some youkai's prey and dinner." Wolf-face said with a toothy, predatory grin.

"Luckily for us, we are that said "youkai" and we're preeetty hungry tonight, nyah~" The catgirl smiled smugly and viciously at their pathetic prey.

"If you don't struggle, kid, your death would be quick and painless." The red-clothed youkai and the other three behind her slowly approaching the petrified, tearful child on the ground. "I can assure you that you won't feel anything while we devour your sweet, tender flesh." She grinned while licking her lips at the sight of their living soon-to-be food.

Sadly, I'll poop on this little party and change that sign from "soon-to-be" to "never-would-be". I moved and angled myself to face all four directly in front of me, and notified everyone present of my presence.

I experimentally shot at the catgirl, testing the waters with 「Emperor」's effectiveness. The gun Stand was surprisingly very effective, instantly piercing through the catgirl's skull and killing her instantly. Crimson fluid and some grey matter sprayed forth from the holes I tore open in her head, the body stuttered for some brief moments as if still trying to register the damage before dropping down on the ground like a stringless puppet. Hoo wee, B-Rank Destructive Power rears its head. Hol Horse, I owe you one.

{Somewhere else in the Multiverse}

"Ah-choo!" The bullet strayed off to the skies. "Ah, dammit."

"..." The avenging French "knight" and his Stand simply stared at the heavens, silently thanking God for the timely save.

"Don't worry, the next one won't miss." The cowboy smiled mischievously. "That was just a random stroke of luck for you." He fixed the direction of his stray bullet.

"Polnareff! Move!" A black Egyptian man wearing a red greatcoat and amulet pushed the Frenchman to the side. "「Magician's Red」!" Unfortunately, Polnareff and his ally were oblivious to a certain Stand reflecting itself on the surface of an innocuous puddle and they had paid the price.

Everything still goes as it should be.

The remaining three went on full alert, quickly looking about them to find me.

"Who are you?! Show yourself!" The tiger youkai shouted to the trees, I said the "trees" because she wasn't facing the direction where I am actually at.

I decided to pop up right then and there—I could try to cut them down with 「Silver Chariot」. Unlike the time with the werewolf, my level is literally nine numbers away from the highest-leveled one here, I can certainly keep up with the rest. "Ehhh... sumimasen, it seems that I've gotten lost in the woods... can you point me towards where the road is?" I asked as I walked out into their line-of-sight, actually pretending to be lost. The three immediately turned their hostile gazes at me.

The tigress narrowed her eyes dangerously before letting out a sneer. "Oh, if it isn't just another pathetic human." She spoke with arrogance coming off her in waves. Ahem, excuuuuuse mee, this "pathetic human" killed your little fella' over there.

"Excuse me, princess, but this 'pathetic human' killed your accomplice over there." I voiced my complaint, pointing at the dead youkai's body.

The tiger youkai looked at her dead accomplice for a moment before shrugging. "Eh. I guess that's one more piece for me, then." She said nonchalantly.

I blinked, squinting my eyes at their antics. "Really guys? No sense of camaraderie for your dead buddy here?" I said, a touch disbelieved.

Bird-wings snorted at that. "Eh, she's just useless most of the time. We just didn't wanna waste energy killing her."

"Oh wow, not even a shred of mercy. I wonder if you three are even people, and not simply intelligent animals." I deadpanned.

The two glared at me for my insult. Wolf-face replied in their stead. "Heh, heheheh," He walked past his leader, grabbed the injured kid by the collar and easily lifted him into the air with one hand. "You see this kid here, boy? Good." I did not answer, you know. "You see, we were about to feast on this little kid here before you came by. If you had wanted to save him, I am sorry to inform you that you are far too late."

"Mm-hm." I hummed.

"But now that you're here, before we eat this kid to the bare bones, we're gonna kill you first! Am I right boss?!" Wolf-face all but shouted his question. Nnneat, so they're going to attack me first then. Now I can justify this murder case as self-defence.

"Yeah, let's." She responded, regaining her smug disposition.

"Oh wow. You see, that would be intimidating... if you were intimidating, that is." I shot back nonchalantly, returning the assholishness tenfold.

All three bristled in unhidden anger at my blatant disrespect. "Gr... are you mocking us?!" Wolf-face snarled.

I smiled disarmingly and put my hands in front of me. "Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no." I repeated the 'no''s a few more times all the while shaking my hands, before suddenly cutting it off. "Pffftt... yeah." As I speak, I summoned 「Emperor」 in my left hand and promptly fired a grenade round at Bird-wings. Most of his torso vanished in a scarlet bloom.

SHOT THROUGH THE HEART, BITCH!

I shot several normal rounds at Wolf-face, tearing his wolfy face apart in a shower of gore. The last one...

The tiger youkai used the moments I spent killing her minions to initiate her own attack. She sped towards me, claws and fangs bared, ready to gut me apart at a moment's notice. If I was a normal human, then I would have no choice but to pray to the gods for a quick death—that, or plead earnestly for her mercy. As it stands, I'm not normal, so...

Just a moment later, the squelch of tearing flesh was heard by everyone present, and blood sprayed both of us: me, and my remaining foe. I idly patted the blood on my shirt, before cringing. This would be a bitch to clean up, I'm sure of that. I looked towards the tiger youkai.

Well, she'd definitely seen better days. The Level 24 youkai knelt on the ground, bleeding from countless injuries that had spontaneously appeared upon her form. Her legs weren't working—and they wouldn't for quite some time—as they were torn messily, with chunks of skin and muscle littering the ground. The chest area around the heart sported multiple holes, blood pouring out of it in great amounts. Her face, once beautiful in its own way, was now a mutilated masque of crimson liquids and red tendons being lifted upward on a rapier's blade. Speaking of tendons, her arms were like her legs: sliced down to the bones, hanging limply on her shoulders. Her yukata? Completely shorn off, showing her naked body for the world to see. I concluded that she was utterly impotent, although that was obvious.

I ended her brief once over. 'Yep. She's definitely a 'Red Tiger' alright.' "Ohohoho, a 'Red Tiger' indeed you are." I knelt beside her. "How does it feel being on the end of an attack? I hope it's up to your tastes." I whisper-taunted to her left ear. No retort came, though that was because her throat had been sliced already. In fact... "Seriously, I'm amazed you're still alive through all of this. What in the seven hells are you made out of?" I half-asked, before shaking my head.

"Y'know what? I'm not even gonna wait for an answer, I've got you dead to rights anyway. 「Silver Chariot」!" I ordered, and my armorless knight delivered; lopping the tiger youkai's head off. I looked as the head fell to the ground, suppressing any thought of disgust and fear I might've had during the whole ordeal. A thought passed by... opening my Infinite Space Bag, I threw the bisected head into the nigh-imperceptible void of endlessness that is my bag—a trophy and a way to remember about my early days in Gensokyo.

[3* Sudden Quest: Save Him! – Completed]
[Save the child.]
[Rewards: 4,000 AP & IP]

[Level Up!]

"Well that should wrap things up here." I strapped it back and hurled it on my back, before walking towards the form of the boy, who went stock still at the sight of carnage that had happened before him. "Hey, kid. You alright?" I asked cordially.

"G-get away from me!" He shouted, raising his hands in defence. My face twisted in hurt, anger and a sad understanding as I took an unconscious step backward.

Sighing to myself, "Look, kid, it's safe now. You're safe, those youkai aren't going to kill you." I spoke up again, spreading my arms apart.

"A-and how c-can I be sure y-you wouldn't k-kill me?" He replied timidly.

"You have my word that I won't hurt you. I promise."

"Y-you promise?"

"I swear on my own life that I will not hurt you. I don't break promises, you can trust me." I tried to assuage his fears. It seemed to have worked, as the boy didn't object to me walking near him. I saw his scraped knee—all but forgotten in the brief heat of combat. "Your knee is injured. Can you walk?" I asked, before shaking my head. "No, forget I ever asked that one. Would you like a piggyback ride?" The boy's face lit up for a bit. I chuckled, "Alright then, a piggyback ride it is." My amusement died as I gave a once over on my clothing and his.

They're blood-stained. That's got to set off some alarms when we get back to the village. I REALLY don't want people thinking very bad things about me. So... how to best deal with this problem?

Ah. System, can you upgrade my Infinite Space Bag with an instant laundry upgrade?

[Affirmative, sir.]

[Upgraded Object: Infinite Space Small Bag]

[Upgrades:]

[• Instant Laundry – Slots: 2]

[Cost: 6,000 IP.]

[Confirm purchase?]
[Yes] [No]

So it exists, outstanding. Hm... alright, for something like instant laundry, I'd consider that getting off cheap. Confirm.

I saw my Chosen Item glowing for some brief seconds before returning to normal. Well, time to use that upgrade. I looked at the kid. "Um, can you lend me your yukata for a minute?" I asked hesitantly, trying to appear normal like people do if they talk about the same topic.

"Um... why?"

"Your clothing is dirty. I don't think your parents would like to see you dirty, am I right?"

The kid hesitated. "And how would you fix it, foreigner-san?"

I smiled. "Why, magic of course! Would you like to see?"

"Sure!" The boy replied excitedly, quickly getting out of his yukata—surprising, considering his wounded knee, but I guess he just was starting to get used to it or something.

"Well, it's not something very flashy, but it's magic nonetheless. Take a look." I took the bloodstained yukata and dipped it inside my bag. A few seconds later I pulled it out and it was as fresh as a daisy—quite literally in fact.

"Whoa. So cool." An impressionable little midget, isn't he?

I hesitated as yet another thought came racing by. Why? Why didn't I think of that? System! Get me a health pill!

[Health Pill]
[Instantly recovers a tiny sliver of health.]
[Price: 100 IP]

[Confirm purchase?]
[Yes] [No]

Wunderbar. Now buy 10 of them to sum it all up to 1,000.

Ten green/forest green-coloured pills appeared on my free hand. I offered one to the boy. "Here, to heal you up."

"Um...? How do I use it?"

My eyes twitched. Gods damn it, IT'S SO FREAKING OBVIOUS A BABY COULD KNO- Hmmmmmffff... huff... calm down, Alex. Calm down. "You swallow them. No need to chew it, you just need to swallow it to eat it. Then it will heal you." I replied politely, covering my less-than-welcoming thoughts.

"O-oh, sorry." The boy gulped it down. As soon as he did, the pill worked its magic (heh) and healed his lacerated knee in mere moments; it even looked like nothing bad had even happened. "Wow..."

"Can you stand?" I asked. The boy stood up.

"It doesn't hurt anymore! Thanks foreigner-san!"

I smiled, my previous bout of anger all but forgotten. "You're welcome, kid. Here," I gave him his yukata."Fresh as a daisy."

"Thanks again!" The boy sniffed it. "It does smell like flowers!"

"It kinda does, doesn't it? Wait here for a second," I took off behind a tree and quickly washed up my clothes before getting back to the kid, finding him making a face as he stared at the dead corpses. I twitched, feeling like a real bitch here by exposing him to stuff like this. I also felt disturbed by his dissonant serenity; kids his age should be rightly scared of stuff like this. "Um, are you alright kid?"

"...They're dead, aren't they, foreigner-san?" He replied right afterward, surprising me with the topic.

"Uh... um, yeah. They're dead. I'm sorry that you saw this, a child your age shouldn't be seeing things like this." I confessed my thoughts.

"Then that means they can't hurt mama and papa and anyone else anymore, right?"

"...Yes."

"Good. They deserved it." I winced at the confession.

"Anyway... would you like to get a piggyback ride back to the village now?" I wasn't even hiding the fact that I wanted the kid to get out of this place ASAP, such was my guilt.

He faced me and nodded. "Yes, please."

~o0o~

As we walked back to the village I initiated a conversation, trying to distract him from his brush with death. I still felt guilty about it, howevermuch I've toughened myself up. In fact, I wondered how did killing all those youkai haven't made a lasting impression on me yet.

A blue window appeared before me.

[You've unlocked your Personal Skills!]

[Personal Skills]

[Personal Skills are skills that Pioneers have acquired before their entry into the Pioneer of the Universe Program remade into Abilities. Due to their transformation, these skills gain a significant increase in effectiveness and will not atrophy if the Pioneer forgot to train them. Depending on the nature of the skill, it can be permanently active (Passive), requiring activation before being used (Toggled), or requiring constant activation (Active)—kind of like all of those sweet, sweet powers you can get in World of Warcraft and the like.]

Really, System? All that time beforehand and you've told me about this right now?

[You never asked, sir.]

I held back the urge to slap my face, and kept a straight one in the face of this stupendous stupidity. Alright, calm down, Alex. Calm down. Now, now that that's out of the way... you said skills, as in plural. Does that mean what I think it means, or does that mean otherwise?

[You are correct, sir.]

[Would you like to see the skills you've acquired in your past life?]

Hm... interesting... sure, why the fuck not. It's not like there would be any unpleasant surprises.

[As you wish sir. Remember that you can select any one of them to understand that Ability more.]

[Personal Skills List:]

I whistled, mentally. That's a good number of Abilities. For Actives there are Speed Burst, Power Strike and Self-Delusion, which I skipped over since they're self-explanatory. I doubted they're much good compared to my Stands, anyways, and the last one doesn't fill me with confidence. For Toggles there are Suppression, Stepford Smiler (is the System a TvTrope fan?). And finally for Passives there are Investigator, Sword Mastery: Autodidact, Firearms Mastery, Visual Acuity and Driving.

I pressed Suppression.

[Suppression]
[Lv. 5]
[Toggle: Off]
[Cost: N/A]

["He always smiled, and he always chuckled, but inside he did not notice anyone, did not care; it was his body that smiled, nodded and shook hands. Nothing touched his mind, which remained remote." — Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Emotions can be quite an obstacle. Fear can make you unable to face the danger. Compassion can prevent you from shooting the dog even if it's necessary. Love can make you crazy, dumb or lead you straight to villainy. Let alone it hurts. And then there are such things as anger and hatred and zealotry. Regardless, emotions cloud your mind and impede logical thought. So, what do you do with them? Perhaps you can find a way to relieve yourself of this burden?

Suppression is the ability to suppress emotions, as well as minor attempts at mind control and emotion reading (like Empaths), at the cost of mental strain and fatigue. The higher the level it gets to, the more effective and efficient at removing mental influences it becomes. At maximum level, Suppression can instantly turn off emotions permanently and make others' influences utterly ineffectual as long as it is active. May cause unwanted psychological side-effects.]

I pressed a few more by random, just to make sure I didn't get any unpleasant surprises.

[Stepford Smiler]
[Lv. 5]
[Toggle: Off]
[Cost: N/A]

["I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long. No one suspected what crouched behind my perfect imitation smile." — Dexter Morgan, Dearly Devoted Dexter

Named after the TV Tropes page of the same name—by you yourself, if subconsciously—the Stepford Smiler is a skill you've developed as a response to a need to conform to the standards of those you spent most of your time with, once you've started to "stray" from "normal" behavior when your childhood ended. It should be noted that Stepford Smiler and Suppression works hand-in-hand with each other. Think of it as like this; Suppression removes your ability to feel anything, while Stepford Smiler prevents anyone from noticing. Adjusts your behavior and mannerisms to suit your opponent accordingly to satisfy their ideals of "normality" as long as it is active. When used in tandem with full attention, adjusts how you act the way you intended it for.]

[Self-Delusion]
[Lv. MAX]
[Active]
[Cost:N/A]

["People don't like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." ― Helen Keller (attributed)

Self-Delusion, or self-deception, is a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument. Self-deception involves convincing oneself of a truth (or lack of truth) so that one does not reveal any self-knowledge of the deception. Usually, this is supposed to denote a sense of innocence; however, it may appear that the person either consciously or subconsciously knows, and just doesn't want to deal with it. Or more disturbingly, he refuses to consider it to the point of suppressing it and choosing his own reality, thereby being driven to insanity. Self-Delusion allows you to ignore anything you do not like, and improves your chances at SAN rolls in case you are faced with maddening truths.]

[Investigator]
[Lv. 1]
[Passive]

[Investigator is an Ability that utilizes (and improves upon your) inductive reasoning to accomplish your goals. Inductive reasoning is a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion (in contrast to deductive reasoning). While the conclusion of a deductive argument is certain, the truth of the conclusion of an inductive argument may be probable, based upon the evidence given.

Unlike deductive arguments, inductive reasoning allows for the possibility that the conclusion is false, even if all of the premises are true. Instead of being valid or invalid, inductive arguments are either strong or weak, which describes how probable it is that the conclusion is true. Another crucial difference is that deductive certainty is impossible in non-axiomatic systems, such as reality, leaving inductive reasoning as the primary route to (probabilistic) knowledge of such systems. Given that "if A is true then that would cause B, C, and D to be true", an example of deduction would be "A is true therefore we can deduce that B, C, and D are true". An example of induction would be "B, C, and D are observed to be true therefore A might be true".]

[Sword Mastery: Autodidact]
[Lv. 2]
[Passive]

[Sword Mastery: Autodidact is the ability to use swords effectively with your own style. This passive Ability improves your skills when wielding affected sword types, and can add in more to the collection if you were to use them for more than enough time. This class of Sword Mastery is very time and effort-intensive to improve, but it offers incredible versatility in melée.]

[Affects:]
[• Shortswords]

[Firearms Mastery]
[Lv. 3]
[Passive]

[Firearms Mastery is the ability to use firearms. This passive Ability improves your aiming, hastens your reloading rate, and improves your marksmanship skill with firearms.]

[Affects:]
[• Pistols]

...I spoke too soon.

Let's get all of this out first. Suppression? Absolutely situational. I mean, what kind of dolt would suppress the entire range of emotions they have permanently? That's it, that description alone makes that ability something I will not use unless absolutely necessary. Stepford Smiler is also kind of situational like Suppression, I mean, what happens if the person I was having a conversation with regards everyone "normal" as "dumb idiots who accomplishes nothing"? Surely that'd be a spectacular case of backfirement I presume.

Self-delusion...? Surely I don't do that, am I? No, I don't.

[[Self-Delusion] have leveled up!]

You cheeky little bastard...

Investigator's pretty neat all around, even though it was unfortunate it can't be 100% accurate all the time. And when I saw the Firearms Mastery and Sword Mastery skills, I was this close from stopping my stride and slapping myself in the face. I literally had forgotten my old revolver and my Cobra Steel Kindjal—from Windlass Steelcrafts for less than seventy bucks, thank you for the recommendation Skallagrim—which are far more effective than just some survival knife from some arbitrary corner store.

"Oh, by the way, I'm sorry for not thanking you earlier, so, thanks for saving my life back there. My name is Kyodou Daisuke. What's yours, foreigner-san?" Heh. To him all that musing happened in the blink of a moment; too fast to process. I can think fast, very fast, I just don't bother because it exhausts my brainpower.

[Just a Child]
[Lv. 1]
[巨藤大佑, Kyodō Daisuke]

I answered his question with little thought. "Joseph Bernstein, family name last."

{Evening, A Few More Minutes Later...}

"All the school kids so sick of books,
They like the punk and the metal band,
When the buzzer rings, oh-way-oh~
They're walking like an Egyptian~"

Okay, that's enough singing. I'm bad at it.

I then heard clapping behind me. "You sing good, Jozefu-san!" Daisuke congratulated me. He could've done without butchering my new name, however. "Although I couldn't recognize the lyrics. What kind of song was that, though?"

I hadn't answered, because I was too busy sputtering and blushing in shame. God dammit, why did I forget there's somebody else here?

And enough complaining, I think I can see the Human Village all the way from here. I looked around. To my left, there was a forest, but with normal trees and was rather big in size, which may very well be the Forest of Magic, I think.

And to my right, a vast meadow can be seen, and I think I saw yellow in the distance—and yellow could mean sunflower petals, which would mean the Garden of the Sun, and there is a lot of nopes and nuh-uhs for that place (actually only one but we all know why that is). Damn you, Imperfect Metamorphosis, making Yuuka the stuff of my nightmares for weeks to come.

There was also a forest beyond there, circling round a mountain. The largest mountain in Gensokyo was supposed to be the Youkai Mountain—was it Iwagatake or Yatsugatake? I can't remember—from what I remember, which could mean that mountain was indeed the Youkai Mountain.

Hm... all of those are still up for debate though.

"Look! There's the village!" Daisuke-chan pointed out to me.

I smiled. "Yes, thank you Daisuke-chan."

"Urk." The boy flinched. "I'm a man!"

"So?"

"Chan's are for girls!" I couldn't help but giggle at that.

I dispelled 「Emperor」. No use pointing guns if nobody knew what the fuck a gun is. I decided to swap it for 「Silver Chariot」. The knight owns a sword after all. Best case scenario, the villagers won't try to fuck with me. Worst case scenario, I get caved by Keine. Or turned into swiss cheese by the villagers.

Jesus F'in Christ. This is no time to feel gloomy.

I looked at the admittedly large village. "This is a small town, not a village." It's even fortified for fuck's sake. I think I got a good name for this Village, Morioh. Sadly I'm not the one responsible for its creation, so no, that can't be its name.

[2* Judgment Test: Go to the Human Village – Completed]
[Search for and enter the Human Village for safety.]
[Rewards: 5,000 AP & IP]

Thanks.

"Halt! Who goes there?" Ah fucking hell. I looked towards the source of the noise, and I saw an androgynous-looking guard armed with a bow.

[Archer Guardsman]
[Lv. 11]
[島耕日笠, Shima Hiryuu]

"Eh?" Hiryuu blinked as he saw the kid perched atop my shoulders. "You're... Sadao's nephew, right? What was it... Daisuke, right?"

The boy's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree again. "You know Sadao-jisan?" He asked enthusiastically.

"Yeah, he's with us right now." The nuked city (HA!) turned back and screamed. "OI, SADAO! Your nephew's here!"

I lowered myself. "Please get off my back, would you?" I politely asked Daisuke. He did as was asked. Soon enough, a muscled, middle-aged—and manly—guard carrying a spear ran towards us, his expression being that of annoyance.

[Spearman Guardsman]
[Lv. 17]
[荒北貞夫, Arakita Sadao]

"What is it, Hiryuu-!? Daisuke!?" The guardsman gaped like a fish, dropping his spear.

"Sadao-jisan!"

"Daisuke!" The elder guard hugged the boy tightly. "I was afraid when your mother told me you've been gone for the good part of a day! I thought the youkai had... had..."

"Sadao-jisan..."

"Don't do that to me again! No, don't do that to us again, EVER!"

"Sadao... -jisan... I can't... breathe!"

"O-oh! Sorry, sorry!" The old man lowered his beloved nephew.

I couldn't help but laugh at that scene. Hiryuu the guard fared pretty much the same as I did: Abysmally. The subject of the joke laughed with us shortly afterward.

When the laughterfest subsided, the guards gazed at me. Sadao started it. "So... who are you, kid?" Urk. That sounded better in my head honestly.

"Just some random traveler." I replied.

"You're an Outsider." He stated.

"Gee, what gave that out? My futuristic fashion style? My foreign face?" I deadpanned. I have got no time for this shit.

"You've got sass, kid. I'll give ya that."

"Uncle Sadao!" Daisuke interrupted us. "Jozeff-san here saved me from a pack of youkai!"

Sadao's eyes traveled from Daisuke to me then to his nephew once again. "Him? Really?" He replied skeptically. I knew I wanted that kind of treatment by my enemies, but for fuck's sake, he's not even one of them!

"Excuse me, but I can kill youkai single-handed."

"Yes, uncle, he's telling the truth! He had this weird small-metal-thingy that shoots magic bullets, then he killed the last of the four with a floating samurai!" Oh God, floating samurai! FLOATING SAMURAI! OH BY JESUS' HOLY GRACE, HE'S CALLING SILVER CHARIOT A FLOATING SAMURAI!

"Floating... samurai? What?" Sadao seemed dumbfounded as well.

As the subject of our conversation, where was my 「Silver Chariot」 anyways? "Nee, Joseph-san, can't you just summon that floaty samurai thing again?" Daisuke posed, innocently.

"You're a wizard?"

"Uhm, well, yes." Let's just go with that handwave for now. "Please don't start calling me an evil sorcerer or something, because I really don't like getting kicked off right after getting here." I requested.

The old man waved his free hand in a placating gesture. "No need to. Some of us don't really have that much contempt for magic users. They carry around problems, certainly, but they're also useful. Like that one wizard girl that usually blunders around trying to solve an Incident... what was her name, Hiryuu?"

"Mari... something, I believe." Hiryuu shrugged.

"Ah well, who cares. My point is that wizards can be useful at times, but they're also annoying to deal with." Sadao finished. "So, what's your magic shtick?"

"Spirit summoning." I summoned both 「We Are One」 and 「Silver Chariot」 with a flick of the finger.

"There! There's the floaty samurai thing!" I giggled. Couldn't help myself!

"Daisuke! That's no samurai! That's just a hunk of floating armor wielding a thin sword!" Sadao flicked the kid's forehead, before looking back at me. "Kinda like those 'Daemonologists' or 'Necromancers' huh, summoning spirits?" He questioned.

"Oh no, no, no. Despite any and all similarities, we're different. These spirits aren't like the usual stuff you may have seen." I reassured him.

"Alright I'll trust ya. Don't go snooping on graveyards though. It didn't went well for a wizard guy in the past. You can go in."

Nodded in response. "Thank you." But before I got in three steps, Hiryuu interrupted me.

"Aren't we forgetting something?" He asked.

Sadao parsed the question, before letting out an "Oh!". "Kid, we have to check your baggage."

"Why...?" I asked him.

"Just so we know you aren't planning anything weird."

"...What?"

"Can you hand me the bag?" Sadao asked, not bothering to reply to my incredulity.

"What bag?" I asked back.

"That bag-" He looked around my form. "Where did that bag go?"

"You're probably seeing things." I reassured him again.

"Ah, damn it. Seems like age's getting to me. Alright, you can go." I thanked him, and was about to turn but he put a hand on my shoulder. "Thank you for saving my nephew, kid. I owe ya."

"Well, don't expect me to come knocking anytime soon, old man." I replied. "Wait, no, I probably should cash that favor in right now. Age might be really getting to you." Added in for the laughs.

Sadao snorted. "I've said it and I'll say it again: Sassy, aren't ya? I'm still perfect health kid. I won't just drop down dead anytime soon."

"Make sure you do. Don't want the kids saddling unpaid debts now, would we?" I grinned at the guardsman.

"Oh, go to hell." Hiryuu elbowed him, but Sadao kept chuckling.

"Well, gentlemen, midnight is nigh and I have to go. See you later." I bowed.

"Heh. See ya later as well, lil' runt." I nodded and turned, walking inside the village. In the distance, I heard him saying something about 'Hakurei' and 'Outsider'. Heh, whoops.

~o0o~

{Inside the Village}

Huh, wow. It's deathly quiet here. Nobody but animals are on the streets, with only a few places still have the lights turned on.

I looked around and scratching my head, trying to figure out where Gensokyo's Tavern equivalent building should be located. "Dammit, Yukari. She allowed me to understand Japanese speech and speak the language but she didn't bother to adjust my visual sense." I grumbled.

A sheet of white paper fell from the sky, right in front of me. Specifically, smackdab right on my face. Growling, I ripped it off my face and flipped it, finding notes scribbled on it. Gee, how more cliche can this guy get? Letting out an aggrieved sigh, I read the header of the note.

"As you have accomplished the task I've set out for you, as I've promised, your reward. Knowing you've no place to stay for the night, this note will point you to the only inn in the Human Village. — Sincerely, Yukari-oneesama" I quirked an eyebrow at the choice of reward. Casting my eyes downward yielded, indeed, the directions as well as a parting word. "P.S. You may want to thank me for allowing you to understand this friendly little note."

What...?

I narrowed my eyes at the note. What did she mean by 'allowing me to understand this friendly little note'?

Choked and facepalmed when I finally got it. The entire text was in Japanese. Her gift for me was this, and the directions. Well, pretty nice of her to do something like this. I looked around, finding absolutely no gaps I could face towards. Shrugged and screw finding her, in the end.

"I can't properly express how much of my gratitude for your aid, Yukari-oneesama. Your magnanimity is wasted on a humble man like I." I spoke, assured of the fact that nobody's alive right now to hear me degrade myself like this.

...

Except there are... weren't there?

Shaking my head, I promptly went to the direction of the inn—and immediately asked the owner if there was any room left available as soon as I arrived, much to his surprise. Once he got over his surprise at someone suddenly barging in and asking for a room at such a late time, he informed me that there were some rooms available thankfully. I asked how much money to rent a room for a month, he gave the price tag and I agreed after a moment of pondering. It wasn't exactly cheap, but it wasn't exorbitant either.

I walked in to my room. It wasn't lavish, that's for sure. Hell, the Hiedas would most likely have better versions of this accommodation. Ah, who am I to refuse? I laid down on the futon and sighed.

"First day in Gensokyo, survived. Okay, let's check our objective list."

Get out of Muenzuka, check.

Reach the Human Village, check.

Now what?

"「Harvest」." I summoned 「Harvest」 once more. "Gather some more money, would you?" The Stand dispersed and is gathering money now. Meanwhile, I checked my Infinite Space Bag. Well, I guess everything is accounted for.

Good. I closed my eyes.

Good night, Gensokyo.

So, this is Joseph's Pioneer Stats and current Stand Arsenal list, just in case you're wondering:

Title: 36th Pioneer Newbie
Level: 20
User Name: Joseph Bernstein
True Name: Alexander Farkas

Chosen Ability: [Stand Power: Blank Stand]
Chosen Item: [Infinite Space Bag (Small)]

Ability Points: 11,000 pts.
Item Points: 37,800 pts.

[Stand Arsenal]

• 「Hierophant Green」

• 「Silver Chariot」

• 「Hermit Purple」

• 「Echoes ACT1」

• 「Emperor」

• 「Harvest」