p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background-color: transparent;"Aldo first met his wife at the age of nineteen. On any day off they had he would take her on a picnic. They'd eat for about half an hour before they lied back on the picnic blanket and watched the clouds./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" It was under a certain cloud three years later they were married. It wasn't special but Aldo always remembered the heart cloud because it seemed romantic to him./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"At the age of twenty-two, he married his wife, Faith. They lived together for years happily. Every morning she would kiss him off to work. Every night before dinner they would say grace./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"They even had a child together. They had ended up with a second one after adopting the daughter of a dead friend of his. The days he got a child were the happiest days of Aldo's life. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"His job took him all over the world, he would appraise works of art and because of this, he didn't bat an eye when he was handed a golden arrow decorated with an ornate pattern. He had brought it home to study the craftsmanship and somehow his kids had cut themselves on it when he wasn't examining it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Soon after that they contracted an unidentifiable illness and died. Their deaths tore him apart and took him, it was his fault./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The nurse, a middle-aged woman wearing a black veil out of respect, had come out of the operating room with a solemn face that he would never forget./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"After their deaths, Aldo threw himself very deeply into religion. He prayed to God every night for his children to be taken care of on the other side./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Their marriage had lost its spark, but they still cared for each other. At least, that's how Aldo saw it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"At the age of 41, three hours before the plane took off he arrived home early from work to surprise Faith. What he found shocked him./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She had gotten drunk and invited dozens of people he didn't know into their home to perform occult rituals./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The idea of people performing satanic rituals had always seemed like a children's fantasy to him. In truth, it wasn't because she believed in any great evil, but because of hatred. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She resented God for taking away her children. She resented Aldo for worshipping such a terrible god. She resented herself for falling for such a weak man. And she resented her parents for giving birth to her. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"To her, it was as if he had never loved the children, but wanted to fulfill the conservative dream of a wife, two children, and a white picket fence./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" She wanted to lash out, and the occult seemed like the easiest way to this./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" Aldo kicked the Satanists out of his house and began to argue with his wife. She eventually made to leave the house but was stopped by Aldo./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" In a fit of anger, he threw her to the floor only to be met with a knife to the eye./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" She escaped as he rolled around on the ground. In pain and frustration, he destroyed his kitchen./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" He felt something empty inside of him like he had lost something. Only one course of action made sense to him. He would chase her. He would follow her and confront her. He would ask her why. And if the need arose, he would pray for her salvation./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" He grabbed his work suitcase and napkins from the counter to stop the blood./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true".../span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" "Where the fuck is my friend!" Said the man with a large pompadour. Behind him, a tall woman with black hair grabbed him with her hair and slammed him down again./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" "Stairway to Heaven!" Aldo shouted, releasing a large ball of light that he had been building up./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" The light flashed and in a matter of seconds the plane was gone, and its place stood a black fairy tale forest./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" Josuke summoned Crazy Diamond. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The mirage had made it impossible to see anyone, even the passengers of the flight disappeared./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke looked around frantically trying to figure out where he went. He took a step only to feel a sharp pain on his foot./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He frantically raised it. As he did he noticed a slight shimmer beyond the veil of the trees. Fearing what was coming he dove to the side. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"It wasn't quick enough. A deep red beam of light bent down a tree and up to him cleaving a slab of flesh from his arm./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He gripped the black wound before blood could rush out./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The path the beam had taken slowly began to disappear until there was nothing but the sky below. The hole created a vortex of air drawing him into it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Crazy Diamond!" In an instant, the hole had repaired itself and the area was normal again. Without the illusion the man became visible./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Aldo was pressed against the wall with his cloaked stand in front of him with a small ball of light in its hands. The man's eyes were becoming red from the repeated exposure to his stand's light./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORA!" Josuke jumped forward. He seized the moment without hesitation. The ball of light fell as the stand's right hand performed a two-hundred and seventy-degree turn./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORA!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""SNAP!" The stand's arm cracked above the hand and below the shoulder./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORADORA!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""CRACK!" The stand dissipated. In its place, its user was locked in place by Josuke's foot as Crazy Diamond kicked in both of his legs at once. Aldo sharply began to fall without the support of his legs./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORADORADORA!" In its place, Crazy Diamond's fists became supports lifting the man off of the ground and sending him into the roof with an immediate barrage of blows./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORADORADORADORADORADORA!" Without anyone to stop him his barrage revved like an engine. He rammed his fists into Aldo with all the ferocity of killing machines./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""CRACK!" The final barrage sent him soaring through the roof into the clouds above./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORA!" In one final bout of rage, Crazy Diamond punched the wall of the plane denting it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"-/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Stand Name/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": Stairway to Heaven Act 2/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Stand Ability/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The stand bleeds a very reflective chromatic liquid from its eyes in heavy amounts. The stand can control the composition of this liquid and push it across a surface at will. The liquid reflects light to perfectly create whatever visual illusion the stand desires to see. By using Act One's ball of light on the liquid created by Act Two, the light is trapped inside the fluid reflecting back and forth until it creates a superheated liquid as hot as the sun./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Design/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": Where once the stand was cloaked in shadow, the stand radiates light. Its face is revealed to be that of a skeletal goat. The hood has blown off revealing a pair of spiraled horns. Its cloak gives of faint light and now glows a deep wine red./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"After the fluid is used it begins to slowly leak onto its cloak making it appear like it is on fire the same color as wine. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Stand User: /strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Aldo Goodman/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Destructive power/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": C/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Speed/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": C/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Range/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": B/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Durability/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": E/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Precision/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": B/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Development Potential/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": A/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Notes: /strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The stand evolves during the period in which the user closes their eyes for Act 1, however, the user did not know this until they opened their eyes during the attack. Act 2 is usable only for a few seconds while the light from Act 1 is present. This is because the shadows possessed by Act 1 are part of the stand, by turning its darkness into light the fundamental abilities of the stand have changed. With this evolution, the stand seems to have become independent of its user's will. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"-/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke felt anger swell inside of him. If he had only been quicker to get through the illusions. He kept running into traps and slowing down, but how could he have known that his best friend would die if he didn't hurry up./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Now he was making excuses. He gritted his teeth and stood up. If he could somehow land the plane he might be able to find and save Okuyasu./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He looked around and made his way to the cabin./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He wasn't the only one taking stock of their surroundings. At the same time, Aldo was sent flying into the air. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He closed his eyes to approach the finality. The finality came and left him. He had survived by some random miracle of nature. He still felt the shock of death running through him. The grim reaper hadn't left him but left his business card knowing he would call back. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He opened his eyes to a sea of heavenly clouds and sunlight piercing his frail, bloody form. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The clouds were many shapes but very few made sense. It was only because he tried looking at each cloud individually that they made no sense. But as everything clicked the clouds slowly began to form one great unmistakable shape./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The shape was unmistakably a heart. If the first cloud was a message from God telling him he had found the one, what was this? Was God telling him this was some great plan from the beginning?/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"What kind of twisted god would tell him she was the one knowing that all roads lead here. Was it a message telling him it would all work out fine. As he rapidly descended through the lower layer of the clouds, limbs flailing, blood gushing out his body like a hose, and vision becoming blurry he held the idea that this would work out fine as nonsense./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Even if he were to step off the plane at the next airport in perfect shape without any legal consequences his wife would still be dead./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Was this some twisted joke or was the feeling he had buried for some time really true./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He had sometimes thought too hard about the idea of god. It had always led him to a dark place in the back of his mind that left him with a sense of heart-melting dread./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""There is no god." he chuckled out. "God is a feeling within our hearts, he's a state of being. And to me, this cruel world of dramatic ironies is not something a great creator would ever be satisfied with. God disproves the existence of God. There is no god because no being of infinite benevolence would ever be this cruel."/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"This line of thought brought him to the final question./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Why am I still fighting?" he managed to murmur out loud./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'I am fighting that man because I don't want to die. This is a simple fight between animals to see the next sunrise. If I hold back, I'll die. No matter what happens I'll die in the end, but I don't want to go yet. I'm afraid to meet my kids. I'm too afraid to see my wife.'/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" There was no heaven for his sons. There was no hell for him and his wife. How twisted the world was. This was indeed the answer that humans had come to before and unmistakably the only one that made sense to him now at this moment./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He fell rapidly with veins of wind running through his hair. He gripped his suitcase tight. The wind rushed past him as he closed his eyes./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He felt something deep within and with his new realization exploded./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The plane shook and leaned forward. In a moment the plane was rapidly descending./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The light shining through the windows twisted his vision until everything became a mess of melted colors. Slowly a barely discernible image melted into his view./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Below him, the ground had become a slimy, warted piece of flesh stretching into the horizon. The seats had turned into blurry dark wood trees. He cast a glance upwards to a sky of screaming, wrinkled faces. At their bases were bushes in which hundreds of different eyes peered at the sun above./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Each of the eyes slowly watered in pain as they watched a magnificent painted, watercolor sun. The sun spiraled out into the horizon of twisted pain. At the very center of the brightest part of the sun, a shadow was visible./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke felt his pocket buzz. He pulled out his phone and read a text from Jolyne./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'Need help?'/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke shoved the phone in his pocket for the moment./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"That must be where the stand user was. Josuke anchored himself to the seat with one arm and raised a hand to the ceiling with the other. He felt around before finding a sharp pain. He retracted his hand to see a hole melted in it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'Normally I would have felt the ceiling so either I'm somewhere else or it's gone. Assuming he hasn't learned how to teleport me out of nowhere and the ceiling really is gone then he must have melted it as he did with the floor earlier./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke pulled a phone out of his pocket and responded to Jolyne./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'be prepared to make an emergency landing' A moment later she responded./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'got it'/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He gave a smirk at his foresight. He had prepared for this earlier. His hand slid down to his pocket below gripping his used napkin from earlier. At the time he had to no idea he had a stand but being prepared came in handy./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Crazy Diamond!" The sun became blurry and began to shake as a small shadow flew towards him./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Dora!" Crazy Diamond reached out and grabbed the shadow by the suitcase./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"With a single swift motion, the stand pulled it back towards Josuke ripping it out of his hands and onto a slowly melting floor. The suitcase popped half-open as it hit the floor./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORA!" Crazy Diamond punched the shadow creating a snapping sound as if a bone somewhere bent in a way it shouldn't./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"It was ironic. If he had just let go of the briefcase he would have survived. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORA!" Crazy Diamond's back hand flew forward once again smashing another bone in the man's body. While this was going on the forward hand had flown back and in tandem with the cracking flew forward creating a perfectly timed killing barrage./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Everything began to slowly wash away as he blinked. The water in his eye seemed to melt the paint like illusions of the enemy stand./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Before Josuke could celebrate the floor gave way sending him hurdling downwards helplessly. He turned his attention to the briefcase which flew open from the wind pressure. All the usual artistic tools flew out, the half of a napkin he had snuck in earlier, and something else./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The light caught the stand arrow at just the right angle as it flew from the suitcase. A stand arrow. Josuke's expression became panicked./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'He must have found it outside the airport and cut himself on it. Once he learned it gave him powers he didn't want anyone else to get it and hid it in the suitcase. But I didn't see it earlier when his suitcase spilled,' Josuke thought to himself./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He couldn't focus on that now, he was falling. He looked around desperately./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Josuke!" He heard Jolyne's voice from above turning his attention. She had tried to throw a rope she had made down but it didn't work./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Jolyne!" He called back over the harsh winds. Reaching out to the rope, but it was too far away. Feeling the ground approaching fast he racked his brain for another solution. Then, it came to him!/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Crazy Diamond!" Josuke grasped his pocket again. His fall slowed to a crawl as he reached out for the scrap of napkin far above. He couldn't pull it to him or he would certainly die, but at the same time if he didn't pull hard enough he would also die./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He slowly floated up to the napkin by the napkin in his own hand. It wasn't long before he grabbed onto Jolyne's rope./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The ground was only twenty meters below which meant there was no way a parachute was going to work here, they couldn't slow down fast enough./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"His arm strained As the rope stretched. Jolyne, Yukako, and Koichi had grabbed onto the rope./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke felt a moment of strained relief before he heard a terrifying sound. He looked up to see the mostly dissolved plane crashing towards the town below./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke cringed as the plane fell on him. In a stroke of incredible luck, the plane simply passed around him. He had been lucky enough to pass through the large holes in the plane./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The plane crashed into the buildings below destroying rows of houses probably killing dozens if not hundreds. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Suddenly he began to fall. He stared in horror at the whole napkin in his hand. He only had a second to panic before he bounced off of the net and fell to the ground with a thud. He lay on the ground as his pocket buzzed./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke checked his phone. He had missed a message from Jolyne. 'There's a net, don't worry about falling', she must have sent it while the plane was falling. "We're on the other side of the plane, we'll come around to meet you"./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke sighed and fell back against the remains of a red door. He took a deep breath until his eye saw it. A pile of corpses behind the wall, probably a family./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"In front of them was a familiar glint sitting on the ground. A bloody hand wrapped around it. Josuke panicked as he saw the barely recognizable remains of the stand user from the plane. He somehow wasn't dead./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The clothes he had worn earlier had become stained with blood and punctured by broken bones. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""It's not over yet…" he gasped out with a pained expression./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke was too tired to move any further without a rest but he welled with anger nonetheless./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Why is this arrow so important to you. What could be worth this!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The man gave him a tired look as he slowly bled out on the floor./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I can't let anyone else suffer the same fate as my kids. I need to destroy this. My children were cut on the arrow and ended up dying because of it. I got rid of the one I had at the time, but when I saw this arrow at the airport just as I spilled my suitcase I knew it wasn't over. My kids'll never be able to rest until these arrows are gone!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The man raised the arrow high and slammed it to the ground. Sirens went off in the ground as first responders began to find survivors of the crash./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke met the man's gaze as life slowly left his eyes./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""It's not over yet. It's not over yet. It's not over. It's…over…"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"His hand stopped rising./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He was dead./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" It was under a certain cloud three years later they were married. It wasn't special but Aldo always remembered the heart cloud because it seemed romantic to him./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"At the age of twenty-two, he married his wife, Faith. They lived together for years happily. Every morning she would kiss him off to work. Every night before dinner they would say grace./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"They even had a child together. They had ended up with a second one after adopting the daughter of a dead friend of his. The days he got a child were the happiest days of Aldo's life. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"His job took him all over the world, he would appraise works of art and because of this, he didn't bat an eye when he was handed a golden arrow decorated with an ornate pattern. He had brought it home to study the craftsmanship and somehow his kids had cut themselves on it when he wasn't examining it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Soon after that they contracted an unidentifiable illness and died. Their deaths tore him apart and took him, it was his fault./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The nurse, a middle-aged woman wearing a black veil out of respect, had come out of the operating room with a solemn face that he would never forget./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"After their deaths, Aldo threw himself very deeply into religion. He prayed to God every night for his children to be taken care of on the other side./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Their marriage had lost its spark, but they still cared for each other. At least, that's how Aldo saw it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"At the age of 41, three hours before the plane took off he arrived home early from work to surprise Faith. What he found shocked him./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She had gotten drunk and invited dozens of people he didn't know into their home to perform occult rituals./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The idea of people performing satanic rituals had always seemed like a children's fantasy to him. In truth, it wasn't because she believed in any great evil, but because of hatred. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She resented God for taking away her children. She resented Aldo for worshipping such a terrible god. She resented herself for falling for such a weak man. And she resented her parents for giving birth to her. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"To her, it was as if he had never loved the children, but wanted to fulfill the conservative dream of a wife, two children, and a white picket fence./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" She wanted to lash out, and the occult seemed like the easiest way to this./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" Aldo kicked the Satanists out of his house and began to argue with his wife. She eventually made to leave the house but was stopped by Aldo./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" In a fit of anger, he threw her to the floor only to be met with a knife to the eye./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" She escaped as he rolled around on the ground. In pain and frustration, he destroyed his kitchen./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" He felt something empty inside of him like he had lost something. Only one course of action made sense to him. He would chase her. He would follow her and confront her. He would ask her why. And if the need arose, he would pray for her salvation./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" He grabbed his work suitcase and napkins from the counter to stop the blood./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true".../span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" "Where the fuck is my friend!" Said the man with a large pompadour. Behind him, a tall woman with black hair grabbed him with her hair and slammed him down again./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" "Stairway to Heaven!" Aldo shouted, releasing a large ball of light that he had been building up./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" The light flashed and in a matter of seconds the plane was gone, and its place stood a black fairy tale forest./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" Josuke summoned Crazy Diamond. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The mirage had made it impossible to see anyone, even the passengers of the flight disappeared./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke looked around frantically trying to figure out where he went. He took a step only to feel a sharp pain on his foot./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He frantically raised it. As he did he noticed a slight shimmer beyond the veil of the trees. Fearing what was coming he dove to the side. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"It wasn't quick enough. A deep red beam of light bent down a tree and up to him cleaving a slab of flesh from his arm./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He gripped the black wound before blood could rush out./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The path the beam had taken slowly began to disappear until there was nothing but the sky below. The hole created a vortex of air drawing him into it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Crazy Diamond!" In an instant, the hole had repaired itself and the area was normal again. Without the illusion the man became visible./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Aldo was pressed against the wall with his cloaked stand in front of him with a small ball of light in its hands. The man's eyes were becoming red from the repeated exposure to his stand's light./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORA!" Josuke jumped forward. He seized the moment without hesitation. The ball of light fell as the stand's right hand performed a two-hundred and seventy-degree turn./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORA!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""SNAP!" The stand's arm cracked above the hand and below the shoulder./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORADORA!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""CRACK!" The stand dissipated. In its place, its user was locked in place by Josuke's foot as Crazy Diamond kicked in both of his legs at once. Aldo sharply began to fall without the support of his legs./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORADORADORA!" In its place, Crazy Diamond's fists became supports lifting the man off of the ground and sending him into the roof with an immediate barrage of blows./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORADORADORADORADORADORA!" Without anyone to stop him his barrage revved like an engine. He rammed his fists into Aldo with all the ferocity of killing machines./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""CRACK!" The final barrage sent him soaring through the roof into the clouds above./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORA!" In one final bout of rage, Crazy Diamond punched the wall of the plane denting it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"-/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Stand Name/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": Stairway to Heaven Act 2/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Stand Ability/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The stand bleeds a very reflective chromatic liquid from its eyes in heavy amounts. The stand can control the composition of this liquid and push it across a surface at will. The liquid reflects light to perfectly create whatever visual illusion the stand desires to see. By using Act One's ball of light on the liquid created by Act Two, the light is trapped inside the fluid reflecting back and forth until it creates a superheated liquid as hot as the sun./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Design/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": Where once the stand was cloaked in shadow, the stand radiates light. Its face is revealed to be that of a skeletal goat. The hood has blown off revealing a pair of spiraled horns. Its cloak gives of faint light and now glows a deep wine red./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"After the fluid is used it begins to slowly leak onto its cloak making it appear like it is on fire the same color as wine. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Stand User: /strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Aldo Goodman/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Destructive power/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": C/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Speed/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": C/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Range/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": B/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Durability/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": E/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Precision/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": B/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Development Potential/strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true": A/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Notes: /strongspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The stand evolves during the period in which the user closes their eyes for Act 1, however, the user did not know this until they opened their eyes during the attack. Act 2 is usable only for a few seconds while the light from Act 1 is present. This is because the shadows possessed by Act 1 are part of the stand, by turning its darkness into light the fundamental abilities of the stand have changed. With this evolution, the stand seems to have become independent of its user's will. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"-/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke felt anger swell inside of him. If he had only been quicker to get through the illusions. He kept running into traps and slowing down, but how could he have known that his best friend would die if he didn't hurry up./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Now he was making excuses. He gritted his teeth and stood up. If he could somehow land the plane he might be able to find and save Okuyasu./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He looked around and made his way to the cabin./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He wasn't the only one taking stock of their surroundings. At the same time, Aldo was sent flying into the air. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He closed his eyes to approach the finality. The finality came and left him. He had survived by some random miracle of nature. He still felt the shock of death running through him. The grim reaper hadn't left him but left his business card knowing he would call back. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He opened his eyes to a sea of heavenly clouds and sunlight piercing his frail, bloody form. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The clouds were many shapes but very few made sense. It was only because he tried looking at each cloud individually that they made no sense. But as everything clicked the clouds slowly began to form one great unmistakable shape./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The shape was unmistakably a heart. If the first cloud was a message from God telling him he had found the one, what was this? Was God telling him this was some great plan from the beginning?/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"What kind of twisted god would tell him she was the one knowing that all roads lead here. Was it a message telling him it would all work out fine. As he rapidly descended through the lower layer of the clouds, limbs flailing, blood gushing out his body like a hose, and vision becoming blurry he held the idea that this would work out fine as nonsense./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Even if he were to step off the plane at the next airport in perfect shape without any legal consequences his wife would still be dead./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Was this some twisted joke or was the feeling he had buried for some time really true./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He had sometimes thought too hard about the idea of god. It had always led him to a dark place in the back of his mind that left him with a sense of heart-melting dread./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""There is no god." he chuckled out. "God is a feeling within our hearts, he's a state of being. And to me, this cruel world of dramatic ironies is not something a great creator would ever be satisfied with. God disproves the existence of God. There is no god because no being of infinite benevolence would ever be this cruel."/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"This line of thought brought him to the final question./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Why am I still fighting?" he managed to murmur out loud./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'I am fighting that man because I don't want to die. This is a simple fight between animals to see the next sunrise. If I hold back, I'll die. No matter what happens I'll die in the end, but I don't want to go yet. I'm afraid to meet my kids. I'm too afraid to see my wife.'/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" There was no heaven for his sons. There was no hell for him and his wife. How twisted the world was. This was indeed the answer that humans had come to before and unmistakably the only one that made sense to him now at this moment./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He fell rapidly with veins of wind running through his hair. He gripped his suitcase tight. The wind rushed past him as he closed his eyes./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He felt something deep within and with his new realization exploded./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The plane shook and leaned forward. In a moment the plane was rapidly descending./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The light shining through the windows twisted his vision until everything became a mess of melted colors. Slowly a barely discernible image melted into his view./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Below him, the ground had become a slimy, warted piece of flesh stretching into the horizon. The seats had turned into blurry dark wood trees. He cast a glance upwards to a sky of screaming, wrinkled faces. At their bases were bushes in which hundreds of different eyes peered at the sun above./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Each of the eyes slowly watered in pain as they watched a magnificent painted, watercolor sun. The sun spiraled out into the horizon of twisted pain. At the very center of the brightest part of the sun, a shadow was visible./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke felt his pocket buzz. He pulled out his phone and read a text from Jolyne./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'Need help?'/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke shoved the phone in his pocket for the moment./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"That must be where the stand user was. Josuke anchored himself to the seat with one arm and raised a hand to the ceiling with the other. He felt around before finding a sharp pain. He retracted his hand to see a hole melted in it./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'Normally I would have felt the ceiling so either I'm somewhere else or it's gone. Assuming he hasn't learned how to teleport me out of nowhere and the ceiling really is gone then he must have melted it as he did with the floor earlier./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke pulled a phone out of his pocket and responded to Jolyne./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'be prepared to make an emergency landing' A moment later she responded./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'got it'/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He gave a smirk at his foresight. He had prepared for this earlier. His hand slid down to his pocket below gripping his used napkin from earlier. At the time he had to no idea he had a stand but being prepared came in handy./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Crazy Diamond!" The sun became blurry and began to shake as a small shadow flew towards him./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Dora!" Crazy Diamond reached out and grabbed the shadow by the suitcase./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"With a single swift motion, the stand pulled it back towards Josuke ripping it out of his hands and onto a slowly melting floor. The suitcase popped half-open as it hit the floor./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORA!" Crazy Diamond punched the shadow creating a snapping sound as if a bone somewhere bent in a way it shouldn't./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"It was ironic. If he had just let go of the briefcase he would have survived. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""DORADORA!" Crazy Diamond's back hand flew forward once again smashing another bone in the man's body. While this was going on the forward hand had flown back and in tandem with the cracking flew forward creating a perfectly timed killing barrage./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Everything began to slowly wash away as he blinked. The water in his eye seemed to melt the paint like illusions of the enemy stand./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Before Josuke could celebrate the floor gave way sending him hurdling downwards helplessly. He turned his attention to the briefcase which flew open from the wind pressure. All the usual artistic tools flew out, the half of a napkin he had snuck in earlier, and something else./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The light caught the stand arrow at just the right angle as it flew from the suitcase. A stand arrow. Josuke's expression became panicked./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"'He must have found it outside the airport and cut himself on it. Once he learned it gave him powers he didn't want anyone else to get it and hid it in the suitcase. But I didn't see it earlier when his suitcase spilled,' Josuke thought to himself./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He couldn't focus on that now, he was falling. He looked around desperately./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Josuke!" He heard Jolyne's voice from above turning his attention. She had tried to throw a rope she had made down but it didn't work./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Jolyne!" He called back over the harsh winds. Reaching out to the rope, but it was too far away. Feeling the ground approaching fast he racked his brain for another solution. Then, it came to him!/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Crazy Diamond!" Josuke grasped his pocket again. His fall slowed to a crawl as he reached out for the scrap of napkin far above. He couldn't pull it to him or he would certainly die, but at the same time if he didn't pull hard enough he would also die./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He slowly floated up to the napkin by the napkin in his own hand. It wasn't long before he grabbed onto Jolyne's rope./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The ground was only twenty meters below which meant there was no way a parachute was going to work here, they couldn't slow down fast enough./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"His arm strained As the rope stretched. Jolyne, Yukako, and Koichi had grabbed onto the rope./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke felt a moment of strained relief before he heard a terrifying sound. He looked up to see the mostly dissolved plane crashing towards the town below./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke cringed as the plane fell on him. In a stroke of incredible luck, the plane simply passed around him. He had been lucky enough to pass through the large holes in the plane./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The plane crashed into the buildings below destroying rows of houses probably killing dozens if not hundreds. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Suddenly he began to fall. He stared in horror at the whole napkin in his hand. He only had a second to panic before he bounced off of the net and fell to the ground with a thud. He lay on the ground as his pocket buzzed./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke checked his phone. He had missed a message from Jolyne. 'There's a net, don't worry about falling', she must have sent it while the plane was falling. "We're on the other side of the plane, we'll come around to meet you"./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke sighed and fell back against the remains of a red door. He took a deep breath until his eye saw it. A pile of corpses behind the wall, probably a family./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"In front of them was a familiar glint sitting on the ground. A bloody hand wrapped around it. Josuke panicked as he saw the barely recognizable remains of the stand user from the plane. He somehow wasn't dead./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The clothes he had worn earlier had become stained with blood and punctured by broken bones. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""It's not over yet…" he gasped out with a pained expression./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke was too tired to move any further without a rest but he welled with anger nonetheless./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Why is this arrow so important to you. What could be worth this!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The man gave him a tired look as he slowly bled out on the floor./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I can't let anyone else suffer the same fate as my kids. I need to destroy this. My children were cut on the arrow and ended up dying because of it. I got rid of the one I had at the time, but when I saw this arrow at the airport just as I spilled my suitcase I knew it wasn't over. My kids'll never be able to rest until these arrows are gone!"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The man raised the arrow high and slammed it to the ground. Sirens went off in the ground as first responders began to find survivors of the crash./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Josuke met the man's gaze as life slowly left his eyes./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""It's not over yet. It's not over yet. It's not over. It's…over…"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"His hand stopped rising./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"He was dead./span/p