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Epilogue B: Nightmares of an Uncertain Future

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"Are you sure you don't want to tag along with me for this job?"

Jotaro hardly asked this sort of stuff to anyone of his family, but he could tell something had troubled his oldest child to a perplexing degree. He was tempted to say that it was related to her trip to Italy, but Sakura admitted that wasn't the case. It was something recent and... it didn't help soothe his worries. It's been two years now since Sakura made that trip, and he could tell that she wasn't lying about it not being related to her current mood.

Something had happened and, as a father, he felt compelled to interrogate her about it. Hence why he came up with the excuse of bringing her to work so he could have the chance to speak to her in private.

Sitting down by the table, enjoying breakfast with the rest of his family, the marine biologist wasn't sure what had got his daughter this uneasy, but it had to have been something massive for her to be this 'depressed'. She was still smiling, she was still eager to go outdoors at times and yet she was quite upset by the notion of going out of Los Angeles for any trip, even by a nearby city.

School teachers saw nothing that would suggest it was something related to school, and her friends there were as clueless as Jotaro was. This was not a pleasant position to be as a father, but Jotaro was good in keeping his unease hidden as he tried to make things work out. His wife had already given him a talk on moderation, which he was willing to comply with due to how delicate the situation was.

"No," The plum-haired girl replied, eyes distracted by a small book about dolphins that she was reading to Jolyne. "I am just... not in the right mindset."

"Why?" He inquired and his wife's glance told him he may have been too blunt about it but... this was getting ridiculous.

It was the first time he asked her that, and despite some reluctance, he got a most troubling answer.

"Nightmares."

Tension roused at the table, but Jolyne didn't seem surprised. Did the little girl know something and willingly kept her mouth shut about it? Maybe. It was no secret that Jolyne adored her big sister, so, if she was told by her to keep silent about something, she surely would do it.

"Anything we can help about, sweetie?" Her mother asked, a worried look on her face as she tried her best to be helpful about it but... Jotaro knew it was not a normal bunch of bad dreams from the glance she aimed at him.

"Did Dio have a diary?"

...How?

It was an immediate reaction, yet lessened by his normal composure as his stoic mask showed a hint of surprise. Sakura picked it up and frowned.

"He did, didn't he?"

Eyes were aimed at Jotaro, with his wife looking extremely concerned as she had been made aware of his secondary businesses years ago and... she knew what 'Dio' was. So, it was easy for her to know a 'diary' from him may be dangerous.

A fleeting memory appearing to him, right before they left Cairo. While Joseph was speaking with the Speedwagon Foundation's medics and workers to have Polnareff patched up, Jotaro had gone to see if there wasn't anything left by Dio that could be troublesome. The tale his grandfather told him of how Dio tricked everyone by faking his death the first time around had been enough of a reason to check if there weren't any surprises about it.

What he found in that manor was not Dio's suriviving self, but his lingering legacy imprinted on paper through ink and insane ranting. The words were long forgotten, but Jotaro remembered one thing: Dio wanted to go beyond the world, and acquire the heaven. What Heaven was couldn't be discerned as Dio had willingly kept his mind shut over this in the diary, but he reasoned that 'someone else' would have known about the plans since he spoke of 'someone that was not him'. He wanted a friend, a close confidant to share his real plans. Not paper and ink, like he did with this diary.

Jotaro burned it. It wouldn't put the whole thing to rest, but he was certain he had destroyed the key for this malicious last ally of the vampire to allow this plan to fruition. How did Sakura know about it through her nightmares?

"He did. But it's no longer around."

"It is," Sakura replied, and Jotaro froze at the sureness in her voice. "I saw it, someone was holding it. A girl... just a few years older than me. I think it was- maybe it is like with Giorno and his half-brothers, a daughter to Dio?"

"The Speedwagon Foundation has been looking for any potential other children, but they confirmed that there was no other child beyond those you faced in Italy," Jotaro assured. "But this diary, how did it look like."

"The cover was black with silver details. I couldn't see much what was written inside but I saw something that felt... familiar. It's title, it said... 'A New Heaven's Feel'.

...Did I hear this from somewhere? Jotaro took a moment to think about it and... frowned. Maybe he will have to speak with a few people he hadn't met in a while and maybe he could make it a little holiday trip for his family if he worded it right.

"I will look into this," He assured, nodding truthfully at his older daughter. "Yet, this reminds me that I have yet to ask if you are up to make the trip to Fuyuki to spend summer with the Emiya family."

"I will go. Illya miss us so much, and I think Jolyne misses Shirou even more."

The little girl squeaked. "I do not like him like that. I just think he is a cool hero guy like Papa."

That didn't exactly help Jotaro to feel 'fine' with this reminder.

"I will have a talk with Shirou and Kiritsugu about it."

"Papa, if you hurt him I will hurt you by ruining your reports!" Jolyne fired back angrily, causing the marine biologist to back down with a tired sigh.

Why couldn't his daughters just be nuns until they were old enough to know they could pick a decent man?

Still, this whole 'Heaven's Feel' notion. It felt like he heard of this right in Fuyuki. A visit to Father Risei may be of good help to stop any chances that this mess is somewhat tied to Fuyuki. He could just tell it wasn't going to be pleasant news anyway.

But the fact Sakura had nightmares about it, that she was somewhat tied to this... it was concerning. Quite so.

AN

Second Epilogue Get! Next time, there will be the 'Secret One' that will shape the first bit of the sequel's plot.