"I shouldn't be getting admired by someone who's already out of high school," he said.
"Oh, right. Sorry. So how do you know him?" I loved Pink Dark Boy. It was amazing.
"He's a stand user."
"Oh. So I have something in common with him?"
"I can take you to meet him. Anyway, I want you to close your eyes when you enter his house, reach out for a handshake, and put all your power into 'Heaven's Door.' Okay?"
"Okay."
We reached Kishibe Rohan's house, which had a burnt porch. "What happened here?" I asked.
"Dice game. It seems the reconstruction on the rest of the house is going nicely, though." Go figure. Josuke knocked on the door.
"Oh, it's you, Josuke. Don't you have another adult to pester?" I had never seen an actual picture of him, but he looked fairly attractive. Then again, he was wearing all Gucci clothing. Maybe the advertising's right.
"Two things. First, Jotaro's back in town. There's two pieces of business he's come for. The first is that he is doing some studies on the starfish in the area, and the second is related to the second reason I'm here."
"Ok, well then what is it? I'm on my fifth draft of this month's chapter, and then I'm going to send a report to move to a weekly schedule again in a few months."
"So this is my friend, Tsuyoi. He's a new stand user." I just stood there giggling with glee, internally.
"How did that happen? Weren't the arrows confiscated by the SPWF?"
"Yeah, no clue, but apparently Jotaro needs his ability for something."
"I'm Kuso Tsuyoi, family name was a thing that happened in WW2, anyway, can I see your manga?" I was a little overhyped. I reached out for a handshake, and closed my eyes.
"Can you open your eyes?" I had already converted to 12%, so I had already followed Josuke's instructions. "Hey, what kind of ability do you have?" I made my screen appear behind him, and Josuke looked at it with surprise, but quickly centered back on Rohan. I used my stand to tap on the screen.
"The kind of ability that lets me know that your stand lets you turn people into books, and that you've been failing to use it on me for the last couple seconds."
"Hm. You are interesting enough for Kujo to possibly need you for something. Josuke, what's his ability?"
"Why should I tell you?" Josuke appeared to not like Rohan.
"Well, you practically owe me 700 million yen for the damages caused by this fire. If you tell me what his ability is, I'll forgive… 500 million of it." Was it really just a dice game?
"He can copy stand abilities."
"Josuke!"
"Ah. So that's how you stopped me from turning you into a book. How many other abilities do you possess?"
"He has mine, some random acid power, Koichi's and Yukako's, and maybe Jotaro's."
"I don't have Jotaro's. But I do have this one."
I put 10% into Killer Queen and blew up one of Josuke's shirt buttons. He and Rohan screamed in horror.
"Why the hell does that scare you so much?" They both inched away from me. Josuke's chest was bleeding, so I fixed it with 10% in Crazy Diamond. That's when I fell over.
"Ugh, what the hell?" I had been dragged into the house, and was lying on a burned rug. I couldn't feel anything.
"Oh, he's up. We're reading through your history. Here's this week… GAH!"
"Josuke, what did you read?"
"Yoshikage Kira," they said, turning their heads toward each other.
"Who's that?"
"You met a ghost at the Owson a few days ago, right?" I had thought that was just some stand user.
"I don't know."
"That was Yoshikage Kira," Rohan finished.
"Josuke, Mr. Kishibe-" I started, but-
"Call me Rohan, and that guy was a serial killer when he was alive. It took all of the stand users in Morioh to find him and get him killed. We thought he was dragged to hell."
"Reimi said he was." They told me the recent tale of Yoshikage Kira, and how all the stand users in Morioh had come together.
"What the hell. So, um, he was a very powerful stand user, and I might be able to use all three of those?"
"Well, we don't even know if there's a limit to the amount of power you can put into a single ability." Josuke was right.
Then, there was a knock on the door.
"Rohan, are you home? I need your advice."
"Come in, Jotaro. I'm with Josuke and your new friend."
"Yare, yare daze. Just send them out."
"High five?" I offered Mr. Kujo.
"I'll pass." I went for his arm, and he seemed to teleport away. I put 10% into Love Deluxe, and 2% into Echoes. My stand's range was about three meters, so I could easily reach him as soon as he or his stand got close to me.
My hair extended outward, all around me. Rohan called, "If you're going to fight, do it outside. I walked through the still open doorway, blocking off all behind me and then looking inside. He wasn't there. I looked now on the roof of the porch, and Kujo was just sitting there menacingly. I could see the ゴ in the air around him. A second later I had gotten a fierce uppercut out of nowhere. My abilities dissipated quickly. I had gotten my clock cleaned, and still didn't know nor have the ability of Jotaro Kujo.
"I'll be talking with Rohan now." As Jotaro turned around, I threw my screen at him. It missed, but as Jotaro did his teleport thing, I saw where he went. Around the screen. And when I summoned my stand, it was dragged towards my three meter range, and tagged Jotaro on the way. "Damn it." I smiled with my reward of whatever the stand of Kujo Jotaro was.
He inspected closely as I pulled out my screen. "Star Platinum is a stand with very high untapped potential. It copies the ability of an enemy that fights on par with it physically, but only once."
Jotaro chuckled and went back towards Rohan. I had gotten a dud, and hadn't even figured out his ability.
One more chapter is getting released today. Then I'm writing some more.
