Daisy was cruising through the last class of the day, paying the bare minimum attention to the teacher who was droning on about a book the class was studying in English. She looked around the room, and it seemed that almost every other student was feeling the same way as her. Bored. She continued looking around, until she came to a girl sitting behind her who locked eyes with her, and stared relentlessly. After a few seconds, Daisy looked back ahead. Was that person staring at the lesson, or at her?

She thought a bit about it, and contemplated using her Stand to test if she was a threat, but then she remembered the rules of the school. No bullying, no illegality, no cheating on exams. If the teacher could see Stands, he might suspect her of using her flying Bullet with Butterfly Wings to look at other people's notes. If she had a humanoid Stand like Anna-Rose, maybe she could get away with it, but in the situation she was in it was too much of a risk to justify doing it. Still, she felt some kind of feeling eating away at her, as if that girl was dangerous.

The school bell rang, and Daisy began to pack up. She had a feeling of being watched, despite everyone doing the same thing she was, packing their bags with all of their paraphenalia. She looked over her shoulder, and the girl from earlier was staring directly at her again. This time she was sure it was at her, and not at anybody else. Daisy was silently terrified. Was she a Stand user? She had no way to tell for sure. With butterflies invading her stomach, she left the school grounds and headed for home quickly.

Daisy sped into her apartment and locked the door behind her. Something was watching her, she was sure of it. A faint buzzing hit her ears at times, but she was completely unsure if it was just summer insects, or a drone flying overhead, or something supernatural. Either way, something was definitely wrong. It could be that girl from class attacking her, but she was so paranoid that she thought it was possible for it to be anyone in her class, not just that creepy girl. Or maybe it was someone else, that had walked past her on her way home. Or she could be sick, or schizophrenia might have been given to her genetically. Anything in her mind was possible, and so many things were running through her brain at once that she grew even more paranoid.

At that moment, something began to nibble at her skin under her sleeves. She pulled them back, but nothing was there. Daisy was completely afraid, and at this strange condition's mercy. "Please, please, stop doing this to me!" She began to slam on the floor in agony at the sheer terrifying nature of either this Stand or her newfound illness. It had to be one of the two, that was something she was sure of.

Delaware, hearing the crashing from above, thought Daisy was being attacked, and ran up the stairs to find the door locked. "Crap. You okay?" No answer. He used They Might Be Giants to force the lock undone, and opened the door to her apartment to find Daisy scratching at her skin with mantis-like scythes. He, unlike her, saw large black parasites clinging to her body all over, burrowing into her skin and injecting some kind of serum into her.

"Daisy, what the hell is going on? Is that an enemy Stand?" He walked over to Daisy, but she tried to chase her away.

"Get away from me! Stay away, please! Something is going to hurt me if I don't act, but I can't tell what it is! What is it?" She began to tear up from the pain and fear.

Delaware grunted. "This Stand on your body! Whose is it? Do you know?"

"There's no Stand that I can see! What are you talking about?" Daisy stood weakly, her left arm missing patches of skin both from the black bugs and her scratching.

"Could anyone have been attacking you at school? Maybe on the way home?"

"Yes! ANYONE could!" She was obviously terrified. "You see a Stand?"

"You don't?" Delaware sighed and rubbed his face. "Seriously, what on Earth is this power… the ability to make someone see a different view of the world, and create such intense paranoia. What monster would have a Stand like this?"

Stand Name: "Black Bugs"

Stand User: ?

Power: E

Range: A

Speed: E

Durability: C

Precision: B

Potential: B

Delaware left Daisy's apartment. The poor girl was infected with a Stand that had placed black parasites all over her body, invisible to her, and induced severe bouts of paranoia. She was slowly pulling herself apart trying to destroy this invisible threat that she could only feel as itching and the buzzing sounds they made, however without using her own Stand she was helpless. Angered by how horrifying the situation was, Delaware rang up Anna-Rose. The physics Specialist picked up and answered calmly.

"Hello?" After taking a moment to collect his thoughts, Delaware spoke.

"Some snob from your school is making Daisy kill herself slowly. It's a Stand she can't see despite her being the victim. Do you know of any Stand user there that uses black parasites, or induces paranoia?"

Anna-Rose was stunned, but suddenly became serious. "No. I don't know any Stand like that at my school, though you always get school myths. I heard one story of black bugs that ate away at a guy who had bullied an old outcast until he killed himself. Tell me, did Daisy get any weird looks at school?"

"She's completely gone. She hardly makes sense when I talk to her." Delaware sighed. "So I'm looking for a weird social outcast with the power to make people paranoid? Can you help?"

"I have study to do." Anna-Rose turned the page in her book loudly.

"Your friend is slowly killing herself, and you're more concerned with good grades than her wellbeing?" Delaware rolled his eyes. "I guess you are a snobby bitch after all. I'll do it myself." He hung up before kicking the wall. "Why do I trust people like that? Oh well, I guess I have a chick to look for."

Anna-Rose sighed, tossing her phone across the room. Truth be told, she was terrified for Daisy, but she understood what was going on. The person with that Stand… didn't want to end up on the bottom of the food chain.

Delaware stormed out of the apartment complex, knocking into a scrawny-looking girl with pink highlights in her jet black hair. He looked back to see her ragged brown shirt and torn stockings and thought she must be homeless, but someone with dyed hair probably wouldn't be homeless. He walked over to the girl, making sure not to make eye contact with her. "What's your name and why are you hanging around this building?"

"M-Me? I'm waiting for my friend to come out, and my name is Reggie. Why do you care?" Delaware chuckled.

"Oh, no reason. My friend is being currently eaten away by parasites in a corner of her apartment while she hallucinates and freaks out at the drop of a pin. I was just looking around to see if anyone knew what I could do to help. Do you?"

"Oh my, that sounds… that sounds like a handful. To be honest, you'd probably be better off going to a doctor than asking me." The girl stepped back. Delaware couldn't tell if it was fear or just the awkwardness. He fuzzed his vision a little by going cross-eyed before looking into her face. She was sweating a little, but it was hot. However, her strange eyes that had black spots dotting the sclera was something worth bringing up.

"Do you have something wrong with your eyes? An infection, a birth condition, something that explains the black dots in your whites?"

Reggie's jaw dropped. "You can see them? Oh no, oh no, oh no…" She began to bite her lower lip. "If you can see them, then you were talking about Black Bugs's victim… that's bad, that's very bad." She tried very hard to make eye contact with Delaware, who skilfully avoided it. "You see, that Anna-Rose was far too happy. If she gets too happy then people will come back to picking on me for amusement, and I don't want that, oh no. They say the rules are concrete, but when it's only one student they don't care. That's why I have to do this to the outcast's friend, make it look like suicide. I have to do it so I can be happy."

Delaware punched Reggie square in the nose, pulling a rod of steel from nearby to use as a bat. "You are scum. You would really kill a person in such a torturous way just to stop being bullied?"

"You don't understand! At Stand School, being the outcast is like torture in itself. There is no help, no salvation, until someone comes along who is weaker than you. They break you."

"I'm gonna break you if you don't cancel your messed-up Stand! How the hell do you gain a power like inducing paranoia?"

"My specialty… the reason I came to this school was because I specialised in psychology. But the other psychology Specialist, Tiffany… she's a monster. A wolf in sheep's clothing. She manipulates so many people into doing what she wants them to, so they attacked me for "trying to be like her". I lost any chance of having friends. She has a choke-hold on so many people, that if you dislike her, or she dislikes you, you're history. Until Anna-Rose came along and stood up to her, I was their target for bullying, or as they call it 'stress release'. Black Bugs developed because of that torment, and my knowledge of mental illness. It can turn mental illness into a physical feeling, and it eats away at you until you either kill yourself or become hollow inside. Just skin will remain."

"You…" Delaware bent the metal bar around Reggie's neck and choked her with it. "Stop your Stand's attack or I'll kill you! You're a monster!" Reggie simply chuckled.

"I-It doesn't matter… It's only been an hour, but enough of her vital organs will have been dissolved by Black Bugs's venom… even if she survives she won't be the same as she was! You lose, and I win!"

Delaware chuckled. "Question. Can your bugs eat each other?"

"Er… no, they can't, they regenerate when hit by their own venom, so they can't be killed by each other."

"Cool. Do you know what Daisy's Stand is?"

"No…" Reggie wasn't sure where this was going, but she was running out of air.

"It lets her change her body into any insect she likes. Is it ever possible for her to see Black Bugs, at all?"

"O-Only if someone else is infected." At that moment, Delaware glanced into Reggie's eyes, a single bug clinging onto his arm, which he summoned They Might Be Giants under to keep it from biting him. He couldn't see it, but the weight was enough to know. He loosened the bar to let Reggie breathe, but stuck it to the road.

"Don't move, I'll be right back with the girl you tried to kill."

And with that, he sprinted towards Daisy's apartment, up the stairs. He eventually made it back, and opened the door to see Daisy desperately clawing at her arms to try and get the bugs off. "Daisy, look up at my arm, please! You need to look at this bug, and turn into one! Do it right now, okay?"

The broken country girl gazed at the black bug for a fair while, before nodding. "If you say so." She turned into a Black Bug, and as the others continued to bite her, instead of sucking out her insides, the regenerative capabilities the bug had kicked in, and she began to heal. After a few minutes of this, Daisy was completely better. Delaware swatted all of the bugs off of her, and she turned back.

"Ugh, I feel sick… Delaware, what the hell is on your arm, man?" She swatted Delaware's bug off. "Sheesh, that was a trip and a half."

"Well, let's finish it quickly," Delaware added. "The Stand user's tied to the ground outside, if you want to get a hit in."

Daisy smirked. "Count me in."

The two walked outside, Daisy stretching her shoulders while Delaware cracked his knuckles.