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Chapter 5: Homecoming (5)

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Joji Joestar may be a goof, but a dumbass he was not.

So, when he was enjoying a nice cup of strawberry ice cream and suddenly got whisked away from the warm couch he was sitting on and onto a dark hallway at night... he got in a punchy mood. Especially when someone suddenly rushed towards him. To an extent, the face he punched looked absolutely punchable. The issue was that the punchable face was his own! Well, before he decided to go through the many changes that now defined him as 'Joji' and no longer as 'Shinji'.

"Yo! That's so freaky- how did you get such a realistic mask?" The blond guy inquired, confused as he tried to make sense of what the hell he was looking at.

"M-Mask!? That's my face, you stupid bastard!"

"...No kidding? Reeeaaaallly? That's your face- next thing you're going to say is 'I am Shinji Matou, you Gaijin fool!'"

"I am Shinji Matou, you- W-What?!"

Ah yes, the Joestar's tradition that started with gramps never missed!

"That's cool to hear, you see... I am Joji Joestar. How about we go out for a fun hangout so I can repay for punching your punchable face?"

There was a brief pause of shock from Shinji, then pure anger at the proposition.

"Why would I even consider-"

A few minutes later, Joji was filling up his belly with a smoothie. Since his Ice cream got hijacked through dimensional bullshit, he was left with a void in his heart and stomach- one that a nice apple-flavored milkshake. Meanwhile, his more miserable self was glooming over a sad hamburger.

It's no surprise for Joji as his charisma with 'silly people' was, as his granny would call it, lovely and, as his gramps would call it, godly. So, convincing his dumb-self took very little, especially when the truth came out of what he really was and how he could help him. First, of course, he needed to tell Joji his story and- hori shite, it was the most sad and upsetting tale ever.

Yeah, Joji had long accepted that he got it easy by getting adopted by the Joestar family... but how the fuck could he have seen it going down the shitter so fast?! Sure, Zouken was a monster and his father was an absolute wimp- but to see the brain-damage that was actually coaxed into poor Shinji? Truly a tragedy.

Which is why Joji felt driven to make him see the light!

"I think you got brainwashed, dude. I mean, yeah, Magus can do some cool shit, but it's not worthy ruining yourself over it."

"B-But grandfather-" He tried to justify, but found his response walled by a snort. "What? Grandfather is-"

"An old worm that is so sadistic that uses worms on kids. Shinji-bro, that's no good magecraft. You got an infestation and the parasite works both physically and mentally," Joji harshly stated. "Shinji-bro, how happy are you really? Do you feel accomplished and content with what you have to do to appease someone that just likes to break people, especially his 'family'?"

Shinji had no answer to that, staring at his own hamburger as perplexed as he could get. Joji didn't blame him on that either- it was one thing to call out a depressed guy on their cause of depression, but it gets worse when that lie is the foundation of one's personality and self-worth. In Shinji's case, that was a 'lack' of self-value due to the upbringing he got.

"I think you are a dumb person, but not a rotten one. Misguided? Yes, but you can only get back in charge of your life if you want that. You can't expect someone else to really be the cause of your drive. Do you want to be better? To be more?"

"Y-Yes," He admitted. "But how? I am not a Magus-"

"God, stop with that. Magus this, Magus that," Joji whined back, causing his silly self to flinch. "I ain't a Magus, am I?"

"N-No," Shinji replied curtly.

"And I am happy, am I?"

"Yes, but-"

"No buts! Just because a sadistic old fuck tell you that it's cool, it doesn't mean it is. You want to know what's cool?"

"Y-Yeah!"

"Good," The blond guy giddily confirmed, paying the bill for their meal. "Then get up because we're going for a run."

"...A run?"

"Yup, we will go for some jogging so we can get your body in a better shape- then we get to a hairdresser to fix up your hair-"

"I don't want to be a blond-"

"Then you will not!" Joji groaned as he yanked his silly self out of the nice bar. "But you need some self-care and that hair is in dire need for different stuff on what you use. I am not asking you to go full dumbo on it, but get the basic stuff to get it smoother and fresher."

"O-Oh."

"Now," The blond hummed as he smacked Shinji's back. "Let's get some sweat happening. Unless you like being submissive to an old worm."

That got Shinji revved up. "I-I ain't submissive to no one!"

"Good, then prove yourself that so you have literal proof of that thought."

Before not too long, Shinji was feeling his legs burning as one thing he failed to ask his infuriating but supportive 'better' self was how long that jogging would have unfolded. They went for two full hours of modest-paced jogging, Shinji's legs went in full strike mode, but it didn't matter as he got brought to a hairdresser so he had to sit for some time, just enough for the burning feeling to subsize and... for them to get a sudden invitation by Shirou Emiya about a situation that... 'has been unfolding for many people now in Fuyuki'.

For some reason, despite how absurd this whole ordeal was, Shinji felt like he was doing something. It wasn't something related to the Holy Grail War, or something to become a proper Magus, but the sheer amount of satisfaction he got at being told he made way more than he was supposed to felt so true and gratifying that he decided to ignore most of the unpleasantness of being forced to run around the city's streets and sweat a storm because of it.

Something just told him this was a good path to entertain for now...

AN

Next time, all dynamics in this situation are entertained as... not everyone that got dimensional-swapped in this Fuyuki. And Kujo Sakura's recent actions may have removed a major problem out of this planet.

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