Still, there was little that he, Dio, could determine from the inside of rooms where people appeared to be having either conversations or dinner – most of them unfamiliar even through the layer of stylization – and even taking a closer look at the pages made little difference.

"Yes, I suppose it wouldn't do any good to go haring off without even a destination," he, Dio, muttered thoughtfully, setting the comic back down on the table and firmly shutting it.

It was a troublesome thing to think about, but there were ways that he, Dio, would be able to act in defense of his sweet family. He'd have to make contact with the Speedwagon Foundation, since they were the most likely to know where his Littlest Jojo had gone, if he hadn't been sent there on their orders, anyway. His Littlest Jojo was a willful sort, and since he'd managed to negotiate a freelance position for himself there was the chance that he'd gone to wherever Oingo's comic was displaying on his free time.

In which case, the Speedwagon Foundation would have no reason to monitor his whereabouts, and it would be all the more troublesome to determine just where his Littlest Jojo and the rest of his sweet family had ended up.

=DiU=

Narrowing his eyes as one of his soldiers zip-lined down the side of a window on the far side of a house in Morioh's villa section – to the northeast – Keicho Nijimura found himself looking down at the top of a head of strawberry blonde hair. Since that was the exact color of Tenmei Kakyoin's hair, Keicho ordered his soldier to mark the windowsill so that he would be able to more easily pick his particular villa out from the rest of them. Leading the soldier up to the roof of the building and then ordering them to transform into a jet, Keicho allowed his attention to leave that particular instance of Bad Company.

Turning to the map he'd been marking off as his forces ran their various searches of Morioh and its surrounding environs, Keicho circled the villa and then set the map down. He'd been working on his part of their search for most of the day, at least after he'd returned home from school. And, while Keicho knew that it was important for him to attend to his studies, at the moment he wished that he could have avoided the hassle of attending classes.

This was the kind of work he'd be doing once he had become a member of Blackwatch, and so Keicho thought it would be best if he used the opportunity he was being provided to practice the skills he was going to need to make himself useful to the organization.

Looking down at the map he'd marked for further, more in-depth searching, Keicho rose from his desk and gathered his supplies for school. For the moment this interruption to his daily routine had to be tolerated, and in that way Keicho found himself all the more eager to be done with it. Dropping out would hardly do, of course, since he still had to set at least some kind of an example for Okuyasu.

Still, perhaps this task would serve to prove his resolve to those members of Alice Brando's family who had come to Morioh, and they in turn would pass the word on to the vampire herself.

=DiU=

Humming softly as he made his way into the kitchen with his new girlfriend in his pocket, Yoshikage tugged Yoshiko's unresisting form over to the table so that he could get her settled for their morning breakfast. Dishing out breakfast for himself, Yoshikage served little Yoshiko porridge, which would be an easy meal for her to take her pill with. Pinching her cute little nose shut, Yoshikage waited for her to open her mouth so that he could pop the sleeping pill he'd cut in half to keep Yoshiko from panicking or running away the way she might have otherwise done.

With his right hand over her mouth, Yoshikage rubbed her throat to encourage her to swallow the half pill, then did the same with the porridge that he'd prepared for her to have for breakfast.

Once their little family had finished eating breakfast, and it was nearly time for him to leave for the day, Yoshikage carried little Yoshiko back to her room so that he could tuck her back into bed. Looking down at her nails for a moment, Yoshikage noted that they were starting to grow long enough that they would need to be trimmed. Making a note of it, he fixed the covers and made his way out of the house for the morning.

=DiU=

When his old friend had called upon him, Enrico found himself with far more questions than could be answered during the short time the pair of them had been able to speak with each other. Though apparently, Noriaki Kakyoin's eldest son had been kidnapped, so he would need the comfort that Enrico was best-suited to give at such a moment. And so, after making contact with the Speedwagon Foundation, Enrico said his farewells and made his final preparations to depart.

Dio embraced him for a long moment, and Enrico kissed his old friend's brow the way he'd done so many times when their respective duties had called them away from the others' company. When they parted fully, Enrico making his way over to a nearby phone so that he could contact the Speedwagon Foundation and see if Jotaro Joestar and his partner Noriaki Kakyoin had been dispatched to wherever they were currently staying on some manner of assignment, or if the pair of them were simply on vacation.

The former would be simpler to track, of course, since Enrico would only need to ask them where the pair of them had been dispatched to.

Once he'd managed to find out that Jotaro and Noriaki had been dispatched on the Foundation's business. Dispatched to a small town by the name of Morioh, a small town that seemed to possess a disproportionate amount of Stand users, with the apparent aim of finding out just what kind of effects that so many Stand users living in such close proximity had on the ordinary people living there. It was a rather interesting thought, but it appeared as though something had gone wrong.

Once he'd managed to arrange transport for himself to Morioh, Enrico found himself wondering just what kind of situation he would find when he arrived.

=DiU=

The idea of tracking down that Yangyu kid who'd helped Kakyoin-san with hanging up those posters that were meant to help him find his kid had come to Josuke as at least some way to help the old man feel better while they kept looking for Tenmei-chan. So, after he'd had breakfast, Josuke headed off to school to talk to that Nijimura guy. He'd been all around Morioh looking for signs of where Kakyoin-san's older kid might be, so he'd be the best chance to find out if he'd seen the kid who'd helped Jotaro's friend hang up those posters he'd been printing out.

Josuke thought there were enough of them that even someone without a Stand would have a good chance of finding Tenmei-chan, but Kakyoin-san clearly needed something to do to stop himself from going crazy with worry about his kid. Sure, Ichigo-chan was right there with him, but he was worried about what could be happening to his big brother, too. Aside from that, it wasn't fair for a little kid like Ichigo-chan to have to look after their parents when they were as worried about their kid as Kakyoin-san as his wife were.

Once he'd made it through the first half of the day, Josuke kept his eyes open for a place where he would be able to speak with Nijimura-san. After he'd caught up with with Nijimura-san, he caught up on everything Nijimura-san had been keeping his Stand colony looking out for, and then he asked him if he'd seen the kid Kakyoin-san had been talking to. As it turned out, he hadn't been in that area of the town, but he was at least curious enough about someone else with a Colony-type Stand like his own Bad Company to look into it.

So, even if it was just for his own reasons, Josuke had managed to get Nijimura-san to look in on that Yangyu kid, to try to catch up with him so that he could see if the kid would be willing to come back to meet Kakyoin-san; after he'd done so much to help the man, it was only right that he get the chance to be thanked in person. By both of Tenmei-chan's parents.

=DiU=

Finding himself smiling, as he made his way back into the cozy home that he had made for himself, his many girlfriends, and now his cute little daughter, Yoshikage Kira made his way to little Yoshiko's room. Her nails had been growing longer just like his would, and as he set his latest girlfriend down on the small table near her bed, Yoshikage glanced out the window. For a moment, he thought he'd spotted some kind of small animal or something outside, near the sill of Yoshiko's window.

There was nothing presently there, so Yoshikage supposed that it must have been either a squirrel or a small bird, and hence had scampered or fluttered off somewhere.

Taking out the four bottles he'd brought with him, Yoshikage set them down neatly on the tatami mats before making his way over to fetch Yoshiko-chan out of her bed. Taking off the cute socks he'd bought for her, Yoshikage clipped her delicate nails sorting those from each hand and foot into their corresponding jars, then sealing up and labeling them. These were only the first of the collection that she was going to have, true, so Yoshikage had labeled them accordingly.

Once he'd finished trimming Yoshiko's nails, Yoshikage carefully filed them with the nail file he'd found in her pocket when they'd first met.

Before he could carry her back to bed, however, the window burst inward, almost sounding as though it had been destroyed by Killer Queen's First Bomb. However as what seemed to be a trio of jets, accompanied by a quartet of helicopters, flew in through the space that had previously been occupied by the window of his sweet little Yoshiko-chan's room, Yoshikage realized that it had been something akin to Killer Queen's First Bomb.

Calling his Killer Queen back to his side, Yoshikage narrowed his eyes as he saw the seven aircraft skimming through the cloud of debris and shrapnel that the side of his family home had been reduced to. It was infuriating, being forced to fight in his own home, being hounded like this, when all he'd ever wished to do was live a happy, quiet life with his little family. Still, the fact that this invader seemed to have both a many, many iterations of itself and fully capable of taking to the air made things rather more troublesome than they could have been otherwise.

=DiU=

Narrowing his eyes as he gave the orders to Bad Company's air forces, Keicho Nijimura directed a force of soldiers and flatbed trucks to retrieve Tenmei Kakyoin. As his Bad Company leaped down from the trucks they had been riding, splitting up into smaller groups to lift each of Kakyoin-chan's limbs, while a larger force made their way over to his main body to lift him up and set him down on the backs of the convoy gathered around him. With a single thought, Keicho directed a single soldier to check Kakyoin-chan's eyes.

Unresponsive, dilated… Clearly, Kakyoin-chan had been drugged, while this kidnapper had had him in his possession. It was a troublesome thing, and would likely cause Kakyoin-san and his wife a great deal of distress when they managed to recover him, but for the moment that was a concern for later.

For the moment, Keicho gave a modicum of his attention to the seven Bad Company aircraft on harassment duty for the blond man who had been keeping Kakyoin-chan prisoner in his house, memorizing the lines of his face as the fact that he seemed to have a Stand of his own. It seemed to be a rather short-range type, though given the explosions that the Stand seemed to be able to create, getting within its range would hardly be advisable. So Keicho ordered Bad Company to keep the blond's attention from falling on Kakyoin-chan while he was evacuating the boy.

Once he'd managed to move Kakyoin-chan out into the yard, under the open sky where Alice Brando's secondary Stand White Rabbit was able to land, transform into what looked like some kind of enormous deer with a blunt face, a flap under its neck, and a truly massive rack of antlers, allowing the Bad Company soldiers to climb up onto the Stand's back. Strapping Kakyoin-chan to the enormous deer's back, Keicho directed his soldiers to climb up onto the antlers of the enormous deer, emplacing artillery there, just in case his aircraft were not able to hold the man back.

White Rabbit set off, his small group of Bad Company soldiers strapped firmly to the shape-shifting Stand's back, and Keicho turned his attention back to the man who had taken Kakyoin-chan captive not so long ago.

The sound of galloping hooves drew his attention, just as Noriaki had found himself wondering where he and Jotaro were going to be able to search for Tenmei-chan. Looking out the front window, Noriaki leaped to his feet as he saw White Rabbit, Stardust, a group of Bad Company soldiers, and Tenmei-chan all coming toward the front of Josuke-kun's house, where all of them were staying.

"Looks like Nijimura managed to find our kid," Jotaro said, tugging at the brim of his hat as he settled back down on the sofa that the pair of them had settled down on, during the time they'd spent looking for Tenmei-chan with the other Stand users they'd met in Morioh.

"I'm glad we managed to find him," Josuke-kun said, smiling at the both of them as the three of them waited for White Rabbit and its passengers to arrive at the house.

"Yes," Noriaki said, squeezing his hands together, before he rose from his seat to open the door, allowing White Rabbit to make its way inside. "It's good to have you back," he said, reaching out to help Tenmei-chan down from the currently moose-shaped Stand, as the Bad Company soldiers who had been sitting on White Rabbit's antlers climbed down, helping him to bring Tenmei-chan back down to the carpeted floor.

"It looks like he's been drugged," one of the soldiers said, speaking in Keicho Nijimura's voice, the same way White Rabbit would do, when it chose to speak to someone.

"I can help with that," Josuke-kun said, quickly hopping up from the couch where he'd been sitting, Crazy Diamond appearing at his side in an instant. "Crazy Diamond!"

Stepping back as Josuke-kun's Stand quickly healed Tenmei-chan of whatever kinds of drugs had been forced on him by whoever had kidnapped him in the first place, Noriaki sat back on his heels as he watched Tenmei-chan reviving. As he was helping Tenmei-chan to sit back up again, the sound of someone at the door drew his attention. He had more than a little suspicion about just who it was at the door, and sure enough when Jotaro got up to let Kishibe-san in, as soon as the man caught sight of Tenmei-chan he hurried over to their side.

"Tenmei-kun," he said, and Noriaki reached out to catch his wrist before he could touch Tenmei-chan's chest, getting the man's attention. "What is it, Kakyoin-san?"

"You shouldn't disturb him," Noriaki said, lightly gripping the man's right wrist, keeping him from doing anything to Tenmei-chan. "He needs to recover before he can start working again."

"Maybe I should let him look inside," Tenmei-chan said, sitting up, looking just as lucid as Noriaki had ever seen him, though he was still dressed in those strange clothes; his hair was also down, and with his hairclips missing, Tenmei-chan looked like he'd been getting ready for bed.

Noriaki supposed it fit, since Nijimura-san had reported that Tenmei-chan had been sleeping when he'd first caught sight of him; a drugged sleep, it seemed, but there was a skewed sort of familiarity to how Tenmei-chan was dressed. Still, that made things even worse, since Tenmei-chan probably wouldn't be able to identify him.

"What do you mean, Tenmei-chan?" he asked. "You don't have to let him do anything like that to you so soon."

"I don't know, maybe I saw something I don't remember right now," Tenmei-chan said, tucking his legs under himself as he sat back up.

"Yes!" Kishibe-san exclaimed, grinning widely. "That's a wonderful idea, Tenmei-kun! I knew there was a reason I let you work for me. Heaven's Door!"

Watching as Kishibe-san's Stand emerged, pulling Tenmei-chan's chest open to reveal what looked like some kind of book, Noriaki found himself leaning in closer to get a better look at what it said. Kishibe-san flipped backwards through the pages, searching through Tenmei-chan's blurry recollections to find at least something that they would be able to make use of, when they were searching for the bastard who had kidnapped his firstborn son.

"Ah, it looks like their first meeting was the one that drew the kidnapper's attention to him," Kishibe-san said, stopping on a page that held a description of the man that Tenmei-chan had been kidnapped by; the man whose description he was already in the process of writing down, so that he could hand it over to Jotaro and the pair of them would be able to find and punish the man who had kidnapped Tenmei-chan.

=DiU=

Finding himself sitting in the remains of his destroyed home, a hole opened to the outside where he had been forced to deploy Sheer Heart Attack to counter the threat of those aircraft that had been attempting to bomb him, Yoshikage Kira forced himself back to his feet. Making his way back into the house that was clearly no longer a safe place for him, Yoshikage made his way into the room that his father had claimed as his own for the time being. He would need to speak to the man, both since he would need to make plans to get his sweet Yoshiko-chan back and since he would need to find a new place to live.

The aircraft had clearly seen his face while they were shooting at him and attempting to bomb him, so he would also have to find a way to disguise himself well enough to settle back into the quiet life he had craved for so long.

"Father," he called, after checking to make sure no one else was present in the room with them. "I need to speak with you."

"What is it, Yoshikage?"

"Yoshiko was kidnapped," he said, narrowing his eyes as he thought back on what those intruders had done, not only to his home but to the family that he had been building for himself.

"What?!"

"Someone broke into my home, stole my child, and ran away with the aid of what seems to be another person," he said, narrowing his eyes as he considered just who might have been responsible for the attack on him, his home, and his family.

Whoever might have been commanding those soldiers and aircraft, and whoever it was that might have been in command of whatever had been responsible for taking his cute little Yoshiko away from him in the first place.

=DiU=

Once they'd managed to determine just where it was that the bastard who'd kidnapped Kakyoin's first kid actually lived, Jotaro only paused long enough for Nijimura to tell him the capabilities that the bastard's Stand had demonstrated to them while he and Aunt Alice were rescuing Tenmei-chan from his house and bringing the kid back to Josuke's house where the rest of them were all staying together. It looked like the bastard's Stand could explode things, but just like his own Star Platinum it was a short-range power-type. On the other hand, Nijimura had also observed that the Stand – which seemed to have the name Killer Queen, if the way the bastard had been commanding the thing was any indication – had some kind of an independent sub-Stand that he could sent out as a scout.

It didn't sound like it had even a bit of the sheer versatility of The Duke, but it was still something that he and Kakyoin would have to deal with when they went after the bastard.

Climbing up onto The Duke's back by grabbing onto the large antler on the right side of The Duke's head – Aunt Alice's sub-Stand was still in the form of the moose that it'd used to carry Tenmei-chan away from the bastard's house in the first place – Jotaro got himself settled, paused to wait for Kakyoin to climb on himself, and then nodded to Stardust so that Aunt Alice's main Stand could teleport them to the house where Tenmei-chan's kidnapper lived.

When the four of them arrived at the remains of the house where the bastard lived, however, it didn't seem like anyone was actually there. No one came out to confront them, and not even the blond who'd been described by Tenmei-chan's book when Kishibe had opened him up with that weird Stand of his was present to pay for his crimes.

"This doesn't feel right," Kakyoin said, as The Duke began to carefully circle around the blasted-open part of the house, moving closer when it seemed as though there was no one there to try to attack them while they were here.

"I don't like it, either," he said, narrowing his eyes as The Duke brought them closer to the hole that Bad Company had blown in the wall near the window of the room the kidnapper had kept Tenmei-chan in while he'd been drugging their kid. "But we should probably try to get a look inside."

Pressing down lightly on The Duke's right antler, letting the Stand know that at least he was going to be getting off soon, Jotaro made his way over to the hole in the wall, and took a look around inside the house. The sounds of The Duke's heavy hooves coming up from behind him drew his attention, and Jotaro turned to see The Duke leaping lightly into the room with him, and allowing Kakyoin to climb down before it shifted shape into some kind of large, maneless cat. Without any kind of markings, Jotaro couldn't tell quite what kind of big cat it was, but that wasn't important.

As he and Kakyoin searched through the house, Jotaro found himself wondering just what in the hell the bastard who'd kidnapped Tenmei-chan was actually going to do, now that they were all here. Nijimura had said that the man possessed a Stand of his own, short-ranged as it was, that could have tried to attack them while he himself stood behind one of the walls. Or else he could have sent out that sub-Stand of his, whatever its name was.

Still, as he and Kakyoin made their way through the house, nothing and no one jumped out at them, and so he, Kakyoin, and Stardust began exploring the house, with The Duke, Star Platinum, and Hierophant Green guarding them from anything that might have been staying in the house to wait for them. Searching through the drawers, cupboards, and desks in the house around them, he and Kakyoin found that the bastard's name was Yoshikage Kira, and he seemed to live alone in this house.

That explained why Avdol had said that Kira was trying to form a family by force.