239. Temperance

Yuki Yamagishi walked in the graves of the nearby cemetery. Here, she meets her uncle's grave. She stares at it for about five minutes, whispering things to herself.

*Ptooh*

Yuki spits on the gravestone and stares at it, smoldering. She then walks away.

Later, Yuki walked into a cake store to buy some of her favorite Oreo Cheesecake. She stares from outside the glass of the bakery, drooling with eyes sparkling.

"Oh... bruv... that is nice..." she smiled, staring at the dessert. "Look at the firmness of the cream! The chocolate cookie's glazed all over that cheese..."

The door turns open as she smiles happily and entered inside.

After a short while, she walks outside with a prettily wrapped box of Oreo Cheesecake in her hand.

She hums "Mr. Sandman" as she walked away.

Another woman begins to follow her. She senses this as she squints her eyes.

Suddenly, she disappears in the middle of the sidewalk.

The woman smiles, however.

Miguel checks himself out on the mirror. He flexes his muscles and smiles narcissistically.

"Miggy!" yelled Anne downstairs.

"Yeah?"

"Downstairs! Now!"

"Just a second!"

Anne sighs and stomps upstairs.

"Waddup?" Miguel smiled.

"You stepped down as President again?" Anne crossed her arms.

"What? Lost all your chances for corruption?"

"Miguel... If you're not feeling well, please tell me... We promised each other that we'd do this together."

"I'm fine, Anne. I promise."

"Miguel... You were gone for ten days... And you haven't been talking to the kids! You've been talking to yourself in the mirror, lately! I don't think-!"

"I'll ask for help when I allow myself to ask for help."

"And when will that be?"

Miguel stayed silent.

"I love you, Miguel-..."

His eyes quiver.

"...-But I can't stand it when you're allowing yourself to hurt this way..."

"You're my wife... Your job is to stand with me no matter what."

"My job is to take care of my family... Like what you should also be doing and what you're not right now!"

"Anne, please!"

"Dinner's gone cold on the table, Miguel..."

"I said I'll eat later."

"Miguel... It's 9 AM in the morning... You've... been doing whatever the hell that is for twelve hours..."

Miguel looks at the window. "Oh..." He tries to steady himself as he dizzily stepped around.

Anne catches him before he falls.

"You fuckin' loser..." sighed Anne, as she carried Miguel to the bed. "You're starting to scare me."

Miguel sighs. "I need a break..."

Anne brushes Miguel's hair as he laid his head on her lap.

"Tell you what? Therapy. Tomorrow. Just sleep, for now, okay? Promise me you'd sleep."

Miguel looks into Anne's eyes. "Fuckin' puppy eyes. Fine." Miguel closes his eyes and begins to snore immediately.

Anne hugs Miguel's head. "Oh, Miggy..."

Meanwhile...

Yuki begins to turn red as she sways left and right looking dizzy and wanting to vomit. "Goddamn... A Stand Attack and I feel sick as fuck, mate... Like a fucking pissed horny lady..."

She leans on the shadow realm to try to get better.

"What's happening to me, I wonder?"

"Ngihihihihihi!"

Yuki's eyes widen as she looks down.

Yuki slowly looks down and sees a tiny humanoid coral bit with eyes on its "head" on her arm. It has two arms, one head, but no legs. Tentacles protrude from its skin which rooted themselves into Yuki's arm.

She stabs it, but the knife goes through it.

"What the hell?" hissed Yuki. "Ah... This is a Stand, I believe."

"Hello!" smiled the Stand.

"What do you want?" Yuki's lips trembled as she drooled.

"I'm here to kill you."

"So... what's your sob story?"

"Framed by white cops and went to jail for years. Forgotten by my whole family. Became Harlem's drinking queen."

"You're of Sub-Saharan descent?"

"Yeah."

"Nice Harlem accent, by the way."

"Nice British accent."

"And The Boss promised that you'll be given justice as those cops will be killed?"

"They're already dead, you know."

"Then what was the deal you struck?"

"The deal? The deal is that you die, and my people would be given the justice we deserve."

"Really, now?"

"Yeah."

"Look... I can't say I understand what you believe in... But I can say that you don't have to kill me to achieve that dream."

"And what? Do it the hard way and work for it? Every single one of my people has been doing the hard way for four hundred years."

"If Dark were here, he'd have an entire dumbass argument that they had it for five hundred years... Haha!"

The coral Stand stares at her with annoyance.

"It's... a joke..."

"I want you to know that the cause you're fighting for? It ain't gonna matter. It's wrong and foolish to fight for the white man."

"We're not fighting for anyone. All we want is for you to leave us alone."

"But Dark wants to save America... That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. How could he possibly save something that was trying to save itself for centuries?"

"Your cynicism is atrocious."

"But you agree that if I kill you, The Boss is the only one powerful enough to take out the world's problems. Only he can save America."

"And how will he do that?"

"They once told me a story... about his stepfather... He never met his true dad... Not until he was older... But there is a story..."

"Many years ago... During the Afghanistan wars... Doughnut Trumpet's step-father, who was very close with him, was captured by the enemy..."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" sobbed Daren Trumpet.

He sobbed as he was electrocuted by a taser.

The soldiers laugh as they tossed stones at the man, breaking his bones.

"They wanted to know about where his fellow soldiers were going to attack next... His father did not talk at all... But he was said to have wanted to talk... With respect to his dying self... So... What he did?"

Daren, with fractures in his face and puss forming in his swollen eye, and bruises all over his body, Daren decides to do one thing.

Daren faces the wall and bashes his face in it over and over, as the soldiers are horrified by what this man is doing.

*SPLAT... SPLAT... SPLAT!!!*

His brains, blood, and pieces of his skull splattered all over the wall.

"A friend of the step-father told the mother what his step-father did... He killed himself to prevent the enemy from knowing anything... And The Boss remembered his patriotism and what the American Spirit truly meant..."

Yuki sighs. "America is a land of dreams... When I first moved here... I always thought that everyone had the equal right to achieve them..."

"And you were wrong?"

"No... I believe that the American Dream is real... Because I believe that the whole world has this dream... All we need is to unite as one..."

"Really now?"

"You believe that only America deserves that right... The right for having that dream... But we believe that the whole world deserves to have this dream, too..."

"So that's what Miguel's planning... A Hellenization Period?"

"Miguel thinks the rest of the world deserves a part of that freedom... that equality... that dream... He believes that the world deserves a little bit of what it earned..."

"The world will never unite against anything, Anne. Sure, some nations do, but the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about those in need! Nothing and no one!"

"I firmly believe that it could happen... That the world can be in peace with one another! That the world could coincide with one another!"

"Why? Because you suffered a cruel past? You believe that the world can just hold hands with rainbows and kitties flyin' about?"

"I believe that Miguel could sway the whole world from being stubborn!"

"Too bad no one will listen to anything you or your allies will say... No one listened to me! Why would they listen to you!? Because you're half white? Because Miguel has a couple of elite friends?"

"No... Because we have faith... And you gave up! Miguel will never, EVER give up!"

Meanwhile...

"I've given up completely, man..."

Miguel sits before Ghost Jedan in therapy.

"Dude... You are down bad..." said Jedan. "Have you tried the water technique?"

"Yeah? Well, what did you expect!? I stepped down from the Presidency twice and the whole fucking world thinks I have malicious intent!"

"I and the other guys don't think you do!"

"Don't talk about Weeb Town, please! Ugh! They are so pissed at what I did to Lord... I mean... They still work for me... But we just... don't talk anymore..."

"Miguel... It's not bad to reach out to those you consider your family..."

"I know..." Miguel facepalms.

"Tell you what!" smiled Jedan. "Remember the farming thing you tried?"

"Y-Yeah... I was happy for the few first weeks... I just stopped like a month ago after I fought Lord."

"Keep doing stuff like that... Make stuff... Turn that rage into something you can make! Have some time off from us and enjoy your time with your family!"

"Yeah... I guess... I guess you're right..." smiled Miguel. "Thanks, man... I've been too focused on others' problems for too long... I should focus on my personal life more..."

"Aw... yeah!"

"Hey, Jed?"

"Yeah?"

"You're my best friend..."

"Yeah... I know... Likewise..."

The two of them smile at each other.

"This totally ain't gay, right?" asked Miguel.

"Nah!" laughed Jedan.

"Yeah..." Miguel turns away and turned slightly red.

"Y-... Yeah..." Jedan turned red and turned away as well.

"Doo doo doo doo doo..." said Miguel.

Anne zipped the door open. "Okay! Therapy's over!"

"Wha-? Huh?" asked Miguel.

"I'm actually the one who decides that-..." Ghost Jedan said.

Anne turns to him as her eyes turned black as she hissed.

Ghost Jedan woges into a Ghost Chupacabra out of fear. "Okay! Okay!" He hid his face in his hands and looks away.

"Where are we going?"

"Far away from a fanmade porn video of you two!"

Meanwhile...

Yuki sighs and warps out of the shadows as she faces her pursuer.

"There you are..." Yuki dizzily stood. *BURP*

"Hello, there," sneered the African-American woman, "Vertigo."

"General Kenobi!" laughed Yuki. "I've been hanging out with Dark for too long..." She bowed her head in shame.

The two of them stood at night in the park.

The woman sighed as Yuki dropped to the ground, feeling ill.

"What can you do... exactly?" asked Yuki.

"Well... it does look like I've won..." Vertigo took out a dagger and prepared to stab her in the face. "My Stand injects a poison similar to alcohol that causes nausea and drunkenness. I call it Temperance as an ironic name for it. Are you feeling nervous? Are you feeling... fine?"

"Your ego's going to get you killed, lass..."

"And why would that be?"

"Because you're far too arrogant... That... there has to be a way to beat-..."

*SHING*

*SPLAT*

Yuki is stabbed in the shoulder as she vomits blood. "Bloody hell, lass..."

She then lunged the dagger toward Yuki's face as Yuki summons Thriller, blocking the dagger.

Yuki tries to swing her katana toward Vertigo, who merely dodged her swings and slashes with relative ease because of her slow movements. "Stop this..." she sobbed. "Please... I just want to do what's right..."

"Why!? What has the world ever done for you!?"

"Nothing... But maybe... just maybe... If I do something for this world... Maybe it will do right for me... Because what goes around... Comes around..."

The woman sighs and blasts her fist into Yuki's ribs, breaking them as she drops to the ground.

Yuki stares down at the Stand who cackles at her as she cries.

*drip*

*tssss*

Vertigo grunts.

Yuki looks up to Vertigo. "Interesting."

Yuki sees a lake nearby.

Yuk then lays down on her shadow and teleports five meters close to the lake. She limps toward it in the hopes that she sinks the Stand into the lake. The lake had lights around it so Yuki can't teleport into it. She has to walk.

Vertigo ran toward Yuki.

"NO!!!" yelled Vertigo, as Yuki limped faster.

Vertigo stomped her feet as fast as she could. Yuki limped as she stopped to vomit blood.

Vertigo reached Yuki as she grabbed and turned Yuki around. Yuki growls and grabs Vertigo's arms. Yuki then kicks Vertigo with both feet and "jumps" on her, dropping into the lake.

Vertigo howls in pain as she begins to disintegrate and melt as if acid surrounds her body.

Vertigo howls in pain as Yuki cackled.

"NO!!!" yelled Vertigo. "PLEASE!!! DON'T KILL ME!!!"

"I have no other choice..." Yuki growled.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!"

Vertigo melted into a puddle of liquid flesh, insides, plasma, and blood on the ground.

Yuki sighs in relief as she swam toward land. She drops on the grass, unconscious...