310. Return of the Angel of Death ~Memory~

Gabrielle, The Jazz Fusion, The League, The Avengers, Weeb Town, the remaining Crusaders, and Jump Force all silently mourned for Anne JoJo's death.

"Gabrielle?" asked Prince Josuke. "I am... so sorry."

Gabrielle stared at Anne's coffin, descending into the ground.

"I'm gonna kill him..." said Gabrielle. "I will kill him."

"Don't let vengeance consume you, Gabrielle," said Bruce, who is beside Gabrielle.

"Vengeance is justice," said Gabrielle.

"But it isn't yours," said Bruce. "It isn't anybody's..."

Gabrielle sighs. "I'm gonna kill Kenneth... then Tooru. That is my goal."

"Your goal is to stop the Rock Organization."

"That, too. But I will kill them... Every last one of them..."

Bruce stares at Gabrielle. "It isn't your fault, Gabrielle JoJo.It isn't."

"Rock Humans want one thing... Power...Vampires want one thing... Power...Pillar-Men want one thing... Power...Why?According to humans, we are the definition of evil. But I say, it is because we all have a fear... Do you know what that fear is?" Tooru circles around Kenneth.

"What is it?" asked Kenneth, standing in the darkness below a spotlight.

"To be forgotten. Memory... Memory is something that matters most. Without it, who are we? Do we still exist if we are forgotten? Do we still exist if we die?Soul exists... But that doesn't prove that we truly exist after.No one knows what Rock Humans are because we were hidden for so long...Being forgotten without having done anything... that truly is terrifying."

"Is this why you are bringing anarchy to this solemn world? I thought you were doing this because you hated the government."

"I am. Why is it that one can be forgotten? A rightist's idea is that man is a colony. No, I say. Man is an island. Man matters so, so much... That's why I need to be immortal... using the Locacaca. My idea of immortality is when Heaven is destroyed... When the ruling power is gone... Because without this ruling power, men exist for themselves and for their own capabilities... because everyone matters... I... MATTER!!! Don't you see that, Kenneth? I sound like a broken record at this point... But... Everyone matters..."

"We kill people for a living."

"And they will be remembered for their bravery... I remember every single person I've killed for The Boss... We all matter, Kenneth... We all can be remembered... and that can only be done if those arrogant fucks who rule all over us are killed... White Diamond, Doughnut Trumpet, Uxas, Adonai, Miguel JoJo... These people are fascists."

"You have a rather extreme philosophy."

"Perhaps extremeness is the answer for a man to not walk into the path of Calamity. I was born in Calamity... I was a slave for the Spanish many years ago... Taken from my family as a young baby. It is up to me to save the world, Kenneth. And I need your help. Please...Those people... The Royals... They couldn't care less about you. But you matter so much to all of us... These heroes and their people think they can balance both... Stupidity. No one can balance freedom and slavery... It didn't work for our ancestors... It will never work today.At the end of this... I will be remembered... Somehow... In some way..."

Meanwhile...

Raphael sighs and closes Anne's diaries, inserting them into the Grimm Diaries Library Shelf.

"I'm so sorry..." said Narcos, seeing Gabrielle on the table.

Narcos hugs Gabrielle, and she hugs him back.  "I didn't know that it would've happened."

"I'm going to kill all of them, Narcos..."

"I know..." sighed Narcos.

"I... need to be alone..." said Gabrielle.

"Take all the time you need," said Narcos, as he kisses her forehead and enters the elevator.

Raphael sighs. "Even... me...?"

"Yes... Sorry, Kuya."

"What happened... to Mom... This isn't your fault..."

"I know."

"You know... But do you... understand..?"

"No, I don't."

"Then... I will leave you be..."

Raphael enters the elevator as it closes.

Gabrielle lies her head on the table.

"Heheheheh..." laughed a deep voice in the shadows.

"Hello?" asked Gabrielle, sitting erect and looking left and right. "Osborn!?"

"Heheheheh..."

"No... they're on Prime-Earth right now..." she whispered to herself. She stands up and woges. "Hello!?STONE FREE!!!"

Stone Free emerges from her body.

"WHO'S OUT THERE!?"

"Well... well... well... The daughter finally snapped!" she heard in her head.

"Get out of my head!" she yelled, grabbing her head. "This is telepathy, isn't it!? Who are you!?"

"I... am what your father called... 'The Other Guy.'"

"'The Other Guy?'"

"He never mentioned me to you? Well... I left a long time ago... I turned... ugh... into him... at one point... But he's dead now, and now... I am free!"

"Show yourself!" she yelled.

She looks at the mirror beside her.

She sees the original universe's 'Miguel Ibarra.'

"What the hell!?" she asked herself. "Who are you!? Dad!? No... You're a mirage!"

The person transforms into Jotaro Kujo. Then, he turns into Josuke Higashikata (SBR). Then, he turns into two people, Josefumi Kujo (SBR) and Yoshikage Kira (SBR). Then, they turn into Bruce Wayne, who looks pretty different. Then, he turns into Peter Parker. Then, he turns into Miguel JoJo with half of Giorno Giovanna's face.

"I am your father... Your... true father... I am the soul of Miguel JoJo that was trapped inside your father's body before he died."

"My father was Miguel JoJo!"

"The one you call your father was Giorno Giovanna. At least, he raised you. I am the true Miguel JoJo. I haunted his mind for years because he invaded my body... my world... and after his death... I transferred myself and stayed dormant inside your little head... My little spawn."

"Get out! I don't need this! I just lost my mother!"

"Ah... yes... I loved her as well... But what matters is that I am the part of you that turns you into a weapon... Not a hero. Just as your father was."

"Daddy was a hero!"

"'Daddy' was a killer whose vengeance caused a series of events that led to the destruction of the Universe. And later... the Omniverse. You will bring death... Because you are the Angel of Death."

"No... No, I'm not."

"YES, YOU ARE!!!" Gabrielle woges and her voice changes into a Venom-like voice. "Ah... Gabrielle JoJo... How awful that you are all alone in your little world... trapped in this stone ocean you call your life... In the end... Your father's memory will shatter your mind. Not only does love break one's heart... and breaks one's mind and corrupts the soul."

"What are you?"

"I am a god. An angel. I am something that was chosen a long time ago... Work with me... And you might just live..."

"My mother died... drowning in the rain... drowning in her own blood... Because you stopped me from saving her, right?"

"No. That wasn't me.But I have an idea of who it is."

"Who?"

"Believe me, he didn't kill her... She just asked permission from him to do so... To kill herself..."

Meanwhile...

Foo Fighters watches videos of Mukbangers eating edible water bottles.

"Water in water chloride and seaweed. Genius!" Foo Fighters watched arousingly.

Narcos takes the phone from Foo Fighters.

"Hey!" yelled Foo Fighters.

"You drank from the toilet. Consider this punishment," said Narcos.

"So!? I didn't know!"

"It was your seventh time I told you off."

"I feel like..." said Mercuria. "...everything we did to try and get the New Locacaca and save Anne... was all for naught."

"Not exactly," said Bruce. He turns on a hologram. "We discovered how the New Locacaca works with Rock Humans by experimenting on Kesha's body."

"And?" asked Raphael.

"It turns them into Ultimate Beings after it absorbs the New Locacaca and absorbs the living creatures around it."

"Pillar-Men?"

"Ultimate Pillar-Men. Practically, they're unkillable. They're also planning to make more Pillar-Men."

"How?"

"By turning everyone into one."

"What's so terrible about that?" asked Narcos.

Bruce shows them a video of a person's dead body melting into a fleshy puddle upon contact with the New Locacaca.

"Oh... I see," said Narcos.

"Next to a Rock Human and a human, it prefers the silicon-based assholes over normal people. But if it's next to two Rock Humans, both will become Ultimate Beings. If it's next to two humans, one human will die."

"The law of Power. Either you die or become above man, or so they say," said Bruce.

"So... This law..." said Nick. "It's probably the reason why there are so few Mediums and Wesen in the world compared to the Human population. Only 3% of the population."

"Probably also the reason why most people who wear the Stone Masks die instead of gaining power," said Monroe.

"And the Stand Arrows shooting people who turn into Stand-Users..." said Foo Fighters.

"And the X-Gene of Mutants... and Mutates like me," said Peter.

"Now, there's the New Locacaca," said Bruce. "It doesn't mutate humans... it does an equivalent exchange with two people and the effects are usually random. If you eat the Locacaca and you're handicapped, you absorb the body part you require to regrow from the closest person to you. For Rock Humans, it mutates them. Their idea is to feed both hosts a New Locacaca each. We tried that... Everyone died. Everyone that is human, at least... But Rock Humans? They evolved and turned into Pillar-Men.The flaw of mortals is that they ate from the forbidden tree... and thus... everyone wants to be like God. They want to be God. And that is the reason why every adversary we had became who they are... Well... not everyone. Some didn't want to be gods... Some wanted to help people... Turned mad by their obsessions."

"So... what's going to happen now?" asked Narcos.

"I don't know... What we could do is remember the people we lost... Those who gave their lives so that we could all live... Because without those people. Who would we be today? The memory of their blood will always be a part of our lives."

Gabrielle looks at a picture of her, her mom, Raphael, and Miguel when they were still very young.

"Sono chi no kioku," said Narcos. "They will always be remembered."

Narcos clenches his fists out of sudden rage. "Memory..."