Avril Cafe.

It is one of the most popular cafes in Tokyo, Japan (pure fiction, there is no such café in reality), the shop has hand-brewed coffee, juice and lunch, afternoon tea, etc., the reason for the popularity is the coffee brewed by the staff, the taste is charming, sweet and delicious, plus a small half cup of milk or a piece or two of rock sugar, the taste is even better.

Lunch is a Western-style meal, afternoon tea is a variety of small desserts, all of which will keep guests coming back for more, and the juice is also hand-squeezed, of course, not by hand, but by machinery.

Joseph and the others all came to this Avril café, and the customers looked at Ragnar with envious eyes, because, except for him, who was a boy, the others were either beautiful girls, or aunts who still maintained their youthful appearance.

Joseph ordered a place suitable for conversation, almost close to the window, with a beautiful view outside, which is the best place to have a coffee and relax.

The waiter handed the menu to Joseph with a smile on his face, and the first-class service attitude is also one of the ways to run a good restaurant.

"Four cups of coffee, thank you." Joseph took a look at the menu, many of the meals in it were dazzling, and in order to save time, he just ordered the classic coffee.

"Okay, please wait." The waiter stepped away from the spot and walked towards the counter where the coffee was made.

"So, let's get down to business, Jotaro." Joseph looked at Ragnar, "I only know a few things about the evil spirits in you. ”

"Hurry up, I'm impatient." Ragnar couldn't wait to find out the secret of this stand-in.

"Ahem...... Don't worry, as I said earlier, stand-ins are images of the tremendous energy generated by the life energy in your body, and we will call them stand-ins, also known as Phantom Ripples! ”

The ghost ripple has been mentioned in the original JOJO work.,I'll explain it to you.。

Stand-in (Japanese: スタンド), sometimes called ghost ripple, is a fictitious special superpower, which is an image with great power generated by the life energy in the human body.

The stand-in is a powerful image generated by the life energy of the body, and because this image always appears next to the human body, it is named "スタンド (Stand)" because this image always appears next to the human body, and the Chinese character is written as "ghost ripple". The person who has this superpower is called the "Shadow Ripple Messenger".

Gradually, the word "stand-in" was used to replace the original "ghostly ripple", and at the same time, those who possessed this ability were also renamed "stand-in messengers".

"Also, the stronger the soul of a person who has a stand-in, the stronger the stand-in, such as Jotaro, your stand-in is unexpectedly strong, and you can have the upper hand when fighting with Abdel's stand-in, maybe your soul is also very strong."

At this time, the waiter came to the seat of Joseph and others with four cups of coffee, and carefully placed them on the table, Joseph picked up a small spoon and scooped up a piece of rock candy and poured it into the coffee, stirred it a few times, and then took a sip very elegantly.

(The owner is a strong soul, and the stand-in is also strong...... Is it? Ragnar also took a sip of coffee with Joseph, which was mellow and tender, delicious, and as the name suggested, full of classic flavors.

"We're not here to solve your problem, we have another thing, which is to investigate the location of "that guy". Abdel hadn't touched her coffee since she had just done so, and it seemed that she didn't like the exotic drink.

"Wait, you mean a guy by 'that guy' when you say that." The more Ragnar thought about it, the more wrong it became, since he was here to find something, he should also make things clear.

"Hmph...... You'll find out later, Abdel. ”

Joseph snapped his fingers at Abdel, who understood what Joseph meant, and bent down to take out a camera from the luggage he had brought with him and placed it on the table.

The camera was brand new, it looked like it had just been bought, and it was engraved with a line in English next to it: Britishmanufacturing (Made in England).

"Actually, as early as a year ago, my body also had the same abnormalities as you."

Ragnar and Helly were shocked by Joseph's words, and did not expect that other people also had stand-ins, which shows that stand-ins are not unique, but diverse.

"And then! I'm going to use this camera to tell you the truth! ”

Joseph's left hand suddenly erupted with a purple thorn with a slight golden glow on the outside, and Ragnar guessed that the camera placed on the table would be treated unequally.

Joseph left his seat, blew on his left hand, and then roared, his palm swinging to one side, turning into a knife.

“cooooooo…… Ripple Walking!! ”

The camera was smashed to pieces like the Japanese splitting bricks with a knife, just as Ragnar had guessed, and any upstart would have been heartbroken to death when he saw the camera destroyed by such a person.

"The ripple technique that I learned when I was young could be combined with my stand-in, which made a huge difference."

While Joseph was showing off his stand-in powers, the camera was also finished, and little by little the pictures were spit out.

Ragnar grabbed the photo first to see the truth in it, and his eyes widened for a moment.

The background is pitch black, only one woman stands in the photo, although it is very long, but there is no sense of clutter, white to the flesh compared to the woman's skin, one hand half covers her face, as if to indicate that you can't look at her face, a purple star mark on the shoulder looks very abrupt, the whole photo looks so deep, so a sense of crisis.

When Joseph saw Ragnar's expression, his expression became very solemn, and he sat back in his chair, and it was strange that the customers in the shop were not frightened by Joseph's actions, and were still talking and laughing calmly.

Only the waiter was frightened and hurriedly ran over and asked, "What happened?"

Abdel waved his hand and indicated for the waiter to leave: "It's okay, go away."

"Yes......" The waiter knew each other very well and returned to his job at great speed.

The topic returned to the subject, and Joseph took off the button on his collar and said, "Do you have a purple star on your shoulder?"

Listening to Joseph's words, Ragnar and Heli also looked at their shoulders, and it turned out that there really was the purple star mark that Joseph said, and Joseph also had it.

"This is a marker that has been passed down from generation to generation in our Joestar family, and at the same time, I heard when I was a child that my grandmother, also known as Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro your great-grandmother, died in a cruise ship accident after fighting a vampire named Dior, and then ...... for a hundred years"

Jonathan snatched the photograph from Ragnar's hand and showed it on the front, the man with his face half-covered, with a purple star mark on his shoulder.

"This damn Dior! Taking my grandmother's body for yourself without permission! And then they become one again!!!! ”

Ragnar and Helly had a slight flash of lightning in their minds, a fact that was even more shocking than when the tornado was about to make landfall near their homes.

"Your stand-in and my stand-in may be the blood resonance after the connection between Dior and my grandmother's bodies, that is, after Dio has a stand-in, we have obtained the ability of a stand-in together with him."

Joseph gasped, and a large amount of lung capacity was very uncomfortable for her old age.

"Now that Dior has been resurrected, we have to fight him, this is the fate of the Joestar family for nearly a hundred years, and it is also the fate of us and Dior."

Ragnar lowered his hat and fell into deep thought: "(Is this the path that the hero of this world has to take, and yes, I can't go back if I don't spend 50 days...... By the way, let's also find out how powerful the stand-in is. ）”

Jonathan saw the uneasiness on Helly's face, and smiled again and comforted: "Oops~ I'm really embarrassed to let my baby daughter hear these dangerous things."

"It's okay mom......" Heli was not thinking about how to fight against Dior at the moment, but was worried about what casualties would be caused by the battle in the future, and her son was especially unable to have an accident.

"You already know the secret, maybe one day one of us will meet Dior, and at that time we must be very prepared not to die at his hands." Joseph stood up after taking her last sip of coffee, and as she picked up her phone to prepare for something, Holly interrupted her.

"Mom~ It's rare for you to come back, stay at my house tonight, you look very tired, and it's very troublesome to find a hotel."

"Huh? Hely, you mean that you want me to live in your house that is so narrow to death? Joseph was used to living in high-rise buildings in England, and he had never learned about Japanese culture, and Joseph rated Japanese houses as the worst.

"It's so narrow-minded that people live very comfortably in Japan." Hurley expressed her dissatisfaction with Joseph's life as a tyrant.

"Since it was Miss Heli's invitation, then I might as well be respectful."

When Abder was in India, he was very interested in Japanese culture, and now that he is in Japan, he wants to learn the tea ceremony with Heli and bring it back to India to promote it.

"Well, then, I'll have to make something delicious to entertain my mother and Mr. Abdel."

“oh！ no！ Joseph's dream of staying in a hotel and eating and drinking was shattered.

"Ya Le, Ya Le, Daze...... (I hope she didn't do an eight-eyed eel.) ）”

Ragnar really wanted to eat the eight-eye eel rice made by Misia, but unfortunately, in this world, no one would make eight-eye eel rice.

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Somewhere in Egypt.

The air was filled with a charming scent, purple smoke drifted like a river, and a woman doing stretching exercises, her upper body bare, the striking purple star mark on her shoulder, but there was no one here.

"Here we go again...... This feeling of being watched...... It's really irritating. ”

The woman's voice was full of magic, her dry lips seemed to be eager for fresh blood, her red eyes seemed to tell her own grievances, and the crack under her neck was almost healing.

"If I hadn't taken Jonathan's body and absorbed her life energy during that explosion, I would have really been doomed."

The woman stepped up the stairs step by step, and the atmosphere became heavy.

"Fortunately, now I have such a powerful body, surpassing the previous me, and gaining more powerful power, a stand-in! It's just ......"

The woman changed her position, her arms outstretched, in the shape of a cross, but the light outside was all blocked by the solid wall, and it was impossible to see her face clearly.

"The descendants of the Joestar family have also obtained a double like me, and the feeling of this blood connection is really uncomfortable for me."

After the woman ascended the stairs, she entered a small room and looked at the mural on the wall, which showed a portrait of Jonathan before his death, a young girl dressed in a red and white witch costume.

"For my sake, the revival of Dio Brando, we must first exclude everyone in the Joestar family!"

The door to the small room slowly closed, and the place was silent except for the fact that the air was still moving.

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Stand-in Messenger Name: Joseph Joestar (Kanako Yasaka)

Stand-in Name: HermitPurple

Destructive power: D

Speed: C

Persistence: D

Range Range: A

Precision: D

Growth: E