Chapter 2: Heaton's Stand-In

Heaton is temporarily taken in by the Sugimoto family.

At the same time, Heaton also found that this family was really big-hearted, and dared to take him in without considering the fact that he was a bad person.

Even Hisanobu Sugimoto relieved Mrs. Sugimoto to be at home with her two children and go out to run errands by herself.

Perhaps the values of the Crimson World are different from this world, and it is already extremely lucky for Heaton to have a place to live at the beginning of the crossing, when his body was still very weak.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and Heaton rejected Mrs. Sugimoto's idea of preparing food for him.

"Sugimoto-san, can you give me some of the nearest newspapers? I'd like to see if I can find any memories from above..."

Heaton asked Reemi Sugimoto, who was accompanying her dew on the shore.

Mrs. Sugimoto originally wanted Heaton to rest quietly alone, but when Heaton asked to talk to someone, she left Reimi Sugimoto and Kishibe Ryu to accompany Heaton in the room.

"Newspapers? Dad buys it every day, you wait, I'll get it for you! ”

With that, Reemi Sugimoto left her shore and ran out again.

The little guy wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Heaton.

"Little Luban, your sister Lingmei will be back soon, so you don't have to follow..."

"Ahh Dumb brother! ”

With a mouth on the shore, Heaton almost couldn't hold back, and a few black lines popped out of his forehead.

He suspected that this stinky boy did it on purpose!

"I can talk, not dumb!" Heaton emphasized, and continued, "Is it okay for me to ask you something?" ”

"No, you can't!"

The shore dew showed a lovely smile and smiled at Heaton.

Heaton was already sure in his mind that this little guy was intentional from beginning to end!

"Mr. Heaton, this is the newspaper, and the top is today!"

Remi Sugimoto came quickly, holding a stack of newspapers in her hand, about a dozen copies.

Heaton took the newspaper and was greeted by a headline.

"The tunnel has been repaired and will be reopened to traffic soon! 》

Tho Ocho! Shore dew!

Dusty memories gradually awakened in Heaton's mind.

jojo!

Heaton recalled the anime.

Sure enough, it's not an ordinary person's world, it's a world with all kinds of different stand-ins and all kinds of weird abilities!

And he is now in the main location where the plot of JoJo's fourth "Immortal Diamond" takes place.

Tho Ocho!

For the radio music at the beginning of every episode of this anime, Heaton is hard to forget.

"Maori, Maori, Maori..."

The familiar melody is almost engraved into Heaton's DNA, so he is also very familiar with the place name Duwangcho.

As for the memories of the dew companions on the shore, Heaton also recalled that from the perspective of age, it should be very early before the plot began.

His mind was opened in an instant, and Heaton's various memories of Jojo gradually awakened.

And the final boss of the fourth part, Heaton naturally remembers it clearly.

Kira Yoshikage!

A man who will paint a boki on the Mona Lisa!

Shore dew, Sugimoto Rei...

Heaton whispered the names of the two in his heart, and suddenly remembered a very important matter!

The plot of the fourth part starts today!

It was on the night that the shore stayed at Reimi Sugimoto's house, Kira Yoshikage infiltrated Reimi Sugimoto's house, brutally murdered all four of his family, and finally burned down the entire house to destroy the corpse.

Before being killed, Reemi Sugimoto escaped from the window in time to protect the shore and become the only survivor of this incident.

Just tonight!

Heaton's heart is full of alarm bells, and he carefully recalls the plot that will happen tonight!

This happened fifteen years before the anime began, when Kira Yoshikage was about thirty years old, which means that he is about twenty years old today, and there is no stand-in.

There is no stand-in, that is an ordinary person.

An ordinary twenty-year-old boy!

Heaton's hand holding the newspaper clenched slightly, feeling his current strength, and his heart breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, even if he is weak, his physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people in this world.

Heaton didn't know what was wrong with his body, he wasn't sick or overtired, but why his stamina had dropped so much and he was recovering so slowly.

This can only be pushed to the physical difference caused by the transformation of the world.

But since there is no danger to his life and his strength is slowly recovering, Heaton has no worries.

So tonight...

Do you want to kill Kira Yoshikage?

"How's it going, do you remember anything?"

Reimi Sugimoto's face suddenly stretched out in front of Heaton, and her eyes blinked.

It seems that she has forgotten her shy posture just now.

Heaton shook his head.

Remi Sugimoto had a disappointed expression, and it was clear that she was genuinely worried about Heaton.

"It's okay, I just forgot my memories of the recent past, and I promised Mrs. Sugimoto that I wouldn't trouble you all the time."

Heaton smiled brightly at Reimi Sugimoto, and the sunlight from outside spilled into the room and shone on Heaton's face, and the originally cold face instantly became warm.

Reemi Sugimoto looked away from her gaze at Heaton, clasped her hands on her chest, and said angrily with her cheeks slightly red.

"Mom, really, how could she agree to your request so easily, obviously have amnesia, and go out alone..."

It wasn't that the Sugimoto family wanted to drive Heaton away, but that Heaton told Mrs. Sugimoto to spend the night and leave after his strength had recovered a little and he could move freely.

Heaton has no intention of being a bloodsucker, and it's not Heaton's style to pretend to be pitiful and eat and drink in other people's homes all the time.

And tonight's help them solve Kira Yoshikage's burglary is a reward for entertaining himself for one night.

The hour hand flickered, and the sunlight outside the window faded little by little, turned orange, and climbed up the wall.

Heaton has been able to get out of bed and walk, although his strength has not fully recovered, but he is already like a normal person.

In the middle of the afternoon, in order to let Heaton read the newspaper more quietly, Reemi Sugimoto took the shore dew companion and went to her room to tutor her summer homework.

Summer homework for kindergarten preschool.

Poor shore dew never thought that he would be enrolled in Duwangcho Kindergarten in advance.

Hisanobu Sugimoto had already gone home and went upstairs to check on Heaton's condition, and was relieved to see Heaton, who was sitting at his desk reading the newspaper.

Heaton thanked Sugimoto Hisashi, and the two didn't say much.

It is estimated that Mrs. Sugimoto had already told Sugimoto Hisatin about Heaton's situation and asked him not to disturb the patient too much.

Heaton was happy to be quiet, waiting for the night to come.

Dinner was plentiful.

From the shining eyes of Remi Sugimoto, it is not difficult to guess that she is stained with the light of the shore dew companion and Heaton.

I don't usually have such a hearty meal.

Duwang Town is just a small town on the edge of S City, and its development is not advanced, and it has just improved recently, and the residents of the town are not wealthy.

Heaton looked at the fish soup that Mrs. Sugimoto had specially stewed on the dinner table, and a warm current crossed his heart.

It can be seen that the Sugimoto family is really attentive to their strange sick number.

Many of the ingredients for the big supplement were purchased by Hisanobu Sugimoto on a special trip to the market for Heaton.

"I'm moving!"

Except for Heaton, everyone shouted this sentence in unison, and even the shore companions raised their little hands and shouted.

Heaton looked at the Japanese painting style on the dinner table, and then he reacted.

"I'm moving!"

Everyone was silent, and Heaton shouted, causing Reemi Sugimoto on the other side to laugh.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was instantly lively.

As the head of the family, Sugimoto Hisanobu spoke.

"How old is Heaton? I see that you have an extraordinary temperament, and your family is definitely not simple, maybe you can start from this aspect and investigate your identity and background. ”

According to Heaton's confession, he doesn't remember where he came from, and he forgot why he came to the island country, but he remembered his name, and he also remembered that he didn't have parents, and from his behavior, he also had common sense in daily life.

It's a flawed amnesia, but the Sugimoto family is convinced.

"I'm fifteen years old." Heaton replied truthfully.

"Fifteen!"

The Sugimoto family exclaimed in unison, looking incredulous.

This one-meter-eight-year-old boy with a very good figure, thin clothes, and flesh on his stripping is only fifteen years old!

Even if you sit in your position and eat with a fast child, it is difficult to hide the noble temperament that emanates from the inside out.

"Little brother is really not from the island country, and our people here can't grow so tall."

Sugimoto Hisanobu shook his head, not knowing whether it was pity or envy.

He himself is only 1.7 meters, and he always thought he was quite tall before.

Reimi Sugimoto's focus is not here.

"Fifteen! Younger than me, alas! ”

"I can't see it at all!"

Mrs. Sugimoto on the side also chimed in.

Age is always a woman's first concern.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was once again pushed to a climax because of Heaton's age and height.

Sugimoto Hisashi talks a lot, and it seems that Reimi Sugimoto has inherited her father's nagging physique.

Throughout the dinner time, it was Sugimoto Hisatin who was talking, Heaton replied, and occasionally Reimi Sugimoto interjected.

At the end of dinner, it was Mrs. Sugimoto who pushed Hianobu Sugimoto back to the room, which ended the lively atmosphere of dinner.

Heaton returned to his upstairs room.

The Sugimoto family's house is large, but the bedrooms are all upstairs.

Downstairs is the living room, kitchen and other living areas.

There is also a small patio outside.

Upstairs there is a master bedroom for the Sugimoto couple, and Remi Sugimoto has a separate room, as well as two guest rooms, one commonly used and one not.

The room that is not often used is in the corner of the house, usually used as a utility room, which is the room where Heaton lives now.

The other commonly used room is arranged for shore dew companions, although the four-year-old shore dew companions have a bit of a bad personality, but they are quite well-behaved, and they don't cry when they sleep alone.

Heaton's room was supposed to be temporarily cleaned by the Sugimoto family, with a bed against the wall, a desk and chair next to the bed, and a few stacked storage boxes in the corner of the room, which was simple and unadorned.

The curtains were opened, and the moonlight made the room bright.

As soon as the wind blew, Heaton could clearly see the shadows of clouds in the sky drifting over the moon.

The night darkened instantly.

Heaton's experience over the years seemed to be no surprise to be magical, and this time through the world, his heart was far less tense than the first time, and his thoughts were flying.

"Wow~"

Suddenly, Heaton seemed to see a figure.

"Peng!"

The shadows of the clouds drifted by, and the moonlight shone down again, and Heaton's ears exploded out of thin air.

In the moonlight, a white figure stood straight with his back to Heaton!

Scapegoat!

Heaton immediately reacted, this is his own stand-in!

The sudden appearance of the stand-in brought Heaton not only surprise, but also a hint of wonder.

Heaton, who was lying on the bed, sat up, and with a thought, the stand-in in the room pulled the chair to the side of the bed and sat down.

And Heaton also saw the true face of his double at this moment.

The whole is white, in normal human form, and it seems to wear a tiara-like headdress on its head, but it is integrated with itself, and it is impossible to see it without looking closely.

The body shape is a bit similar to Kira Yoshikage's stand-in [Killer Queen], both of which are stand-ins with slender bodies and little combat effectiveness.

And the ability to...

The white double's palm covers the chair underneath.

"Peng!"

The chair shrinks instantly, then blends into the stand-in.

And part of its original white body has turned yellow.

This is exactly the color of the wooden chair just now.

【Toy Kingdom】

toys kingdom

Has the ability to turn objects it touches into toys.

The toy can be integrated into a stand-in, and the stand-in messenger will have the characteristics of a toy.

Heaton stretched out his arm, only to see his entire arm turned to wood.

And the entire white arm of the [Toy Kingdom] also turned yellow.

Heaton's brow furrowed slightly.

This ability doesn't seem to be of much use.

Because it is a stand-in for his own awakening, Heaton can't be sure that these are all the abilities of the stand-in.

But Heaton feels that his stand-in ability does not stop there, which requires his own development of the stand-in in the future.

At the same time, Heaton probably understood why his body was weakened, because his body was gradually adapting to the rules of the world and awakening the stand-in.

Heaton wasn't too surprised that he had a stand-in, and when he came to the JoJo world, it was too much to say that there was no stand-in.

Moreover, the stand-in is a powerful image generated by the life energy in the body, just like Jotaro, because of the strong body and spirit, the stand-in actively awakens.

In other words, the more people have strong beliefs and strong spiritual power, the easier it will be for the stand-in to awaken.

With Heaton's own stand-in and strong mental power that far surpasses the category of normal people, the awakening double is not surprising.

If there was no stand-in, then Heaton could only suspect that he would not be able to awaken the stand-in because he was not from this world, but now, there is obviously no such concern.

And the stand-in has a variety of abilities, and with the growth of life force and mental power, the ability of the stand-in is also getting stronger and stronger.

Heaton believes that his [Toy Kingdom] will not simply turn objects into toys and merge them into itself, and there must be other abilities waiting to be discovered.

Stand-ins naturally need to be developed.

Heaton takes the chair out of his body, and the stand-in ability activates, and the chair returns to its original state.

And Heaton probably understood that the reason why he couldn't make the whole body wood was because the material of the chair was not enough to support the stand-in ability to cover the whole body.

What will happen if you hurt your arm after the wood is turned into wood?

It's up to Heaton to find out how far he can go.

"Peng!"

A muffled sound came from the courtyard.

Heaton was just about to put away the [Toy Kingdom] when he heard movement outside.

Kira Yoshikage is here!