Jojo's : A Bizarre Journey

Fun aside, the four of us took their respective seats.

"Are you going to introduce me?"

"Sure"

"Then do it?"

"Alright"

I stand up and extend both of my hands to him.

"He is Jack, one of my classmates, who I reached Hamon so that he could change his fate, unfortunately, he was too weak and got himself killed, so I had to revive him as a vampire"

"I wasn't weak! I just got tricked..."

Sure buddy.

"Anyways, he also has a stand so don't get any funny ideas".

"What is this all about?"

"Shut up"

Those two over there seemed to calm down, but they were on guard.

"Anyways, you should explain your cause and what you said earlier"

"...Alright then, let me present myself again"

"That's really not-"

"MY NAME..." She says, interrupting me ".... is Jane Emily Catherine and soon I will be Jane Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha"

"And to get to your goal, you want our support"

"Indeed"

"Why? I'm sure that there are more than enough stand users in the United Kingdom that will help you"

"There are, but they would be mostly useless"

"And how would you know we aren't?"

"Wait, what do you mean ¨We¨?"

"That's because of my stand power..."

She summons her stand, Jack looks at it, but I only feel some cosmic energy floating in the vague shape of a human.

"I've called it ¨Red String¨"

"And I guess it does things with a string?"

"Ha ha, no, It tells me which person has a strong destiny, and that means they'll be useful in my journey"

"And you're saying my string is unusual or something?"

"Yes, it's weird because you have a small aura where there you break the string of the others"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that when people are close to you, their string disappears"

I guess it is to be expected, Apolonia did call me ¨Fateless¨

"And you're saying you want me on your team because my string is unique?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I've also had Jack in my sight, but recently his string has begun to change a lot."

Yeah, that's all on me.

"I see, what if I refuse?"

"I would appreciate it doesn't get to that point"

"It won't, but what happens if I refuse?"

"...If you're not going to refuse, then I don't see any reason to go into that part"

Damn, that bad huh?

I don't care too much, and she seems a bit nervous, so I'll stop here.

What if she says something that makes me mad and I act impulsively?

"You're right, then Miss Jane, We will join your cause in one condition."

"Wait, what do you mean ¨we¨?"

"What is that?"

"I want you to protect the Billiard from any type of assassination or physical attack that is made against them"

I can trust them in the financial and political attacks, but my part of the deal relies in on physical and fate attacks.

"How do you know about that?"

"The fact that they are going to die?"

"Yes! How do you know!?"

"Obviously because they told me, I have a deal with them and it involves protecting them, so if you want me to join your team, then I will ask you to not kill them or to stop whatever Prince Albert is going to do."

"Ugh, Isn't there anything else you want?"

"Not really, I can get most of the things I propose myself"

"Alright then, I will do my utmost so that they don't die"

Does that clear the quest?

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[Quest: Savior][2]

Apolonia Billiard Aston, who has saved you has requested your help.

*The Results of this quest will trigger subsequent quests*

**The Results of this quest may have an impact on the fate of the world**

Tasks:

- Prevent the death of Mary Aston (1/1)

- Prevent the death of Joseph Billiard (1/1)

- Enter in contact with the princess (0/1)

Failure conditions:

- Die to the prince (0/1)

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Yep, that works.

And I guess I need to go to the princess's camp for this to be completed.

"Alright then, how do we do this? Do we shake hands or something?"

"No, you grab a sword, give it to me and I will make you a... retainer because you're not a knight."

My sword skills are at their level or more, thank you very much.

I materialize dawn in my right arm.

Slowly, I try to extend it outside my arm.

A sword comes out by the tip and I grab it with my other hand.

Now there is a knight sword in my hands.

That's good, it would've been embarrassing if I were to have failed.

I kneel and present it to her.

If she is amazed then she's hiding it very well, as she grabs the sword with one hand and I thought she would just place the sword over my shoulders and head once before claiming me as a retainer or something.

No, she went all up and above with the theatrics.

"By the authority vested in me by the Queen, I, Mary Emily Catherine of the British Royal family, do hereby command that you, Aroa Joestar, swear your allegiance to the 11th princess of the British Royal Family as her retainer."

Oh god, that was so cool.

What do I even say now?

"To fight against injustice, to face my fears with unwavering resolve, and to uphold what is right and just..."

I stand up and slowly take out another sword from my right hand.

"I, Aroa Joestar, do hereby swear to be the defense of Her Imperial Highness, before the queen."

I point my blade to her throat.

"For the throne"

"For the people"

Our words echoed slowly through the room.

...

..

...

I feel so cool right now.

It's a bit past 1 pm now, the princess and the boy, who is named Aethelbert Crawford(...), left already after sorting out the logistics of our deal.

And, more importantly...

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[Quest: Savior][2] 

Apolonia Billiard Aston, who has saved you has requested your help.

*The Results of this quest will trigger subsequent quests*

**The Results of this quest may have an impact on the fate of the world**

Tasks:

- Prevent the death of Mary Aston [Completed]

- Prevent the death of Joseph Billiard [Completed]

- Enter in contact with the princess [Completed]

Failure conditions:

- Die to the prince (0/1)

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[Quest: Savior][2] [Completed]

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Nice.

I can also redeem this in parts.

Hmm, let me try this.

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- Enter in contact with the princess [Completed] [Reward: Horse riding skills]

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Bruh.

This is useless.

Horses are already an old story at this point in history.

Well, not really, but they will soon be changed by engines.

I guess it doesn't hurt to have this.

But I'll redeem the quest fully now.

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[Quest: Savior][2] [Completed] [Reward: Two Upgrade Tickets]

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Okay, Okay!

I'm getting too many tickets now.

Let me check the first that I got.

A copy ticket, right?

I summon it.

It looks like a normal item ticket.

But it has a description

"Copy any kind of item that you own"

Seems simple enough.

Simple and useful.

This is big.

What are the limits of this? Can I copy the requiem arrow? What if I redeem a part of the saint's corpse and copy it?

Humm.

I won't waste it with tests though as I don't know when will I get another, if I ever get one.

Now the next one.

I summon one of the upgrade tickets.

And I say out loud the description once again.

"Upgrade anything to its next level?"

What does this mean?

Like, can I just give this to Jack and make him ULF?

Or, can I give this to a stand and turn it requiem or love train or go beyond or whatever upgrade it receives?

The description doesn't say anything else either.

Ugh, whatever, I'll just keep it with me until necessary.

I look out of the window of the room we four were in.

There's Jack in the grass field, practicing shooting his lasers against any pigeon that passes.

Now that I think about it, isn't vampirism supposed to turn you into evil in Jojo's?

Zeppeli said something about it, something like ¨The opposite to being a person is being a vampire¨

It sounds really stupid when I say it like that, but he said something about ¨Humanity is about caring, not only about being a human¨

Oh god, I should stop breaking his quotes.

Anyway, the point is that I should be worried, I think.

Or not?

I mean, Jack is already a morally grey person.

He didn't bat an eye to almost killing Straizo and didn't really ask me anything about them now that I think about it.

He also left aside his humanity pretty quickly, with no nervous breakdown or something like that.

That's pretty cool I guess, something more off my shoulders.

Well, changing the theme, I think I will go to sleep a bit more.

It's not that I need it, but I feel pretty tired right now.

It's barely 1 pm, but the day already feels like it has gone on for a week.

I'll just skip lunch, I'll probably eat dinner with George, who now i remember that he wanted to talk with me.

Wait, does he know that the princess was in here?

He should now, right? He gives off that Batman vibe of ¨I know a lot of things¨.

How did she even come here now that I think about it? The Buckingham Palace and the Castle of Windsor are far from here.

Ugh, I feel that the answer to that is going to be simple.

Whatever, let's just go to sleep for a bit.

It's not as if Jack is going to do something stupid in the meantime.

I hope so.