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Okay, now I'm confused as hell. Something isn't right. It could be King Crimson, as just like The World ("ZA WARUDO!") and Star Platinum: The World ("SUTA PURACHINA: ZA WARUDO!"), when it activates its ability, it's effects are universal no matter the range of ability activation or range of punching (just like when DIO stopped time for 2 seconds when we kissed Mizore. Yes, it was DIO, Eva confirmed it).

Now, King Crimson's range for activating its ability is 2-3 meters range, which is identical to its punching range, while The World had 10 meters activation range and Star Platinum: The World has 5 meters activation range and both have 2-3 meters punching range.

My point is that Diavolo could just be practicing his time erasure (or time skip) and everything just got affected. If that is the case, even DIO would notice it.

I say let's see if it's King Crimson or just someone with a Stand ability that could do such interference to the camera and cause this effects on Jotaro.

Wait... could one of the people we beat suddenly develop a stand in the time that passed since we beat them and now?
 
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This reminds me, that zombie chick will want a rematch sometime in the future. If we wait too long, then we might actually become a skilled enough stand user to defeat her, that is if we uncover the mystery of the abilities of her stand. Jotaro in canon is considered among one of the most dangerous stand users prior to the universe resetting, so if we bring him to that level, along with keeping our Hamon training to keep him in his physical peek for decades and he'll be even more dangerous.
 
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Qudrim8054 said:
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Okay, now I'm confused as hell. Something isn't right. It could be King Crimson, as just like The World ("ZA WARUDO!") and Star Platinum: The World ("SUTA PURACHINA: ZA WARUDO!"), when it activates its ability, it's effects are universal no matter the range of ability activation or range of punching (just like when DIO stopped time for 2 seconds when we kissed Mizore. Yes, it was DIO, Eva confirmed it).

Now, King Crimson's range for activating its ability is 2-3 meters range, which is identical to its punching range, while The World had 10 meters activation range and Star Platinum: The World has 5 meters activation range and both have 2-3 meters punching range.

My point is that Diavolo could just be practicing his time erasure (or time skip) and everything just got affected. If that is the case, even DIO would notice it.

I say let's see if it's King Crimson or just someone with a Stand ability that could do such interference to the camera and cause this effects on Jotaro.

Wait... could one of the people we beat suddenly develop a stand in the time that passed since we beat them and now?
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Doubtful.

This is almost certainly King crimson as this is about the time he got his stand and had time to get it to work. He got King Crimson around the same time Dio got the World as he only discovered the arrows power right before he sold them to Dio's old lady minion. And only used it on himself after.

He's still a ways off his 10 second max it looks like but this seems to be the second and third time he's used it as IIRC Jotaro had an earlyer feeling a lot like this.

I had hoped not to have to deal with Diavolo and just have Giorno deal with him later on because damn it he's a scary SOB.

Really the only way we could stop him is sacrifice someone to bait out it's Remove Time ability and then use Stoped time to kill him.
Epitaath only works for 10 seconds in the future so if Jotaro is 11 seconds out he can't see Jotaro until he's committed to the Remove Time and would be unable to do it again before Jotaro lands the finishing blow. Due to how Stop Time works he'd be unable to see Jotaro's attacks as they happen outside of time he'd only see the result of those actions. Namely his death.


And that's only possible with our meta knowledge. Without knowing anything Jotaro is fucked.
 
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Doubtful.

This is almost certainly King crimson as this is about the time he got his stand and had time to get it to work. He got King Crimson around the same time Dio got the World as he only discovered the arrows power right before he sold them to Dio's old lady minion. And only used it on himself after.

He's still a ways off his 10 second max it looks like but this seems to be the second and third time he's used it as IIRC Jotaro had an earlyer feeling a lot like this.

I had hoped not to have to deal with Diavolo and just have Giorno deal with him later on because damn it he's a scary SOB.

Really the only way we could stop him is sacrifice someone to bait out it's Remove Time ability and then use Stoped time to kill him.
Epitaath only works for 10 seconds in the future so if Jotaro is 11 seconds out he can't see Jotaro until he's committed to the Remove Time and would be unable to do it again before Jotaro lands the finishing blow. Due to how Stop Time works he'd be unable to see Jotaro's attacks as they happen outside of time he'd only see the result of those actions. Namely his death.


And that's only possible with our meta knowledge. Without knowing anything Jotaro is fucked.
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Is I remind you, King Crimson's range and durability is E, while Star Platinum has C in range. Therefore, Jotaro has a longer range than Diavolo to activate his ability. According to Araki, Star Platinum is the physically strongest Stand before the world is reset, and that probably includes King Crimson, so Jotaro has longer range to activate his ability, has superior strength, speed (maybe?) and durability. Diavolo's advantages are a better time manipulation ability, future sight and killing intent, because Jotaro doesn't kill.

However, since part 6 proved that people with time manipulation abilities are aware inside Jotaro's time stop (as seen with C-Moon and Made in Heaven), I believe the same case being with Star Platinum: The World and King Crimson. My theory is that while Epitaph can't see inside stopped time until it is stopped, but he cannot move, while Star Platinum would be half aware within erased time and with its self-preservation would protect Jotaro to a degree, maybe to direct itself in the direction of Diavolo, shocking Diavolo enough to stop him in his tracks somewhat, like what happened in the DIO fight before Dio found the magnet on Jotaro's wrist, that kind of example.

All in all, I think Jotaro has a stronger stand while Diavolo has a more powerful one. In a fight it's more of who can activate their abilities first. However, I believe Jotaro's Star Platinum can survive at least one strike from King Crimson. Since Diavolo never showed the capability to stop or get hurt when he erases time (since I remember that it was states that he can't damage someone or be damaged by someone when time is erased), I believe that Jotaro can only have a split second to stop time after Diavolo erases time, and if he succeeds, he winds, but will probably won't kill Diavolo in a first fight, just like with Kira. But King Crimson has such little durability that Star Platinum's barrage might destroy it like it destroyed The World.

If Diavolo does survive a first encounter with Jotaro, he will be wary of not fighting him until the conditions for his victory against him are assured, or he sends someone more capable of taking him down. Probably the latter.

Also on another note, in part 6 in the MiH fight, when Jotaro died his time stopped was shorten massively and was no longer 5 seconds, more like 2-3 seconds. If it had stayed 5 seconds, he probably would have saved Jolyne and killed Pucci. So the fact that he nearly killed the second strongest stand pre-resetting with a slower Star Platinum while having to protect his daughter and her friends (some of which saved his sorry ass, including his daughter, for those that hate Jolyne, is quite a testament to how dangerous he was in his weakest.
 
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Is I remind you, King Crimson's range and durability is E, while Star Platinum has C in range. Therefore, Jotaro has a longer range than Diavolo to activate his ability. According to Araki, Star Platinum is the physically strongest Stand before the world is reset, and that probably includes King Crimson, so Jotaro has longer range to activate his ability, has superior strength, speed (maybe?) and durability. Diavolo's advantages are a better time manipulation ability, future sight and killing intent, because Jotaro doesn't kill.

However, since part 6 proved that people with time manipulation abilities are aware inside Jotaro's time stop (as seen with C-Moon and Made in Heaven), I believe the same case being with Star Platinum: The World and King Crimson. My theory is that while Epitaph can't see inside stopped time until it is stopped, but he cannot move, while Star Platinum would be half aware within erased time and with its self-preservation would protect Jotaro to a degree, maybe to direct itself in the direction of Diavolo, shocking Diavolo enough to stop him in his tracks somewhat, like what happened in the DIO fight before Dio found the magnet on Jotaro's wrist, that kind of example.

All in all, I think Jotaro has a stronger stand while Diavolo has a more powerful one. In a fight it's more of who can activate their abilities first. However, I believe Jotaro's Star Platinum can survive at least one strike from King Crimson. Since Diavolo never showed the capability to stop or get hurt when he erases time (since I remember that it was states that he can't damage someone or be damaged by someone when time is erased), I believe that Jotaro can only have a split second to stop time after Diavolo erases time, and if he succeeds, he winds, but will probably won't kill Diavolo in a first fight, just like with Kira. But King Crimson has such little durability that Star Platinum's barrage might destroy it like it destroyed The World.

If Diavolo does survive a first encounter with Jotaro, he will be wary of not fighting him until the conditions for his victory against him are assured, or he sends someone more capable of taking him down. Probably the latter.

Also on another note, in part 6 in the MiH fight, when Jotaro died his time stopped was shorten massively and was no longer 5 seconds, more like 2-3 seconds. If it had stayed 5 seconds, he probably would have saved Jolyne and killed Pucci. So the fact that he nearly killed the second strongest stand pre-resetting with a slower Star Platinum while having to protect his daughter and her friends (some of which saved his sorry ass, including his daughter, for those that hate Jolyne, is quite a testament to how dangerous he was in his weakest.
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On the first part I completely agree SP is by far the stronger stand and in a normal face off it would be settled pretty quickly.

As for How their reactions work. Personally I think both stands still work as they normally do.

If Jotaro was caught in the erased time he'd act the same as everyone else ( I.e unable to harm ,interact or react in any way to Diavolo) with the exception being he'd be more aware that "something" happened hence the sick feeling.

Diavolo on the other hand would only be able to see the results of the Time stop rather then anything in the Stoped Time with epitaph and if Time stop is used in erased time it's more or less wasted as Diavolo coasts though on his invuln frames.

TLDR: if Jotaro can reduce it to a punch off no contest he wins. If he can somehow stop Time before Diavolo can react and Remove Time ( which is only possible if Doppio is out rather then him.) despite Epatath he wins. If he stops Time during Remove Time or can't get enough distance before Diavolo uses Remove Time he loses.

It'd Come down more or less to a western quick draw duel or someone baiting Diavolo for Jotaro
 
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Cjdavis103 said:
On the first part I completely agree SP is by far the stronger stand and in a normal face off it would be settled pretty quickly.

As for How their reactions work. Personally I think both stands still work as they normally do.

If Jotaro was caught in the erased time he'd act the same as everyone else ( I.e unable to harm ,interact or react in any way to Diavolo) with the exception being he'd be more aware that "something" happened hence the sick feeling.

Diavolo on the other hand would only be able to see the results of the Time stop rather then anything in the Stoped Time with epitaph and if Time stop is used in erased time it's more or less wasted as Diavolo coasts though on his invuln frames.

TLDR: if Jotaro can reduce it to a punch off no contest he wins. If he can somehow stop Time before Diavolo can react and Remove Time ( which is only possible if Doppio is out rather then him.) despite Epatath he wins. If he stops Time during Remove Time or can't get enough distance before Diavolo uses Remove Time he loses.

It'd Come down more or less to a western quick draw duel or someone baiting Diavolo for Jotaro
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Yes, I agree, but as I remember from reading part 5, Diavolo never hit someone with King Crimson while in erased time, even Narancia, whom he had to kill by dropping on a steel gate to impale him. That means he can't harm someone himself with King Crimson inside erased time unless it's an object touching the victim and not his stand (that's at least how I see it, since he only moved in erased time). Therefore, while he would normally win against Jotaro because he would catch Jotaro off guard, you have to remember that Star Platinum automatically defends Jotaro (at least in part 3).

If that element of SP remains against Diavolo, then it can defend Jotaro from a strike from King Crimson if it's fast enough, and if that happens than Jotaro has a split second to stop time and win Diavolo.

However, Diavolo has a superior ability and would probably win 9 times out of 10 (okay, that's being a tiny bit generous).
 
What if Splat decides to independently stop time after Diavolo finishes erasing it? Bit of a stretch, probably, but I can see a Stand independent enough to act on its own being capable of using its powers without being ordered to as well, should the situation require it. If this happens, Jotaro's got a few seconds to figure out where the guy went (as opposed to most opponents being completely blindsided), and Splat can utterly BREAK KCrim in less than a second given the disparity in their physical stats (especially if the latter can't move to defend itself).
 
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King Crimson goes "all the way out into space" according to Araki.
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That doesn't make sense. If he's erasing ten seconds of time across the globe every time he uses his power, then shouldn't there have been an international panic and inquiry into WTF is happening? That's literally what happens in that one Futurama episode people sometimes use to illustrate what KC does ("Time Keeps On Slippin"), and that episode has the entire universe going "oh, SHIT" and freaking out from the first 'timeskip' onward.

I'll admit I'm not familiar with Part 5, but I assume I'd have heard if there's a scene where everyone on the planet is running around screaming in horror at the bizarre temporal blackouts they keep having.
 
GardenerBriareus said:
That doesn't make sense. If he's erasing ten seconds of time across the globe every time he uses his power, then shouldn't there have been an international panic and inquiry into WTF is happening? That's literally what happens in that one Futurama episode people sometimes use to illustrate what KC does ("Time Keeps On Slippin"), and that episode has the entire universe going "oh, SHIT" and freaking out from the first 'timeskip' onward.

I'll admit I'm not familiar with Part 5, but I assume I'd have heard if there's a scene where everyone on the planet is running around screaming in horror at the bizarre temporal blackouts they keep having.
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I assume that people don't really notice anything amiss as long as he does not interfere.

What I mean is that it appears that when Diavolo erases time everybody keeps doing what they would be doing anyway going by his future vision. He himself can go and do whatever he wants whilst everybody else follows their predestined path. (Like say, intercepting a running person with a charging punch)

When he does something that would usually alter somebody else's action (like jumping over a nearby wall instead of running forward and being punched) it doesn't, leading to nonsensical results like suddenly being in the middle of punching someone that never was there to begin with for no apparent reason. This is grossly disorienting, and leads to the whole feeling of being teleported around and losing time.

However when he does something that would not alter a persons predestined path it doesn't amount to much. Some dude painting walls in China is suddenly just a little further along in painting walls white, and either remembers doing that, or simply glosses over the difference.

EDIT: On further review I seem to have forgotten a scene where the Gangstars notice that stuff is happening without them remembering. So yeah.
 
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GardenerBriareus said:
That doesn't make sense. If he's erasing ten seconds of time across the globe every time he uses his power, then shouldn't there have been an international panic and inquiry into WTF is happening? That's literally what happens in that one Futurama episode people sometimes use to illustrate what KC does ("Time Keeps On Slippin"), and that episode has the entire universe going "oh, SHIT" and freaking out from the first 'timeskip' onward.

I'll admit I'm not familiar with Part 5, but I assume I'd have heard if there's a scene where everyone on the planet is running around screaming in horror at the bizarre temporal blackouts they keep having.
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I'm not sorry.
 
Benwise said:
EDIT: On further review I seem to have forgotten a scene where the Gangstars notice that stuff is happening without them remembering. So yeah.
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To follow up on this, a global timeskip of 10 seconds would result in some pretty significant consequences. Ten seconds is kind of a long time, especially when you're involved in less fast-paced activities like, well, composing a post for an Internet forum.

If somebody's in the middle of surgery, or driving a car, or playing pool, and suddenly --BLINK-- they've seemingly had some sort of 10-second fugue state? Their first thought is going to be "Oh god what the fuck, am I having a stroke?". Then they'll realize that literally everyone else in the room experienced the exact same blackout at the exact same time for the exact same duration, and that's probably around where the blind panic starts.

If it only happened once, then sure, society as a whole would eventually move on; it'd be a topic of discussion and research for decades, but not something everyone's constantly thinking about.

When it happens again, people are going to get scared. It's a Twilight Zone episode come to life, happening for no discernible reason and in no discernible pattern. Is this some sort of bizarre precursor to the Big Rip? Is it a plague? Is it aliens? Oh shit, it's aliens, isn't it?

The Speedwagon Foundation starts shitting bricks and pouring funding into a massive investigation to figure out what's doing this, where they are, and how to make it stop, and various governments will be running their own inquests into it. The monster community flips its shit at the thought of a force that can fuck with the entire planet simultaneously without exposing itself, and a less focused, but no less intense series of investigations start emerging from among their population.

A global KC would be something you'd see if Diavolo got his powers from a vindictive genie.
 
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To quote something a once famous man once said: "Why won't any of these fuckers understand?! It just works!"

In seriousness, King Crimson skips time for everyone but himself, with the probability that other time manipulating stand users figuring it out quicker than other people, because of their own stands. An example would be more similar the Hit from Dragon Ball Super, only 10 seconds instead of 0.5, making the difference much more noticeable.

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To follow up on this, a global timeskip of 10 seconds would result in some pretty significant consequences. Ten seconds is kind of a long time, especially when you're involved in less fast-paced activities like, well, composing a post for an Internet forum.

If somebody's in the middle of surgery, or driving a car, or playing pool, and suddenly --BLINK-- they've seemingly had some sort of 10-second fugue state? Their first thought is going to be "Oh god what the fuck, am I having a stroke?". Then they'll realize that literally everyone else in the room experienced the exact same blackout at the exact same time for the exact same duration, and that's probably around where the blind panic starts.

If it only happened once, then sure, society as a whole would eventually move on; it'd be a topic of discussion and research for decades, but not something everyone's constantly thinking about.

When it happens again, people are going to get scared. It's a Twilight Zone episode come to life, happening for no discernible reason and in no discernible pattern. Is this some sort of bizarre precursor to the Big Rip? Is it a plague? Is it aliens? Oh shit, it's aliens, isn't it?

The Speedwagon Foundation starts shitting bricks and pouring funding into a massive investigation to figure out what's doing this, where they are, and how to make it stop, and various governments will be running their own inquests into it. The monster community flips its shit at the thought of a force that can fuck with the entire planet simultaneously without exposing itself, and a less focused, but no less intense series of investigations start emerging from among their population.

A global KC would be something you'd see if Diavolo got his powers from a vindictive genie.
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Well, as we saw with Za Warudo, a power that affects the entire planet can really scare someone who doesn't have a stand if in the vicinity. Just look at the senator in Stardust Crusaders or Joseph and Kakyoin.

In parts 4 and 6 the reaction was downplayed in my eyes, though the reactions returned with greatness in the Made in Heaven. Whenever Jotaro stopped time it was: "Huh? Where did he go?" or "Huh? What just happened?" which would be natural reactions, but only Kira in part 4 showed genuine fear from Jotaro after getting his ass kicked. Everyone else who talked about Jotaro was like: "He's pretty strong and can stop time for about 0.5-2 seconds, which I somehow know without ever meeting the guy for some bullshit reason, so I won't fight him."

Kira was like: "Holy shit! I can't let this woman die or Jotaro will find me and stop time to shove his fist up my ass!" or "I have to keep my head down and not kill anybody, or Jotaro would find me and stop time to shove his fist up my ass!" and especially here: "By the way, Hayato, did someone named Jotaro died? Because I would be extremely happy if that was the case."

Speaking of Jotaro, if a scenario you mentioned, he would notice something the first time and then in about a minute would figure out it is related to time, so he would look at his sick watch until time is erased again, allowing him to realize that time is erased for 10 seconds period, which everything inside it he completely forgets. But since he isn't in Italy at the time, he wouldn't do a goddamn thing about it.

Imagine Jotaro and Koichi as more active figures and a third party in the fight against Diavolo and Passione in Part 5.
 
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To follow up on this, a global timeskip of 10 seconds would result in some pretty significant consequences. Ten seconds is kind of a long time, especially when you're involved in less fast-paced activities like, well, composing a post for an Internet forum.

If somebody's in the middle of surgery, or driving a car, or playing pool, and suddenly --BLINK-- they've seemingly had some sort of 10-second fugue state? Their first thought is going to be "Oh god what the fuck, am I having a stroke?". Then they'll realize that literally everyone else in the room experienced the exact same blackout at the exact same time for the exact same duration, and that's probably around where the blind panic starts.

If it only happened once, then sure, society as a whole would eventually move on; it'd be a topic of discussion and research for decades, but not something everyone's constantly thinking about.

When it happens again, people are going to get scared. It's a Twilight Zone episode come to life, happening for no discernible reason and in no discernible pattern. Is this some sort of bizarre precursor to the Big Rip? Is it a plague? Is it aliens? Oh shit, it's aliens, isn't it?

The Speedwagon Foundation starts shitting bricks and pouring funding into a massive investigation to figure out what's doing this, where they are, and how to make it stop, and various governments will be running their own inquests into it. The monster community flips its shit at the thought of a force that can fuck with the entire planet simultaneously without exposing itself, and a less focused, but no less intense series of investigations start emerging from among their population.

A global KC would be something you'd see if Diavolo got his powers from a vindictive genie.
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Actually, the word Araki used for "space" is more space/the cosmos/the universe. So it's removing time all across the universe, same as the other time-manipulating stands, as seen in the Made in Heaven video game.
 
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    • After having met up for breakfast and finding a certain someone missing, Mizore and Yukari were talking and walking the sunlight path back to the girl's dorms together. "I like it," Mizore said after a moment's contemplation. "Anything I can do to help?"

    Yukari grinned, and if Mizore spent a fraction of the time with her that the Newspaper Club members did, she might have been intimidated by what it meant. "Actually, I was hoping you'd help me out. Of all the roles in this little adventure, yours is the --"

    Yukari paused for a split-second of rumination, before nodding. "Actually, yeah, what I have in mind for you is both the easiest, and one of the most important parts of the job. It'd be waaaay harder to pull this off without your help."

    As they approached a certain dorm, the pair could hear music -- and more than that, someone singing.

    Stopping just short of the door, Mizore blinked. Even though the door muffled it enough to keep from clearly hearing the words... "Someone's having fun."

    "Yeah," Yukari agreed, "but it's time to get to work now."

    The young Witchling knocked on the door, to no response. After trying the knob and finding it locked, she then displayed a remarkable disregard for the resident's privacy by casting a magic spell to unlock it, before walking right in.

    Mizore blinked, before letting out a soft whistle. "Even I'm usually not that blatant."

    Yukari glanced back, one eyebrow raised. "Puh-lease. The only difference is that you care about getting caught, and on this occasion I don't."

    Shrugging, Mizore then followed her partner in crime into the dorm, where they found an extremely animated pink-haired vampire, singing her heart out into a microphone, perfectly in sync with music coming out of a CD player/speaker system.

    "LIGER SWORD! Cut through the sky with your holy blade~"

    "Damn," Mizore whispered with more than a little awe, and a lot of sudden self-consciousness over her own singing ability.

    "LIGER SLASH! Your roar is like a thundercrash~"

    "I know!" Yukari whispered back.

    "Burn with righteous fire, Liger, Liger, Liger..."

    "...Wouldn't have guessed she was into anime," Mizore muttered.

    Yukari, blinking at the statement, furrowed her brow in confusion. "She's not," she softly replied.

    "Feel the wrath of Jushin Lig-- AAHHH!!!!"

    Having turned around halfway through the lyric, Moka jumped back in fright at her unexpected visitors, stumbling over several bits of furniture and into a bookcase, before tumbling to the floor and causing a novel -- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -- to fall over and land on her head.

    Suddenly sheepish over the chaos created by her forceful intrusion, Yukari tried not to hide under her really big hat. "....Moka, are you okay?"

    There was a muffled chorus of ows coming from the floor, before Moka picked the open book off of her face, inspected it for damage, and delicately set it aside. With a loud sigh as she identified her guests, Moka shook her head. "You just startled me," she admitted. A moment later, a thought occurred to her, and the rose-haired vampire narrowed her eyes. "And what have I told you about breaking into my dorm, Yukari?"

    The little girl's smile was far too innocent to be genuine. "That as long as it's me, it's okay?"

    Unimpressed by the blatant lie, Moka huffed in annoyance before getting to her feet and inspecting the things she'd hit for damage.

    Mizore blinked. Oh, right, that's partly my fault, too. "Anything broken?" she asked.

    After several seconds of looking around and inspecting this-and-that, Moka let out another sigh, this one more of relief. "No, it doesn't look like it..."

    Turning an annoyed glance to her 'guests', however, she muttered, "Although I'm going to have to re-record that later, now. That was Fine Arts homework, you know."

    Now feeling genuinely bad instead of just awkward, Mizore shuffled a little bit. "You were singing in English," she observed. "Some kind of translation assignment or something?"

    "Yeah," Moka said with a nod. "Mikazuki-sensei decided to combine a singing exam with English, saying that word-for-word lyric translations would ruin the song's flow, and you'd have to take some artistic license to keep the original feeling of the song while still making it work in another language. Honestly," she said with a small chuckle, "I got lucky, being able to pick my own song and language to translate it too. Tsukune got..."

    On mentioning the boy's name, Moka's cheer instantly evaporated as she unwittingly reminded herself of the ongoing relationship drama.

    An awkward couple of seconds later, Yukari spoke up. "Almost forgot why I came here! The pervert," she said in derisive reference to Gin, "decided that you need to redo your articles in next week's edition of the Newspaper. Said your paragraph layout wasn't up to standard, or something."

    Moka's right eye started twitching in annoyance. "...you're kidding me," she didn't state so much as plead. "He said it was fine on Thursday!"

    Yukari shrugged. "Yeah, well, a little bit ago he changed his mind and told me to come get you for it."

    Pinching the bridge of her nose, Moka mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like "Good grief," which she may or may not have unknowingly picked up from that intimidating-as-hell-but-surprisingly-reliable upperclassman, Jotaro Kujo.

    "Okay," she muttered, "I guess I'd better get that taken care of first, then. Thanks for letting me know, Yukari."

    Turning to the other occupant of the room, the vampire asked, "Kind of odd that you're here too, Mizore -- since you're not part of the Newspaper Club, and all. Did you need something?"

    If Mizore were honest with herself, she almost freaked at the sudden scrutiny, having forgotten how perceptive Moka could be. Fortunately, she was the second least-emotive individual on campus, so she hid it well. "Nah," she lied. "Just... hanging out with Yukari."

    Adding just the barest edge to her tone, she added, "...ran into her earlier and she seemed lonely."

    Moka's eyes widened at the statement, and Mizore immediately regretted what she'd just said, but didn't have a chance to address it. "I... see. With everything that's been going on," she muttered while looking anywhere but at her friends, "I guess I've been terrible company lately."

    Yukari reached a hand out to the older girl... "Moka, that's not --"

    Tears of guilt starting to build at the corner of her eyes, Moka ran for the door. "I need to redo that article real quick, then we can hang out later. Work before fun and all that!"

    ....but ultimately fell short of her goal, Moka slipping past just before Yukari could take hold of her.

    As Moka let the building, Mizore bitterly kicked at nothing in particular. "I screwed that up."

    Yukari glanced at the Snow Woman, and in a moment of empathy, stepped to hug her waist. "Relax," the little girl said with emphasis. "Moka's heading to the clubroom, and that's Phase One complete. Admittedly, she's in a mood, so we'll have to run like hell to catch up with her, but that's okay. The plan. Can still. Work."

    After a few seconds to mull that over, Mizore let out a sigh, and all of her tension with it. "You really need to work on your comforting skills."

    "Bullshit, I can hug like a pro!"

    Mizore might have scoffed and rolled her eyes, but her soft smile betrayed her real feelings on the subject. "...seven out of ten."

    Unable to do more than squawk in indignation, Yukari huffed and disengaged, before turning to run off after Moka.

    Now left to herself in Moka's room, Mizore paused. Even though she needed to beat feet and chase after the other girls, she wasn't quite ready yet. "A wife's duty is to her husband," she muttered to herself. "And part of that includes making sure his life is peaceful and happy."

    So if her husband-to-be's friends were quarreling, then as an eventual wife, she needed to do what she could to resolve that.

    Clenching her fists and steeling her gaze, Mizore stepped for the door.

    "But it's not just because they're his friends..."

    Locking it tight and ensuring that it latched shut, she then broke into a sprint. "They're mine, too!"

    <----- [TO BE CONTINUED]
     
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    • .....well. That post ran for a lot longer than I expected it to.

    With a lead like this, I'll go ahead and lock the votes.
    Adhoc vote count started by EvaUnit01 on Dec 31, 2018 at 1:40 AM, finished with 17050 posts and 23 votes.
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    Adhoc vote count started by EvaUnit01 on Dec 31, 2018 at 1:40 AM, finished with 17050 posts and 23 votes.
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