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Osbourne let out a loud howl of pain, he couldn’t understand how Caesar got a clean shot on his leg. Osbourne tries to get up off the ground, using the foot he had left… or so he had thought. In horror, the pillarman would come to find that his functioning foot had been cut clean off. Osbourne could no longer stand, he knew he was done for. Despite this, he still tries to get up. In such a horrible condition, he still believes he can try. Nothing is impossible. That’s what his mother had told him centuries ago.  That’s the only reason, this pillarman is alive now. “It seems that… luck was on my side… I’ve disabled him… I’ve finally won…” the Italian would mutter under his breath. Grabbing his injured arm Caesar would take a deep breath, looking at Osbourne. Caesar would grunt and turn away, gazing in the direction of where he had come from. “I shall let JoJo know of my victory…“ Caesar begins to step away, getting barely any distance before he had heard a familiar voice. “Cae…sar…” Caesar would gasp softly out of shock, whipping his head around towards the source of the noise. There, he would see Osbourne, managing to prop himself up, only by a tad though. The burning sensation of Caesars’ Hamon ‘bubble cutter’ flowing up his leg, killing him slowly. Caesar would clench his fists, getting back into a fighting position despite being injured. “Stay down, you’ve lost. I won’t hesitate to attack you again!” Osbourne continues to make an attempt, managing to get up off the ground. Trying his hardest to use his water-controlling powers to form his feet. But he had the short end of the stick, there’s not enough strength left in him to form anything. His attempt is worthless as he falls back down to the sand on the beach with a grunt. Caesar would make himself blindly believe that this was a trick, his lips snarling up in anger. “I said stay down!” the blonde readies his bubbles, in case if an attack were to happen. “Caesar…” Caesar prepares himself to shoot the bubbles at Osbourne.

“Caesar don’t…” Caesar prepares himself to shoot the bubbles at Osbourne. “Don’t attack.” Osbourne managed to dig his knees into the sand below him, looking down at the soft yet warm beach. To him, there was a comfort in the sight of the ocean shore. That thought was cut short as he hears Caesar shout. “You’re just saying that to trick me! I’ll do it!” he’d show the bubbles to the pillarman, who didn’t even look up at them. He knew that they were there, so what was the point in looking? 

“You win…” 

The Italian would grumble in shock, but wouldn’t say a word. “I got up to tell you… that you’ve won…”

Caesar is shocked in silence for a moment, looking down at Osbourne with confusion written all over his face. “But… Why? You have the chance to land another attack if you find some way to break the barrier I’ve created-” Caesars quickly interrupted. “Even if I did… I know that in my heart I would still lose to you…” Dead silence falls upon the two, nothing but the crashing of ocean waves fell upon their ears. Until Osbourne looks up at the man before him. “Long ago… When Kars and Esidisi attacked the pillarmen, killing them all… I was the only one who had survived. I still remember it so vividly… Kars was staring down at me, as my stump bled. I couldn’t get up…” We cut to a flashback of the aftermath of the elimination of all the pillarmen. Osbourne looking younger as he coughed up blood from a previous punch to the chest. “You’ve lost, Osbourne.” Osbourne would look behind his brother, to where water that had sat in the sun all day had been. The water was practically beaming with Hamon. Osbourne monologues over the memory as he continued to tell Caesar the story. “The water behind him was filled with Hamon. At that moment, if he attempted to finish me off, I could kill him. I would die as well but… knowing that I ended him… Knowing that he was dead… It would have satisfied me, and I would not care if I had died… However… “ We cut back to the memory itself, Osbourne had the strength to stand up, leaning against a wall of stone. “Come on… Do it… Finish me off already… I’ll die fighting, just like mother did…” Kars would take a step back, letting out a huff of air as his stance became calm. Osbourne looks at his brother, obviously confused. The only word that broke their silence would shock Osbourne. “No.”

“Wh…What…? What do you mean ‘no’!?”

“I will not kill you. The bravery, honor, and pride stand against me, even while being as injured as you are… It is unignorable. Therefore, I will not kill you.”

Now we go back to the present, Osbourne choking his tears back as he trembled in the sand.  “It took me years to figure out why he didn’t slaughter me then and there. But now I know why.”

Caesar bites his lip, almost in guilt. But urged Osbourne to go on with a simple nod. Staying silent, followed by a moment of silence.

“Heh… It seems like we’re both fools… Caesar, the reason he didn’t kill me… was because he respected me. And so, as gratitude for this… I didn’t end him. He left our home in ruins.” Osbourne lets a tear slip down his face, looking into the man’s eyes.

“So I ran. And ran, And ran. Eventually, I faced the ocean. I willingly walked into it, and spent the next years of my life there, training and harnessing my powers. Eventually, I met up with Kars, Wamuu, and Esidisi. We waited in the pillars for what seemed like eons. Until now…”

Caesar’s eyes filled with confusion, his eyebrow-raising as he waited for an answer from the being in front of him. “What I’m trying to say is, I only back down once I know I cannot beat my enemy, as hard as I may try. Caesar… You fought brilliantly. The reason why I'm saying you win is that I know I can't beat you.”

“…But… Why? Why would you say you have lost to me, but not to Kars?”

“If I fought Kars today… I am confident that I will win, no matter what. However… Caesar. Your power… Your fighting spirit… it would take 3 Kars to match it, maybe even more…” Osbourne winces softly in pain. Gripping onto his chest, specifically his heart. “The Hamon from the cutter… It’s reached my chest now, telling my story must have distracted me from the pain…”

The water from the barrier has finally broken, flooding the sand around him and Caesar. The pillarmen uses the last of his strength to have the water lift him up. Caesars Hamon finally starting to disintegrate his body. Turning to dust now.

“Tell JoJo I love him… and I love you too… You showed me how to feel love… Thank you… farewell…”

Osbourne’s body is completely turned to ash, the tower of water crashing down into the ocean and if it were nothing. His ashes spreading across the water. Caesar is in absolute disbelief. Tears starting to stream down his face as he walked away from the scene. Not before picking up one of the necklaces, the Pillar had adorned. Even if Osbourne was a pillarman he had never personally knew, he treated the pillarman with honor and respect.

There are no more words to say as the ashes of the once alive Osbourne are lost in the ocean. Even in death. Even if only Caesar was there to see it, what Osbourne said was Eternal.

“Osbourne… I will forever hold you in my memory…” He turns to face back to the ocean, then to the necklace in his grasp. “And in my heart…”