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Tamaki Damo was dead, and things really seemed to be looking up for Eiko now.

The Rock Human smiled as she walked around the busy streets of Morioh. She didn’t know what had happened, but there was some kind of incident in this town. Damo and his entire gang had been killed, and even in Tokyo the news had managed to spread in the days following the failed assault of the Higashikata household.

At last, the ‘chance’ that Eiko had been searching for had reached her. She was an ‘outcast,’ who had disowned by her family, cast out not only for her rebellion, but for disregarding one of the most sacred warnings of their society:

“There is no happiness to be had in love with the carbons.”

Memories of Tsukasa flooded her head, but she shook her head, trying to focus on her main objective. She wanted to live in the world the Carbon Humans had built, so full of dazzling lights and cities and clubs and so many other wonderful things! But she’d need wealth to make that possible, to live comfortable...

She didn’t know where the Rokakaka were cultivated back in the Motherland. But Damo must have left behind notes somewhere.

“Hey, excuse me, mister?” Perhaps it was simply extraordinarily bad luck, or perhaps it was fate. She saw a man in a sailor uniform. She had no leads; her intention was just to ask around until she found someone who could just help her out. Just for directions...

// Ouch! Hopefully you make a speedy recovery. Broken anything is not fun to deal with. :(

((No it’s not. Thank you for your kind words. I hope I recover soon! So far we think it’s a fracture, just a fracture, so not a full out break. Let’s hope that’s all it is. I’m just glad I was able to go to a doctor before it got any worse. My mother refused to take me, but my friends love me way too much and decided they’d steal me away instead.))

“Ugh!” How? How did it go this badly? That carbon girl, Hato- how could someone like her have put her into such a terrible situation? Everything was going so perfectly until... until...!

This was a bad situation. He was critically injured, and his life was in this boy’s hands now. “A-alright, calm down!” He begged, taking a step back. If he was patient, would there be an opening where he could strike with「Vitamin C?」Regardless, he couldn’t risk just fighting Josuke head-on at the moment...”

“A-alright... listen... I ‘really don’t know’ a lot about Josefumi. Honestly, I don’t! I think he was a distant relative to the Kiras of some kind... He... he had the same ‘birthmark shaped like a star’ that Kira had. That’s all I know- I don’t even know why he wanted the Rokakaka so badly... I think he just wanted to please Kira,” Damo admitted, taking deep breaths. Christ, it hurt!

“Now for Kira... Kira found out about us accidentally. I think he found one of us, I think Dainenjiyama while he was in his rock form. He snooped his nose where it didn’t belong and learned about the Rokakaka, and instead of paying for it decided to fucking steal from me! I can’t prove it...” He looked right into Josuke’s eyes, pain in his eyes, but made sure to articulate everything clearly. “I’m confident Holy Joestar-Kira ate a Rokakaka! I saw her medical records, pieces of her brain missing without surgical incisions- only a Stand or Rokakaka could do that! But she definitely didn’t get one from me...” Of course, that’s what he theorized. These ‘Wall Eyes’ could have been a culprit, but he kept it to himself. “Honestly, I’m not lying! But... I’ll say this...”

Despite everything, he couldn’t help but grin, just a little.