It's okay, Giorno. I know you and Jotaro are both aware I can take care of myself; I just find it frustrating when I think I'm being treated as though I'm something fragile. But I think that I'm...learning to understand that distinction. Between the general concepts of 'I want to protect you' and 'I want to support you', I mean. Obviously, I would do the same for you or any of our friends, so being annoyed about the reverse kind of just makes me a hypocrite.

[Sighing, he folded his hands.]

...Regardless, I'd...forgotten someone significant, when we last spoke. I wasn't attacked here, I've had scars since the day that I arrived--more than just the ones on my face.