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[digiorno]

buongiorno! sorry i missed you; i'll happily get back to you as soon as i'm done with whatever business i'm on. leave a message!

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[digiorno]

You're a martyr, really. Have you considered wearing a cross? It might help.

[starmark]

Ha ha. Do they have White Day in Italy?

[digiorno]

No, but I remember what it is. Bad, too?

[starmark]

It means they've all had a month to wait and get their hopes up that I'm going to return somebody's confession.

[digiorno]

You'd think they'd get the idea after a while . . .

[starmark]

At least it probably won't happen here.

[digiorno]

Girls exist here, Jotaro.

[starmark]

I don't know that many.

And the ones I do know aren't like that.

[More like one, singular, but you know.]

[digiorno]

Well, if anyone confesses their love to you, you can always tell them you're affiliated with the mafia now, anyway.

[#heretohelp]

[starmark]

...Is that how you get out of it yourself?

[digiorno]

Not at home. It wouldn't really be safe. Telling them politely that I'd prefer to be alone usually works.

[This is Dio's actual genetic son, right here.]

I haven't gone anywhere alone for a while, though, which seems to discourage them.

[starmark]

Safe for who? Them, or you?

Or both?

[digiorno]

Either. But me, mostly. There are plenty of people inside and outside who'd like to see me dead.

[starmark]

That's where Mista comes in, right? Keeping you

[alive]

safe?

[digiorno]

That's right. He's with me always, and he'd never let anything hurt me.

[starmark]

Mista's not the only one.

[digiorno]

[. . . Oh.]

Thank you, Jotaro. I'm very lucky.

[starmark]

I don't think luck has all that much to do with it.

[...]

I need to ask you a favor, though. Not because of what I just said. Just because I need one.

[digiorno]

You can always ask me for a favor.

[starmark]

Make sure he knows not to take a shot at Kakyoin.

...Please.

[digiorno]

Of course. He won't.

[Giorno can promise this, not only because Mista will do as he says - not only because Kakyoin is a very different sort of person than Jotaro - but because Kakyoin and Bruno aren't so different, and Bruno will always be important, even if he isn't the boss anymore.]

I want him safe, too, you know. Not the way you do, but still.

[starmark]

Not the way I do...?

[digiorno]

That's right. Ti voglio bene, not ti amo. I'm not the one who traveled the world with him.

[starmark]

Oh.

[Memo to self: learn to speak Italian.]

Yeah. I guess it'd be different because of something like that, wouldn't it.

[He has literally no idea what the difference being described is but he'll probably go look it up at some point.]

[digiorno]

[Giorno, like an idiot, assumes that if Jotaro doesn't understand something he says, he'll ask about it. As it is, he accepts this confirmation at face value. Everything's okay and fine.]

It usually is.

Still, we all have to have each other's backs, especially if we're going to be living together.