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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]

Of course not. You can handle yourself.

He should still treat you with respect.

[starmark]

It's fine if he doesn't.

It was probably just a figure of speech, but if he's gonna say things like "we used to beat up kids like you and steal their money" just because someone likes knowing facts about a thing they're interested in, then he's going to find out that sometimes the nerds hit back. That's all.

I don't usually get along with people who talk about stepping on those weaker than them.

[digiorno]

[Which makes him smile. Not because he's particularly interested in Mista getting beaten up, although Mista, like Jotaro, can handle himself, but because Jotaro is perfectly right. Weakness is no excuse for violence; this is a lesson that a violent lifestyle sometimes makes it hard to learn, but that's no excuse.]

[And, of course, that's not the truth of Mista, not even close, but - well, talk shit, get hit. So it goes.]

Passione is, at least for the moment, still a place where strength rules over compassion. It's changing, but learning takes time.

Still, sometimes the best way to learn is to have lessons beat into you.

[starmark]

Just so we're clear that I didn't call hoping to tattle on him or anything. It really wasn't that big of a deal, but you wanted the explanation.

[digiorno]

Well, I won't be talking to you anymore now that I know you're a snitch.

It doesn't matter, he probably would have told me anyway. I just don't understand why he was bothering you about girls.

[starmark]

So now that I'm already a snitch, you want me to snitch more?

[digiorno]

That's exactly right.

[starmark]

We were talking about things that are different or the same in the future. He brought up the girls, I just asked if they still do that annoying thing where they cluster around and screech at each other fighting over who gets to try to get your attention or hang off your arm or whatever.

[digiorno]

[He takes a minute to think about what kind of person would actually be surprised that Jotaro Kujo is regularly covered in girls. Yep, pretty much Mista.]

Not everyone needs an exterminator for this kind of thing.

[starmark]

It's hell around Valentine's Day.

[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.