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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]

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.

[starmark]

There's a big abandoned place up near the edge of the park, in the northeast part of the city. It's kind of a wreck right now, but there's enough still standing that it might be worth remaking into something worthwhile.

That kind of project is right up your alley, isn't it?

[digiorno]

I'm usually good at making a lot out of not very much, yes.

[starmark]

You should go check it out. See if it'd suit your needs.

...Do we have a story to feed to Jonathan?

[digiorno]

I was thinking exchange student, possibly. I still speak some Japanese, so it would be plausible.

[starmark]

We'll teach you some stuff about the school we go to. Kakyoin's a transfer and I never went much, so you won't need to know a whole lot to sound plausible, Jonathan won't know the difference.

[digiorno]

I think that's the best course of action, then. The more complicated a lie is, the easier it is to uncover.

[starmark]

How about Mista and Bruno?

[digiorno]

I don't think either of them could pass for students.