[He waves his hand vaguely. It doesn't matter if Polnareff smokes. Bruno might give him an earful about it later, but it doesn't bother him.]

[Besides, it's something to look at, to think about. He watches Polnareff light up and sighs quietly, trying to figure out how to explain.]

I would consume people if there was no one there to stop me. Not because I want to hurt people, so maybe that's enough for you to think that it's different. But back home, I pull people into my orbit until all they want to do is give me exactly what I want. I surround myself with people who help me attend to myself so that I don't become what Dio was, but the potential is there.

That's part of your job. Yours and Mista's and Trish's jobs. To keep me human. Because if I wanted to, I could reach out and take anything I wanted, and I know that.

Good intentions don't make me any less dangerous. That's part of it.

The other part is that I'm just . . . not like Jotaro. Not like Jotaro, or like Jonathan, who are good people who must occasionally make the decision to eliminate someone for the greater good. I'm not like Dio, either, who killed people simply because they get in his way. But I'm more like him than I am like Jotaro.

Did he tell you what I did to Diavolo?