“You can use Hamon to heal?!”
“Yeah, probably should’ve told you that earlier.”
Joseph is kneeled down next to Daring to level with her as he heals both their injuries that they got from just fighting and beating Esidisi. Daring’s are pretty mild compared to Joseph but it’s always best to drive with a full tank of gas when going on a road trip.
With everything set and scars healed, Joseph gets up as Daring asks him, “I know I said earlier that we should go already, but maybe we shouldn’t go straight for the Red Stone of Aja.”
“What do you mean?” Joseph curiously asks at Daring’s hunch.
“Well, you said it yourself that the Pillar Men are strategic and I’ve seen it firsthand too from our little fight earlier. I’m guessing that maybe they spied on our location last night and camped somewhere along the trail that we were supposed to take to get there so they can ambush us during the day.”
It’s a little far fetched, but her hunch isn’t entirely outside the scope of what’s likely to happen. The Pillar Men knew that the sun would catch up to them soon and that Joseph and Daring Do would get there first once broad daylight strikes the horizon. Surely they’d made a plan to assure they’d either get there first or beat Joseph and Daring, and they knew they weren’t getting there first.
“That sounds like the likeliest of stories, Daring. I’m sure they’d made a plan too, and camping along the path we’d take to ambush us does make sense. Even if Kars can’t fight then Wammu still can, and maybe he’d cover up the light again. We can’t take on two of them, not to mention that they might have lackeys too.” Joseph contemplates Daring’s worry as she lightly blushes at the nickname that Joseph is calling her. He’d already called her that before, but the rush of the battle had her overlook it and now she feels flustered from her first time having someone call her a nickname without her consent. It feels like a pet name to her like what lovers would do but she shakes it off and stays determined.
“What do you think we should do, Daring? You’re the better adventurer of the jungles between both of us.”
“Huh? Oh, umm… I think we should take a little detour. It’ll take a bit more time, but we can avoid the potential ambush and we still have a lot of time to spare anyway.”
“A detour huh? Here.” Joseph groggily summons up a map with their location, the Red Stone of Aja, and the path they were supposed to take had they intended to go straight using Hermit Purple on a bunch of twigs and sticks on the ground. They’d get some rest and sleep seeing that they have the time to, but it’s not a risk they can afford. Their sleepy and tired disposition even evident in their eyes will slowly disappear eventually anyway from their determination and the heart-racing journey and events they’ll encounter walking to their destination.
“Let’s see… there’s a small town over here, not a big one with a lot of people but it’s pretty far from our original path and I’m sure we can get enough supplies there if we have the time.” Daring Do explains as she points a hoof somewhere near the surrounding area of their original path. Since they’re taking a detour then might as well make good use of it.
“Alright, we’re set!” Joseph shouts in excitement right after drawing a new curved path they’re taking towards the artifact.
“Best we get moving now.” Daring Do suggests as Joseph silently agrees by moving his feet. It’ll be quite a journey, but it’s a safe one that’ll get them there just in time.
It’s been hours and hours of walking since the day started and Joseph and Daring have reached the city near the Red Stone of Aja. They admittedly encountered multiple wild beasts along the way, but it was nothing they couldn’t handle with their skill sets. With a bit of time left to spare before the sun sets, they decided to stop by quickly to restock their supplies in case they run into the Pillar Men later for a showdown.
The first step taken and it’s already giving off eerie vibes. The loud dreadful silence that shouts in the seemingly empty town is pretty nerve wracking to them, but maybe everyone’s just inside? It’s definitely a small town and the sun will set soon after all. The only thing big about the town is the large mansion in the middle. With little choice left, they start striding towards the grand mansion.
Each step they take fills them with doubtful dread as they instinctively peer into the windows of each establishment. Nothing, no signs of life or even sound. They take it with a grain of salt as they finally open the two gigantic doors that tower over them. Looks like from the outside and in, the mansion has a pretty Western Neoclassical design. It looks like something straight out of Castlevania where you’d fight a boss.
Skeptically, they take a look inside before fully entering. The place is nearly pitch black, it’s lit up merely by the reflections of light that bounce off some of the floor of the area. “Excuse me, is anyone there?” Joseph shouts his question to which he is answered only by his own echoes.
The next thing they instantly notice was the smell of copper, which erratically sent red flags to them to leave as they bolted for the door.
Alas, to no avail as an invisible ripple figure in the air kicks them both inside launching them far in the mansion. Coming inside, Wammu closes the doors and removes the air that he’d been circulating around him.
“Damn it, how’d you know we’d be here?” Joseph frustratingly asks in regret as Daring broods just the same.
“Fool, we knew you’d figure out that we’d ambush you on your original path, so we took the next most sensible path which was this town and hid here until you came, and you fell for it Joseph!” a voice from behind them condescendingly brags. It’s Kars.
Daring Do slightly notices through the darkness that he’s got a couple of bleeding scars by his arms. He probably got those from running through the forest while some branches scarred him on his way. She can tell that he really ran because of the light burns he has on his body. That explains the smell of blood, and though she’s thankful that the blood didn’t come from where she thought it came from a realization strikes her, “T-The townspeople! Where are they?!” Daring Do manages to stutter as she waits in terror for their answer.
“They ran away the minute we came here, they weren’t in our way so it’s not like we were gonna harm them anyway.” Wammu neutrally answers Daring Do and Joseph which makes them sigh in relief.
“Someone else isn’t here… I take it clearly that you being here means Esidisi is dead.” Wammu suggests with a small hint of concern in his voice.
“Yeah, he burned to dust in the sunlight.” Joseph bluntly tell them.
“I see.” Wammu confirms as he kneels down with a hand by his chest as a respectful gesture to his departed friend, Esidisi.
Kars simply keeps his apathetic expression as he breaks the silence by saying, “His efforts won’t be in vain.”
Wammu stands up from that and puts up a combat stance as he starts inching closer towards Joseph and Daring.
“Looks like there’s no leaving from this.” Joseph states as he and Daring returningly put on a combat stance as well.
Wammu launches himself towards them as he swiftly manages to land a hit on Joseph’s torso. Despite his Hermit Purple Hamon armor, he took a strong punch since Wammu intelligently launched an air attack on him which pierced through his armor by making its way through each purple vine.
Joseph gets flung all the way to the crooked wall of the mansion. Wammu quickly connects to a second attack disregarding Daring Do. His concentrated right jab that’s strong enough to shatter the wall is stopped by a Hamon-infused rope just before it hits Joseph. Instinctively, Wammu goes for Daring Do who’s still biting on the rope hard only to similarly be pulled back by Joseph’s Hamon-infused Hermit Purple. Wammu’s at a crossroads now with both of his arms bleeding. In a furious pull, he launches both Joseph and Daring Do towards the late entrance.
They’re a bit dazed as they try to get up. They notice that Wammu’s wounds are already gone, or rather they were cauterized. “Tch, pretty smart to turn strong wind pressure into heat to seal your wounds.” Joseph appraisinggly says.
“I learned from our previous bouts.” He explains as he slowly makes his way towards the slightly disabled duo.
In a second, Joseph does s quick heal on both their wounds as they stand up and put on another fighting stance. The healing isn’t perfect, but it’s enough.
Suddenly the door behind them open up as the light comes flooding in. Wammu hastily does a back dash to avoid the light that almost touched him.
“Listen Daring, I still have one last trick up my sleeve and I’m only gonna say this once. It’s the Joestar family secret technique.” Joseph explains right after noticing their newfound exit.
“And what’s that?” Daring quickly inquired from sheer curiosity.
“Nigerundayo*, Daring!!!”
(Translation: Nigerundayo! = Run away!)*
Daring Do confused by his foreign statement doesn’t understand what he’d said but follows suit anyway by running away just as Joseph is. In a heartbeat, Daring and Joseph make a mad dash for the open door and quickly bask in the setting sun. It looks like they’ve got a few minutes left to fight before sunset, though the light is still concentrated enough to hurt the Pillar Men.
Expectedly, Wammu bursts out of the mansion in his air armor and smashes the ground he lands on with his fist. It nearly hits Joseph and Daring but they manage to dodge it. “There’s no use Joseph and mysterious traveller, just give up. You two can’t beat me alone and it’ll be night time in a few minutes.”
As Wammu factually condescends, a bunch of shiny projectiles come out of nowhere and heavily cut him down.
“N-Nani?!!!*” Wammu and Joseph simultaneously scream in confusion.
(Translation: Nani! = What?!)*
“Looks like I wasn’t too late after all.” a young voice calls out coolly. As the three turn towards its source, they all see a blonde man wearing green as he strikes a fabulous pose. His build looks a tad smaller than Joseph’s but he’s definitely a lot younger.
“Caesar!” Joseph gladly calls out as he bolts towards his old comrade.
“Who?” Daring Do questions as she’s left with no answer since Joseph is blind with joy.
“Whoa now Joseph, just because I’m back from the dead doesn’t mean you have to be all clingy.”
“W-What? I wasn’t being clingy! You egotistic bubble boy?!”
“What was that?!” Caesar furiously asks his rhetorical question. They’re roughhousing now like kids would as they seemingly forget that their lives are in imminent danger. Daring Do on the other hand just disappointingly stares at them like a mother who’s tired of their children fighting all the time.
Their frivolous little scene, however, is interrupted by Wammu rising from a cloud of dust. “Tch, at least the fight’s gotten fair.” Wammu resentingly shoots at them.
Joseph and company simply put on unique poses of their own as the fight is about to start. Wammu throws sharp forces of wind towards Caesar as he returns a counterattack of hardened bubble discs. Not only were they hard enough to pierce the sharp air but also made their way to Wammu, though his initial attack was just a diversion as he dodges Caesar’s attack counters with a physical one once he got close enough.
Daring Do lunges herself in front of Caesar and shields both of them with a mound of ground parrying Wammu’s attack. Caesar comes in for a switch attack and and launches a flurry of bubble discs.
He dodges them as Joseph comes into close quarters combat with him. Caesar joins in as the two of them aesthetically land blows on Wammu. It’s a perfect combination of damage and swiftness as Wammu can’t even land a hit on either of them from the sheer constant speed and directional variety of the hits.
The cards turn into Wammu’s favor as he manages to get them into the right position, “Divine Sandstorm!”
Caesar and Joseph are exactly by his hands and the damage would’ve been fatal on them had Daring Do not beat him down with a concentrated buck on the leg. “Aaaaagh!”
Before any of them can connect another hit to Wammu, he manages to throw a rock at Caesar’s leg. He’s not disabled by it but he’s definitely limp from the bleeding.
Just like that, Wammu is gone before they can even notice. The trio keep their guard up the whole time looking in all directions as Caesar focuses on healing his leg.
“What’s that sound?” Daring Do inquires from the sound of creaking rubble from afar.
They look towards the general direction of the source of the sound and see that a giant cross made of stone is about to fall from the roof of the mansion. It looks like it’s gonna fall directly on Caesar and there’s not enough time for them to move him nor can he move fast enough by himself.
“No! Not again!” Joseph cries out.
The cross is already falling as Joseph uses his Hermit Purple around a gargoyle from the higher floors of the mansion as a pulley to cushion at least some of the momentum of the giant cross.
Daring Do on the other hand flies at max speed towards the rock in the hopes of breaking it into pieces with enough concentrated damage of Hamon.
Caesar prepares a last resort of using all of his Hamon to break the rock.
It finally lands on Joseph’s Hamon Hermit Purple as the concentrated blow from Daring Do and Caesar come into contact.
The rock explodes into several pieces of varying sizes as Daring Do and Caesar are barely harmed from it. Though when the stone cross landed on Joseph’s Hermit Purple, the sheer momentum from it quickly pulleys Joseph upwards. He gets slammed into a wall and falls down from a fairly high height, damaging him considerably. He’s down for now but he can get up soon enough.
Wammu comes back into the scene as he makes a swift attack for the vulnerable Caesar to finish the job. Before he can get close enough, Daring Do precisely Hamon bucks a midair rock that flew in the air from the explosion of the stone cross. Luckily, it lands on one of Wammu’s air ventilators.
His reflectory defense against the sun is now down. He’s burning up now in agony and he doesn’t have enough strength to crawl to some shade from the raw damage he was dealt.
Despite that, the sun was setting and has now set. He’s safe now but the sun did some considerable damage to him. He can barely even move now, moreover, his eyes are burnt just enough to blind him. The same goes for Joseph and Caesar.
“Looks like this is where my journey ends, but I’m not done yet.” Wammu disgruntedly spoke.
He suddenly starts absorbing so much air from the atmosphere that it’s visible to the human eye. His body starts flaming up from the high air pressure as he blows all the wind outwards like a laser. It hits a stray tree and instantly cuts it down like a razor.
Blindly aiming everywhere, Wammu slowly flails around his attack in the hopes of landing a hit. He attack in straight slashes to increase his hit chance and his current general direction will most definitely slice up Joseph and Caesar.
With a few staggered shuffles, Daring manages to avoid his attack and get close enough to buck him upwards by the bottom of his chin.
Wammu’s skin as already brittle and whithering from the intense heat of his attack and Daring’s powerful Hamon buck was strong enough to rip his neck off his shoulders. It flies around in the air as his body goes still and lifeless, though it appears he’s still conscious.
In heaving breaths, Daring stares at Wammu only for her immersion to be broken by the sound of Joseph’s voice, “Daring! The night time has begun, Kars must already be on his way to the Red Stone of Aja!”
“C’mon, let’s go!” Daring shouts back from the realization of how behind they were in the race.
“No! Go without us, we’ll just slow you down. We’ll catch up as soon as we can.” Caesar returns as he and Joseph start healing their wounds until they can start to move with their feet.
Daring doesn’t say anything as she just confirming my starts flying towards their destination until she’s stopped by the sound of Wammu’s weak voice, “Wait, adventurous stranger.”
She stops in her tracks and cautiously approaches him. “You’ve done well to beat me… I’ll be gone in a bit so I leave with you a parting gift for your efforts. I shall move the winds to your favor for you to get to your destination faster. As a fellow fighter, you’ve earned my respect. Forgive me… my masters.”
Nothing more is said by Wammu as Daring determinedly accepts his words and starts flying towards he Red Stone of Aja with the winds guiding her and aiding her speed to go even faster than she usually would.
As she is out of sight, the silence between the three are broken by stifles of laughter. “Man Wammu, quite the monologue really. Pretty short and sweet compared to earlier.”
“Shut your yaps, I did pretty good.” Wammu returns to Joseph and Caesar.
“Very true, though I wonder how she’ll fare on her own.” Caesar answers.
“She’ll do fine, I’m sure. Though… who says she has to be alone?” Joseph answers back as the three of them start to gather to brainstorm and execute their next move in this fabricated adventure.
In a little while, the bowls of the wind simmer down and Daring assumes the worst for Wammu. She takes a little remorse at the thought until she’s interrupted by the sight of the temple. Her heart is beating fast from her flying and it only got faster at the sight of Kars running towards the entrance.
She makes a dash for it and lands right by the entrance. For an ancient temple, it surprisingly has no traps and the like, though the mere outside alone does have an eerie feel that drives people away.
She arrives by the middle of the temple only to find an empty podium. “Looks like I’ve won this race, not that there was any doubt in the first place.” Kars mockingly says as he appears from the shadows behind Daring Do.
“Darn, you’re not gonna get away with this you bastard!” Daring shouts as she takes the form of a pouncing stance.
“Don’t even try it, you won’t get within a meter of me before you’re dead.”
“Tch.” Daring regrettingly clicks.
“Now, I wonder what’ll happen if I combine the Red Stone of Aja with this mask, wear it, and stand in front of this concentrated flame that’s burning brightly.”
Daring has no choices left as she’s about to make her final stand that may cost her her life. Kars hands are moving to combine the two items he’s holding until they instantly disappear. “N-Nani?!”
“Yare yare daze*… looks like I got here just in time.”
(Translation: Yare yare daze = good grief)*
A tall man around the height of Joseph appears quite literally out of nowhere. He’s wearing all white and he looks really annoyed. It looks like he’s holding both the stone mask and the Red Stone of Aja.
“I suppose I’ll have to take those from you.” Kars calmly says.
“Hmmm? You want these?” the stranger neutrally asks as he throws the items in his hands far behind him, “Come get them.”
Kars looks infuriated now but he still keeps his calm demeanor. He starts walking towards the towering stranger until he disappears and is suddenly behind Kars almost as if he teleported, “Nothing personnel kid, but I can’t let you have those.”
Quickly from instinct and fear, Kars attacks behind him, “ORA!” but fails halfway through when something almost faster than the human eye strikes his face. Kars barely saw what it was but he’s sent flying now as he slams into a wall. To Daring Do, all she saw was that for a split second there was something that appeared out of nowhere and quickly hooked Kars by his cheek right before disappearing again.
“You there!” the stranger menacingly points towards Daring Do.
“Y-Yes?!” Daring shouts back like a scared little filly.
“You’re not screaming, I like that. Anyway, we got him now, so say something. Something cool. Let him have it!”
“Y-You didn’t scare me at all, you idiot!” Daring manages to squeal out.
“Cool enough I suppose, but it’s time to finish this.”
“I’m not done yet!” Kars angrily retorts as he gets up.
Suddenly time stops for everyone except Kars and the stranger, “Hmmm? What’s this, Anon? You stopped time for both of us, is something wrong?” Kars worriedly asks.
“I… I don’t know, I don’t feel mad enough to put enthusiasm to my punches.”
“I think I can fix that.” Kars smugly says with a grin on his face as he whispers something to his ear.
Time has begun again and the stranger is enraged beyond belief as his veins start popping out.
He clasps his fists even harder as he says, “That’s where you’ve made your mistake, you pissed me off… ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!” the stranger shouts as Daring sees the quick entity from earlier appear once again and starts throwing a barrage of punches left and right heavily damaging Kars.
*A thousand ORAs later*
Kars is laying on the floor lifeless from the lethal damage he’d sustained, it looks like the journey is over.
“What a drag, but at least it’s over.” the stranger lightly vents in relief.
“U-Um, excuse me?” Daring manages to speak.
“Hmmm? Oh, it’s you. You need something?”
“A-Ah no actually, but, may I ask for your name?”
“Well, it’s Jotaro. Jotaro Kujo.”
Daring scrunches up from how foreign the name sounds but brushed it off as something she’ll have to get used to. “Mine’s Daring Do, thanks for saving me back there.”
“Don’t worry about it, I had to beat him anyway.”
Coincidingly, Caesar and Joseph appear in the room. “Daring!” Joseph shouts in fear and is relieved after seeing Kars dead and her being fine.
“J-Jotaro?! You’re here too?!” Joseph shockingly expresses.
“Jiji*, perfect timing. I think it’s time we go back, our job here is done. Oh, who’s this?” Jotaro curiously asks.
(Translation: Jiji = gramps/grandpa)*
“Long story, but your gramps and I go way back.” Caesar answers in his behalf.
“Wait, you’re leaving already?” Daring gloomily asks.
“Hmmm, well I suppose we can take a picture first before leaving but I don’t have a camera.” Joseph suggests to no avail.
“I do.” Jotaro says as he hands Joseph the polaroid.
They set up the camera quickly and the picture is taken. Jotaro takes it and just stares at it for a while reminiscently, “I… I think you should keep this.” he empathetically hands Daring the picture.
“W-Wow, thank you. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this. I’ve never had an adventure so bizarre before.”
“Well, that’s time. Sorry we have to leave so early.” Caesar bids.
“No, that’s fine. I’m glad it happened. I’m happy I learned about Hamon, stands, and everything else I learned from you, Joseph. Also where’s the other guy with Jotaro earlier?”
“Other guy?” Joseph confusingly inquires.
“Wait, you saw my Star Platinum? How’s that possible, you’re not a stand user are you?”
“Does that mean you saw my Hermit Purple too? I’m sure you knew what it does but I didn’t know you could see it!”
“What are stands?” Caesar just bewilderedly asks with his below-layman knowledge of the topic.
“I did, I saw them both. Though I don’t have a stand.”
“Then that means it’s either an anomaly or your stand just hasn’t manifested yet.” Jotaro cleverly deduces.
“Hmmm…” Joseph ponders in thought as he smashes the polaroid with his hand to use Hermit Purple.
“You’ll have to pay me for that, gramps.” Jotaro neutrally states.
“Hahaha, I know I know. I just wanted to see if she’ll get a stand or not.”
“Well what do you see?” Daring asks in excitement.
Joseph just smirks then smiles, “Well, you’ll see for yourself eventually.”
Daring pouts at that statement as she watches them slowly start to move. “W-Wait, will… will I ever get to see you three again?”
“Only time will tell as fate’s already written. We may see each other soon or we may never see each other again, but if you wish to see us again then keep hoping. For now, we’ve gotta take our last train home.” Jotaro wisely answers Daring as he knelt down to her level and ruffled her mane a bit with his hand.
Goodbyes are sent both ways as Daring just stares at the picture they’d left her. She holds it near her heart and smiles at the sight of the three men as they shrink into the distance.
Morning has come and you are Anon once more. You decided to visit the adventurous writer to see how she’s doing. You’d knock but you see her in the zone in writing her latest novel so you just let yourself in. She doesn’t look too good with those large bags under her eyes.
She finishes writing and glugs down a full mug of coffee right after, “Finally, my new book is done!” she tiredly says in segmented whispers.
“Whoa now, you should probably get some rest now.”
“H-Huh? Anon? What are you doing in here?”
“I just came to stop by again and I’m glad I did. You should get some breakfast first before sleeping.”
“Th-That sounds lovely.”
You bring out the cake from her freezer, it looks untouched and you’d only remembered it’s contents just now. You open it up in front of her as she smacks her lips and then turns confused from the design on the cake. It’s a blue and pink thing that resembles the build of Star Platinum and beside her is Daring Do showcasing the blue and pink stranger. There’s a caption on the bottom that says “Now that’s a crazy diamond!”. She doesn’t really get it and is just giving confused glares at you as you laugh it off. She’s too hungry to really care right now and just digs in on the slice you gave her.
“So what’s the book called?” you ask curiously.
“I don’t even know yet. I had this wild adventure for two days after you left and I met these guys that were humans like you. We crossed hours and hours of traveling and we fought these “Pillar Men”. It was pretty nice.” Daring answers as she takes another look at the picture Jotaro gave her.
“Sounds like a pretty bizarre adventure if you ask me.” you subtly suggest.
“That’s it! Daring Do’s Bizarre Adventure! Thanks Anon. That makes for a really great title.” Daring thanks Anon as she sets down her cake for now and types out the newfound title she’d gotten.
You take hold of the transcript she’d written and now you’d acquired what you came for.
“Mind if I keep this?” you hopefully ask her as you present the transcript in your hands.
“I’m not gonna ask what for but I would if I had more copies of it, I guess you’ll just have to wait for the official release.
That’s not a problem, you need to leave her a copy so you just physically duplicate the transcript. Now there are two copies of the transcript in your hands. You leave one where it was and keep the other. Daring takes notice of your action and just stares at you with wide eyes as she’s chewing on her cake, “H-How’d you do that?! Do you have a stand too?!!!”
“I guess?”
“Wh-Wh-What’s y-your ability? Is it to duplicate things???”
“More like bending reality.” you decide to roll with it.
Daring asks an assortment of questions in burst but before she can become coherent and cohesive enough to be understandable, she passes out from exhaustion.
With a sigh, you carry her to her bed and tuck her in warmly. With a pet of her mane, you leave her room and look at the transcript you’d just picked up and smile at it.
Being the nice guy, you put her dish in the sink, bring back the cake in the freezer, and clean the rest of her house. Everything is spick and span and organized now, not a mess in sight.
You quietly exit her house and see Ahuizotl from a distance. He gives you the questioning thumbs up sign. You return it with an “ok” sign and a blissful wink. He winks as well as you smile at him and salute him off.
In a few minutes you get back to your diner. The day’s just started so Rainbow Dash is still there eating, perfect timing you suppose. “Some coffee please.” you politely request.
“Right away sir.” the other you confirms as your coworkers and Rainbow Dash put on confused faces.
“A-Anon? What?” Sunshine Muffins asks perturbed.
“Oh, I’ve been gone for a few days. That’s not really me.”
“W-W-What?! Then… that means…” Sunshine flusteredly trails off.
“What was that?” you curiously ask.
“N-Nothing, Anon.”
“Well why were you gone for so long?” Rainbow cuts in.
“Here’s why.” you non verbally explain as you hand her the transcript.
She reads it for a second as her eyes go wide and then she disappears into a poof as she leaves a rainbow trail leading to the outside. She must’ve dashed off to read it already.
She comes back for a second right after leaving, “ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!” she gratefully thanks as she tightly hugs you by your neck only to disappear once again.
“That was quite a scene. What’d you give her?” Octavia comes into the scene.
“Something she likes… very much. Anyway, anything I miss while I was gone?” you ask the still flustered Sunshine, you definitely missed something with her though.
“Oh, you got a letter. We noticed it this morning on the floor by the entrance.” Vinyl explains as she hands the letter to you with her magic.
“What’s this?” you ask no one in particular as you read through it.
“What’s it say, Anon?” Sunshine musters up her usual demeanor and manages to ask.
“It looks like I’m invited to come to the Crystal Empire.”
“What?!” all three of them shout in unison from excitement, shock, and the like.