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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: A New Universe

by mtnetsurfer

Chapter 103: The House of Kira

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The House of Kira

You guys wanted to know how Kosaku will act now that he's not having his life supplanted by Kira. Well now we have a glimpse of that with this chapter, where the group explores Kira's former home.


The House of Kira

Kosaku had been brought up to speed regarding Kira's actions. Concerned for the safety of his wife, he agreed to join the hunt. His Stand, Under Pressure, could manipulate atmospheric pressure in a localized area, and he had learned to both increase it and reverse it, causing things to suffocate, get heavier, or even float. Now, while Aya was looking through the faces Cinderella saved, Kosaku joined Jotaro, Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu as they went to Kira's old house, now abandoned since Kira had changed his identity so thoroughly.

"Not much here except a blueprint for his old life," Kosaku noted. "Did you recognize the person he kidnapped?," Jotaro asked. "Not really," Kosaku said, "He was kinda generic looking, and I was so focused on my shit job I never paid attention to faces. Heck, I didn't even realize it was Kira who grabbed me until you explained the situation. His haircut looked different than normal." "There's no sign of anyone else living here," Josuke noted, "Not even trophies from his victims."

"He's not the sort that would leave evidence like that lying around," Koichi pointed out. Jotaro found a photo album featuring his family. "These must be his parents," he noted, "His father, Yoshihiro, died of cancer when Kira was twenty-one, mother died peacefully sometime afterward. Nothing to suggest that his family was anything but normal." "This guy's like the opposite of Angelo," Josuke said, "Angelo gave no shit about who he hurt, but Kira is more patient and plotting."

"And he doesn't like to stand out," Jotaro noted, "Koichi practically humiliated him back at the shoe store, and it angered him. And look here. All those trophies are for third place. Even in the photos they're in the background." "I almost envy him," Kosaku said, "He had a boring life by choice. Mine was forced on me. It doesn't look like he even has any hobbies." "I wouldn't say that," Josuke said, opening a drawer with several jars labelled with numbers that looked like years.

"What are these?," Okuyasu asked. "Fingernails I think," Josuke said, "He bottled them up instead of throwing them out." "They're his," Kosaku said, holding up a journal, "He meticulously measured them and recorded information about them in this book. Going all the way back to 1983. Finger and toenails both. And he was tracking the years when they grew over thirty centimeters." He tapped the book. "He was using it for fortune telling. Predicting the best times for murders."

"1983?," Koichi asked, "That's when he killed Reimi." Koichi, Kosaku, and Okuyasu left the room as a nearby camera went off. "What was that?," Josuke said, "Is someone else here? Maybe Kira had an ally." "No, he viewed relationships as a hindrance to his crimes," Jotaro said, "He doesn't trust anyone." The picture had Josuke and Jotaro on it, as well as familiar old man. Josuke looked at the camera. "Hey... Are we sure no one was helping Kira? Even without his knowledge? Cuz his dad is in this picture somehow."

"But he's not in the room," Okuyasu said, "Is it another ghost?" "Possibly," Jotaro said, "He might be a spirit bound to this mansion." Just then, a phone started ringing. "If he's showing up," Josuke said, "That means there must be something here that we can use to track Kira. There's no way he's scaring us off." 'Hey!,' a voice said as the phone receiver jumped up, 'Answer the phone already!' It then whacked Josuke in the face. "Jeez, we shoulda brought Pinkie with us. This is no ghost, it's a poltergeist."

'Neither,' the voice said, 'I'm here to kill you, to protect those who would harm my son!' "Do you even know what your son's been doing!?," Josuke asked. 'A father should always protect his son,' the voice, clearly Yoshihiro, announced, 'I became a ghost so my spirit could always watch over him!' "Man, Pinkie would have a field day with you," Josuke noted, "Did it never occur to you that 'watching over your son' means keeping him from doing anything bad to other people? Just where are you anyway?"

"Right in here," Jotaro said, "Yoshihiro in the picture is holding a phone." The phone shot at Josuke again, but he had Crazy Diamond attack it. However, it still hit him in the side of the head. "What the hell?" "Hold on," Jotaro said, "I think I figured this out. Somehow he can manipulate the photo. The remains of the phone are at his feet between him and your image." He looked. "And now it looks like he's holding a knife." "He won't get the chance," Josuke said, and he grabbed the photo and started ripping it up.

To his shock, him and Jotaro started tearing apart as well. "Shit! Crazy Diamond!" The photo quickly repaired itself. 'Interesting,' came Yoshihiro's voice from the phone's remains, 'So you have this power too.' "Let me give it a shot," Okuyasu said as he approached the room. However, he somehow walked from one side of the room, and skipped the entire room to the other side. "The hell...?" Kosaku waved his hand through. "This isn't just a ghost," he realized, "It's a Stand power."

'Precisely,' Yoshihiro said, 'This is my power, Atom Heart Father. In reality you two are trapped inside the photo's frame, and it's impossible to escape. And once I deal with you two, the others are next.' "We'll see about that," Kosaku said, "Jotaro, drop the photo. Then you and Josuke move away to the wall." Yoshihiro chuckled. 'You think them moving away will keep them from my reach. All I have to do is reach their position in the picture!'

Kosaku grinned. "Just hold that thought. I have a theory to test. Under Pressure!" His Stand appeared and pinned the photo to the ground. Josuke looked as Yoshihiro in the photo seemed to be pinned in place. 'H-How are you doing this...? I'm a spirit in the photo, yet I can't move.' "If you're a spirit in the photo," Kosaku said, "Then logically your body is the photo itself. And I'm only focusing on pinning you, so even if it pins Josuke and Jotaro, that's all it will do to them."

Jotaro smirked. "Nice work. I can take it from here. Star Platinum, The World!" Yoshihiro was confused. But then the next second, he found himself in absolute darkness, looking right at Jotaro. "What... What did you do? I can't see anything in this space!" "I stopped time for a few seconds," Jotaro explained, "Freeing me from the increased atmospheric pressure. In that time I grabbed the photo, put it up to the camera so it was only showing you, then took a picture. You got transferred to the new picture, where there's nothing but you."

"Damn you!," Yoshihiro said as photo flew out of Jotaro's hand, "I'm not done yet! I'll take a picture of the other's and use them to beat you!" But as he reached for the camera, Star Platinum destroyed it. "You'll be a nuisance if you can keep moving." He grabbed the photo and started folding it so that the frames touched each other without leaving a gap. "If you're attacking us, then there's something here that could inconvenience Kira." He opened a nearby drawer and found some tape, which he used to wrap up the photo, trapping Yoshihiro.

With the photo pinned, Jotaro pointed to the nearby door. "There are two more rooms past here. Let's split up and look through them." Kosaku, Jotaro, and Josuke looked through one room. Just then, they heard some banging noises. "That didn't sound good," Jotaro said. He ran out to where Okuyasu had pulled the photo from the wall, several more tacks having been applied. "Yoshihiro got away!," Okuyasu explained, "He somehow used the tacks to escape!" He started pulling the tape off. "Okuyasu, wait!," Jotaro called out.

But it was too late. Thread shot out from the photo, launching into the nearby wall. "Ha! You completely fell for it!," Yoshihiro said. He had unwound some of his sweater to create the thread. Meanwhile, Josuke found another bow and arrow. "I can't believe this. Another one." Just then, Yoshihiro's photo slipped into the room and raced to Josuke, letting Yoshihiro grab the arrow from Josuke. "Ha, I got it! I can't let this fall into your hands! It's the only thing that can let me son be happy!"

"Holy shit that's right!," Josuke said, "Pinkie said Kira got his Stand from his father!" "So you also got an arrow from Enya!," Jotaro realized. The photo slipped through the roof, and they heard a crow cawing. Yoshihiro had wrapped his thread around the crow's neck and was using it to fly off. "Damn it, he's too far out!," Koichi said, "Now he can use the arrow to make even more Stand users to try and attack us!" "And we don't know where they'll be coming from," Josuke said, "He'll do whatever it takes to hamper us."


Meanwhile, Kira was taking the keys to the house of the person who's identity he stole, Takashi Yamashita. He didn't notice someone watching him from across the street, not that he'd care if he did. He didn't look the same as before, so it's not like they could see anything suspicious. The man seemed to have a simple life, with a wife and son. The wife seemed cheerful enough, certainly the pleasant sort Kira wouldn't mind living with. 'I'll have to risk having a relationship,' he thought, 'It's the only way I can stay hidden until they stop searching for me.'

Next Chapter: Deflecting Pressure Estimated time remaining: 14 Hours, 33 Minutes
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