Polnareff told the tale he learned from Valentine. The strange but true tale of a baby boy born in 1967 in an Italian female prison, right in the middle of summer. The boy's mother was in her second year of a ten-year sentence for bank robbery. How the the boy was born was a complete mystery. The woman claimed his father died of illness, and that she had been pregnant for over two years, which was medically impossible. It was like saying a barnacle had somehow grown on someone's knee.

And yet the evidence to the contrary was scarce, since there were absolutely no men in the prison. Even the guards and wardens were women. And so the baby's origin remained a mystery. Of course, a baby can't be raised in prison, no matter what the comics say. Luckily, a kindly priest from the mother's hometown offered to adopt the baby. And so the child grew up in a small village on the island of Sardegna. The boy grew up rather cowardly and clumsy, but open-hearted and kind.

He often spoke of wanting to become a sailor rather than a priest like his adoptive father, and the man agreed. It was in the summer of 1986, as the boy turned nineteen, when the now young man first met a girl from the mainland. They were going out on a date to the Emerald Coast. The priest decided to buy his adoptive son a car to celebrate him becoming a man, and started digging into the ground around their home to start building a garage.

But as the priest was digging up the ground, he saw something horrible. A woman bound and unable to move or speak. She had no idea how long it had been since she was captured. All she knew was that she had come to see her son. It was, in fact, the young man's mother, kept alive after all those years. That night, a great fire engulfed the town. Powerful winds were blowing, causing the whole village to burn to the ground. The cause was unknown. Most of the people went missing, but seven were confirmed dead.

"Among the dead confirmed were the names of the priest and his son, Diavolo," Polnareff finished, "But as I'm sure you've guessed by now, Diavolo had merely faked his death." "I can't believe he'd do that to his own mother," Narancia said. "Why wouldn't he?," Fugo pointed out, "He's been trying to kill his own daughter this whole time. But that's still a rather big change in demeanor. Starting off open-hearted only to become severely paranoid in his late teens?"

"I wish I could give some sort of justification," Polnareff said, "But I'm no clinical psychologist. That's more my wife's department, and she's back in France since she's not a Stand user. What I do know, is that a few months after that incident, Diavolo was in Egypt, at the tomb where the arrows were buried. One had already been taken by Nathaniel Twilight more than a century prior, but the other six were still there. But from what I understand, Diavolo did not actively search for those arrows. He found them by pure chance."

"What was he doing in Egypt?," Giorno asked. "Doing part-time work with an excavation team for extra money," Polnareff replied, "I don't know if that was when he planned to start Passione however. No one there knew who he was. Anyway, the next day he fled with the arrows, and sold them off to a woman named Enya Geil, who was one of DIO's followers. She bought five of them for a high price."

"Why not all six?," Rarity asked. "She knew what the arrows could do thanks to her old nemesis Twilight Sparkle, the daughter of the man who found the first arrow," Polnareff explained, "She likely suggested Diavolo keep the last arrow for himself, explaining its power. He only needed the one, but she likely felt DIO's plans would work with more. We found one of the arrows she had, and started searching for the others. There was me, Jotaro, Fluttershy, Kakyoin, and Avdol."

He smirked. "We eventually tracked down Diavolo to my homeland in France, where crime had steadily begun to rise since 1986. Unfortunately, Jotaro and Fluttershy had to break off pursuit after Fluttershy discovered she was pregnant, but I still had Kakyoin and Avdol's help. And a good thing too. On my own I'm no match for King Crimson, but with Avdol's Magician's Red and its power of fire, as well as Kakyoin's Hierophant Green and its long-range attacks, we were able to overwhelm Diavolo and force him to leave France. Unfortunately, we lost his trail after that."

During that time, Polnareff had tried the direct approach, luring Diavolo out into the open for Avdol or Kakyoin to attack. Although Diavolo was able to get a good shot in on Polnareff while dodging Kakyoin's Twenty-Meter Emerald Splash, once his power ran out he wound up hitting one of the threads, triggering the trap and preventing lasting damage on Polnareff. That's when Avdol made his own move while Diavolo was distracted, launching a massive Cross Fire Hurricane attack.

'They proved too much for even King Crimson. Since then I've been wary of Stand users with such simple yet versatile powers. Like Rarita, with her ability to grow crystals on any molecule. I learned a hard lesson that day. King Crimson is invincible, but I am not.' Doppio suddenly found his hand shaking for some odd reason. "Okay... This is weird... Why does the boss's story sound so much like mine? Then again, the last thing I remember before meeting the boss was meeting a woman who claimed to be my mother..."

He tried to slow his heartbeat down. "Gotta be careful not to breath too hard. If Narancia spots me, I'm dead meat. But still... Things have been getting weird since I ran into that fortune teller. Way too many odd coincidences. Am I really me? Do I even know anymore?" He shook his head. "I can't think about that right now. More importantly, it looks like Polnareff is about to get to the point of his story. Still, now I know why the boss didn't want to approach him so casually."

So now you guys know who was helping Polnareff. Shame on those of you who thought it would be anyone but his closest friends. Heck, even the original manga suggested he was searching for Diavolo with Jotaro's help.

But, the point is that by sparing those that would otherwise have been killed, another domino in the chain of events created by Araki has fallen.