I hope you guys don't hate the somewhat rushed ending for this chapter, but it mostly focuses on the return of a favorite character. Someone who's been speculated to be an excellent mentor figure for Koichi.

Jotaro answered a ringing phone inside his hotel room, Fluttershy and Jolyne watching a movie nearby. "Hello?" 'Is this Jotaro Kujo?,' came the voice on the other end. Jotaro narrowed his eyes. "I don't recognize your voice. Who are you?" 'That's not important. What is important is that you leave Morioh.' "You think I'm just gonna leave because some jerk told me to? And without giving me a good reason? Put a little more thought into your words."

'Fine, you want a reason? I have the bow and arrow you're looking for.' Jotaro's eyes widened. 'I took it from the one who previously had it, Keicho Nijimura,' the voice explained, 'I could probably kill you too, but I doubt it would be easy. I've heard you can stop time for a couple seconds, and even without that ability your Stand specializes in precision. Plus your wife has a Stand that can control plants. Now I know that a strong bolt of lightning can split an oak tree, but as strong as my Stand is physically it doesn't have the electrical juice to hold that sort of elemental power. So I thought I'd give you fair warning over the phone.'

"So you're a Stand user too," Jotaro said, getting Fluttershy's attention, "Just what do you want?" 'Look, I don't intend to bother with you. Josuke either, as long as he doesn't go snooping around.' "Like that'll happen," Jotaro pointed out, "Dealing with Stand users is my business, and this is Josuke's town. Guaranteed if you make trouble, one or both of us will track you down." 'Hey, cut a guy some slack. I only got my Stand recently, and I just wanna have a good time with them. I've been bored with exams and finding a job. I just wanna live a real life.'

Jotaro raised an eyebrow. "Are you a student by chance?" There was silence, as if the man on the other end realized he had said too much. 'Who the fuck cares!? Just stay out of my way, you and Josuke! Or I'll kill you both!' The phone sparked as the man laughed, causing Jotaro to drop the receiver. Then the man suddenly stopped laughing. 'Why didn't the phone explode?' "Because my wife just stuck a root made by her Stand into it," Jotaro said. Sure enough, Fluttershy had summoned Music in the Trees and created a small root to enter the speaker on the phone.

"Gimme a break...," Jotaro said when it was clear the mysterious Stand user wasn't making any further quips. He sat down on the sofa. "It's a good thing I thought to bring in some backup." "You didn't call Joseph, did you?," Fluttershy said. "Even if that was a good idea," Jotaro said, "The large number of Stand users in this town creates too much interference for Hermit Purple to work properly. I had someone else in mind. An old friend of ours who specializes in long-range reconnaissance."

A few days passed. Koichi was traveling to school on a brand new bike his parents had bought him as a celebration gift for getting into high school. "This bike is so awesome! The sparkling rims, the smooth-turning brakes! I won't need to use the bus for a while!" Just then, he saw a bag right in the middle of the street and tried to brake. But too late, and he wound up running over it and crashing. As he picked himself up, he looked at the bag. "What was that doing in the middle of the street?"

He gasped when he saw what looked like blood coming out of it, and a small meowing sound. 'Oh man! What should I do!? Why was that even there!? I... I ran over it, but it was just lying there!' "Oh wow, what an accident," said a nearby man, "I saw the whole thing. Poor kitten. Don't worry, kid, the real one at fault is whoever left it lying in the street." "W-We should try and get help!," Koichi said. "No good," the man said, "It's already stopped moving."

He walked over to Koichi. "That's a nice bike you got there. Shame the tires got ruined when they ran over the poor thing. All its bones must have snapped like twigs. It's intestines and eyeballs must have popped out. But there's no need to worry. I mean, it's just a cat in the end." Koichi gulped. "We... We should bury it." The man rubbed his chin. "That uniform means you go to high school, right? I graduated myself about two years. Name's Tamami Kobayashi. What's yours?"

"Um," Koichi replied, "Koichi Hirose." "Well Koichi," Tamami said, "Let me make you an offer. If you have some money, I'll be sure to use it to bury that cat." Koichi looked confused. "Come on," Tamami said, "It may not have been your fault, but you still can't get off scot-free. Me and that cat had many good years together." Koichi gulped. "That was your cat?" "Yeah, so how about it?," Tamami said, "Hand over your wallet. You need to pay up for what you did."

The sudden sound of a book closing caught their attention. Koichi looked to see a man around Jotaro's age, with red hair and scars on his eyes. "For someone claiming that it wasn't the boy's fault, you sure seem to be fostering a lot of guilt on him. Especially if that lock on his chest is any indication." Koichi looked down and gasped. "Where did this lock come from?" "Oh, so you can see it," the man said, "I didn't realize you were a Stand user." Tamami gasped. "Wait... You're both Stand users? So you can see The Lock?"

"Is that what you call your Stand?," the man said, "But were you a Stand user to begin with... Or did you get hit with the arrow?" "Huh?," Tamami said, "You know about the arrow too? Some guy named Keicho Nijimura shot me with it a few months ago. That's when I got this ability. It creates a lock on those who I can make feel guilty. I heard Keicho died recently, but that's no skin off my nose." The man smiled. "So that's how your Stand works."

Tamami shrugged. "Yeah, what about it? It's not like you can do anything about it, even if you are a Stand user. That lock will get heavier the more guilt Koichi feels, and it won't come off no matter how far away he gets, or even if he falls asleep." "So what you're saying is," the man said, "If Koichi feels no guilt, then the lock comes off." Tamami raised an eyebrow. "Well, yeah. But how are you gonna make him stop feeling guilt?" The man smiled again. "Hierophant Green!"

An emerald humanoid appeared at the man's command. "My name is Noriaki Kakyoin. I came to this town at the request of an old friend of mine. Now my Stand has quite the range to it and can observe things far from my location. Earlier I saw you place that bag down on the ground and wait on the park bench, so I thought I'd see what you were up to." Hierophant Green picked up the bag. "You were earlier describing what had happened to the thing in this bag."

"Yeah, what about it?," Tamami asked. "Well," Kakyoin said, "Even if what you described had happened, this cloth bag should have turned red from the blood, rather than have a small amount trickle out the bottom. Plus, as quiet as that meowing sound was, it still sounded like it came from a very healthy cat, certainly not the sort that had just been run over." Hierophant Green ripped open the bag to reveal a stuffed toy, with a bag of fake blood inside. Koichi gasped.

"There, you see Koichi," Kakyoin said, "You never had anything to feel guilty about." Sure enough, The Lock disappeared from Koichi's chest. "Now about you, Tamami," Kakyoin said, and Hierophant Green rushed at Tamami. Tamami waited until it reached his face, then reeled back and hit his head against the nearby railing. "Ow!," he said, "You hit me! Now my tooth's been knocked out! How are you gonna make this up to me!?" He looked, but Kakyoin still had the same look on his face, and The Lock hadn't appeared.

"What the hell!?," Tamami said, "Why don't you feel guilty about my situation!?" "Two reasons," Kakyoin said, "First, there's no way I'd feel guilty about punishing a con man trying to swindle a high schooler out of his money. And second... I never actually hit you. I know my powers better than you. Check your ear." Tamami looked over to his side and gasped when he saw a green tendril that seemed to reach his ear. "Hierophant Green can possess physical objects," Kakyoin explained, "I don't normally use it on people but I can if I so choose. When you thought Hierophant was about to hit you, it was really shrinking itself down to enter your ear to possess you."

Tamami freaked out as Kakyoin approached. "Just a little warning," Kakyoin said, "Get out of here before I make you really hurt yourself. Also, your tooth is fine. Hierophant Green kept your face away from the railing." Tamami felt his mouth and realized Kakyoin was right. He freaked out and ran, Hierophant Green extricating itself as he did. "I doubt that will be the last time you see him," Kakyoin said to Koichi, "He knows your name so he can look you up and make another try."

Koichi sighed. "If only my Stand was better. But all I got is this." He summoned the egg. Kakyoin looked at it. "I don't think this is all there is to your Stand. There's some cracks near the bottom." He sent Hierophant Green inside the egg to investigate. "Yeah, there's definitely something dormant inside there. But it looks like your lack of self-confidence is holding it back." He smiled. "You kinda remind me of myself when I was younger. Tell you what, how about I coach you on how to control your Stand." Koichi looked at him.

It was close to evening when Koichi came home, having spent that time learning from Kakyoin. He smiled when he saw his dog Police. "Hey boy, you still alive?" The dog yawned to indicate he was. Koichi opened the front door to see just what he was expecting to see. There was Tamami, and his mother and sister had locks on them. "Kakyoin said you'd be here," Koichi said. Tamami looked a little confused. "Your face seems a little different. And your hair doesn't look as straight anymore."

"I've done a lot of growing in the past few hours," Koichi explained, "Kakyoin shared with me his entire life-story. I used that as motivation... To improve my Stand. So tell me, how did you get those locks on my mother and sister?" Tamami smirked. "It took a while to properly fabricate. Luckily I still had that head wound from when I tried to scam Kakyoin. That made the perfect leverage to get your mom to feel guilty for raising such a violent boy." Koichi glared. "Mom, take Ayana and go into the next room. I need to have a talk with Tamami here."

"But Koichi I--," his mother started, but Koichi cut her off. "Just go. I got this." Reluctantly, Missus Hirose took Ayana and left. Tamami looked confused. "Now how did you pull that off with just words? My Stand should've had them glued to their seats from their guilt." Koichi smirked and revealed a lizard-like creature with wheels for hind legs and a long tail. "When my Stand first developed it was just an egg. But Kakyoin helped me literally break out of my shell. The story of his trip to Egypt and his near-death experience inspired me. I suddenly wanted to have adventures like that, helping people and fighting bad guys. That's when this little guy hatched from the egg. I call it Echoes. This is the true form of my Stand."

Echoes then wrapped itself around Tamami's neck, freaking him out. "I also learned a little from watching Josuke and Pinkie use their Stand," Koichi noted, "It moves at my will. By the way, you were earlier asking how I got my mom to leave. Allow me to show you what Echoes can do." Echoes punched Tamami right in the cheek. "Don't try using that to make me look even more violent," Koichi pointed out, "You'll find physically speaking, Echoes is quite weak. But like all low-power Stands, it makes up for it in ability."

Echoes took another swing, striking Tamami in the arm. "Hold on," Tamami said, "If these punches aren't meant to hurt, then what are they even for?" He got his answer as something reverberated through his body, making a sound like he had been punched. Another hit through his arm, sounding like a smack. "I learned it after Echoes hatched," Koichi explained, "It can plant markings on the ground that spell out sound effects, and then those sounds will reverberate through the ears of whoever's nearby. And if they're tagged onto a person..."

The effects seemed obvious as the sounds reverberated through Tamami's body, causing him to stumble. Sure enough he saw his arm had characters on it that read out "smack". He tried to rub them off, but they wouldn't so much as smear. "It's no use," Koichi said, "That's not ink Echoes applied. And I only can remove them. Take the locks off my mom and sister, right now, and I'll do just that." Tamami growled. "Damn you! You think I'll just let you off after doing this to me!"

"You will if you don't want anymore," Koichi said, and he directed Echoes to create another sound effect on Tamami's back. With three sounds now reverberating through Tamami, the noise was starting to get overwhelming. "What's it gonna be, Tamami?," Koichi asked, "I can go all day, and like Kakyoin before, I feel no guilt about punishing you for what you did to my family, so your Stand won't affect me." 'To think this brat could learn so much in a few hours,' Tamami thought, 'No wonder he was so late coming home. But I won't let him beat me so easily.'

He quickly ran over to the cupboard, and went to grab a knife. "Do you think you can threaten me with that?," Koichi said. Echoes rushed over and smacked the knife away, surprising Tamami. "You were planning on stabbing yourself, weren't you?," Koichi said, "Then try to make it look like I did it. My Stand wasn't the only thing Kakyoin coached me on. He also told me a few tricks con artists like you try to pull." Tamami was now freaking out, rummaging through the drawer. "Go ahead," Koichi said, "Even if you cut yourself trying to go for a new knife, Echoes has another ability."

He pointed to the door his mother and sister went through. "You obviously didn't see it since you were focused on me, but Echoes planted a phrase on my mother's leg, that echoed a suggestion to go into the next room. It reverberated through her so much she actually decided to do so. If I planted another phrase closer to her ears it'd be even stronger." Tamami stumbled back at this revelation. 'If he's telling the truth... Just placing that command at her legs was enough to overpower her guilt! If it had been on her head...'

He began to realize he was completely outmatched as Koichi drew closer, no longer looking like the scared little boy her had earlier tried to scam. "So," Koichi said, "Like I was saying earlier... Take off those locks!" Tamami nodded fiercely. "I... I'm sorry! I was just having a little fun earlier, just a little joke! Look I'll make it up to you, anything you want! I'll even be your loyal servant if you desire!" Koichi smirked. "In that case... Get me 500 thousand yen tomorrow morning." "Huh!?," Tamami said in shock. Koichi patted him on the back. "Just a little joke..."

Tamami gulped. 'That tone did not suggest it was a joke...' Koichi's mother and sister returned to the room, and sure enough the locks were gone. "Sorry about that, Mom," Koichi said, "I accidentally bumped into this guy earlier and he wound up hitting his head." "Strange," Missus Hirose said, "He made it sound so much worse." "I might have blown it out of proportion," Tamami admitted nervously, "So sorry to worry you for nothing." Missus Hirose sighed in relief. "Thank goodness. I just knew my sweet little Koichi could never be so violent." Tamami chuckled nervously. 'Definitely not violent... But certainly devious and cunning...'

Josuke, Pinkie, and Okuyasu stared in shock as Tamami eagerly offered to carry Koichi's school bag the next day. The sight of the former con artist praising Koichi as he had a happy yet embarrassed look on his face had them dumbfounded. "What the hell happened here?," Josuke asked. "Don't ask me," Okuyasu said, "I'm not the smart one." "Did plot happen right behind our backs?," Pinkie wondered, "I feel like we temporarily got pushed to background characters." Koichi just chuckled in embarrassment. Nearby, Kakyoin smiled. 'The kid's come far. But I get the feeling he still has a way to go.'