☆ Look! She's awake! ☆

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Your group's amount of sheer luck at this point in your journey seemed endless.

Polnareff discovered a carriage with horses in tow, seemingly ready to go.

Mr. Joestar wasted no time hopping in the front seat and grabbing the reins, and you wasted no time throwing Enyaba in the back.

You were following the road to Karachi, Pakistan.

As you approached the town, it seemed of a relatively large size.

They were certain to have an electronics store somewhere.

Polnareff made one of his classic bathroom comments, to which you sighed, silently praying to whatever above that he gets his decent toilet just so he shuts up about it.

You keep watching carefully for any sign of an electronics store.

One word to describe how you felt would be eager. You wanted to find out whatever you could about DIO, you wanted the questions plaguing your brain to be answered.

"Hey," Mr. Joestar brings your attention up front. "There's a doner kebab joint! Let's stop so we can get something to eat."

He tugs at the reins and the horse comes to a stop.

"Excuse me," he gets the vendors attention. "Five kebabs, please!"

"Of course," the vendor responds. "That'll be 1000 yen."

Mr. Joestar had a look of bewilderment on his face. The man was clearly overcharging, and while Mr. Joestar clearly knew, who was he to deny payment?

As someone who lives primarily in America, dealing with western business customs, he had no clue how to haggle. However, as someone who has grown accustomed to middle eastern business practices, you knew exactly what to do.

You got out of the carriage and stood beside Mr. Joestar, lightly chuckling as you do so.

"Are you serious?" You mock. "A thousand yen for a few kebabs?"

You pretend to inspect the meat, putting a hand on your chin.

"This meat isn't even high quality," you claim.

The merchant grunted in response.

"How much would you be willing to spend?"

"Hmm..." you think. What would be a good number to lowball him with?

"We won't pay any more than 300 yen for all five of them."

Of course, it was absurdly low. That was the point. Force him into raising the price in order to find a middle ground.

The merchant laughed similarly to how you did before.

"If I went that low, my family would starve! I have seven children, I'd be letting them down!" He dramatized.

Thinking rationally, getting 300 yen is better than none at all. That's how you can get back at him.

"Well then," you begin your planned response. "I guess we can go buy from another vendor."

"Wait!" He stopped you. "I can sell you five for 700 yen, how does that sound?"

"No," you say. "Just as you have your family to feed, I have mine. 350 yen, or we leave."

"How about 600?"

"I can do 375."

"550?"

"400. Take it or leave it."

He grunted, clearly quite frustrated.

"Fine."

You reach for your wallet inside of your coat pocket and take some money out.
You should at least treat everyone once, right?

You hand it over to the man, and he hands you and Mr. Joestar the kebabs.

"Bye now, thank you all!"

When you turn around after waving to the man, you see Enyaba awake behind Kakyoin's shoulder.

It appears Mr. Joestar saw her too, because he drops the kebabs (which you somehow manage to catch), and points at her.

"Look! She's awake!"

Her eyes are moving erratically and she's sweating bullets, mumbling all the while.

"I've said nothing, so why are you here? Did you think that I would tell them the secret of Lord DIO's stand? I am and shall always be his loyal servant!"

You heard shuffling coming from behind you, and you turn around to see the kebab merchant remove his outer clothing.

You hear loud screaming and a crash behind you, and you whip your head around to see Enyaba with fleshbud like tentacles coming out of her head.

"Why?" She screamed. "I have done nothing wrong! Why have you come to kill me?"

"You foolish woman," the merchant says. "Lord DIO places his trust in no one. It's my job to make sure you never speak again. And as for the other five of you,"

He turns around and looks directly at you before looking at Mr. Joestar.

"The only way you'll be leaving is in pieces."

You hear groaning coming from behind you, and looking over your shoulder you see the fleshbud's tentacles exiting all of the orifices in her face. Blood sprayed all over the ground at your feet. You were so distracted by what was going on behind you that you didn't even feel the merchant summon his stand.

Enyaba drops from the carriage to the ground, presumably dead.

"You can call me Steely Dan," the merchant says. "My stand represents The Lovers card. I'll see to it that the lot of you will meet the same fate as that pathetic witch, Enyaba."

"How could you?" Polnareff questions. "She was one of your own!"

He runs over to check the condition of the woman.

"Lord DIO would never do such a thing to me..." She clings to her life, very clearly emotionally distraught in her final moments.

"Hold on!" Polnareff shouts. As a final attempt to save Enyaba, he uses Silver Chariot to cut the tentacles of the fleshbud coming from her head.

He cuts them off, but to no avail.

The tentacles land in direct sunlight, and as they do, they disintegrate.

"It wasn't my goal to kill the old hag," Dan said. "I never wanted to control her, so instead I just grew it inside of her."

He let out a short chuckle.

"Enyaba, you may have been the one to teach Lord DIO about stands, but you're a fool to think someone as powerful as him would ever trust an old woman like yourself," he sighed. "Unfortunately, it's a point you failed to realize."

Plain and simple, you felt bad for Enyaba in that moment, but you needed information.

"Enyaba," you crouch next to her. "DIO is not the man you thought he was. You placed all your trust in him and what has it done? It's left you, betrayed and clinging to life and your son dead. You have the chance to take control of your final moments by betraying him. Tell us the secret of his stand!"

The old lady chokes and grumbles.

"He believed in me, so I'll serve him even in death."

Her head hits the pavement and she stops struggling, quite obviously dead.

"Oh my god!"

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