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Chapter 86. Master Doesn't Care
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Hmm, although Joseph's personality seems quite unconventional compared to Jonathan's, it is precisely because of Joseph's character that they feel an inexplicable sense of reassurance.
It's like during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period in a certain Eastern country, where before battles, everyone would announce the time and place of the fight like elementary school students, and everyone would honor the agreement to fight exactly where they said they would.
Even if they lost the fight, they followed the principle of not punishing nobles with executions and would send these nobles back after the war ended.
Suddenly, someone emerged who was not going to follow the rules. Not only did he break conventional methods by deceiving and ambushing these old nobles, but he also played tricks and manipulated things to the extent of destroying their country.
The name of Sun Tzu almost echoed throughout the Spring and Autumn Warring States period and even the whole of that Eastern country.
For Joseph, who also disregards rules, isn't he just another Sun Tzu in a different form? Whether in terms of status or cunning...
Thus, the audience never worried about whether Joseph would win. Instead, they were looking forward to what kind of tricks Joseph would come up with against an entirely unknown foe, the Pillar Men.
Of course, their confidence also stemmed from the OP spoilers of "Battle Tendency". Since continuing the OP tradition in "Phantom Blood", and with the visuals and lyrics of "ジョジョ ~ So no chi no sadame"'s OP corresponding to the story of "Phantom Blood", almost encapsulating the entire story of "Phantom Blood", viewers had seen the OP of "BLOODY STREAM", the new OP for "Battle Tendency".
Naturally, the audience thoroughly enjoyed it. Though many elements were not understood without reference to the original material, it was clear that there was more than one Pillar Man.
Moreover, under the iconic OP of the three noble brothers under the moon, none of the three standing figures was Santana but three entirely new Pillar Men!
Such a situation only emphasized that Santana was not to be feared. There was no need to worry. They only needed to wait for victory to come.
Waiting for the airing of "Battle Tendency"...
"JOJO!!"
Speedwagon shouted in worry, not caring that this might attract Santana's attention, because...
It wasn't Santana who was knocked away but Joseph, who was using Ripple techniques!?
"Spark? What's going on? This... human... is...?"
Santana, equally astonished, looked at Joseph, who had been knocked away, and said intermittently in a still-unevolved human language: "He didn't... absorb my body, but was... knocked away?"
"The foot I touched earlier seems to be fine too. This kind of human, I've never encountered before."
Just like after Santana awakened and saw the various equipment in the German military base, including the guns used by the Germans to attack him and the bulbs illuminating the dim laboratory, he was curious about these things that, in his ancient era, he had never seen before. He quickly understood the functions and principles of these devices with his super intelligence during the disassembly process.
Even though he claimed that the troubles caused by the Germans had nothing to do with him and even rated the German military's massacre as self-inflicted, he thought, after all, if the Germans hadn't experimented on Santana and then tried to kill him after realizing they couldn't control him, why would Santana have massacred the Germans?
It couldn't be said that you want to kill someone and also expect them to be helpless and at your mercy, or else it's disrespectful, right?
But this argument was merely a performance by Joseph. In reality, after observing most of the experimental process, Joseph was quietly testing Santana in his own way.
Using language, Ripple techniques, and actions... hiding his true intentions in his actions to test what kind of creature Santana really was.
But Joseph's behavior...
Was like an ant carrying food suddenly encountering a human's foot and being unknowingly squashed by that human. It was just getting a rating and curiosity about why he wasn't squashed by the foot.
"Is this human the only special one?"
Now, Santana showed curiosity towards Joseph, this ant. "Or is it that all humans in this era are like this?"
With an attitude that transcends all beings, a "master doesn't care" attitude, Santana disregarded Joseph and the humans still alive in this laboratory. And all the viewers who saw this scene through the full-dive helmet.
A chilling sense of dread suddenly surged in everyone's hearts. This included Akiyuki Shinbo, who was watching this episode and wanted to confirm the audience's feedback.
"No matter how many times I watch it, it still feels terrifying," Shinbo said with a sigh to Pucci, touching his forehead where there was no sweat in stealth mode. "Pucci, where did you find these people?"
Compared to the subconscious portrayal of a war maniac by Nobuo Tobita's Stroheim, Santana's subconscious was also difficult for them to comprehend.
In fact, under the full-dive subconscious filming, Santana, as a real human, truly seemed to treat humans like insects!
You're telling me that a person with such a bizarre subconscious was previously a graduate student at a prestigious university and was considered a promising successor in the field of biology!?
Thinking of this, Shinbo was left speechless. After all, while Tobita portrayed a war maniac, as an actor, it was impossible for him to genuinely stage a burning London in reality. He lacked both the ability and resources.
But Santana...
He genuinely had that capability and resources!
Without immediately being frightened into submission, it can be said that Shinbo's mental resilience was quite good, having grown accustomed to the impact of encountering people with psychopathic subconsciousness like DIO.
To this, Pucci corrected him with slight regret: "Shinbo, have you forgotten that in the actor templates we provided, Santana's relationship with humans is essentially this?"
"Although the actor template is not omnipotent, for most people, implanting such a template is unlikely to portray it as vividly as Santana."
"But didn't you just mention Santana's real-world occupation?"
Pucci continued: "If you're surprised by dissecting a biological sample, then you shouldn't be studying biology."
Indeed, Santana's behavior clearly reflected a mindset similar to treating experimental animals. Treating humans like experimental animals and eating them when experiments fail is a special subconsciousness developed from his real-world occupation.
In a way, this also opens up a new avenue for biology students.
"...Are all biology students perverts?"
Having understood how Santana's indifference to humans was cultivated, Shinbo took a deep breath and sighed.