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Chapter 127. The Advantage is Mine
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"..."
She glanced at the time on the clock.
Then, she deliberately searched through the previous chat records, particularly focusing on the times of those conversations.
Making sure she hadn't woken up in a different era, or been reborn, or experienced a time leap like Jolyne Cujoh, she now had only one feeling—
—Are all of you viewers masochists?!
It's no wonder she thought this way.
These viewers had a history, after all~~
In her eyes, the plot of "Battle Tendency" had already collapsed beyond repair.
In fact, the moment the concept of the ultimate being was introduced, and Kars successfully transformed into one, "Battle Tendency" had already fallen apart.
The Pillar Men were already so tough to deal with, and if it weren't for Joseph and his friends greatly enhancing their control over the Ripple through hard training;
And also using special equipment made from lard, wool, beetle intestines... all either plant-based oils or parts of animal tissues, to increase Ripple conductivity;
Plus, even before any of this training, Joseph's quick-thinking nature allowed him to use various tricks and techniques to cause effective damage to the Pillar Men, who, due to their own immense power, mostly scorned such tactics;
...It was only by combining all these advantages that the Ripple warriors' strength was elevated, just as vampires had once evolved into Pillar Men.
But even so, that's all it was.
As a form of breathing technique that utilizes life energy in combat, the Ripple's upper limit is the user's own lifespan.
Even if one could fully utilize this limit through training and control, it still couldn't exceed this boundary, eventually leading to gradual decline like with Straizo, limited by human lifespan.
Ripple would naturally diminish over time.
Unlike vampires or Pillar Men, who could prolong their lives by absorbing others' life forces, the longer they lived, the stronger their life energy would become!
In other words, Kars, who had conquered both the sun and the Ripple, after transforming into the ultimate being, could also train in Ripple. He could unleash all the life energy he accumulated over thousands of years, along with the energy taken from others, using Ripple techniques!
In such a one-sided scenario, why did these viewers still believe Joseph could win?
Jolyne Cujoh didn't understand.
Especially when she, with good intentions, tried to remind others by posting on a forum under a different account, attempting to get everyone to face reality.
Her account was actually reported and banned?!
The reason given was that she was supposedly an enemy's paid troll?!!
...Ahem, well, she was a troll, that's true.
But the content she posted was all things these people had previously posted themselves!
She just made some edits and reposted their old content.
And yet, they banned her account for that?!
She had every reason to suspect that the people who reported her were the same ones who had posted this content in the first place, and upon seeing her bring up their old embarrassing moments, they decided to just report and ban her in one go!
Jolyne Cujoh had plenty of reason to believe this was exactly what had happened.
She also finally understood why, even though she had always chosen the least reliable people for investments and recruitment, she still hadn't incurred any losses.
With a bunch of masochistic viewers like this, how could "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" not be popular?!
"No, this must be my imagination..."
As soon as the thought arose, Jolyne Cujoh frantically shook her head.
Even as her Mickey Mouse-like hairstyle began to fall apart, she kept shaking her head to expel this terrible thought from her mind.
After all, it wasn't just "Battle Tendency"; the plot of "Stardust Crusaders" was also filled with this kind of suffering and hardship!
If this generation of viewers really were masochists, then her investment in "Stardust Crusaders"...
So it couldn't be!
It absolutely couldn't be!
How could this generation of viewers all be masochists?!
Yes, it must be that the recent episodes of "Battle Tendency" had given them a little hope, which is why the viewers were speaking well of it!
Right! That must be it!
If Old Joseph happened to visit Jolyne Cujoh at this moment to check on his beloved great-granddaughter, he would definitely notice something.
At this moment, Jolyne Cujoh was practically like a gambler who had lost everything.
Unfortunately, Old Joseph had recently become obsessed with "Battle Tendency," so he was either shooting scenes for "Stardust Crusaders" with Pucci's crew at Jolyne Cujoh's invitation or spending his free time discussing "Battle Tendency" online and listening to people praise "him."
So, having eliminated this possibility first, Jolyne Cujoh, now completely stuck in a dead end, could not even begin to rethink why the public opinion of "Battle Tendency" had suddenly shifted.
After much consideration, Jolyne Cujoh finally reopened the post by [Whitesnake], setting aside her previous indifference and earnestly examining this "nemesis's" newly published content.
"Could it really be due to some kind of Golden Spirit?"
After marking the key points in the post, and rewatching "Battle Tendency,"
she indeed found that compared to other moments, the part where Speedwagon mentioned the Joestar family's curse of short-lived men, and the flashback that thoughtfully explained why the men in the Joestar family were so short-lived, was the part with the densest barrage of comments in all of "Battle Tendency."
Because she had skimmed through the script before shooting, Jolyne Cujoh had known about this plot point ahead of time, so naturally, she felt like a reader who had borrowed a detective novel from the library only to find that someone had already marked a character as the "culprit," losing all interest in the subsequent plot.
She couldn't feel the presence of this Golden Spirit at all.
So it was hard for her to understand why the viewers' mood had shifted.
But it didn't matter if she didn't understand.
The one who understands you best isn't your friend; it's your enemy!
It didn't matter if she didn't understand, but [Whitesnake] did!
If [Whitesnake], this "enemy," said the Golden Spirit was the key issue, then all she had to do was destroy this Golden Spirit, right?
It just so happened that the final episode of "Battle Tendency" was still being filmed.
If she personally supervised the set, then this Golden Spirit could...
"The advantage is mine!"