"So your going to move separately from us?" Gyro asks after me, him, Johnny and the now stitched up Stocking thanks to Gyro's gift that is the Zombie Horse, a thread from Naples that from what the System said was blessed by a Saint and thus can heal most injuries and was used to heal her up although her eye was still damaged and won't be healed anytime soon if left as is.
But she said to leave it as she always wanted to see how it feels to have only one eye for a time leaving me only to shrug and do what as she says.
"Yes Gyro as I think it's for the best, we might not be staying in this race officially much longer as I've come to realize I got to walk my own path on this journey, but as I still have to learn more from you and teach Johnny something's as well to increase his strength and one day heal from these deep wounds of mine I will be sticking around just maybe not officially, still haven't decided on that part so who knows." I say turning ShadowRunner away from the direction they were facing an opposite direction from them.
"I see, then I guess it wouldn't hurt to teach you and Johnny this a bit early." Gyro says before pulling out a pen and paper as he draws up a perfect rectangle that follows the golden ratio.
"The Spin and the Spiral as you say are closely related and to work they need to rotate but it doesn't need to be a perfect rotation, however to reach their max potential the rotation need to be perfect in all aspects and thus the Golden Spiral from the Golden Ratio was formed, have a better understanding of it and your power should increase in return." Gyro said as he handed the paper off to me before I put it away.
"Alright, well we will see you later then guys, and be careful, this race will have plenty more of those guys wanting to go after your head Gyro." I say to them both before we parted ways and took a different route on this race.
"We aren't actually going to drop out of the race are we?" Stocking asked me a few minutes after parting with Johnny and Gyro.
"Well we don't need to be in the race to go after the things we are looking for, I already know all the locations of all the parts accept for one and that's the one we are going after." I say while Fortunate Son appears over my shoulder.
"We need to complete this portion of the race first as during the fourth part of this race is where you will locate the corpse part you desire." He tells me making me squint my eyes.
"I see, so the location of the Rib Cage is somewhere in the Great Plains isn't it?" I said as that was the only part to mysteriously appear in Funny Valentines possession without any reason explained in the original story.
There were no indications of where it was truly found and how he got it but if the eyes only pointed to the ears then there must have a been something that lead him to getting the rib cage, but it was never shown.
"He gained the Rib Cage because fate and fortune smiled on him in this world to receive it as his own, if he wasn't lucky he would have never been able to bring the Saints Corpse back together in the original story, however fortune is no longer on his side in this world as your presence has changed it entirely." He went onto explain it for me as I nod.
"For now we need to keep going through the Race, we will definitely meet up again with them at the Mountain Village before the end of the third part of the race." I say to them as we keep on going through the race proper and when we would rest I would study and get a deeper understanding of the Golden Ratio and hopefully figure out how to unlock even more of my potential.
Maybe I could get one of the eyes for myself…
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"Are you certain this information is accurate?" Funny Valentine asked his men after they had delivered the message they had just recieved from those keeping an eye on the race.
"Yes sir, it appears Hifumi Yamada and Stocking Anarchy have separated from Gyro Zeppeli and Johnny Joestar, they still appear to be in the race however, but from observations from our men we believe either Gyro Zeppeli or Johnny Joestar have come across the Saints Corpse part, knowingly or otherwise." The man explians to the president as he wipes his mouth after drinking some tea.
Hearing this Valentine closes his eyes and thinks while looking at everything he knows about this race, his stand, the 'neighboring' worlds and everything about it making him come to an educated guess about things.
"After Monument Valley have our agents get in contact with him, it's best not to make him our enemy, at least not at this point in time." Valentine tells the agent.
"And what should I tell him sir?" He asks to which Valentine looks outside the window of the moving train they were on that was slowly approaching Monument Valley.
He smirks to himself, "Tell him a certain, 'Funny Guy' wants to talk with him personally." He says before the man nods and leaves him be.
He drinks more of his tea and mutters to himself, "So just like the Saints Corpse, him and his girlfriend only exist in this world, means that one of my greatest strengths has no effect on them both, best course of action is to not try the heavy method and more of a softer approach…."
After saying that hooks suddenly appeared from the ceiling as Valentine pulls out a picture in which touches one of the hooks and is taken away in just an instant.
"Hunt those two down and get whatever corpse part they have." He says before both hooks vanish and the man above the train disappears as well leaving Valentine alone with his thoughts once more.
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"And here comes Hifumi Yamada and Stocking Anarchy both taking first and second place for the second part of the Steel Ball Run Race!" An announcer couldn't help but say as we made it to the finish line of the second part of the race.
"Ahh shit, I think we took a bit to many short cuts, this is gonna piss of Gyro when he hears about it." Me and Stocking weren't really paying attention of the time and we were in the lead by a whole six hours to everyone else as our horses didn't really need as much rest as normal horses and the fact Stocking had begun to hate camping out as we have she's been more focused that we get to actual towns to sit and rest at.
"God, my ass is killing me from sitting in this saddle the whole time, even with all the cushioning you gave it babe." She couldn't help but rub the side of her leg as it was getting numb.
"Well if this wasn't so far in the past and gas was available we'd would have done this race on See-Through(Panty & Stockings Hummer) but that would have brought up too many questions." I mention as in all honesty I kind of wanted to stop riding horse back all this time but I will still do it anyway.
"Anyway, since we seem to be much farther ahead of the others as is let's just rest up for a bit." I say as we lead our horses over to a makeshift stable area near where the train that all the VIP's were watching from.
Most people wouldn't stop at this point and head right up into the Rocky Mountains but we were ahead enough that we could rest and the sun had just rised not long ago.
Though as soon as we got off our horses I saw a familiar looking agent come up to me, "Mr. Yamada, a certain 'Funny Guy' would like to talk to you." He says cryptically making me raise my eyebrows as I was slightly surprised.
I then raise an eyebrow, "That so? And here I was thinking he wouldn't get in contact with me until after Kansas City, but alright I will go along, however she's coming with and before you think about saying anything, it's not negotiable." I say squinting my eyes at the man while I kept a smile on my lips that wasn't quite reaching my eyes.
We stare at each other for a few moments before he turns, "That's for him to decide, wait here…." The man says before walking back to the train while Stocking comes up besides me.
"So we are going to meet the big bad this early on? I wonder if he's going to look like that chubby midget he was at the start of the story then." She says which makes me shake my head.
"I doubt it, him suddenly appearing and looking good was more because Araki changed up his art style like he always did with his works so how he looked at the end of the story is what he was always supposed to look like." I say to her and not much later the agent returned to us both.
"You can both come, now follow me." He said before beginning to lead the way.
Time to meet a rather Funny Guy.