[Silent for a moment, Kakyoin glanced from the sunglasses in his hand to the photograph itself. A distant look crossed his face as he thought things over; he'd been in this city longer than they had been traveling together, hadn't he?]
[What would any of them think of that, if they came here? Would they think Kakyoin was turning his back on his best and most important friends, in favor of people who weren't even Stand users? Was he?]
...I almost...didn't get to Cairo at all. [He said that quietly, like Kakyoin was debating mentioning it at all. He had to learn to trust other people, but it felt...wrong, somehow. As though if he were to say too much about the experiences they had shared, new and different people would take the place of the first people that could ever understand Noriaki Kakyoin.]
You noticed, right...? There's something missing in this picture. [He tapped the sunglasses lightly against his head, near his eyes to indicate what he meant.] We were attacked by an enemy Stand user--ten, maybe twenty minutes after this was taken? I don't remember clearly. I know his Stand took the form of water, and I know it reached as far as my Hierophant, maybe even farther.
...Polnareff and I were arguing about how to fight it, and the next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital in Aswan.
[He gave a humorless laugh, frowning in annoyance.]
I had the worst luck on this journey, when it came to fights. [Under his breath:] Between that and Death Thirteen, it's a goddamned wonder I made it that far.
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[What would any of them think of that, if they came here? Would they think Kakyoin was turning his back on his best and most important friends, in favor of people who weren't even Stand users? Was he?]
...I almost...didn't get to Cairo at all. [He said that quietly, like Kakyoin was debating mentioning it at all. He had to learn to trust other people, but it felt...wrong, somehow. As though if he were to say too much about the experiences they had shared, new and different people would take the place of the first people that could ever understand Noriaki Kakyoin.]
You noticed, right...? There's something missing in this picture. [He tapped the sunglasses lightly against his head, near his eyes to indicate what he meant.] We were attacked by an enemy Stand user--ten, maybe twenty minutes after this was taken? I don't remember clearly. I know his Stand took the form of water, and I know it reached as far as my Hierophant, maybe even farther.
...Polnareff and I were arguing about how to fight it, and the next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital in Aswan.
[He gave a humorless laugh, frowning in annoyance.]
I had the worst luck on this journey, when it came to fights. [Under his breath:] Between that and Death Thirteen, it's a goddamned wonder I made it that far.