[ He's taken aback, just for a second. He had his own safe backup conversation topic prepared and everything, but Jotaro just-
He laughs. Not the quiet, rehearsed, pleasant one but the stupid ugly one that feels like it comes up from parts of him that don't exist anymore and sounds like there should be some vocal sac under his chin expanding and contracting to shove out horrible noises. It's not even particularly funny. It'd have got a chuckle at best before Cairo. But right now it's-
-everything he needed. Because he can't pretend it didn't happen, not with Jotaro here. And the next best thing is to accept it. And this? This is the least painful way to accept anything. ]
Didn't Mr. Joestar say that it was unhealthy, keeping things bottled up inside you?
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He laughs. Not the quiet, rehearsed, pleasant one but the stupid ugly one that feels like it comes up from parts of him that don't exist anymore and sounds like there should be some vocal sac under his chin expanding and contracting to shove out horrible noises. It's not even particularly funny. It'd have got a chuckle at best before Cairo. But right now it's-
-everything he needed. Because he can't pretend it didn't happen, not with Jotaro here. And the next best thing is to accept it. And this? This is the least painful way to accept anything. ]
Didn't Mr. Joestar say that it was unhealthy, keeping things bottled up inside you?
[ Okay so he PROBABLY didn't mean blood. ]