JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Grimm

Chapter XXIX: Miguel JoJo and Anne Zeppeli 2~Second Date~

Miguel sat on his bed all alone while the lights are turned off. He stared at his residual limb. Outside the window behind him is revealed to be a dark and silent forest with crickets chirping and animals howling. He puts up his hands and stared at them. For a moment, his eyes become black and his skin becomes pale.

A knock could be heard from the door.

He went back to normal.

Anne opens the door and enters the room.

"The door was open, so I left myself in," she smiled softly.

Miguel smiles back. Though, she could tell that it was forced. She approached him and sat on his bed.

"Hey," she said. "You okay?"

"What do you think?" asked Miguel, rather sharply. "S-... I'm sorry... I'm just... not that... in my head right now..."

"You've been staring at your leg, lately," said Anne. "You want me to zip off mine and use it for a day?"

"Very funny," said Miguel. "Thanks for some comedy."

"I was being serious," said Anne.

Miguel sighs. "Hay Naku."

Anne stares at Miguel's eyes. 

"It hurt your pride, didn't it?"

Miguel stayed silent.

"You're this guy who had been training martial arts with his father since he was ten and was taught how the real world works on the island... And you lost your leg from something that you could kill with a single punch-..."

"I've been very careful," said Miguel. "Nobody was able to hack me... No one ever found out about my identity... It's just insulting that a simple flesh wound could've toppled everything over.
Now... People even like my own allies... Jessica, Jedan, Kariel, and my own Dad think I'm crazy. They think that this arc of vengeance I've thought of toward the world is insane... Everyone... even the normies in our school thought I was crazy... They thought I was crazy... they feared me... At some point... And for the people who were my friends? they hated me... for leaving them... even you. I'm just so scared... I'm just so Goddamned scared that after everything I've been through... What they were saying... was right... I'm crazy. I can't change fate. I can't change who I am and who I will become. A monster who will become worse of what he already is."

"Yeah... I hated you. Kariel even talks about how scary you are since you came back... and yes... We talk behind your back and talk about how crazy you are," said Anne. "But I don't think you're crazy."

"Yeah... Yeah you don't," said Miguel, turning to Anne. "That's because you're the only one who would never... could never... and will never think I'm crazy."

"My Dad..." said Miguel. "He keeps telling me that I won't become the worst of what I am but he treats me as if I might."

"That's just parenting," chuckled Anne.

"Yeah," he chuckled back.

Miguel changes his face to a more serious one.

"Diablo... the guy I fought... He said that I'm meant to go to Salvi," said Miguel. "That we are meant to fail. That we are meant to die. He said that there is no hope. He said that me hunting him will bring the destruction of the Universe..."

"I thought he only wanted to destroy humanity," said Anne.

"That's what he wants," said Miguel. "But he acknowledges that that's not what is needed to happen. He was saying that this needed to happen."