JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Grimm

Chapter LVI: Shape of U Part II ~Reboot~

Josuke stands before The Monster Emperor.

"Ah... Josuke Higashikata," he stood up, and Magalang Bowed. "A pleasure to meet you," he sneered. "Welcome to... the Wall Eyes. It's a landscape under Mt. Sinai that Gio Brando found along with his father... The Crusaders are already long dead... Killed by the Reverse-Flash when they came here..."

Josuke stood before him rather calmly.

"Oh? What's wrong, Josuke Higashikata?" he asked calmly. He transforms into a Nekomata. "Cat got your tongue?"

"Cringey pun, dude," said Josuke. "I'm here to settle something. You back off right now, and we'd let you live."

Dragon Fly laughs.

"Do you know why I'm even doing this?" he asked, rather softly. "I was cursed with the urge of having been born based on instinct and only instinct. Mother, or 'Princess Bubblegum,' as you call her, supposedly designed me to have the urge to feed on what I consider evil to become a god-like warrior... A protector of all five worlds. Mother had one fatal flaw, however."

"She gave you the ability to consider..." he said.

He nods.

"Mother gave me a conscience... The ability to make a rational and irrational choice," he said. "I became sentient. Yet, I am still driven by the urge to absorb everything. This urge to destroy, however, was not given to me by my Mother... Rather... was given to me by my original self... The Monster Emperor. Mother thought that the legend of the Monster Emperor and luck was pure myth. Boy, was my Mother wrong... She created a creature with the urge to absorb and destroy everything in his path... Thus..."

Monster Emperor presses a button on the throne, showing all the destruction he had caused. In the Human Colony alone in one of the cities, he destroyed cars, absorbed men, women, and children with his claws and tongue, destroyed buildings, beat people to death, blew up oil tanks, and caused several million Units of damage.

"I am driven with the urge to absorb and destroy as you are driven with the urge to give to people and fix their problems. It's as if the Universe created us both as the reverses of one another."

"You've killed millions! Even on other Earths just for your amusement!"

"Amusement? Do you think I enjoy this? I HATE DOING THIS!!! I hate each dying body... I have to kill each quick to avoid being able to feel the pain... I tried to kill them quick... But they were too strong... So I have to strike again..."

*crack*

"And again!"

*crack*

"And again... Bludgeoning their brains until there's nothing left. I make sure I eat everything so nothing goes to waste. I have that feeling... That guilt..."

His eyes went teary, quivering.

"I hate this... I hate doing this, Josuke... You get it, right? You hate fixing everyone's problems, too!"

"I do-."

"BUT IT IS OUR GODDAMNED RESPONSIBILITY!!!" he slammed the armrest of his throne. "We were designed by ungrateful gods to do this, you and I. I have to do this! We both have that urge... I respect you because you are driven by the urge and not fear! Except for that time with the Man in the Yellow Suit, of course... I don't consider you ready yet, Josuke. I don't consider you my opposite!"