The Ludicrous Escapade Pt.3

Take Me to Church

"(Y/N) (L/N), you made it." Enrico Pucci spotted the spider on your shoulder. "Oh. I suppose she must've had a little chat with you after all. She's quite persuasive, isn't she? You can take a seat, if you'd like." He gestured to a chair in front of his own next to the table.

You cautiously sat down. Your eyes darted around the room for a sign of any sort of trap or Stand. You didn't like being here at all. "Why did you want to talk to me?"

Pucci smiled warmly, genuinely happy to meet you, "I guess you could say I was curious to know what Dio's lover was like."

"Hah!" You let out a sharp bark of laughter before you could stop yourself. "Is... Is that what he told you?"

The priest was perplexed, "Perhaps I misjudged your relationship with him, then. I could've sworn he said something along those lines. He spoke very fondly of you."

"Yeah, no." You wanted to make it crystal clear to him. "There was nothing going on between us."

"Well... care for some fruit?" He held the bowl of cherries, peaches, and oranges out to you. After a moment of thought, you plucked a pair of cherries from the dish. "Cherries, huh? They're my favorite, too. Say, have you ever tried this?" He placed two cherries in his mouth that were connected by the stem. In a few seconds, he took the stem back out, only the seeds still being attached.

"See? You have to try to eat the fruit without taking the seeds off the stem. You can't use your fingers. You do it with cherries because they come in pairs. But the challenge is what tooth to use to bite down once you finish the first one. It would be bad to accidentally bite off the seed. Would you like to try?" He seemed weirdly enthusiastic about this little game of sorts.

You didn't know if the cherries could have some sort of correlation to his Stand somehow, but you figured you might as well give it whirl. "Sure." You place the cherries in your mouth, maneuvering the fruit around until both seeds were cleaned. You removed the stem and seeds from your mouth. "There. Easy Peasy."

"Good! Very good!" He pulled a small trash can out from under the table for you to put the rubbish in.

"Here, why don't I show you a trick of my own?" You picked another cherry from the bowl, placing it on your tongue. Your hope was to make him uncomfortable. "Rerorerorerorero."

Pucci seemed quite nearly appalled, "That is rather... crude, is it not?" He shook his head, getting himself back on track, "Nevermind. I'll just ask what I actually wanted to know. What do you think of Heaven, (Y/N)?"

"Like the idea of it existing? Or do you mean Dio's weird plan?"

Pucci leaned on his armrest, observing you carefully. "The former, I suppose."

"Well, I'm not a particularly religious person, but it would be nice to know that the people I care about, that died, are continuing their existence someplace where they are happy." That would at least put your heart a bit more at ease.

"I see." He paused for a second. "And judging by your earlier reaction, I presume you're against Dio's Heaven Plan?" Pucci had yet to learn the steps to achieve it, but he knew the end goal well enough. Dio hadn't explained it much over the many phone calls they had had.

"Are you going to try and go through with it?" If the answer was yes, you'd have to take care of him here and now. There was no way you could just let it happen.

The corners of the priest's mouth twisted up into another smile. "Of course." A humanoid Stand took shape next to him. It's body was white, GΔCT was written repeatedly in stripes across it. The few clothes it was wearing were black, and a crown like mask of the same color adorned its face.