〖JJBA - EN〗- Last Judgement

Chapter 7: There was a little ship.

South China Sea. November 30th, 1988.

"It will take us three days to get to Singapore. Let's take a breather and regain strength."

It didn't take long for (Y/N) to follow those words. She had quickly swapped her fake uniform for a tank top and shorts bought in a hurry in Hong Kong. It was far too hot, and she was counting on enjoying the sun. As she came back up on deck after changing, she noticed that Jotaro and Noriaki were still wearing their particularly warm uniforms. They were there, lying on deckchairs, surely bathed in their sweat. She made a face and approached.

"How are you? Not too hot?"

Hidden under his cap, Jotaro pretended to be asleep and not to hear. Kakyoin meanwhile didn't even look up from the book he was reading when he replied,

"We're high school students. We must behave as such."

"Mmm. Speak for yourself," she replied, settling on a deckchair beside him.

"Pfff, these Japanese are so hung-up!" Joseph exclaimed from the other end of the boat.

"It is not like that that you will seduce people," Polnareff added.

The two boys pretended not to hear anything. And even when (Y/N) spoke to him, Kakyoin still didn't look up from his book, as if he didn't dare look in her direction. The modesty of a Japanese teenager, that's what it was.

"But you're going to let go of me, yes? Nasty brute! Let me go for fuck's sake!"

"Shut up! Little shit!"

"What's going on," Joseph exclaimed, "I asked for us to be the only passengers on board!"

"Sorry, he's a stowaway, he was hiding in the hold."

"An illegal stowaway?"

"Come on, bring it on! I'm going to bust your balls!"

Alerted by a child's cries, (Y/N) sat up in her deckchair. She only had a fraction of a second of hesitation before abandoning the two Japanese teens to see what was happening.

"Please don't report me, I just want to meet my dad in Singapore! Please, I will do whatever you want!"

The sailor was having fun psychologically torturing this poor kid that was terrified by the simple idea of ​​being arrested by the police. And that, (Y/N) understood perfectly. She was a street kid who had more than once needed to steal and cheat. Her protective instinct took over and she got involved in what was none of her business.

"Hey, leave that kid alone.

- Sorry my little lady, but that's illegal. I have to talk to the captain about it."

Except the kid didn't agree. He bit the man's arm violently before throwing himself into the water.

"He plans to swim like that to the coast?" Kakyoin asked, finally getting up from his deckchair to witness the scene more closely.

"Leave him alone," Jotaro replied. "If he jumped, it's because he has confidence in himself."

"No, that sucks!" a man from the crew cried. "It's infested with sharks around here!"

"I don't like that..." Kakyoin murmured.

"Hey kid!" Joseph cried, "come back this way! It's dangerous!"

"Pffft. You all suck."

(Y/N) didn't wait a single second to jump into the water, to the cries of fear from Polnareff who was yelling at her in all the languages ​​he knew to get back on the boat. But of course, she did as she pleased. As she swam as fast as she could, she heard Joseph yell Jotaro's name. With a quick glance, she spotted the taciturn teenager right behind her. But she was distracted by the shark passing right under her feet.