〖JJBA - EN〗- Last Judgement

Chapter 25: Daze.

Aswan, Egypt. December 29th, 1988.

After taking Kakyoin to the hospital to have his wounds analyzed, our companions decided to spend the day in town. (Y/N) had no choice but to follow them, since hospital visits were prohibited until the teenager had undergone numerous examinations. She knew he was in danger of losing sight. He might not be able to continue the journey. It was therefore in low spirits that she accompanied the others to a cafe. Polnareff and Joseph kept trying jokes to make her smile, but she remained as cold as Jotaro. They sat at a table and the waiter came to take their order.

"So what will it be?

"I'll get some tea," Polnareff answered.

"The same.

- The same thing.

- And tea for me too, please.

- Very well. Five teas then.

- No, we'd better avoid it," Joseph advised. "We are in Egypt, in hostile territory. We don't know where the enemy is hiding or when they will attack. We need to be more careful with poisons now. Let's limit ourselves to bottles and cans.

- Seriously?" Polnareff sighed.

"We can not anymore. Replace tea with colas.

- Colas?" the waiter exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes," Jotaro replied coldly. "Is there a problem?

- No! Well, colas, then. I'll bring you five colas.

- Ah, and no need to uncap them", Joseph added.

The waiter walked away to get their drinks, but a customer in the room exclaimed,

"Waiter! Your cola is not fresh! Is this a joke? In a coffee shop? You can go jump in a lake to get paid!

- Wait!" Joseph was offended. "The colas are not fresh?

- We have problems with the fridges...

- You're too nervous", Polnareff said to calm the old man. "Supposing the waiter was an enemy and wanted to poison us, how would he know we were coming here? There are plenty of cafes in this city and I chose this one. If there was only one, okay, but now...

- I'm just saying that you can never be too careful...

- If you care so much, we can always change. We just have to go across the street."

But across the street, the other cafe was in flames. Joseph sighed, before telling the waiter,

"Fine, we'll have five cups of tea."

Their tea was brought. But just as they were about to take a sip, the sound of broken dishes echoed from the next table and a woman cried,

"That dog took my cake! Who brought that filthy beast here?!"

They spat out their tea and (Y/N) jumped up to save the dog from a few flying plates that the woman was throwing at him to scare him away.

"Are you out of your mind?!

- That's your dog?!

- Not really, he-

- Not really?! You will pay me back!!"

Iggy was running away, the boys hot on his heels, a cake in his mouth. The young woman gave them a sideways glance and growled "traitors" between her teeth.

"... no thanks!"

And she took to her heels, ignoring the insults thrown at her by the angry woman. In a flash, she caught up with the others trying as best they could to grab Iggy. She rolled her eyes and crouched down, gum in hand. Immediately, the dog jumped into her arms.