The Forgotten Joestar By Shafeen Alam

Set years after the end of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, this story follows Shizuka Joestar as she travels across Italy and back to Morioh in search of something she cannot name-herself.

Drawn into conflict with the shadowy mafia syndicate La Serpe Nera, Shizuka and her companions uncover a web of Stand users, executions, and whispered prophecies that suggest reality itself is not as fixed as it seems. Each battle strips away certainty, pushing Shizuka closer to an unseen threshold-one she does not yet understand.

At the heart of La Serpe Nera stands Don Giorgio De Luca, a man shaped by loss, violence, and an unshakable belief that power is identity. From a traumatized youth to a calculating kingpin, Giorgio's rise is driven by the conviction that only by becoming something greater-something untouchable-can one escape suffering. His ideology clashes violently with Shizuka's quiet resilience, turning their confrontation into more than a fight for survival: it becomes a war of philosophies.

As Stand battles intensify and the scale of destruction grows, the narrative begins to bend. Fate feels unreliable. Victories feel temporary. Even cause and effect seem strained. The line between inevitability and choice starts to blur.

Blending brutal combat, psychological descent, and moments of human connection, this novel explores identity, despair, self-determination, and the cost of godhood-without ever revealing where the true limits of power lie.

Because in this story, some forces are not meant to be named.

And some endings refuse to follow the rules.