Last wish

Blood splattered the floor as Hora's head was separated from his body. The grin fell from his lips, a thin, dark red trickle dripped from the corners of his mouth. "Jojo ..." in his watery eyes was a pleading look as he turned to the girl. "Jojo ... why ... can't you ... love me?" dark red tears ran down Hora's face and wet the floor in fine lines. "Because ..." the girl straightened up. "... Because it doesn't work. I would have only brought you bad luck. And I couldn't let the Chiropteran devour you any more." Jojo kept her head down when she spoke to him, she couldn't look at him. Neither his head, which had just lost the last spark of life, nor the body, which lay bloody and disfigured on the floor in front of her. "So that's why ..." Hora muttered and a pained smile crept onto his face. Then his strength ran out and Hora was dead.

The scythe clanking to the ground. Everything turned. Jojo felt her legs give way. It was difficult for her to prevent her passing out. "JOJO !!!" Sue came running towards them from one side of the hall. She was hurt too. Her left shoulder was cut and her left foot was broken or bruised. "Jojo! Is everything all right ?! You beat him! You really beat Hora !!!" Sue fell down next to her friend. But Jojo ignored her. The dizziness grew stronger. "... It's time." The words were almost just a whisper, but Sue must have heard them. "What?" Concerned, she brushed Jojo's hair from her face. But suddenly Sassame stood behind them and held Sue's hand back. “Don't.” Those were his only words, then he turned to his little sister. "Jojo ... is ...?" "Sassame ... take me to the place where it all started ... please ..." whispered Jojo in a hoarse voice. Ayuna came running to them too. "Sassame ... do what she says ..." she muttered and took Sue's hand. "Ayuna! ... What ... what about Jojo?" wanted to know this right away, but the young woman just shook her head. "Come on, Sue. We'll go with you." "But ...!" Sassame's reluctance could be felt as he fixed his sister with an angry glare. "She is Jojo's best friend, Sassame! She has the right to come!" Ayuna replied violently and pulled Sue to her feet. Sassame gave Ayuna another angry look, then he got up with Jojo in his arms and left the hall. Ayuna nodded briefly to Sue, then they followed Sassame to a car that was parked in front of the house. It was already dark. During the whole trip they didn't say a word and for Sue the time passed at a snail's pace. But then the car stopped in front of an endless stone staircase that, hidden by trees, almost seemed to go up into the sky. Sassame got out and Ayuna and Sue followed him. Sue found that Jojo looked like a beautiful doll in Sassame's arms.She let go of Ayuna's hand and walked next to Sassame, her gaze fixed on the exhausted looking Jojo. "Jojo?" The addressee opened her eyes with difficulty and looked her friend in the face. "Sue ...?" Sue smiled. "Jojo, you were great! I really thought you would go to Chiropteran like him, but then you reacted so well, he couldn't defend himself at all! You should have seen your face! I've never seen you so angry ! Your look alone could have killed, had you used your ability! "Sue was so absorbed in her rendering of the event that she didn't even notice the tears that ran down Jojo's face. "And then you ...!" "Sue! ..." the sudden interruption brought the girl completely off the mark. "What?" "... Thank you." "What?" The white-haired woman stared at her best friend in bewilderment. "Thank you, Sue, for being with me. You showed me what it means to live. You always gave me and Nana your opinion, regardless of whether we liked it or not. And you were with me as Nana went. And for that I thank you. ... You were ... the best friend one can have ... "Jojo broke off. Sue thought about her words for a while, but then she understood what Jojo had said. "What do you mean," was "? Jojo, what do you mean by that? ... Jojo? Jojo ???" but she got no answer. She looked back at Sassame, who was still carrying her friend and still showing no signs of exhaustion, even though they had already climbed hundreds of steps. But Jojo ... it seemed like she was sleeping. "Jojo ?!" Sue started to shake her friend from the side. But Ayuna was suddenly behind her and held her hands tight. "Ayuna! What ...?" But Ayuna pulled Sue up the last steps with her. Once at the top, Sue couldn't stop being amazed. They stood on a large, tiled area that was surrounded by huge trees. Further back she saw a small shrine shimmering between two trees. "What are we doing here?" she asked Ayuna, who was standing right next to her. But she was not like Sue, fascinated by this place, on the contrary: She kept her head down and shivered. But suddenly she turned around. Sassame had also reached the top, Jojo was still asleep in his arms. "Sassame ..." Ayuna's voice sounded shaky and choked and she didn't seem to find the right words, but she didn't need words to tell Sassame what to do. He walked slowly to the center of the square. Once there, he got down on his knees and laid Jojo very gently, very carefully on the floor. Then he took a few steps back. In the meantime it had started to rain. “Ayuna.” Sassame's voice sounded calm and firm, but he was unsettled. Ayuna stepped forward and took a sapphire blue glass ball from her pocket. Upon closer inspection Sue realized that it was "Nana's pearl", the only thing that was left of Jojo's twin sister when she was murdered by a Chiropteran six months ago.Ayuna hesitantly went over to Jojo, who was lying on the ground, and put the pearl lovingly in her hand. Tenderly she stroked Jojo's pale skin and then came back to Sue. She still didn't know what was going on, but then Ayuna suddenly took the girl in her arms. "You have to be very brave now, Sue ..." Tears wet Sue's wet, white hair and she understood what was going on. "No ..." she muttered and pulled away from Ayuna. "No ..." She felt tears welling up in her eyes. "NO !!! THAT IS NOT TRUE !!!! YOU LIE !!!! JOJO IS NOT ... She is not ..." Sue finally burst into tears. Sobbing, she stumbled forward, then dropped to the floor. "No ... no ... not ... ... she ...!" A hand fell on her shoulder. "Sue," that was Sassame. "Sue, please. You have to learn to let go." "No ..." She couldn't, she didn't want to. Jojo couldn't leave her alone. She wasn't allowed to. Why did she have to lose everyone she cared about? First her parents, then Nana, then her brother and now ... "Come on." Sassame took Sue's hand and pulled her up to him. He looked incredibly beautiful in the light of the moon. His features were gentle and his otherwise fiery red hair looked dark blue. But this was not the time to admire him. "Come on Sue." He looked deeply into her eyes and her sadness suddenly disappeared. “But please don't look back.” He pulled her away with him, back to the stone stairs. But shortly before they went back down, Sue turned around again. Jojo looked beautiful, a sleeping Sleeping Beauty ... "Sleep well, Joly. I love you."
And with these words Sue followed Ayuna and Sassame and returned to the real world.

"... ruby ​​forms the beginning and also the end ..."

Ending: (is sung by Jojo in chapter 16! ^^)

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