JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond

FIFTEEN: Beyond (ビヨンド Biyondo) is the fifteenth chapter of the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. It returns to the perspective of George Joestar II after the events of Chapter 13.

Summary
Jorge wakes up lying on the road and sees that his injuries have healed up. He learns that he was sleeping on a large bed, a young boy next to the bed speaks in Italian, glad that he is now awake. Jorge replies while speaking Italian as well, surprised he was able to speak it; he asks how he knows his name and how he can speak Italian now. The boy explains that a Japanese man had come by with an ability that allowed people around including him to speak English, Italian, and Japanese. Jorge asks where he is, the boy explains that he is in a town called Morioh, he then introduces himself as Vinegar Doppio. He explains that his boss had saved him, he then reaches out for a book with its title being Pink Dark Boy, and curls it and holds it to his ear. He hums a weird sound and begins to speak to someone while completely ignoring Jorge. He explains to the other person that the Joestar boy is awake, he asks Jorge if he is able to get up. Jorge tries to get up but is unable to because of the amount of pain he was in. Doppio explains that he can feel better if he keeps moving, as Jorge refuses, the boy yells at him in anger. He threatens Jorge not to mess with him or he would shoot him with his gun. Jorge instantly feels better, he snatches the gun from him and points it at him, stating that he had been shot down by Germans and survived throughout an entire war. The boy grabs the book to his ear again, it makes a strange sound and begins to play music. The sound suddenly harms Jorge, causing lots of vibrations in his head. Doppio had somehow gotten the phone into his head, Jorge then points the gun to his head and shoots himself. The bullet gouges his skin and about seven centimeters long and seven millimeters deep into his skull. As the vibrations stop, he points the gun to Doppio and shoots him several times. None of the bullets hit him, instead, hit the wall by passes through him. A man with a hat standing next to Jorge asks him to knock it off. Doppio orders the man, whose name is Mista, to shoot Jorge. Mista points his gun to Doppio instead, telling him to get it together and then shoots him. Jorge sees little people riding on the bullets as they yelled and kicked the bullets around. The bullets only graze Doppio's cheeks making it look like he has whiskers. Mista laughs and makes fun of his scars, Jorge watches as the tiny people laugh with him.

A boy with blonde hair walks into a room, introducing himself as Giorno Giovanna. Jorge feels some sort of power within him, he learns that the wounds in his head had been healed again. He asks them what this kind of power was, Giorno explains they are called Stands, and they are wielded by Stand Masters. This reminds Jorge of the night when Mothman burned down La Palma's church, Lisa Lisa had mentioned something about the Hamon Warriors calling these abilities "Spirit Hamon". Giorno explains that a man named Rohan Kishibe had used his Stand to allow Jorge to see Stands and speak Italian. Jorge asks why he wanted to talk to him, Giorno explains how he heard about his time as a detective leading him to a new kind of power called Beyond. He reveals about his old friend Tsukumojuku dying here, and that his parallel self was in charge of solving the mystery for his murder. He then explains how the parallel Jorge had swapped places with him, leaving him in England of 1920, and this Jorge in Morioh of 2012. He has Rohan explain the case of the Three Murdered Detectives and how the other Jorge Joestar had come from Fukui. They also explain how Morioh had suddenly split off from Japan, and was now an island floating in the middle of the ocean, and based on another floating island, Nero Nero Island. The other Jorge Joestar had been sent to Mars with one of the gangsters, and had crashed down to Earth on Morioh, causing their ship to vanish because they had landed on top of the Arrow Cross House which had swapped their places. Now with Giorno as the boss of Passione, with Diavolo dead, they have Jorge solve the mystery of his murder.