JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 3: Wounds

THREE Wounds (傷 - Surī Kizu) is the third chapter of the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. It continues to take place in the original world of Jorge Joestar.

Summary
Jorge begins to think that Tsukumojuku might have been killed because he had gone missing. He goes to school and says that he hasn't spoken to anyone but his mother. He had begun to read books and said that he rarely goes outside. He begins to reflect on how smart Tsukumojuku was and all the cases he'd solved. He had read detective novels that his mother, Erina, had owned. She decides to hire a tutor for Jorge after seeing him read a science book. She hires a girl named Penelope de la Rosa to tutor Jorge, he later on visits her house. It is revealed that Penelope was the girl that Tsukumojuku and Jorge had met in their last case. Jorge states that she has a pathological fear of clowns because of Javier Cortez and convinced her to commit a locked room murder while dressing up as a clown. The trauma had caused her to quit school and never leave her house again. Once Jorge makes it to her house, she refuses to open the door because Jorge reminds her of the clown in her dream. Jorge apologizes and decides to return home, she then says that she was glad to see him. The next day, Penelope yells out Jorge's name while he was in bed. She claims that Javier Cortez had come back and blames it on Jorge. Jorge couldn't understand because he recalled that the islanders had murdered him and had dumped his body into the sea. Jorge tries to calm her down and decides to come outside. She claims that he was at her house instead of in a dream. Jorge doubts her and thinks that she had gone crazy. She claims that he had ran ahead of her and "jumped out of her". She explains what had happened; she states that she went into the kitchen with her mother and had gotten locked from the inside. Her mother had yelled at Penelope thinking she would kill her because Javier had convinced Penelope to kill her mother. She says that she had broken the door down and had saw a clown in the corner of the room which had disappeared. Jorge talks about Penelope's past and explains that her parents had divorced 4 years ago. She had begun to date a man named Edvard Noriega who had been abusing her and selling her things. Her mother had convinced her to break up with Edvard. He then threatens to ruin Penelope if her mother had tried to do something. After her mother had given up on her, Penelope began to have dreams of a clown haunting her. After this trauma, Penelope only trusted her mother and no one else. Penelope then states that she had found a doll where the clown in her room had disappeared. She thinks that it is a warning and that she might be murdered. Jorge tries to calm her down and invites her into his house.

He tries to open the door but it was locked from the inside. Suddenly, Erina warns Jorge to run away and claims that there is a clown inside. Penelope backs away and apologizes thinking that she had brought the clown with her. Jorge busts the door down and sees the clown floating in the air. Penelope screams in fear, then Jorge warns her to stay outside. Jorge grabs a chair and tries to hit the clown. The chair had broken into pieces. Suddenly, Jorge realizes that the clown had shattered into pieces. Jorge warns his mother to leave, but Erina asks him to calm down. She claims that the clown doesn't seem to mean any harm. She thinks that Penelope might have created the clown to defend herself. Penelope walks into the room and asks if Jorge was okay. Suddenly, the door behind them slams shut and a clown had appeared behind it. Jorge realizes that they were both in a locked room. Jorge walks up to the clown carefully and studies it, realizing that it was made out of thread. Jorge orders Penelope to back away, He walks outside, Penelope then tells Jorge to get back inside to save his mother. Jorge suddenly wraps his arms around her, realizing that she was the one who needed saving and says that his mother is okay. Penelope gets confused and stands there; Jorge waits and watches as a thread from Penelope's dress had snapped. Suddenly, Erina walks outside holding a doll in her hands and shows it to Penelope, telling her that she was the one who made the clown. Penelope couldn't believe them.

Later on, Jorge visits Penelope's mother, Isabella, and explains Penelope's power. She doesn't believe him and claims that her daughter had been possessed by the devil. After speaking to his mother about it, they had decided to let Penelope live with them and hired her to work in the La Palma office and to be Jorge's tutor. It was February, 6 months had gone by since Penelope had moved in with them. On her way to work, Penelope and Jorge see Edvard, Penelope's ex-boyfriend. He claims that he is dying and asks Penelope for help. Penelope tries to brush him off, but he claims that he had seen a man with wings.