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Of course, at that time I had still had no intention of donning the stone
mask myself.--- It did of course allow one to obtain great power and an immortal
body, but the sacrifices those brought with them were too great.
By referencing Jonathan's research notebooks, it likely did something
like this.--- The stone mask brings out the latent potential of the human brain.
The potential of the brain.--- The human brain is an organ which still
holds many mysteries. The idea that the stone mask's bone needles had the
function of awakening a sleeping ability we humans had never known did not
take long to deduce.
Awakening the brain. Pushing the brain.
That is what the stone mask was made to do.--- But even knowing that,
there were still many unknowns. I had still only performed a single experiment
on humans. So I never even thought of using that mysterious mask on myself.---
However...
I was driven into a situation where I had no choice but to use it on
myself.
After my experiment had ended--- After my drunken wandering had
ended, one could say--- what awaited me at the Joestar residence was Jonathan
Joestar, having returned safely from Ogre Street.
No, not "safely
He had brought with him the Chinaman that had sold me the poison---
as well as a friend he seems to have made on Ogre Street.
I was utterly cornered. Checkmated, if you will.
But I had known that.--- Knowing what sort of man Jonathan Joestar was,
I had known much earlier that I had been cornered.
Nevertheless, I had no plans for cowardly tactics like not returning to the
mansion and fleeing.--- I would never run from a man like him.
In order to fight Jonathan I returned to the Joestar mansion, a place I
knew would be the jaws of death for me.