Jojo over heaven

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How ironic.
That Erina, the one that made Jonathan grow, who first made him grow
as a human--- that person who enraged me, would interrupt in Jonathan and my
final confrontation.
And for her to have guided Jonathan from near defeat to a draw, I think
there can be no greater irony.
My mistake was challenging Jonathan on a boat, something that is a
weakness to vampires. I've made jokes like that, but if I'm being honest, my
mistake was really that I underestimated Erina Pendolton. No, Erina Joestar.
The article that reported the destination of their honeymoon specifically
wrote her name as Mrs. Joestar and showed a picture of her.
When I saw that article, I realized that it was Erina, the girl I had met
back then.--- And yet I focused my attention only on making sure that the Ripple
warriors and Speedwagon would not get in my way. I carelessly forgot how
important she was to Jonathan Joestar and me, Dio.
Noble, proud.
She was like a holy woman, like my mother.--- I should have recognize
how much of a presence she had for me, for Jonathan, for us.
Especially as Erina Joestar.
At that point, she was a member of the Joestar family.--- She had
become one of them.
Jonathan mustered one final Ripple.
It was not a Ripple harnessed from his breath.
It was harnessed from his life force--- a Ripple made from his "soul."
That may have been a Ripple he inherited from Will A. Zeppeli.--- He
used that Ripple to manipulate the zombie subordinate I had brought with me to
stop the boat's paddlewheel, it's screw shaft.
That was the ruin of the manipulated zombie that once was the
Chinaman who sold me the Eastern drug, the poison that I fed to my father and
adoptive father, Wang Chen.--- Even there, I could not help but feel a strange
connection, or rather, "gravity '