Chapter 15. Friendship, Effort, Victory

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  "Be human, be human, be human..."

  "Tsk, failed again."

  Dio took off the fully immersive device from his head, his face grim as he recalled what had happened in the fully immersive world.

  There was ohing Shuhei Morita wasn't wrong about. The vampire model he reprogrammed wasn't something an average person could handle.

  During the auditions before the official filming, Dio had been kicked out of the immersive state multiple times because his subscious couldn't adapt to the vampire model.

  Despite being a parallel terpart, there were still differences between Dio (in this world) and Dio (in the JOJO world).

  It's like Diego and Dio. Even though they are both Dio and both evil, Diego wasn't as pletely evil as Dio.

  "I... deeply regret my past life... Because I grew up in poverty, it gave me this unnecessary ambition. Poisoning the beor who raised me to seize his wealth... What kind of foolishness did I it!?"

  Although in Phantom Blood, Dio's fession to Jonathan urely for self-preservation, exploiting Jonathan's kio kill him whe his guard down. When Speedwagon revealed his scheme, he also pointed out that Dio's evil wasn't like those who grew up in slums and had to bee bad to survive.

  Dio's evil was innate!

  Speedwagon himself was the perfect terexample. Even without the same support from the Joestar family, he entrusted his life to Jonathan after their fateful enter, which started with him trying to rob Jonathan and nearly getting kicked in the groin.

  Moved by Jonathan's restraint, thinking even people like them might have families who care for them, Speedwagon decided to devote himself to Jonathan. He even transferred his vast oil fortuo Joseph, Jonathan's grandson.

  So, Speedwagon, who had a simir background but made different choices, was sure of Dio's nature. However, like Diego, Dio's evil was influenced by his enviro.

  If his mother hadn't died early, and if he wasn't raised by Dario Brando, Dio might have used less aggressive methods to achieve his goals.

  In esse was a differeween an evil value of 8 and 9. This small difference made it impossible for him to trol the vampire model like Dio in JOJO, instead being trolled by the Stone Mask, like most ordinary vampires in JOJO.

  "I, Dio, succumb to such minuilt!?"

  As Dio thought about this upourning to reality, Jonathan's voice reached his ears after he took off the fully immersive device.

  "Dio, are you practig the model again?"

  "Mr. Morita said this vampire model is very difficult, so we have more time to practid get familiar with it. There's o rush."

  This dialogue, simir to the script world, created a disorienting blend of illusion ay.

  —No wonder full immersion is so popur.

  —Pucci was right; being an immersive aight indeed be more lucrative than being a wyer, even if I find legal loopholes.

  The disorientation sted only a moment. The differeween 19th-tury London and modern Japan was too signifit to linger. Instead, it strengthened Dio's resolve to switch careers.

  "This rhetorily works on kids like you, JOJO."

  "I like the niame JOJO, but that's not my name..."

  Without letting Jonathan finish, Dio, who had put the fully immersive device ba, ehe topic quickly: "You must have heard, right?"

  "Your cousin ied a lot of money in making Phantom Blood. If she spend so much without blinking, what's stopping her from hirier actors to repce us?"

  Deg to step into the immersive field, building a good retionship with Jonathan and the Joestar family became crucial. However, personal improvement was still paramount.

  Building a retionship with the Joestar family was just to leverage their resources to accelerate his growth as an immersive actor and quickly gain fame in this new field. ing his own growth for retionships would be terproductive!

  "After all, unlike you, JOJO, I don't have a cousin who's our boss."

  With that, Dio ignored Jonathan's response and immersed himself bato the script world.

  Victory, then dominance!

  It's that simple, and that's what Dio aimed to do!

  That's why Dio could achieve things that surprised even the experienced Akiyuki Shinbo and Shuhei Morita. It wasn't just his ialent as a parallel terpart and chosen actor. It was also his effort and sweat that far surpassed ordinary people.

  Now, Dio was merely showg the results of his fully haralent.

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