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Chapter 90. Jolyne: Damn it! Pucci!!
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—Weakness and ignorance have never been obstacles to survival; arrogance is.
Santana, throughout his entire life, undoubtedly embodied the meaning of this phrase.
After all, before he was smashed to pieces by Joseph and his group's pn, Santana still had tless opportuo win this battle amidst a series of failures.
Indeed, whether it was Joseph's pn to have Santana e his body, bypass the Pilr Man's resilient flesh, and successfully unleash the Ripple from within Santana, tearing him in two; or Joseph's cooperation with Stroheim t Santana—who had lost half of his body and was signifitly weakened—out of the boratory to bask in the sunlight; or Stroheim's self-detonation using a grenade; or leading and luring Santana to jump into what he believed to be an escape route, but was actually a true dead-end—a well;
...All of these efforts by Joseph and Stroheim, except for the st one, were ultimately iive against Santana.
For Santana, none of these posed any signifit threat! Even after being torn in two, all it took was for him to e and assimite Stroheim's flesh to easily regee. The injuries caused by Joseph and his group were no exception. Eve trap—the well—could have been easily avoided if Santana had been more cautious.
Why?
Because Stroheim's hints to Joseph were far too obvious.
If Stroheim had genuinely inteo detohe grenade aroy his body before Santana could fully trol it, exposing Santana to the sunlight, then shouldn't he have immediately pulled the pin to self-detonate? But why did he choose to say so mustead?
It was as if he was waiting for something!
After watg the test episode of "Battle Tendency" and seeing the trick Joseph used to truly defeat Santana, the audieurally uood that Stroheim was deliberately stalling for noon, the time when the sun would shine directly into the well.
To ehis, Stroheim used exaggerated movements to ceal his purpose of looking up at the sun and, before Santana could pletely take trol of his body, moved himself to the well in the pza.
He phe idea in Santana's mind that, instead of running back to the boratory, it would be more effective to jump into the well to escape the sunlight.
Of course, the audience could see this because they khe oute, which led them to ihe process. But for Santana, who could instantly master a nguage from a few exged words, and after gng at a firearm, could disma with precision—something that would take others several hours of practice even with the blueprints in hand—how could someoh higher intelligehan Joseph not have suspected Stroheim's true iions and been led by the nose?
This was no longer a matter of intelligence.
It was that Santana ook Joseph and his group, these "small fries," seriously from the start!
So...
"Why did it turn out this way?"
Jolyne Cujoh, who had already given up, casually browsed through the reviews of this episode of "Battle Tendency." Not only were Stroheim and Santana two actors whht their characters to life with outstanding performances, but evetle between Joseph and Santana—which Jolyne had expected to be criticized by the audience due to the many fws she herself could pick out—had bee the hottest video?!
Especially in the se where many teiques learned from Kamikaze Studio were showcased, pced by the members of Green Dolphin Studio into the battle sequence.
Be it Stroheim's heroic sacrifice or his determination to elimihe monster, or the seemingly desperate situation, where iy, under Akiyuki Shinbo's excellent style, all the traps set by Stroheim were seamlessly ected, culminating in Joseph delivering the final blow alongside the dual sunlight that struck Santana's body under his incredulous gaze.
How did it break out of the niche?!
It was just a bit of fshback, a touch of exaggeration, and special effects that made the sunlight resemble the neighb curry on, bined with Stroheim's sacrifice passing on the hope of victory to the in line...
All these elements, stitched together, might not have been something even Pucew how much was added in.
How did it break out into the mainstream?
Seeing even the media being stirred up, interviewing Pucd other key creators, with Akiyuki Shinbo praising it as all Pucci's idea, while Pucci appeared unfazed, Jolyne Cujoh struggled to suppress her twitg lips and the tears welling up in her eyes, insisting she wasn't angry at all!
Wasn't it just the media doing promotions? And more people starting to pay attention to the works produced by their udio?
And as time passed and the plressed, turning more viewers into fans of their work?
She had just experienced something simir not long aght?!
Why make such a fuss?
For her, for her...
—Damn it!凸(艹皿艹 )!!
Jolyne Cujoh, who had beeending to be happy and satisfied with the success of "Battle Tendency" during the media interview, finally vented her frustration by furiously pung the Pucci-faced pillow on her bed after getting home!
"—Pu↗cci↘!!!"
"—Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!!!"
…
At the same time, in another pce,
Caesar also punched a pillow with Gintoki Sakata's fa it, sending it flying!
"Don't worry, Jonathan, I will avenge you!"
Smiling at Jonathan, who wao stop him but didn't know how, Caesar said, "I will expin to this guy with my fists what it means to be a gentleman and what the Golden Spirit is!"
"No, I actually don't mind…"
