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  Chapter 101. Cae—sar!!!

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  When Pucd his team finally established their new produ group, they relied on the chosen actors—arguably the most overpowered existen this parallel world—to successfully cheat and develop eology.

  With this eology, they were preparing to film "Stardust Crusaders," aiming to make it as iic as suitmation with "Godzil," CGI modeling with "Titaniotion capture and 3D teology with "Avatar."

  While they didn't necessarily expect the project to go down in history, they did aim to secure a world-first title for using the Stae teology in filming, leveraging this gimmick to recoup some of the iment in this eology.

  As the shooting schedule intensified, the lives of the audieside Green Dolphin Studio also suddenly became more hectic. Of course, it wasn't because their holidays were over, and they were returning to long hours at work or school. Nor was it because Japan, often pgued by natural disasters due to its geographical location, had been hit by another earthquake or volic eruption.

  No, it was because of something seemingly insignifit:

  —Caesar A. Zeppeli, had died...

  This was truly a trivial event. After all, simir ses had pyed out before. The same Zeppeli, the same act of passing on hope of defeating the eo JOJO while willingly embrag death... Hadn't the audience already seen this in "Phantom Blood"?

  Many viewers still vividly remembered the prophecy that foretold Zeppeli's fate: "In an a room filled with the stench of corpses, when a child opens the door to free the young lion trapped by s, you will burn your wound and soon face a cruel death."

  Long before this se even pyed out, the audience was well aware of the trademark "JOJO" OP spoilers, and thanks to the relentless analysis by i detectives, most had already predicted that the sed part, "Battle Tendency," would carry oradition of the first part, "Phantom Blood."

  But... But still!

  "Death... death is nhtening..."

  "But... I... I am a proud man of the Zeppeli family!"

  "I've ied the proud bloodline of this family!!"

  In the audience's vision, through the full-dive helmet projeg the "Battle Tendency" ses, Caesar, who had poured all his strength into it, finally came within reach of victory!

  After having his pride and signature move crushed by Wamuu in their first enter, Caesar, who had bee uo even stand, was now just oep away from defeating Wamuu! But that st step was also Wamuu's ce to turables...

  Having honed his ultimate move to focus his Ripple into a single point and bining it with the power of rotating bubbles, Caesar created the Bubble Cutter, whiot only ed the fear of Wamuu's Divine Sandstorm but also vastly outperformed his previous teiques. Moreover, since bubbles could refract sunlight like lenses, Caesar, while fighting with the Bubble Cutter, was secretly filling the mansion with sunlight by setting up numerous bubble lenses. Even though they were fighting indoors, away from direct sunlight, Caesar could still illumihe entire mansion with these bubbles.

  But he seemed to have fotten...

  The sunlight refracted by bubbles was insuffit to destroy Wamuu; even Santana could remain active under such light for a while. Let alone Wamuu, who t at using wind to deflect sunlight away from his body.

  Thus, to not miss this rare ce to finish off Wamuu, Caesar had to personally charge forward and strike Wamuu with the Ripple, which had been verified by Joseph to be fully capable of killing a Pilr Man.

  However, Caesar's body blocked the sunlight refracted by the bubbles, and to avoid obstrug his own advance, he couldn't let the bubbles block his path. This created a shadow, giving Wamuu a breathing space—a fatal opportunity to turables.

  And this was Caesar's downfall.

  Uhe Pilr Men, who could regee their bodies and had a high margin for error, Caesar, being human, was fatally vulnerable to serious injury. This single mistake led to his tragic death.

  ...Or so Wamuu thought as he achieved final victory.

  But...

  Dragging his mortally wounded body, Caesar mao reach Wamuu. Seizing the moment when Wamuu let his guard down, even though his near-death body struggled to maintain Ripple breathi aloher strength for an attack—Caesar still mao grab Wamuu's lip ring and, using the earth's gravity and his body weight, ripped it off.

  "Why... why would you do this...?"

  "A non-human like you wouldn't uand."

  Yes, even Caesar himself didn't fully uand why he did it. His father, who had lo home, hadn't even reized him as his son but had still sacrificed his life to save him, a "stranger." His grandfather, Will A. Zeppeli, was said to have died after giving the Ripple power to JOJO's grandfather, Jonathan. Caesar had never uood why this had to be.

  He had even thought he was responsible for his father's death. That JOJO's grandfather had caused his grandfather's death. But now, as he faced his owh, just like his father and grandfather before him, his mind wasn't filled with fear.

  Instead, it was with the thought that, as a Zeppeli, he had to do something! He couldn't and wouldn't die a disgraceful death!

  It's your lucky day, JOJO...

  With this thought, Caesar bihe lip ring with his final Ripple and shouted out:

  "My final act is to pass on the spirit of the Zeppeli, the hope for the future! This is the human spirit!!"

  "Take it, JOJO! My final Ripple!!"

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  Silence.

  Stillness.

  Despite having prepared for this, all the viewers were simultaneously rendered speechless by the se.

  And then, like the calm before a storm, like a silent fuse before an explosion, all the viewers, as if paying tribute or bidding farewell to someone, shouted in unison.

  They shouted: "Cae—sar!!!"