Chapter 340 Farewell
A week later.
Morioh Town welcomed another beautiful sunset.
The afterglow of the setting sun fell quietly in the west, and the azure sky was quietly dyed with blood-red gold.
A warm breeze was blowing in the quiet town. Near Dongfang's house, a car was about to drive off into the distance.
Sitting in the car were Lee Sin, Giorno, Abbazi, Polnareff, and the recruited younger brother Nijimura Gyosho.
The story of Morioh Town has ended long ago.
After a week of relaxation, it was time for them to leave.
"Li Qing."
Jotaro stood by the road and said goodbye to them:
“Have a nice journey.”
He was usually taciturn, so he kept a calm face and spoke the simplest polite words.
If Li Qing hadn't been able to hear the sincere emotion behind Jotaro's calm voice, he would probably have thought that his words "Rest in peace" were some bad execution line.
"Ha ha…"
"In fact, there is no need to make it like a life-and-death separation."
Li Qing smiled and said to Jotaro:
"If nothing unexpected happens, I will go to the United States in two months."
"Giorno and I will visit your home and visit your lovely ."
Jotaro's wife is an American, and he has been living in the United States since his marriage.
Li Qing is planning to help Giorno to whitewash the Passion organization, that is, to switch careers and make legal money.
If he wants to make money, big money that can support an organization, he must use his forward-looking vision as a "reborn person" to go to the United States, which is full of opportunities, to reap some capitalist leeks.
"Maybe we'll see each other more often in the future."
"We are going to invest in the United States, and we need the SPW Foundation to take care of us."
Li Qing spoke very frankly about his desire to curry favor with someone and ask for a lead.
"Um."
Jotaro nodded slightly.
He never cared about business matters, but was just happy to be able to interact with old friends frequently in the future.
Perhaps because he is getting older, the invincible Jotaro is also beginning to be vaguely touched by the departure of his friend.
"Polnareff."
Jotaro turned to look at his old friend who was also sitting in the car:
"Are you really not going to go to the United States with me?"
"No."
Polnareff touched his scarred cheek:
"The United States is too far away, let's go to Italy."
“It’s closer to my hometown.”
Diablo is dead, and his fight is over.
This battle-hardened old warrior had no intention of fighting endlessly.
He wanted to find a place to settle down, maybe get married and have children like Jotaro, so that he could have the family he had longed for.
Therefore, Polnareff simply accepted Giorno's invitation and agreed to go to Italy to work in the Passion organization.
"good."
Jotaro no longer hesitated and respected his friend's choice.
Polnareff looked around outside the car and asked curiously:
"Where are Josuke and Okuyasu, why aren't they here?"
"Josuke and Okuyasu left in an emergency."
"It seems that their friend named Hirose Koichi is in some trouble."
After the final battle, Josuke used the power of Crazy Diamond to repair the arrow that was "burst" by Lee Sin.
The arrow is still kept in Dongfang's house, waiting for the SPW Foundation to take it over.
However, when Josuke's good friend named Koichi came to visit the Higashikata family, he accidentally cut his finger with an arrow, thus awakening his Stand.
Later, the calm Morioh Town began to become uneasy again.
But that's another story, the story of Josuke and Morioh Town.
"This incident seems to be just a love conflict among high school students..."
"Josuke and Okuyasu will take care of it."
Jotaro said with confidence:
"Polnareff, you can go without worries."
"Yeah." Polnareff nodded.
The car engine also starts at this moment and is ready to go at any time.
At this moment, a sneaky figure appeared on the side of the road.
He was dressed casually in a short-sleeved shirt and jeans, with the cowboy hat on his head pulled down deliberately, carefully covering his silver hair and half of his face.
But Polnareff could still recognize this old comrade at a glance:
"Master Joseph!"
"I thought you weren't coming!"
“Shh, shh—”
Joseph nervously signaled Polnareff to lower his voice:
"Don't shout so loudly, Tomoko will hear you."
As he spoke, he deliberately glanced at the nearby Touhou family, where his son Josuke grew up.
"Josuke told me not to go near his house."
"And I can't let his mother know that I'm back."
Joseph said with some helplessness and guilt.
That’s right, he is Josuke’s father, Jotaro’s grandfather, Polnareff’s old comrade-in-arms, Joseph Joestar.
He had arrived in Morioh Town four days ago, and had been busy repairing his relationship with his biological son, whom he had never met.
Come to think of it, when Polnareff first saw this old friend four days ago, he was not as energetic as he is now.
There's no way, Joseph is already 79 this year.
His physical and mental strength inevitably .
In Jotaro's words, the old man's muscles have completely atrophied and he needs a cane to walk. He had a gallstone removal surgery two years ago. He has cataracts in both eyes and a mouth full of dentures. He always sighs that he can't eat T-bone steak and his brain is starting to dementia.
So, when Mr. Joseph, who was the subject of countless legends, came to Morioh Town, all people saw was an old man with a crutch who could not speak clearly.
Although birth, aging, sickness and death are the laws of nature, Polnareff couldn't help but feel sad for the hero's aging.
But this sadness did not last long.
Because Li Qing came forward in time with the genius doctor Giorno:
Do you have gallbladder stones?
Cut it and change it!
Cataracts in both eyes?
Dig it up and change it!
Can't eat T-bone steak with a mouth full of dentures?
With the universal golden experience, we guarantee that there will be no problem for patients to shoot toothpaste commercials.
After changing the problem area, Giorno also took the opportunity to target Joseph's severely aged heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, shoulders, back, arms, and feet...
Except for the brain, everything else can be replaced.
If it weren't for the consideration that old people should look like old people, Giorno could even replace him with a 20-year-old version of young Joseph.
Just like that, in the familiar "Muda Muda" sound that made people feel complicated, Joseph was completely reborn.
He now looks almost the same as he did a dozen years ago.
All his ailments were swept away, and he completely turned back into the muscular old man with unlimited energy.
Perhaps because his body became younger again, Joseph's aging brain gradually regained clarity.
He was able to remain mentally clear and no longer suffered from the occasional symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as before.
"This time I'm here to say goodbye to Li Qing and Giorno."
"I have to thank them for curing my illness."
"I just have to give them a gift in return."
Joseph walked to the front of the car with a smile and looked at Li Qing and Giorno gently.
Giorno smiled back politely, and his natural gentlemanliness made him not show any emotion at all about the gift Joseph mentioned.
But Li Qing's ears perked up and his eyes widened in anticipation:
"Gift?"
"Do you agree with the business plan I proposed?"
He had no fights to fight these days and was bored, so he just finished the action game and simulated the business.
If he can't find any bad guys to beat up in the future, he might really have to change his career and become a business tycoon.
Just like that, Li Qing would talk to Joseph, the New York real estate tycoon, about business dreams and project investments whenever he had nothing to do. All he needed was a PPT to make people suffocate for their dreams:
"Believe me, Mr. Joseph."
"Let's start working together on the smartphone project now. In ten years, you will be the 'Steve Jobs' of the smartphone industry."
"Let's discuss that matter slowly after you come to the United States."
Joseph was obviously not very interested in business matters .
Like Li Qing, he doesn't love money at all, making money is just a by-product:
"My gift to you is something else."
"Li Qing, I heard that you are not actually a stand user, but a Qigong master from Dragon Country?"
Joseph suddenly said with some amusement.
"Uh... sort of."
Li Qing didn't know how to explain the source of his ability, so he simply gave up explaining it.
He said it was qigong which was just weird, and people who knew about it were too lazy to expose it.
But Joseph bluntly exposed Li Qing's lies:
"Hahaha, that's not Dragon Country Qigong at all."
"Because... I couldn't explain it before, but now..."
As he spoke, a sigh of reminiscence appeared on Joseph's face again:
"No one should know Dragon Country Qigong better than me."
"Um?"
Li Qing felt like laughing after hearing this:
Although he is a fake Qigong master...
But how come there is no one who knows Dragon Qigong better than you, a New York real estate tycoon who is of British aristocratic origin?
"Mr. Joseph..."
"Do all of you real estate people in New York like to talk like this?"
Li Qing replied somewhat helplessly.
But Joseph said nothing, he just stretched out his hand calmly:
"Ripple Run!"
Golden light suddenly surged out from his body, as bright as the sun.
"Want to learn?"
"This is the ripple qigong that was passed down from my ancestors."
"You have such a good physical aptitude... it would be a shame if you don't practice."
“…”
“Actually, there really is?!”
Li Qing's body trembled, and he bowed his head:
"Master! I want to learn Ripple!"
He suddenly raised his head again and looked at Joseph with red eyes.
"Uh...why are you looking at me?"
Joseph felt his whole body go numb when he was stared at.
"Didn't you say you would give me a gift..." Li Qing rubbed his hands excitedly: "Where's the Qigong secret book?"
“Are you from 20 years ago?”
Joseph joked helplessly:
"The cheats have been sent to your email, just go back and open your computer."
"Ha ha ha ha."
As he said this, he laughed and retreated to the side of the road, waving goodbye to Li Qing and the others in a casual manner:
"If you have any questions, you can come to the United States to find me. See you later!"
All good things must come to an end.
The car heading into the distance will eventually go away.
However, just when Li Qing was about to set off, another old friend came.
That was Kishibe Rohan. He appeared on the roadside late, carrying his sketchbook that he always carried with him and a thick stack of drawings in his arms.
"A great cartoonist."
"You still remember that I'm leaving."
Li Qing joked with Kishibe Rohan naturally.
He also suddenly realized that along the way, he had unknowingly made so many friends with whom he could joke.
"Before I came here, I suddenly remembered something, so I went home to get something."
Kishibe Rosai explained:
"It's a gift for you."
"I almost forgot to bring it with me, which I promised to give you."
As he spoke, he gently handed the stack of carefully wrapped drawings in his arms to Li Qing.
"This... is Mr. Akira Toriyama's original manuscript?!"
Li Qing held the manuscript in his arms as if it were a treasure, and thanked from the bottom of his heart:
"Thank you, Rohan."
However, Rohan Kishibe did not spend much time on this gift.
He quickly took out the sketchbook in his arms, and the sketchbook showed Li Qing's cartoon image:
"Li Qing, your story gave me a lot of inspiration."
"After the Red and Black Boy is finished, I plan to adapt Mr. Jotaro's story and your story into comics."
"So, what are you going to name your story?"
Rohan Kishibe generously gave the naming rights of the work to Li Qing himself.
This is a very rare thing for him. As a fanatical and stubborn artist, he would never tolerate others' comments on his work.
"What's your name..."
Li Qing gently stroked his chin and said indifferently:
"My story is over."
"You are the author, so you should choose the name."
"That's fine."
Rohan Kishibe sighed softly and didn't dwell on it any more.
Just like that, after the final farewell, Li Qing was finally leaving.
The car started slowly and drove forward along this road that had been destroyed twice.
Jotaro and Joseph stood by the road and watched Li Qing go away.
Kishibe Rohan was quietly thinking during this separation:
"If I were to come and get it..."
“Then the name of this story is…”
The car is driving towards the sunset on the horizon.
The dim twilight fell, bringing the stage to an end.
Looking at this scene, Kishibe Rohan picked up his brush and slowly wrote next to the anime portrait of Li Qing:
"Lee Sin's Bizarre Adventure"
"over."
The brush stopped and the tip of the brush was trembling slightly.
Kishibe Rohan raised his head and looked into the distance again:
Li Qing, who was leaving, poked his head out of the car window at some point and waved at them with a smile on his face:
"Goodbye, everyone!"
"See you later!"
The twilight was getting dimmer, but the bright red sunset was so beautiful.
Sunset may not be the end, but the beginning of tomorrow.
"See you later."
Rohan on the shore said goodbye quietly in his heart.
Then he gripped the brush again and began to paint lightly on the sketchbook.
The cold word "finished" was crossed out.
Now the painting reads:
"Lee Sin's Bizarre Adventure"
“To be continued…”
