With the goal of defeating Diavolo, Lee Sin and Giorno officially became allies.
At the same time, the magma well was completely sealed by their efforts.
“Let’s go…”
“The American convoy is almost here. Let’s leave and find a safe place to talk.”
Lee Sin called out to Giorno to leave, and Giorno quickly nodded and followed.
But just then, an unexpected guest suddenly blocked their way.
“It’s you?”
Looking at the young man riding a motorcycle blocking their path, Lee Sin frowned tightly.
His expression was not pleasant: to save this reckless and stubborn guy, he had almost lost both his and Giorno’s lives.
“Looking for a motorcycle?”
Lee Sin pointed to the ground, which was in ruins after the meat chunk’s rampage. “There, dig around.”
“Haha.”
The young man laughed sheepishly, no longer showing the fierce and angry demeanor he had when he was chasing them with a gun.
He didn’t mention his stolen motorcycle and phone at all. Instead, with a complex look full of excitement, curiosity, and admiration, he deeply examined Lee Sin and Giorno:
“Hello, my name is Guido Mista.”
“Sixteen years old, freelance, my hobby is watching movies, and I hate anything related to the number ‘4’.”
After introducing himself, Mista excitedly extended his hand towards Lee Sin and Giorno:
“You guys…”
“You’re like the superheroes from the movies, right?”
“……”
Lee Sin and Giorno remained silent in tacit agreement, neither of them reaching out to shake Mista’s hand.
But Mista didn’t notice the awkward atmosphere at all.
He looked at Lee Sin with excitement: “One can fly and go underground.”
Then he looked at Giorno: “One can summon a golden warrior and manipulate plants.”
“In short, that terrifying meat chunk… I saw the whole battle!”
“So ‘saving the world’ wasn’t just an excuse to steal a car. It’s all real!”
“You guys are superheroes from the movies!”
“Wait…” Lee Sin and Giorno sensed something was off. “Golden warrior… meat chunk… you can see the Stand?”
“Stand? What’s that?”
Mista asked in an entirely genuine tone.
“You don’t have a Stand?”
Lee Sin tried to explain the concept of a Stand in simple terms:
“Like the ‘Pokémon’ you can play on a Game Boy, a Stand is a kind of ‘creature’ you can summon, that follows your orders, and has a special ability.”
“Only Stand users can see each other’s Stands.”
“Huh? I don’t have anything like that…”
Mista answered with a puzzled look:
“I don’t know why, but I suddenly started seeing that giant meat chunk and the ‘golden warrior’ floating around you.”
“But…”
He mulled over Lee Sin’s explanation, and his eyes lit up instantly:
“You mean, I might be a superhero like you guys?”
“That explains it! I couldn’t see them before, but now I suddenly can—I’ve definitely awakened some kind of superpower!”
“Uh…”
Lee Sin and Giorno exchanged glances, roughly understanding the situation:
The young man in front of them, named Mista, was clearly a novice Stand user who had just awakened his Stand ability and was completely unaware of it.
“Snatching a random person off the street turns out to be a Stand user…”
Lee Sin sighed helplessly:
“Are Stand users like magnets, attracting each other?”
“I’ve encountered…”
He looked at Mista, counting the Stand users he had encountered since arriving:
“One… two… three… four…”
“Huh?”
Mista, who seemed to have an aversion to the number ‘four’, shivered at hearing it. “Am I the fourth?”
“……”
Lee Sin gave him a strange look: “No, you’re the fifth…”
“That’s good.”
Mista breathed a sigh of relief and then very familiarly squeezed in next to Lee Sin and Giorno, asking expectantly:
“Tell me, do I have superpowers too?”
“If I have superpowers, why haven’t I felt them?”
“Can you teach me how to use these superpowers?”
“Can I also participate in saving the world?”
“……”
Mista’s mouth spilled out a series of questions, like a loudspeaker that wouldn’t turn off.
At that moment, the 16-year-old boy, who usually spent his time idling and watching movies, suddenly realized he could potentially be like the movie characters, transitioning from ordinary to extraordinary, from a passerby to a protagonist.
Yes, from Mista’s perspective, he was now fully embodying a movie protagonist:
A 16-year-old delinquent, looked down upon by society, having his mundane life disrupted by a sudden adventure, discovering he could see things ordinary people couldn’t, encountering super-powered individuals battling monsters, and possibly awakening his own special ability.
This script practically begged to be made into a movie.
And Lee Sin and Giorno, these two super-powered individuals who were strangers to him, were clearly the “mentors” who would guide him into the world of the extraordinary, like in the beginning of a movie.
Especially Lee Sin, with his bald head…
In a Hollywood movie, he’d obviously be the “mysterious martial monk” who possessed secret martial arts!
So…
Under Mista’s expectant gaze, the response from the two “mentors” was:
“No time.”
“The fact that you can see Stands means you’ve already awakened your ability.”
“Figure it out yourself. Don’t bother others.”
Only 13 years old, Giorno spoke in a mature tone, casually lecturing the 16-year-old Mista.
“Don’t look at me.”
“Are we close?”
Lee Sin’s response was even simpler.
He merely glanced at Mista before preparing to leave with Giorno.
To him, this unknown “passerby,” a newbie who didn’t even know his own Stand ability, was not worth wasting time on, especially when they were being pursued.
“Hey…”
Mista was disappointed with their cold attitude:
“Don’t go!”
“Can’t you teach me how to control my Stand ability?!”
Saying this, he blocked Lee Sin and Giorno’s path with his motorcycle again, like a sticky piece of gum.
“What do you want?”
Lee Sin frowned, speaking very seriously:
“I must make it clear that I’m currently involved in something extremely dangerous.”
“If you stay too close to me, you might get caught up and even die—just like earlier.”
He wasn’t joking.
Diavolo’s assassins could show up anytime, and this unreliable rookie would likely get caught up in the crossfire if he stayed too close.
In Lee Sin’s eyes, Mista was an ignorant bystander, not someone who could survive the intense battles like Giorno, the natural protagonist.
Ignoring Mista was for his own good.
However, Mista only grew more excited at Lee Sin’s stern warning:
“Extremely dangerous?”
“Exactly… just like in the movies!”
“Senior!”
He exclaimed excitedly to Lee Sin, “Take me under your wing!”
“……”
Lee Sin and Giorno were speechless for a moment, then tacitly looked away and continued walking around Mista.
“Wait!”
Mista caught up again.
Lee Sin and Giorno still ignored him, silently walking in another direction.
For the third time, Mista caught up, blocking their path with his motorcycle:
“You can’t just walk away like this!”
This time, he was a bit upset:
“For taking my phone and motorcycle, you owe me something in return, right?!”
“This… motorcycle?”
Lee Sin seemed genuinely moved, nodding thoughtfully.
“What?” Giorno was puzzled, “Do you really want to waste time on him?”
“No, no…” Lee Sin shook his head, “I just thought of something…”
“What is it?”
“He just reminded me…”
Lee Sin smiled at Mista’s brand-new motorcycle:
“It’s inconvenient to flee without transportation.”
……………………….
Seconds later…
Lee Sin and Giorno sped away on the motorcycle.
Mista, clutching his revolver, which he hadn’t even raised, lay on the ground in a daze.
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