After reading that message, Anthony set down his fishing rod for the moment and scrolled down through the chat.
Jonathan had already ended the livestream. Now, he was sending a string of messages to the group one after another.
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: I've cut the stream for now — what comes next involves some family business, after all...]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: I'm heading back to take Joseph to meet his illegitimate child. However you look at it, what he did was wrong — but we can't let it become any more wrong than it already is.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: Looks like I'm going to have to give Joseph a very thorough talking-to when this is all over.]
Reading Jonathan's messages one by one, Anthony's expression once again turned distinctly peculiar.
He could practically already hear it — the sound of Joseph, not long from now, belting out a wail-laced "OH MY GOD!" at the top of his lungs...
A full-body shudder ran through Anthony. Then he noticed that Jonathan had tagged him in the group chat.
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: @Lord of the White Holy Throne — oh, right. As per what we discussed before, here you go.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit has initiated a resource transfer to Lord of the White Holy Throne.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit has sent you: Arrow · the Third, along with 9,600 Points.]
Anthony stared at what Jonathan had sent and blinked, caught off guard.
The Arrow — that had been agreed upon long ago, no surprise there. But the Points tagged on at the end...
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: These Points are...?]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: They're the reward the chat group gave me during the last support mission.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: For now, though, I have no use for them. The situations cropping up on my end — my current strength is more than enough to handle them. I don't need these Points for any additional upgrades.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: So I thought — perhaps handing them over to you is the better choice. You'll put them to good use. If it's all right with you, consider them my small contribution toward the next group member's resurrection.]
[AAA City Female Ghost: Truly dazzling, Jonathan.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: ...Understood. The genuine article, through and through — that Golden Spirit of yours.]
Anthony typed out his quiet words of appreciation, then accepted everything Jonathan had transferred over — and at the same time, hit the button to recycle the Arrow.
The moment the Arrow's recycling completed, the chat group panel flared with a new notification.
[Conditions for Point acquisition detected as fulfilled.]
[New Main Quest now unlocked.]
[Main Quest · The Next Group Member's Resurrection.]
[Objective: Resurrect the second group member.]
[Optional Condition: Attempt to resolve the hardship the group member faced in life.]
[Rewards: Base reward of 5,000 Points. Upon fulfilling the optional condition, additional Points ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 will be granted based on results. Additionally, one material item of a designated type will be rewarded.]
Right on schedule. There it is.
Anthony took one look at the new Main Quest and gave a knowing nod.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: So then — the next person to be resurrected... that would be Yoriichi, right?]
[Wordsmith of the Great Yan: That's right. Yoriichi is the closest to revival of anyone right now.]
[Strictest Father of the Demon King: Is it my turn already? I've been thinking — having joined this group and not yet accomplished a single thing, I wasn't sure if that was... appropriate...]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Don't worry about it. Our group operates on a simple principle: hop on the train first, buy the ticket later.]
Anthony delivered that answer with a tone that carried layers of meaning.
He genuinely didn't mind Yoriichi Tsugikuni's self-deprecation at all. Relax — how much residual value can a dead man possibly have left?
If anything, a great deal of Yoriichi's value would only become more apparent after he was alive again. And once Yoriichi was resurrected, Anthony would have both Jonathan and Yoriichi available as backup — which meant he'd finally feel confident enough to crack open the worlds of group members with significantly more dangerous difficulty ratings.
Besides, if he was being completely honest with himself — Anthony was actually more interested in Muzan's body than in Yoriichi's resurrection.
Not because Muzan had any particular personal charm, and certainly not because his crossdressing getup was especially enticing. No — it was for one purely practical reason.
The man was, in a meaningful sense, unkillable.
That single fact immediately set Anthony's mind racing toward a certain scheme.
The Angler's Companion Throne — that crafting blueprint he'd had his eye on for a while now. According to its effect description, it consumed life force to perform autonomous fishing. So if he stuffed Muzan inside it... wouldn't that mean a perpetual, year-round source of free labor, working for him around the clock?
The moment that thought crystallized, Anthony felt something loosen deep inside him — like he'd finally cleared a psychological hurdle he hadn't even realized he'd been stuck at.
He even found himself thinking: anyone with a regeneration ability, really, could keep fueling the Angler's Companion Throne indefinitely...
If it weren't for the fact that DIO had died so thoroughly, he'd have seriously considered dragging DIO back too — to work unpaid overtime at whatever fishing factory he'd eventually build on the Primordial River.
After all, squeezing labor out of scum like that didn't cost him even a flicker of moral discomfort. There was no better source of free labor in any world.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Anyway — just sit back and accept the resurrection. That's all you need to worry about for now.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: The first thing to sort out is the body problem. That part's actually manageable — I have some ideas on it. The more pressing issue right now is the Points shortfall.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: We're still about 20,000 short... but that's not an insurmountable gap. I can cover it. It'll just take roughly five days.]
[AAA City Female Ghost: If you can cover it, that's fine — but given the way you phrased that, you're clearly not done. There's something else, isn't there?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: You know me too well. The thing is — we still don't actually know what time period Yoriichi's side is currently at, do we?]
As Anthony put that into words, a brief silence fell over the group chat.
Because he was right. In this group, each member's point of death wasn't necessarily the same as the world's current timeline when they'd first joined.
[Wordsmith of the Great Yan: Then — what if we have Yoriichi temporarily manifest to assess the situation?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Soul recall burns a lot of Points, and figuring out the situation would take considerable time... that's too much waste. With a 20,000-Point gap still to close, burning resources like that seems like a bad idea.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: If none of those options work — then let me go!]
After a brief lull in the group chat, Jonathan suddenly stepped up and proposed a solution.
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: All it requires is a single World Traversal, right? I'm currently the only living member here. I'll go assess the situation — I'll handle the observation, and Mr. Anthony can make the call based on what I find.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Mm... that could actually work. But are things all right on your end for now?]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: Fine. The Speedwagon Foundation and Joseph are busy settling Josuke Higashikata and dealing with the remaining Stand Users still at large in Morioh. With the intelligence we have, they shouldn't run into any serious trouble. And at this point in the timeline, the number of Stand Users created by Yoshihiro Kira is still relatively small.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: Before heading to Italy to recover the Arrow from Diavolo, I should have a decent stretch of free time. Clearing five days is no problem at all.]
Then, after a brief pause, Jonathan typed out something that made Anthony's expression go slowly, unmistakably strange:
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: One last point — and the most important one.]
[Founder of the Golden Spirit: A creature like Muzan... he's an out-and-out villain, isn't he?]
Reading that line, Anthony almost lost his composure entirely.
It hit him all at once.
After sending off the villains from JoJo's later arcs with a moment of silence... and now here he was, preparing to offer Muzan a moment of silence as well.
He'd just barely seen off Yoriichi — the strictest father figure of them all — and now, not long after Yoriichi's eventual resurrection, he'd be welcoming Yoriichi's dear old dad back into the picture.
And then, just as Anthony had finished noting there was a five-day countdown left on the death warrant — he glanced back at the screen—
—and found that an even stricter surrogate father than Yoriichi, Jonathan Joestar himself, had already arrived at the MuzanTV broadcast location.
This wave...
This wave was a double-dad welcome parade.
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