"You say these are my stories, but why is there such a big difference between my 'Heaven's Door' origin and his?"
Kishibe Rohan drew manga very quickly, even faster than Shiina Mashiro who possessed the diary.
Similarly, his speed of reading manga was only faster. With 19 volus of Diamond is Unbreakable and 2 volus of the spin-off Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, maintaining a speed of less than ten minutes per volu, he finished reading all of this before night fell.
Likewise, his understanding of "Stands" suddenly beca much clearer, and he also recalled his entanglent with Sugimoto Reimi.
After the initial disbelief and shock in his heart, during the subsequent three hours of reading, this anxious emotion faded a lot, and he invested more of his feelings into the story of the manga.
The Heaven's Door born from the arrow in the story was almost no different from the Heaven's Door he actually possessed. Even his own sowhat nasty personality in pursuit of reality was portrayed in the story without any deviation.
It was just that in the manga, he successfully gave Heaven's Door a concrete image later, and it beca much more flexible.
But he himself didn't have this feeling. Even after reading all the manga, he didn't feel like condensing his ability into a human form at all.
"I seem to recall a little about Sister Reimi's story. I will go and confirm it."
"And Nanase's story, I don't seem to see any ntion of her existence in these manga?"
Regarding Sugimoto Reimi, because more than ten years had passed, even if he recalled it, his impression of the other party was already very vague. But if all this was really caused by that Kira Yoshikage, he would naturally take action to seek justice for her.
As for Nanase, less than three years had passed since he had a relationship with her. Although Kishibe Rohan had matured a lot in these few years and walked out of that relationship, how could he forget the woman who suddenly appeared in his life and then mysteriously disappeared?
That was also the only ti he, who once vowed to dedicate everything to manga, was shaken by a woman at the end of his adolescence.
Facing Kishibe Rohan's inquiry, Miyauchi Hikage answered his questions one by one.
"You should be able to feel it too. Even in the 19 volus of Diamond is Unbreakable, the images of those main characters have changed a lot in just a few years of serialization."
"This change should be more intuitively felt in your spin-off manga. After all, this is a manga serialized for more than thirty years, up to the ninth part. With such a long serialization ti, there will naturally be many retcons in art style and settings."
For a long ti, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan only had one short story, "At a Confessional." Its second short story, "Mutsu-kabe Hill," was only served up eleven years after the first story ended, when the main story had already been serialized to the seventh part.
Then, in the following ten years or so, more than ten short stories were updated successively, making up two volus of manga.
At the sa ti, when the serialization of the eighth part began, the story stage returned to Morioh Town, and the worldview of Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan released later automatically ca to the Morioh Town of the new world, which could be known from the ntion of the Higashikata family in "The Poaching Reef."
Until the beginning of Jojo Part 9, Kishibe Rohan briefly reappeared as a guide at the beginning, confirming that he indeed obtained the sa Stand in the new world in another form.
Miyauchi Hikage briefly explained the plot of Jojo Part 6: Stone Ocean to him.
"After that, the plot of the old world ended, and from the seventh part onwards, it was all content of the new world. And you are such a character who crossed from the old world to the new world. It's just because your image was perfected in the fourth part, so even if you appear again later, there is no need to introduce to readers how you obtained a Stand in the new world."
"At the sa ti, because there are no other Stand users in the story of your spin-off manga, and almost all of them are various monsters and ghosts, the elents of those Stands were gradually ignored in the spin-off, gradually evolving into another separate parallel space-ti."
Miyauchi Hikage pointed to his feet: "Before coming to Morioh Town, I had already confird it. Morioh Town here is based on the eighth part, but lacks the protagonist and villain, leaving only a parallel space-ti with you and so supporting characters."
"As for whether Kira Yoshikage in this world is the cause of Sugimoto Reimi's death, I can't say for sure now. After all, although the other party was the final BOSS of the fourth part, he appeared with a positive image in the eighth part."
"And Morioh Town in this world seems to be a brand new world unfolding with you as the protagonist."
"My purpose in coming to Morioh Town, besides wanting to et you, a character known as the author's sock puppet, is also to confirm whether you have obtained the ability of 'Heaven's Door' and how you obtained it."
After a mont of silence, Kishibe Rohan accepted this setting: "So, I am the protagonist of this world?"
Miyauchi Hikage waved his hand: "To be precise, our world is quite chaotic. You can be considered the protagonist of your story, but there are many other stories in other places, and those stories also have their own protagonists. There are even intruders from outside the world, like , a forr reader."
Such an answer did not satisfy Kishibe Rohan.
What he hated most was this traceless chaos, which would cause great trouble to his pursuit of realism.
"No wonder I sotis feel that things lacking realism always happen in this world. Is it because the stories of those third-rate creators are also projected into this world?"
Kishibe Rohan unabashedly expressed his disdain for those stories, but it was indeed very consistent with his persona.
Even his own creator, he pointed out more than once the plot storylines forcibly set by the other party to promote plot developnt during creation.
However, this seed quite common.
Kasumigaoka Utaha complained that if she wrote the story of Saekano, it would definitely be better than Maruto.
Shinomiya Kaguya said that Akasaka Aka was just a manga artist, and she in the manga was just a puppet for love, not the real her at all.
"This is also quite normal. After all, you are the most perfect creator state imagined by the author himself. It is normal that he himself cannot reach your level." Miyauchi Hikage waved his hand and did not express any opinion on those other so-called third-rate stories.
He took out the separate chapter "Rohan at the Louvre" and handed it to Kishibe Rohan.
"Anyway, you'd better prepare yourself. The story about Ms. Nanase should exceed your imagination, and it is not a problem that the current you can solve."
This short story was a collaborative work launched in cooperation with the Louvre, which was considered quite prestigious.
It was just that the part about the Louvre in the work was actually not much. More of it was the 27-year-old Kishibe Rohan recalling the wonderful story that happened 10 years ago after he t the mysterious female tenant Fujikura Nanase in his grandmother's inn.
The 17-year-old Kishibe Rohan was attracted by the other party, and at the sa ti heard the story about "the darkest painting in the world" from her. Finally, because he drew her image in his manga, he was reprimanded by her, and the two broke up unhappily in the end.
Until 10 years later, recalling this past event, because of the Louvre ntioned by the other party, Kishibe Rohan embarked on a trip to the Louvre to find the truth of that year.
Kishibe Rohan read much slower this ti than before.
His slightly trembling hands also showed his nervousness.
Miyauchi Hikage watched him read until the end, seeing Kishibe Rohan in the manga seeing the darkest painting in the world in the abandoned warehouse of the Louvre, feeling the curse from that painting, and knowing the reason for the birth of that painting and the true identity of Nanase.
Kishibe Nanase was a daughter of the Kishibe family more than two hundred years ago, who married a painter at that ti.
The painter liked his wife's long black hair very much and had been looking for black pignt that could perfectly paint his wife's long hair.
Finally, he found a sacred tree that had grown for two thousand years and found the ultimate black from the sap overflowing from this tree.
It was just that after he finished that painting, he was soon discovered and sentenced to death for his destruction of the sacred tree.
Finally, the painter's resentnt penetrated into that ultimate dark painting, and an unknown creature was bred from that painting.
Anyone with regrets in their hearts, upon seeing that painting, would be pulled into mories by it and directly attacked by past regrets.
And as the painter's wife, Nanase could not be liberated after death because of the existence of this painting, and only wanted to find soone who could end that painting and liberate her.
Finally, after spanning the decline of mystery for over a hundred years, she briefly returned to the world three years ago because of the activity of that dark painting, and t Kishibe Rohan at that ti.
Not so wonderful, and even sowhat awkward encounter when the truth was revealed.
However, seeing Kishibe Rohan with tears in his eyes there, Miyauchi Hikage didn't speak to disturb his emotions.
After all, the only heartbeat in his youth turned out to be his ancestor who had been dead for hundreds of years. Such a thing was indeed not encountered by ordinary people.
It could only be said that as the perfect incarnation of a manga artist in the heart of that old thief Araki, Kishibe Rohan would probably really only grow old alone with manga in his life, and it would be difficult to find a suitable woman to marry and have children.
"So... Nanase is now under the Louvre?" Kishibe Rohan turned the manga to the last page, and closed it after a long ti.
"If this world strictly follows the story developnt, it should be correct. But I told you before, you can only be considered the protagonist of your own story. This world is more chaotic than you imagine."
"Now is the era of spiritual resurgence. New supernatural existences are constantly appearing all over the world. Although the curse on that painting is strong, it shouldn't reach the special-grade level. A place like the Louvre should be guarded by special-grade supernatural beings. Maybe that painting has already been discovered and destroyed by other special-grade supernatural beings."
Miyauchi Hikage said so, and then looked at Kishibe Rohan: "And although your ability is very powerful among ordinary people, and can even be said to be unsolvable, you have also read your spin-off short stories. You should already know the fact that your ability cannot play any role when facing those unspeakable existences."
Why was the spin-off manga called Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (Kishibe Rohan Does Not Move)?
Was it that Kishibe Rohan really didn't want to move?
Wasn't it because he didn't dare to move himself?
In "Mutsu-kabe Hill," he was almost entangled by a youkai bent on dying and then living a happy life. In "Millionaire Village," he was servile in front of the mountain god. In the gym, he encountered the incarnation of Hers and couldn't win with all his might.
Kishibe Rohan, who was originally arrogant and willful in the main story, really couldn't use his strength in his spin-off, and could only constantly remind himself not to seek death and not to cross that red line.
Facing the warning of this mysterious little black man in front of him, Kishibe Rohan had to admit the limit of his ability.
In the main story, he was beaten up, blown up by the boss with a bomb, and after being entangled by a Stand, he could only use that alley of no return to expel the opponent. Even playing rock-paper-scissors almost caused his ability to be taken away.
In his spin-off, he was even more aggrieved facing those unknown existences, and even lost a whole half year in vain because of an unknown "god."
It could be said that even if he knew all the stories now, if he were to face these things again, he would probably only be able to develop according to the original story and couldn't think of a better solution.
Thinking so, Kishibe Rohan felt sowhat down.
But soon, he raised his head again and looked at the mysterious person in front of him with burning eyes.
The other party was a traveler from outside the world who knew their stories. The power of Heaven's Door had absolutely no effect on the other party. Even when he wanted to attack the other party, he would be inexplicably punished.
Such performance was probably not inferior to those mysterious existences in the manga.
Most importantly, Kishibe Rohan could feel the other party's attitude of pursuing fun.
The other party showing the real world in front of him was probably just to get corresponding fun from him!
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