[It would be so, so much easier if they just forgot. If they could just throw the memory over their shoulders and keep walking, discard the knowledge that Caesar Zeppeli and Noriaki Kakyoin had ever existed and forget. Joseph and Jotaro alike could just live the rest of their lives without the shadow of death filling the empty position at their sides.]
[But it wasn't that easy. It wasn't that fair. They had to suffer knowing something had been lost that could never be replaced. For the first time in months, Kakyoin wondered what the last thing he'd said to Jotaro in Cairo was, and he realized he still didn't know. He doubted Jotaro did, and he wouldn't ask--no, he probably wouldn't even talk to him at all about this.]
Caesar-
[His voice faltered and cracked; Kakyoin didn't know what he could even say. Because the more he watched and listened, seeing himself reflected in someone that lived and died fifty years beforehand...]
[...the more he understood how Giorno had thought things were so painfully obvious.]
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[It would be so, so much easier if they just forgot. If they could just throw the memory over their shoulders and keep walking, discard the knowledge that Caesar Zeppeli and Noriaki Kakyoin had ever existed and forget. Joseph and Jotaro alike could just live the rest of their lives without the shadow of death filling the empty position at their sides.]
[But it wasn't that easy. It wasn't that fair. They had to suffer knowing something had been lost that could never be replaced. For the first time in months, Kakyoin wondered what the last thing he'd said to Jotaro in Cairo was, and he realized he still didn't know. He doubted Jotaro did, and he wouldn't ask--no, he probably wouldn't even talk to him at all about this.]
Caesar-
[His voice faltered and cracked; Kakyoin didn't know what he could even say. Because the more he watched and listened, seeing himself reflected in someone that lived and died fifty years beforehand...]
[...the more he understood how Giorno had thought things were so painfully obvious.]
[And then, everything made perfect sense.]