JOJO: Bizarre Adventure

Dixon, downtown, in an office building.

"I see, so this is his information."

Wearing a cleaning uniform, Katsuki Nakajima stuffed a stack of documents into his pocket and then went into the restroom.

He wasn't going to the toilet, of course; he was preparing to teleport.

"I'm all set here, you can take me over now."

A few seconds after putting down the walkie-talkie, the rather burly-looking cleaner disappeared into the toilet stall.

Meanwhile, in some corner of the city.

Katsuki Nakajima appeared in front of the mirror, and his first reaction was to use a stand-in to change his clothes.

"With this information, the final chain of evidence is complete."

The next step is to bring the real killer to justice.

"Bloody Mary!"

At this point, Kino had accepted her abilities and the "evil spirit" beside her, and had learned to use her powers under the guidance of her Stand.

"Viktor Galov! Viktor Galov! Viktor Galov!"

After the three shouts, ripples appeared on the mirror in front of them, and a man wearing glasses fell out of the mirror.

The man stared blankly at the scene before him.

"You are... Chino Kuzneev?!"

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This story begins thirteen years ago.

Spring of 1986, a small town in Russia.

A man in his thirties walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and like most people, he took out cigarettes and a lighter from his pocket.

Lev Kempinski Kuzneev divorced his wife amicably because he wanted to use his savings to do business in Dixon.

His wife naturally disagreed, and the still young and impetuous Lev felt that arguing with her was pointless; it would be better to just divorce and divide the property.

So the two divided the family property equally, with the house and car going to the ex-wife, while he took most of the liquid assets.

As for their son, his ex-wife gave him the child without any hesitation.

After finishing his cigarette, Lev hailed a taxi, first picking up his son, Chino Kuzneev Sokolov, and then going to the home of his friend, Igor Sergeyich.

They booked four train tickets to Dixon for the two adults, one child, and their other companion.

His name was Victor Garlov. All three of them were working-class people with some assets, determined to make a name for themselves in Dixon.

After arriving in Dixon, the three of them opened a tavern together and named it Blue Snake.

Under the management of the three, the tavern gradually grew and prospered.

The time came, and it was the summer of 1987.

As Blue Snake Tavern grew, it soon faced funding problems. Just as the three were trying to raise funds, an unexpected event occurred.

When Kino was only six years old, he suddenly fell seriously ill and fell into a long coma, which put Lev in a difficult situation with expensive medical bills.

At this critical juncture, Lev must make a decision: choose between the tavern and his son, or lose both.

In that instant, Lev understood what he truly cared about.

The surgery was successful, but while it took away Kino's illness, it also took away his memories of the previous six years.

Also taken away was Lev Kempinski Kuznev, the owner of Blue Snake, leaving behind only a father who deeply loved his son.

His decision to withdraw his investment and sell his shares at a critical moment caused him to feel deep remorse towards his two close friends.

He never saw his two friends again and lived alone with his child for two years.

He died in 1989 in front of his former best friend's car.

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This story begins in the summer of 1987.

When the tavern encountered financial problems, Igor Sergeić, one of the three owners, ran around trying to attract investment for the tavern.

Just then, he met with an investor.

He was willing to invest in the Blue Snake Tavern, but he wanted to revamp the entire tavern's operating model according to his own preferences.

This condition was opposed by his partner, Lev.

Igor knew he had to keep the deal, or the Blue Serpent Tavern would never recover.

Through an introduction, he found a planner.

To be precise, a criminal planner.

From him, Igor received a risky plan that betrayed his best friend, but it was the only way to save the tavern.

He bought a poison from a criminal planner that would cause some damage to the brain after ingestion, but not to the root cause, and the survival rate of the surgery was extremely high.

This poison can only be produced by this strategist, because it is actually a product of his Stand ability.

That's not important. After devising a complete plan, Igor poisoned Kino, which forced Lev to leave the Blue Serpent Tavern.

He successfully secured the investment, which came at just the right time.

It brought relief from Blue Serpent Tavern's financial crisis, and it also took away one of his closest friends.

He thought he had kept this a secret until that day two years later.

On an ordinary morning in 1989, Igor opened a letter in his office at the tavern.

Upon seeing the contents of the letter, he was immediately terrified and dropped the papers in his hand.

It was a threatening letter that described what he had done in 1987 and then began to blackmail him.

Over the past two years, Igor has conducted several consultations and analyses.

In fact, if this matter were brought to the judicial system, the existing evidence might not necessarily lead to any significant consequences for him.

But if Lev finds out about this, it will be terrible.

Given Lev's personality, he's bound to face retaliation.

The worst part is that if this news gets out, he will be ruined and his business will be destroyed.

He first did as the man instructed, giving him a large sum of money, and then contacted Lev, whom he hadn't seen for two years, and arranged to meet him in a secluded place.

To his surprise, Lev brought his son to the scene as well.

Fortunately, eight-year-old Chino couldn't distinguish between murder and accident, so Lev's death was still classified as a traffic accident.

As for the threatening person, he also found and silenced him through some means.

Around that time, another close friend and partner of his, Victor Garlov, also left the Blue Snake Tavern for some reason.

In the autumn of 1999, he encountered a comatose Kino at the entrance of a pub and, out of guilt, took him in.

Then, in the winter of 1999, he died at the hands of the son of his former best friend.

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The truth of this story goes back to the spring of 1987.

Viktor Galov emerged from an office.

"Okay, Mr. Tarkov, just wait for my news."

Under Victor's deliberate manipulation, the Blue Snake Tavern fell into a financial crisis, and Igor and two others ran around trying to attract investment.

Through Victor's introduction, an investor named Tarkov came into the three's view.

He then hired someone to leak information about the criminal planner to his partner, Igor.

Everything went as he planned; Lev left the tavern, and the financial crisis was resolved.

Less than a year later, the investor was also driven bankrupt by him and withdrew his investment from the tavern, and Blue Snake Tavern returned to its original state.

In the spring of 1989, Viktor felt the time was right, so he hired a conman to write a threatening letter to Igor and extort a large sum of money from him.

He then deliberately released some clues, allowing Igor to find information about the fraudster. Igor's guilty conscience actually helped him eliminate the evidence.

While handling this matter, Victor also sold his shares in the Blue Serpent Tavern. Since Lev had already taken the money and left two years ago, and Tarkov had also gone bankrupt and withdrawn his investment, he now owns half of the Blue Serpent Tavern.

In addition to the large sum of money he extorted, his assets were extremely substantial.

Winter of 1999.

After taking in Kino, Igor investigated his past, and to everyone's surprise, he inadvertently discovered Victor's actions through the criminal mastermind.

He confronted Victor, who naturally denied it.

Igor returned to the tavern, and thinking about how his life had been controlled by the other party all these years, he made up his mind to gather evidence of the crime and fight to the death with him.

However, just as his efforts were beginning to show promise, the assassins hired by Victor came after him.

It was a Sunday evening, after the pub had closed, and Igor was sitting in his office organizing the evidence he had collected.

An assassin climbed in through the window; he was a Stand user.

Victor knew a lot about Stand users; it was a Stand that could paralyze enemies with electricity. The assassin struck first, using the Stand's ability to immobilize Igor on the chair.

Just as he was about to deliver the fatal blow, an uninvited guest arrived.

He quickly hid in a corner of the room, and then saw a teenager with a pistol walk in.

"Years ago, you ran over and killed my father with your car, but you escaped legal punishment. Today is the day you receive the punishment you deserve."

After saying this, the boy fired several shots at Igor, who was already unable to move, and then hurriedly fled.

The assassin didn't kill Kino; his mission was complete, and he felt it was more advantageous for him to have the "killer" alive.

He gathered all the evidence and burned it.

The fire also burned down the entire Blue Serpent Tavern and destroyed Igor's body.

Meanwhile, Viktor Galov was comfortably lounging in his villa, sipping his red wine.