October 15, 1349, Monday, Weather: Haze
"Just in time!" Sno slipped a pair of high-heeled leather shoes onto the tall white-haired doll, then opened his pocket watch and checked the time.
As for the final "Lust," Sno was in no hurry. After all, he had yet to receive the information he wanted.
After resting briefly, a tidal wave of crimson light abruptly appeared before him. When the red glow faded from Sno's vision, he had once again arrived Above the Gray Fog, within that grand hall resembling the dwelling of a giant.
The members of The Tarot Club took their seats one by one. As usual, Miss Justice began greeting everyone in her sweet, lively voice—
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~ Good afternoon, Mr. Devil~ Good afternoon..."
The others had grown used to Miss Justice's opening. After responding with greetings in turn, they entered the diary-submission segment. However, Mr. Hangman had only just emptied his stock, so Sno was the only one submitting a diary today.
I wonder whose house Senior Perrdax went to do masonry work at today. Klein silently grumbled, reaching out to take the parchment sheet covered in writing—
"My Decoy is becoming more and more complete, increasingly resembling the effect from that manga. I'm even starting to wonder whether that person truly was the Ultimate Lifeform, and whether the manga he drew really happened in this world. Or perhaps this world itself is a New World born after time accelerated to its limit?"
"Uh..." Klein's expression turned rather strange as he read that passage. During the years when he had merely been an online keyboard warrior, he had encountered a few JoJo memes, but he did not fully understand everything that sentence meant. Still, he knew that the Ultimate Lifeform referred to JoJo's author. Only now did