"Is it over?"
The grown-up Naruto asked, still maintaining Sage Fox Mode as he warily scanned the surroundings, afraid that Dio, the God Tree, Kars, or some other monstrosity might crawl out of the depths of the mist.
"It's over."
Lin Qing looked at the souls drifting across the sky, his resolute voice spreading throughout the Ninja World:
"Everything is over."
"The victors of this war... are us."
After three seconds of silence, cheers erupted across the Ninja World, mixed with laughter of victory and curses aimed at Dio. Yet in the end, there were even more tears shed for the dead.
A faint glow rose from Josuke Higashikata's body.
Not only him—every companion from the JoJo worlds began to glow.
With Dio's death, his pull on the JoJo timelines vanished, and the karmic connections between the eight timelines were restored.
These warriors from different timelines were about to return to their respective homes.
Josuke Higashikata breathed faintly.
Once he confirmed that the war was truly over, the tension in his heart finally eased. Carrying the still-unconscious Yasuho Hirose, he walked over to Lin Qing and asked:
"Yasuho..."
"She's fine."
Lin Qing said, "Let her get a good sleep. Once she wakes up, she'll be completely recovered."
Josuke nodded. The light around him grew ever brighter, and he would be going back soon. He returned the ticket to Tear Town to Lin Qing and asked the question that had weighed on his mind:
"If... at the very end, I hadn't awakened Soft & Wet: Go Beyond, did you have another trump card?"
Lin Qing did not answer. He stepped forward and heavily patted Josuke's shoulder with his right hand.
"There's no point in that assumption. What matters is—you did it."
This had been a victory so difficult that it could