I was born into this world "again" as Kujo Jotaro. I realized I had memories after I gained awareness. It started when I pointed at a picture of a certain starfish in a sea creature picture book and fluently taught my mother things I knew. A small child was calmly spouting academic knowledge they had no business knowing. My mother Holly was quite surprised, but she cheered and said, "Jotaro is a genius!!" Yare yare. After that, I realized that aside from not being able to use my Stand, this world was no different from the one I knew. My father, my mother, my grandfather. My friends. My uncle, my ex-wife, my daughter. ───But there was one thing. Just one thing missing. you wasn't there. In the world I knew, I had already met you by high school. At first, I looked forward to meeting you again. Elementary school, middle school. I thought I'd meet you soon. High school came, and you wasn't there. Kakyoin was there, though. You weren't there, and I graduated. In university, my sphere of activity expanded, so I searched for you myself. You weren't there. Without ever meeting you, carrying these feelings, I got married and graduated university just like before. I came to Morioh Town and found Josuke. Even there, I searched for you, but you weren't there. And then I got my doctorate. I divorced my wife, and she got custody of our daughter. My feelings for you still remained. In the previous world, you died young as a high schooler without me knowing. ...If only you were alive somewhere in this world. Even following the same course as the previous world, there was a hole in my heart that couldn't be filled. That hole remained unfilled, and I turned 41. ――――――――― At a certain American seaside. It had become a habit for Jotaro to come to this beach after work. He does nothing in particular—just sits on a piece of driftwood and gazes at the wide horizon as the sun sets. It's meaningless... he thinks. What's certain is that doing this doesn't fill the hole.