It was the middle of summer and the town was bustling with people, teenagers living life as they pleased since school wasn’t taking up their entire day. Caesar was settled behind the counter of her bakery, listening to the sound of children laughing in the park across the street. She was leaning against the counter, her eyes closed lightly as she listened to the world around her, ears twitching at any new sound falling within her range of hearing.
What a lovely, quiet little town. I’m glad I settled down here instead of Tokyo. Caesar thought to herself in her dreamy daze. She did look like she was about to passout outside of her thoughts, since she’d been standing there with her eyes closed for so long. They weren’t busy at all, so she didn’t really care anyways.
“Oh, you can see that?” He asked, “That’s Star Platinum. It’s a Stand. I’m just using it to help speed up the process of looking through the files. Three sets of hands are better than two, you know?”
He continued to search through the files, and Star Platinum looked over to her, and waved, before returning. To work, flipping through files, looking over them, and continuing to search.
Star Platinum? Stand? Is that what my little friend is? Caesar thought as she stared at Star in awe, waving back and giggling at him. So far she liked stands, they were cute.
She summoned her own, a little pink bunny that hopped over to Jowi and rubbed against his leg like a cat. Caesar sat down with a stack of papers to help look through them.
Jowi glanced at the Stand, and looked over to it, reaching over to pat it on the head, but his hand went right through it, and he nodded, “Right…” he mumbled, as he found a page with the desired name on it,
“Here! Kira Yoshikage! It says he ordered a cake… shaped like a hand… yeah that’s not creepy at all. Did he come here often? I need to know as much about him as you can tell me!”
Caesar felt an odd sensation on the top of her head and looked up at him as he found the paper. “Hand… cake? That guy? He requested me to paint the cake’s fingernails and make the frosting soft and smooth.. he also asked who’s hand I referenced for the shape and lines! When I told him my hand he got this… weird look on his face and kissed my hands.. Told me to keep my fingernails clean before he left. There might be an address connected to the order number because we only take credit cards for custom orders.. Can I see the paper?”
Caesar stood up, her little stand pawing at his feet now, desperate for love and attention like a little scamp. It wiggled over to paw at Star, crying out like an actual baby bunny, making cute little squeaking noises.
“Okay, wow.” Jowi replied, handing her the paper, and looking disgusted, “You are incredibly lucky. That guy is a serial killer with a stand called Killer Queen. He uses it to blow up his victims so that nothing is left behind. Apparently he takes their hands afterwards. I didn’t know how twisted he would get about it…”
Star Platinum picked up the other stand, and began to pet it, slightly confused as it squeaked at him.