Dolomite's Blue Lagoon (Story Arc)
Dolomite's Blue Lagoon (ドロミテの青い珊瑚礁, Doromite no Aoi Sangoshō) is the fourteenth story arc in JoJolion.
Summary
At the Higashikata House, Josuke and Norisuke discuss what they ought to do, hiding from the rest of the family under the pretense that Josuke wants to try out Norisuke's motorcycle. Josuke shows a footage of Jobin creeping in the garden, and suspects that he is in collusion with the Rokakaka Smuggling Organization, exposing Jobin's possible use as a cover for their smuggling. Norisuke refuses to believe that his eldest may be conspiring behind him, but as Josuke needs to find the Rokakaka for his own mother Holy and his own grandson Tsurugi's life is at stake, he cooperates further with Josuke. Norisuke tells him to go find an unnamed plant appraiser that only he knows of who will be able to find the branch.
Relaxing on a hammock in Norisuke's garden, Kaato Higashikata has been eavesdropping on them and after a brief fight with her ex-husband, Kaato calls Jobin and warns him that Josuke and Norisuke are planning to meet someone. Jobin thus heads to a pond near a shrine. In here he meets with a rock human named Dolomite. Dolomite was crippled in the past when he electrocuted himself while trying to save his apparently mentally challenged girlfriend, and then abandoned by her. Although Dolomite claims he is happy living his life near the pond, Jobin exposes him to the miraculous new properties of the grafted Rokakaka fruit, catching Dolomite's interest who decides to use his Stand.
Some time later, Josuke is given a letter by a courier boy. In the letter, there is a tooth, and the boy starts to act feral, pursuing straight in Josuke's direction even if it means bashing his head against obstacles. Soft & Wet trips the boy up while Josuke goes away from the boy onto the road. Still bloodied, the boy still stands up and relentlessly pursues him. A sudden car gets between the two, and the driver, a mature woman, chastises Josuke for staying on the road. As she accuses him of pulling an auto assurance scam, the boy creeps inside the car, and reaches for Josuke, touching the woman in the process. Josuke blinds the boy, saves the woman, and then tries to take refuge far from the boy and at the same time observing. The boy collapse as people gather to oversee the incident. Wondering who would attack him, as Tamaki Damo had no other ally with this kind of power and there is still no gain in attacking him as he hasn't found the Rokakaka yet, Josuke suspects that someone wants to prevent him from reaching the plant appraiser. Still, Josuke thinks that no one is aware of his search for the plant appraiser but his thoughts are interrupted when he see the same mature woman who has become feral as well and is beginning to menacingly creep toward him from the top of a wall.
Dolomite gives one of his tooth to Jobin, who explains his need to "climb higher" and his intention to find the Rokakaka first with the help of Dolomite's Blue Hawaii.
Back to Josuke's predicament, the mature woman who almost drove into Josuke has become feral like the boy. Josuke sees that the boy has become conscious again and understands that the tooth is important in order to fight his enemy. The woman's attack are relentless, and Josuke, unable to touch her without being defeated, has to constantly flee. Pursued up to a scaffolding, Josuke gets almost bitten but Soft & Wet manages to bash the woman with a shovel and trap her inside a neighboring building. Josuke then tries to put as much distance between the infectee and him.
Josuke calls Yasuho for help, as she is the one person he completely trusts. He explains his situation and instructs Yasuho to go investigate the tooth back at Ryūshō Temple bus station and be sure to not touch it. Yasuho departs immediately to help Josuke.
Josuke realizes that he is in the middle of the crowded commercial district where anyone could attack him. Sure enough, another infectee has come to attack him. Defending himself and fleeing when he can, Josuke successively repels one infectee after the other. However, without Yasuho, he will eventually be defeated.
Meanwhile, Yasuho has come to investigate the tooth, and has identified Dolomite as Masaji Dorokoma thanks to Paisley Park. However, before she can locate Dolomite, Jobin renders her unconscious, throws away the tooth, and breaks her mobile phone to stop her from helping Josuke.
Although Yasuho wakes up, she has no way to find the enemy. At the same time, Josuke keeps being pursued. Having taken a taxi ride, Josuke sees a bird has crashed into the car, then infecting the taxi driver and finally a fly. Realizing that the enemy Stand can control animals, Josuke must flee again and goes into a store to take a bug spray can and kill the fly, but although it died, the fly's corpse still pursues him. Josuke retreats into the bathroom, aiming to narrow the fly's angle of attack, but to his dismay, a baby has been infected and tries to crawl into the bathroom. Unwilling to harm a baby, Josuke lets himself get touched and becomes controlled by Blue Hawaii.
Josuke mindlessly walks up to Dolomite's pond, where the Rock Human interrogates him about his goal and resorts to order him to drown himself at the bottom of the pond. However, Yasuho who had been trailing Josuke, intervenes and bashes Dolomite with a metal bar. The limbless Dolomite cannot defend himself and when pushed into a mud pit, surrenders and reveals that it was Jobin who asked him to attack Josuke. Dolomite then comments that the two became involved with a dangerous business by approaching the Rokakaka, all the more since a new species of the fruit has appeared.
Appearances
Characters
Stands
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Chapters
- 059 (906). Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 1
- 060 (907). Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 2
- 061 (908). Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 3
- 062 (909). Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 4
- 063 (910). Blue Hawaii, Part 3
Volumes
- 15 (119). Dolomite's Blue Lagoon
