JJL Chapter 64
The Plant Appraiser, Part 1 (植物鑑定人 その①, Shōkubutsu Kanteikon Sono 1) is the nine hundred-eleventh chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It is also the sixty-fourth chapter of JoJolion.
Summary
Tsurugi Higashikata narrates the story of the Higashikata Family's curse. The land of the Higashikata is cursed and for generations, the parents of the Higashikata's accursed children sacrificed themselves, resulting in many lives cut short.
Years ago, Kaato Higashikata enjoyed a picnic with her children near the pine tree and the shrine below it, a young Hato chewing on her doll while Jobin scaled a tree. Seeing her son in danger, Kaato begs in tears Jobin to climb down.
Some time later, Jobin went on a trip with a local Scouting movement. Kaato was about to see him off when she noticed that one of his shoelaces was undone, and tied it again in public, to Jobin's embarrassment. At the time, Jobin was a shy and withdrawn child, whose Rock Disease was beginning to take root; thus he had cracks along his body and suffered memory loss. Kaato then meticulously reminded him of every one of his items' locations, also reminding him that there was even a note in his backpack. Later during the trip, the scout leader and one companion took Jobin far away from the group in order to bully him. Both violently hit him and ask him for something, while taking Jobin's pocket money. Because Jobin had memory loss, the two bullies felt safe to torment him. It is revealed that under the bully's order, Jobin was forced to steal Kaato's underwear and bra, and take a photo of her in the shower. Suddenly, another scout came to check on Jobin, but the boy remained silent as the bullies falsely reassured the girl that nothing happened.
Later, one of the bullies had been denounced by the girl scout to the school and the police. The bully, desperate for his future, tormented Jobin again one evening even though he wasn't responsible. The bully then tried to force Jobin to sneak into the girl's house and set fire to it, but that was too much for Jobin who refused to commit this crime. Furious, the bully sprayed the boy with oil and threatened to light his face on fire with a lighter to force him to obey. At this moment, Jobin's Stand awakened. As he grabbed the bully's neck, Speed King boiled the blood inside his neck, causing a stroke.
Jobin went back to his mother for help. Determined to save her son, Kaato took the unconscious bully with her and put him in her car. Panicking, Jobin stated that he had done something to the bully, to which Kaato replied calmly that he didn't do anything; that much he would remember forever. Moreover, Kaato saw an opportunity to live for her son's sake instead of dying as the tradition willed it. She then drove with Jobin to the pine tree and the shrine and dragged the still disabled boy scout near the shrine. At this moment, Kaato told her son that from now on, Jobin would "keep climbing" whereas others would be "left at the bottom". Finally, she instructed her son to take the bully with him inside the hole behind the shrine and bury him.
Since then, Jobin has been a healthy and outgoing teenager. One day, years after the bully had been buried near the pine tree, Norisuke noticed that it has been long since Jobin had his last physical checkup. As Kaato held the infant Daiya in her arms, and instructed a young Joshu to not play with the drying clothes, Norisuke suspiciously looked at his wife.
In the autumn of that same year, Tsurugi explains that the boy's corpse was eventually found and the investigation led to Kaato's incarceration, which she bore with for 15 years for Jobin's sake.
On the bus to find the Unnamed Plant Appraiser, Josuke and Yasuho wait for their destination. Yasuho asks if leaving Dolomite alone is safe, but Josuke thinks that he won't be a nuisance anymore. However, he ponders on Dolomite's words about the Rokakaka. Dolomite has explained that in the grand schemes of things, Jobin is a simple gofer, and he himself too only wish to find his "Blue Lagoon" by healing himself with the fruit. Yet, another group is after the Rokakaka, a group that left Dolomite alive especially because he doesn't know anything about them and for whom the fruit is invaluable. Because Josuke is the result of a new variety of it, Dolomite advises him to back off from the chase for the fruit.
Josuke realizes that Dolomite had also been talking to someone else, who had been watching over him, Josuke, and Yasuho, hidden somewhere. Moreover, that same person must have overheard Josuke's destination. At this instant, the bus driver stands up from his seat and collapses on the floor. The plant appraiser who Josuke is supposed to meet makes his first appearance. Driving the bus, the plant appraiser demands that Josuke protects him as he's been attacked too.
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