Let the Bizarre Adventure of the Joestars begin.

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Cecilia, listening to the two arguing, could only sigh slightly in the end.

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Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter were having a great time.

Girl and Dragon: Chapter 10 We're Partners!

Not long after they set off, Jeanne and Jeanne Alter realized a problem: as former enemies of the First Singularity, neither Jeanne nor Jeanne Alter knew Jeanne's current location.

The two who realized this eventually discovered that going back to find Gilles de Rais might take less time than searching for Joan of Arc. Furthermore, Joan of Arc Alter was there, so if Joan of Arc Alter put on a show with Jeanne, they could basically guarantee Gilles de Rais's appearance. However, the chances of Gilles de Rais appearing were probably quite slim.

After all, in the previous battles, there had been instances where Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter's strength were synchronized, and since Joan of Arc Alter was not actually Joan of Arc, Jeanne was unsure whether Gilles de Rais would actually appear.

"What should we do, leader?" It was precisely because she realized this fact that Miss Jeanne so decisively handed over the leadership position, which she had been fighting for, directly to Jeanne Alter.

"Huh? What are you saying, team leader?" Ah, it's precisely because their memories are synchronized that this situation is happening between the two of them.

"Sigh~" Cecilia sighed slightly as she watched the two of them start arguing again. "I'm talking to you two."

“Yes, I understand, so we’ll resolve the issue immediately.” Hearing Cecilia say this, Miss Jeanne’s reply was slightly faster than Joan of Arc’s Alter’s.

However, even if Jeanne's answer was slightly different from Joan of Arc Alter's, it didn't stop them from giving the same answer. After all, they shared memories. Although Cecilia only had memories of being with Jeanne, some things were the same for both Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter, who temporarily inherited Jeanne's memories. So it was normal for them to give the same answer. Although the two were slightly different, it wasn't something worth pursuing.

"Really..." Looking at the two of them, Cecilia raised her hand slightly and rubbed her temples, trying to relieve some of the pressure. Although Cecilia was used to acting with Miss Jeanne, the current situation still made her feel a little stressed. After all, Miss Jeanne was already troublesome enough, let alone the addition of Jeanne Alter.

"Jeanne, is something wrong with you two?" Unlike Cecilia's headache, Sirin, unusually, noticed the problem that Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter were facing a little faster than Cecilia this time.

"Pretty much, but this is a problem she should solve, don't you think, Captain Jeanne Alter?" Jeanne quickly answered Sirin's question, but only after answering did Jeanne realize, "You're very perceptive this time, Sirin-chan."

“No, it’s just that you suddenly seem to look a lot like me when I first met you.” Sirin looked at Miss Jeanne, hesitated for a moment, and then expressed her opinion.

"Oh, I see. But it's normal for things to change, after all, people change." Miss Jeanne looked at Sirin, slightly narrowing her eyes as she looked at the girl she first met in that world, the most important girl to her. Finally, she opened her eyes back to normal and said this to Sirin.

However, after hearing what Sirin said, Miss Jeanne suddenly realized that she had indeed changed a lot, but she hadn't noticed it. Cecilia didn't care about such changes either, so so far, only Sirin had felt this change.

“...Yes, people change.” After hearing Miss Jeanne’s words, Sirin suddenly realized that she seemed to have changed quite a bit since she met Miss Jeanne. However, the bottom line she set back then remains unchanged for both the Sirin of the past and the Sirin of the present.

"Ahem..." Then, Cecilia's cough broke in, seemingly to remind Jeanne and Sirin to pay a little more attention to what they were dealing with: "So, Jeanne, what exactly is the problem you're facing?"

"Ah, I'm sorry..." After hearing Cecilia's cough, Miss Jeanne knew exactly what she should do. After a slight pause, she explained the problem that Jeanne Alter and Miss Jeanne were currently facing.

"So, you two can't find Joan of Arc now? Well, that makes sense, I should have thought of that earlier." Cecilia said with a slight sigh after hearing about the problems that Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter had encountered.

“Yes, that’s the problem. So I have a plan now, although it’s not a great one, but it’s feasible.” Listening to Cecilia’s words, Miss Jeanne nodded slightly: “As for the plan, it’s simply to go back and look for any clues that Gilles de Rais might have left behind, although the clues may have been mostly destroyed in my battle with Jeanne Alter.”

"After all that, you're just trying to tell me that we two should go back to our old ways? There's nothing wrong with going back to our old ways, but finding traces after a battle is a real hassle." After listening to Miss Jeanne's plan, Cecilia sighed and then used another kind of appeal to tell Miss Jeanne that she agreed to the plan.

“I know, and half an hour is more than enough time for Gilles de Rais to clean up his tracks. Although, given his circumstances, he probably won’t even care about the tracks he leaves behind, it’s still such a hassle.” Miss Jeanne sighed slightly and began to complain about the inconvenience of her proposed solution.

“Even if it’s troublesome, we have no choice but to do it, right, partner?” Cecilia walked over to Jeanne’s side, patted Jeanne’s shoulder, and said this to her as a final gesture.

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"Even if it's troublesome, we have no choice but to do it. After all, we're detectives."

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I was wrong, I shouldn't have watched the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid movie.

Girl and Dragon: Chapter Eleven is a Detective Story

Just hours ago, the castle was intact, but now it's a complete mess. Jeanne and Cecilia are tasked with finding traces of Gilles de Rais left behind in the castle under these circumstances.

"Oh dear, searching for clues in these ruins is really troublesome," Miss Jeanne sighed as she rummaged through the rubble.

"So, why does your fight between the two spatial ability users cause so much destruction?" Cecilia said, lifting a boulder weighing several tons, as she complained about Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter.

"Because this guy didn't know to fight in the imaginary space, and I didn't have time to deploy the imaginary space at that time, so this was the only thing I could do." Hearing Cecilia's words, Miss Jeanne quickly shifted the blame to Jeanne Alter.

"No, it was clearly your fault for saying something like, 'Two interesting souls, let's dance,' and then attacking me directly." Jeanne Alter was far faster at shifting blame than Jeanne herself.

"So, in the beginning I just wanted to investigate, how did it turn out like this?" Miss Na sighed slightly after hearing this and said this.

"So after all that, it's still Jeanne-senpai's fault?" Mash remarked as she watched Jeanne and the others work.

"Hey, hey, hey, Mashu, I just told you not to help and avoid messing up the scene, not to complain about me." After listening to Mashu's words, Ms. Jeanne threw a small piece of stone out of the rubble and said this to Mashu.

“Yes, if Jeanne-senpai had only been conducting reconnaissance, perhaps this singularity would have already ended.” Mashu didn’t stop talking about Jeanne-san’s words; instead, she kept hitting Jeanne-san’s sore spots.

"Ahhh, I know, it's my fault, okay?" Listening to Mashu's increasingly sharp retorts, Miss Jeanne began to think that Mashu had become increasingly strange during the days she was away dealing with the other world.

While searching through the stones and pondering this question, Ms. Jeanne quickly found the answer. Although the answer still felt like Ms. Jeanne was right about the question, after all, if Ms. Jeanne hadn't thrown so many entertainment items into Chaldea, perhaps Mashu wouldn't have ended up like this.

'So after thinking about all that, it's still my own fault.' That's the conclusion Miss Jeanne came to in the end.

However, just after Miss Jeanne came to this conclusion, Cecilia spoke up: "Jeanne, come and see, I think I've found something left behind by Gilles de Rais."

"Eh, oh, I'm here." After shaking her head slightly to rid herself of the guilt of turning Mashu into a tsukkomi (straight man) in her heart, she stood up and walked directly towards Cecilia.

"What, did you find something?" Miss Jeanne asked Cecilia as she walked up to her.

“This,” Cecilia said, pointing to the pale red slime on the wall.

Upon seeing this, Miss Jeanne bent down slightly, carefully examined the pale red slime on the wall, and then reached out and touched it.

"EMMMMMM." Miss Jeanne looked at the light red sticky substance on her fingers from the touch and quickly noticed a problem.

"Did you discover anything?" Looking at the silent Miss Jeanne, Cecilia knew very well that Miss Jeanne should have already figured out what this thing meant.

"It should be a liquid secreted by some kind of animal. Of course, it shouldn't be just animal secretions, since animal secretions usually don't have this light red color. So I can be pretty sure that this stuff is a mixture of blood and mucus." After thinking for a moment, Miss Jeanne gave this answer.

“Blood, and mucus, which means it’s an animal. And the French of this era shouldn’t have kept such animals. So that means…” Cecilia listened to Miss Jeanne’s explanation and quickly realized what Miss Jeanne was trying to say.

“Hmm, this must be something Gilles de Rais summoned to defend himself after the battle between me and Jeanne Alter spread here.” After wiping the sticky residue off her fingers on the wall, Miss Jeanne gave this answer.

"So, Gilderley must have escaped along this road back then," Cecilia said after looking at the slime on the wall and then at the road that had been almost completely destroyed by Jeanne and Joan of Arc Alter.

“That should be it. Besides, most of the creatures that secrete mucus are mollusks, so such a small amount of fluid wouldn’t be enough to stop the aftershocks of my battle with Jeanne Alter.” Miss Jeanne concluded, looking at the damaged road.

"So, if we follow the slime, we should be able to find out where Gilles de Rais is?" Cecilia stroked her smooth chin and finally came to this conclusion.

"Okay, let's get started then. After all, the sooner we resolve the singularity, the sooner we can go home." With that, Ms. Jeanne stretched and began examining the mucus.

"...Jeanne-senpai and Cecilia-senpai are so energetic." Mashu remarked as she watched Jeanne and Cecilia get to work.

“That’s to be expected, after all, it’s been a long time since the two of them have worked together to deduce these things.” Jeanne Alter, sitting next to Mashu, closed her eyes briefly to recall the memories she had received from Jeanne, and then said these words.

"What did Jeanne-senpai and Cecilia-senpai do before?" Mashu asked Jeanne Alter, narrowing her eyes as she listened to her words.

"The two of them, their work is no different from what they're doing now. After all, detectives always have to deal with these kinds of things, don't they?" Jeanne Alter answered Mashu's question with a slight smile.

"A detective."

"Yes. He's a detective."

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Chapter Two done, time for bed.

Girl and Dragon: Chapter Twelve - Miss Jeanne Gets a Little Strange

Following the pale red slime, Miss Jeanne and Cecilia quickly found the path Gilles de Rais had taken.

“Jeanne, the trail ends here. It’s up to you now.” Cecilia looked at the undamaged road and walls in front of her, sighed slightly, and said this to Miss Jeanne.

“Okay, I’ll take care of it quickly.” Miss Jeanne looked at the fork in the road at the end and naturally understood what Cecilia meant.

"Does Jeanne-senpai have any methods for reconnaissance?" Mashu asked Jeanne Alter, who was standing beside her, as Cecilia so decisively entrusted the reconnaissance to Jeanne-san.

“Oh, that’s it.” Joan of Arc Alter knew what Jeanne was going to do just by seeing her close her eyes.

“What is that?” Sirin turned to look at Joan of Arc Alter and asked.

“Oh, that’s one of your techniques. But coincidentally, it’s a technique unique to Jeanne. After all, although my magical power is the same as hers, the difference in control is still quite large.” Jeanne Alter explained from the layer of pale black flames that began to spread from under Jeanne’s feet.

“Found my technique?” Sirin followed Jeanne Alter’s gaze and noticed a small problem: Jeanne had a slight grayish layer around her, which meant that Jeanne must be using some method to detect this place. “I think I know how Jeanne found me back then.”

“Yes, Jeanne was practically out of supplies back then.” Joan of Arc Alter said, recalling Jeanne’s situation at the time. “Although she eventually escaped danger, she probably would have died there if she hadn’t been so lucky.”

“Hmm, if it weren’t for good luck.” Hearing Joan of Arc Alter say this, Sirin realized that Jeanne back then might have really been incredibly lucky. Of course, if she hadn’t been incredibly lucky, Jeanne might have died in that forest.

"Hey, what are you two talking about, Miss Sirin and Miss Jeanne Alter?" After eavesdropping for a while, Mashu couldn't help but ask about what Jeanne Alter and Sirin were talking about.

“Sirin and I were talking about your senior Jeanne, although those things happened hundreds of years ago for Jeanne.” Jeanne Alter quickly answered Mashu’s question. Of course, as Jeanne Alter said, those things were indeed a very, very long time ago for Miss Jeanne.

"As for Jeanne-senpai's matter, although I am very concerned, now is not the time to talk about those things. After all, it seems that Jeanne-senpai has already found Gilles de Rais's trail." Listening to Jeanne Alter's words, Mash wanted to know about Jeanne-san, but Mash quickly noticed that Jeanne-san, who was standing there, had already opened her eyes.

"Did you find it?" Cecilia asked directly when she saw Miss Jeanne open her eyes.

"I guess so, we found her. Although we were discovered, if we don't summon the sea monster, Jill can be easily dealt with by us." After thinking for a moment, Miss Jeanne opened her eyes and answered Cecilia's question in this way.

“So after saying all that, we should be able to go now, right?” Cecilia said, hearing Miss Jeanne say that everything was fine. But the moment she finished speaking, Cecilia noticed a slight problem, or rather, a problem that she had noticed because of her years of spending time with Miss Jeanne: “You just said that if Gil doesn’t summon the sea monster, we can easily solve the problem, right?”

"Yes, that's right. As long as Jill hasn't summoned the sea monster, there won't be any problems." Saying this, Miss Jeanne pulled a lollipop from the imaginary space and answered Cecilia's question in this way.

“Then I think you should explain why the ground is shaking right now.” After listening to Miss Jeanne’s words, Cecilia asked her question directly.

“Because Gilles summoned the sea monster.” Miss Jeanne, with a lollipop in her mouth, answered Cecilia’s question in this way. However, it wasn’t really Miss Jeanne’s fault. After all, when Miss Jeanne used her method to detect Gilles de Rais, he was already summoning the sea monster. So, in this case, Miss Jeanne couldn’t do anything about it, even though she deliberately didn’t.

"Sigh~ Never mind, I get it. Anyway, the next thing is to fight the Sea Demon, right? You should tell me the information about the Sea Demon first." Cecilia sighed slightly and asked Miss Jeanne this question after looking at her, who was sucking on a lollipop.

"EMMMMMMMMMM, Super Speed ​​Regeneration. Although there are a few other abilities besides Super Speed ​​Regeneration, if you think about it carefully, Super Speed ​​Regeneration can encompass them all." After a moment's thought, Miss Jeanne revealed the Sea Demon's ability.

"Weakness?" Cecilia asked another question after hearing Jeanne's words. After all, given Jeanne's situation, she probably wouldn't tell unless asked. Although Cecilia could solve it without asking, the reason for the solution was that Cecilia's Black Abyss was wasted. After all, that thing's attribute is considered to be super-fast regeneration. But if there is an easy way, who wouldn't want to use the easy way?

"Weakness? Let me think, it should be Gil himself. After all, the weakness of a summoned beast is always the summoner. Although some summoners are stronger than their summoned beasts, that's not a very important issue. By the way, Gil himself should be located in the core of the Great Sea Demon." After thinking for a moment, Miss Jeanne listed all of Gil de Rais's weaknesses from her memory.

“Then let me ask you another question, Jeanne, don’t you think you’re acting a little strange right now?” After asking this question, Cecilia saw a huge figure appear in her field of vision.