[Technically speaking, Dio doesn't have any room to be talking about any of this. For the second time in his long life, he suffered defeat at the hands of a Joestar not too long ago. Except this time should have been far more permanent than the first. But those happen not to be the circumstances and Dio's business remains simply on pause rather than at an unfinished end. And he will not remain idle, resting on his laurels and lazing about, in the interim. Above all else, Dio is a survivor and he knows himself to be cunning enough that relative to his lifespan, it will not be long until he's eradicated what remains of the Joestar bloodline.]
[Patience is the key. Patience and a tight control over his temper, though the latter will always require some work. But he feels it is only a matter of time before Giorno provides passage to their world and then he can finish what he started.]
[But Dio does not think of Jotaro. Jotaro is insignificant in the end. A temporary setback. Permanent though his defeat that time should have been, it is not the one that ever mattered.]
There was a man long ago once whose power and opposition to me I respected. I believed then that I was at the height of my own power. So, although I had many enemies, he was the only one capable of bringing about my destruction. Our fates were tied to one another the moment we met as children. I understood that back then, but he only came to understand it moments before his death. He recognized his mortality and the futility of his struggle as his body was giving out. Rather than hold himself in denial over the inevitable, he welcomed death when it came for him without giving up.
I have met no other like him as even his descendants pale in comparison to the man he was. So, there is no one else in this world or the next that understands better than I that he was of rare qualities. I don't mention him to tell you that you're wrong about the vast majority. I've been opposed by plenty who behaved exactly as you've described and I've already agreed with you.
But powerlessness is not always that simple and one-dimensional as you're making it out to be and I care little for over-simplifications. If you are fortunate enough to rival someone like that man, you'll find that some see the reality before them and accept it. They find their peace in knowing that it will end without necessarily giving up even in the face of futility.
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[Patience is the key. Patience and a tight control over his temper, though the latter will always require some work. But he feels it is only a matter of time before Giorno provides passage to their world and then he can finish what he started.]
[But Dio does not think of Jotaro. Jotaro is insignificant in the end. A temporary setback. Permanent though his defeat that time should have been, it is not the one that ever mattered.]
There was a man long ago once whose power and opposition to me I respected. I believed then that I was at the height of my own power. So, although I had many enemies, he was the only one capable of bringing about my destruction. Our fates were tied to one another the moment we met as children. I understood that back then, but he only came to understand it moments before his death. He recognized his mortality and the futility of his struggle as his body was giving out. Rather than hold himself in denial over the inevitable, he welcomed death when it came for him without giving up.
I have met no other like him as even his descendants pale in comparison to the man he was. So, there is no one else in this world or the next that understands better than I that he was of rare qualities. I don't mention him to tell you that you're wrong about the vast majority. I've been opposed by plenty who behaved exactly as you've described and I've already agreed with you.
But powerlessness is not always that simple and one-dimensional as you're making it out to be and I care little for over-simplifications. If you are fortunate enough to rival someone like that man, you'll find that some see the reality before them and accept it. They find their peace in knowing that it will end without necessarily giving up even in the face of futility.