The interests

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The next day

You woke up pretty early, much earlier than you did in your previous universe, despite coming back from the "sightseeing", if we can call it like that, late at night.

The whole excursion Mista and Narancia told you the some stories and tranding gossip of the city, their adventures in different battles and overall how they lived. They also showed you some tricks of how to live in Rome and earn reputation with the locals, especially the vendors who might give you slight discounts if they like you.

You three even organised another "exit to the real world", deciding to go to the opposite part of the city, where the gladiators combat. From that trip, you understood that Giorno was an overall loved and respected emperor, so were his guards. Locals looked at Mista and Narancia as these two were their close friends, so during the whole time you felt pretty secure and protected.

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Soon you heard a knock on your doors, it was Jack

"Hey there, how have you been? Hope everything is good so far" he greeted while coming inside your room

"Yes, thank you! It's pretty cool here even if sometimes i get a bit too bored. Without internet...you know" you answered, not really in the mood to tell him about your yesterday's walk. What you said wasn't a lie though

"Well, we can fix that! If you want, we can go out today after the concert and hopefully you won't be as bored" he smoothly replied, he should've been the local pick-uper in his city after inviting you to a date like that

"Uhm, i'll think about that. Thanks for the offer" you retorted, feeling a bit embarrassed. You didn't dislike Jack, but to be honest you didn't really want to go out with him. Besides, you already organised your evening with your two guards.

"Let me know then, hahaha. See you at the concert" he finger gunned at you and left.

Needless to say, you were happy that the conversation with him wasn't long, maybe you weren't in the mood or maybe you just didn't want to talk with him. Besides, you were too excited for the concert so all you were wishing was for the guards to show up with some dresses and go to the hall.

Now you were alone again, with no clue on when you should've started preparing, that's why you opened your doors and saw that no one was there.

"Weird, Guido and Narancia should be guarding my doors. Probably they got another command. Ugh i want to go to the concert so bad, how long do i have to wait?" You thought to yourself, growing impatient yet excited. To kill time, you decided to listen to some music from your phone and daydream; thankfully the songs made you feel better and you even started lip syncing and doing little dances, no one was looking at you anyways so you could behave like your very true self.

In no time you heard someone knocking on your doors again, finally the guards have arrived.

While Mista opened the doors, Narancia took three dresses of different designs in: one was very similar to a toga, but more fashionable and suitable for a girl, the second one had a high neck and the third one was a normal dress, shorter than the other two.

You decided to pick the toga since it's the most roman dress out of those and you wanted to be "in" instead of being the different one. When will you have another chance to party as a roman with the romans? Besides, both guards recommended that dress as well so the choice was obvious: everyone wanted the toga.

As soon as you changed you clothes, you got accompanied by your new friends to a building external to the mansion, but that was still part of the property. There you met your emperor, who was waiting for you sitted at the best rows. When he saw you, a smile immediately creeped onto his face as his eyes shined, admiring you and your outfit.

"Good evening dear, are you sure you aren't a roman goddess?" he joked, boosting your self-esteem as your looks have been complemented by the boss himself. Nonetheless, you didn't know how to correctly respond so you just laughed it off, blushing a bit.

"Good evening to you too. Thanks again for inviting me. I hope wr'll have a great time!" you said, hoping to receive a good reaction. Meanwhile you saw that there were three sits on that row: one, the central, was where Giorno was sitting, the other one was yours and the third one should've been Jack's. Weird that he hasn't arrived yet.

"Is Jack going to be here too?" You carefully asked, receiving a surprised glance by the emperor

"No, he has to do some research so he won't be able to be with us tonight" Giorno answered pretty confidently, composing himself and getting comfortable in his sit.

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Then, the concert started. You were carefully watching with extreme interest. Some performances were completely different from what you were used to, while some others actually reminded you of your times. The beat of the music, the plots of the theater shows... they were pretty familiar to you, which made all of that even more interesting for you. The fact that the roman empire was similar to your times, not to count that it was a different universe! A whole universe similar to yours! That was just.... Breathtaking.

Your eyes were fully on the scene, not even a world war could distract you from that concert.

When that magical event ended, Giorno offered to take you to your room

"So, did you enjoy this concert?" He started

"Yes, i did very much! It was incredible, thank you for inviting" you joyfully answered

"Dear, stop thanking me for that. You're my guest and saviour, all of what you're receiving is completely deserved" he said in an annoyed tone which disappointed you. You just thanked him, why being so rude about that?

"Alright..." is all you mastered to mumble, but Giorno noticed your change of mood

"If you're free we could do something together, maybe go for a walk in the city or something similar" he asked in hope to both lighten up your mood and actually spend some more time with you

"I thought emperors were busier with their business, but i see you have a lot of free time" you answered, have you got offended? Yes, you have and you also knew that answering like that was risky as hell, but you did it anyways thanks to your big pride

"We emperors are busy, but i'm reserving some time to be with you. I don't want you to feel ignored" he said a bit disappointed, making you feel ten thousand times worse

"Yeah, you're right... I apologise, i didn't mean to offend you, i don't know what's got into me" you said in hope that Giorno will forgive you for your stupid words.

He, then, smiled

"So, do you want to go for a walk?" he asked once again, looking at you

"I actually organised a walk with Narancia and Guido, but i'm sure they won't be mad if i go with you" you answered returning the smile and looking back at him

"Don't worry about them, they'll come with us. We still need guards right?" He laughed and took your hand right after calling the two guards.

Together, you all then went to the city centre.

Before the concert

"Hey what do you think you're doing?" Jack yelled after feeling someone getting a knife on his throat

"You're coming with me" said a mysterious man

"I'll tell the emperor, you stupid motherfucker will get executed for this bullshit" the boy from the future yelled without moving or disobeying though

"Ha ha very funny, let's see how boldly you'll talk in a few minutes" the other man replied one more time, without talking anymore nor answering Jack's questions and threats

"Imperator, this man invited the girl on a date" the guard who kidnapped Jack said out loud

"Hmph, thank you Fugo. From now on i'll think about this little matter myself" Giorno answered, with a very confident smirk

"Yes, Imperator" was all Fugo said before leaving the room and going back to his guarding place

"What the hell is going on? What date?" Jack furiously asked again, not understanding the situation he got himself into

"You think you're smart huh? I told you to stay away from her. No one is going to take her away from me. I'll do everything to make her stay here, because this place is where she belongs, here with ME" the emperor yelled, especially the last part of the sentence. His smirk immediately transformed into a frown and then into and incredible face full of anger and madness

"What the fuck man? You're sick! Let that girl visit your stupid city at least, you idiot" Jack retorted, not fearing anything, which was clearly a mistake

"You'll pay for what you did. Your words, your actions. You touched what you shouldn't have touched and said things you shoudn't have said. I, Giorno, the emperor of the roman empire, will now make you suffer for your mistakes. ! Take him to the room" Giorno proudly declared, preparing his hands to get down to dirty business.