JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run - Readthrough Part 34

Okay, so I didn't know that it was an even trade based off of things surrounding these items rather than the actual item's worth themselves. That clarification makes ALOT more sense! I thought it was just going off of actual value rather than emotional value.

I didn't see the clue so now I feel I might need to go back and watch this video. I probably just wasn't paying attention to an obvious detail

There was a clue to it in the fact that Scarlet said she just read "The Sign of Four," but basically, Lucy in the library found Scarlet's archived library card and checked out the books that Scarlet had recently read. She, upon reading "A Secret Engagement," realized that Scarlet likes other women too, because why else would she have read it?

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I really love the ending to the Sugar Mountain arc of them toasting in the snow with the wine, it's a very bittersweet and powerful ending to a crazy arc filled with lots of great jokes and great action. Also just to explain the trade at the end: Johnny couldn't have just given the corpse parts to anybody, he had to trade them for something, but the only person in the near vicinity who would know what the corpse parts are enough to value them was one o f the 11 men, if he tried to trade them with a random person they would be like "why the fuck would I want a gross mummified hand?", and the wine WAS an even trade because it wasn't really the wine that Johnny was trading for, it was for Gyro's life. It was a similar situation in the casino, there is no way that some string + some bodyguards would cost over 300million dollars (if we take into account the watch and the building they gave away on top of the cash), but it was considered an even trade because Gyro was technically trading THEIR LIVES in a metaphorical way, and that value overrode the financial value of the things they bought. Basically, 'value' is only decided by how much people care about something, we see this in real life too with collector markets, where the ACTUAL value of the item might only be it's production costs, but the emotional value people place on it can amplify that price by thousands.

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