Session 20 (Season 1)

This is the twentieth episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Binding of Chains.

## The Tournament in Orme, Phase 1

Continuing from last time, Flavia, Ruun, Fugo, Jeremy, Kiss and Piero (Cellphone) head out for the City of Orme and arrive thanks to the help of Spruce, who manages the rest of the castle inhabitants. The five head to the sign up area and meet two competitors who go by Sergeant Steel and Johnny, and the two groups of competitors talk for a brief moment before being called up to the tournament stage. Before leaving, Piero uses his Stand to create a replica of himself to enlist in the tournament and they all head out. At the tournament stage, Ruun and Jeremy see a familiar face and spot Bradley, the thought to be dead swordsman, in the group of competitors. Bradley greets the two and catches up with them for a brief moment. Soon after, the first phase of the tournament takes place and all the competitors are forced to traverse two underground tunnels to make it over to the next phase.

Benjamin and Bradley took the left tunnel except they blitzed through the passages using Ben’s Stand. This allowed them to easily make it past all of the other competitors and be the first ones to arrive at a broken bridge over a pool of lava. They easily jump across, and the two speed through to their next obstacle, a broken bridge over a body of water. Bradley takes the chance to use some knives as leverage to swing himself across, Benjamin following suit as they head to the next area. The two inspect and then hop down a hole after exiting the tunnel following the previous bridge. Proceeding them is a staircase going upwards, which they also speed through easily. After making it up the stairs, they break through a metal door to head through a foggy tunnel where Bradley’s leg is momentarily attacked by something. Following this, they arrive at another metal door and bust through it, becoming the first two to finish the first phase, along with a competitor named Alexa arriving shortly after.

Similarly, Fugo, Ruun, and Jeremy take the left tunnel and spend their time sprinting through until they come across a broken bridge over a pool of lava. Jeremy demonstrates his movement skills by having his Stand toss him twice over to the bridge. Ruun and Fugo follow up using Stand jumps and they run further deeper into the tunnels before stumbling upon another broken bridge, this time over a large body of water. They make it across easily and venture further down the tunnels, stumbling upon a hole. After Jeremy carefully makes his way down, Ruun jumps down and is caught by Jeremy and catches Fugo after jumping. Next, they make it to a tall staircase and after some more running and Stand climbing, the group makes it to the top and proceeds into a foggy hallway. Once they make it deeper into the hallway, they arrive at the finish line and see the others.

During all of this, Flavia, Kiss, and Piero’s copy compete against Steel and Johnny and all are riding down the right runnel at high speeds. “Piero '' configures himself into a motorcycle, rides down with Flavia and Kiss on his back while Steel uses her shield to zoom across the tunnel with Johnny hanging onto it and fly by all the other competitors. Both groups reach their first obstacle, a crater filled with spikes separating them from the next tunnel. The two groups fly over using their respective Stands, and they engage in a quick battle in the air with Flavia trying to launch a steel ball at their two enemies. For their next obstacle, they are stopped at a broken bridge which is over a giant chasm. The two groups fly over the chasm easily and make it to the next tunnel, which leads them to this cliffside where they have to get up to a tunnel built on the side of the cliff. When Steel flies up first, Flavia uses her pieces of the arrowhead to give Piero’s Stand a boost, allowing him to create a portal up to the tunnel and fight their two rivals once again and charge the vehicle. Piero creates a portal that sends Johnny and Steel into a pocket dimension, but the two manage to escape and continue their race to the finish line.

Steel and Johnny are the third bunch of competitors to arrive at the finish line, where they see Benjamin (Jacklyn), Bradley, and the shadow of Alexa in a little room with benches laying around while they wait for the others. Back at Flavia, she has Kiss throw Leader down the tunnel and has him cross the finish line, securing Flavia’s place while the rest of the group slowly makes it back using Piero. When they get there they are greeted soon after by Jeremy, Ruun, and Fugo who all have just finished their side of the tunnel. After some chatting between some of the competitors, Flavia’s legs are erased by one of Benjamin’s abilities and she is put in critical condition. Not long after, Kiss rushes in to save her using his Stand to heal Flavia’s legs back to normal and the challengers wait for the next phase to be announced…

## His Wonderful Stand, Part 3

Meanwhile, Kira, Piero, and Cherry continue going through the lower levels of the tower and find three knights standing in a dark room. After Kira lights up the room, the knights try to rush after Piero who is the only person standing in the light of Kira’s bomb. Once they put out the light, they walk towards a staircase they saw after the room was lit up, leading down into this other door which is blocked by something. The two try to force their way through it and when they get through the doors they see 8 other knights standing in front of the door who try and grab Piero. A fight ensues, and Kira tries to punch a hole through a wall to no effect, but puts out two of eight torches in the hallway. Following some running down the hallway, Piero knocks out some more torch lights as he progresses down the hall and when the knights become more and more damaged, their body parts begin to decay off their bodies. Eventually, Kira and Piero manage to put out the torch lights and keep the knights distracted using an incendiary bomb at the entrance in order to keep progressing.

They make it to a doorway and force it open to find an empty room with only a chest in the middle. After hearing some noise coming from below them, the two realise they have to push the chest out of the way and find a secret hatch, which takes them down into a fancier room where they see a knight walking to a small box at the end of said room with the body of a blue haired woman laying in blood. Piero tries to stop the man, but he grabs Piero and blows himself up into that dark essence. The blue-haired woman speaks up to reveal herself as Niente, and he fights the three. At this point, Piero gains the partial power of Requiem from Flavia’s arrowhead shards and sends himself and Niente into a pocket dimension, made to look like Ovo Castle, through a portal. Kira follows soon after, and Piero fights off Niente who is wielding a scythe made from ice by burning his arms with fire generated by his pocket dimension. Kira tries to target Niente’s mantle, by ripping it off of his body and does this with partial success to see that it causes some translucent person to appear around him when it is slightly removed. He traps Kira in ice soon after, but Piero manages to finish off Niente through his Stand knights who beat down on his burned arms and defeats Niente.

When Niente collapses, his mantle changes to a white color and the group takes the opportunity to inspect the fallen man. They find a map targeting the City of Orme, but in addition they also hear something coming off of his body, a female voice calling him “boss” saying he still has a mission to complete.