Session 13 (Season 1)

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

## The Holy City, Part 3

**Kiss, Jeremy, Flavia, and Kira** decide to use their time to bathe inside of the castle and more importantly share a nice, steamy bath together. During this bath, they discuss their plan to speak with the King of the Holy City and bring up what has happened to them such as how Flavia originally was trying to figure out why Arancia High School was being attacked, and then Jeremy’s group was teleported into a room inside of a turtle by a young girl. Kira adds to this by saying how the group was once in Hawaii and also knew a man named Bradley and how she spoke with the supposed “leader”, and that she questions why the cult would want them. Afterwards, the butler they met comes into the bath a little surprised they’re using it and tells them they’ll be receiving some fine clothes in the morning. Suddenly, they heard someone spying on the four of them and the sounds of small footsteps, but by the time they checked outside the bath, the person had disappeared.

After leaving the bath, they decided to check the castle some more and enter a library, where Flavia tried to find some information on the Spin through books and Kira tried to find any books about the royal family. Once Kiss knocks a sleeping librarian out further, the group searches the library and Flavia finds a picture book on how to use the Spin. Kira reads up on the \*History of the 7 Arrowheads\*, learning the King originally held one arrowhead but was split into 7, each granting short power increases, but also stating something will happen when all seven are gathered. Flavia is disappointed by the limited information the book gives and when she tries to demonstrate the Spin on a pencil, it appears to not work. The butler comes into the library and requests that they all go to sleep in a fancy bedroom, and the group does so. Early in the morning, the butler wakes up Kira and Flavia through his Stand tendrils, getting their outfits ready to meet the King. Once he fetches two nice dresses for Kira and Flavia, he gives two suits to Jeremy and Kiss and they all head out to the staircase to meet the King.

Various butlers come out to Stand beside the staircase, and a new black haired girl, about 16, comes out of a room, referred to as Princess Cherry. Then, the king comes out of his room located at the top of the staircase, King Jean Pierre Polanreff. Everyone greets him but Flavia recognizes him. Polnareff takes notice of Flavia and recognizes her as soon as she says she’s from the kingdom of Passione. He initially gets ready to draw out his sword, but after confirming that it’s really Flavia, he has the butlers close off the castle to speak with the four in private. He refers to the black hair girl as his great-granddaughter, telling her to leave momentarily, and brings the others to his room. This is where he pulls out an arrowhead of his own, similarly to Jeremy’s, and explains how he’s been inside Mr. President Requiem for 1000 years.

**Ruun and Fugo** face off against a crew of pirates who were holding Fugo and some other men captive previously. When they first fight the crew, the crew is angered by Ruun killing their captain and they try to jump overboard the ship. Once the entire crew does so, they reform into a giant, metallic squid, and begin assaulting the whole ship. This leads to the men Fugo was with to be lost in the battle, while Ruun and Fugo try to defend themselves against the squid. They try to attack the creature’s eye, before it tears the ship further and nearly grabs Fugo if not for Ruun. When the whole ship is destroyed, they’re able to rip the squid’s eye out and go inside of it’s head. After trying to reason with the squid to take it back to the Holy City, it splits back into the five pirates. The pirates decide to deny Ruun’s request and go for one last strike, but dies of it’s injuries after Ruun delivers a punch back. Once they’re able to leave, they realize they’ll have to gather some of the ship’s parts and float back to sea but are saved by the arrival of Piero and Spruce.

Piero and Spruce land directly on top of the two in their ship and bring the two on board. On board, Ruun delivers the news about how various members of Passione including Fugo, Giorno Giovanna, Guido Mista, and Jean Pierre Polnareff were specifically being targeted by the Apex Cult. He warns them about how the Apex Cult has; two cyborgs, one named Benjamin and the other being Singola, the cult holds a drug named Rainbow Dreams, created by a man named Niente, which breaks all logic and reasoning behind Stands. After taking in this confusing information, Fugo, Piero, and Ruun decide to head back to the Holy City on Spruce’s boat and they arrive at a dock. Piero points out that they need to make it to the castle, and Spruce takes them using a fast route before they stop at a waterfall. At this waterfall, Spruce remarks that he is unable to go further because he’s restricted and so Piero, Ruun, and Fugo make their way on a bear-boat that Piero creates out of a raft Spruce hands to him. The three venture through a river, heading into the snowy biome the others before them had, before being chased by a tyrannosaurus rex, which is able to be put at bay by a badger created by Piero. Once they traverse further down the river, they arrive in front of the castle gates with some guards saying they’re not allowed to enter, so the three wait outside the castle in the snowy weather.

**After their encounter with the knight/assassin, Ben and Lamb** decide to rest to refill their stamina and recover from any injuries they have. Benjamin has the idea of raiding a nearby medieval home and launches the couple sleeping out the window and across the city. Once the two get the sheets ready, they two then fall asleep on the bed together. When Benjamin begins to dream, he dreams of a mansion with a man with blonde hair and curls in it, holding the Requiem Arrow. Benjamin takes the chance to launch himself inside the room the man is in, which alerts both the man and another person the first man calls Mista. First, Benjamin tries to smoothly take his way through the encounter with the man by saying that he’s merely lost and that he came from Japan. This fails when Ben mentions his name, and the man instantly recognizes him as a terrorist from Hilo Airport that was on the news. Benjamin quickly attacks the man after failing to speak proper Japanese, and both the man and “Mista” counter attack with punches and bullets respectively.

This man tells Benjamin that a woman warned him about him and how Ben tried to kill Fugo. Benjamin tells Giorno that the incident wasn’t entirely his fault and shows some of Ucelo**’s acid**. After some more fighting, Benjamin begins to drop a ton of info to Giorno about what has been happening such as the fact that he was in the “Holy City”, there are three Requiem arrows, Ben is a cyborg, how Ben fought Fugo and the group he was with. Giorno is dumbfounded by all this information but is even more clueless when Lambrusco shows up. Lambrusco ‘warns’ Giorno that the key to Passione’s survival is a stone head (which was in fact a sleeper agent (Kiss)), and that Requiem is not the answer. With this the two begin to wake up but, they see Giorno receiving a phone call before his power is knocked out.

When the two wake up they see a crowd of people gathered around a stage as a memorial to Hickory, the city’s greatest assassin, who was the person who tried to kill Benjamin and Lambrusco at the church. The two laugh at the celebration and promptly destroy the stage with a tornado and get ready to face off against several guards.