Session 15 (Season 1)

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

## The Royal Castle, Part 1

Jean Pierre Polnareff also known as the King of the Holy City and the Consigliere of Passione, began to discuss with Fugo, Kiss, Kira, Flavia, Ruun, Piero, and Jeremy about how the world of Mr. President Requiem came to be. Polnareff described that he and Fugo were involved in a car crash and was captured while Fugo was left to die. Once he was captured, he was probed for information on the Requiem Arrow, an artifact that gives its user the power they desire the most. Then he would be brought alongside a trio of cultists to Giorno Giovanna’s mansion, which contained the Requiem Arrow. These cultists consisted of two men, one who could manipulate air and another anonymous one and then there was a woman who could manipulate an energy Polnareff described as the Ripple. In the ensuing fight that occurred at Giorno’s mansion, the Requiem Arrow was used on the turtle Polnareff had resided in as a spirit as a last resort, and in doing so sucked all those around them into the turtle’s Stand, Mr. President.

Inside of the Stand, Polnareff found himself stranded on an unknown land and had regained a physical body. In this land he met natives who worshipped a figure greatly resembling the turtle which owned the Stand. As time passed he tried to find a way out of the world he was trapped in but was unable to do so, but he had not aged or needed food. Eventually after mapping out all of the islands, he found something in the middle of all of them, a large tower which held the Requiem Arrow. When he tried to use the arrow on himself to return home, it had no effect on the world but he did acquire a new Stand. However, it did have an effect on his maps, giving greater detail to them when they were in proximity of the arrow. Flavia was a little confused by why the Apex Cult sought to keep the world alive, as well as remembering how a young girl transported them all to this world.

Afterwards Polnareff told the group what he did once he got his new Stand, establishing a kingdom of sorts throughout each of the islands and forming the seven main kingdoms; **The Holy City**, which was where the group currently was; **The Aqua City** is a kingdom miraculously built underwater and houses rich amounts of precious metals. **The City of Hearts** is based off of Polnareff's home country, France. **The Jambo Islands** is a set of miniature islands bundled up in the shape of one island, the natives there are particularly relaxed and have nice tropical weather. **The City of Orme** is based off of Italy, with a civilization similar to the Roman Empire. **The East Island** is a more remote island that’s more or less isolated and operates similarly to the kingdom in the Holy City. And then there is the mysterious island dubbed the **Star Land**, with most of the locations in Star Land being nearly identical to the real world, such as the mansion of an ancestor of several of Polnareff's close companions, and the mansion of Dio Brando.

He then went to tell the group that he intentionally split the Requiem Arrow into 7 pieces, in order to ensure that the cultists couldn’t get their hands on them should they enter the world with him. However he says if all seven pieces are reunited, the tower in the center of the islands will return. He also revealed that the maps the group found have the ability to notify if a person from the Real World is present on an island. In addition, Polnareff telling the group how he believes that all of them have somehow been chosen worthy of wielding the Requiem Arrow

Next, Ruun was finally able to give the group the information he got from his dream: Giorno Giovanna, Guido Mista, Pannacotta Fugo,  and Jean Pierre Polnareff having been targets for the Apex Cult, with the reasoning respectively wielding the Requiem Arrow, being a “weak” Stand user, being easily angered, and being a valuable target as the holder of the arrow; devices called Ripple Cannons which could burn through flesh; and a drug called ‘Rainbow Dreams’ which had the ability to awaken Stands that break all logic and reasoning behind Stand abilities, made by a man named Niente. Polnareff clarified by saying that Niente had been dead for 18 years, being the leader of the Narcotics Team he had been killed in a factory explosion fighting Giorno Giovanna and Guido Mista after he refused to follow Passione’s new policies.

Polnareff would reveal to the group that Lambrusco and Benjamin have been active in the Holy City, asking them if they recognized a wanted poster with the duo’s faces on it.  He also revealed that Giorno was indeed inside of Mr. President Requiem, showing them a wanted poster of Giorno labeling him a ‘thief’ and heading towards the City of Hearts. Flavia brought up the young girl they saw before they were all transported inside of Mr. President Requiem, asking Polnareff if he knew of a girl who could shoot light from her back claiming to be “Giorno’s daughter”. He said he didn’t know her and assured Flavia that Giorno did not have kids or even a wife.

Polnareff went on to tell the group of a tournament in the City of Orme which was a competition consisting of three phases; an examination round to determine the competitors strengths, a survival round taking place on a part of the island, and the final phase which consists of tournament styled fights in usually a 1v1 format. But before that would be necessary, he told the group of a way to head to the City of Hearts in order to negotiate for the arrowhead located on the island, by traversing on what would be a biplane he had worked on for several decades. As he was telling the group he would have his (great)granddaughter Cherry go with them to the City of Hearts to negotiate, she teleported into Polnareff’s room all bloodied to warn the others that Lambrusco and Benjamin were inside.

**Meanwhile**, Benjamin and Lambrusco flew straight to Polnareff’s castle and arrived. When they tried to enter they were stopped by a watchman who asked them where they came from and their purpose. They responded with the lie of saying they were from Australia and unfortunately it didn’t fool the guard but when they fought Lambrusco dislocated the man’s neck. When they tried to enter the castle they found a butler, unbeknownst to them he was the butler who had been supervising Flavia, Jeremy, Kiss, and Kira. The butler put up a brave effort against the duo using his tentacles, but he was defeated. After seeing the butler’s body get sucked into a portal, Lambrusco was also sucked in and Benjamin managed to follow him to arrive in a blue and black spotted void, unbeknownst to them the same one Flavia was in during her Spin training.

The duo then saw Princess Cherry, who attacked them for disrupting the Holy City and hurting the butler, Monsieur Maple. Lambrusco refused to fight her, however she was more than willing to fight Benjamin and so the two fought. After a moment of fighting, Benjamin beat her more and more and gave the girl a powerful kick to her [REDACTED], which pushed her to begin coughing blood and be severely weakened. The duo found the exit of the void room, but not before Cherry tried to teleport all three of them into Polnareff’s room. She only managed to teleport herself as the duo protected themselves from her ability and promptly left the void and found the entrance to Polanreff’s room. The duo eavesdropped on the group as they were preparing for the duo’s arrival thanks to Cherry’s warning. Benjamin tried to apologize by giving a note to those inside of the room, but it didn’t do anything. The duo of invaders would remain invisible to the group as both sides prepared for an assault.

**However**, in the panic Piero and Kira left alongside Cherry, taking her with them as instructed by Polnareff to the City of Hearts using the plane and leaving Ruun, Kiss, Jeremy, Flavia, Fugo, and Polnareff to face off against the two men.