ستيل بول رن

> هذه "القصة" تتعلق بكيف نهضت على قدمي. ليس من الناحية الجسدية، ولكن كيف انتقلت من مرحلة المراهقة إلى "البلوغ"'.
>
> جوني جوستار، SBR الفصل 3

***ستييل بول رن*** (スティール・ボール・ラン, *Sutīru Bōru Ran*, سباق الكرة الفولاذية)، هو الجزء السابع من مغامرات جوجو العجيبة. نشر في مجلة الشونين جمب الأسبوعية سنة 2004 وفي اليولترا جمب مابين 2005 و2011.

القصة تبدأ في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية سنة 1890، وتتحدث عن جوني جوستار الفارس السابق والمصاب بالشلل النصفي، والفارس جايرو زييبلي الخبير بفن يدعى الدوران. حيث يتنافسون مع عدد من المتسابقين الأخرين في سباق الكرة الفولاذية الذي يمتد على الجنوب الأمريكي، حيث هدفهم هو الجائزة المالية الكبيرة التي تقدر بـ50 مليون دولار.

ستييل بول رن يمثل إستمرارية جديدة للقصة، وهي مختلفة عن تفاصيل الأجزاء الماضية من السلسلة "الأجزاء 1-6". علاوة على القدرات الأساسية في جوجو كالستاندات. تميزت القصة بالعديد من الإشارات والتلميحات لسلسة الأصلية.

## ملخص القصة

### **سباق الكرة الفولاذية للجري (الفصول 1-4)**

    للحفاظ على الأدب الإنجليزي، يضطر ساندمان إلى الفرار من قبيلته، وتتم مطارضته من قبل رجال قريته ولكن يتمكن من الهروب منهم بطريقة غامضة، ويلتقى بعدها ساندمان بأخته بالقرب من جدار مغطى بثقوب كروية الشكل، وعندما كان يستكشف الجدار وجد صدفتا ورقة من إحدى الصحف يتمحور محتواها على سباق الكرة الفولاذية الذي إقترب موعد بدأه.

يعقد منظم السباق ستيفن ستيل، مؤتمرا صحفيا لتقديم سباق الكرة الفولاذية: "سباق خيول متعدد المراحل في جميع أنحاء أمريكا مع جائزة كبيرة قيمتها $50,000,000. وهناك متسابقون قادمون من جميع أنحاء العالم ومن بين المرشحين هناك راعي البقر ماونتن تيم، والفارس المنغولي دوت هان، والفارس البريطاني دييغو براندو، وقادمون أيضا حتى الأشخاص المجهولين مثل المتحرر بوكولوكو وساندمان".

وأتناء تسجيل جايرو زيبيلي لدخوله، يتحدى لصًا في مبارزة ويجعله يطلق النار على نفسه برمي كرة فولاذية على كتف خصمه. وأحد الأشخاص كان يمر على كرسي متحرك، ولمس الكرة الفولاذية التي لا تزال تدور على الأرض. ووقف للحظات، اسم هذا الشخص هو جوني جوستار فارس عبقري سابق أصيب بشلل نصفي بعد مشاجرة تافهة دمرت حياته.

جوني إندهش من معجزة الكرات الفولاذية الخاص بجايرو، ويصر على أن يكشف له سرها، لكن جايرو يرفض. علي أي حال، جوني يشتري حصانا ويدخل السباق، ومع اقتراب السباق من بدايته، أعجب جايرو بعزيمة جوني وإصراره من أجل الوصول إلى خط البداية وهذا وحصانه مازال يجره. جايرو يعطي لجوني تلميحًا حول الدوران. ومجرد بدء السباق، تمكن جوني أخيرا من ركوب حصانه بنجاح.

### **بداية السباق (الفصول 5-11)**

يبدأ سباق الكرة الفولاذية، ويستقل ستيفن وضيف خاص قطارًا لمتابعة المرحلة الأولى. عندما بدأ المتسابقون في التحرك، أوضح ستيل أن السباق ينقسم إلى تسع مراحل وكل مرحلة تفصلها مدينة مختلفة. يتقدم جايرو سريعًا على المتسابقين ويتفوق بشكل مذهل على اثنين من المرشحين، وهما أرمد عبدول ودييجو، وهذا بفضل قوة كراته الفولاذية. ثم يتم تجاوزه بسرعة من قبل المتسابق بوكولوكو الذي يشجعه مرافقه "هاي يا! - Hey Ya!" مع حظه الخارق. يحاول جايرو منعه لكنه لم ينجح إلا في إعاقة تقدم ساندمان بشكل طفيف حيث يظهر فجأة وهو يتسلق أحد المنحدرات، باستخدام أسلوب جري فريد من نوعه وبه يصبح ساندمان المرشح الأوفر حظًا، لكن جايرو وبوكولوكو وجوني ودييغو يتمكنون من اللحاق به لاحقا. فالحظ والقوة وقدرة التحمل وسرعة التفكير تلعب دورا هاما على التأثير في نتيجة هذا السباق الجنوني. وجايرو محاولا التقدم على خصومه يسخدم وشاحه كشراع من أجل أن تدفعه الرياح بسرعة للأمام وبمساعدة تقنية الدوران الخاصة به يستحوذ على المركز الأول بكل جدارة.

#### **ماضي ستيفن ستيل، وكيف بدأ السباق**

لوسي ستيل وعندما كانت صغيرة في العمر إقترحت على ستيفن ستيل فكرة سباق الكرة الفولاذية، ستيل أعجبته الفكرة جدا، وفي وقت لاحق إتصلت به مجموعة من الرعاة والداعمين من أجل تمويل فكرة السباق وتطبيقها على أرض الواقع. وبسبب هذا يصبح ستيف غنيا أكثر مما كان عليه سابقا، وظل دائما ممتنا للوسي التي أصبح حبه الأول وقد تزوجها بعد ذلك.

### **الغرب: المعارك الأولى**

#### **سباق متعطشي الدماء**

تبدأ المرحلة الثانية من سباق الكرة الفولاذية، وهذه المرة، يتعين على المتسابقين عبور 1200 كيلومتر من الصحراء. يأخذ جايرو على الفور طريقًا مختصرًا خطيرًا وليس أمام جوني خيار سوى إتباعه. ثم يتم مهاجمة الثنائي من قبل أحد المتسابقين الذي يستخدم الصبار المتفجر لمهاجمتهم. ومع ذلك يتمكن جايرو من هزيمته باستخدام كراته الفولاذية. وبعد لاحظات من هاته المعركة، يعثر ماونتن تيم على حصان ذاك المتسابق المهزوم، ويرى أن أثار حدوات الأحصنة الموجودة بقربه غير متشابهة بأثار الحدوات التي إكتشفها في موقع الجريمة السابق.====
إنتهت المرحلة الأولى، وتلقى جايرو فجأة مخالفة من إدارة السباق بسبب مهاجمة وتعريض حياة ساندمان للخطر في وقت سابق من السباق. وجراء هذا تراجع من المركز الأول إلى المركز 21... يقبل جايرو بمرافقة جوني له أثناء السباق، ويعلمه الدرس الأول: "ما يهم هو أن تدور الكرة الفولاذية نفسها". في هذه الأثناء، يتم إحضار ستيفن وزوجته لوسي إلى مسرح الجريمة في أرض السباق، مما يُظهر أن المتسابقين يقْتلون في المنافسة بشكل غامض. وحينها يستدعي المشرف المحلي وراعي البقر الشهير ماونتن تيم للمساعدة على فك لغز جريمة القتل، وهذا بإستخدام مهاراته في تقفي أثار حدوات الأحصنة.

تبدأ المرحلة الثانية من سباق الكرة الفولاذية، وهذه المرة، يتعين على المتسابقين عبور 1200 كيلومتر من الصحراء. يأخذ جايرو على الفور طريقًا مختصرًا خطيرًا وليس أمام جوني خيار سوى إتباعه. ثم يتم مهاجمة الثنائي من قبل أحد المتسابقين الذي يستخدم الصبار المتفجر لمهاجمتهم. ومع ذلك يتمكن جايرو من هزيمته باستخدام كراته الفولاذية. وبعد لاحظات من هاته المعركة، يعثر ماونتن تيم على حصان ذاك المتسابق المهزوم، ويرى أن أثار حدوات الأحصنة الموجودة بقربه غير متشابهة بأثار الحدوات التي إكتشفها في موقع الجريمة السابق.

في وقت لاحق، جوني وجايرو يقومان بالتخيم وجوني يحرز بعض التقدم في تعلم الدوران السريع. وثم تتم مهاجمتهم مجددا من قبل أحد المتسابقين الذي ينتمي لعائلة ثلاثية الأفراد تسمى بـ "بوم بوم"، ويدرك جايرو أن قدمه أصبحت ممغنطة بسبب قدرة الستاند الخاص بالمهاجم، وبعد قتال قصير، يهرب كل من جايرو وجوني منه وبعدها يلتقيان بماونتن تيم الذي يعتقد بأنهم هم القاتلون الذي يبحث عنهم. ويلحق ماونتن تيم بجوني وجيرو، ويدرك الثلاثة أنهم متأثرون بقوة مغناطيسية تجدبهم لبعضهم البعض. ويستخدم "بنيامين بوم بوم" ستانده من أجل شل حركتهم وسحقهم من أجل قتلهم. لكن جوني يوقظ بعد ذلك ستانده الخاص به "تاسك"، يتمكن جوني من قتل بنيامين بوم بوم، ويكتشفوا أنهم تم توظيفهم لقتل جايرو وجوني من جهة غير معروفة بعد.

بناءً على إصرار جوني، يكشف له جايرو عن ماضيه، ويقول أنه هو مواطن من مملكة نابولي، وهو ينتمي لعائلة "جلادين" مشهورة بتنفيذ عمليات الإعدام. وأثناء قيام جايرو ببدء تنفيد إعدامه الأول، تفاجأ بأنه عليه قطع رأس صبي صغير يدعى ماركو، وهو قد أدين بجريمة لم يرتكبها. ولهذا السبب اعترض جايرو على عملية إعدام ماركو، وبالتالي قرر بأن يشارك في سباق ستيل بول رن من أجل أن يحصل على الجائزة المالية للسباق ويحرر عنق الطفل ماركون من الإعدام.

بعد مرور بعض الوقت، يصل إرهابي من نابولي يُدعى اويوكوموفا إلى القرية التي يستريح فيها جايرو، وهدفه هو قتله للانتقام من المملكة. يواجه ماونتن تيم الإرهابي أويوكوموفا ولكنه عاجز عن هزيمته بسبب ستانده المتفجر. وتصبح المعركة سباقًا نحو حصان الزومبي، وهو حصان يساعد على شفاء راكبه، وهو حصان أرسله خادم المملكة لمساعدة جايرو في السباق. وبعد مطاردة طويلة في النهر، تمكن جوني وجايرو من القيام بهجوم جماعي من أجل القضاء على أويوكوموفا الذي يهزم من قبلهم... وبعدها يستمر الثنائي في السباق.

#### **حافز جايرو زيبيلي**

تم الكشف عن الأسباب الحقيقية التي أدت إلى رغبة جايرو في استئناف حكم الإعدام لماركو. معربا على أن ماركو لا يستحق عقوبته، مما دفعه للمشاركة في سباق ستيل بول رن.

وفي الوقت الحاضر، يسترد جايرو وجوني الحصان الزومبي ويعالجان إصاباتهما.

#### **الهدف الحقيقي من السباق**

يظهر ماضي يوسف الرامي، الرجل الذي أنزل يسوع المسيح من على الصليب. وقد رسم يوسف الرامي خريطة تصور أرضًا مجهولة والعديد من النقاط المثيرة للاهتمام.

جوني وجايرو يتعرضان للهجوم من قبل "فريتز فون شتروهايم" الذي تم التخلص منه. وجوني يستغرب ويتسائل عن سبب الهجمات التي يتعرضون لها باستمرار،وهو لايظن بأن الجائزة المالية الخاصة بالسباق لديها علاقة بالأمر، وبعدها أدرك فجأة أن ذراعه اليسرى تحتوي على ذراع محنطة. في هذه الأثناء، ستيفن ستيل يناقش الأمر مع فاني فلانتاين رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. مع وجود خريطة يوسف الرامي في حوزته، مع رغبة شديدة منه بأن يحصل على جثة القديس.

وأثناء مرور الثنائي من وادي الأثار، يتعرضان للهجوم مجددا من قبل "Pork Pie Hat Kid"، وهو أحد تابعيي فلانتاين الذي قام بإختطاف جايرو وعزله عن جوني في الصحراء ولكن جوني يتمكن من إيجاده وهزيمته بمساعدة الستاند الخاص به "تاسك"، جوني بعدها يدرك الغرض الحقيقي من سباق المرة الفولاذية، ويتحدث لجايرو محاولا إقناعه بمساعدته من أجل إيجاد جثة القديس وأنها هي الهدف الحقيقي لمنظمي السباق.

أثناء الإندفاع الأخير للمرحلة الثانية بين كبار المتسابقين، يكتشف جوني موقع الجزء التالي من الجثة.  ويخبره لجايرو، وأثناء إقترابهم من خط النهاية وإقتراب جايرو من الفوز يعرقل دييغو حركته مما يؤدي لفوزه بالمركز الأول، وجوني في المركز الثاني، وبعده ساندمان في المركز الثالث، ويأتي جايرو في رابع مركز، مع غضب عارم من جايرو على نتيجة السباق الذي بدل فيه كل جهده للفوز به. وبعدها السباق ينتقل للمرحلة الثالثة التي مجموع مسافتها هو 517 كلم عبر جبال الروكي. في هذه الأثناء تكتشف لوسي ستيل مؤامرة فلانتاين مع محاولتها لسرقة قلب الجثة منه.

يلتقي جايرو وجوني مع دييغو الذي يتصرف بغرابة منذ سقوطه سابقا في أحد الوديان. مع حلول الليل، لجأوا إلى قرية. ولكن سرعان ما يتحول دييغو8 إلى ديناصور صغير ويهاجم جايرو وجوني. ويمنحه تحوله هذا رؤيتا ثاقبة تعطيه ميزة قوية لصد هجمات جوني وجايرو، ويفران بعدها ليكتشفوا ان القرية بأكملها تحول أهاليها لديناصورات، بعدها يظهر ماضي دييغو الذي وصف معاناته في صغره والعمل في المزرعة مع والدته، وبعد معانتهم من العمل تموت والدته مما يجعل من دييغو مستاءا ومنهارا من وضعه والبشر كلهم، مما تدفعه عزيمته من أجل تحقيق النجاح والمجد والثروة وهذا هو سبب إنظمامه لسباق الكرة الفولاذية. جايرو يتحول هو الآخر لديناصور ويحصل على عيون الجثة، بعدها جوني يتواجه مع المتحكمة والمتسببة في تحول دييغو وسكان القرية إلى ديناصورات وبعد معركة ضارية معها يتم هزمها. وبعدها يهرب دييغو مع العين اليسرى محافظا على قدرات الديناصورات.

#### Interlude: Pdt Funny Valentine's Past

Main articles: SBR Extra Chapter 2
, (Bonus) The Story of F. Valentine

A flashback reveals some of Funny Valentine's past. After surviving a trip into the desert, Valentine became a politician and discovered Joseph of Arimathea's map. It indicated the whereabouts of the nine Corpse parts: the Torso, the Heart, the Left Arm, the Right Arm, the Spine, both Eyes, both Ears, both Legs and the Head. Becoming President of the United States, he sponsored Steven Steel's race to secretly seize every Corpse Part.

### الغرب الأوسط: النضال من أجل جثة القديس

Main articles: SBR Chapter 32
, Third Stage: Canon City

Main articles: A Man's World (story arc)
Main articles: The Green Tomb (story arc)
Main articles: Catch the Rainbow (On a Stormy Night...) (story arc)
Main articles: Silent Way (story arc)

During the final dash, of the third stage, Gyro chooses challenge Diego again. Johnny having known Gyro for a certain amount of time, declares that Gyro lacks a proper drive for the race and will lose there. Gyro angrily rebukes Johnny, but despite his best efforts, Diego stays ahead. However, another racer, Hot Pants, has already crossed the line. Defeated, Gyro admits that he does lack the drive to win.

At 650 km from Kansas City, Gyro and Johnny meet Hot Pants in a forest. They briefly fight over an allegedly stolen cow; Hot Pants revealing his "flesh spray" Cream Starter and Gyro managing to scan Hot Pants' back, seeing the Corpse's Spine and the world "Turbo", and leading Gyro and Johnny to locate the next Corpse's part in Kansas City. Johnny defuses the situation and the three eventually have a truce against a gunslinger named Ringo Roadagain who claims that they won't escape the forest without killing him. The trio confronts Ringo who reveals his Stand Mandom, which rewinds time by six seconds when he winds up his wristwatch. A shootout ensues in which Johnny and Hot Pants are apparently fatally shot, leaving only Gyro alive. Ringo takes Johnny inside and spares the Napolitan but Gyro realizes that Johnny's wound isn't fatal.

Ringo Roadagain's story is revealed: he was once the sick youngest of an impoverished family. One night, his mother and sister were killed by a bandit and he saved himself by shooting the bandit. Ringo then became a gunslinger seeking challenges to "purify" himself. Finally, Funny Valentine employed him to retrieve the Corpse part from Johnny. Chasing away the last doubts within him, Gyro challenges Ringo again and uses Mandom to his advantage by going through a first loop then leads Ringo into a falling splinter of the roof while impales the gunslinger. Acknowledging his defeat and Gyro's growth, Ringo honors him and is finished off. After his duel, Gyro heals Johnny and Hot Pants. Johnny discovers that Ringo has sent a message to Valentine and also that Hot Pants is a woman, choosing to keep it secret. Near Kansas City, the duo crosses path with Pocoloco and Sandman. They exchange information, making Johnny realizes that Diego has found the location of the next Corpse Part.

#### Lucy Steel Gets Involved

Meanwhile, witnessing Ringo's pigeon arriving on the roof, Lucy infiltrates a governmental building and steals the message it carries. Almost surprised by Valentine and his henchman Blackmore, Lucy has no choice but to call Mountain Tim for help and they both escape incognito. Lucy then goes to retrieve the Spine at a local landmark known as the Green Tomb. However, Blackmore discovers Tim's involvement and kills him while his rain-controlling Catch the Rainbow. He then discovers that Lucy was the culprit and rushes toward her location as she uncovers the Spine. As Diego, Johnny and Gyro ride toward the Green Tomb, Lucy is discovered by Blackmore. He takes the Spine from Lucy but is distracted by Jesus-Christ; he is shot by Lucy who escapes with the Corpse Part. Exalted by the miracles around him, Blackmore seals his fatal wounds with raindrops and pursues Lucy. Meanwhile, Gyro and Johnny are unable to get ahead of Diego. In the tempest, they struggle to find the optimal path while Diego's enhanced senses help him. Nonetheless, Gyro's growth expresses itself when he manages to catch up to Diego. After a brief fight, Silver Bullet hurts its leg, throwing Diego out of the race.

The duo then meets Lucy and Blackmore almost at the same time and a fight ensues. Catch the Rainbow immobilizes Johnny and Gyro, but the latter manages to throw a Steel Ball on Blackmore by evaporating some raindrops. Blackmore dies from his wounds, and the Spine enters Johnny's body as the weather calms itself, and the next Corpse part's location reveals itself to the duo.

Johnny and Gyro reach the finish line in Kansas City. Earlier, Johnny, Gyro, and Lucy have seen the locations of the Ears, the Right Arm, and the Legs. The duo has also Lucy to steal the President's Heart, Gyro lending his Right Eye to enable this. In the present, Diego meets with Valentine's henchman. After Diego reveals that he knows about the traitor within Valentine's entourage, Valentine reluctantly cooperates with the British jockey.

#### The Golden Rectangle

Near the Mississippi, Gyro and Johnny are attacked by a combination of Diego's dinosaurs and a strange power which produces effects like cutting or burning whoever touched an affected object. The duo has to flee to the river. Johnny reminisces his sad youth, notably how he blames himself for his brother Nicholas' death and how poorly his father treated him. Considering that the universe is making him pay for his assumed unwitting murder, Johnny loses hope as his Stand proves ineffectual.

An angry Gyro reminds him that Johnny isn't close to master the Spin and introduces the Golden Rectangle, a ubiquitous proportion which is used to form a perfect and infinite rotation. However, Gyro refuses to say more. Sandman reveals himself as the enemy and inexorably corners the duo, even slicing Gyro's legs. On the brink of despair, Johnny realizes that the Golden Rectangle is present in the environment and upgrades Tusk to ACT2. An even shootout ensues, but Johnny surprises Sandman with a bullet made from Gyro's belt and kills the Indian. Suddenly, Hot Pants appears and knocks him out. She steals all the Corpse Parts save a fraction of the Spine.

#### (Bonus) Untitled Stand Chapter

The bonus chapter is an explanation of Stands and their rules. Some of the property of Stands, such as their possible appearances and the rules they are subject to are explained.

Lastly, Araki explains that items and techniques such as the Stone Mask, the Ripple, or the Spin were tools who emulate the power of the Stands.

### The East North Central: To Accept Loss

Main articles: The Land of Promises: Sugar Mountain (story arc)
Main articles: Tubular Bells (story arc)
Main articles: Wrecking Ball (story arc)
Main articles: SBR Chapter 55
, The Victor's Rights

At the beginning of the 6th stage, Gyro notices that 11 horses are nearing them with unnatural synchronization. They also meet Sugar Mountain, a young girl residing inside a giant tree who submits the duo to a trial of honesty. Gyro manages to obtain the Ears and the Right Arm plus various precious goods. However, Sugar Mountain warns the horse racers that they have to spend or exchange fairly everything they have before the sun sets lest they are absorbed into the tree. Gyro and Johnny decide to head to the city but find it difficult to spend their fortune. The Eleven Men attack them in a casino and almost kill them, but Gyro pays the local thugs to become their bodyguards, killing all but one man. However, Gyro is still turning into a tree and Johnny reluctantly trades his Corpse Parts with the last assassin. Sugar Mountain nonetheless salutes their resolve.

Near the Michigan Lake, Diego meets with Mike O., head of Valentine's security staff. Diego reveals that the traitor is most likely a woman, causing the questioning of every woman associated with the Steel Ball Run race. Lucy sees that the search is closing in on her and takes the initiative by approaching the First Lady Scarlet Valentine. With soporifics given by Hot Pants, Lucy manages to approach Valentine while he's asleep but the heist goes wrong when Scarlet discovers Lucy. Hot Pants come to the rescue but a short fight ensues against Mike O. who is killed. However, Lucy is forced to disguise as Scarlet while Hot Pants departs with the Ears and Heart, leaving the Right Arm which was too big for her escape.

Johnny and Gyro have reached a frozen straits which they must pass, but unbeknownst to them their are observed by two enemies. Wekapipo's past is explored: once a member of the royal guard of Naples, Wekapipo broke his sister's marriage on the premise that she was beaten blind. Furious, the husband forced him into exile; having heard of his sister's death, Wekapipo enters Valentine's service.

Johnny and Gyro try to cross the frozen strait, a wolf following them for unknown reasons. In the middle of the strait, they are attacked by Wekapipo and Magent Magent whose Wrecking Ball and 20th Century Boy can make their victim not perceive anything to their left and make Magent invincible while kneeling respectively. Gyro takes out Magent Magent but Wekapipo isolates the duo from the Golden Rectangle by destroying all possible inspirations including Gyro's hand and manages to uncover the Legs from the wolf. At a climactic exchange, Gyro uses snowflakes to recreate the Golden Spin and beats Wekapipo. However, he also reveals that Wekapipo's sister is being taken care of by the Zeppeli Family and enlists him to search for Lucy.

A supplementary chapter first describes Johnny and Gyro's daily routine in the Steel Ball Run. It transitions into the last dash of the 6th stage, in which Johnny and Gyro are racing against Pocoloco. Hey Ya! guides him out of the way of a rift, but Gyro and Johnny cooperate to cross it directly with a makeshift steel rope made from a ball, effectively beating Pocoloco's luck. Gyro finishes at the 1st place and Johnny at the 2nd place.

Meanwhile, Magent Magent crawls back to civilization.

### The North-East: The Hunt Concludes

#### Valentine Takes All

Main articles: Civil War (story arc)
Main articles: SBR Chapter 59
, A Dream of Gettysburg

A flashback details the discovery of "Lucy Steel" 's body from the Fox River. A distraught Steven Steel is convinced that the woman before her isn't Lucy.

145 km West of Philadelphia, Gyro and Johnny are lured by Hot Pants to a local garbage dump inside a building. Gyro and Johnny are attacked simultaneously by various objects they have left behind throughout their lives, who fuse with them and covering them both with a membrane. Hot Pants is then completely covered in the membrane and disappears. A flashback exposes Hot Pants' past: she is a nun who covets the Corpse to absolve herself after she abandoned her brother to a bear.

Johnny is warned to purify himself with water to dissolve the membrane and manages to escape. Suddenly, Johnny witnesses Jesus telling "not to shoot if he doubts, then a new path will open to him". When Johnny goes back into the garbage dump, Axl RO, an agent of Valentine, uses his Civil War to materialize objects of guilt including the specters of people. Johnny is attacked by his father and brother and the situation gets worse when he shoots Ax RO as the attack transfers' Axl RO's own objects of guilt to him. Nonetheless, he suddenly understands Jesus' hint and shoots himself. Gaining the ability to travel into the wormhole created by the spinning nails, Johnny gains the upper hand and grabs the Corpse from afar. He thus forces Axl RO to stab him and is then absolved of his sins. Suddenly, Axl RO is shot in the chest and Funny Valentine reveals himself. The President seizes the nearly all the Corpse Parts and departs before Johnny can attack.

#### Assembling the Saint's Corpse

Main articles: Both Sides Now (story arc)
Main articles: SBR Chapter 62
, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Gyro and Johnny enter Philadelphia. Seeing that Diego Brando is at the 1st place, they decide to confront him and steal the Left Eye from him. At the same time elsewhere, Steven Steel ruminates in his coach. Comparing recent photos, he discovers that somehow Scarlet Valentine is Lucy in disguise. However, Magent Magent appears and shoots Steven because he's no longer useful to Valentine. Soon after, Wekapipo intervenes to protect Steven. The fight ends as Wekapipo imprisons Magent at the bottom of a river by using the Spin.

A flashback details the past of Lucy Pendleton: she was once the eldest daughter of a farmer indebted with the mafia. However, Steven bluffed the mafia who wanted Lucy as a prostitute by telling them he took her virginity and married Lucy to trick them. Grateful, Lucy became loyal to Steven.

In the Independence Hall, Valentines makes a lengthy motive rant to his "wife", who has let the Right Eye slip on the ground and has tried to distract the President. Aroused, Valentine tries to rape his wife's impersonator but when Lucy reveals herself, Valentine is stunned and is stabbed in the throat. Agonizing, Valentine suddenly disappears when a chair falls over him and reappears unharmed. Lucy tries to hide from Valentine in the next room and accidentally finds the Corpse which fuses with her. When Valentine breaks into the room, he realizes Lucy is the host for the Head.

#### Interlude: A Joke from Gyro

Main articles: SBR Chapter 63
, Seven Days in a Week

Gyro tells Johnny a joke, reciting the days of the week while acting progressively crazier, at Sunday, he regains his calm. Johnny notes the jokes and comments that it's really good.

#### Free-for-all in Philadelphia

Main articles: Chocolate Disco (story arc)
Main articles: D4C (story arc)
, Part 1

Main articles: Ticket to Ride (story arc)
 ملف:D4C First.png  Near the Independence Hall, Johnny and Gyro spot Diego and Wekapipo. While Gyro tries to sneak on Diego, Johnny is shot by an unknown party and barely escapes in the sewers with Tusk ACT3. Gyro notices Johnny's absence and tries to go help him. Another henchman named D-I-S-C-O confronts Gyro, who is at a disavantage as D-I-S-C-O's Chocolate Disco allows him to teleport any object within a grid on the ground. Using different layers of air as a lens, Gyro manages to dispose of him. Still, Gyro has no idea of what happened, and the witnesses alternately point Diego, Wekapipo or Valentine as the culprit. A flashback details the life of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion, resurrected under the care of Joseph of Arimathea, he drew the map for Joseph then traveled East until he died in America, his relics scattered across the continent.

A series of flashback finally reveal that Valentine's Stand, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap or D4C, can make parallel universes coexist in the same plane, explaining everyone's confusion during the last minutes. Valentine attacks Diego and Wekapipo and traps Diego in an alternate dimension through a flag. He steals the Left Eye and disappears but Diego then sacrifices Wekepipo to escape to the base world. Confident that the Corpse Parts are only found in his world, Diego continues his pursuit.

In the Independence Hall, a heavily pregnant Lucy is contacted by a mysterious voice compelling her to get away. Due to a series of coincidences, her guards are all incapacitated or killed, allowing Lucy to escape with a wounded Steven. Meanwhile, Gyro asks Johnny to abandon the chase for the Corpse Parts, considering that they've lost. However, Johnny stands up briefly, showing the evolution of his legs, and reaffirms his will to get hold of the Corpse. Gyro accepts to help him and reveals the last level of the Spin, which can be used only by the most skilled horse riders, harnessing a power which can beat Valentine. Unable to locate the Corpse Parts, they resolve to chase Lucy's trail instead. For her part, Lucy has been guided to the river by the voice but realizes that Valentine had lured her to his ship.

### The West Coast: The Power the Saint's Corpse

#### Valentine is Blessed

Main articles: D4C (story arc)
, Part 2

Main articles: D4C (story arc)
, D4C -Love Train-

 ملف:Valentine Powered.JPG  Lucy is forced to embark with her husband. She and Valentine are to go to the last "X" mark on Joseph of Arimathea's map. However, Diego and Hot Pants meet and agree to cooperate and follow a trail left by Lucy, themselves followed by Johnny and Gyro. Diego and Hot Pants eventually catch up to Valentine who's boarded a train with Lucy. A vicious fight ensues as Diego and Hot Pants try multiple times to kill Valentine, culminating in Diego's death, cut in half by the train's wheels. Meanwhile, Gyro and Johnny notice that strange space distortions keep happening around them. In the train, Lucy Steel is turning into the Corpse itself. The space distortions also cause Hot Pants's death when debris converges into her heart. Having been observing the events, Valentine uncovers the true nature of this power: there is a gap into space which only he can enter and manipulate.

Finally, Gyro and Johnny catch up to the locomotive but Valentine has made it impossible to stop the train. Moreover, Valentine is invincible as "harm" itself is being redirected to random places in the world. Gyro throws a Steel Ball, to seemingly no effect. The duo can only stop Valentine's wagon and retreat temporarily. It is then that Gyro exposes some hair attached to the Ball he's thrown. If they harness the rotational energy of their horses when they run according to the Golden Scale, Gyro and Johnny will reach Valentine. Both charge the wagon. The President defeats Johnny first and forces Gyro to waste a Steel Ball to save his partner. Fortunately, Steven Steel transports Lucy out of the wagon and entrusts her to Gyro, forcing Valentine to pursue them toward the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, Johnny sees Valentine's ear stuck on the Steel Ball, and realizes that Valentine didn't notice his wound. Near the water, a wind gust does make Valentine realizes that he's missing his ear, and as Gyro rushes toward him, the President finally grasps the danger the Spin.

#### The Phenomenal Power of the Spin

Main articles: Ball Breaker (story arc)
Main articles: Break My Heart, Break Your Heart (story arc)

Valentine disappears on the ocean floor while Gyro harnesses the Golden Spin with Valkyrie. Despite several decoys, Gyro strikes the real Valentine with the Steel Ball imbued with the Golden Spin. Gyro's new stand Ball Breaker passes through the wall with the Spin energy and induces senescence in Valentine's cells, while Gyro is shot in the stomach. Unexpectedly, Valentines survives. Out of options, Gyro passes on to Johnny a mysterious speech, his lesson n°5: "The shortest route was a detour. It was a detour that was our shortest path."

 ملف:TuskAct4color.png  It is explained Valentine was saved by a pure coincidence which made Gyro's rotation imperfect. Gyro expires and Valentine empties his revolver on his corpse then attacks Johnny. Johnny wastes all but one nail and is unhorsed but at the last moment understands Gyro's hint. Using the Steel Ball on Slow Dancer's leg, Johnny makes himself get kicked into the air in a Golden Scale leg movement and is imbued with the Golden Spin. Tusk ACT4 appears.

Tusk ACT4 forces its way into the dimensional gap then pummels D4C with enough force to form a crater on the ground at the bottom of which Valentine escapes. The President soon discovers that the Golden Spin is following him no matter which dimension he flees to and despairs.

A flashback details a young Funny's meeting with his future father-in-law Captain Valentine and his lesson about patriotism. Given resolve by this memory, Valentine recomposes himself. The President reappears in the base world but admits his loss and proposes Johnny to bring back Gyro Zeppeli. The Holy Corpse begins to extract itself from Lucy. Meanwhile, Valentine continues his parley, countering each of Johnny's arguments. At the end, the jockey is nearly convinced.

Johnny nonetheless throws the gun Valentine emptied earlier back at him, daring him to pick it up as a test. Valentine's plans are foiled. A final shootout ensues between the jockey and the President, which Johnny wins. Johnny witnesses a final apparition of Gyro's ghost and says his farewell. He then puts a final nail bullet in Valentine's head, killing him. Valentine's body is dragged underground by the Spin, and all traces of him disappears.

### New York City: A Last Enemy

Main articles: High Voltage (story arc)
Main articles: SBR Chapter 94
, The World of the Stars and Stripes

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After healing everyone, Johnny realizes that the Corpse has been stolen by a last unknown enemy, identified as at least a Steel Ball Run contestant. Johnny pursues his final foe. Johnny catches up to the mysterious culprit, and confronts Diego Brando, alive and well, now wielding a time-stopping Stand called THE WORLD. Valentine has convinced an alternate version to fulfill his goal in his place.

Both racers realize what the other is capable of and aim to devise a plan which will counter the other's power. As he begins the final stage Johnny meets with his father George, and they silently reconcile. The advantage switches between Diego and Johnny until Johnny joins the rest of the racers on the Brooklyn Bridge for one final attack. Both perform their plans but although The World's leg is hit by the rotation, the Stand cuts it and throws it at Johnny who's now imbued with the Golden Spin. Incapacitated, Johnny is powerless as Diego wins the Steel Ball Run and head to the safe in which the Holy Corpse will be put.

### Conclusion

Main articles: SBR Chapter 95
, Stars and Stripes - Outro

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In the shelter Diego meets with Lucy, who kills Diego by fusing his head with the original's head.

At the same time, Steven rescues Johnny by taking him on his horse, so that Johnny can shoot himself.

After a brief narration of the after effects of the race, Johnny embarks on a boat to give Gyro's corpse back to his family, in which he meets his future wife Rina Higashikata. We last see Johnny giving one last prayer, and smiles as he goes to Europe to bury his friend.

## Major Battles

* Steel Ball Run (race) 1st stage
* Gyro Zeppeli & Johnny Joestar vs. Mrs. Robinson
* Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli & Mountain Tim vs. Boom Boom Family
* Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli & Mountain Tim vs. Oyecomova
* Johnny Joestar & Gyro Zeppeli vs. Pork Pie Hat Kid
* Johnny Joestar & Gyro Zeppeli vs. Diego Brando (1st battle)
* Gyro Zeppeli & Johnny Joestar vs. Dr. Ferdinand
* Gyro Zeppeli, Hot Pants & Johnny Joestar vs. Ringo Roadagain
* Mountain Tim vs Blackmore
* Gyro Zeppeli & Johnny Joestar vs. Blackmore
* Johnny Joestar & Gyro Zeppeli vs. Diego Brando (2nd battle)
* Johnny Joestar & Gyro Zeppeli vs. Sandman
* Gyro Zeppeli & Johnny Joestar vs. Eleven Men
* Hot Pants vs. Mike O.
* Gyro Zeppeli & Johnny Joestar vs. Wekapipo & Magent Magent
* Gyro Zeppeli & Johnny Joestar vs. Axl RO
* Wekapipo vs. Magent Magent
* Gyro Zeppeli vs. D-I-S-C-O
* Wekapipo , Diego Brando & Johnny Joestar vs. Funny Valentine
* Diego Brando & Hot Pants vs. Funny Valentine
* Johnny Joestar & Gyro Zeppeli vs. Funny Valentine
* Johnny Joestar vs. Diego Brando (2nd)

## Gallery

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## Videos

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## Trivia

* *Part 7* marks the first time since *Battle Tendency* that a Zeppeli is featured.
* During it's initial serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump, Steel Ball Run was categorized as a different series without the JoJo' Bizarre Adventure title. The change was a request from the editorial department in an attempt to attract reader attention by introducing a "new series." This was undone when the series moved to Ultra Jump in 2005.
	+ Araki has mentioned that, despite the name alternation, he wrote Steel Ball Run as the seventh part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure from the start.

## References

1. ↑ ١٫٠ ١٫١ *JOJOVELLER: [HISTORY] - P 153 - 154*
2. ↑ SBR Volume 1: Author's Note