Session 24 (Season 1)

This is the twenty-fourth episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Binding of Chains.

## Tournament in Orme, Phase 3, Part 2

Flavia and Ruun continued their fight against Alexa, but during their combat she offered the two a special deal. She offered them the chance to side with the Apex Cult. Specifically offering Flavia a place for her to go all out with her violence, be given test subjects, and to help aid the quest to create the perfect Stand. While Flavia was thinking about it, Ruun went in for a sucker punch. After receiving the punch, she gave Ruun an envelope containing photos of his sister Macy, in the state he saw in his dream with gradually whiter hair and growing more ill. Flavia then asks Alexa one question, if her friends could be free, however she denies this deal saying all of them know too much. Specifically she says that Ruun refuses to aid the Apex Cult, Jeremy and Fugo have highly powerful Stand abilities, and that she herself personally dislikes Kira and Piero. Following this Flavia would reveal to Alexa the book she had been holding onto that told that something would happen if all 7 arrowheads were reunited, although this just peaks Alexa’s curiosity.

Soon enough, Flavia accepts Alexa’s deal to side with the Apex Cult and begins by throwing the tournament as instructed by Alexa. After walking off the stage, that left Ruun and Alexa as the only two left in their arena. Ruun accepts Alexa’s deal to side with Apex in the hopes that she would be able to fix the condition his sister is in, and ends up defeated after some “fighting.”

Once the duo came back from their fight Ruun noticed that Fugo was not looking so well, it seemed like he was exhausted and had something black around his neck. Flavia administered some repairs to Fugo’s palms, which were somehow rotting away and Ruun went to write a special note to Fugo that would be passed onto Kiss. This note told Fugo that he and Flavia were going undercover with the Apex Cult and that the message would only be passed onto Kiss and no one else. Flavia briefly spoke to Kiss before leaving, comforting each other before she would have to go speak to Alexa again. When Alexa returned she told the two of their first “assignment” in order to fully gain her trust, and that was to head to the City of Hearts to eliminate two siblings located on the island besides a burned tower. When Ruun hears this he indirectly points out how Piero is supposed to be on the island with Cherry, and a somewhat shocked Alexa asks him if he’s still up to the task. After wondering how he would handle against both Kira and Piero’s Stands, Alexa just tells him they need to only put up a fight. Elsewhere, Flavia seems willing to do the task and only asks for some equipment and technology but settles for something else Alexa has, a sample of Rainbow Dreams in the form of blood. When the duo were ready to leave, a man spoke inside of their heads saying the phrase: “Send him/her to his/her hometown, the City of Hearts!" and teleported them to another land…

Meanwhile Jeremy and Kiss continued their fight against Steel and Johnny, and both sides were not willing to give up. The battle mainly consisted of Jeremy vs Johnny and Kiss vs Melissa Steel, and what could only be described as an intense matchup between both sides. Jeremy kept up pressure on Johnny by locking him with his Stand’s arrow only for John to keep ripping it out while Kiss and Melissa had their fair share of blows against each other, with some unfortunate luck from both of their sides. Soon enough, Melissa gets the better of Kiss and he's pushed down to little stamina.

After this moment, Jeremy unleashes a new ability against Steel and Johnny. This ability forced the two to copy Jeremy’s pose or be severely damaged, and it gave Jeremy a big upper edge. Once Jeremy does this new ability Kiss decides to give Jeremy a new arm with the power of his species. However as this happens, John also unleashes a new technique to drain his Stamina in exchange to deliver a massive strike to Jeremy’s head, dealing tons of damage while nearly sacrificing his own life. Melissa would beg Jeremy to forfeit after seeing his condition, telling him how much they needed the arrowhead. Jeremy slowly moves to them with his arrowhead and offers it to them, only to be denied and so Jeremy collapses to the ground. Kiss would go to retrieve his unconscious ally in order to heal him back up while Melissa and Johnny advance to the next round....

## A Wonderful Tale, Part 1

Meanwhile, Benjamin and Bradley continued their fighting but by now it looked like Benjamin had been beaten. After a final struggle against Bradley, Benjamin got his neck snapped and died in the arena. Bradley took Ben’s body back with him to have it be properly buried, asking Fugo for help. Fugo was not in any condition to help and said his Stand wouldn’t be a proper way to dispose of the body. Bradley then took the corpse to the shower room where he proceeded to chop it up and sent it down the drain in the most respectful way he could. However he would not be aware of what would become of Benjamin as Ben felt his mind become disoriented briefly much like when he died the very first time, only to wake up in some enclosed space. He heard some loud crashing, before seeing a young Japanese man with black hair in a lab coat open the box he was in, a dumpster. After an awkward moment, the man helped Benjamin out of the dumpster and asked if he wanted to come back to his place saying they were in a town named Morioh. When Ben asked for the man’s named he replied with Nai Machiko.

The two would head back to the man’s house, a small and somewhat messy house in a rural part of town. As Ben was getting settled to sleep he picked up a phone call to the house, an Italian person asking Nai to go to Naples as soon as possible. After hanging up, Ben proceeded to go for some clothes shopping in the middle of town, before coming back to Nai’s place. The two prepared to leave for Naples but Ben managed to create a portal straight to the site of Arancia High School, only to find a more run down school in its place as well as older car models. Nonetheless, they continued forward to a prison in the distance. Along the way they were stopped by a young teenage girl in dirty green clothes who tried to steal Nai’s luggage. Ben stopped the girl and brought her along with him. All three of them would arrive at the prison and while waiting Ben portal-ed some sandwiches from Morioh to eat. As they were eating, Ben noticed something horribly off as he felt time erase and saw through Nai’s neck an arrow with a black head….

## The Road to Heaven, Part 1

Elsewhere, Dio Brando, Kira, and Piero began their search in the white fortress for a way below the island. Piero went to search the upstairs area and found a hallway consisting of smaller rooms behind iron bars on both sides. He began to look into each room and found a large bunch of string sitting in one of the rooms. Entering the room, he inspected the string and it came to life and grabbed his arm. Piero had to fight off the string, which turned itself into two stone arms that tried to grab at him. He utilized winged swords made from the iron bars of the room to defend himself and found that the string bled. He managed to sever both strings and left to quickly find Kira and Dio.

At this time, Dio and Kira were busy exploring the rooms on the lower level. Kira didn’t find too much, seeing a room filled with desks and another room with several old instruments laying on the ground. In the third room, she found Dio inspecting several books and found one of her own. This book talked about a person in the fortress who held a connection to a person in the real world, a person with the name Jo----. Kira gave Dio the book to inspect and he managed to find more info out of it about a place called America and Florida, asking Kira if she knew about the places. When Kira tried to exit the room she heard a noise like a fishing line being cast and saw that the doorway was replaced by a thick wall of string. She blew it up with a chair and saw Piero across the room besides the staircase and that the whole first floor was covered in a network of string. Piero carefully went over to Kira and they would all try to make their way to the staircase while dealing with the string.

Before this, Piero turned the stone mask he had on him into a spider to search for the user down the crack where the stone arms originated from. Going through a series of pipes he found the user, an insane woman muttering to herself in a shower room. Piero tried to get the woman’s attention while she attacked the three back in the main room. As the fight went on and Kira and Piero destroyed and cut most of the string, the woman grew desperate and tried to collapse the whole room. Piero managed to keep the room up while Kira and Dio made their ways to the staircase and Piero went on to confront the woman personally. Piero met the woman, who kept talking about God and that no one was allowed to leave the fortress, growing more insane by the second. Piero would keep insisting he could help her, and she eventually submitted and asked him a single request. She wanted to be stone free and Piero reluctantly agreed, stabbing her with both his swords. He left and saw a thank you alongside a string star.

Kira and Dio made their way up the staircase and broke through a wall to find a room with a piano, computer, and a crack at the end of it. As they were about to be attacked by a humanoid string figure, it stopped when Piero killed the woman. Kira began to search the room and found a computer running Windows 7, opening it to find a document about “The Diamond Killer”. This killer dismembered an unknown person in their home, as well as murdering numerous other couples for their rings. Piero would come back to see this document as well, and they both saw a set of symbols, the killer’s calling card: ジョ. Next, Dio told the two that the crack in the room led to somewhere by sticking his whole arm through it. Piero would use the iron bars in the upstairs part to create three copies of himself, one to send in the crack and two to send back to check on the others back in Orme and Hearts. When his clone went through the crack he saw a wooden alleyway, before seeing several other old wooden houses. When Kira and Dio went through Kira noticed something right away, the houses were built like rural Japanese homes....