Session 18 (Season 1)

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

## The Royal Castle, Part 4

**The Castle Defenders** continued their fight against the cyborg man, beginning with a surprise attack from Kiss who sneaks up on Ruun and hits him in the head. Afterwards, Lambrusco would show up to aid his cyborg comrade by trying to shoot Ruun with air bullets. When Kiss is about to try and attack, he fails and right after Flavia seizes the moment to restore Kiss back to his former mental state before all of this occurred utilizing a temporary ability increase she had. During the fight, Kiss takes the chance to grab the cyborg after he tries to ascend the castle after falling courtesy of Jeremy. During this Flavia, Ruun, and Jeremy prepare a combo attack . They rush Lambrusco in a spectacular fashion, using the power of all their Stands to completely incapacitate Lambrusco before he finishes the job himself and says his goodbyes. Kiss takes the chance to self-destruct with the cyborg…

## His Wonderful Stand, Part 1

**Meanwhile, Piero, Kira, and Cherry** talk more to Michel about their next duty to be stationed at the city’s marketplace before he brings urgent news that 14 guards have gone missing from about 17 guards. Piero brings the young girl they were holding over to ask her if she knows anything about this, she tells them no. Before leaving, Michel tells Piero and Kira to make sure to protect Cherry and how Polnareff really cares for his family as Polnareff tragically lost his sister. With this in mind, they set off to investigate and grab apples at the market and bring along their captive young girl who denied knowing anyone who could have done that act. When going into town, they meet a suspicious tall woman who looks like a guard, but their worries come true when they find the frozen bodies of two guards that came out of the shadows of an alleyway she left from.

She begins her assault by trying to approach Piero and simultaneously steps into the trap Kira set in the alleyway entrance, knocking her away. She tries to blast Piero with a gust of freezing winds, revealing that she had on a short light blue mantle, but the woman literally goes into the shadows to escape. The young girl they held captive remarked on Kira and Piero’s actions, before trying to throw a detonator/bomb device at Kira, who crushes it with the walls of the alley and goes to break the girl’s right hand. When the woman reappears, she reveals herself to actually be the man Kira fought in the pyramid with the color-changing mantle. He promptly freezes Kira’s legs to the ground.

During the fight, the girl cuts her own hand off, revealing cybernetic parts in addition to her flesh. Kira tries to lob the girl’s severed hand at the man, who promptly blows it up in a long range explosion from his now red-mantle. During all of this, Piero has been trying to get his beast inside of the alleyway at a slow pace. Cherry assists Kira by teleporting her away from the ground she was stuck in. The man makes a remark about an old legend where in an old alleyway, vengeful arms would grab whoever turned around and he promptly conjures 7 black arms behind Kira, who rolls out of the way. The young girl reveals her name to be Oliva Singola, and demonstrates to Piero and Kira her regenerative abilities. The fight continues when Kira knocks more of the wall over to send debris at the man and Oliva, and he ends taking all of the damage from the exploding debris.

Piero is able to successfully split his beast and bring a bear, fox, and honey badger into the alleyway, but he takes himself and Cherry away from the conflict after seeing her start coughing after teleporting him out of the ice. Kira launches the girl into the man and detonates her still repairing arm to cause a good amount of damage on the two. He escapes through the shadows to go and taunt Piero, admitting to him that his name is Niente and that he’s responsible for creating the drugs his father took. Piero uses his newly awakened Act II against the man, who tried to shoot water at Piero and turns his water into a snake. What happens after is using his Act II, Piero turns his Stands present into a car for him, Cherry, and Kira to escape on and they flee the scene with Niente’s shadow in the behind and Oliva seemingly missing from the fight.