Session 22 (Season 1)

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

## The Tournament in Orme, Phase 2, Part 2

Following Benjamin’s escape, Flavia immediately leaves to chase after the man while Kiss tries to follow her and Fugo follows behind shortly after. As Flavia and Kiss were traveling in the woods, they heard Fugo calling out to Flavia before going silent. Immediately the two went to check on him and found his jacket lying on the ground, and his shadow waving to them. His shadow would then get decapitated by another shadowy figure, before having his head place back only to be twisted.

During this, Ruun and Jeremy gave chase to Fugo in order to find Flavia again after Benjamin had just failed to try and launch himself from the air at Jeremy. Unexpectedly, he gives Benjamin his flag like he wanted and Benjamin launches himself far away in order to escape. When Ruun and Jeremy try to follow Fugo, they end up getting stuck in this dark forest before finding themselves descending into an even darker spot. They then find themselves ascending up like a hill, before finding themselves in the same forest, except during the daytime.

Back at Kiss, he ejected the shadows from where they were using a powerful flashbang, revealing Fugo alongside a woman with green hair, knight armor on her upper body, and a green jacket wrapped around her waist. Kiss and Flavia immediately began to attack the woman in retaliation for hurting Fugo, with Kiss injecting her with a ton of sleep chemicals, only to somehow have no effect. This is when Flavia tries to utilize a ton of benadryl to knock her out. She tries to escape through the ground and into the shadows, only making it halfway through.

This is when Jeremy and Ruun encounter the woman Flavia and Kiss were fighting, appearing halfway through the ground. Jeremy immediately stuns her with an arrow and begins to question her, although she responds that her name is Maledetta instead of Alexa. When asked about her Stand ability, she shows the two by attacking them with some shadowy arms. Kiss ejects the three from this realm using another flashbang, sending the three back to where Flavia, Kiss, and Fugo were in the forest. Flavia immediately has her Stand inject the woman with heroin, knocking her out cold. The group proceeds to attack her some more with Kiss trying to snap her neck, only to be stopped last second by the woman. Flavia injects her with even more heroin, and Ruun gives the woman a throat chop. By then the group believed they either killed her or completely immobilized her, and so they leave.

Flavia immediately begins her search for Benjamin starting from looking up in a tree. Jeremy tries to convince her to stop searching, but KIss manages to convince Flavia himself by telling her his love for her. This causes Flavia to come back down, allowing everyone to completely head back to the waiting room to wait for Phase 3.

Meanwhile, Benjamin made his escape and began relaxing and having a mental breakdown elsewhere in the forest. He made his way back to the group’s broken cave, and there he rested. While resting, he had a bunch of the shadowy arms trying to convince him to assist them in something, but he rejected it and forced them away. During his rest he encountered a man with brown hair and damage to his skull, asking to be healed. Ben told him he couldn’t heal him, but instead directed him to the shadowy arms much to the man’s pleasure. He proceeds to the waiting room as soon as he hears the announcement, and is one of the first to make it there.

## His Wonderful Stand, Part 5

Meanwhile, Piero and Kira meet/reunite with Giorno, while also meeting the man's father. As they speak with Giorno, the two tell him about almost all the events that have transpired such as the Hawaii Incident, both their encounters with Benjamin, Giorno being attacked by Oliva and her Stand, and they bring up the Narcotics Squad, who they reveal to Giorno are alive. However he says to them that the team died many years ago. He describes the group as the following;

"It was July 7th, 2001, over 2 months after I had begun leading and reconstructing Passione II. The biggest priority was to dismantle the drug trade that had been running rampant throughout the country, so I had to target the Narcotics Squad. At first it seemed as if they were willing to peacefully end the drug trade, but that's when I realized just how horrible they really were. They were working on a highly addictive form of heroin to release onto the streets that ended up hospitalizing dozens of people. That's when I went to their base of operations to stop them.

It was a factory outside of Naples and that's when I began to fight them using the power of the arrow. Things were going well, except I had lost track of one of the team members. She ended up blowing up the whole factory alongside their team. When I went to try and search for survivors, there was too much chemical waste and I just had to assume they went out in the explosion."

After trying to check the mantle Piero was wearing for life, Piero unwillingly groped Giorno's arms. A fight breaks out, but Piero ultimately regains control of his body and interrogates the woman in the mantle, Fiume, who speaks about a twisted way to achieve happiness. This talk interests Giorno's father, who speaks about a plan to attain something similar. Michel soon awakes and speaks with Piero and Kira about his current condition. Piero tries to heal Michel using Fiume's Stand, only to turn the man's blood in his hands to water. Piero then took off the mantle and proceeded to attack the woman, until she faded away...