Session 29 (Season 1)

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

## Fear of the Dark, Part 2

Melissa, John, Jeremy, and Fugo continued their way through the burning East Island only to stumble upon a group of survivors taking refuge in a burning house for warmth and roasting a dog over the flames. Melissa took it upon herself to try and comfort the weary survivors, made up of several ragged children and adults who claimed that the knights had been called to the castle at the same time beasts began to ravage the civilization. Melissa told the survivors to follow Fugo, who would lead them back to Spruce’s boat in order to get off the island. He led the survivors away, and gave Jeremy a capsule from his Stand to use in an emergency. Following this, the remaining three were able to head to the castle, and after stumbling upon some live fish heads in a moat were able to reach the front gate.

Here they met King Paul Polnareff, a man with tall white hair, bright red eyes and fangs. The king welcomed the travelers with open arms, greeting them personally in the main castle room. The king claimed the people were revolting, and that he hadn’t had any travelers in a long time. The travelers introduced themselves as a happy loving family, Jeremy and Melissa Quick and their adopted son John Smog. He invited the group to dinner after some questions arose about the constant state of night on the island, stating that they should get changed upstairs. Going upstairs; John found some clothes in the first room he saw while Jeremy and Melissa saw a bath with some authentic soap, made fresh from fat, lastly Jeremy and Melissa explored a painting room where they saw a painting of the king without the red eyes and fangs alongside three other people, a woman, a young man, and Cherry Polnareff. Afterwards, Jeremy and Melissa got themselves dressed in some royal clothing along with John and headed downstairs.

Downstairs they were treated to a large table of food under lids, opening each of them to find strange items such as a strange piece of steak, a large bone & marrow, ground meat, and blood pudding. At this time, King Paul offered the three a chance to experience some acupuncture with Jeremy being the first volunteer. Just as Jeremy was about to be touched by the king, Jeremy activated his Pillar Man arm and shot an arrow at the king. John’s thorns came through the floor to surround the king further, and Melissa threw a Hamon filled shield. They demanded answers while simultaneously hurting him, to the point where his eyes popped out and organs went flying out of his body. Strangely, the organs had a voice of their own, saying Vampires were simply appetizers. He warned the three of something called “Thunder Mode” and said his name was Ire-madein.

## The New Recruits, Part 5

Ruun and the lady tried to find a safe way outside, as the yellow mist was preventing the two of them from going outside without any risk. That’s when they found some slightly used gas masks that would be more than enough for Ruun, allowing the two of them to head outside. He would see that the sky was made up of the colors of the rainbow, finding themselves at the ground level of a colosseum just as Ruun had seen in a previous dream of his. He began to look for a way for them to get out of the city, ultimately deciding on going to a river the lady with him suggested. As they walked to this river Ruun would learn the lady’s name, Trish.

The two of them would stop upon seeing two “cultists” as muttered by Trish, watching the river they were going to use to leave on. As he tried to use his Stand to knock them out, he found that his arm would phase right through the men. Ruun would come up with a new plan with the numerous corpses lying about on the streets. After using several corpses, Ruun managed to distract the cultists by making them chase after spontaneously falling corpses via his Stand dropping them from the air. Ruun would make his way towards the boat, a small sailing yacht with the letter Z on the side of it.

Suddenly he was met with the return of a cultist he had fought back at the high school in Naples, one of the two that were negotiating with Benjamin to betray the group all that time ago and who should’ve died to Kira and Fugo’s combined attack, Niccolo. After a bit of questioning from the man, Ruun established that he was indeed a member of the cult. In order to prove it, he was forced to kill Trish and knocked her out with a swift chop to the neck and making her drop the turtle. After Trish was “killed”, Niccolo went to grab her body and threw it overboard at a shocking speed. After retrieving the key attached to the turtle, he offered Ruun a deal to go to what he’s been searching for the whole time. After momentarily disappearing with the use of a card, Ruun arrived at the Apex, seeing that he was in the elevator again but this time with Niccolo. Here Ruun met the smartest man Niccolo knew, a man who went by Dr. Mente. The doctor claimed to be a fan of Ruun, stating that Ruun’s sister Macy was ecstatic to see him again. The doctor put Ruun into an unconscious state, causing him to collapse and feel total nothingness...

## A Wonderful Tale, Part 6

Ben was driving her companions throughout Italy and back to Naples, before realizing how tired she was getting. Biting her thumb, she continued driving until he used his Stand to create a portal back to the rundown high school she saw in Naples. She proceeded to patch up a strange nosebleed Nai had gotten, which covered a majority of the tissues in their car. She got the idea to try and wake everyone up, starting with Schietta and then Nai, who were making some strange comments in their sleep, failing to wake them up. Trying with Fiume and Umbra, she heard some more innocent mutters in their sleep, but failed to wake them up too. She searched the car in hopes of finding signs of a Stand user, having no luck until hearing a small chirp come from Umbra’s pocket. A baby duckling tried to make Ben fall asleep, but she retaliated and blasted it away, shredding the bird. Unfortunately she  found that her companions were still asleep, with Schietta and Nai saying some suggestive things while Fiume and Umbra muttered about their parents.

She decided to use her Stand to force Nai to stay awake, and in doing so she saw that he was being completely hysterical, shouting that it was better back in the dream. After some arguing, Nai fell back asleep but not before telling Ben to join him. Left with no choice and pressured by a now regenerated duckling, she went to sleep to try and fix the problem directly. In her dream she heard and saw Lambrusco inside of a home kitchen, who ran up to her and gave a big hug to Ben, asking her if she wanted dinner. Ben pushed the dream Lambrusco aside, trying to leave the house only to be stopped by a young boy that looked like both her and Lamb, calling Ben his mom. Nevertheless, Ben was determined to leave the house, abandoning a crying Lamb as she saw three places on a road in the middle of nothingness, a home in Tokyo, Fiume’s villa, a beach, and a home in Naples.

Entering the Tokyo one first, Ben was greeted to a fancy home with Nai residing in a bed besides numerous women. Ben tried to get Nai to leave on his own will, but after refusing to do so Ben grabbed Nai herself and dragged him out of the room, much to his dismay. When they got out the scenery changed and he saw an incident occurring of a woman getting stabbed by a large man, with a different version of Nai chasing after him only to trip. He explained to Ben that the incident was why he was banished by his father, for a misunderstanding that occurred that day. Following this they continued walking, ending back up in front of the other three places she had seen earlier, deciding to figure out who was at the beach. At the beach she saw a cozy oceanside home, with Fiume playing at the beach alongside an older woman, calling the lady her mother...

## The Road To Heaven, Part 6

Piero, Voz, and Thomas were shocked at the sight of seeing the couple imprinted on the bedroom wall of the inn, promptly leading to their plan of assault against the Diamond Killer. Piero began by having his clone mold itself into Fugo so that it could be hidden as it went to the killer’s workplace, a library in the Southern part of town. Back at Thomas’ house, Kira was calling Thomas asking about the situation and making herself some breakfast before seeing a lady at the front door with no fingers. The lady asked Kira if she had any knives, to which she responded no. As she left, the lady’s arms changed to look like they were amputated, but Kira continued her breakfast and called the three back at the inn. Deciding to head out, Kira told Dio to search the Southern part of the village for the killer’s home before promptly meeting the others at the inn. The plan was going well and Fugo!Clone was speaking with an old man at the library and began looking at some strange books in the backroom, containing disproportional drawings of Piero himself along with his Stand name in red ink.

The team decided to split up and just as Kira and Piero were alone, Piero found himself getting sucked into the book, and with it all his belongings, and ended up inside of a blank world. During this, Voz and Thomas had a momentary encounter with the armless lady, getting asked the same question before Voz noticed that the lady disappeared in Thomas’ view, disappearing the moment he had blinked. The two were notified of what happened to Piero, rushing out alongside Kira to the library. In the library, Piero was subjected to being chased by a sun in a book world, following this he ended up in an area with houses made of sticks, hay, and brick. He would then be attacked by a creature, this large werewolf. He fought the werewolf, slaying it with a sword and proceeding to try and find cover as a massive tornado was coming towards him. Trying to enter the brick house, he was rejected by a muscular pink arm and oinking noises. Left with no choice, he tethered himself to the ground to prepare for the tornado.

At the same time, Voz had gotten into the library and began conversing with the old man, going under the guise that he was merely looking for books to read. He was taken to the backroom when he brought up the notion that he saw the killer’s face, getting asked by the old man to draw his face in the back. He scrolled through a book, which contained drawings of himself and saw at the end his Stand name in red ink. The old man proceeded to throw the book at Voz, trapping him in a world where he was forced to play the role of a person being executed. Here he was called a tyrant, and proceeded to fight an executioner and a knight who were trying to kill him.

Outside, Kira and Thomas had decided to go into the library themselves as Voz was not coming out. The old man greeted the duo, attempting to lure them into the back of the room as Kira had said they were looking for her ‘boyfriend’. Just as he turned around, Kira knocked the old man out with her Stand and began to tie him up. They noticed something happened to a book on the old man’s desk, it opened on it’s own and Piero’s arms were protruding from them. After Piero was freed, he went to help Voz escape his book, stopping the knight with a flick to the head and going to retrieve Voz. Kira interrogated the old man, who referred to her by Stand name and claimed his son was interested in her. He told Kira of his son’s location, his house down in the southern part of the village, where there would be an assortment of flowers. With Piero and Voz’s return, they had decided that they were done questioning the old man and had Voz kill him, shoving his fist through the man’s chest. They left the library and pressed forward, ending up at the killer’s house..