SO Episode 13

Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1 (愛と復讐のキッス その①) is the thirteenth episode of Stone Ocean and the one-hundred-sixty-fifth episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime.

Summary
Jolyne Cujoh has managed to retrieve her father Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum DISC and somehow send it to the Speedwagon Foundation. However, there is still Jotaro's memory DISC to find in order to completely save her father.

It is lunchtime at Green Dolphin Street Prison. As F.F. waits in line to get her portion at the cafeteria, another inmate cuts her off. When Jolyne points it out, F.F. comments that it is as if nobody in prison liked Atroe, the woman whose identity she stole. Jolyne suggests that F.F. aggressively asserts herself but F.F. decides that it might be worth simply changing her behavior to be accepter among her peers, and thus looks for ways to do the opposite of what Atroe did. Humorously, F.F. decides to eat the opposite of what Atroe would have eaten. Jolyne briefly complains about her bullet wounds, saying that she's still hurting and asking F.F. to do something about it. However, F.F. only filled the wounds with plankton and cannot do anything to accelerate Jolyne's healing. F.F. then asks what is the opposite of pork, and the Curly-Haired Prisoner who works here gives her salmon, praising how it goes against the river's currents in contrast to a pork's lazy lifestyle. More prisoners cut in line, which angers Jolyne, but F.F. cheekily decides to let everybody pass. It actually causes the prisoners to bicker and fight, allowing F.F. and Jolyne to go through the line unimpeded.

Jolyne remarks that she hasn't seen Ermes in days and she asks what F.F. knows about it. F.F. acts mysterious for a moment, asking if Jolyne didn't hear about "the real reason Ermes came to prison". Jolyne doesn't understand and says that she only knows that Ermes got caught committing armed robbery. F.F. comments that it may be expected that Ermes didn't tell Jolyne, to which Jolyne insists F.F. tells her what is going on. F.F. reveals that Ermes came to Green Dolphin Street Prison on purpose and begins to tell Ermes' story, which she says is merely conjecture.

F.F. narrates an incident involving Gloria Costello, Ermes's deceased older sister. When Gloria was 20, she inherited her father's restaurant and took it upon herself to run the family restaurant. One small problem was that Gloria counted on Ermes' help to run the family business together with her but Ermes wanted to acquire a scholarship in cross-country and go to college, which caused friction among the siblings. One evening after an argument, Ermes stormed out of the house to go run. Gloria followed Ermes out, but then witnessed a man being murdered by a mobster. Gloria managed to hide and had no intention to get involved with the mob. However, she saw the mobster looking at Ermes, who was running nearby. To protect her sister, Gloria was forced to call the police as a witness. Gloria's testimony meant that the state could incriminate the mobster, an infamous criminal named Sports Maxx, for life, but Maxx had someone kill Gloria. Without witnesses, Maxx was only sentenced to 5 years in prison for tax evasion and inflicting bodily harm. For her part, Ermes lost her father and the restaurant, leaving her alone. Thus, F.F. explains, Ermes has surely come to Green Dolphin Street Prison to get revenge on Sports Maxx, who is currently purging his last year of imprisonment in the men's ward. Once he goes out, Maxx will be protected by his bodyguards and thus now is a golden opportunity for Ermes to assassinate Maxx and avenge herself. Worried for Ermes, Jolyne asks where is Ermes, to which F.F. suggests that Ermes is probably in the chapel, stalking Maxx.

The scene shifts to Ermes discreetly observing Maxx in the chapel as he smells a bouquet of flowers. She tries to approach Maxx but then the priest Enrico Pucci appears, forcing Ermes to bide her time. Maxx asks Pucci if he can take one flower, but strangely the flower is being covered in maggots.

Ermes explains the power of her Stand, Kiss. When she puts one of the stickers produced by Kiss on an object, she can duplicate it. Then when she takes the sticker off, then the two objects will fuse back to one, though the object will be fractured. Ermes has decided to see this power as a sign from Heaven and plans on making Sports Maxx pay for killing her sister Gloria.

Ermes has been carefully stalking Sports Maxx and observing his every habit: how he regularly goes to the chapel, to the graveyard to tend to the tombs, and to the workshop working on stuffed animals. Thus, Ermes has been able to find out the best place to isolate and kill him. Likewise, Jolyne and F.F. have been watching over Ermes. F.F. asks what they should do but Jolyne prefers not to act for now, although she wishes to protect Ermes from being a murderer. When Ermes and Sports Maxx go in different directions, Jolyne and F.F. assume that Ermes is done observing Sports Maxx for today and leave the place. However, it turns out that Ermes merely misdirected her friends.

Sports Maxx is heading for the workshop when he notices something stuck on a pipe on the wall, which turns out to be a photo of Gloria. Curious, Maxx takes it off the pipe. At this moment, Ermes reveals herself and tells him that she wants him to remember her sister. Suddenly a second pipe flings into Maxx and traps him inside of the pipe because he took off a sticker that was hidden behind the photo. Shocked, Maxx slides further inside of the pipe and Ermes seals it by duplicating a part of it with another sticker and tries to flush him into the gutters so that he dies down there. Yet, Ermes hears Maxx mumble inside of the pipe and call to a certain "Limp Bizkit".

Suddenly, a bottle in the workshop breaks seemingly without reason, however, Ermes doesn't see anything but some tools and a stuffed bird on a table. It quickly becomes apparent that something small and invisible is heading towards Ermes. It cuts one of Ermes' fingers and pierces her face multiple times. Ermes summons Kiss to fight the enemy off but she hits nothing. However, she can hear flapping in the corridor. She quickly guesses that it has to do with a Stand power and that she's fighting a bird-like foe, but it does her no good when it suddenly tears at her carotid. Ermes quickly duplicates her vest to trap the enemy within and she's able to crush it on a wall. This causes the stuffed bird to break as well.

Still recovering from that fight, Ermes realizes that Sports Maxx has become a Stand User because of Whitesnake for an unknown purpose. On another hand, it means that she could discover Whitesnake's true identity if she investigates Sports Maxx. She tries to taunt Maxx by kicking the pipe, but she's then interrupted when the table of the workshop is violently flipped by something else. Ermes sees a stuffed alligator and notes something big and invisible running after her. Ermes has to hang on a pipe on the ceiling to escape the creature. Ermes finally realizes that her foes have to do with the stuffed animals in the workshop and that they are probably undead invisible animals. The invisible alligator on the ground repeatedly charges the pipe, and Ermes sees that Maxx is trying to escape. Suddenly, Jolyne and F.F. appear. Ermes tries to warn them but the alligator tears F.F.'s leg. Ermes quickly explains that the invisible corpse of an alligator is after them. Jolyne splashes it with F.F.'s blood, making it somewhat visible as it rushes at her, its maw gaping open.