SO Episode 14

Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 2 (愛と復讐のキッス その②) is the fourteenth episode of Stone Ocean and the one-hundred-sixty-sixth episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. The episode covers Chapter 54 to Chapter 57 of the original manga.

The fight against Sports Maxx continues. Although Ermes has killed Maxx, the latter's Stand, Limp Bizkit, has allowed Maxx to resurrect as an invisible zombie who can summon other zombies from nearby corpses.

Summary
As the alligator leaps toward Jolyne, she summons Stone Free, but the animal is powerful and quick enough to slap her and send her flying into a wall. The animal disappears and Jolyne deploys a network of strings on the floor to sense vibrations around her. Ermes tells Jolyne to go away but Jolyne argues that Sports Maxx's linked to Whitesnake and thus she must learn more about him. Ermes expects the power to disappear once Sports Maxx drowns. Jolyne wonders why her string hasn't detected the alligator yet but it turns out that it crawled on the wall to avoid it. It bites Jolyne in the shoulder and tears off a big chunk before disappearing again. Ermes yells to draw the enemy to her, but F.F. willingly exposes her arm to bait the alligator. As soon as it bites into F.F.'s arm, she makes her pistol parts appear and shoots inside of the reptile's mouth, killing it on the spot.

The group is victorious. Ermes supplies F.F. with water and F.F. is able to heal Jolyne and Ermes' wounds. F.F. asks if they just fought a ghost controlled by Maxx, but Ermes specifies that it must rather be a sort of zombie. Suddenly, Ermes notes that the pipe has been broken and that Sports Maxx has broken out from the visible wet handprints on it.

We see Sports Maxx freshly out of the sewage pipe, haggardly walking away while complaining about his thirst. Confused, Sports Maxx heads for the chapel, barely remembering that Whitesnake tasked him with finding a bone somewhere in this prison. Deciding he must relax a bit, Maxx makes a detour to the women's ward to visit his favorite prostitute here. He quickly bribes a guard who ignores him, and approaches the woman, caressing her while asking for her company. Surprisingly, the woman kicks a prisoner nearby, telling him not to touch her. Sports Maxx doubles down on the man, which also surprises the woman as it looks like the man was sent flying on his own. Meanwhile, Ermes and Jolyne are running down a hallway to catch up to Maxx. They wasn't able to see Sports Maxx's corpse and suspects he's actually dead.

Sports Maxx has dragged the knocked out prisoner with him to the graveyard, which the prostitute followed out of curiosity. While Maxx searches for the prisoner's money and drugs, the woman stands near, confused by what she thinks is the prisoner wanting to pay for her. When Sports Maxx finds and injects himself with the man's drugs, it immediately flows out of his arm. Seeing himself leaking liquid which he recognizes as sewage, Sports Maxx finally remembers that he's dead. Maxx attacks the woman and devours her brain. Furious is overwhelmed by his hunger for human brains, he remembers his death and who Ermes is.

Jolyne and Ermes arrive at the graveyard and suddenly find themselves trapped when Maxx slams the gate of the graveyard shut. Jolyne deploys another string barrier all around her and Ermes to feel the enemy coming from any direction. Jolyne feels a string moving above and kicks the enemy, breaking some bones in the process. However, this invisible foe is a corpse and thus still grabs Jolyne's leg and drags her up to attack her. Jolyne still manages to envelop the enemy in strings and pummels them. Ermes declares her victory but it turns out that this was the dead prostitute.

Ermes tries to warn Jolyne but Jolyne still receives a heavy blow to the shoulder. Ermes comes in to protect her friend and tells her that it is her problem to deal with, though Jolyne says that they've gone past this. Suddenly, the tombs of the graveyard break open, letting loose a group of invisible zombies. Jolyne suggests that they retreat strategically, but Ermes stand her ground. She expects Sports Maxx will want to deal the killing blow out of revenge, and thus this gives her an advantage. Additionally, Ermes has her own score to settle no matter what.

Several strings snap as the zombies come closer to Ermes but she persists in facing the enemy. The zombies begin to bite and tear at Ermes, who suffers agony but patiently waits for the killing blow. Indeed, Ermes feels Sports Maxx bite at her head and tear a chunk of it before swallowing it. However, Ermes split her head with a sticker, creating a dummy head to absorb the bite, and she summons Kiss to pummel at him. Unfortunately, Kiss hits nothing beneath Sports Maxx's head. It is revealed that Maxx tore off his own head to misdirect Kiss, having been expecting a trick. Putting himself together while Ermes seeks him, Maxx even tells Ermes that Gloria deserved her death and tells her that he will devour her brain. He takes off Ermes's sticker, fusing back Ermes' heads. The backlash hurts Ermes and makes her trip, which gives the opportunity for Maxx to jump on her to kill her. However, the chunk of flesh he bit off Ermes suddenly comes out of Maxx's stomach, Kiss's power forcing all the bits of Ermes' duplicated head to return. Jolyne understands that it was all part of Ermes' plan to reveal Maxx's location at the crucial moment. Ermes violently kicks Maxx, bursting out a few teeth, and she declares that it was for Gloria. Maxx sics his zombie on Ermes and tries to escape but she's already duplicated his head by putting a sticker on it. Ermes pulls Maxx closer and proceed to pummel him violently, utterly destroying his body. The heads of Maxx fuse, knocking out his DISCs, and Maxx dies for good, also destroying the zombie mob.

For a moment, Gloria's spirit comes out to hug Ermes. Ermes suddenly tears up, but her head has been split open. She falls unconscious and Jolyne has to call for help. As F.F. rushes to treat Ermes, Maxx's DISCs are seen on the floor. Later, Jolyne is arrested by a group of guard. The plot then jumps back to Jolyne in the Ultra Security House Unit.