GW Episode 2
Summary
Giorno Giovanna was fathered by DIO with a Japanese woman, who for unknown reasons managed to leave DIO safely for go back to Japan. Giorno's mother was beautiful but neglected her son, leaving him alone in his home while she went partying. Frightened to death, Giorno couldn't even cry for help. When he was four, Giorno's mother married with an Italian man and he went to Italy, but his step-father was revealed to be an abusive man who regularly beat the chil when he wasn't neglectful. Moreover, Giorno was the perfect target for racist bullies and he came to think he was the scum of the earth, fated to become a hopeless person.
One day, Giorno saw a wounded lying in the shadow of an alley, suspicious men came and asked where the man was, prompting the child to lie as he felt a connection with him. One of the gangsters thought to look in the direction of the alley, but the wounded man was then hidden by herbs an unwitting awakening of Gold Experience that miracle. From this day on, the grateful man would watch for Giorno, prompting his father to stop beating him, the bullies to suck up to him, and the locals to act nice. This man, the first to treat Giorno like a human being became his role model. One evening, Giorno also witnessed his hero's darker side: the man had just shot someone. Indeed, he was a gangster with violent methods, but the man he kills was a drug dealer, justifying his execution. Despite the drug dealer's son crying in front of them, Giorno only looked up to his hero further. Inspiring himself from the gangster, Giorno would forge a dream to become a "Gang Star".
A recap of the last episode is shown, until Giorno is punched across the funicular by Bruno Bucciarati. Forced to fight for his life, Giorno decides to summon Gold Experience just as Bruno dashes in to punch the boy. Bruno is punched by Gold Experience and notices that he's become unbelievably fast and strong. Growing confident, Bruno evades Gold Experience and tries to punch Giorno only to see his fist go through Giorno's head. Bruno then understands too late that his spirit was overwhelmed by the life energy, creating a delusion of strength while the body remained still. Gold Experience thus punches Bruno in the jaw, the gangster feeling a long agonizing moment as the Stand punches one of his teeth out. Thrown at the bottom of the wagon, Bruno is now at a disadvantage.
Giorno walks forward as Bruno asserts the danger his opponent pose. Bruno understands that Giorno is indeed the culprit, but the misunderstanding can only end in blood for the two determined men. Bruno decides to fully summon his Sticky Fingers; ensues a short but intense fistfight showing Bruno's advantage in strength. However, the gangster decides to flee and keep his distance. Giorno is forced to pursue Bruno up to a dark crowded alley. Bruno takes advantage of the civilians to diseappear, and Giorno understands that one of the citizens is a hiding spot. a fly starts to bother one of the men, who swathes the fly, only for Bruno to emerge hurt. Giorno has transformed Bruno's teeth into a fly to track down his adversary. Now in the open, Bruno is forced to directly confront Giorno. Flauting his arm before Giorno, Bruno faces off the boy who summons Gold Experience, which punches said arm. Gold Experience jumps in, but Bruno surprisingly relatiates and opens up zippers all over Giorno. Indeed, Bruno has baited Giorno with the arm of the civilian he grafted. Bruno drops the arm and pauses for a moment. Giorno then use the opening to attempt a last ditch attack, he rips out his unzipped arm and throws it at Bruno, who is then influenced by Gold Experience's power again. Vulnerable, Bruno sees with dread the boy approaching to finish him off, but Giorno stops his attack.
Bruno asks why he was spared, but Giorno has seen that Bruno was disturbed by the arm of the civilian, full of needle scars due to drug use. Consequently Giorno understood that Bruno was a decent man who felt conflicted about the drug flowing in Naples. Explaining his reasons, Giorno claims that from now on, Bruno will become his ally in trying to get rid of the drug trade. Giorno boldly announces his intention to ovethrow the Boss of the gang, take over the organization and cleanse the city to become a Gang-star.
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