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The Steel Ball Run Press Conference
(スティール・ボール・ラン 記者会見 Stīru Bōru Ran Kisha Kaiken)
(スティール・ボール・ラン 記者会見 Stīru Bōru Ran Kisha Kaiken)
: April 5, 2024 For keeping English literature, Sandman is forced to flee his Native American tribe. He mysteriously outpaces and escapes his pursuers on horseback thanks to a mysterious power. Promoter Steven Steel holds a press conference to announce the Steel Ball Run, a multi-stage horse race across America. Participants flock to America from all over the world: among the favorites are cowboy Mountain Tim, Mongolian horseman Dot Han, and British jockey Diego Brando. Even relative unknowns like emancipated slave Pocoloco and Sandman have signed up to join the race. Gyro Zeppeli is introduced as he registers his entry. He challenges a thief in a duel and, by throwing a Steel Ball at his shoulder, makes his opponent shoot himself in the head. Interested, a paraplegic bystander named Johnny Joestar touches the Steel Ball as it spins, causing him to momentarily stand up. Though Johnny is amazed, Gyro refuses to explain the ball's secret.
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September 25, 1890: 3 Hours Until Start
(1890年9月25日 スタート3時間前 1890-nen 9-gatsu 25-nichi Sutāto 3-jikan Mae)
(1890年9月25日 スタート3時間前 1890-nen 9-gatsu 25-nichi Sutāto 3-jikan Mae)
Johnny Joestar's past is revealed: he was once a renowned genius jockey until he was shot during a petty fight, paralyzing his body from the waist down. In the present, Johnny buys a stock horse and enters the race. As the race begins, Johnny manages to mount his horse by spinning his own body. Gyro quickly gains the lead and incapacitates Urmd Avdul with the power of his Steel Balls, setting his eyes on the time bonus awarded for finishing the stage in first place.
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First STAGE: 15,000 Meters
(1st. STAGE 15,000メートル Fāsuto Sutēji 15,000 Mētoru)
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Gyro is challenged by Pocoloco, who makes up for his late start with uncanny luck and a strange ability. Fortunate events occur to Pocoloco from all around, and Sandman even stops to help him cross a ravine. Even as he and Gyro cut through a forest shortcut, Pocoloco somehow avoids hitting a single branch even with his eyes closed.
Steven Steel's colorful past is explored: it is revealed that the Steel Ball Run race was originally Lucy's suggestion to a downtrodden and despairing Steven. After awakening from a drunken stupor, Steven was approached by a certain sponsor who expressed interest in the event and offered to finance it. Out of gratitude toward Lucy, Steven later married her. In the present, only 4,000 meters remain until the stage's goal. Despite Gyro's efforts to attack Pocoloco, he only manages to put Sandman in danger; nevertheless, the Native American overtakes both of them to become the frontrunner. After a tense battle near the finish line, Gyro turns his cape into a sail to catch the tailwind and barely takes first place.
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Crossing the Arizona Desert
(アリゾナ砂漠越え Arizona Sabaku Goe)
(アリゾナ砂漠越え Arizona Sabaku Goe)
Despite his impressive performance, Gyro receives a penalty for having endangered Sandman earlier in the race. After exacting petty revenge on Steven, Gyro agrees to teach Johnny about the Spin. As the second stage of the race begins, Steven and his wife are brought to the scene of a murder along the race's path. The local sheriff calls the famous cowboy Mountain Tim, who memorizes the horseshoe prints and briefly flirts with Lucy. Meanwhile, Gyro and Johnny are attacked by fellow racer Mrs. Robinson, who uses explosive cacti to harass them until Gyro defeats him with the same cacti. Later, after finding Mrs. Robinson's horse, Mountain Tim realizes that the murderer is still at large.
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The Outlaws Born in the Desert
(砂漠で生まれたならず者 Sabaku de Umareta Narazumono)
(砂漠で生まれたならず者 Sabaku de Umareta Narazumono)
Johnny and Gyro make camp and Johnny makes some progress in the Spin. The two are then attacked by Andre, Benjamin, and L.A. Boomboom, who wield the shared magnetic Stand Tomb of the Boom. After a brief fight, Gyro and Johnny flee but are sprayed with Andre's blood. Benjamin disguises himself as Johnny Joestar, confronting Mountain Tim and managing to frame Johnny for the murders.
Mountain Tim catches up to Johnny and Gyro, but the three of them realize that the enemy is still attacking them. Tim presents his power, Oh! Lonesome Me, which he refers to as a Stand. He reveals that he acquired this power by stepping into a Devil's Palm, a moving phenomenon granting people Stands. Benjamin Boomboom uses his Stand to immobilize the group, but Johnny awakens his own Stand, Tusk: in truth, the group had entered the Devil's Palm without realizing it. Johnny kills Benjamin and incapacitates L.A., who reveals that they were hired to kill Gyro and is promptly left to die in the desert.
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The Foreign Terrorist
(遠い国から来たテロリスト Tōi Kuni kara Kita Terorisuto)
(遠い国から来たテロリスト Tōi Kuni kara Kita Terorisuto)
At Johnny's behest, Gyro reveals his past as an executioner for the Kingdom of Naples. For his first execution, Gyro was to behead Marco, a little boy condemned to death by mere association with a treasonous lord. After meeting the boy and seeing his kind heart, Gyro objected to Marco's execution and decided to participate in the Steel Ball Run race to earn a pardon for him. Some time later, a Neapolitan terrorist named Oyecomova follows the duo to a relay village and incapacitates Mountain Tim with his exposive-planting Stand Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure. The terrorist pursues Gyro and Johnny toward the mountains, having heard of a healing item called the Zombie Horse from a letter Gyro left behind. After a long pursuit upriver, Johnny and Gyro incapacitate Oyecomova with a combination attack. The two reach the Zombie Horse, which Gyro uses to heal an earlier leg injury. Meanwhile, Steven converses with his sponsor, President Funny Valentine.
A flashback reveals that Joseph of Arimathea, the man who lowered Jesus Christ from his cross, later drew a map depicting an unknown land and several points of interest. Johnny and Gyro are attacked by Fritz von Stroheim, who they quickly dispose of. Johnny, confused by the frequency of the attempts on their lives, suddenly realizes that his left arm contains a mummified arm. Meanwhile, Valentine reveals Joseph of Arimathea's map to Steven, theorizing that Gyro must have picked up a piece of a certain Saint's Corpse. Later, Johnny notices that Gyro has suddenly disappeared, and narrowly avoids being dragged upward by an unknown hook-like ability. As Johnny hides under a rock, Tusk fully materializes, causes his legs to twitch, and whispers the phrase "movere crus" to him. Johnny realizes the Steel Ball Run's true purpose: the race's sponsor intends to have the participants collect the pieces of the Saint's Corpse for them throughout the race.
Johnny baits the hooks into attacking him, allowing him to wound the Stand User, Pork Pie Hat Kid. Johnny manages to reach Gyro, but Pork Pie Hat Kid uses his hostage to incapacitate Johnny. Johnny tearfully relinquishes his Corpse Part to Pork Pie Hat Kid, but Gyro reveals that he made the nails on the mummified arm spin, causing them to launch off and fatally wound the boy. Johnny, now focused on the miraculous Saint's Corpse, convinces Gyro to help him obtain it. The two see Diego pass by and prepare to give chase.
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Scary Monsters, Part 1
(スケアリー・モンスターズ その① Sukearī Monsutāzu Sono 1)
(スケアリー・モンスターズ その① Sukearī Monsutāzu Sono 1)
During the final dash of the second stage, Johnny discovers the location of the next Corpse Part on a nearby newspaper, distracting Gyro and causing Diego to take first place. Gyro barely has time to rebuke Johnny before the race moves onward to its third stage: a trek through the Rocky Mountains. Gyro and Johnny meet with Diego, who begins to exhibit many bizarre attributes. The three are forced to take shelter in a village as night falls. However, Diego suddenly transforms into a raptor and attacks Gyro and Johnny, who are forced to flee upon discovering that the entire village has suffered the same fate.
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Scary Monsters, Part 2
(スケアリー・モンスターズ その② Sukearī Monsutāzu Sono 2)
(スケアリー・モンスターズ その② Sukearī Monsutāzu Sono 2)
Diego's backstory is revealed: he once spent his youth working on a farm with his mother, but the bad treatment they received and his mother's death made Diego ambitious and resentful of humanity. His talent led him to search for glory in the Steel Ball Run. In the present, as Gyro begins to transform into a dinosaur himself, the two manage to locate the Corpse's Eyes, only for Diego to snatch the Corpse Parts away from them. Johnny, remaining human due to the Corpse's Left Arm, confronts Dr. Ferdinand, who explains that his Scary Monsters is controlling the pack of dinosaurs. Dr. Ferdinand elaborates that he seeks neither money nor glory, but only wants for his employer to control the completed Corpse for the sake of his country. Johnny unexpectedly abandons the Left Arm and partially transforms in order to toss one of the Eyes at Gyro, who regains human form.
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Scary Monsters, Part 3
(スケアリー・モンスターズ その③ Sukearī Monsutāzu Sono 3)
(スケアリー・モンスターズ その③ Sukearī Monsutāzu Sono 3)
Due to the power of the Eyes, Gyro and his Steel Balls gain a new ability called Scan, which allows him to see through objects. Gyro and Johnny use this new ability use to incapacitate Dr. Ferdinand, reversing his Stand's effects and leaving him cornered by ravenous cougars. However, Diego escapes with the Left Eye and keeps his dinosaur abilities. Johnny and Gyro chase him into the final dash of the third stage, where the Neapolitan chooses to dangerously cross a lake to keep up with Diego. Johnny declares that Gyro lacks the proper drive to win: sure enough, Johnny passes both combatants in the end to reach the finish line, though another racer named Hot Pants has already taken first place.
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The World of Man, Part 1
(男の世界 その① Otoko no Sekai Sono 1)
(男の世界 その① Otoko no Sekai Sono 1)
In a forest along the trail, Gyro and Johnny meet Hot Pants and briefly fight her over a stolen cow. Using Scan on Hot Pants's spine, Gyro deciphers a clue toward the next part of the Corpse; nevertheless, Hot Pants' flesh-spraying Cream Starter nearly kills him and Johnny. When Johnny reveals that neither he nor Gyro killed the cow, Hot Pants is compelled to show mercy. The three attempt to continue onward, but find themselves repeatedly returning to the same cabin. A gunslinger named Ringo Roadagain emerges from the cabin and introduces his Stand, Mandom, which can rewind time by five seconds. A shootout ensues in which Johnny and Hot Pants are apparently killed, leaving only Gyro alive. Ringo drags Johnny's body inside the cabin, but Gyro realizes that Johnny's wound isn't fatal and contemplates whether to engage the gunslinger.
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The World of Man, Part 2
(男の世界 その② Otoko no Sekai Sono 2)
(男の世界 その② Otoko no Sekai Sono 2)
Ringo Roadagain's past is revealed: he was once the sick youngest child of an impoverished family. One night, Ringo's mother and sister were killed by a bandit who tried to assault him, forcing him to shoot and kill the bandit in self-defense. Ringo then became a gunslinger seeking challengers in order to purify himself, drawing the attention of one Funny Valentine. In the present, Gyro decides that, despite what his father would want, he will continue the race and gather the Corpse. Gyro challenges Ringo again, paralyzing his shoulder with a Steel Ball. Ringo manages to rewind time, but is ultimately forced into the trajectory of a falling splinter in the ensuing duel. Acknowledging his defeat and Gyro's growth, Ringo forces the Neapolitan to finish him off.
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The Green Tomb, Part 1
(緑色の墓標 その① Midoriiro no Bohyō Sono 1)
(緑色の墓標 その① Midoriiro no Bohyō Sono 1)
After his duel with Ringo, Gyro heals Johnny and Hot Pants with Cream Starter. Johnny accidentally discovers that Hot Pants is a woman, but chooses not to tell Gyro. Near Kansas City, the duo crosses paths with Sandman, who warns the two that Diego is in the lead and that a storm is coming. Johnny realizes that Ringo had sent a message to Valentine before his death, and that Diego already knows the location of the Corpse's Spine. Meanwhile, in Kansas, Lucy decides to infiltrate a government building and steal Ringo's message for the president. Valentine and his henchman Blackmore nearly discover her identity, but Lucy narrowly manages to escape the building with help from Mountain Tim. Tim confesses his love toward Lucy and advises her to meet Johnny and Gyro before he departs. Blackmore quickly confronts and kills Tim by using his rain-controlling Stand, Catch the Rainbow.
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The Green Tomb, Part 2
(緑色の墓標 その② Midoriiro no Bohyō Sono 2)
(緑色の墓標 その② Midoriiro no Bohyō Sono 2)
Discovering that the intruder was a woman, Blackmore rushes toward Lucy's location as she approaches the Spine. Blackmore takes the Spine from Lucy, but the two are suddenly warped into the middle of Kansas City; Lucy takes advantage of Blackmore's confusion and excitement to fatally shoot him and escape with the Spine. Meanwhile, Gyro and Johnny catch up to Diego, but are unable to get ahead of him, as his enhanced senses allow him to detect the optimal path. Gyro suddenly catches up to Diego by sensing the optimal path on his own, but Johnny worries that one of the two will collapse at their current pace. Back in Kansas City, Blackmore seals his fatal wounds with frozen raindrops and continues discreetly pursuing Lucy.
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On a Stormy Night...
(嵐の夜に… Arashi no Yoru ni...)
(嵐の夜に… Arashi no Yoru ni...)
Johnny attempts to attack Diego, but Diego easily dodges and attempts to counterattack. Gyro manages to incapacitate Diego's horse, but is frustrated at his incomplete victory. The two then meet Lucy, with Blackmore in hot pursuit. Catch the Rainbow immobilizes Johnny and Gyro, but the latter utilizes the raindrops' static positions to throw a Steel Ball at Blackmore; the spinning Steel Ball evaporates the raindrops in its way and strikes Blackmore, knocking him down. As the storm clears, Blackmore dies from his wounds, and the Spine reveals the locations of the remaining Corpse Parts to the group. Gyro entrusts Lucy with the task of stealing the Heart from Valentine, lending her the Right Eye and seating her on Johnny's horse to avoid suspicion.
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Silent Way, Part 1
(サイレント・ウェイ その① Sairento Wei Sono 1)
(サイレント・ウェイ その① Sairento Wei Sono 1)
Diego meets with Valentine's henchmen. Diego promises that he has information regarding the government traitor, but seeks revenge against Johnny and Gyro before revealing it. The president reluctantly cooperates with the British jockey, granting him a single subordinate Stand user. More of Johnny's past is revealed: when Johnny refused to kill a white mouse he had brought home, his jockey brother Nicholas allowed him to release it into the forest. Later, the mouse darted in front of his horse during a race, leading to his death. In the present, near the Mississippi River, Gyro and Johnny rest in front of a cottage and discuss the Corpse's identity. Suddenly, the two are attacked by a combination of Diego's dinosaurs and a strange ability that destroys anything that touches an affected object via sound waves. The cottage collapses on top of Johnny, but Gyro saves him by digging a hole with his remaining Steel Balls. Without any Steel Balls, however, the duo is forced to flee into the river, where Gyro prepares to teach Johnny another lesson.
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Silent Way, Part 2
(サイレント・ウェイ その② Sairento Wei Sono 2)
(サイレント・ウェイ その② Sairento Wei Sono 2)
Gyro introduces Johnny to the Golden Rectangle, a ubiquitous proportion which forms a perfect and infinite rotation. However, the water multiplies the enemy's sound waves, incapacitating and gravely wounding Gyro. Sandman reveals himself as the enemy and inexorably corners the duo. On the brink of despair, Johnny realizes that the Golden Rectangle is present in nature itself, and Tusk evolves to ACT2. An even shootout ensues until Johnny surprises Sandman with a bullet made from Gyro's belt buckle, using it to kill the Native American. Suddenly, Hot Pants appears and knocks Johnny out. While moving him and Gyro to the other side of the river, Hot Pants steals all of their Corpse Parts as well, save a fraction of Johnny's Spine.
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Sugar Mountain, Part 1
(シュガー・マウンテン その① Shugā Maunten Sono 1)
(シュガー・マウンテン その① Shugā Maunten Sono 1)
An explanation of Stands and the rules governing them, such as their appearances and relationships with their users, is provided. Near the beginning of the sixth stage, Gyro senses that eleven horses are approaching them with unnatural synchronization. After one of Gyro's Steel Balls rolls into a lake and disappears, the two spot a girl named Sugar Mountain running away with the dropped Steel Ball in her hand. Chasing her into a large tree, the two are surprised when she bestows both the Steel Ball and two pieces of jewelry upon them. Johnny and Gyro realize that Sugar's ability recreates the fable of the Golden Axe and, after further exploiting the girl's naivete, use a rabbit's ears and a wolf's paw to obtain the Corpse's Ears and Right Arm. As the two prepare to leave, Sugar warns them that everything they acquired must be used up by sunset, lest they be absorbed into the tree. Gyro and Johnny confidently head to Milwaukee to spend their earnings, but find it difficult to fairly spend their fortune. As all of this occurs, the Eleven Men on horseback close in.
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Sugar Mountain, Part 2
(シュガー・マウンテン その② Shugā Maunten Sono 2)
(シュガー・マウンテン その② Shugā Maunten Sono 2)
Gyro decides to spend his and Johnny's cash at a casino, but the two are forced to change the outcome of a rigged bet to save themselves. Suddenly, the Eleven Men barge into the casino, engaging in a shootout with the two protagonists. The Eleven Men nearly kill the duo with their body-phasing ability, but a group of local thugs come to their aid and kill all but one of the men, having been paid by Gyro to become their bodyguards. Though all of the cash is spent, Gyro suddenly begins to be absorbed once more, and Johnny realizes that the Corpse Parts they received must be used up as well. Johnny reluctantly trades his Corpse Parts with the last assassin for a bottle of wine, freeing Gyro and breaking the tree's curse on its inhabitants. As the two honest men have a toast, the girl formerly known as Sugar Mountain salutes their resolve.
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Tubular Bells, Part 1
(チューブラー・ベルズ その① Chūburā Beruzu Sono 1)
(チューブラー・ベルズ その① Chūburā Beruzu Sono 1)
On the outskirts of Chicago, Diego meets with Mike O., head of Valentine's security staff. Diego reveals that the traitor is a woman, which Mike O. reports to Valentine. The two agree to investigate a list of 147 suspects and, if necessary, capture their target with Mike O.'s automatic-tracking Stand, Tubular Bells. After meeting with Hot Pants and learning that the government's search is closing in on her, Lucy investigates the first lady, Scarlet Valentine, and exploits her lesbianism to infiltrate the president's mansion. Separating from Scarlet with the help of a sleeping drug, Lucy uses Cream Starter to disguise herself as the first lady and approach Valentine, unaware that Tubular Bells has begun to react to her scent.
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Tubular Bells, Part 2
(チューブラー・ベルズ その② Chūburā Beruzu Sono 2)
(チューブラー・ベルズ その② Chūburā Beruzu Sono 2)
Tubular Bells begins to attack the disguised Lucy. As she tries to escape, the real Scarlet wakes up, recognizes Lucy, and threatens to shoot her in her grief. Scarlet chases Lucy into the bathroom, where the latter kills her pursuer by covering her in her own disguise, causing Tubular Bells to attack her. Mike O. appears at a nearby window, but Hot Pants comes to Lucy's rescue and kills Mike O. by turning his own windpipe into a balloon. However, Hot Pants is unable to take Lucy or the Right Arm with her as she escapes, forcing her to disguise Lucy as Scarlet and take the real Scarlet's body with her. Temporarily separated from her allies and left in the care of the man she fears most, Lucy can only weep in silence.
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Wrecking Ball, Part 1
(レッキング・ボール その① Rekkingu Bōru Sono 1)
(レッキング・ボール その① Rekkingu Bōru Sono 1)
Johnny and Gyro reach a frozen strait which they must pass. Unbeknownst to them, two enemies are observing them from afar: one of them is a former Neapolitan royal guard named Wekapipo, and the other is Magent Magent, a sardonic and unprofessional man fascinated by the newly-invented airplane. Wekapipo's past is revealed: once a member of the royal guard in the Kingdom of Naples, Wekapipo had his sister's marriage annulled after learning that her husband had beaten her until she was half-blind. Furious, the husband forced him into a duel that, despite Wekapipo's victory, led to his exile from the country. In the present, Johnny and Gyro try to cross the frozen strait, noticing a wolf that seems to be following them. In the middle of the strait, the two are attacked by Wekapipo's steel Wrecking Ball, which can make its victims unable to perceive anything to their left.
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Wrecking Ball, Part 2
(レッキング・ボール その② Rekkingu Bōru Sono 2)
(レッキング・ボール その② Rekkingu Bōru Sono 2)
Johnny locates and attacks Magent Magent, but the latter's 20th Century Boy allows him to create an impenetrable shield around himself by kneeling. As Gyro and Johnny realize that Wekapipo knows where the next Corpse Part is, Magent Magent shoots the wolf to immobilize it before turning to Gyro. Following a tense shootout, Gyro takes out Magent Magent by making him deflect a Steel Ball upward and distracting him as it falls back toward him. The two unsuccessfully attack Wekapipo, losing most of their projectiles in the process. With the Golden Rectangle nowhere to be seen, the two heroes realize their predicament.
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What It Takes to Win
(勝利者への資格 Shōrisha e no Shikaku)
(勝利者への資格 Shōrisha e no Shikaku)
Wekapipo takes care to destroy any possible model for the Golden Rectangle, including Gyro's hand and the wolf's corpse. However, it miraculously begins to snow, and Gyro uses the snowflakes to recreate the Golden Rectangle. At the same time, Johnny notices the Corpse's Legs emerging from the wolf's corpse. Wekapipo, seriously wounded, asks Gyro to kill him. However, Gyro refuses, revealing that Wekapipo's sister is alive and currently in hiding in the countryside. As he and Johnny depart with the Legs, Gyro asks Wekapipo to search for and protect Lucy. Later, Johnny and Gyro race against Pocoloco toward the goal of the sixth stage. Pocoloco's ability guides him out of the way of a chasm, but Gyro and Johnny combine their abilities to cross it directly with a makeshift steel rope and beat Pocoloco's luck. Gyro finishes in first place, putting him back in the running to win the race. Meanwhile, Magent Magent crawls back to civilization, having overheard that Lucy Steel is the traitor against the government.
A flashback details the discovery of Lucy Steel's body from the Fox River, as a distraught Steven Steel comes to the realization that the woman before him is not his wife. Six weeks later, Gyro and Johnny spot Hot Pants hurriedly racing toward a nearby town. Chasing after her, the two follow her into the town's garbage dump, where they encounter a woman dressed in nun's clothing. Gyro, still unaware of Hot Pants's gender, checks the back of the dump for Hot Pants's Corpse Parts, leaving Johnny to interrogate the racer. Hot Pants reveals that she has been attacked by a sin in her past: the sin of sacrificing her little brother to a grizzly bear. The Stand quickly incapacitates Gyro as well, introducing itself as Civil War. However, Johnny manages to purify himself of his sins using water and renews his resolve to defeat the Stand User.
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The Gettysburg Dream
(ゲティスバーグの夢 Getisubāgu no Yume)
(ゲティスバーグの夢 Getisubāgu no Yume)
A mysterious saint suddenly appears behind Johnny and warns him not to shoot with doubt in his heart. Johnny, confused by the figure's words, manages to find Gyro, only to find himself unable to attack a phantasm of his own father. In the nick of time, Gyro manages to find the Stand User, Axl RO, with his Steel Balls, and Johnny fatally wounds him. However, the final aspect of Civil War's ability revives Axl RO and transfers his sins to Johnny, notably the ghosts of the soldiers he failed to warn of incoming enemy troops at Gettysburg. Johnny suddenly understands the meaning of the saint's words and chooses to shoot himself, evolving Tusk to ACT3. Axl attempts to flee with the corpse, but Johnny grabs the corpse with the intent to pull it into his Stand's hole. Axl RO is forced to kill him, but the act only revives Johnny once more and transfers both parties' sins to Axl himself. Suddenly, Axl is fatally shot from behind. The shooter is none other than Valentine, who shot to defend another person and is thus unaffected by Civil War. Valentine collects all of the present Corpse Parts and departs unscathed, noting that the Skull's location remains unknown and that Diego and another government traitor hold the Left and Right Eyes respectively.
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Both Sides Now, Part 1
(ボース・サイド・ナウ その① Bōsu Saido Nau Sono 1)
(ボース・サイド・ナウ その① Bōsu Saido Nau Sono 1)
Lucy Pendleton's past is detailed: she was once the eldest daughter of a farmer indebted with the mafia, who wanted to abduct her and make her work as a prostitute. However, Steven bluffed the mafia by marrying her and telling them that he took her virginity. Despite Steven's promise that she could leave him anytime she wanted, the two became close out of their mutual gratitude and trust. In the present, ruminating in his coach, Steven discovers that Lucy is somehow posing as Scarlet Valentine. Suddenly, Magent Magent appears and shoots Steven, as Valentine no longer needs him alive. Wekapipo, still indebted to Gyro, intervenes to protect Steven. At Independence Hall, a disguised Lucy attempts to distract Valentine after dropping the Right Eye, which rolls toward the other hidden Corpse Parts. Valentine describes his motivation for sponsoring the race, declaring his intention to obtain true power over the world. Aroused by his wife's sudden cuteness, Valentine tries to have intercourse with her, only for Lucy to ditch her disguise and stab him in the throat.
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Both Sides Now, Part 2
(ボース・サイド・ナウ その② Bōsu Saido Nau Sono 2)
(ボース・サイド・ナウ その② Bōsu Saido Nau Sono 2)
To lighten the mood, Gyro tells Johnny a joke about the days of the week as they travel. Meanwhile, agonizing on the floor, Valentine forces a chair to fall on top of him, reappearing unharmed beneath it. Lucy tries to hide from Valentine in the neighboring room, where she finds the hidden Corpse Parts and receives a vision. As Valentine breaks into the room, he sees the silhouette of the Head on Lucy's abdomen and realizes that she has become the Corpse's host. Meanwhile, Wekapipo notices that Magent Magent has wrapped himself in dynamite. The Neapolitan guard uses his Steel Balls to drive the coach into a nearby river, protecting Steven but taking serious damage himself. Though Magent Magent prepares to shoot him, one of Wekapipo's Steel Balls manages to wrap him in the coach's cables while his Stand is active. Magent Magent sinks to the bottom of the river, where he thinks of Diego coming to save him until he is no longer able to think. One hour later, Gyro and Johnny enter Philadelphia, the seventh stage's goal. Seeing that Diego has made a comeback and finished the stage in first place, they decide to confront him and steal the Left Eye from him.
Near Independence Hall, Johnny and Gyro spot Diego with Wekapipo following him. Though Johnny proposes killing Diego, Gyro objects to the idea. As Gyro sneaks up on Diego, Johnny is suddenly shot by an unknown party, quickly escaping into the sewer. Gyro notices the gunshot and attempts to run toward Johnny, but is immobilized by the grid of D-I-S-C-O's Chocolate Disco. D-I-S-C-O demonstrates his ability to teleport objects wherever he wishes within the grid, but Gyro easily disposes of him by tricking him with different layers of air. Despite his victory over D-I-S-C-O, Gyro has lost track of Johnny, and his attacker remains unidentified.
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Dirty Deeds, Part 1
(えげつない行為 その① Egutsunai Kōi Sono 1)
(えげつない行為 その① Egutsunai Kōi Sono 1)
Separate flashbacks depict Wekapipo and Diego's perspectives. Prior to Johnny's shooting, Diego disguises himself as a guard at Independence Hall and follows Valentine into the city streets. Wekapipo, noticing Diego, chooses to trail the jockey instead of confronting Gyro and Johnny. Noticing his pursuer, Diego leaps atop a building, hoping to trigger a duel between Wekapipo and Valentine. However, their perspectives diverge: while Wekapipo is attacked by an unseen enemy, forcing him to fire blindly as he is draped in a flag, Diego instead sees Wekapipo turn to shoot him, forcing him to steal the gun and fire from the same circumstance. Both parties find themselves before the wounded Johnny, who escapes into the sewers. The two meet and attempt to rationalize their experiences, only to suddenly be attacked by the president himself. Valentine reveals that his Stand's true ability allows him to navigate and transport people and objects between neighboring dimensions, with himself being the only entity that can exist in two places at once.
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Dirty Deeds, Part 2
(えげつない行為 その② Egutsunai Kōi Sono 2)
(えげつない行為 その② Egutsunai Kōi Sono 2)
It is revealed that Valentine himself was the one to shoot Johnny. Diego pins Valentine against a wall, only for the president to phase straight through him. Wekapipo successfully hits Valentine with his Wrecking Ball, but Valentine tricks Diego into allowing himself to be dragged through another American flag. On the other side, Diego sees counterparts of all three combatants, having been dragged into a parallel world. As Diego begins merging with his alternate self, Valentine takes the Left Eye. Suddenly, the president is shot by the parallel world's own Johnny, who had been led to the location by Diego's dinosaurs. Diego manages to return to the base universe by pulling the parallel world Wekapipo on top of him, dragging both through the flag. As a consequence, the parallel Wekapipo merges with his base universe self, annihilating both. Though the president has escaped with the Eye, Diego realizes that the Saint's Corpse exists only in the base universe, renewing his resolve. Meanwhile, Gyro finds Johnny, who manages to stand briefly before breaking down in despair. Gyro reluctantly introduces the ultimate level of the Spin technique, which can only be used on horseback by making both rider and steed form the Golden Rectangle. The two resolve once more to rescue Lucy Steel, defeat Valentine, and obtain the Corpse.
At Independence Hall, a heavily-pregnant Lucy is contacted by a mysterious voice compelling her to escape. Lucy's guards are incapacitated by a series of coincidences, allowing her to escape by carriage with a wounded Steven. As the carriage approaches the river, Lucy realizes that she has been caught in a trap: with the power of both Eyes, Valentine has lured Lucy toward his own ship to take her to the map's final destination. Lucy is forced to board the ship with her husband, though Valentine promises not to kill Steven. However, she manages to leave behind a clue to her current location. Diego meets Hot Pants, who offers to help him find and defeat Valentine in exchange for the Corpse. The two find the clue and pursue Lucy's scent, with Gyro and Johnny on their trail.
Hot Pants and Diego follow Lucy's scent to a train yard, where the two see Valentine aboard a moving train. Valentine throws alternate versions of Diego and Hot Pants out of the train, but the two narrowly manage to board the train and send their counterparts back to their own dimension. As Lucy begins to fuse with the completed Corpse, Diego ambushes Valentine, gravely wounding him. As Hot Pants cuts off any means of escape for the president, Diego seemingly inflicts a killing blow.
At the last moment, a jug of water mysteriously falls on Valentine by itself, allowing him to escape. When the president returns, he brings two of his alternate selves with him, overwhelming Diego until Hot Pants disguises the jockey as another Valentine. Diego uses the confusion to kill two of the three presidents and chase the other through a window. Diego lethally wounds Valentine as they fall, but Valentine's hair gets caught beneath the train's wheels, allowing him to both kill Diego and escape once more. Johnny and Gyro note Diego's death from afar and, preparing for the worst, tell each other their deepest secrets. As the two set out to finish things, Johnny notices a warning sign seemingly following them.
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D4C Love Train, Part 3
(D4C その③ -ラブトレイン- Dī Fō Shī Sono 3 -Rabu Torein-)
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Hot Pants discovers that Lucy's body is merging with the Corpse, only for Valentine to quickly finish her off with help from its power. The president notes that good fortune and space itself are converging toward the Corpse, and his Stand evolves into D4C Love Train, producing a gap in space that Valentine can hide within. Gyro and Johnny catch up to the locomotive, but find that Love Train's ability redirects any attack to somewhere else in the world. Additionally, any wound sustained by the president's enemies moves toward their vitals on its own, including a small wound that Gyro sustained earlier. With Johnny cornered against the approaching forest, Gyro throws a Steel Ball to seemingly no effect. The two narrowly escape the president by detaching the engine from the rest of the train. Though Johnny begins to despair, Gyro reveals that the Steel Ball he threw scraped some of Valentine's hair off, having been thrown with the perfect Spin.
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D4C Love Train, Part 4
(D4C その④ -ラブトレイン- Dī Fō Shī Sono 4 -Rabu Torein-)
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Encouraged by the slight damage they inflicted, Gyro and Johnny face the stopped train. Valentine, confused by the two heroes' resilience, takes heart as Lucy agonizes in pain. Valentine attacks the duo by traveling along the ground. Johnny achieves the perfect Spin, only for D4C to cut off his arm. Gyro throws another Steel Ball at the president, seemingly in vain. Before Valentine can finish Johnny off, he notices that he is being pulled backward: Steven has regained consciousness and dragged Lucy outside the train. The promoter entrusts Gyro with Lucy's survival, noting that her injuries heal as she gains distance from the president. Hoping to hinder Valentine's mobility, Gyro moves toward the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, Johnny and Valentine notice at the same time that Gyro's Steel Ball has sliced off the president's ear, and the latter realizes the nature of Gyro's technique.
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Ball Breaker, Part 1
(ボール・ブレイカー その① Bōru Bureikā Sono 1)
(ボール・ブレイカー その① Bōru Bureikā Sono 1)
Valentine disappears beneath the ocean floor as Gyro reaches the perfect Spin. The president summons several of his alternate selves, but Gyro finds the real Valentine and throws a Steel Ball at him. The perfect Spin produces a Stand known as Ball Breaker, which bypasses Valentine's gap in space and ages the left half of his body. Gyro is shot in the stomach by the remaining Valentines, but quickly disposes of them. The real Valentine recovers, however, and engages Gyro once more, whose Steel Ball fails to penetrate Love Train. Valentine reveals that a small part of the Steel Ball was scraped away before it could hit him, making its Spin imperfect. Aware of his total defeat, Gyro gives Johnny one final lesson: the detour was their shortest path. As Gyro's stomach wound finally reaches his heart, the Neapolitan collapses from his horse and breathes his last.
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Ball Breaker, Part 2
(ボール・ブレイカー その② Bōru Bureikā Sono 2)
(ボール・ブレイカー その② Bōru Bureikā Sono 2)
Valentine empties his revolver on Gyro's corpse before attacking Johnny. Johnny wastes all but one nail attacking Valentine, who inflicts a serious wound on his horse and knocks him to the ground. At the last moment, Johnny understands Gyro's final words, picks up Gyro's Steel Ball, and uses it on his horse's leg to make it kick him into the air. As both the horse and Johnny form the Golden Rectangle, Tusk evolves once more to ACT4. Tusk ACT4 forces its way past the president's ability and pummels D4C with enough force to form a crater on the ground. Valentine escapes to another dimension, but discovers that his body has been immobilized and is being torn apart by the perpetual effects of ACT4's infinite rotation. Taking out a handkerchief from his father, Valentine resolves to defeat Johnny no matter the cost. The president reappears before Johnny in the base universe, but admits his defeat and offers to summon another Gyro Zeppeli if Johnny nullifies his infinite rotation.
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Break My Heart, Break Your Heart
(ブレイク・マイ・ハート ブレイク・ユア・ハート Bureiku Mai Hāto Bureiku Yua Hāto)
(ブレイク・マイ・ハート ブレイク・ユア・ハート Bureiku Mai Hāto Bureiku Yua Hāto)
A flashback details a young Funny's meeting with his future father-in-law, Captain Valentine. The captain told Funny that his birth father had a habit of writing his son's birthday on everything he owned; after being captured by the enemy, he hid a handkerchief with the date embroidered on it inside his left eye socket. In the present, Valentine and Johnny enter tense negotiations. As proof of his good will, Valentine gives Johnny an alternate Cream Starter, which he uses to heal Lucy as the Corpse separates from her, along with his horse. Presenting his father's handkerchief, Valentine almost convinces Johnny to spare his life. The jockey nonetheless tests Valentine's honesty by throwing the president's gun on the ground, daring him to pick it up. Valentine hesitates, but ultimately draws the gun he brought from an alternate universe. Johnny and Valentine engage in a final shootout, in which Johnny ultimately comes out on top. Johnny sees Gyro's spirit bid him farewell and ascend into the sky before finishing Valentine off. The president's corpse and handkerchief are dragged underground by the infinite rotation, leaving Johnny alone to mourn his best friend. Later, after healing everyone and demonstrating the full recovery of his legs, Johnny realizes that the Corpse has been stolen by a final unknown enemy.
As Johnny prepares to chase the unknown enemy, Steven warns Johnny that Valentine had prepared an impenetrable vault for the Corpse at the end of the race, which the enemy is heading toward. Johnny pursues his final foe as they seemingly teleport around everything in their path. The final enemy soon reveals himself to be an alternate Diego Brando. Before Johnny can react, knives suddenly appear in front of him: the new Diego wields a Stand named THE WORLD, which can stop time itself. Johnny continues pursuing Diego into the ninth and final stage of the race. Soon, Diego enacts his master plan: dousing Johnny in gasoline and setting him on fire while time is stopped. Johnny escapes once more into the sewers and attacks Diego from below, but only succeeds in destroying some of Diego's female admirers. Johnny exits the sewers and rejoins the other racers; as he and Johnny cross the Brooklyn Bridge, Diego prepares to settle things once and for all.
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A World of Stars and Stripes
(星条旗の世界 Seijōki no Sekai)
(星条旗の世界 Seijōki no Sekai)
Diego stops time and attacks Johnny as he shoots, managing to unhorse him. Predicting that ACT4's energy will approach him from behind, Diego leaps atop THE WORLD and cuts its leg off as the infinite rotation reaches it. THE WORLD's leg strikes Johnny, who falls victim to his own infinite rotation. Diego seals his victory by finishing both the stage and the entire race in first place before entering the president's vault. As Diego prepares to seal the Corpse, Lucy suddenly enters with a bag in her hand, which is revealed to contain the original Diego's head. Diego stops time and tries to escape, but is hindered by his missing leg. As time resumes, Diego's head is completely destroyed. Meanwhile, Steven rescues Johnny by allowing him to grab his horse and use it to nullify the infinite rotation. Steven visits the vault and finds that the Corpse has been sealed away, ultimately concluding that the Corpse belongs to no one. Lucy hesitates before agreeing with Steven and exiting the vault. Pocoloco ultimately wins the Steel Ball Run race following Diego's disqualification. For his part, Johnny boards a boat with Gyro's body to deliver it to his family. Reminiscing on his long journey, Johnny prays for a safe voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and toward home.
