Chapter Summaries

Alessi ambushed the group with Sethan and began turning Joseph, Jotaro, and Avdol into children, but Joseph’s youth restored his strength and revealed that he still had Hermit Purple. The chapter ended with Joseph taunting Alessi over his surviving Stand.

• Alessi disguised himself as a prison guard with Yellow Temperance and attacked the group using Sethan’s shadow.
• Sethan began shrinking Joseph, Jotaro, and Avdol, while Jean Pierre Polnareff remained untouched.
• Joseph welcomed the transformation and rapidly regained his youthful body as golden Ripple flashed across him.
• Joseph declared that he did not care if his Stand disappeared, then celebrated his regained youth.
• Joseph pointed to Hermit Purple and correctly predicted Alessi’s shocked question about why he still had a Stand.

Joseph revealed that he had possessed Hermit Purple for decades and used the Ripple to survive his fall after banishing Kars. After stopping Alessi from de-aging him, Joseph regained his prime and launched a Ripple-powered elbow attack.

• Alessi was shocked that Joseph retained his Stand and had escaped Sethan’s de-aging effect.
• Joseph explained that Hermit Purple had helped him predict his landing and survive the volcanic eruption that sent him into the sky with Kars.
• Joseph revealed that a golden Ripple arc had cut off Sethan’s connection to their shadows, preventing Alessi from turning him into a baby.
• Alessi regained confidence in Yellow Temperance’s defense, but Joseph suddenly appeared in front of him at incredible speed.
• Joseph predicted Alessi’s next words and charged with a Ripple-powered elbow rush.

Joseph used Ripple to cripple Alessi and continued attacking him through Yellow Temperance, while Avdol, Jotaro, and Polnareff tried to understand why their Stands and abilities had not reverted with their bodies. Jotaro began to recognize that Joseph had anticipated his next words.

• Joseph struck Sethan’s shadow with Golden Cutter, causing Alessi to collapse in pain.
• Avdol summoned Magician’s Red, and the group realized that their Stands had not turned childlike along with them.
• Joseph battered Alessi through Yellow Temperance with Ripple, burning Alessi from within.
• Avdol and Jotaro wondered why Sethan had changed their bodies but not their Stands or powers.
• Polnareff suggested that Don Quixote’s soul-manipulation ability explained the difference.
• Jotaro recognized Joseph’s familiar setup and began, “If I’m not mistaken, your next line...”

Joseph used Sethan’s incomplete reversal to return to his prime and overpower Alessi, while Jean Pierre Polnareff pieced together how Don Quixote’s Requiem had altered the Stand’s effects. Alessi restored Jean Pierre to adulthood and vowed to take Joseph down with him.

• Joseph taunted Jotaro while beating up Alessi, and Jean Pierre Polnareff laughed at Jotaro’s confusion.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff reasoned that Don Quixote’s Requiem had manipulated Sethan’s effects so the reversal preserved each person’s peak abilities.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff suspected that Don Quixote had taken Star Platinum to remove Kakyoin’s flesh bud and handle related matters.
• Joseph explained that his Ripple had grown through every breath and launched Alessi with a golden Ripple-charged steel ball.
• Alessi roared that he would take Joseph down with him, then used his power to restore Jean Pierre Polnareff to adulthood.

Joseph defeated Alessi and reflected on how fate had shaped events in his life, but Don Quixote challenged him to stop worrying about heaven’s will and act as he once had. Joseph then realized Kakyoin was missing and feared something had happened to him.

• Alessi tried to torment Joseph by restoring him to old age, but Joseph remained untroubled and struck him with Ripple until he collapsed.
• Joseph returned to old age, reattached his mechanical arm, and explained that he missed his youth without wanting to live in the past.
• Joseph realized that fate or heaven’s will had influenced several events in his life, including Kars’s exile and his affair with Tomoko Higashikata.
• Don Quixote appeared in a wheelchair and urged Joseph to rely on human effort rather than worry about heaven’s will.
• Joseph noticed Kakyoin was absent and feared something had happened to him.

Don Quixote and Star Platinum rushed to rescue Kakyoin, who had been struck by the Arrow and developed a strange Stand ability that made lethal attacks pass through him. After Don Quixote shared what he had witnessed, Joseph and the others learned that Boingo’s comic predicted Kakyoin would not die by any means—though its prophecy also depicted his apparent death in a water tower.

• Joseph rejected the idea that fate could stop him and demanded to know where Don Quixote had left Kakyoin.
• Don Quixote explained that Kakyoin’s soul and Stand had changed during the rewind, then shared his memories with Joseph, Jotaro, and the others.
• Don Quixote and Star Platinum found Hol Horse, Oingo, and Boingo surrounding Kakyoin, with Boingo holding a bloodied Arrow that had pierced him.
• Hol Horse shot Kakyoin between the brows, but Emperor’s bullet seemed to hit and pass through him at once, leading Don Quixote to conclude that Kakyoin was immune to lethal attacks.
• Don Quixote showed Star Platinum Boingo’s comic prophecy, which said Kakyoin could not die by any means, while another page depicted him embedded in a water tower.
• Jotaro and Joseph reacted with shock to Kakyoin’s apparent invulnerability, and Joseph noticed that the prophecy seemed strangely compatible with how Kakyoin had died before.

Joseph and the others analyzed Kakyoin’s new ability, then Don Quixote revealed that fate had drawn several major enemies toward Egypt. The Stardust Crusaders prepared to reunite and power up for a fight against DIO and the forces trying to correct history.

• Joseph, Don Quixote, and Jotaro explained how Kakyoin’s prophecy-like ability recreated the circumstances of his original death, while Polnareff protested that Silver Chariot’s ability seemed far weaker.
• Star Platinum returned with the unconscious Kakyoin and Anubis, and Don Quixote removed Kakyoin’s Flesh Bud and used Gold Experience and Requiem to help him recover.
• Joseph said the SPW Group was bringing Iggy to Egypt, while Jotaro declared that the group would defeat DIO and then challenge fate.
• Don Quixote reported that Father Pucci, Yoshikage Kira, Diavolo, and Giorno were heading toward Egypt under fate’s guidance, as spacetime’s distortions began correcting history.
• Don Quixote offered to restore Joseph’s youth, merge Jotaro with Star Platinum, enhance Avdol’s flames, and equip Polnareff with armor and Kakyoin as a shield.

The group encountered Granny Enya, N'Doul, and ZZ as they approached a strange town in the rain, but Don Quixote transformed his wheelchair into a self-repairing truck to solve their transportation problem. They charged toward town and ran over ZZ's car, leaving the battle with DIO's Stand Users underway.

• Joseph, Don Quixote, and their companions traveled toward Egypt on foot after their vehicle broke down, while Joseph's Spirit Photography failed to reveal useful information.
• The group reached a foggy town in sudden natural rain, and Don Quixote sensed Granny Enya, N'Doul, and ZZ waiting there with their Stands.
• Don Quixote realized Wheel of Fortune could provide reliable transportation, then used his Rapier to transform his wheelchair into a large Dayun truck.
• The group climbed aboard the truck and drove toward town, with Jotaro proposing they simply beat their enemies.
• ZZ swerved his little red car in front of the truck and began a challenge, but Don Quixote accelerated and drove straight over it.

Don Quixote and the others ran over N'Doul with the Dayun and continued toward Egypt, while DIO, Pucci, Diavolo, and Yoshikage Kira formed an uneasy alliance against them. Pucci laid out a plan to combine DIO’s time stop with Diavolo’s time erasure and his own Stand control, leaving the villains confident that they held the advantage.

• Don Quixote’s Dayun ran over N'Doul’s water Stand, and Jean Pierre Polnareff finished him with a full-force charge in Silver Chariot.
• DIO mocked Diavolo and Yoshikage Kira, then used stopped time to serve them wine and straighten their clothes.
• Pucci proposed that the group cooperate to eliminate the people trying to rewrite fate.
• Yoshikage Kira recalled the torment he had suffered and despaired over how outmatched his bomb-based abilities were against the opposing team.
• DIO considered keeping Yoshikage Kira as insurance because Bites the Dust could rewind time.
• Pucci explained how DIO’s nine seconds of stopped time, Diavolo’s time erasure, and his Stand control could be combined to kill their opponents.

Pucci, DIO, Diavolo, and Yoshikage Kira planned to exploit their time-based abilities and strike first, while Joseph and Don Quixote devised a counterattack for the approaching fight in Cairo. Don Quixote laid out a battle plan for the group and sensed that Rongrong and Josuke would soon join them.

• Pucci proposed keeping Yoshikage Kira ready to use Bites the Dust to rewind events if their side failed, and DIO declared that the enemy could not rewind time again.
• DIO and Pucci suggested evolving Diavolo with a red stone, while DIO sensed that other unexpected players had been drawn into the conflict.
• In the truck approaching Cairo, Joseph analyzed the enemy's abilities and predicted a coordinated opening attack involving Epitaph, time stop, time erasure, Whitesnake, and Kira's bombs.
• Don Quixote argued that his reach and Silver Chariot Requiem could counter the enemy, then assigned roles for the group's attack on DIO's side.
• Don Quixote sensed Rongrong and Josuke approaching and told the others their team would soon grow to eight Stand Users.

The group discovered that Pet Shop had been sent with a bomb and a hidden Disc, then survived the resulting explosion and freezing attack. Don Quixote recognized that DIO had used the chaos to approach and escape with a second, heat-seeking bomb, leaving the group facing another attack.

• Magician's Red roasted Pet Shop's wings while Giorno and Josuke Higashikata examined the bound hawk and Don Quixote discussed how he had been captured.
• Giorno and Josuke Higashikata noticed something foreign on Pet Shop, and Don Quixote revealed a Killer Queen bomb and Whitesnake's Disc on him.
• Joseph found DIO's Flesh Bud and another Disc on Pet Shop, but Pet Shop's tail feather exploded and Horus unleashed a freezing attack.
• Joseph used Hermit Purple to pull Giorno and Josuke Higashikata away from the blast while Don Quixote let the attack unfold to draw out the enemy.
• A vehicle appeared in the icy fog carrying a second heat-seeking bomb, and Don Quixote deduced that DIO had combined time stop and time erasure to approach and retreat.

Joseph and Don Quixote analyzed DIO and Diavolo’s coordinated use of Time Stop and Time Erasure, but Vanilla Ice attacked from Cream’s alternate dimension. Jean Pierre Polnareff rushed to save Avdol as the invisible attack threatened to erase him.

• Joseph explained how DIO and Diavolo could chain Time Stop and Time Erasure, while Don Quixote dismissed the approaching bomb car as a threat.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff used Silver Chariot Requiem to stop the bomb car and make it explode.
• Avdol realized that Time Erasure had begun, then recognized the sensation of Cream’s attack as an invisible arc was gouged from the ground.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff tried to control Cream but could not locate him because Vanilla Ice was hiding in an alternate dimension.
• Joseph realized Don Quixote could not stop the attack, and Jean Pierre Polnareff lunged toward Avdol, desperate to save him from being erased.

Jotaro used time stop to move his allies, but Diavolo erased time and the void’s miasma continued its attack. Kakyoin used Fated Death to change Avdol’s position, yet the miasma turned toward Polnareff, leaving him in immediate danger.

• Jotaro activated The World, but Diavolo’s King Crimson erased time and altered the battlefield.
• Jotaro realized Diavolo could use Epitaph to predict their positions, while the ring of void miasma vanished from sight.
• Kakyoin launched himself from a streetlamp with Emerald Splash and landed beside Avdol, using his Fated Death ability to evade lethal injuries and move him.
• Jotaro saw the ring of void miasma turn toward Polnareff, and the group shouted a warning.

Jean Pierre Polnareff tried to sacrifice himself to unlock Don Quixote’s full power, but Diavolo had anticipated the plan and stopped Cream from killing him. As Cream resumed its attack on Avdol, Jean Pierre Polnareff despaired, while Diavolo felt an ominous chill.

• Jotaro realized Vanilla Ice’s attack had been aimed at Jean Pierre Polnareff and Don Quixote, and Kakyoin could not reach Polnareff in time.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff revealed that he had expected Cream’s ambush and planned to die so Don Quixote could unleash his full power.
• Cream stopped after shaving only the tips of Polnareff’s hair, and Diavolo revealed that he had used the threat to make Polnareff expose his Stand’s death-triggered ability.
• Diavolo explained that he would prevent Polnareff from killing himself and keep Don Quixote’s power restricted while Cream attacked their companions.
• Cream surged toward Avdol, and Jean Pierre Polnareff struck the ground in despair as Diavolo felt a chill at his words.

Don Quixote revealed that he could erase space with The Hand and boosted the Crusaders’ abilities, then joined with Jean Pierre Polnareff and rushed the group toward DIO. They reached a road blocked by unseen energy fluctuations, and Don Quixote told Brunareff to drive onto the sidewalk.

• After Jean Pierre Polnareff admitted he could do nothing, Don Quixote stood up and used The Hand to erase Cream and the space around it.
• Don Quixote refused Jean Pierre Polnareff’s offer to die so he could fight without restrictions, then empowered the Crusaders and enhanced their Stands.
• Iggy sensed damaged streets and houses about two kilometers northwest, and Don Quixote moved the group into the Big Rig created by Wheel of Fortune.
• Don Quixote and Jean Pierre Polnareff merged, and the group drove toward DIO while Don Quixote used Time Stop and then released it as dawn approached.
• Jotaro noticed unseen energy fluctuations blocking the road, and Don Quixote told Brunareff to drive onto the sidewalk.

Don Quixote and the Crusaders faced DIO’s four transformed allies, who resisted hypnosis and launched a surprise attack by swapping Stands. Jotaro was struck during stopped time, but Don Quixote intervened and reversed the danger, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Don Quixote identified the four enemies as DIO’s transformed allies, and Joseph noticed they carried Red Stone fragments.
• Polnareff tried to put the four enemies to sleep, but they rose again because they had prepared command Discs and other protections.
• Joseph chose a direct fight, and Diavolo vanished as Pucci and Diavolo moved to ambush Don Quixote and Polnareff.
• Jotaro stopped time and rushed to strike Pucci, but Pucci’s Stand, the World, emerged and punched through Jotaro’s chest.
• Jotaro attacked Diavolo while badly injured, but Don Quixote acted during stopped time, halted the World, and restored Jotaro’s body.

Don Quixote defeated Pucci’s scheme, restored everyone’s Stands, and helped break fate’s hold on the group. After he anchored the changed reality and fell asleep, a meteor carrying Kars approached Earth, while a mysterious girl and a bizarre Centaur appeared nearby.

• Jotaro attacked Pucci, who used Killer Queen to make Jotaro explode, but Don Quixote restored him with Crazy Diamond.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff attacked Pucci, but Pucci revealed Whitesnake and tried to extract his Discs before Don Quixote stopped him and returned them.
• Don Quixote ended Time Stop, disabled the enemies’ Stands, and used Hermit Purple to return every Stand to its proper owner.
• Joseph, Jean Pierre Polnareff, Kakyoin, Jotaro, and Giorno joined the fight against DIO, Diavolo, Yoshikage Kira, and Pucci.
• Don Quixote sensed that fate’s shackles had broken, anchored the changed reality, and then fell asleep as a meteor began falling toward Earth.
• Joseph recognized Kars in the approaching meteor and noticed a familiar-looking girl beside a bizarre Centaur, then shouted in alarm.

Sasuke told Don Quixote how he, Naruto, and a Danzo-like Root remnant had vanished after the Rōran seal activated, while Sasuke sensed he was close to awakening the Rinnegan. A new arrival revealed himself as the Sorting Hat, and back in Rōran Kakashi and Sakura encountered a masked stranger as Hiruzen found an unfamiliar old dossier.

• Sasuke shared memories with Don Quixote, recounting Naruto's bond with the Three-Tails and their mission to Rōran.
• At Rōran, Sasuke and Naruto found that the Root remnant Mukade looked exactly like Danzo, then vanished with him when the seal broke.
• Sasuke told Don Quixote that sharing his power had brought him close to crossing the threshold from his Three-Tomoe Sharingan toward the Rinnegan.
• A newcomer appeared in the Gray Fog Space as the Sorting Hat, and Don Quixote left to check on Kars and the woman who seemed to be Jolyne.
• Kakashi and Sakura faced a masked stranger at Rōran after Naruto and Sasuke disappeared, while Hiruzen found an unfamiliar aged dossier in the Hokage Office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and Tsunade discovered a sealed document Minato Namikaze had left behind, concerning travel through Rōran’s Dragon Vein and the space-time paradox. After Naruto’s and Sasuke’s village clones vanished, Minato’s voice sounded outside the office, and the newly revealed diary entry suggested he had met Naruto in the future and found a way to overcome the time paradox.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi found a previously hidden document among Minato’s files, and Tsunade identified traces of a seal designed to release under specific conditions.
• Jiraiya and Hiruzen connected the document’s release to Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sakura pursuing Mukade toward Rōran and the Dragon Vein.
• An ANBU reported that all of Naruto’s and Sasuke’s clones in the village had vanished at once.
• Hiruzen, Jiraiya, and Tsunade suspected Naruto and Sasuke had traveled through time, triggering Minato’s seal.
• Minato’s voice sounded outside the office, and a diary entry revealed that he had met Naruto in the future and believed he had found a way around the time paradox.

Naruto Uzumaki was stranded in the past at Rōran and decided to try changing the future, while Minato Namikaze recognized him as his son and inferred his own fate. After Naruto unleashed overwhelming power against the puppets, the Mysterious Man appeared behind Minato and his team.

• Naruto Uzumaki realized he had traveled about twenty years into the past, lost contact with Sasuke, and concluded he could not save his father by changing history.
• Minato Namikaze and his teammates investigated Naruto, whose appearance, chakra, and Rasengan made Minato suspect he was his future son.
• Naruto resolved to challenge fate and destroyed the surrounding puppets with a massive Sage Art attack, forcing Minato to evacuate his team.
• Minato recognized Naruto's apparent Flying Thunder God technique and accepted that he would die in the future, believing Naruto had grown up well.
• The blond-haired Mysterious Man appeared behind Minato and his teammates, making Minato reconsider his confidence about facing death.