Chapter Summaries

Josen and the others discovered that the seemingly empty giant ship was controlled by an ape Stand User and used F-kid’s bomb cards to destroy it. The ship shrank back into a small wooden boat, leaving the group to realize how dangerous it had been.

• Josen proposed using the explosives Jotaro had thrown overboard against the giant ship, and F-kid retrieved them from the sea.
• Jotaro reported that the ship had no crew except for an ape in a cage, and Josen concluded that the ape was the Stand User.
• F-kid and Star Platinum launched bomb cards across the ship, evading the ship’s crane cables as the bombs materialized and detonated.
• The explosions rocked the cruise ship, and the giant vessel shrank into a small wooden boat after its Stand disappeared.
• Kakyoin inferred that the ape had died, while Avdol and Joseph noted how dangerous the ship would have been if they had boarded unprepared.

The group arrived in Singapore, where Josen amused himself by giving Mr. Popo a fabricated fortune reading. He warned Mr. Popo that an unexpected danger could follow from his next choices.

• The group reached Singapore after a smooth three-day voyage, and a policeman mistakenly tried to fine Mr. Popo for littering because he mistook his battered bag for rubbish.
• Josen offered to tell Mr. Popo's fortune and took him aside, telling Avdol not to interfere with the reading.
• Josen used a stacked deck of spades to make Mr. Popo draw the seven of spades and convinced him it foretold serious misfortune.
• Mr. Popo misunderstood Josen's warning as a promise of big breasts, then pleaded with him to explain how to avert the danger.
• Josen told Mr. Popo that the seven signaled an unexpected event and warned him to be careful about his next choices.

Josen kept the group together and arranged presidential suites in Singapore, with Mr. Joestar paying the bill. A disguised Stand User and a cursed rag doll watched the group and plotted attacks from outside the hotel.

• Josen warned Polnareff to trust his teammates and gave Mr. Popo a card that would summon help if he destroyed it.
• The group arrived in Singapore with Anne, and Jotaro took responsibility for her as they headed to the hotel.
• Josen convinced Joseph to book presidential suites so the group would not be split across different floors.
• Josen told the receptionist that Mr. Joestar would pay, leaving Joseph distressed over the cost.
• A long-haired Stand User watched the group enter the elevator while a rag doll climbed toward the top-floor suite and threatened them with a curse.

Josen lounged in the presidential suite while Joseph and Abududu investigated DIO, then learned Kakyoin was suspected of being a traitor. When Kakyoin returned and attacked, Josen tricked him into swallowing a cleaning ball.

• Josen showed the group around the presidential suite and told them to choose rooms and avoid going anywhere alone.
• Ann dragged Jotaro out for a stroll, and Kakyoin joined them while Josen stayed behind to enjoy the food.
• An explosion destroyed the television in Joseph and Abududu's room, and Joseph warned Josen that his Spirit Photography had identified Kakyoin as DIO's ally.
• Joseph and Abududu left to find Jotaro, and Kakyoin soon returned to the suite and asked Josen if he was alone.
• Kakyoin attacked Josen with a golden liquid, but Josen tricked him into eating a cleaning ball disguised as a cherry.

Josen exposed Rubber Soul’s disguise and defeated his Yellow Temperance with F-kid’s Stand, then agreed to take the bounty money before Rubber Soul betrayed him. Yellow Temperance failed to harm Josen, who peeled it off and held Rubber Soul fast.

• Josen recognized the fake Kakyoin as Rubber Soul, who revealed that DIO had hired him for a 100 million bounty.
• Rubber Soul attacked Josen with Yellow Temperance, but F-kid repelled it with a supersonic punch.
• Cornered, Rubber Soul begged to surrender and offered Josen the entire bounty; Josen accepted his handshake.
• Rubber Soul used the handshake to launch another attack, but Yellow Temperance could not damage Josen.
• Josen peeled Yellow Temperance off his body and held Rubber Soul by the hand as Rubber Soul realized he was in danger.

Josen had Rubber Soul beaten and warned Polnareff to treat anything strange as a Stand attack. Polnareff found a suspicious doll, destroyed the refrigerator where Devo was hiding, and left Devo badly wounded but eager to fight.

• Josen had F-kid beat Rubber Soul and warned him that he would be thrown out after losing his hundred million.
• Polnareff woke to the heat, noticed a strange doll, and remembered Josen's warning about unusual things being Stand attacks.
• Polnareff followed the black shoe prints to the refrigerator and used Silver Chariot to destroy it before its hidden occupant could attack.
• Devo the Cursed fell from the wrecked refrigerator with severe wounds and revealed his Ebony Devil Stand.
• Devo said Polnareff's attack had made him hate him enough to strengthen his Stand, and Polnareff questioned how he could still be alive after losing so much blood.

Mr. Popo defeated Devo after discovering and piercing the blood-soaked voodoo doll, killing Devo through further blood loss. Josen then offered to handle the cleanup and revealed another enemy had already been beaten in the hotel room.

• Devo collapsed from severe blood loss while Mr. Popo mocked him for attacking without explaining his plan.
• Mr. Popo struck the voodoo doll with Silver Chariot, causing Devo to revive in agony and bleed to death.
• Mr. Popo celebrated his victory, and Josen reminded him that a body in their hotel room could cause trouble.
• Josen told Mr. Popo to leave the cleanup to his Stand and pointed out another defeated man lying in the living room.
• Mr. Popo realized he had missed the other enemy and apologized to Josen.

Josen and Mr. Popo cleaned up after killing DIO’s assassin, and Josen urged Mr. Popo to trust his companions as their journey continued. The group reached India, where a swarm of locals greeted them and Josen took precautions against the country’s food, water, and germs.

• Josen’s Stand, F-kid, discreetly cleaned the room and removed the bloodied furniture and refrigerator while Mr. Popo offered help.
• Josen told Mr. Popo that killing one curse-specialist would not end his bad luck, but promised he could find and kill the man who hurt his sister if he followed the divination’s advice.
• Josen encouraged Mr. Popo to trust the group, and they raised coconuts together in a toast.
• Joseph and Mr. Popo worried about getting sick in India, while Abududu insisted the country was safe and its people honest.
• The group disembarked in India and was surrounded by locals offering services, while Josen remained untouched inside his Biological Force Field and avoided local food and water.

Josen's group explored Kolkata, where Mr. Popo encountered a bizarre toilet with a pig's head rising from below. He fled without using it and decided to wait until they reached their hotel.

• Josen caught an Indian child stealing Flower's wallet, recovered it, and kicked the thief away.
• Abududu introduced the group to Indian milk tea, which Josen secretly poured into a portal instead of drinking.
• Mr. Popo asked a waiter to show him the toilet, and Josen went along with him.
• The waiter gave Mr. Popo a wooden pole, and a pig's head suddenly rose from the toilet.
• The waiter demonstrated how to hit the pig's head back down, but Mr. Popo refused to use the toilet and chose to wait until the hotel.

Mr. Popo spotted J. Geil’s mirror-using Stand and wanted to pursue the man who murdered his sister, but Josen stopped him from charging off alone. Josen and Mr. Popo prepared to leave together, while the others warned them that pursuing an unknown enemy was dangerous.

• Mr. Popo saw a murderous Stand in the bathroom mirror, but Silver Chariot found nothing when it attacked the window and shattered the mirror.
• Mr. Popo recognized the mirror-using Stand as belonging to J. Geil, his sister’s murderer, and became furious when he realized the enemy had deliberately provoked him.
• Josen warned Mr. Popo that the enemy knew his abilities and was trying to lure him away from the group, then insisted they pursue J. Geil together.
• Josen and Mr. Popo returned to the lobby to inform everyone, and Abududu and Flower questioned whether it was safe for the pair to go alone.
• Josen explained that the enemy might hide if the whole group pursued him, making him harder to find.

Josen and Mr. Popo used Mr. Popo as bait to draw out the Stand Users hunting Polnareff. Josen spotted J. Geil and Hol Horse approaching, and Mr. Popo turned to face them in Kolkata.

• Josen convinced the group that he and Mr. Popo should handle the enemies, and Joseph warned them to stay safe.
• Hol Horse reunited with J. Geil, who had two right hands, and reported that Polnareff had taken the bait and was searching for him.
• Hol Horse shot a cobra that attacked J. Geil, whose Hanged Man Stand finished it off; the two then headed toward Kolkata together.
• Mr. Popo searched Kolkata alone as bait while Josen monitored the city from a floating table above the clouds.
• Josen spotted J. Geil and another Stand User behind Mr. Popo, who turned to confront Hol Horse.

Mr. Popo faced Hol Horse, who revealed his ranged Stand, Emperor, and fired a curving bullet at him. With Josen’s warning and a quick Silver Chariot maneuver, Mr. Popo intercepted the shot and ended the chapter smiling.

• Mr. Popo questioned Hol Horse about J. Geil’s whereabouts while Josen warned that J. Geil was nearby and urged caution.
• Hol Horse introduced himself as DIO’s hired assassin and taunted Mr. Popo, who inferred that Emperor had a longer range than his sword.
• Josen used team voice chat to warn Mr. Popo that Hol Horse could summon his handgun quickly and that its bullets might be part of his Stand.
• Hol Horse summoned Emperor and fired as Mr. Popo shed Silver Chariot’s armor to intercept the shot.
• Hol Horse’s bullet curved around Silver Chariot’s slash, but Mr. Popo struck it with his blade and smiled.

With Josen feeding Polnareff real-time information, Polnareff thwarted Hanged Man’s ambush and struck J. Geil through its path of reflected light. Hol Horse was left stunned by Polnareff’s success.

• Polnareff cut Hol Horse’s curving bullet in half, while Hol Horse privately relied on Hanged Man as his hidden advantage.
• Hanged Man emerged from a puddle to attack Polnareff, but Josen warned him, and Silver Chariot destroyed the puddle before the attack could land.
• Josen explained that Hanged Man traveled between reflective surfaces and advised Polnareff to strike it while it moved through the spray.
• With Josen tracing Hanged Man’s route, Polnareff stabbed it as it crossed the reflected light, wounding J. Geil at a nearby garbage heap.
• Hol Horse watched in disbelief as Polnareff hit Hanged Man on their first encounter.

Josen confronted Hol Horse in an alley after Mr. Popo pursued J. Geil, and Hol Horse’s shot failed to injure Josen’s Stand. Hol Horse fired again, leaving the outcome of their fight unresolved.

• The wounded Hanged Man escaped through a reflection while Hol Horse fled from Mr. Popo.
• Josen told Mr. Popo that J. Geil was escaping toward the outskirts, and Mr. Popo abandoned the pursuit of Hol Horse to chase him.
• Hol Horse reached a deserted alley and criticized J. Geil before Josen appeared and challenged him.
• Hol Horse summoned Emperor and shot Josen, but Josen’s Stand blocked the bullet without being hurt.
• Hol Horse fired a rapid series of additional shots at Josen.

Josen and F-kid defeated Hol Horse after his bullets failed to pierce F-kid’s suit, while Mr. Popo tracked down J. Geil and avenged his sister with Silver Chariot. The chapter ended with J. Geil facing Polnareff’s furious judgment.

• Hol Horse emptied his magazine at F-kid, but the bullets crumpled against his suit without harming him.
• F-kid broke Hol Horse’s wrist and pummeled him until The Emperor was pulverized and retired.
• Mr. Popo followed J. Geil’s blood trail outside Kolkata and realized the wounded man he found was a decoy with Hanged Man hiding in his eyes.
• Mr. Popo dodged Hanged Man’s attack, then used kicked-up dust to expose its path of reflection.
• Silver Chariot pierced Hanged Man’s reflected form, wounding J. Geil.
• Mr. Popo revealed himself as Jean Pierre Polnareff and confronted J. Geil in revenge for his sister.

After Josen and Mr. Popo killed J. Geil, the group encountered Nena, whose Empress Stand tricked Mr. Popo by posing as a beautiful woman and left him heartbroken. The chapter ended with Josen teasing him by suggesting the woman might have been wealthy.

• Josen found Mr. Popo mourning J. Geil's corpse, and the two headed back toward Kolkata after avenging Sherry.
• In Varanasi, Polnareff sat miserably by the Ganges while Josen mocked his brief romance with a middle-aged woman.
• Joseph explained that Nena had attacked the group with her Empress Stand, which parasitized bodies and grew moving, human-faced sores.
• Nena had disguised herself as a beautiful Brahmin woman and seduced Mr. Popo with a kiss before her Stand injured him.
• Josen tried to comfort Mr. Popo by suggesting the woman might have been rich, leaving the others stunned.

Joseph’s group continued toward Egypt in a secondhand minivan while a red sports car secretly followed them. Near Pakistan, they encountered Anne hitchhiking, and Josen arranged for her to ride with A-Qiang in the front passenger seat.

• Joseph gave Mr. Popo the keys to a secondhand minivan and told him to drive the group toward Egypt.
• A red sports car started following the minivan after it passed a fork in the road.
• Mr. Popo slammed on the brakes when he saw Anne hitchhiking beside a road sign near Pakistan.
• Anne recognized the group and asked them for a ride, prompting everyone to look toward Jotaro.
• Josen told Mr. Popo to move to the back and offered Anne a seat on A-Qiang’s lap, which she eagerly accepted.

Josen drove the group across the mountain road in a magically enhanced minivan while a red sports car pursued them. After Ann confessed she had run away from home, the chase escalated as strange music began playing and Josen prepared to speed ahead.

• Josen took the driver's seat after persuading Mr. Popo and Jotaro to move, then activated his Veteran Driver ability to enhance the minivan.
• Josen told Mr. Popo that a red sports car had been following them since they left Varanasi City, and the group grew alarmed as he drove faster with his hands off the wheel.
• Josen asked Ann why she was alone in India, and she admitted she had lied about seeking her father and had run away to see the world before marriage.
• The red sports car caught up and aggressively tried to overtake the minivan on the cliffside road, while Josen insisted its driver was not the racer from before.
• A catchy tune began playing from F-kid's boombox, and Josen put on sunglasses and announced that the veteran driver was hitting the road.

Josen and his companions escaped a red sports car during a reckless drive, only to find it waiting at a teahouse and suspect it was a Stand. Joseph decided to identify its user by attacking everyone in the shop, leaving Anne even more smitten with Jotaro.

• Josen sped the minivan past the red sports car, blasting it with exhaust and leaving its driver furious.
• At a roadside teahouse, Joseph asked Polnareff to drive the rest of the way after Josen's dangerous ride.
• Jotaro spotted the red sports car parked nearby, and the group realized it had appeared without being heard.
• Kakyoin and Avdol recalled similar appearances by Stand vehicles, and Joseph concluded the car was a Stand whose user was nearby.
• Joseph, Jotaro, Avdol, and Josen charged into the teahouse and began beating up the customers to expose the Stand user.
• Anne saw Jotaro pummeling a customer and blushed, declaring how handsome he was.

Josen led the Stardust Crusaders in a high-speed chase after the red car, while Joseph was left behind to escape the angry locals. At a cliffside trap, Josen launched the van into the air, and Kakyoin used Hierophant Green to hook the red car and drag it along; Jotaro prepared to settle the contest of strength.

• Josen spotted that the red car's driver had escaped toward his vehicle, then took Jotaro and led the group in pursuit while leaving Joseph behind.
• Joseph tricked the hostile locals into fighting over a supposed lost wallet and used Nigerundayo to run away.
• Josen raced the van along the mountain road as the red car tried to lure the pursuers onto a cliffside dead end.
• Josen drifted through the bend and drove the van off the cliff, surprising the red car's driver.
• Kakyoin sent Hierophant Green out of the airborne van and hooked a tow cable to the red car, pulling it into the sky.
• The van landed at the cliff's edge, and Josen assigned Jotaro to a tug-of-war with the red car.