Chapter Summaries

After the Crusaders defeated Kenny G., Avdol discovered a hidden Stand about to attack them, and Josen stopped time with a mysterious power just as Avdol was in danger. The chapter ended with Josen and DIO among the few beings able to think in the frozen world.

• Mr. Popo withdrew his Stand after Kenny G. stopped moving, and Kakyoin explained how Tenore Sax’s illusions could have trapped them.
• Avdol found a threatening message carved into the wall and saw the Stand Void Miasma emerging from a Dark Dimension.
• Avdol warned the others and threw himself at Mr. Popo and Iggy to protect them from Void Miasma’s attack.
• Josen called out “The World,” causing time to stop before Void Miasma could reach Avdol.
• Josen and DIO remained able to think in the stopped world, and DIO reacted in disbelief.

Josen stopped time and rescued Avdol and Mr. Popo from Vanilla Ice, then helped F-kid destroy Vanilla with a Hamon-charged Solar Flare. The Stardust Crusaders were left coughing amid the wreckage, stunned by what had happened.

• Jotaro realized he could perceive the world during stopped time and might be able to move within it.
• Josen stopped time, and F-kid pulled Avdol and Mr. Popo away before tearing through Void Miasma's Dark Dimension.
• F-kid dragged Vanilla Ice out of the Dark Dimension and struck him, breaking his skull and neck.
• Josen restarted time, and F-kid burned Vanilla Ice with a Solar Flare, but the vampire survived.
• Josen charged F-kid with Hamon, and F-kid unleashed an explosion that reduced Vanilla Ice to ashes and blasted open the room.

After Josen saved the group from an enemy attack, the Crusaders prepared to confront DIO while Mr. Popo discovered that Iggy had chewed up his hair. Deep in the castle, DIO realized someone else could stop time and dismissed that power as an inferior imitation, while another guard vowed to fight the Crusaders.

• Avdol reported that Josen had spotted the attack and saved the group, and Joseph warned that DIO's personal guards remained in the castle.
• Mr. Popo worked himself into a battle frenzy over facing DIO until Josen pointed out that Iggy had chewed through his gelled hair.
• Mr. Popo cried out at Iggy, and the others laughed while Flower apologized for forgetting to warn him.
• DIO sensed that someone else could stop time, then convinced himself the ability was a weak imitation of his own Stand.
• A guard named Vanilla Ice mocked the fallen guards and declared that he would defeat the Crusaders.
• Mr. Popo repaired his hair and threatened to make dog-meat hot pot, while Josen urged him to tolerate Iggy for the sake of the group's unity.

The Stardust Crusaders uncovered a disguised vampire while searching DIO’s castle and learned he could not fool them with his disguise. Jotaro captured the attacker and prepared to test his immortality, while the group still needed him to lead them to DIO’s room.

• Jotaro and the others searched the castle’s rooms and headed upstairs toward the second floor.
• A maid begged the group to save her, but Jotaro recognized the disguise and punched her, exposing a man with a second face on the back of his head.
• The vampire raged after the Crusaders pointed out his reversed hands and demanded that he lead them to DIO’s room.
• The vampire attacked Jotaro with clawed fingers, but Star Platinum caught his head and held him still.
• Jotaro decided to use the immortal vampire as a test subject.

Jotaro beat and intimidated Dumbass the vampire into revealing information about DIO and the attacker Vanilla Ice. The group prepared to investigate DIO’s room, while Mr. Popo’s attempt to make Iggy sniff out DIO ended in chaos.

• Jotaro's Star Platinum pummeled Dumbass, and Jotaro threatened to tear him apart unless he led them to DIO.
• Dumbass asked Jotaro how he knew his nickname was Dumbass, leaving Jotaro speechless.
• Dumbass told the group that DIO rested on the tower's top floor during the day and in the bedroom at night.
• Dumbass identified Vanilla Ice and his Stand, Void Miasma, as the attacker who had left a hole in the door.
• Avdol realized Josen had saved him from Vanilla Ice's attack and silently thanked him.
• Mr. Popo asked Iggy to sniff out DIO, but Iggy barked furiously at him.

The Stardust Crusaders stormed DIO’s bedchamber after finding dead women inside, while the Dumbass vampire tried to ambush them from behind. Iggy outmaneuvered the vampire, who killed the dog by mistake, and Josen confronted him in anger.

• Avdol used Magician's Red to search DIO’s dark bedchamber and found no signs of life, while Joseph and Avdol discovered the room was strewn with dead young women.
• Joseph ordered the group to break down the door, and Star Platinum, Silver Chariot, Hierophant Green, and Magician's Red wrecked the room with their attacks.
• The Dumbass vampire crept up behind the Crusaders, but stumbled and fell after Iggy used sand to trip him.
• The Dumbass vampire mistook Iggy for an easy target and slashed the dog, killing him.
• Josen saw Iggy’s body and confronted the Dumbass vampire, demanding, “You dare kill my horse?!”

Josen and Iggy defeated a dumbass vampire, trapping him in sand before Josen turned him into living sandstone. They left the scene together, while the vampire remained conscious and petrified.

• Josen grabbed the vampire after believing he had killed Iggy, but Iggy’s apparent corpse was revealed to be a Sand Clone.
• The vampire’s claws broke against Josen’s arm, and F-kid punched his nose back into place before Josen tossed him aside.
• Iggy trapped the vampire in a Sand Binding Coffin, filling his body with sand, but the vampire survived.
• Josen used F-kid’s simulated Crazy Diamond ability to reassemble the vampire as a sandstone statue that remained conscious.
• Josen called Iggy to leave, and Iggy hurried after him, leaving sandy paw prints behind.

Josen and the others discovered DIO had fled and found his diary describing a method to reach Heaven. They followed his trail toward Cairo’s busy district, where DIO entered an upscale hotel and chose its male manager as his meal.

• Mr. Popo learned that DIO had escaped, and Josen warned him that DIO would attack if they showed an opening.
• Jotaro read DIO’s diary, which described the complicated conditions for reaching Heaven, and decided it should be burned.
• Jotaro hid the diary and several other books in his clothes while Kakyoin reported footprints leading across the roof toward a crowded district.
• Josen and Mr. Popo led the group out to pursue DIO, determined to finish the fight that night.
• DIO walked into an upscale hotel in Cairo and told the male manager that he would be his meal.

DIO drank the hotel manager’s blood, healed somewhat, and used stopped time to trap the fleeing crowd while seeking another victim. Meanwhile, Jotaro’s group reached Cairo’s busy district, where Jotaro and Josen sensed that time had been stopped repeatedly.

• DIO drained the male manager’s blood, restoring his body and strengthening The World’s ability.
• Hotel staff and customers tried to flee, but DIO used stopped time to return them to their starting positions.
• DIO called a young waitress over and demanded her blood.
• Joseph, Kakyoin, Jotaro, Mr. Popo, Avdol, Josen, and Iggy traveled toward Cairo’s crowded night district.
• Josen told Jotaro that time had stopped more than once and confirmed that he had not caused it.
• Jotaro realized his sense of stopped time was right, as Star Platinum’s version update progressed.

Jotaro realized DIO could stop time for about seven seconds, and the Stardust Crusaders prepared defenses and coordinated their abilities before confronting him. Josen gave the group Hamon protection and devised a team-up for Mr. Popo and Iggy, while DIO’s attack on hotel staff had already caused chaos in the street.

• Jotaro recognized that DIO’s Stand stopped time and estimated that its duration had grown from five seconds to around seven.
• Three hotel staff members were hurled into a car as corpses, and the horrified crowd reacted to the apparent murders.
• Kakyoin, Avdol, Joseph, and Iggy proposed ways to defend the group or support the fight against DIO.
• Josen stopped the group from rushing in and suggested that Mr. Popo and Iggy combine Silver Chariot’s thrown rapiers with Iggy’s sand shaping and flight.
• Mr. Popo accepted Iggy’s help, and Josen distributed Hamon energy among the group, while Joseph asked for some too.

Josen empowered the Stardust Crusaders with Hamon and Potential Seeds as DIO prepared controlled civilians to fight them. Josen and Jotaro began their assault on the hotel while their allies took positions to support them.

• Josen infused Jotaro and Joseph with enhanced Hamon energy, giving them a surge of strength and vitality.
• DIO sensed the approaching Joestar party, implanted a Flesh Bud in the head chef, and turned the chef, cooks, and homeless men into controlled attackers.
• Josen and Jotaro prepared to confront DIO, while Kakyoin, Avdol, and Iggy took positions around the hotel.
• Josen and Jotaro leaped from the rooftop and headed for the hotel entrance, with Jotaro questioning how Josen had made the jump.
• Kakyoin and Avdol readied their Stands, and Iggy hovered above the hotel with Mr. Popo and six Sand Rapiers as Josen and Jotaro approached the entrance.

Josen and Jotaro entered the hotel where DIO had fled, freed the servers from the Flesh Buds controlling them, and rushed after him. They left the enamored women behind and pursued DIO through the corridor toward the kitchen.

• Josen presented an official ID and claimed that he and Jotaro were investigating disappearances for Interpol, convincing the Egyptian patrol officer to let them past the police tape.
• Josen and Jotaro found the hotel wrecked and realized that DIO had escaped through the back door toward the kitchen corridor.
• The Flesh Bud-controlled servers attacked Josen and Jotaro, but Star Platinum and F-kid removed the Flesh Buds while Josen destroyed them with Hamon Overdrive.
• Josen healed the servers, restoring their senses, but the women became infatuated with him and Jotaro.
• Jotaro shouted at the women to get out of their way, and he and Josen sprinted down the corridor after DIO.

Josen and Jotaro fought through DIO’s Flesh Bud-controlled crowds while DIO tried to split up the Stardust Crusaders and attack their elevated allies. DIO stopped time to ambush Iggy and Mr. Popo, but Iggy’s Sand Waterfall Funeral filled the sky with sand and concealed them from him.

• Jotaro and Josen escaped the hotel alley by knocking aside the Flesh Bud-controlled attackers, while Josen taunted DIO.
• DIO sent controlled elderly people and children to delay Josen and Jotaro, then headed into the darkness to target the other Crusaders.
• Kakyoin warned Josen and Jotaro that hundreds of controlled citizens were charging toward them, and Josen told the others to watch for DIO.
• Josen detected DIO approaching Iggy and Mr. Popo, who prepared to attack him with swords and Sand Waterfall Funeral.
• DIO activated The World and stopped time, but found the sky filled with sand that hid Iggy and Mr. Popo.

DIO used repeated time stops to search for the Stardust Crusaders, but Josen’s approach and Iggy’s sand attack disrupted his plans. DIO caught up with Joseph and attacked him, only to lose an arm to Hamon hidden beneath Joseph’s skin.

• DIO blasted through Iggy’s sand while searching for the Crusaders, then hesitated when he saw Josen near him during stopped time.
• DIO escaped the sand and appeared before Joseph, who fled with Hermit Purple; DIO stopped time again and caught up to him.
• DIO thrust his fingers toward Joseph’s neck, triggering the Hamon Josen had planted in Joseph’s body and burning two of DIO’s fingers.
• After time resumed, Joseph realized DIO had attacked him and celebrated that the Hamon trap had worked.
• DIO severed and lost his left forearm to escape the Hamon, then cursed Joseph in a dark alley.

Kakyoin drove DIO into an alley, where Jotaro confronted him. DIO stopped time and tried to kill Jotaro, but Star Platinum moved in the frozen world and punched through his abdomen, leaving DIO shocked and wounded.

• Kakyoin unleashed Super Riptide: Emerald Splash, forcing the injured DIO to flee through the alley.
• Kakyoin spotted Jotaro waiting at the alley’s exit and left the rest to him.
• DIO stopped time and approached Jotaro, then suspected Joseph had infused the Crusaders with Hamon.
• DIO planned to cut off Jotaro’s head with a road sign, but Star Platinum struck him through the abdomen during stopped time.
• DIO recoiled from Jotaro and wondered how another Stand like The World could move in frozen time.

DIO tried to escape the assembled Stardust Crusaders by stopping time, but Josen and Star Platinum revealed that DIO had badly misjudged their ability to act within it. The chapter ended with time still frozen as DIO’s escape failed.

• DIO blurted out his login credentials, and Star Platinum logged in after secretly adapting to stopped time.
• Josen appeared before DIO as Joseph Joestar, Muhammad Avdol, Noriaki Kakyoin, Jean Pierre Polnareff, and Iggy gathered around him.
• DIO stopped time and charged at Josen, expecting Josen to be limited to two seconds of movement.
• Josen sighed and unleashed an Ora barrage that battered DIO and sent him flying toward an apparent escape route.
• DIO gloated as time stop neared its end, but time still could not flow when it should have resumed.

Jotaro revealed that he had learned to stop time and used it to overpower DIO, who had exhausted his own seven-second movement. Jotaro let DIO recover before challenging him to fight again, and DIO rose with renewed killing intent.

• As DIO’s time stop neared its end, Jotaro stopped time for three seconds and flew up to confront him.
• Jotaro taunted DIO during stopped time, then Star Platinum kicked him and broke both his legs as time resumed.
• The Stardust Crusaders cheered while DIO crashed to the ground, and Jotaro approached him and condemned him for attacking his allies.
• Jotaro said he would wait for DIO’s legs to heal before beating him again, then challenged him to a duel.
• DIO’s legs healed enough for him to stand, and he faced Jotaro with renewed murderous intent.

Jotaro defeated DIO in their final clash, but a spatial distortion appeared in the sky as a new threat approached. Josen summoned a road roller, charged it with Hamon, and leaped overhead to finish DIO with his Road Roller Hamon Overdrive.

• DIO blinded Jotaro with a spray of blood and attacked, but Jotaro shattered The World's leg with his punch and fatally damaged DIO.
• As DIO began to die, a vast spatial distortion cracked open the night sky, and Josen warned Jotaro that something unexpected was coming.
• Josen used an N Card to summon a road roller, while Jotaro stepped back to avoid its impact.
• Josen charged the road roller with Hamon, leaped into the sky, and dropped it toward DIO as he shouted, "Eat my Road Roller Hamon Overdrive!!"

Josen and Jotaro killed Dio Brando, but a second Dio emerged from a spatial rift and revealed himself as a version who had reached Heaven. The Stardust Crusaders faced the new threat, whose Stand was The World Over Heaven.

• Josen and Jotaro destroyed Dio Brando with a Hamon-charged road roller, leaving only his charred arms behind.
• The sky cracked open with purple light, showing that the world's crisis had not ended with Dio's death.
• A new Dio emerged from the rift and identified the place as another Base World.
• Josen and Jotaro suspected that the newcomer was a parallel-timeline Dio who had reached Heaven.
• The new Dio proclaimed himself a god, and Josen recognized his Stand as The World Over Heaven.

Heaven Ascension DIO arrived and tried to recruit Josen, but Josen joined forces with Jotaro to attack him. DIO recovered from their blows, defeated both of them with The World Over Heaven, and declared himself invincible.

• Heaven Ascension DIO recognized Josen's strength and offered him a place as his subordinate, but Josen refused and demanded extra payment to fight.
• Josen urged Jotaro to attack, and the two charged Heaven Ascension DIO with their Stands, Cafeteria Chili Sauce and Star Platinum.
• Heaven Ascension DIO survived their punches as spacetime vortices healed his wounds, then counterattacked with The World Over Heaven.
• The World Over Heaven struck both Josen's and Jotaro's Stands and sent them flying, though Josen appeared uninjured.
• Heaven Ascension DIO said the local DIO had been weak and declared that reality bowed to The World Over Heaven, making him invincible.