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Chapter 56. Destiny
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"Hmm, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah——————!!"
"Arm, move your arm quickly... before the ripple reaches your head... before that...!!"
Episode 9 of Phantom Blood directly follows the events of episode 8.
In the previous episode, with both his heart and body abze with ce, JOJO successfully purified DIO's gasification freezing teique with his burning bravery. He thehis intense ripple to pletely evaporate DIO's vampire body!
Logically, DIO should be dead by now.
However, at the beginning of this ninth episode, this oute is entirely overturned!
DIO has not died!
Indeed, DIO was struck by JOJO's ripple. As a vampire, his body dissolves almost immediately when touched by the ripple, just like a snail in salt. This much is true.
But JOJO was supposed to strike DIO's head.
Normal heart weaknesses have no effe vampires!
Furthermore, DIO had studied the ripple to teract it and had developed the gasification freezing teique specifically to teract the ripple. The speed at which the ripple spreads inside him is also much slower pared to ordinary vampires!
Thus, DIO had ample time to separate his head from his body, which was pletely invaded by the ripple, creating a false impression that he had beeroyed by JOJO.
Episode 9 of Phantom Blood begins with this shog plot twist.
Not only does it overturn the plot of episode 8, but it also pletely subverts the audience's previous guesses about the story of JoJo's Bizarre Advehe story of this ninth episode bees increasingly mysterious from the very beginning...
…
"Uh...?"
"Uh...!?"
"No way, I'm the protagonist!!?"
Sakata Gintoki, who had just signed a tract with Green Dolphin Studio, stared dumbfoundedly at the fully revived... well, DIO who had not yet died.
Wasn't it agreed that the work would be about him iing JOJO's will and being the new protagonist?
Why is DIO still here?
If DIO has not died, then how JOJO, whose fate is entangled with DIO, end the story?
Does this mean the part of Phantom Blood will be the work in his lifetime?
Recalling famous cases in the industry where actors were buried in obscurity until their tracts ended, and remembering that he was instructed by Pucci to study Phantom Blood more and learn the nguage of this golden spirit, Gintoki, who had taken on some shady work, was even more anxious.
He didn't notice that other viewers, watg episode 9, saw that JOJO and Erina had finally bee a couple and were preparing to go to America for their honeymoon.
A coffin.
A coffin that was supposedly issioned by aern person to be loaded onto that ship was being carried by four strong men, and this image appeared before their eyes.
A bad premonition spread wildly in their hearts from the title "The Last Ripple!!" to the initial sight of DIO still being alive.
"No, this 't be! This is impossible!!"
Realizing something, and beied to Zeppeli through his uncle, Caesar, atg this episode with Jonathan and the Zeppeli family, he tightly gripped Jonathan's shoulder and shouted, "JOJO, tell me! This is all a lie!"
"Whether it's about why you have time to watch Phantom Blood with us or if you want to surprise me after this episode... it's not what I imagined!!"
"Caesar..."
"Stop it, Caesar."
With a troubled expression, Jonathan was eventually interrupted by Uncle Zeppeli, who intervened, "Revealing the tent before others have finished watg is not a gentlemanly act."
"Caesar, do you want Jonathan to be uo be a gentleman just because of you and this matter!?"
"..."
If Uncle Zeppeli had said something else, Caesar would not have let go no matter what.
But if his as were likely to cause trouble reat invenieo others, then no matter how much he wao know the truth or hear Jonathan deny his guesses, he could not tio indulge in his own desires.
So...
"It's okay, Uncle Zeppeli, Caesar. I..."
"Don't say any more, JOJO!"
Caesar interrupted, "If I ti's just for my own satisfa."
Indeed, even though the answer was right in front of him, and he had already guessed it himself, Caesar, dissatisfied with the answer he had guessed, still wao hear a denial from Jonathan to disprove the answer.
Wasn't this just self-satisfa?
Caesar, frustrated with himself, said indignantly, "I will not admit it!"
"...!?"
"To me, only Jonathan deserves the name JOJO! Others do not have the right to i this name!"
"Letting them i this name would be an insult to it!"
Caesar decred firmly, "From now on, I will use my own as to prove this!"
"..."
"So, Caesar, you already guessed this. We were actually pnning to keep it as a surprise…"
Hearing Caesar's grandiose words and uanding what they meant, Uncle Zeppeli exged a gh Jonathan and helplessly pulled out the actor's tract from Green Dolphin Studio ahead of time.
"gratutions, Caesar. Although hearing your words made me unsure whether to present this, sihis gift was not prepared by me but by someone else, I chose to give it to you."
"—The actor's tract for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II. If you truly accept this gift and want to participate in this work, just sign your name on it…"
"That sounds simple. No wonder anyone i JOJO."
Caesar, who took the trad sig without a sed thought, said, "But I will make them ge that!"
"..."
…
If Sakata Gintoki and Caesar had already had some answer about the forthing sed part due to knowing it in advand showed different attitudes towards this ahen for other viewers who did not know the answer and could only know if their guesses were correct after the episode aired, their feelings were like those of all test-takers: both anxious and full of anticipation.
"That's right, even if DIO is not dead, so what?"
"Even if DIO has infiltrated the ship that JOJO and Erina are on for their honeymoon, so what?"
"Back then, JOJO mao beat DIO with a plete body while proteg Pod his sister."
"Now, fag only DIO's head, it's absolutely no problem for JOJO to agaihe ripple to roast DIO!"
"..."
Ihey had nothing to fear!
JOJO...
"Broken, broken... something in my body is broken... it's something very important..."
Slowly, as all the viewers anticipated JOJO to muster his ce once more to overe fate, what they saw was that JOJO, having burned up the st bit of ripple energy within him to protect Erina, fell weakly to the ground!?
"This... this is... this is my life... is this the st ripple of my life..."
"So... so weak... although it didn't pletely destroy that zombie... it's enough..."
JOJO smiled with relief.
He felt no sadness about his immi death.
Instead, he was genuinely grateful that even such a weak self could still protect Erina.
With his trachea pierced by DIO's "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes" attack, uo breathe or use the ripple, JOJO was filled with boundless joy that he could still save the remaining lives of the three.
"You must be happy... Erina..."
In the fiery inferno, where JOJO had imprisoned DIO and the zombie in the bzing fmes, he bid his final farewell to Erina.
He gradually disappeared into the fmes.
Everything seemed to repy the fire that happened months ago at the Joestar house.
JOJO and DIO, survivors of that fire, would once again vanish in the fmes.
"..."
"...!!?"
