02x16 - The Lovers, Part 1

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With Enyaba in tow,
and a new carriage to boot,

Jojo and crew arrived
in the coastal town of Karachi,

Pakistan's industrial
and financial center,

located in the Indus River delta.

EPISODE : THE LOVERS, PART ONE

Hey, a doner kebab joint!

Let's stop and get something to eat.

The doner kebab: it's been called
the hamburger of the Middle East!

A slab of meat is placed on a spit,

its outer layer roasting as it turns.

Before long, the meat is cooked,
sliced, and served on bread.

Try it, your taste buds will thank you!

'Scuse me, five doner kebabs, please.

That'll be a thousand yen.

A thousand yen?

In the Middle East,

Japanese and Western business practices
are by no means universal.

Namely, prices change
and are subject to negotiation.

First-time visitors naive
of the value of goods for sale

can become easy targets for exploitation.

But here, such exploitation
is not frowned upon.

The swindled are deserving
of the label "fool," not "victim."

Haggling takes guts and ingenuity!

A thousand yen?

The first step is the art of the bluff.

Make it clear you see through the trick.

Don't mock me, now! That's far too much.

A hearty laugh always helps. Then...

How much would you buy them for?

...the merchant will test the waters.

Make it yen for five!

In return, you throw out a price so low,

you can't help but blush.

And then...

Are you serious? You've got to be kidding!

He'll act as if
you have no sense at all...

If I sold them for that cheap,
my entire family would starve!

Then he'll gesture the old throat slash.

But you can't give up the fight just yet.

I guess I'll just buy them somewhere else.

Pretend that you're leaving...

Okay, friend! I very much like foreigners.

I'll sell you five for yen.

...he'll try to stop you.

Then make it .

Let the haggling begin!

Six hundred!

Three hundred and fifty!

Five hundred and fifty!

-Four hundred!
-Four hundred and fifty!

Four hundred and twenty five!

I'll take them!

All right! I got them for less than
half his original price!

Take that! I made out like a bandit!

And just as you think you won...

I usually sell five for yen!

Bye-bye, thank you, sir!

Hey! The old lady's awake.

Eh?

I've told them nothing!

What are you doing here?

You think I, Enyaba,

would tell them the secret
of Lord Dio's Stand?

Huh?

What the hell are these tentacles?

Why...

Why have you come to k*ll me?

Lord Dio places his trust in no one.

I will make sure you never speak again.

And you four...

will be next.

Grandma!

What?

You can call me Dan...

Dan of Steel.

My Stand represents The Lovers card.

I will see to it that
you all meet the same fate

as that pathetic Enyaba.

How could you?

That old lady was one of your own!

Grandma!

Lies...

They're all lies...

Lord Dio would never
do such a thing to me....

Those things wriggling
out of her aren't from a Stand!

They're real! Those tentacles are real!

Lord Dio would never do me such harm...

He'd never plant a flesh bud in me...

Flesh bud?

Lord Dio is my only reason for living...

We trust each other wholeheartedly...

Grandma!

See that?

The rays of the sun disintegrated them!

The flesh buds!
They're made from Dio's cells!

Precisely!

I must say,
you are quite the perceptive one.

That's what a flesh bud made
of Dio's cells looks like fully grown.

I just grew it inside the old hag.

Enyaba, you may have taught
Lord Dio about Stands,

but you're a fool to think
he would ever trust

a feeble old woman like you.

Unfortunately,
it's a point you failed to realize.

Old lady!

What's the true identity of Dio's Stand!

Tell us!

You trusted and admired Dio,

and now you know he's not
the man you think he is!

We must defeat Dio! You've got to tell us!

We need to know!

Tell us what we need to know
about Dio's Stand!

Lord... Dio...

He believes in me.

I will never tell...

Oh, God!

So sad...

Such an unfortunate old woman.

But the very depth of her trust

shows just how powerful
Lord Dio's evil charm is.

Enyaba may forever be entwined
with my sister's death,

but she didn't deserve that.

I'll see you join her!

Four against one, but we won't hold back.

Prepare yourself.

On your feet.

Hey, jackass!

Stop acting so damned cool.

This is going down,
whether you want it or not.

As you wish.

But none of you

will be able to lay a single finger
on me, Dan of Steel.

What?

What happened, Mr. Joestar?

He flew back just like that guy!

You fool!

I was about to explain my abilities.

You almost k*lled your own
grandfather with that blow.

Listen up.

Do you really think I would show
my face here

just to k*ll Enyaba?

You damn b*stard...

You told us that your Stand
is the Lovers, isn't that right?

So, what the hell does it do?

The battle has already begun, Mr. Joestar.

You're all simpletons...

Look all you want,
but you won't see my Stand.

Hey, half-pint!

Want some cash?

It's yours if you hit my leg
with that broom.

But why would he...

Now hit me!

The hell? Mr. Joestar?

It hurts!

I don't get it! My leg hurts so bad!

Still haven't figured it out,
Joseph Joestar?

My Stand enters bodies!

The moment Enyaba died,

it clambered into your ear canal
and entered your brain.

What?

My Stand and I are connected!

If my Stand gets hurt, then so do I.

And the opposite holds true!

If you so much as scratch me,

deep inside your brain,

my Stand will react to my pain
and discomfort,

and fly into a rage.

And it will amplify that pain
to the same bodily location.

Now I'll say it once more...

You won't be able to lay a single finger
on me!

Plus the Lovers

has taken one of Lord Dio's
flesh bud into your body.

It's growing in your brain as we speak.

Just like it did to Enyaba,
it'll eat you from the inside out!

Ow!

I don't recall asking you
to strike me again.

Stupid little brat!

Well, I must confess,

my Stand, The Lovers,
lacks physical strength.

It can't move even
a single strand of hair,

making it the world's weakest Stand.

But...

You needn't be strong to k*ll someone.

Understand, gentlemen?

THE LOVERS
DAN OF STEEL

Say something unfortunate happens,

like I get into an accident,
a baseball hits me,

or I simply trip and fall, Mr. Joestar...

You will feel my pain many times over.

I can feel your knuckles cracking
in my artificial prosthetic hand!

You've got ten minutes.

Then your brain will be eaten through,

and you will die like Enyaba.

Jotaro, calm down! Don't do anything rash.

No. I'm gonna k*ll this tool so quickly,

he won't have time to feel pain!

k*ll me before I feel it, huh...

Sounds interesting.

Do it, then, Jotaro.

Let's see what happens.

What were you planning to destroy?

Tell me. My face? Throat?

What? You angry? Come on and try it!

Let's just see what happens!

How about busting a hole in my chest?

Or how about you give up
on using your Stand,

and crack my head open with a rock?

This one looks like a prime specimen.

Sure looks big enough for the job.

You do not want to underestimate me.

When I say I'm going to do something,
I do it.

Jotaro, don't do it!

You already know what he can do!

Are you trying to k*ll
your own grandfather?

He just might do it...

Dumb punk.

Oh...

You...

Jotaro!

Don't toy with me, you b*stard.

After the geezer kicks the bucket,
you're next!

Look out!

The Lovers will enter
your brain and k*ll you!

What the hell do you think you're doing?

This is just insane.

My grandson is getting beaten
so I can survive...

We're completely at this guy's mercy.

His Stand is inside my head...

I remember how that poison ring
was implanted around my aorta long ago...

Come on, think, Joseph!

There's gotta be something you can do!

Hey!

Jotaro! Keep him away from Mr. Joestar!

We're going to get as far away
from him as possible!

Oh, I see...

You think putting distance
between me and the old man

might make my Stand's power disappear?

But my Stand's weakness
is made up for in other ways.

The Lovers may be physically weak,
but from within its host,

its range is farther
than any Stand in existence.

Even if it's hundreds of kilometers away.

Hey, Jotaro! I'm talking to you!

It's impolite not to look at people
when they're speaking to you.

Look at me!

You sound like
you're starting to lose your cool.

What's your plan?

Follow me around
until Grandpa Joseph keels over?

Dan, was it?

You know, I'm gonna make you pay for this.

Well, if you're going to follow me around,

I might as well borrow a few more things.

Nothing but chump change, huh?

Though I didn't expect a guy like you

to be sporting a TAG Heuer...

I'll be borrowing this.

There!

An electronics store!
Mr. Joestar, they have TVs!

Yeah, so? Why does that matter now?

Come on, Polnareff, did you think
we were just running away?

I'm going to fight this blasted Stand
that's inside my head.

Fight?

We have only a few minutes.

And we're gonna need your help.

Huh?

Hermit Purple!

-It's there!
-Oh, no!

I can't believe I'm looking
at the inside of my brain!

I get that there's a really small Stand

inside Mr. Joestar...

But how the hell
are we going to destroy it?

By having our Stands
travel inside Mr. Joestar

to locate and destroy it.

What?

Stands are simply
materializations of energy.

We should be able to shrink them.

Kakyoin!

Hey, be gentle with me!

There's no time.
We're going in now, Polnareff!

All right!

Hierophant Green!

Silver Chariot!

Smaller!

Get smaller.

We're going to be entering a blood vessel.

Right...

A ditch...

I'd try to jump it,

but I could trip and twist my ankle
by accident.

And walking all the way
to that bridge would be such a pain.

Hey, Jotaro.

Lie down and make yourself into a bridge.

I'll just walk on you to get across.

What? You don't want to be my bridge?

The hell do you keep yammering about?

I said, make yourself into a bridge!

You good-for-nothing arrogant prick!

-What's the matter?
-Mr. Joestar!

My leg...

It's going numb...

Dammit, Jotaro,
what the hell are you doing?

Aww, don't look so upset, Jotaro?

Come on, I don't have all day.

Good.

You're a rather sturdy bridge, aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you?

Aren't you...

Mr. Joestar,

it seems the enemy is here,
hiding around the thalamus,

the point where the nervous system begins.

Polnareff and I will enter a blood vessel

from inside your inner ear,

then swim through the blood vessels
toward the brain stem.

Polnareff, open a slit in the wall
of his blood vessel.

Hey, hold on! You're using your Stands!

Can't they just go through it instead?

Not at this size.

The blood vessel's wall is too thick.

The hole will be microscopic in size,

so bleeding won't be an issue.

At our size,

severing a blood vessel or nerve
would take several minutes.

Otherwise, the Lovers would've
done it already.

Though, it may have already started...

Keeping our Stands this small
is really exhausting.

You need a lot of Stand power.

Here we go!

Oh, my God!

I don't feel so well...

My back itches...

I'm in a really good mood right now.

How about I have you lick it for me?

The one who knows himself best will win!

Everything begins when you
acknowledge your own weakness!