JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Part VII: Steel Ball Run

Mountain Tim:
What's this fury I'm feeling all of a sudden? So such a thing was present during the race... Don't worry, feel at ease... I can't possibly win the race now. In this race, I have many friends who are also participating. But up until now, I've never seen anything like this before... such a killing method! However, I have heard a legend about similar deaths... There's an old Indian legend that tells about a spot where a shooting star fell somewhere in the Arizona desert. There lies tainted soil. It is said that anything that touches the spot, will suddenly be able to pull out a mysterious power from its own. At the same time, though, evil spirits will call out a curse upon them. None of the natives of the land will dare step foot there. One day, a white man looking for emerald ore stepped into the spot and started to walk home. It is said that afterwards, he began to kill others in a similar fashion. And afterwards, as if possibly realizing his own sinfulness, he shot himself.[22]

Gyro:
Have you ever seen an opera show? An opera...

Johnny:
Opera? Those music plays? Where they start singing out situations when they could just say their lines? ...Nope, never seen one. Why do you ask?

Gyro:
Just a simple question.

[Gyro holds up his pair of binoculars.]

Gyro:
They call these opera glasses because you use them for watching an opera. But the people singing on stage have huge bodies that weigh like 120 or 150 kilograms or more.

Johnny:
Yeah... that's why they can sing like that I guess.

Gyro:
But why look at them with opera glasses? You don't need to, cause they're already so big.

[Johnny grins, and soon Gyro follows suit. Gyro holds up the binoculars, looking out over the desert through them.]

Gyro:
Maybe you're supposed to zoom into the buttons on their fancy clothes, and watch them as they're about to fly off...?

Johnny:
Now that you mention it... but dude! Since they all have the same body type, maybe you can't tell the difference unless you zoom in?!

Gyro:
Nyohohahohahaha!! Not bad, Johnny!![23]

Diego:
There's a small villiage up ahead... let's stay there. Camping out is a bad idea. There are beasts out in this area. The other day after sundown, I got surrounded by beasts. A few cougars and a few rattlesnakes. The cougars and snakes were on two sides of the road, blocking my way out. I was thinking of how to escape... but then, for some reason, I was able to pass through on one side of the road. I was able to get by one of the two groups easily. Which side do you think it was? The cougars? Or the snakes?

Gyro and Johnny:
........

Diego:
The answer is the rattle snakes! Because they were... assssssssssleep... and sssssssssnoring on the road!

Gyro:
Huh?

Johnny:
...........................

Diego:
Hey, come on, it's a joke! Only a joke! What did you think? Then maybe they woke up and started ssssssssssslapping each other.... in their facessssssss! Get it?

Johnny:
.....[24]

[While Johnny and Gyro are first being attacked by Diego in dinosaur form.]

Gyro:
He's getting up! My steel balls won't hit him! We gotta run! Hurry and get outside, Johnny!

[Gyro slams the door shut, but Diego's claws fit through the space between the door and the wall. Gyro and Johnny slam it back shut.]

Johnny:
What is this!? This Stand ability!! What kind of ability is it?

Gyro:
It's a dinosaur, Johnny! It looks like Dio's body has fused with a dinosaur's ability!

Johnny:
Dino-sore? What's a dinosore?

Gyro:
You don't know?[25]

[After absorbing one of the Corpse's eyes, a half-transformed Diego looks back at Johnny and Gyro. A mechanical-looking figure that slightly resembles one of Gyro's steel balls can be seen in the distance for a few panels.]

Johnny:
What's going on!? What does that mean!? Dio's dinosaur transformation hasn't gone away! Dio was under the control of Ferdinand!! We have to chase him or he'll take away that eye!

Gyro:
Stop, Johnny... It's over now, calm down. We can't chase him here. Dio got us at the very end... or maybe we should say he got the eye and its power brought back the dinosaur transformation that had disappeared as his talent. Half to my steel ball... half to Dio's Stand ability is what it seems.

Johnny:
The ability of the dinosaur... Dio Brando may not have been a terrorist... but if he has one of the eyes, he'll want the other! At this point he's found out about the Corpse...... I can't believe he took half... He doesn't just desire victory! He longs for authority and eliteness![26]

[After a suspenseful battle of Johnny, Gyro, and Diego racing neck to neck, Johnny crosses the goal line first, followed by Diego and then Gyro.]

Announcer:
At this point, the 4th stage has already begun! Johnny Joestar is the one who conquered the deadheat battle just now, but an hour ago, Hot Pants had already passed through the finish line to take 1st place!

[The stage's scoreboard is shown, with Hot Pants' name at the time. Hot Pants had indeed finished an hour before the others, placing Hot Pants in first.]

Gyro:
What the...?[27]

Hot Pants:
I've lost nearly an hour here. No matter which path I take, I come back to this spot! The plums grown here in this orchard contain a lot of iron... That could be the reason why my compass doesn't seem to be pointing in the right direction.

Johnny:
Hot Pants, don't come any closer! We're thinking that you could be tricking us!!

Hot Pants:
This is the fourth time I've come back here. Look at my tracks!! They pass through four times, don't they? Why...? I'm the one who wants to know.

Gyro:
So what's that to us!? Get lost already!! We're never ever gonna trust you anyways, got that!?

Hot Pants:
Then I'll be the one to trust in you. You two aren't bad people. If you were, I'd have already killed you... how's that?[28]

Gyro:
Tell him to go eat shit, Johnny.

Johnny:
Tell him yourself.

Gyro:
EAT SHIT, ASSHOLE! FALL OFF YOUR HORSE!

Hot Pants:
Aren't we looking for the same path?[28]

Funny Valentine:
If the first one takes the napkin to their right, then there's no choice but for the others to also take the right napkin. The same goes for the left. Everyone else will have to take the napkin to their left, because they have no other option. This is society. Who are the ones who determine the price of land first? There must have been someone who determined the value of money, first. The size of the rails on a train track? The magnitude of electricity? Laws and regulations? Who was the first to determine those things? Did we all do it, because this is a republic? Or was it arbitrary? NO! The one who took the napkin first determined all of these things!

Funny Valentine:
My heart and actions are utterly unclouded! They are all those of justice.