The Cat Likes Yoshikage Kira

After finding a hostile stray in her basement, Shinobu asks Kira for help, mentioning a strange hole in the animal's neck. Intrigued, Kira suspects an Arrow wound and a possible Stand user, but when he goes to investigate he finds the cat already dead, fatally cut by glass shards during an earlier scuffle with Shinobu. Judging that it died too easily to be a Stand user, he buries it in the yard while Shinobu grieves her accidental killing. The next day, an odd blue-gray flower sprouts over the grave, and as it blooms the cat's ghost possesses it, giving rise to the sentient plant Stray Cat.

Blaming Shinobu for his death, Stray Cat fires an air bubble that rips off her toenail, then kills a bird with another, awakening to its own power. Kira, now certain the cat truly was a Stand user, runs tests as the plant grows and realizes it was reborn through the Arrow. When he sends Killer Queen to quietly destroy it, his bomb duds, and he deduces that Stray Cat shields itself in a vacuum. The two Stands clash; Stray Cat drives compressed air into Kira's blood vessels, threatening a lethal embolism until he stabs his own arm open to release it. Cornered, Kira defuses the fight by rolling a golf ball over, distracting the plant from its grudge.

Meanwhile Hayato, long noting discrepancies in his "father," skips school to review a secret videotape and spots Kira hauling a potted plant and cat food into the attic. Investigating, the boy meets Stray Cat and is bound in air cuffs, but he pops the bubbles with a compass and stages a spilled-food mess to cover his presence. Relieved yet resolved to kill Hayato should the child learn his secret, Kira leaves, while the boy, hiding in a box, becomes convinced the man is not Kosaku Kawajiri. The episode compresses Chapters 392 through 397, and the eyecatch swaps the usual Stand stats for an anatomical chart of Stray Cat.