D'Arby the Player, Part 2

Out of the tunnel, D'Arby's car still leads. Kakyoin exploits the butler's drained energy to spin and hurl the rival car off the track while landing safely himself, but D'Arby had allowed the knock aside on purpose to secure an unbeatable margin. Realizing he has lost, Kakyoin concedes in his mind and Atum claims his soul, added to the collection. D'Arby explains that if he dies, Kakyoin dies for good, pressuring Jotaro and Joseph to keep playing.

Since Joseph knows nothing of video games, Jotaro sidelines him and challenges D'Arby again, prompting the butler to release his hold on Jotaro's soul in anticipation of needing both of Atum's hands. Choosing a title at random, Jotaro lands on the baseball game Oh! That's A Baseball!, which happens to be another of D'Arby's specialties. A complete novice himself, Jotaro burns his first two batters learning the controls, then declares mastery and begins knocking out home runs, building a comfortable four-run lead as Joseph starts to gloat.

Reasserting his talent, D'Arby swaps pitchers and announces a forkball down the middle, but the throw comes in slightly altered and Jotaro's batter is caught out. At first it looks like mind games, until Jotaro senses the same trick behind D'Arby's earlier prediction of Star Platinum's attack. When D'Arby steps up to bat and dodges a pitch aimed at his character to slug a home run, Jotaro concludes that Atum is reading minds to help him cheat. As the butler keeps calling Jotaro's next moves, the student pulls his hat low; D'Arby scoffs at the flimsy attempt to hide his intentions, but Jotaro clarifies that he is simply sweating, then coolly announces his own next pitch, straight and high to the outside.

Kakyoin loses the F-Mega race to a deliberate feint and has his soul taken by Atum, raising the stakes for the survivors. Jotaro replaces Joseph and picks a baseball game at random, learning it on the fly before racking up home runs. Jotaro deduces that Atum grants D'Arby the power to read his mind, exposing how the butler cheats. The duel tilts into a psychological contest as Jotaro begins to conceal and control what his opponent can read.

The forty-first episode of Stardust Crusaders and seventeenth of the Egypt Arc adapts the closing pages of chapter 232 through half of chapter 236. Three added scenes show Telence striking his older brother. Director Naokatsu Tsuda recounted that the pitching shots were built on observation of real games, with a baseball-fan animator verifying the details, and remarked that Jotaro wins largely through bluffing backed by steel nerves. He also noted that the games against Telence stretched across three episodes rather than the two originally expected.