Set's Alessi, Part 1

As Joseph and Muhammad Avdol keep after Mariah, Jotaro and Jean Pierre Polnareff wait around with growing impatience. Polnareff watches some kids playing in the mud with a wistful eye, while Jotaro proposes hunting down their missing companions in case a foe has cornered them. Iggy, for his part, wanders off alone.

Unknown to the pair, they too have drawn a predator: Alessi, master of the shadow Stand Sethan. His temper erupts the instant a muddy boy bumps into him, and he beats the child on learning his father is away. Sensing something wrong, Polnareff breaks off to confront the stalker by himself. Alessi feigns innocence until Silver Chariot appears, at which point Sethan strikes from the ground and grazes the Frenchman before he can leap clear.

Chasing Alessi through the back alleys, Polnareff notices the buildings towering strangely above him. A glance in a mirror confirms the truth: Sethan has regressed him into a small boy. Jotaro passes right by without recognizing his friend, handing Alessi the opening to attack. Cornered and shot at, Polnareff survives only because his Silver Chariot has aged down alongside him and deflects the rounds, though the shrunken Stand is badly outmatched. Luck saves him when Chariot's snapped blade lodges in Alessi's shoulder, and the boy flees.

A kindly woman mistakes the shrunken Polnareff for a lost child and brings him home for a bath, where he happily forgets his peril at the sight of her. Alessi has not given up, though. He slips into the bathroom, catches the boy off guard, and swings his axe as the episode cuts away. A recap of the Mariah battle and a moment of Iggy stealing a falafel were added for the adaptation.