During one of his performances, Pinocchio sings a toilet-humour ladened parody of a previous patriotic song to Prime Minister Benito Mussolini as revenge for Volpe's abuse and is shot, dying once more. When Sebastian and Geppetto search for him at sea, they are swallowed by a giant Dogfish. Returning to the mortal realm, Pinocchio decides to join Volpe's circus, both to earn cash for Geppetto and to avoid being drafted into the Royal Italian Army by the strict Podestà . She explains to Pinocchio that he is immortal and that he will return to the mortal realm once an hourglass has flowed, cautioning that the time he spends in the afterlife will increase each time he returns. Pinocchio is sent to the afterlife where he meets Death, the sister of the Wood Sprite. After Geppetto arrives to bring Pinocchio home, he and Volpe have a tug-of-war that results in Pinocchio being thrown to the road where he is hit by a car. Volpe convices Pinocchio to join his circus and gets him to sign a contract. The next day, he sends Pinocchio to school, but the puppet is intercepted by the former aristocrat-turned-showman Count Volpe and his performing monkey Spazzatura. Geppetto later discovers that Pinocchio is alive and locks him in a closet while he goes to church, but Pinocchio follows him and frightens the villagers. The Sprite meets Sebastian and promises to grant him a wish, which he intends to use in order to become famous, in exchange for acting as Pinocchio's guide. He passes out drunk, leaving the puppet unfinished, and a bluish Wood Sprite brings it to life, christening him Pinocchio. Geppetto subsequently cuts down the tree in a fit of drunken rage in order to make a new son out of its wood. An anthropomorphic cricket named Sebastian takes up residence in the resulting pine tree. Geppetto honors his memory by planting a pine cone near his grave and spends the next twenty years mourning his loss. In Italy during the the Great War, the carpenter Geppetto loses his son Carlo during an inadvertent aerial bomb.
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