Chapter 440

Gold Experience (1) (その①), originally in the WSJ release, is the four hundred fortieth chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It is also the first chapter of Vento Aureo.

Summary
In 2001, two years after the defeat of Yoshikage Kira, Koichi Hirose arrives at the Naples airport on a mission from Jotaro to locate Haruno Shiobana and retrieve a skin sample. After exiting the airport, Koichi immediately runs into a mysterious youth inserting his whole ear into his head for money.

This youth then proceeds to steal Koichi's luggage. However, he is stopped by Echoes ACT3's freeze. The youth then flees, and Koichi finds his luggage in a deformed spherical shape. Koichi realizes he has found the young man he was looking for.