Chapter 47

Painful News is the forty-seventh chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It is also the third chapter of Part II: Battle Tendency.

Summary
Joseph is almost run over by a taxi while crossing the road. He begins to threaten the driver, but is cut short when his grandmother, Erina Joestar, asks what he is doing. Joseph quickly covers up the situation by saying he hailed them a taxi; the three of them get in and head to a restaurant. While traveling, Smokey learns that Joseph is the grandson of Jonathan Joestar and the Joestar men have a tendency to have short lives. Joseph asks about Erina's relationship with Speedwagon, implying that they should get together, and Erina responds by beating him with her umbrella. At the restaurant, a brass knuckles-bearing gangster insults Smokey. At Erina's behest, Joseph confronts and defeats him easily. The companion of the gangster reveals himself to be an agent sent from the Speedwagon Foundation and tells Joseph that Speedwagon was killed.