Chapter 12

The Two Rings (Youth with Dio - Part 1 in the JoJonium release) is the twelfth chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It is also the twelfth chapter of Part I: Phantom Blood.

Summary
Dio goes crashing through the window behind him after being shot multiple times by the police. He lays on the ground outside surrounded by broken glass. He is presumed dead, but his face is still covered by the Stone Mask. Back inside, Jonathan holds his dying father. George holds up his hand and reveals the wedding ring of Jonathan's dead mother. Upon seeing this, one of the officers curses himself for not keeping Dio from being adopted long ago. He recalls when he first became a police officer and they had arrested Dario Brando for attempting to sell the ring he stole from George Joestar. George told them that Dario was innocent, because he still believed that Dario had saved his life. He said to the policeman that he probably would have done the same thing if he had been born into a life of poverty, and lets Dario keep the ring. Back in the present, the officer curses himself again, saying that he should have just punished Dario so that none of this would have happened.

George passes away, after telling Jonathan that it isn't so bad to die in his son's arms. Mourning spreads throughout the room, and Speedwagon laments that such misfortune should befall a family he had come to recognize as being noble and righteous but says that the virtuous Joestar spirit and wealth shall be inherited by Jonathan. He looks to the window and notices that Dio's corpse is gone with only the Stone Mask in the place he had fallen. Panicked, Speedwagon tells a nearby officer to get away from the window and search the place for Dio's corpse. It is too late for the man, as a hand swoops down from outside the window and rips the top of the officer's head off. It is Dio, who unbeknownst to everyone present has evolved himself from a human to a Vampire.