Chapter 21
Summary
The chapter opens with a brief summary of the town of Windknights, and shows that Dio has taken refuge in a mansion near a graveyard. He has recovered from his burn wounds by feasting on hapless young women in secret, with Jack the Ripper assisting him. Then, Wang Chan walks in with the scar Jonathan made on his face, and Dio's attention turns to the scar and its cause.
Elsewhere Jonathan, Zeppeli, and Speedwagon are taking a horse drawn carriage to Windknights, based on street knowledge from Speedwagon that Wang Chan retreated there. From this, the trio concluded that Dio resides in Windknights. Zeppeli laments that even though he let Wang Chan escape so they could learn Dio's whereabouts, Dio now most likely knows of the Ripple from Wang Chan. Zeppeli then asks Speedwagon for a corkscrew to open his wine bottle.
The carriage ride through the Windknights tunnel goes smoothly for awhile, but it stops suddenly, for an unknown reason, inside the tunnel. Speedwagon, puzzled by this, goes out to ask the driver why he stopped, but Jonathan warns him that Dio's minions could be able to get to him more easily because they are enclosed in a dark tunnel with no light. Speedwagon, undaunted, leaves the carriage anyways. He quickly discovers why they're stopped. All of the horses have been killed, and their heads have been removed. One of their heads has been shoved onto the driver's head. He has died from giant lacerations on his back.
Something moves inside one of the horses necks, and Zeppeli warns Speedwagon and Jonathan to get away from the horses. Suddenly, Jack the Ripper crawls out of the horse's body, through its neck. Jonathan and Speedwagon stand in awe of this, as it seems that Jack had somehow created this atrocity while the wagon was moving. Zeppeli, unfazed, pokes a clean hole in the bottom of the wine bottle he has with him and pours a glass of wine, proclaiming that he will fight Jack the Ripper, as Jack emerges from the horse's body.
