Chapter 22
Summary
Jack the Ripper emerges from the dead horse carcass, and decides to display his power by cutting the air with his knife. To further demonstrate his power, he severs his thumb, and jams his knife through his own cheeks. From this, Zeppeli infers that he must have been an evil man when he was mortal. Zeppeli figures out how Jack the Ripper planned his surprise attack, but Jack catches him off guard, and throws the wagon they were riding in at them. The trio dodges this, and the carriage blocks off one of their exits.
Jack the Ripper laughs manically as scalpels emerge all over his body. From this Speedwagon realizes that, because of the extra scalpels, he was able to stop their carriage, kill all of the horses, and their driver without detection. Zeppeli takes a sip of his wine, seemingly unconcerned, as Jack the Ripper launches the scalpels from his body at high speeds, using the power of his muscles. Jonathan and Speedwagon take cover behind a rock as the scalpels all hit the front of the rock instead. The scalpels start to cut through the rock itself, injuring Speedwagon's shoulder in the process.
As three of the scalpels are about to hit Zeppeli, and he spits out some of the wine he drank. It turns into three rapidly spinning circles of liquid that cut Jack the Ripper's flying scalpels in half, straight down their blades. Zeppeli calls this the Ripple cutter. As he counters one of Jack's attacks with the wine bottle he was holding, Zeppeli tells Jonathan that by controlling his fear, he can master the power of the Ripple. Zeppeli then uses the Sendo wave kick on Jack the Ripper, burning the right half of his face severely. Zeppeli tells Jonathan to finish off Jack as he drinks his wine.
