Chapter 32
The Medieval Ages Dark Knights' Murder Training Grounds (中世騎士殺人修練場, Chūsei Kishi Satsujin Shūren Jō), originally Chamber of the Two-Headed Dragon (双首竜の間, Sōshuryū no Ma) in the WSJ release, is the thirty-second chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It is also the thirty-second chapter of Phantom Blood.
Summary
As Jonathan and company glide to safety on the giant leaf made by him and Zeppeli, Poco asks how they managed to make it. He further inquires if the two of them are magicians or angels to be able to perform such feats. Speedwagon adds to the conversation and quickly inquires about Zeppeli's past. Zeppeli obliges him and begins to explain his past concerning the Ripple.
After Zeppeli's first encounter with the stone mask, he had sworn to find it, and searched the world for it without a clue as to its whereabouts. Two years into his search, his search eventually led him to India, where he found a young man who called himself a doctor. He witnessed this doctor, heal a patient's leg wound simply by touching it, as if by magic. Zeppeli saw that the power the doctor had just used was the opposite of the Stone Mask; giving life instead of stealing it. So Zeppeli asked how the doctor got these abilities, and was told to go up the Nuu River and look for his master Tonpetty. After arriving at Tonpetty's temple, Zeppeli approached him to shake his hand. As Tonpetty took his hand, he gave Zeppeli a prophecy warning him of his imminent death if he were to train under him.
Zeppeli tells Speedwagon and the others all of this, but leaves out Tonpetty's prophecy because he wants to keep it a secret. Unexpectedly, Tarkus jumps after Jonathan and company to grab them. Thinking quickly, Jonathan says that they should all jump to the building and abandon the leaf, which they do, and Tarkus crashes into the side of a tower.
Jonathan believes that Tarkus is dead, but his conceptions are shattered when Tarkus crawls out of the hole he made in the tower. Zeppeli says that they must stop Tarkus from chasing them, so he tells Jonathan to take Poco into the knights training ground. Poco advises against this course of action, saying that the knights' training ground is riddled with traps. Just as he says this, Jonathan opens a door, causing a neck brace on a chain to come down and pull him up to the ceiling.
Tarkus, having sensed Jonathan's location, enters the room. He recognizes it as the “Lair of the Two-Headed Dragon" where he had fought death matches over 300 years ago. The nostalgic Tarkus puts on a neck brace similar to Jonathan's.
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