Fire and Ice, Jonathan and Dio (炎と氷 ジョナサンとディオ, Faiyā Ando Aisu Jonasan to Dio) is the tenth and final story arc in Phantom Blood.
Summary
Inspired by Dire's last act, Jonathan decides to use Bruford's sword to inflict Ripple on Dio without being frozen. But Dio, greatly unnerved and livid from Dire's attack, jumps backward on the balcony ledge while summoning all his zombies to kill the intruders. Jonathan goes ahead to fight Dio while Speedwagon and the Ripple users fend off the zombie horde. Jonathan uses Ripple-infused roses to distract Dio long enough to slice his arm off. Jonathan then nearly bifurcates Dio, who froze the blade while shoving his fingers into a partially Jonathan’s neck to grab him by his carotid artery. Dio failed to notice the torch behind him, Luck & Pluck conducting heat to thaw Jonathan before the sword's blade was broken off by Dio.
After halting Jonathan's attempt to finish him with his Sunlight Yellow Overdrive, Dio reattaches his severed arm and slides the two halves of his head back together while calling his opponent a "monkey" compared to the powerful being has become. As Dio launches a final attack, Jonathan uses the flames from a nearby torch to envelop his hands in fire so he can hit Dio in the chest with a double punch Overdrive. The force of the attack knocks Dio off the ledge as he slowly melts away, making a final attempt on Jonathan's life by shooting streams of high pressured blood from his eyes. With Dio apparently dead and his zombies exterminated, the group subsequently destroys the Stone Mask. But no one knew that Dio separated his head from his dissolving body at the last minute, with Wang Chan quickly spiriting Dio's head away.
Two months later, Jonathan married Erina and the two plan tto travel to America via ship for their honeymoon. Running late, Speedwagon arrives in time to see Jonathan and Erina off along with the Ripple users, Poco and his sister. But the group is unaware that an ordinate coffin has been placed in the ship that Jonathan and Erina are on. While enjoying the cruise before enjoying dinner, Jonathan discovers that Wang Chan and follows after him. Jonathan ends up in the ship's hull where the coffin is revealed to hold a glass container holding the disembodied head of Dio.
Dio explains that he had a realization that their fates are deeply intertwined, revealing his intentions to take Jonathan's body for his own. Erina arrives to see her husband fatally wounded as a mother dies protecting her infant from the zombie infested caused Wang Chan to supply Dio with a new army to start anew in America. Wang Chan then goes in for the kill, only for Jonathan to use the last of his Ripple to destroy Wang Chan's head and compel his body to halt the ship's screwshaft. Despite Dio summoning the zombies to prevent it, Jonathan's final gambit causes an explosion that wipes out the zombies with the ship sinking.
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Though Erina wanted to die by Jonathan's side, he convinces her to escape with the infant. Furious of the turn of events, Dio decides to take Jonathan's body himself and then escape in his specially-made coffin. But Jonathan uses a piece of shrapnel that got lodged in his back in the initial explosion to stab the attacking Dio before grabbing him while Erina ends up in the coffin. Telling Erina to be happy, Jonathan admits that Dio might be right of their connected fates while feeling at peace. A struggling Dio attempts to plea Jonathan to let him go while offering immortality, only to learn that Jonathan just died before the two are consumed in the following explosion.
After being rescued when Dio's coffin drifts near the Canary Islands, knowing the world never know the of impact that her husband made, Erina vows to make sure that Jonathan's heroism will known to their unborn child and his descendants.
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