Joseph's cloudy eyes briefly regained their former sharpness.
The hat he had worn to keep warm was blown away by the gale as they sped along, and his silver hair fluttered in the wind.
He swept his long hair back, straightened his hunched back for the first time in years, and sent Ripple surging through his entire body.
"Old man..."
Jotaro gazed at Joseph's profile.
He couldn't remember how many years it had been since he'd last seen the old man so full of spirit.
Ever since returning from Egypt, Joseph's health had steadily deteriorated.
After Dio drank Joseph's blood, his Time Stop increased from five seconds to nine. Those extra four seconds came from the life force Dio had absorbed from Joseph's blood.
That was why Joseph had been in his prime at sixty-eight, even having a late-life romance with Tomoko Higashikata a few years later, but had become senile and trembled when he walked by the age of seventy-nine.
Now, Lin Qing had reactivated Joseph's bloodline power for a short time. The effect couldn't last long—perhaps a minute or two, perhaps only a dozen seconds.
But...
Lin Qing met eyes with Yoshikage Kira, who had just left home after breakfast, humming a little tune.
"That's plenty of time to deal with you!"
Lin Qing twisted the throttle all the way. The motorcycle's front wheel rose high as the engine roared, "Vroom—vroom!" Behind it, the bosozoku flag bearing the words "Yoroshiku" snapped in the wind.
Yoshikage Kira stood rooted to the spot, dumbfounded.
He looked at the motorcycle speeding toward him, then at the convoy chasing behind it, and was momentarily dazed.
Who am I?
Where am I?
Was this the effect of Bites the Dust... being so "powerful"?
After a brief moment of confusion, Yoshikage Kira suddenly came