The scream vanished in an instant, but it made both Joseph and Kasumigaoka Utaha, who had been facing off, turn toward its source.
Immediately afterward, sounds of chaos began ringing out throughout the hotel. Joseph suddenly sensed something, got up, and ran to the edge of the balcony to look down.
In the darkness, a large number of suspicious figures were approaching the hotel.
They swayed as they walked, their postures strange, yet they moved swiftly. From time to time, they let out chilling, inhuman laughter.
Though they looked somewhat different from what he had seen before, Joseph's instincts told him they were clearly—
"Zombies!? How could this be!?"
Joseph turned to the right. Kasumigaoka Utaha was also leaning over the balcony railing and looking down. At the sight of those people, his face instantly turned deathly pale as he muttered incessantly.
"Impossible... Though they're different from the records, these are first-generation zombies!? How is that possible..."
"Hey! Do you know something!? Did these guys come for you!?"
Joseph grabbed Kasumigaoka Utaha by the collar and, taking advantage of their difference in size, lifted the Oriental man, who was a head shorter than him.
At that moment, the sounds of fighting also came from inside the hotel, mixed with Caesar's familiar voice and that of Caesar's teacher.
"Damn it!"
Unable to determine whether this incident truly had anything to do with Kasumigaoka Utaha, he could only keep hold of him, kick open the door, and charge into the hotel.
The hotel was already in complete chaos. Broken corpses and blood were everywhere, and countless zombies could be seen wreaking havoc.
Caesar and Messina were doing everything they could to hold back the zombies and protect the ordinary guests in the hotel, but the true main force in the battle was undoubtedly—
"Hmph—!"
With a cold snort, Lisa Lisa—or rather, the woman whose true name should have been Elizabeth Joestar—moved through the horde of zombies like an elegant dancer. She had removed the scarf around her neck and wielded it in her hand. The power of Ripple clung to the scarf, causing every zombie it swept across to convulse and collapse, rapidly melting away like snow exposed to the blazing sun.
"Whoa! That's amazing!"
Still at an age where his personality was lively and impulsive, Joseph immediately gave Lisa Lisa a thumbs-up.
The moment he spoke, unease suddenly rose in Joseph's heart. He lifted his head and looked at the hotel's ceiling.
He vaguely seemed to hear something slicing through the air, followed by—
"Takizawa Lola da—!!!!!!"
BOOM!!!!!!
A massive road roller... fell from the sky, smashing straight through the hotel...