A Letter from the Past, Part 1 (Chapter)

A Letter From The Past is the sixth chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga.

Summary
In 1888, it's been seven years later since Dio came to the Joestar mansion. The mysterious Jack the Ripper has begun his murders. Elsewhere, the battle between Jonathan and Dio begins...

A rugby match is occuring at Hugh Hudson Academy and the hero of the team is Jonathan himself. Jonathan runs with ball in his hand as many other opponents get on top of him. Jonathan just keeps dragging until a fourth player gets on top of him. With that, Jonathan passes the ball to Dio with which he's able to score and win the final match before graduation. Dio is graduating the top law student while Jonathan has written a magnificent thesis in the archaeology field. Jonathan even notices that Dio is refering to George as father instead of Lord Joestar like he used to call him. While everything seems good on the outside, Jonathan still can't feel any friendship for Dio. As well, Dio has been more or less acting good just to get through the years before he could be of legal age to gain the fortunes of the Joestar.

Back at the Joestar Mansion, George is shown to be sick in bed. At first it was a common cold, but it seems to be getting worse. George congratulations on their rugby victory and is very proud of his two sons. That night, Jonathan is testing out the stone mask by putting a drop of his blood on the mask. Just like what happened seven years ago, tentacles sprout from the mask and soon go back to normal. While looking through some books, Jonathan accidentally drops a case. Inside the case is a letter from seven years that was sent from Dio's father, Dario, while on his death bed. To his shock, Jonathan relizes that the symptoms that Dario is describing are the same ones that George has! Jonathan goes to Dio to confront him.