Straizo recovers from Joseph's attack and uses the same laser eye attack Dio used on Jonathan to seemingly pierce through Joseph's head and neck. However, Joseph tricks him into attacking a mirror reflection. Joseph flees to the Brooklyn Bridge. Straizo catches up and once again attacks Joseph with his laser, but Joseph reflects it back at him with a Hamon glass before striking him with Hamon. Straizo reveals that the Pillar Man in Mexico has been feeding off the blood he spilled and is about to wake from a 2000-year slumber. Straizo kills himself with Hamon stored in his body. Meanwhile in Mexico, a German military general named Rudol von Stroheim, searching for ways to enhance the German military effort interrogates a still-living Speedwagon about the Pillar Man which Stroheim intends to revive. Joseph makes his way to Mexico concerned about the Pillar Man, unaware that he is being followed by a strange assassin.