Chapter 5.5

Tonio Andretti's Final Nineteen Hours (トーニオ・アンドレッティ最後の19時間, Tōnio Andoretti Saigo no 19-jikan) is the 5.5th chapter in the Blood Blockade Battlefront manga.

Characters
Tonio Andretti

Paolo

Carlotto

Valsh Rozzo Valctovoel Girika

Francesco Lazloro

Klaus Von Reinherz

Gilbert F. Altstein

Summary
Tonio Andretti's plane lands just out of Hellsalem's Lot. Paolo picks up the Italian mafioso, and they drive into the city. Tonio and Paolo talk about what Beyondian girls would be like. They meet with the boss, Lazloro the Franc, who is coughing. Paolo and Carlotto, the bodyguards, are on edge. Lazloro gives Paolo money to keep Tonio busy.

Tonio ends up having a fling with a Beyondian woman. After the fun, they talk. The woman, seemingly out of the blue, brings up an ancient Aztec ritual where the young victims were treated like gods for a year before their hearts were ripped out of their bodies in a lavish ceremony. Her point is that Tonio should be careful, anything can happen in the city.

The next day, Lazloro leads Paolo, Carlotto, and Tonio to the subway. A strange man is waiting for them, and he opens his cloak revealing a dimensional doorway. The three mafiosos want Tonio to enter, and Tonio realizes he's the only one out of the loop. Paolo pulls a gun on Tonio, and Tonio runs.

Grika materializes, and grabs onto Tonio. Tonio realizes and accepts that he's been sold out by his boss. Lazloro asks Grika if Tonio is to her liking. Grika says he is, and promptly slaughters everyone but Tonio. Grika reveals that she was Tonio's earlier fling. She offers him to join her, and Tonio agrees so quickly that it suprises her. They leave to convert Tonio into a Blood Breed, and Grika says next they're going to kill some old "friends." It cuts to one such old friend, Klaus and Gilbert. Klaus sneezes.