Caesar engages Wamuu in battle. Wamuu counters Caesar's Hamon Bubble Launcher using the wires on his headgear to unleash a wind that pops all of the bubbles, leaving Caesar temporarily blind in one eye. As Kars and Esidisi head to the surface, Wamuu fights Joseph, slicing through his wrist to make the battle last only a minute. Joseph lands a hit on Wamuu with his Clacker Boomerang, but Wamuu counters with his Divine Sandstorm technique leaving Joseph barely alive. Joseph pretends to run away and tricks Wamuu onto a mine cart ride through the ruins. Wamuu knocks Joseph off the cart, but Joseph proclaims that as the first person to harm Wamuu, he would be strong enough to beat Wamuu in a month's time. Intrigued, Wamuu lets Joseph live, but implants a "Wedding Ring" around Joseph’s aorta that will release a deadly poison in 33 days' time, with the antidote held in his lip piercing. Esidisi then implants another poison-filled ring around Joseph's windpipe, with the antidote contained in his nose piercing. The Pillar Men leave in search of the Red Stone of Aja. Caesar now realizes Joseph's resolve and promises to aid him.