I am the protagonist

It rolled to the side while lying down.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, the bullet of Dying Will Flame shattered the coffin bearing the Vongola crest.

Tsuna sighed and dusted himself off as he stood up from the ground. He then looked at the person who was already standing on the tree branch.

"Mixed-color baby, Reborn, is this how you're supposed to pick me up?"

"Oh!"

The response was that the bullets of the Death Flame were fired once more.

"...The people here really do things in a simple and brutal way."

"!?"

Larmilch's vision blurred and he lost sight of Sawada.

“There is a huge gap in strength between us. Your eyes and senses simply cannot keep up with my speed.”

"There is no point in continuing to probe under such circumstances."

【later!】

【when! ? 】

At this moment, a tremendous storm was raging in Larmielch's heart.

This is completely unlike Sawada from ten years ago.

Ten years ago, Sawada was rather timid and couldn't even fully display his strength. How could he be like this now!

Larmilch hadn't seen Sawada enter Hyper Dying Will Mode at all, but in just a moment Sawada appeared behind him.

This is unrealistic!

Larmilch was absolutely certain that this was abnormal; Sawada was acting very strangely.

He jumped off the tree branch and turned around in mid-air to look at Sawada, who was still on the branch.

[No Dying Will Flame was used!]

As someone who had a lot of contact with Sawada in this era, Lalmilch knew that when Sawada used the Dying Will Flame, a Dying Will Flame would ignite on his forehead, but it wasn't there now.

In other words, Sawada did that action without using the Dying Will Flame.

In this era, more and more people are using the Death Flame, and those who don't are considered outliers.

【Then I'll force you to use the Death Flame!】

A ring on her hand ignited a death flame, but it wasn't orange-yellow; instead, it was a purple death flame.

Upon seeing this phenomenon, Tsunayoshi had already made up his mind about one thing.

[The Deathly Flame does indeed have this attribute; besides my orange-yellow flame, there's also Chrome's indigo flame and the mixed-color baby's purple flame.]

[Not just three, there might be more.]

Tsuna saw the ring of the mixed-color baby igniting the flames of death energy inserted into a small box.

Is this a weapon from ten years in the future? It uses the flames of death energy as fuel, meaning it's not something that can be easily dealt with.

Soon, a completely blue centipede appeared in the box, with purple flames of death burning on its head.

With just one glance, Tsuna understood the purpose of the box and the centipede. It was a product of the combination of technology and the Dying Will Flame. As someone from the old era, he didn't possess such a product, which would make dealing with these things troublesome.

"...Theoretically speaking, that's how it is."

"what?"

"The product of technology and the flames of death are quite easy to deal with people from the previous era... You think so too, don't you?"

In just a short while, the blue centipede had already wrapped around Tsuna's body, but Tsuna remained calm despite being entangled.

"But unfortunately, these things aren't very useful to me."

"Kaka!"

The blue centipede was petrified and fell to the ground, shattering into powder in the next second.

Tsuna gently patted the dust off his clothes and watched with great interest the surprise on the mixed-color baby's face.

Why are you so surprised?

"Indeed, the fusion of technology and death flames ten years from now is a bit surprising to me, but in the end, it's just something like this."

"Although I don't know what the different types of death flames do, all I need to know is that they are just carriers of death flames."

"!?"

"...I see. Zero Breakthrough absorbed the Death Flame of the Box Weapon and harmonized the characteristics of the Great Sky Flame."

It was a simple statement, but I didn't expect it to be seen through so quickly.

[Sawada, a person from the old era, had never been in contact with Box Weapons before, and didn't even know the properties of Dying Will Flame, yet he defeated a Box Weapon so easily.]

[...Eek, only Sawada could do something like that.]

The Great Sky attribute of flame, Zero Breakthrough, and Zero Breakthrough Mod are not things that anyone can have just because they want them.

Even in the era when the Dying Will Flame was prevalent, there were very few people that Lalmilch knew of who could use the Sky Attribute Flame.

One in hundreds of millions, or even one in billions.

There is only one person who possesses the Death Flame of the Void attribute and is also able to master Zero Breakthrough and Zero Breakthrough Modification.

"Have you tested it out, mixed-color baby?"

"Or are you going to test me again in your current state? Well, let me warn you, if you keep playing games like this, I won't be so polite to you anymore."

"..."

Seeing the current situation, Larmilch did not continue to probe, as the probe had become meaningless.

At this moment, Larmilch was also certain of one thing: the Sawada from ten years ago was absolutely different from the one she remembered.

Chapter Eighteen: The World Ten Years Later Is a Little Abnormal

"So, what's the situation here now?"

"The Vongola is now in a state of destruction."

“…Baby, I didn’t mean to ask about the Vongola’s condition.”

From the beginning, Tsuna never asked about the current situation of the Vongola. Tsuna has only just begun to get involved with the Vongola and doesn't have a strong sense of belonging to it.

"Ten years from now, I'll be lying in a coffin. Even if the Vongola is left, there will only be a few small ones. I wouldn't be surprised if it's in a state of destruction."

"I'm asking you, what exactly is your situation that brought us into this era?"

"what!"

This question left even Larmilch speechless.

"Did we call you back from ten years ago? Wasn't the reason you came here because of the rocket launcher malfunction ten years ago?"

Tsuna listened in silence for a moment.

"That's how it is; you don't know the so-called truth."

This must have been a secret operation. What reason would people of this era have for believing that people from ten years ago could handle things here, leading them to orchestrate this whole affair?

The people who know the truth are definitely not just a few.

Gokudera, Sasagawa, Yamamoto, Chrome, and Lambo don't seem like the kind of people who would know these things; those who do know certainly wouldn't be the type to blurt things out.

Tsunayoshi also understood that these things definitely didn't seem to be known by them, and there must be other people involved in this plan.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have kept it a secret even from people within the Vongola organization.

"Since you don't know, then forget it."

"Hey! Sawada, do you know something else?"

"So what if you know? It's something people from your generation came up with. Instead of asking me, you'd be better off thinking about which Vongola insider might know this."

"Back then, someone was arranged to forcefully send us to this era. Do you think Reborn and I would have come here if the people of this era hadn't planned it?"

"..."

Is someone orchestrating this behind the scenes?

Would anyone actually do that?

At that moment, Larmielch asked himself, would anyone really have such thoughts?

Could it be him?!

After eliminating many possibilities in his mind, Larmilch finally arrived at the final answer.

There are people in this era who might plan such actions and schemes, but the person who planned this operation is definitely not Milfiore, but Vongola!

If it's him, then only that man in the entire Vongola would know the inside story of this plan.

[The Vongola's strongest guardian—Kyoya Hibari!]

Others might not be suitable, but Hibari Kyoya is probably the only one who knows about this plan.

Lalmilch has now confirmed that Sawada Tsunayoshi of this era was also involved in this plan, and now that Sawada Tsunayoshi is dead, there is probably only one other person who knows about it.

Many Vongola Guardians have now gathered at the Vongola base.

"Mr. Reborn, the Tenth... the Tenth has really come to this era!?"

In the base, the adult version of Gokudera still acts like a devoted fanboy, just like he did ten years ago.

"...It's so annoying."

Reborn, who had been asked the question dozens of times, found this guy incredibly annoying.

"Haha, after all, Tsuna is already like that in our time, so it's only natural that Gokudera would be so excited."

"The boss from ten years ago seems a bit unreliable."

"Um... Tsuna from ten years ago was definitely not as reliable as the Tsuna of this era. Tsuna from that era was still very timid, and he didn't act like the Tsuna of our time when things happened."

He said things like "unreliable," but all that was left in Yamamoto's eyes was nostalgia for the past.

That era didn't have as many troubles as it does today, ten years later. Back then, everyone lived their own lives, and even in Namimori, people didn't have to face such dangers as they do now.

"You're wrong, Yamamoto."

"The idiot Tsuna who came this time is probably different from what you imagined."

Chrome and Yamamoto are right, of course, that is based on the premise that nothing has changed in the past.

However, the world has changed drastically in the past ten years. Due to an accidental head injury, Tsuna lost his past memories.

"...From a certain perspective, given what happened to Tsuna ten years ago, this era will certainly be changed."

Yes, Reborn himself thought so too, but now that he's in the situation, it seems he's completely unaffected by Tsuna's head injury and amnesia.

Bowen was still speculating about the specific reasons, because logically speaking, the future world should have changed, but it hadn't changed at all.

Just like the future that unfolded ten years ago, without any unexpected events, but rather following the normal course of events.

Reborn also had many questions about this that were not properly answered.

"Mr. Reborn, what do you mean by this?"

"That's literally what it means."

Reborn glanced at the transmitter on the screen and also saw the two people who had already appeared outside the base in the surveillance footage of people entering the base from outside.

"People are coming."

"!"

"So fast!"

Looking at the surveillance footage on the screen, everyone indeed saw Larmilch, who had just gone out to pick someone up, as well as Sawada from ten years ago.

"Johnny Two, open the door."

"I understand."

The base gates were opened, and the two people outside entered the Vongola underground base.