I am the protagonist

Neither of the two people being protected sustained serious injuries.

"Ippei-chan, are you alright?"

That's what they say, but anyone with eyes can see that Ippin's current condition is far from being fine.

Even under these circumstances, Kyoko had no way to resolve the situation.

"It's becoming very difficult, Ms. Kyoko. You and Ms. Haru should try to escape."

Despite forcibly suppressing the pain in his body, Ippei managed to stand up.

We're going to have to work incredibly hard now.

[Boss, no matter what, I will protect Ms. Kyoko and Ms. Haru!]

Lambo, who had been lying on the ground, slowly stood up and stood in front of the two of them.

“Miss Kyoko, Miss Haru, you two take Ippei with you and go together. I’ll try to hold them off from here.”

The weak, timid, and willful Lambo has now come to a certain realization.

The boss of this era is dead; only they themselves can protect themselves.

"Rambo, you..."

What kind of show are you putting on?!

"Did you really think you could escape?"

"!?"

Everyone saw one of the opponents swing a scythe at Lambo's head.

"when!"

A layer of ice wall blocked the scythe's strike.

"It was quite a show."

"!"

The four people who recognized the voice were startled and turned around shakily to look behind them.

Unlike the grandeur of this era.

Unlike the older generation of this era.

But that figure was unusually reassuring.

"Ah, Mr. Tsuna!"

Tsuna, who came up from behind the four, smiled faintly upon hearing the address.

"Leave it to me next."

His simple words conveyed boundless confidence, and they also inspired the four people who were filled with anxiety.

"Hmph! You think..."

A hand had already gripped the ape's neck, rendering him unable to speak.

Which hand did you use just now?

Tsuna's voice was cold, and his icy words conveyed only one meaning.

【Damn! 】

It's not that easy!

Although his neck was being choked, his hands were still able to move.

The wild ape gripped its sickle and swung it down.

"Pfft!"

One of the arms flew straight into the air, and a large amount of blood gushed out from the severed arm.

This scene left the other man stunned for a long time.

"Wild ape!"

By the time he realized what was happening, his underling had already lost a hand.

"Your hands moved just now, didn't they?"

"!?"

"Pfft!"

Two more hands flew into the sky.

"Ahhh!"

He fell to the ground with a pitiful howl, landing right next to his underling.

"Brother Tai, Brother Taiyuan!"

The wild ape couldn't believe what it was seeing, and with its remaining hand, it made its way to its older brother's side.

What kind of show are you putting on?

"Do you really think you can escape?"

The two people lying on the ground trembled involuntarily upon hearing the familiar lines.

Tsuna, who appeared in front of the two, knelt down and looked at the two brothers who had lost their hands.

"Did you taste it? The taste of despair."

"You, you bastard!?"

"Oh!"

His only response was to crush his head with a single stomp.

"Big Brother!!!"

Seeing his elder brother die before his eyes, the wild ape couldn't help but let out a heart-wrenching cry.

"Don't worry, I won't forget what you did."

The wild ape trembled as it stared at the raised foot.

Unable to make any sound, not even begging for mercy, he was crushed underfoot.

After dealing with the two people, Tsuna turned around and went to I-Pin, who was half-squatting on the ground, and picked her up.

"We'll talk about anything else once we're in a safe place."

"Rambo, take them and leave first."

"Ah."

Without saying much, Lambo grabbed Kyoko and Haru and headed towards the Vongola base.

Although Lambo was confused about the current situation, getting Ms. Kyoko and Ms. Haru to a safe place was the most important thing to do right now.

“Sawada…Mr.…you are Mr. Sawada from ten years ago!”

Ippei finally calmed down when she recognized the boss in front of her.

"Mr. Sawada, how...how did you come to this?"

Ten years ago, Mr. Sawada so easily killed the members of the Black Curse Squad who were chasing them.

Even if Ippei knew that Mr. Sawada from ten years ago was also very strong, he shouldn't have been able to face the Black Curse Squad so easily ten years later.

A lot has happened.

"Is your body still okay?"

"Huh? My body!"

To Ippei's astonishment, his severely injured body began to slowly recover.

It might not be as amazing as healing from a Sun-attribute healer, but the physical pain and the invasion of the Dying Will Flame seemed to have stopped.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: What Happened to Tsuna Ten Years Ago

The two decapitated corpses on the ground were quickly enveloped by the cold air, and at the moment they were completely frozen, they turned into ice powder that flew in the air.

"Mr. Sawada, won't we be discovered if we do this?"

"Ippei, do you know why there are no surveillance cameras near this warehouse?"

Tsuna could do this because he didn't feel any gaze upon him.

“Mr. Sawada, this is the entrance to the Vongola base. There shouldn’t be any surveillance cameras here, right?”

"Your idea is too naive. Even if this is an abandoned warehouse, Milfiore will definitely not let this place go if he wants to do it. After all, to them it's just a matter of installing a surveillance camera. Maybe they'll find it then?"

"So, it's not that they ignored this place, but that someone deliberately ignored it."

"Understand?"

"!?"

With things explained so clearly, how could Ippei not understand?

[Is Mr. Sawada referring to spies?]

[Does Milfiore have spies from our Vongola?]

"There's another point. Since Milfiore has the ability to overthrow the Vongola in one fell swoop, they must be prepared to annihilate the Vongola."

"Since all these preparations have been made, how did the Vongola manage to preserve a portion of their fighting force in advance?"

"……I see."

Now Ichiping is certain that there is a Vongola spy among Milfiore, and that this spy was sent out by the Boss long ago.

If everything was pre-arranged, then the Boss's death was indeed a deliberate setup.

Ippei now understood why Bos's death was so strange.

At first, I felt that the Boss's death was very abnormal.

If Ippei had been killed by Byakuran at that time, I could have believed it, but the fact that he was sniped in the end made it hard for her to believe.

The boss possesses Vongola's super intuition; ordinary assassinations are completely ineffective against him.

I'm so stupid!

"It's still safe here for now, but their deaths should soon be noticed, and they might start searching this area."

"We can't stay here too long."

Tsuna knew all too well how vast a system lay behind such a large organization, and that the city was now very unsafe, requiring them to be extremely cautious in their actions within it.

The base entrance here needs to be hidden temporarily, otherwise our location will be exposed.

Now is not the time to reveal the base's location.

Although Tsunayoshi understood that not all the people from that era had arrived yet, and the people behind the scenes wouldn't act so quickly, he couldn't put all his hopes on that.

Holding Ippin in his arms, Tsuna quickly left the brightly lit place, disappearing from sight and hiding in the shadows.

Sure enough, a five-person squad appeared near the warehouse within minutes.

"!?"

Ippei, who was being held, almost cried out when he saw this scene.

(Mr. Sawada, what should we do now?)

(Don't worry.)

Tsuna knew that some trouble was bound to come, so this situation didn't surprise him.

(Five minutes is not enough to make their disappearance seem like murder, and that squad was following them the whole time; they wouldn't think their members would be killed so easily.)

After thinking about it, Ippei gradually calmed down.

Sure enough, the five-person team left the abandoned warehouse in no time.

Once he was sure no one would come, Tsuna carried I-Pin back to the Vongola's underground base.

There were already many people waiting at the entrance of the Vongola base.