Ciao-su.
We were living in peace and quiet, but...
This is bad.
I can't move.
Reborn got hit by the Ten-Year Bazooka?
Huh?
Reborn?
Where are you, Reborn?
Tsuna's so dumb...
Lambo!
Hey, give me this.
Sawada
Ouch!
A terrible future awaited us.
The future Tsuna appeared to be dead.
Is this a coffin?
Wait?!
Why am I in a coffin?!
More and more allies were sent to this time.
Eek?
Tsuna-kun!
Huh?!
This world is ruled by the Millefiore Family.
The name of their boss was Byakuran.
And one of his subordinates, Shoichi Irie,
apparently held the key for our return to the past.
Two things have become clear so far:
The enemy's objective is to eliminate the Vongola Family.
Our goal is to reach Shoichi Irie.
To that end, we have to assemble the Guardians
and begin learning to use the rings and boxes.
You'd better get Deathperate, Tsuna.
Oh, they're here.
Target 88 7³ Policy
Boss, you haven't called a meeting with all 17 squad captains in a long time.
Would you kindly explain the reason for our summons?
Oh, hold up.
We're still missing people.
But you could at least tell us why we're here...
You're late, Yuni.
Right, so let's get started.
Sho-chan's reporting in from Japan.
Acting like it's somebody else's problem...
True, if Gamma hadn't seen Tsunayoshi Sawada's younger self,
there wouldn't be a need for this meeting.
I am Irie, from the Japan branch.
I will transmit a report on the current situation here to your datapads.
This is a report
created by myself and the 3rd Squad's Captain Gamma, who is absent today.
Th-This is...
He's fast!
He was able to take the box from Hibari in that instant...
This is what I wanted, Tsunayoshi Sawada.
You are truly fascinating.
The same hedgehog?!
He had another box?
Ooh! Ooh!
Needles making sparkles!
It was a good plan though.
I've changed my mind.
I want to fight against a stronger you.
I'll tag along until that point.
So, do you know how boxes are made?
I'll explain that.
You've gotta be kidding!
What is that?!
Another one on this side!
Here it comes!
Don't get cocky!
It didn't work!
That's a... scorpion!
That's right.
They are my favorite.
You couldn't get away, Hayato.
Sis...
What are these?
Scorpione di Tempesta.
Storm Scorpions.
To put it simply, they're mobile flamethrowers.
Flamethrowers?
These things came out of that box?
Well...
First we saw Yamamoto's swallow...
Then it was Gamma's fox...
And now there's another box animal?
It's only natural for there to be many boxes modeled after animals.
You don't know how they originated, do you?
No, how?
Listen closely.
The boxes were based on 343 blueprints
left by 4th-century biologist Geppetto Lorenzini,
wondered if it would be possible to create weapons from what was found in nature.
However, his designs were too highly-advanced.
In other words, they couldn't be created with the technology available at the time.
His abstract theories were ignored for a long time, obviously.
Once Geppetto died, the blueprints were treated as scraps of paper
in the warehouse of the secret organization he belonged to.
Until the appearance of three inventors.
Three inventors?
Yes.
Innocenti, Koenig, and Verde.
They all belonged to the same organization.
Verde?
You mean the Arcobaleno?
Yes.
They realized that the flames from
the legendary Mafia rings would be the
best energy source for the boxes.
After overcoming many technical barriers,
they completed a prototype after a mere five years.
And as they created the original 343 boxes based on animals,
they also invented other types.
Boxes to be used for storage,
tools, or weapons, were also developed.
Until recently, they'd been selling boxes to the Mafia
at unbelievably cheap prices to fund their research.
However, two of the scientists died of unnatural causes.
After that, the lone survivor, Koenig, went underground.
He's still researching the boxes.
His creations supposedly often find their way to black market weapons dealers.
She's done her research.
Impressive.
This would be all of the reliable information I know about them.
Yes, you didn't say anything wrong.
However...
It doesn't answer the fundamental question of how the boxes were created.
It wasn't because of the true driving force, Geppetto...
Nor the gifted scientists...
It was coincidence.
Coincidence?
You mean they were created by chance?
Allow me to explain what he means.
Many of the great inventions and discoveries in this world
were the result of a flash of inspiration,
from something which happened to the inventor by coincidence.
A flash of inspiration?
Like the apple that fell when Newton discovered universal gravity.
Or how Nobel invented dynamite by using
Diatomaceous earth to absorb nitroglycerin.
Of course, these miracles required preparation
and the ability to capitalize on coincidence.
The ability to capitalize on coincidence...
However, such coincidences do not happen so easily.
The development of boxes involved a chain of coincidences.
What do you mean?
That's what we're investigating.
What we've learned has only deepened the mystery.
Tsunayoshi Sawada,
entertain me again tomorrow.
But keep this in mind:
Sky Flames are able to open boxes of any class,
but they cannot draw out their full potential.
Big Tsuna's hedgehog is being taken in!
There's no need to be disappointed.
Sky Boxes are said to exist.
Tetsu.
Yes.
Uh, did you see the kid?
Takeshi Yamamoto.
Not a clue.
I'm here.
Yo, kid.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Tsuna got out of there, huh?
Man, that's a relief.
We'll start up your training again, Yamamoto.
Sawada, you don't have time to rest.
You need to learn how to use Ver. Vongola Ring or Hibari will again...
He's so hopeless.
Well, he just went through that ordeal.
Guess I have no choice.
As if I'd ever say that!
You won't be able to infiltrate the Millefiore
and eliminate Irie like this!
Wake up!
Lal-san is really brutal...
Tsuna's all slappy!
Didn't she say that she quit teaching Tsuna?
What's wrong?!
Wake up, Sawada!
U-Unbelievable...
It'd be a different story if the report only came from Irie's squad.
But with the addition of Captain Gamma's report, we must trust it.
Besides, a meeting wouldn't be called with all 17 squad captains as a joke.
But this is still...
It's rather hard to believe that
the Vongola Family from the past came to this world
through time travel.
It was only possible because of Sho-chan's hard work.
He spent a long time researching the Ten-Year Bazooka.
The Ten-Year Bazooka...
That stupid bazooka from those Bovino bumpkins?
Impossible.
That is merely a fictional weapon from legend.
If you put it that way, the Vongola Deathperation Shots
were said to be legend as well.
But...
And until recently, the boxes were nothing but fantasy.
A fairy tale, even.
Even if we accept that as truth,
there are other points that are hard to swallow.
Why did you only share this information with a select group of people?
A select group of people from White Spell, no less.
Yeah!
Did you hide this information from Black Spell
because we were originally a different family?
We members of Black Spell formerly
belonged to Yuni-sama's Giglionero Family.
The members of White Spell belonged to Byakuran-sama's
new blood Gesso Family.
And so the Millefiore Family was a union of those two.
Is the boss trying to create a rift?
Don't forget that
the Giglionero have a history rivaling the Vongola.
That wasn't my intention.
Just, you should be able to see why...
You wouldn't have believed me when
I started talking about time travel.
I planned to tell you as soon as I had solid proof.
I swear, Yuni.
There's something else I can't understand.
Why did you use that technology to bring the Vongola here?
A group we were already hunting down.
You weren't satisfied with eliminating them once, boss?
You don't get it, do you?
What?
You're clueless!
Completely clueless!
About what?
The objective of this plan
wasn't the sitting ducks those young Vongola make,
but the green onions they carry.
Green onions?
The Rings! The rings! The Vongola Rings!
The Vongola Rings?
That's our Glo-kun.
He's a sharp one.
I can understand the appeal of those allegedly mighty rings...
But we already possess the Mare Rings, which are equally strong.
C-Could it be...
Ah, good, you understand now.
Yes, what I seek is the key to ultimate authority:
7³ Policy.
The seven Arcobaleno pacifiers...
The seven Mare Rings, the strongest of their kind,
and the seven Vongola Rings, which hold equal power.
When all of the above are in our hands,
we can obtain the insurmountable power.
Damn it...
I can't see anything.
What is this?
You made this.
The Storm Room of the future you had specially designed.
I did?
That's right.
Inside is a sandstorm with poor footing and visibility.
It's a re-creation of a desert storm.
But you won't be alone.
Twenty of my scorpions are inside.
Your goal is to destroy them all in one minute.
What did you say?
I have to kill one of those hard shells every three seconds?
Don't be ridiculous!
Besides...
Go ahead and hate me.
It's only natural to feel that way.
Unlike you, I am the daughter of our father and his real wife.
Why you...
Now, let's begin.
Fortunately, the future Hayato
left most of SISTEMA C.A.I. behind.
And I included some recent acquisitions.
Take them.
You should be able to understand what the future you was thinking.
Think about it.
They are...
Okay, that's good.
As expected, you're a quick study, Yamamoto.
In that case...
H-Huh?
Ah! It turned back into a bamboo sword.
You can't do a thing with an ignited Shigure Soen Ryu.
You'd be a goner if I hadn't used paint bullets.
You got that right.
Say, Yamamoto.
Do you like baseball?
Huh?
Yeah, of course.
Do you like the Mafia, then?
You mean the whole pretending to be in the Mafia thing?
He still thinks we're pretending...
Yeah, something like that.
Like the Vongola with Tsuna and Gokudera.
That's lots of fun.
Especially when you consider how impossible it is
for Hibari and Mukuro to be on the same team.
Don't forget that smile.
If you can still smile like that at the end of your training,
I swear I'll make good on my promise to tell you my secret.
Sounds great!
Okay! Don't forget!
Yuni was unsurprisingly angry.
Excuse me.
Oh, Leo-kun.
Where did you go?
You should have come to the squad captain meeting.
You would've been able to see Sho-chan, the one who referred you to us.
Ah, I'm a mere underling.
I see...
We just received an urgent message from the 11th Squad.
Four of its members were apparently assassinated.
An investigation is underway as the murders occurred
under impossible circumstances.
So the moles are making their move.
Moles?
Haven't you heard
of the Vongola's special assassination squad, the Varia?
That Varia?
Yup. No doubt.
But I guess that's a good thing.
I was trying to decide if I should send the 8th or 11th Squad to Japan,
to reinforce the efforts to obtain the Vongola Rings.
Which would you choose, Leo-kun?
Huh?
M-Me?
Th-The 11th Squad will have
difficulty moving immediately if they're up against the Varia...
In that case...
Could you tell the 8th Squad to head to Japan?
Yes, sir.
Then I shall also inform Mr. Shoichi Irie?
No, it will be better not to tell Sho-chan yet.
He hates people like the 8th Squad's captain, you know.
Tough sleazebags like Glo Xinia.
The Rings! The rings! The Vongola Rings!
To get those rings, a little bloodshed can't be avoided.
No, that's not true.
It just wouldn't be any fun without any.
Next time:
Piano of Sorrow.