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It was morning. The sunrise from the east, welcoming a new and peaceful day for normal people. But for the delinquents, today a special event will happen.

Milim is still sleeping when Kiriko head to where her motorbike is being parked. She told Kusakabe that she will be scouting the area that the 1st Corps reported which he allowed to. Now, Kiriko is on her way, wearing a black polo crop top with a ribcage high-waisted denim short and a black all-star high cut converse. Over her crop top is a black combat jacket that is a bit lose to her for easy movement. Her hair is tied into a ponytail since she is riding her Ducati Monster S4R.

She is alone. Well, it's not that she is a kid to be monitored. She can handle herself. She is not the Cloud Division's Vice-Commander for nothing.

She arrived in the abandoned lot where the Ono, her Vice-Captain in the First Corps sent from his report. She called him using the Vongola's Watch since the flip phone is not very useful in this kind of intercom.

"Are you on your way?" Kiriko asked the moment her Vice-Captain answered the call.

"Captain! We might get late. There is a concern on one of the hatches and we are currently dealing with it." He reported and then apologize for being late in the scouting.

"We can't do anything with it. I'll go ahead and check. You three just catch up with me in here. I have a place to go after lunch."

"Roger, Captain. Be careful."

Since the three will be late. Kiriko parked her motorbike, making sure it is locked, and walk in the middle of the abandoned lot. It sure doesn't look abandoned at all, more on empty.

"Underneath, huh." She whispered to herself as she let her feet feel the ground, looking for a different footing that might be the entrance.

She mentally laughed at the thought that the Yllona's intentionally created a passageway or an entrance that connects in random places. The Vongola Hideouts have multiple entrances and exits since it is convenient for the members that are staying in the base.

Of course, entering is not that easy. The security system is something that Vongola is one of their proud systems. Identification is needed to be able to enter. If the system did not recognize you, then you will get sent straight to the Pit of Judgement where you will be interrogated by their Commander who enjoys biting people who dared to trespass. It is his playtime after all.

Kiriko is quite worried about this kind of attitude that her brother is having. He enjoys fighting too much that when he and the Mist Guardian somehow pass through each other in a random place— the two won't hesitate to reveal their weapons and try to kill each other. But she knows that her brother is not that too kind of a person.

Since their childhood, their parents taught them that we must grow up strong, strong enough to stand by our own feet and fight those who will wrong us. Protecting ourselves is the main priority. Do not lose in any weaker enemies.

Kyo-nii does really follow Father's morals. she thought as her older brother really grew up having a mindset that he is a carnivore and all other weaker beings than him will be a herbivore in his eyes. The very first person whom he called an omnivore is the Vongola Boss, Sawada Tsunayoshi who happens to be the Vongola Decimo.

She felt a sharp feeling coming on her head. She jumped in instinct as she saw knives being struck on the ground, supposed to be on her head if she did not react on time. She lifted her head to see who throw her the knives and saw a young man with black hair that covers his eyes and hangs around his neck. 

"Hmm, you dodged that, huh," he said and claps his hands, "Great! I would be very sad if you died in that kind of half-hearted attack." 

Who? Kiriko calmed herself despite the shock of the sudden attack. She didn't feel any killing intent coming towards her if the wind did not blow enough for her to feel something different that is charging towards her head. If her reaction is not enough, her head is already been spiked by these knives. 

"Who are you?" she asked the man who smirked, "Me? Hmm. Not that it matters to you since you won't be getting out alive in here," he said taunting the girl in front of him who simply did not show any care at all. 

He laughed, "Hahaha! Oh my god! The rumors about the Cloud Fairy Reaper are true after all! That gaze, the eyes that did not seem to care! A bored look that everyone got haunted! Hahahahaha!" he continued to laugh while Kiriko is trying to see what she can use against him while analyzing the man's abilities. 

First, his weapon is knives. He might still be hiding another one. She needs to be careful. 

Second, is this person stronger than her? She doesn't know. She couldn't feel anything to him. He feels... normal. But he called her as the Cloud's Fairy Reaper. That is enough to confirm that he is affiliated with the mafia or an organization that seeks the downfall of Vongola. 

"Don't worry," his laughter faded as he let out a creepy smile, that made the young girl flinch at the sudden tension that is leaking from the man, "I'll give you a lot of fun. So that you won't get bored! Well, you really won't since---" his eyes became darker and wild mist flames appeared on the knives that are in his possession, "--- YOU WILL BE SCREAMING WHILE DYING!" he declared and the wild mist flames became much wilder than the previous one. Kiriko cursed under her breath. 

She can't fight in this area. There are some residential homes around that might get dragged in the fight. This guy's flames are out of control--- 

Wait... she blinked at the realization, out of control?

She looked at the man who is still laughing, not having a care in the world if a bystander suddenly appears and sees a man being in flame. 

"HAHAHAHAHA! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW YOUR BORED EXPRESSION WILL TURN INTO! SCREAM IN PAIN! SCREAM! I WANNA HEAR YOUR SCREAM WHILE DYING!" 

He is in the same state as that guy from the Yllona Tokyo Base invasion. She remembered talking about the Commander who reacted the same way as the man in front of her. She did not waste her time by thinking only as she prepare herself in a stance, carefully waiting for the enemy's next move. 

Out of blue, she felt a sting on her cheeks and a warm thick liquid flowing from the wound. 

"Huh?" she couldn't react. Her eyes widen in shock. How did it happen? She didn't feel him moving--- 

She immediately defends herself from the incoming knives that are approaching her in the side. Using her fast reflexes to dodge it. She jumped backward landing on the ground and kicked the last knife that sneak on her front. Kiriko used this opportunity to charge towards the man who is still getting burned with his dying will flames. 

Kiriko felt a sting pain, grazing her skin from the number of knives that are flying towards her. She tried to run and noticed that the knives are marked on her. Which means they will only stop if they will hit their target. She ignited her cloud flames on her Cloud ring and summoned her scythe from her box weapon. Using the scythe as a medium, she changed the direction of the knives and made them hit in a sharp object, staying them in place. At the moment, she is also attempting to get close to the owner of the knives. 

"IT IS STILL TOO EARLY FOR YOU TO SHOW YOUR BOX WEAPON! I AM SO HONORED!" 

She reached the man, used her scythe to cut an entrance to the flame, and kicked the man on the gut, making him grunt and fall on his knees. Then Kiriko followed another kick on his nape, making sure she will fall unconscious from the nerve she just kicked. The dying flame settled down the moment its flame user is down. The knives fell down on the ground as well as the man. 

Kiriko sighed in disappointment that she had to summon her box weapon for him. Usually, she would deal with it without using her box weapon but using a dying will flame if the opponent is using the same. Of course, since dying will flame can only be extinguished if you are using a dying will flame as well.  

His flame... Kiriko noticed it. The abnormality of his flames. If her memory is not failing her. This is the very reason why they are being sent to Japan. The main objective of her brother's Foundation is to find out the cause of the abnormality of dying will flames that led already to 40% of deaths all because of this abnormality. Some of them couldn't cope up with the sudden rise of their temperature and died because of it. Some of them enter the stage of human combustion, where their resolves did not withhold their flames and used their bodies to help up.  

The man she fought with somehow managed not to be one of those two. She managed to make him pass out before he could even reach that stage. 

"I need to report this---" her eyes widen in surprise. 

A sudden pain hit her chest. A blazing feeling is struck from the tip of something sharp. 

"Bingo!" she heard someone say. She tried tilting her head to see who it was. A man again, now with a patchwork face and heterochromia where his left eye is dark blue and his right eye is gray. He has long grayish-blue hair that reaches past his neck and stitches all over his body that give him the appearance that he was sewn together.

"Hmm... you reacted late for 5 seconds. If you moved 5 seconds early, you wouldn't have that knife," he said mockingly. 

She looked at her chest, where a knife was being stuck on it. The puncturing sensation and the stickiness of blood overwhelm her whole being. She winced when she felt something else that the knife is coated with. Her hands is getting cold, she kneeled beside the unconscious man while panting for air. Trying to calm her breathing to stop the bleeding. 

"You will bleed to death." the man started to talk, "You will bleed to death while I am watching you hold on to your life." he started walking towards her, slowly with a mocking grin plastered on his sewing face. 

"How ironic it is! You have a brother who always bites people to death, and here you are!" Like a child who got a present on his birthday, he jumped in joy, "BLEEDING TO DEATH!" he finished with a pose. Kiriko is trying not to move. Minimizing the bleeding at least a bit. 

"C-Contact," she whispered enough for her Vongola System to respond. Now contacting the Cloud Headquarters. 

"Hey, do you know how annoying your brother is?" he then said, "He always thinks that he is the best. That he is the strongest." he started gritting his nails, "It's his fault that I got in that hell." Kiriko frowned as the man started to mumble something while walking towards her. 

"It's all his fault... Hibari... Hibari Kyoya ruined me!" then he started banging his head in the air with both of his hands on his ears, "THEY RUINED ME! THAT HIBARI KYOYA RUINED ME!" she could not understand what he is saying anymore. The wound feels like burning and cold beads of sweat form on her forehead down to her neck. The searing pain is starting to be difficult to tolerate. She is also losing a lot of blood. She performed a breathing technique to it down, but it is getting harder to concentrate. 

"HIBARI KYOYA AND THOSE MASKS FUCKERS! I WILL BRING THEM DOWN TO THE SAME PAIN THEY TORTURED TO ME!" he looks at the girl in front of her who is doing her best to stay conscious, "How are you feeling?" he asked then kneeled in front of her, "It hurts, didn't it?" knowing that the girl could not answer as she is pre-occupied with her breathing to slow down her loss of blood. 

"I experienced worst in the Vindice Prison," he said that shocked Kiriko. 

Vindice?! 

The masked guards protect the laws of the mafia world. Those who said to defy their laws are said to be arrested without hesitation and doomed to spend their lives in the Vindice Prison. The only person that Kiriko knows who managed to escape in that prison is the Mist Guardian, Rokudo Mukuro. 

If he is telling the truth. Then he escaped from the Vindice Prison. 

The man lifted another knife, much sharper than the ones that are stuck on Kiriko's back straight on her chest. He traced the tip of the knife on her neck, "Wondering why I have this patchwork?" he slightly put pressure on Kiriko's jaw, grazing it and blood slowly flowing to the knife and her neck to the handle. 

"Do you... want to know how? It could be a new fashion trend!" he said joyfully. Then his eyes turned sharp, his eyes staring straight to Kiriko's purple orbs, with his other hand on her neck, slightly choking the girl and a knife that he is slowly putting pressure on her neck. 

"If I can't defeat, Hibari Kyoya... I start with the younger ones, right?" 

That is what he said before he pushed the tip of the knife deeper into her neck. She is starting to lose her consciousness. The stab wound on her back the knife still intact, hand choking her neck and a knife with it. She needs to stay awake. But her eyes are betraying her. She couldn't hear anything. The man is still blabbering about something, mentioning Hibari, particularly her older brother. 

Kyo-nii... she couldn't believe that a man who is trying to get revenge on him actually attacked her. What time is it already?... she thought as she remembers that she and Milim will go together to the junkyard, I don't think I'll last longer... 

someone... 

just help me and I'll give this fucker a taste of death. 

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𝙄 𝘼𝙈 𝙎𝙊 𝙎𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙔 𝙄𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙄𝙎 𝘽𝙇𝘼𝙉𝘿. 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙩. 𝙃𝙚𝙝𝙚, 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧. 𝙄 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩! 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 :) 𝙄 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙩!

𝘼𝙡𝙨𝙤, 𝙄'𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙪𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚? 𝙄'𝙢 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙪𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚, 10-11. 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙝, 𝙄'𝙢 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖. 𝙃𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧! 𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚!