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Takemitchi and Chifuyu parted their ways with the triplets and the Toman leaders. 

"So... they are your cousins?" Takemitchi asked and Chifuyu responded with a raised eyebrow, "You can't blame me! I am still in shock to see three identical faces in front of me!" he exclaimed with obvious shock written all over his face. 

"I would call them 'cousin of a cousin'," he answered. 

"Eh?" and as usual Takemitchi is having a late process in that, "They are Kiriko's direct cousin in her father's side while I am her direct cousin in her mother's side. Therefore, her cousin is a cousin of mine." Chifuyu explained. 

Takemitchi only blinked, obvious that he did not understand any of it. 

"Y-You quite lost me in there..." 

"Scratch that. Anyways, you sure you're okay in the head?" he asked now switching the topic to the faux blonde, "You went way beyond failing to read the mood." 

"Yeah, I guess so. Why'd I even say that? My heart is still pumping right hard right now." 

Chifuyu let out a small smile hearing him, "How about this?" He blocked Takemitchi's path and extended his right hand earning an, "Huh?" from Takemitchi. 

"I'll help you to become the top member of Toman. So, help me out with what I wanna do!" 

"Eh? Does that mean you think I can really be a top member in Toman?" 

"Not in the slightest." He honestly answered, "I knew it! You're making fun of me?!" Takemitchi exclaimed only to receive a smile from Chifuyu and a genuine, "But I will help you." 

Takemitchi judged Chifuyu first for offering his help and sighed accepting his offer, "Understood!" he accepted his extended hand, "I will help you out too!" 

Chifuyu smiled at him warmly, "I'm counting on you, Partner!" 

After their deal, the two blondes looked for Osanai who gave them brief information about Kisaki. They left with Osanai saying he doesn't want to be involved with Kisaki anymore.  

"Now we know one thing." Chifuyu spoke, "Valhalla's leader. The mysterious gang with no leader. Otherwise known as the headless angel. The leader no one knows... It's Kisaki Tetta!" 

"Eh?" 

"Kisaki is in Toman right now. That is why Valhalla doesn't have a leader!" Chifuyu's words are stuck on Takemitchi as he has a lot of information barging in his tiny brain unable to comprehend and understand, "Takemitchy?" Chifuyu called him when he noticed the blonde froze. But suddenly lifted his head with a whole different look on his face. Chifuyu was surprised. 

"Sorry, Chifuyu. I'm going ahead!" 

Without waiting for his reply. Takemitchi dashes away leaving the half blonde still a bit taken back by the sudden change of his expression. 

"Weird..." he mumbled, "Anyways. I need to talk with them," he said to himself talking about the Vongola. There is a possibility that they already have this information. But in this case, Chifuyu will be asked to help his Captain. 

[ October 2017 --- Present ]

After Takemitchi's conversation with his newly-found ally, Matsuno Chifuyu, a Toman 1st Squad Vice-Captain. He immediately goes back to the future to tell Naoto. They are in the Tokyo Detention Center. 

"Sorry for having you putting up my request, Naoto." 

"Don't sweat it. I'm used to it already. Anyway, what are you going to ask him this time?" Naoto asked his time-leaper partner as they arrived in the visiting room. Meeting the former Vice-President of Tokyo Manji Gang. 

"You're here again, Takemitchy?"

"Sorry to keep bothering you, Draken-kun." Draken give him a look, "Didn't I tell you to leave Tokyo?" he said and sat down on the chair facing his two visitors. 

"I just wanna ask you one more thing." Takemitchi also sat down and continue, "Twelve years ago. Do you remember the Bosozoku gang with no leader, Valhalla?" he asked. 

"Yeah," Draken answered quite fast. 

Takemitchi continued, "Was their leader... Kisaki?" Draken is a bit surprised by the question but answered nonetheless, "No, he wasn't." 

"Eh?" 

"Valhalla's leader was Mikey." He added. Takemitchi could not respond well, "Valhalla as a gang created for Mikey." 

"No way... That can't be! It's impossible! Mikey is Toman's leader, right?!" he said raising the tone of his voice. Draken looked at him confused, "Impossible? You remember too, don't you?" 

What is he talking about? I was there, too? he thought. 

"Twelve years ago, on October 31st. The Bloody Halloween. Valhalla took over Toman, and a new Tokyo Manji Gang was created with Valhalla as its parent organization. That's the one that exists today." 

Bloody Halloween? "Could that be the day of the big battle between Toman and Valhalla?" 

"Yes. Toman suffered its first defeat that day." 

"What?! Toman lost?! How could they lose with the Invincible Mikey on their side?!" Draken interrupts him, "No. It's Mikey's fault that Toman lost." 

It is hard to take. Mikey who always puts the gang first and leads them in victory, is the reason for their first defeat? 

"Mikey-kun's fault...?" he muttered. Still couldn't process what Draken just said. 

"That day..." Takemitchi looked at Draken who started to speak again, "Why didn't I realize it sooner? Mikey was just a 15 years-old kid. With an enormous cross to bear..." his voice is starting to show the tone of his regret, "That day... Mikey attacked Kazutora... and killed him." 

A deafening silence filled the small room where they are in. Takemitchi with wide shocked eyes. Like something is stuck on his throat unable to get past. He felt his knees weaken as he let himself get back on his sit, "Mikey didn't get arrested. Because... Kisaki had prepared him a decoy. Since then, Mikey's heart has fallen to darkness. Valhalla took over Toman. With Mikey as the President and Kisaki Tetta as the acting President, they grew into a huge organization." Draken stands up, "Thinking back on it now, Kisaki joined Toman... because he had his sights set on Mikey from the start." 

"Please wait for a second! Mikey-kun killed Kazutora-kun?!" he slammed both of his fists on the glass dividing him from Draken, "No way! Mikey-kun would never kill someone!" 

Draken simply looked at him with a blank expression. 

"Imagine yourself in Mikey's position. Can you be so sure you can stop yourself from killing Kazutora? He's the guy who killed his brother." Takemitchi flinched about the fact that Kazutora is the reason why Mikey's older brother died, "And on that day... Baji was killed in front of his eyes and Kiriko on the arms of Milim with a knife on her chest." 

Takemitchi who is now lost his strength let his arms fall down with his expression still showing his horrified look, "Kazutora-kun killed Baji-kun? And Hibari-san... stabbed in the chest?" he is trembling. But only to receive a cold look from Draken.

"You were there too, weren't you." a scene where Mikey is standing on the top of the lifeless body of Kazutora with his bloodied hands appeared on Takemitchi's mind. What is this vision?  Takemitchi is not in himself. Draken get back on his cell while Naoto escorted Takemitchi. 

"Tachibana." he turn around when Draken called him. The man looked at him with no change in his expression, "Take Takemitchy away from Tokyo." he said to him before the police pushed him slightly to go. Naoto couldn't reply to his pleading. The two left the Tokyo Detention Center with Takemitchi still in shock. His head hanging low slowly walking behind Naoto. Before he stops. 

"Mikey-kun is not the type of guy who would kill someone," he said that sounds like convincing himself, "I know that... I believe that... But after talking with Draken-kun, it flashes in my mind! The vision of what happened that day!" He looks at his palms, "I don't know why it happened, but my mind just overflowed with memories I shouldn't have!" Tears welling up in his eyes but he doesn't care, "Baji-kun, lying on the ground. Kazutora-kun... even Hibari-san with a stab on her heart! Then Mikey-kun is covered in blood... I can't tell if it's all real!" 

Naoto looked at him. He wants to comfort his partner. But he has no idea how to. His memories are being rewritten, just like what he experienced when Takemitchi is time leaping. Those are the results of his time-leaping, the consequences he must face in exchange for having this ability. 

"But..." his eyes goes back to Takemitchi, "Mikey-kun looked so sad!" His tears started to fall from his eyes, "I must save Mikey-kun!" he cried. Having the urge to change this future. 

After Takemitchi's outburst. Naoto pulled him to go back to his apartment to discuss it. The moment they entered the apartment, they did not waste any more of the time and proceeded on their discussion. 

"The Bloody Halloween battle ended in Toman's defeat. They lost because Sano Manjiro killed Hanemiya Kazutora and Kisaki Tetta plotted it all. Sano killed Hanemiya because Hanemiya..." 

"... killed Baji-kun, Mikey-kun's best friend!" Takemitchi finished, "In that case, I'll save Baji-kun. If I do that, I can stop Mikey-kun from making that big mistake!" 

"Not quite. Remember." Naoto pointed and Takemitchi knows it as well, "Hibari-san's death... just what happened to her? She is not even part of Toman. She should not be involved at the first place!" 

"I tried to search about Hibari Kiriko's death. But the only report that I collected is the weapon used to strike in her heart killing her in the process. The first ones to discover her body are Milim Nava, Sano Emma, and my sister, Tachibana Hinata." 

Takemitchi looked at Naoto baffled, "Hina?!" 

Naoto nodded, "I remember it. My sister came back home weeping about a friend of hers who died. She is not on herself for a month and eventually copes with saying that her friend won't like it if she will get so lonely. Something about her friend visited her in her dreams that became her push to move on." 

"But how did she die?" 

"That, is I don't know." 

Takemitchi felt his knees weaken for the second time. His hands on his head trying to find a way to save the girl. 

"How will I save her?" he asked himself way too stressed out in the situation. He knows how to prevent Baji's death. But nothing will change if he could not stop Hibari's death. 

"Who is this Hibari Kiriko to Sano Manjiro?" Naoto asked him. Takemitchi recalls the time he has seen the dark-haired girl with purple peculiar eyes together with the Toman's leader.

"Hibari-san is friends with Mikey-kun. It also looks like Mikey-kun has taken a liking to her." 

"Then she is Sano's potential love interest." Takemitchi blinked in confusion at the term he heard from the mouth of his detective friend, "Don't look at me like that. I heard that term on my sister." he sighed the get back to the topic. 

"If it is the case. Then her death does really weighs on Mikey turning evil and Toman being what it is now." 

Takemitchi's brain has been squeezed already. He has no brain juice to continue thinking. But his mind still refuses to stop. He wants to find a solution as much as possible before he gets back in the past. 

"We have no data about her death... that is suspicious." the detective muttered, "It feels like someone is covering her death." He looked at the constipated-looking-Takemitchi, "Hey, do you know someone who is close enough to Hibari Kiriko?" he asked that cut off Takemitchi's concentration. 

He tried to remember, "Chifuyu is her cousin... and before I time to leap back in here. I met three of her other cousins as well. She is also close with Nava-san." he said to him.

"Nava-san will be crossed in the list." 

Takemitchi looked at him confused, "Why?" 

Naoto put up another photograph on the whiteboard, "Milim Nava, an Italian orphan. She moved to Japan under her legal guardian, Hibari Kyoya. After Bloody Halloween, she disappeared. Since then she's been out of contact." 

Takemitchi abruptly stands up, "Nava-san is missing?!" 

"She might be or she might not be." 

"What do you mean, Naoto?!" 

Naoto turns his body facing him, "I am saying that she must have purposely left Shibuya. Since you met them personally. You must have an idea why she would leave." he said. Then Takemitchi realizes what he meant. Milim Nava is always on Hibari Kiriko's side. Of course, she wouldn't bear to be in a place where her best friend died. Or hang out with the gang that involves her death. 

"I already searched about the other three you are saying and it seems like they are out of our reach." 

"Huh?" Naoto showed the screen of his laptop, "The Hibari Triplets; Hibari Kota the eldest, Hibari Ryuuji the second eldest and Hibari Ouzou the youngest are all living in Italy." 

"Then, Chifuyu is our last resort." 

Naoto continues to click the keyboard of his laptop. His attention is fully immersed in what he is doing and Takemitchi wondering, trying to peak from behind. But also stopped when he managed to spot some words that are quite hard for his pea brain. 

"I found his address," Naoto announced and grab his coat in the rack. Takemitchi watches him. He glared at the time leaper, "Let's go." he said that snapping him from the confusion and also grabbing his jacket and following Naoto. 

"Where are we going, Naoto?" 

"Where else? To find how did Hibari Kiriko die." He opened the door of his car and looked at the cobalt-blue-eyed time leaper. The stress is visible on his face and how swollen his eyes are, "We are going to meet up with Matsuno Chifuyu." 

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𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙚!

 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨, 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚, 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩.

𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤. 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙄 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙖𝙡𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙖𝙧𝙘 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙨.

𝙢𝙮 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩---

𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣! 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙖 𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨--- 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙄 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩. 𝙃𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖. 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠! 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚. 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙏𝙍 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 (𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙭 𝙊𝘾 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙛) 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮. 𝙎𝙤 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙝, 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙤𝙤𝙤 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖. 

𝙨𝙤, 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙝, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨. 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙛 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 (𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙝𝙪) 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩.