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Hundred Third Explosion

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[Well, as some of you might recall, Haruki Suzumiya has been MIA for the better part of this whole affair so far. But now, finally, he's made a full recovery. A full recovery and... he's gone back to his house to confirm that things have recovered. He's inspecting it inside and out so you might happen across him during that, particularly if you're Neku or Shiki.

But aside from that, after he's half-way through this inspection he flips open the journal and-]

Oi, guys, I'm back. [...It's useless to say "did he miss anything" right? Just glancing at the entries while he was out shows he did] So everyone report in.

[Because we wants to make sure everyone's okay]

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I'm not powerless, don't be stupid!

Mu~, then how come a quake was capable of taking you down?

See? I always knew you weren't fitted to lead a mafia family. [Even if the SOS Brigade isn't a mafia family. It's not as if the Vongola started as a mafia family either at first.]

Good thing the Brigade isn't the mob, huh?

Just for the moment. It's not as if most of the mafia families start as a mafia right from the start.

[She knows her lessons.]

Yeah well it's not going to be one either. What's the point in that?

Money, fame, fun, pretty things... And protect the family, of course.

[It's just that money is far more important than protecting anyone.]

...Yeah? Well putting it that way it sounds good but the whole outlaw part's a bit of a hassle, isn't it?

[She snorts at that.]

What laws? Laws made by other people just because they were in charge at the right time. Laws that protect people without morals and that leave our families helpless.

Mafia has laws too and no one gets around those laws, unlike with those other laws. Besides, there's no law here, is there? But there are tons of dangers to our families here, you really are okay with just sit and wait for one of those 'heroes' to come and take out the guy who killed a member of your family? What for? A week until they return and threaten your family again? At the very least if you take care of it yourself you will know you're enough of a man to protect them next time, mu~.

[She talks proudly and seriously. Mafia is serious business after all.]

...What, is the Brigade your family now?

Mu~, I already have a family to take care of and lead once I grow up back in my world. But it's customary for each head of the family to get their "own" family, not just inherit it. It allows the family to grow up, become stronger and the lead to have people they can truly trust helping them.

[She shrugs.]

The Brigade should be your family, you created it. But as I would want you to be one of the members of my family they all are taken in by default as well. It's not new for a Vongola Guardian to have their own organization or family after all.

[...Whoa whoa wait. Wasn't Varia the people she chilled with next door? Vongola sounds familiar though, so it must be... the thing Tsuna was the head of, maybe? Okay, so it's not the normal Mammon, probably, if this wasn't already obvious (unless she's just screwing with him) but either way he does consider this. He wonders, idly, if the real Mammon thinks like this ever]

...Yeah, well. I can consider things like that, I guess. You're due to be the head?

[He should ask one day. Only way to know it, but even the greediest of the Arcobaleno knows the values of the Mafia world and family and how to respect a pact. Even one she hates.]

I told you already, didn't I? I'll be Vongola Decimo Primo as soon as my papa retires or dies. Whatever happens first.

[Pause.]

I don't like it but I almost hope he dies for it, grandfather is going to retire and he's surely taking his sweet time for it. I would like to be less than forty once I become the head of the family, mu~. There's still a long time for it though.

[ . . . ]

[He nods. This is interesting - does that mean the normal Mammon failed or she was just born somewhere else? ...Hm. He thinks about this and then- okay, he can roll with this]

That's lucky of you. I mean, to be born there.

[Viper blinks, she's not the type to ever wonder 'what if's.]

I guess so? Certainly it makes life easy, to have all the money one could want, the fame, the pretty things... Not to mention that every day is interesting and unique. There's only one more thing I could ask of all of it and it's just more of it all.

[Yep, pretty satisfied with her life here.]

That's why I still think you should just accept the Brigade as a mafia family. It certainly fits all the requirements. Or most of them at least, and it would make things easier once I find the Malnosso and get them to send you all back to my world with me to be part of my family.

[Kidnapping through worlds, the new mafia thing.]

[...Seriously. Seriously- he has flashbacks to that incident... with the Closed Space. But he shakes it off, no that was a failure. But wow. To think Mammon could ever be like this in any unique- the thought amazes him, honestly]

...Right. Well. I'll consider that, like I said.

[It's just another form of greed, wanting everything she can get and wanting to keep it no matter what. Even if it means taking them away from their homes and families. This Viper may accept it as friendship, the usual Mammon though will declare that no feelings are really attached and that it's just bothersome to have been part of the Brigade and not get profit or anything special from it upon returning home.

Then again, the normal Mammon is dead in her world so she prefers to stay there. And have them trapped there with her.]

Mu~... So? What's today's plan?

...I dunno yet. [He was just surveying damages for now, he hadn't thought that far ahead... he also wanted to make sure everyone was still in one piece ~~hurr hurr~~ but...]

I'll think of something later.

Tch, boo~~ring. And here I was hoping you would have some ideas.

[Oh well, she supposes she can let him be a bit after all the things that have happened...]

Do you need help?

[She's just bored enough to offer.]

- Oi, you can still teleport, right?

[He might have an idea in that case]

What do you mean "still"? You know I'm a psychic, of course I can teleport.

Then I need you to survey some caves for me.

Mu~, surveying doesn't sound very fun....

But okay. What caves do you want me to check?

There should be a network along the edge of the mountains north of the village. Looking for one which'll give way to a large-ish underground network.

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