It was dead silent until Sora and Kakeru laughed at the same time. Sora's laughter didn't hold the evil in Kakeru's cackle though. They stopped short and glared at each other promising painful death to each other.

Sora then threw it off and smiled at Tsuna. "What an idiot, right? Tsu-nii." Sora chuckled, momentarily forgetting the bloody stakes on his feet. Tsuna didn't respond. Leaving the half mask on his face, he looked at his bleeding foot, which he had forcefully tore a metal nail out of it, taking a few hard steps then deciding it wouldn't kill him.

He walked over to Sora, but was stopped in his tracks by Iemitsu. "Tsuna...what is the meaning of this...?"

Tsuna didn't respond. It was Sora who did. "It's your own bloody fault for believing a fake like Kakeru! And then you treated your own son like shit! Have you no shame, you stupid dick!"

"Why on earth does he have such colorful vocabulary? Dame-Tsuna, did you teach him that?" Kakeru asked. Tsuna sighed and shook his head, then he turned his attention to Iemitsu.

"This is nothing out of the ordinary." he said. "You just knew nothing about me."

At that, Tsuna completely dropped interest in Iemitsu and turned to Kakeru. "You should know what's going to happen, now that you've awakened."

Kakeru sighed. "Fuck it. With me awakened, I'm invincible."

"No, you're not." Tsuna said.

Kakeru grumbled. Tsuna continued. "There's only one thing that can stop you now, after the ones who sealed you have disappeared. That's coming this very moment."

Kakeru groaned. "Well, I guess nothing is perfect..."

Sora's brain suddenly processed something. "Wait, something could actually stop the damn bastard?"

Tsuna and Kakeru nodded. "The Vindice."

Sora was confused. "Wait, why?"

"Because the Vindice have those flames, and somehow they repel the effects of his powers." Tsuna explained.

Sora was bewildered. Those flames? Does he mean the flames of the Night? And how can those flames repel the effects of this overpowering Kakeru?

"Like I give a fucking damn. I'm finally free after all these years, and I want to STAY free." Kakeru said. They weren't surprised at the answer.

Sora smirked. "That's what we were hoping for."

Kakeru glanced to the side to find a fist connecting with his face. He cringed for a while.

"You might have the power, but it doesn't matter if you don't use it before you get hit." Sora said, smirk glorious on his face.

Tsuna cracked his knuckles, completely removing his torn jacket. Kakeru groaned and a few knives, Belphegor's, flew at Tsuna. Tsuna narrowly avoided each one. Then Sora punched him from behind.

"My hands are still free, y'know." Sora reminded. And all of a sudden two nails flew down and staked his hands to the ground. "OW!" Sora yelled, a little sarcastically. The pain was obvious in his face, but he shined a crooked smile.

"Never turn your back on an enemy. We've told you that, right?" Tsuna was behind him, a long katana from who-knows-where pointed at Kakeru's throat. "You can kill me if you want. No guarantee I won't be able to kill you before I die."

Kakeru 'tch'ed. They were interrupted by a dark, black mist. They all knew in that instant.

The Vindice was here.

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Emerging through the mist were the bandaged figures. They walked up to 27, Sora and Kakeru. Neither did anything for a good minute.

"Kakeru, the failed Chimera." what the Vindice said obviously irked him.

"Being a failed Chimera gave me my power, so why not?" Kakeru snapped back.

"We have overlooked you for too long."

Kakeru clenched his fist. He knew what this meant. He took a deep breath and looked to the sky. He spread his wings and zoomed upwards.

The Vindice extended their chains and successfully managed to wrap itself around Kakeru's leg. Before he could react, Kakeru was dragged to the ground, like a sparrow caught in a trap.

Kakeru cursed and tried prying off the chain, but it was stuck tight. His powers didn't work either. The chain was tinted with flames of the Night.

He cursed louder and made his decision. Before they knew it, Kakeru cut off his leg. He casually flapped his wings again. This time he didn't fly up. Another chain erected towards him, but it was deflected by something like an invisible wall.

"I've set a barrier around me. Even the Vindice would be held back for a while." he said.

There was no hesitation in the Vindice. "Does that not mean you yourself would not be able to move? Even if you could, you won't go anywhere with that injury."

Kakeru simply sat down and breathed out. "What injury might you be talking about?" he asked. His leg was still there, normal as before. "I'm a Chimera." he reminded. "One second is enough for me to escape."

By the time the Vindice realized what he was planning, a tear ripped through the space beside him, opening a path to a black abyss. Kakeru stepped in moments before his barrier dissolved, and the portal sealed itself.

The Vindice barely reacted, "He ran away into the rift between space." Bermuda said.

Sora grumbled while Tsuna didn't say anything and walked over to him. Tsuna mercilessly tore out the stakes in Sora's feet and examined his injuries.

He picked out a few bandages and wrapped it around them for now. Then he pushed him into a sitting position and walked over to the Vindice. "Where is Cielo?" Tsuna asked.

The black mist shrouded them again, and appearing, limp on the floor unconscious was a boy with white hair. He was soaking wet, shivering, as if he had just witnessed the most horrifying scene ever upon being dunked into water.

His eyes never opened, but he didn't stop coughing blood. When he finally stopped, all he did was hug himself, fringe shadowing his eyes, not even bothering to stand up or dry himself off. Chain marks were visible on his arms and feet.

"W-What did you do to him?" Tsuna couldn't avoid a stutter. He couldn't even process what had happened. This was beyond his calculations.

"Nothing." Bermuda answered.

"We had to do it." Jaeger admitted., making Tsuna's attention rise again. "Or he would've killed himself."

Sora was shocked beyond words. Tsuna gulped. "Explain." he demanded.

Bermuda sighed. "We realized soon enough that we had no information on a male named Oozora Ten." he said. "That was when the many system malfunction and hackings started."

Tsuna listened, keeping an eye on Sora to make sure he doesn't suddenly ambush Bermuda. "The hacker didn't leave any clues, so we soon realized it wasn't a hacker at all." he said.

Tsuna silently walked over to where Sora was, keeping an eye on Bermuda. "It was an AI. But the number of AI close enough to hack into our security base was zero."

Bermuda stopped for a second. "We remembered that one male that had this power." Tsuna gulped. "A male that died a long time ago, that went by the name, Cielo di Vongola."

Tsuna clenched his fist as Sora's eyes widened. "It was impossible, but knowing Oozora Ten was an Estraneo test subject, anything was possible."

Sora started to stand up but was stopped by Tsuna. "It wasn't long after that, which Oozora Ten broke out of his cell, and in his condition, did nothing but destroy."

Bermuda said. This time Tsuna had to resort to pressuring Sora's wound to stop him. "When we found him, he had almost killed himself."

Tsuna looked at them. "Then what did you do?"

"We had him chained up. He did the rest himself." Bermuda said.

"You-! Like hell I'd believe that!" Sora yelled.

"We have a hunch on what he saw on our information." Bermuda continued on, ignoring Sora. "And that information," Bermuda stopped and gulped. "Completely broke him."