Katekyo Hitman Reborn! 253

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[TN: After returning from Japan, completing a hellish assignment (including losing about two hundred words in a crash and having to retype them from scratch), taking a breather and getting somewhat addicted to Tales of VS, I'm finally back and getting down to work on my backlog! Installment 5: two chapters of Reborn!]

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Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Target 253: The Phalaenopsis Paradox (2)
[Insert text: Deep in a forest sleeps a certain Mafia coffin... // This is the place where this "Future Story" all began...]

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[Insert text: Shouichi reveals Byakuran's terrifying ability...!!]
Ryouhei: I don't get it! // I don't get it to the extreme!! // He can share his knowledge with his selves in parallel worlds?! What does that mean?! // What's really so incredible about him?!
Irie: As I told you just now, the parallel worlds created from the many "possibilities" can create numerous different types of futures... // A future in which military science saw huge advances... // A future in which ancient civilisations were successfully excavated... // A future in which medical technology hugely developed... // Ordinarily, people can live in only a single world, and so can only experience one of these, but Byakuran-san has experienced, and has knowledge from, every one of those futures...

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Reborn: In other words, he can take the best of every world.
Tsuna: The best of every...?
Reborn: He's experiencing every single possibility. // Just try putting all that knowledge and experience to use in other parallel worlds. // There's no greater weapon in this world than information. / He holds a huge advantage in life over everyone else.
Tsuna: ...A huge... // ...advantage...
Reborn: He can do things that should be impossible.
Irie: Precisely... // Byakuran-san has used the knowledge he gained in parallel worlds... // ...to produce vaccines that have yet to be developed... // ...uncover royalty that lay hidden in the shadows... // ...assisted in the development of weapons that could not have been created without many hundreds of "coincidental" discoveries... // ...completing them at a terrifying speed...

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Reborn: But Byakuran only became aware of this ability a short while ago, surely. // It shouldn't be possible to accomplish this much in such a short space of time.
Irie: ...That's because... over the course of my time-travels, I ended up making even the past Byakuran-san become aware of his abilities...
Gokudera: ?! // The past...?!
Tsuna: Huh? // Wh... What do you mean?
Irie: During one of my trips, one of Byakuran-san's underlings planted a transmitter on me before I returned to the past... // ...which sent a message to the past Byakuran-san...
Tsuna: So Byakuran has been able to use this ability for ten whole years?
Irie: That's right.
Ryouhei: Irie!! What on Earth were you doing that whole time?!! // Did you just leave him to it, knowing very well what he was up to?!!
Tsuna: Onii-san...!!
Ryouhei: ......

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Irie: I had lost my memories...
Tsuna: Huh?!
People: ?!
Irie: On my eighth trip to the future... // Thanks to a device prepared by my future self...
Flashback!Irie: ?
Irie: ...all of my memories pertaining to time travel and Byakuran-san were destroyed... for five whole years...
Tsuna: F - Five years?! // Why did the future Shouichi-kun do a thing like that?
Irie: To defeat Byakuran-san, of course. // My future self had concocted a plan to have his past self pose as an ally of Byakuran-san's in order to take him down... // In order to accomplish this goal, he eliminated my memories, so that I would not possess any unnecessary hostility towards Byakuran-san, not seem suspicious, before sending me to approach him...

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Irie: Upon returning to the past, I found a letter planted by my own future self... // It contained a number of orders for me to follow... // It also contained a number of secrets I wouldn't want anybody to know, so I had no choice but to obey...
[Letter: The name of the girl you like is]
Irie: It was the orders written in that letter... // ...that led me to fire the 10-Year Bazooka at all of you...
Gokudera: You shot us without knowing anything?
Irie: That's right... // And following the letter's advice, I entered a foreign university... // ...and became friends with Byakuran-san. // Ironically enough, those were the happiest days of my life... // It was then that we created the game of Choice... // But then the five years expired... // ...and I remembered everything.

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Irie: All about those terrifying time-travel experiences, and those ruined futures... // What's more, I knew that Byakuran-san was the cause of it all, and that my mission was to stop him... I was thrown into a panic... // After a while, I managed to form the necessary resolve to act as a spy... // ...but once I got down to analysing my own memories and everything that was currently happening in this world, I came to understand the situation in which my own world stood, and was terrified once more. // Because of all of the possible parallel worlds that existed...
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Irie: ...the world in which I lived was the only one that had not been annihilated by Byakuran-san.
People: Huh?! // What?!
Tsuna: But these parallel worlds... // There are huge numbers of them, right?
Ryouhei: You're saying that every single possibility outside of this one... // ...has fallen to Byakuran!!

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Irie: That's absolutely correct... // Five years ago, the chances of averting Byakuran-san's world conquest were eight trillion to one...
People: Eight trillion?!
Irie: To put it a different way, those were the chances of a parallel world not already conquered existing. // And the world that fulfilled those miraculous conditions... // ...that one world in eight trillion... was here... // In other words, amongst the infinite parallel worlds that exist, this world alone... // ...holds the possibility of Byakuran-san being defeated!!
Tsuna: But that's just...
Reborn: It's because this was the world your future self had created by sending orders back to you.
Irie: That's not the only reason...

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Irie: It was also the only world... // ...in which I had happened to meet you, Tsunayoshi-kun.
Tsuna: M... Me?!
Irie: In your third year of middle school, I fix a puncture on your bike's tyre... // And that's why miraculously... // ...in this world, the Vongola Boxes... // ...would ultimately be created...

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Reborn: And that's why this is the only chance we have to defeat Byakuran.
Irie: Yes. // In all the other worlds, the Trinisette must have been stolen, and the Vongola Family annihilated...
Chrome: ......
Ryouhei: Annihilated...
Gokudera: Come to think of it... // The Lambo from 20 years on, who appeared during our fight with the Varia...
Flashback!20YearLambo: To think that I would meet all of you once more... // It takes me back, seeing all of your faces... it really does...
Tsuna: I... I see... // That's because in the parallel world he came from, twenty years on, we were all dead...!! // ! // Wait... // I've already been killed in this world as well......

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Irie: That's not true, Tsunayoshi-kun.
Tsuna: !!
Irie: The bullet that was used when you were shot by the Millefiore was a "Special Bullet". // Like the Dying Will Bullets; I substituted it myself, to place you into an apparently-dead state.
Tsuna: !! // Then that coffin......
Irie: Simply a piece of camouflage, put in place to avoid enemy suspicion......
Tsuna: !!
Gokudera: ...The Tenth... // ...is alive.........
Irie: He may have been apparently dead... // ...but I know he was waiting inside that coffin for you to arrive in happy anticipation.
Tsuna: !
Irie: He said something to me the day before his execution...
Flashback!10YearTsuna: It won't be long before that old 'me', who possessed so many possibilities... // ...finally arrives.

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Tsuna: Huh?!
Irie: Certainly, in terms of experience, physical ability and knowledge, you are no match for your self from this time... // ...but he believed that it was his self from that time, living his everyday life with his friends, who possessed more potential for growth and more unpredictability than any other. // That it was you... // ...who possessed the greatest possibility of defeating Byakuran.
Reborn: I can certainly agree with that. // The growth all of you have shown has brought about any number of miracles.
Tsuna: ...Then my future self really... // ...wanted us to come here...?
Irie: That's right... It wasn't just Byakuran-san, with his aim of the Vongola Rings, who was waiting for you to arrive... // The people who wanted you all here more than any others were the Tsunayoshi-kun of this time, and myself!!

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Reborn: ......The chosen Tsuna and friends... // ...and the chosen time...
Tsuna: ...It was pretty complicated, and I don't think I got it completely...... // But I definitely understood that last part... // But after all that... // We lost... // Not even knowing just how much that loss really meant...
Byakuran: Yup! // You finally lost!♪

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Byakuran: Even though you know me so well... // A pity, isn't it?
Tsuna: Byakuran!!
Byakuran: In the end, there isn't a single world where you can beat me. // You'd better keep your promise, now. // I'll be taking all the Vongola Rings... and let's see. What should I do with you?
Irie: Wait... please! // We made another promise ourselves, didn't we...?
Byakuran: ?
Irie: You remember, don't you......? // The last game of Choice we played, back in our university years, I defeated you...... / But you didn't have anything to pay me, so you said this...

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Irie: "The next time we play Choice, as a handicap, I'll submit to any single condition you want to implement." // ...I'd like to take you up on that.
Byakuran: ......
Irie: I request a rematch... // ...another game of Choice!!
Reborn: !
Tsuna: !
Byakuran: Hmmmm... // Sorry, but... // I can't say I remember that.
Irie: ! // You're lying!! You would never forget a thing like that!!
Byakuran: You're being a little too selfish.
Irie: A promise is a promise! // You were always honest when it came to Choice......
Byakuran: Which is why I'm telling you, that never happened. // I can't follow up on a promise I never made!

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Byakuran: In my official capacity as the Millefiore Boss... // I decline your request~♪
Irie: Ngh...
Uni: I oppose that decision.
Byakuran: !
Reborn: ?!
Uni: Byakuran.
Tsuna: !!
Byakuran: !!
Uni: As Boss of the Millefiore Black Spell...
Reborn: ...You're...

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Uni: I believe half of that decision should rest with me.
[TN: WINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWIN]
Byakuran: Uni... // You...!
[Insert text: Uni appears with a smile upon her face!! Byakuran cannot conceal his irritation!! The wheels of the future... of destiny... are truly beginning to move!!!]