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Chapter 18: Inheritance Arc 2

Another information was made clear by her Observe ability – something that was both surprising, yet expected. The Simon Famiglia's boss was weak looking, bullied, Enma Kozato.
With that, Kazami left the Simon's house and went back to the Vongola X headquarters, ready to share the new intel with her own Famiglia.

"I'm leaving for Britain."
It seemed the evening wasn't done with its surprises, as soon after Kazami was back at the Yukimura's, rapidly explaining what she had seen and heard, Mizuki had suddenly dropped this loaded affirmation.
"I used my Tiers 1 Perk to gain the Black Inheritance," the blond woman developed "and I used the skill books we obtained mainly on the Metamorph skill associated." she demonstrated rapidly, seamlessly morphing into Kazami before going back to her own body "With that, I can go back to Britain without being hunted on sight."

"What are you planning to do there?" asked Hana
"Data gathering." she expanded "We haven't found anything more about Kawahira here, but Kaze-chan said that us wizards feel like watered down version of these aliens... " a shrug "So if we can find information on them in the normal and underworld, it has to be within the magical History. Taking this into account, thinking back on powerful wizards of old made me wondered if some of them weren't a part of this species." the rest of the Vongola X was now nodding – it made sense "And my first target is quite evident..."

A few seconds a silence, then Kazami breathed "Merlin..."

"Exactly." smiled back the blond woman "After all, legends says that he was already over 600 years old when he attended Hogwarts..."
"So you're going back to investigate." understood Kiba "And if someone can do it, it's you."
His adoptive mother smiled at the faith the boy had in her, then continued "I've talked with Lavande about it, and she will arrange it for me to take on the identity of an Italian witch. I'll be in touch via the Communication System, of course, and I'll keep my Recall Point here, as a precaution... And if research goes slowly, I'll see you at the Inheritance Ceremony."

"You seem to have everything ready." noted Tsuna "When are you leaving?"
"Next week."
"Well, then... I guess the only thing left is to organize a party before you leave!" smiled Kyoko

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Mizuki smiled back, warmth filling her, like always with the Vongola X around – it was funny that while wizards had never seemed to be able to tolerate her strangeness, those kids who, for most of them, knew nothing about the mafia nor the wizarding world months before had been able to accept her without any misgivings...
From that point on, the week ended with the Vongola X, aided by the Simon, organizing a good-bye party for Mizuki – despite her protests – and using the opportunity to get to know more the allied Famiglia. And, with each afternoon spent bonding over the preparations, Kazami could feel the effects of Daemon Spade's meddling lessening more and more – but thankfully, it seemed to be still gradual enough that the former Mist Guardian hadn't noticed it.

And of course, it led to an important question – why would a man that had supposedly dedicated his life to the Vongola Famiglia be so intent on making an old ally hate them? How would it help the Famiglia to greatness, as seemed to be his goal – and what exactly, was greatness according to him?
In order to find an answer to these question that could impact heavily on the current Life Quest, Reborn had started to comb the old archives, helped by Lavande who was doing the same on the CEDEF front – as she had already started to hit the old files to see if there weren't more information about the Simon in the CEDEF archives than the Vongola main ones.

By the end of the week, they had come to a startling conclusion.

Someone had taken great care to erase any trace of the Simon Famiglia from both the Vongola archive and the CEDEF one – something that was supposed to be impossible, as the CEDEF was created in order to avoid such interference. Only one man could have done it – Primo himself, who probably hadn't done the same thing with his personal correspondence because he hadn't expected them to be kept after his death.
The fact that it was Primo himself that erased the Simon from their history was intriguing enough, with even his private letters and journals very vague – but one thing seemed clear from these letters.