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Chapter 19: Inheritance Arc 3

"It was a gamble." he admitted easily "But Kaze-chan came through even better than we hoped for, and so they decided to declare the pact void as long as you were controlled."
"Why go through the trouble?" asked Adelheid "Visibly you already were expecting us to be acting against you."
"But we like your Famiglia!" protested Tsuna "And apparently we've been friend for centuries! It would have been just sad to let it end like this!" a shrug "And if we couldn't even help our friends, how are we supposed to change the mafia world?"

Adelheid eyes widened – and for the first time, she could understand a bit of the reason why the Vongola X had unified behind the twins.

After all, if they were wiling to go to such length for newly made friends, who was she to say they would fail at their goal? For the first time in years, the girl was actually interested in the whole mafia's future, rather than just her Famiglia's.
Because she was curious to see what kind of madness would be sown by the Vongola X.

Somehow, she was sure it would be a good change for the stuffy, stuck in the precedent century, organization.
"Tell me more about the plan." she asked
Tsuna and Enma shared a smile, and Padfoot jumped out of the red-head boy arms, his work done – and back to Kazami.
After all, it had been nearly an hour since he'd last saw her, which was, according to his puppy mind, far too much...

By the time the last weekend before the Inheritance Ceremony came by, their Life Quest Goal had been met and updated...

[Goal update: defeat Daemon Spade
Bonus goal 1:win the battles against the Simon's : 0/7
Bonus goal 2: free Katou Julie from Demon Spade]
Bonus Reward:+50 000XP per goal completed, unlocks Earth Flame entry in the Grimoire upon completion of Goal 1 and Alliance System upon completion of Goal 2]

The Tech and Mystic team's had also worked hard, and all animal boxes had been updated to blood-bound items, which made all of their partners more powerful and locked said boxes to each personally – and really, they weren't boxes anymore, as the Tech Team had decided that the items weren't all that practical and the animal boxes were used far too often to be in such a constraining form.

As such, the secondary boxes that were mainly weapons since with their inventory they hardly needed storage boxes, were still in box shape, but the animal boxes were now easy to access jewelries that just had to come into contact with a Flame activated ring to unleash their tenant – the first idea of creating only rings had been vetoed by the girls, as said rings would have been bulky and as such were considered far too tacky and conspicuous.

The last thing left was as such to update the Flame rings themselves.

After numerous hours spent in old tomes, consulting with Mizuki via the latest Vox and lengthy arithmancy calculation to ensure the rings wouldn't be damaged, they had come with a ritual to enhance all of the rings at the same time.
The temple site would be used yet again, as the ley lines, even when not directly accessed, gave an impressive natural boost to any magical ritual done there, and the blood of both Tsuna and Kazami had been drawn, as the Mystic team had determined that as both were their Sky and had Vongola blood, it would only empower more the ritual.

While not present, Mizuki had sent her Moon Ring for the ritual via the latest Vox model, and Lavande had decided to come, the CEDEF woman being interested by the way the Vongola X were mixing magic and Flame technology together.

Most of the Vongola X were present too, even though they didn't really need to – the ritual had been calibrated so that only one of each Flame type had to be present in the ritual circle, twins excluded. The role had such been given to the guardians, with Chrome and Mukuro sharing the same spot just as Kazami and Tsuna did.
Kiba had just finished drawing the circle with a mix of the twins blood when an old man – or rather, a familiar old tengu disguised as a human – made his apparition and promptly got rid of his disguise.