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Chapter 19: Inheritance Arc 3

"Thus destroying that man's system without breaking the Tri-ni-siette balance." it was clear by his tone that the idea appealed to the Vindice "But you don't have a lot of time left, the current Arcobaleno have fed their flames to those cursed artifact for decades already. They wont last much longer."
"I know."

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The silence lasted a few moments after that, before being broken by the small Vindice once more "That hope you talked about. It's the end of the pacifiers system, isn't it?"
A nod.
"To propose this, you must have already made some progress then?"
"We obtained a youkai-made artifact that allow the Arcobaleno to store Flames in it and use them to go back to their real body for a few seconds, and prevent the curse from worsening."

"Then, rather than just offering us the result, would you be ready to work with us?"
This was a test – Kazami didn't realize it as, she was still down from the re-affirmation that Reborn didn't have long left, and answered without thinking "To get rid of these things, I would."
Thankfully, her answer was the right one.

The Vindice didn't like her more on principle, for what she was, but as long as she didn't threaten them and their goal directly, they didn't really care about her. Whereas to win against Checker-face, they would do anything.
Even work with the little goddess that could force them out of the mortal realms with but a thought should she feel like it...

"Then so be it. We Vindice will work with the Vongola X to see the end of the Arcobaleno circle. And when your Famiglia is once more acting as a force maintaining order in the underworld, you'll have access to the Vindice knowledge, with the Simon's Famiglia's past first to seal our agreement."
Kazami felt relief flood her – the negotiation were far from over, of course, with most of the details to be decided upon, but the deal had been made.

What followed were hours of the girl going over the finer details with the small Vindice, whom she finally had a name for – Bermuda von Veckenstein, former strongest Arcobaleno from his generation, and founder of the Vindice.
Bermuda agreed to share the Vindice knowledge of the Arcobaleno curse against their own progress, and would be meeting directly with the Vongola X at least once a month to work together on a solution to the pacifier's curse.
The Vindice would also sent words of small law-breakers in Japan, then Eastern Asia, for the Vongola X to take care of – but they would refrain from flooding them as long as most of them were still students.

Then, came the topic of the Simon's Famiglia...
"What we have are memories to be given to both Famiglia's about their Primo's past should they ever fight, with the stipulation that if the two Famiglia's didn't reconcile by the end of the memories, the losers would be locked into the Vendicare Prison, and would never get out."
Kazami frowned "But right now, Daemon Spade is possessing one of the Simon's member and influencing them all to hate us, even if we still don't know why. If their own mind isn't their own, they can't decide whether to reconcile or not. And as for us Vongola X, we don't even want to fight, which is why we're here..."

It was the tall Vindice on whom shoulder's Bermuda was that answered "Daemon Spade's interference changes things."
"Yet it is also the perfect occasion to finally get rid of him." added a thoughtful Bermuda "This man and his schemes have been a thorn in the Omerta's integrity for far too long, and while we are more powerful, he is slippery."

The Vindice had a plan – but it would need Kozato's cooperation.
Of course, the Vindice weren't too worried about gaining said cooperation, normal people feared them, rather than bargained with them - but well, the Vongola had always been strange - and the memories themselves should be more than enough for voluntary cooperation given that it was Daemon Spade himself that was manipulating them. As such, after a long day, Kazami was back to headquarter, without the appropriate memories, but with the knowledge that the Vindice themselves would be coming to share them with Tsuna and Kozato.