Game on

Chapter 21: Inheritance Arc 5

The next day, the Vongola X were back on the road – but this time, there was a certain tenseness in the air.

Because, a the end of this road they'd find Adelheid.
And at the end of that fight, the fifth memory, the one that changed Enma's world weeks before would be unleashed.

And if they had predicted him correctly, Daemon Spade wouldn't take that well – and it should finally force him into unmasking himself. With that, they would only have to weaken him enough to cut his link to the body he was possessing – thanks to Kazami's powers – and hopefully save Katou Julie while finally destroying Daemon Spade.
The road led them across the village, and soon, the found back the river from the day before, following it until it ended in a large waterfall falling into a small lake, a large and verdant plain around it.

Casually leaning against a large boulder, Suzuki Adelheid, the tall girl as tense as them.
"I see you didn't dare come alone." Kazami casually commented, announcing for everybody that Daemon Spade wasn't far
"Ah! To think I would be spotted so easily!" an easy-going voice loudly complained – but the glinting eyes behind his glasses betrayed his annoyance
"What are you doing here, Julie?" the tall Simon Guardian asked harshly, furious at herself for not having felt his presence earlier

"You wound me Adelheid! Of course I came to cheer on you, you are after all the beautiful Ice Queen of the Simon, our Goddess of Victory!"
"Laying it a bit thick, isn't he?" Gokudera grumbled, the shameless flirting eerily reminiscent of Shamal
"Enough!" Adelheid cut, turning her back to her teammate to face the Vongola "Name your fighter and your pride!" she called curtly
"Tch."
Kyoya strolled at the front of the group casually.
"Well," the girl prodded "State your pride!"

He gave her a disappointed glance – did she really need him to tell it? It should be evident shouldn't it? A sigh – alpha was right, this girl had the potential to be a carnivore too, and while her mind wasn't addled anymore, she still had to find the predator that lurked in her mind by herself. Finally he answered, in an unusually long statement coming from him "My pack. My alpha. My Famiglia."
"That is a possessive Cloud." commented an amused Reborn in a low voice
"My pride is my family and our leader! And my strength as family's number one fighter!" spotting the Night Pack armband, her decision was made "We'll fight for our armbands!"

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Kyoya nodded "I won't hold back and play around this time." he warned her "Watch carefully, little animal, and grow."
"Isn't it moving?" a falsely crying Mukuro commented to Chrome and the rest of their group "Little Kyo-chan is making his first friend out of the pack!"
Kazami merely rolled her eyes at her Mist Guardian antics, while Chrome giggled.
As for Adelheid, the hot-headed girl was pissed of by Kyoya's affirmation.
"Do you really think you were the only one holding back?" she snapped, Flames looking like ice shards whirling around her, arm-guard reinforces with several blades appearing on her hands, and a large ice flake in her hair

"Kiba, Kizu, Yaiba!" three howls answered him as he called "Cambio Forma!"
"If she is their Goddess of Victory," an awed Tsuna couldn't help but comment as wolves changed form "Then he surely is our God of Death."
Reborn and Kazami exchanged an amused glance at that ironic affirmation – while the rest of the Vongola X nodded mutely.

Still, Kazami couldn't help but understand what her brother meant – having seen Death, and felt his aura, she could admit that this was the closest she'd seen in a human. For once, the feral teen wasn't controlling his aura at all – and it was pulsing wildly around him, melded with his two Flames.
Like the rest of the Night Pack, his outfit was a traditional one, with a purple hakama so dark it was nearly black, a lighter kimono tucked in and a long sleeveless haori with howling wolves completing the look – and of course, the Night Pack arm band tied around his kimono's left sleeve.
His tonfas had changed too – the left one now having a chain attached to it, the right one now with a gleaming bladed edge.