"He's the greatest scientist of this era." Supplied Shoichi with stars in his eyes. "Some people say he's the new da Vinci. But he's extremely secretive. He hardly ever leaves his labs and just reveals his inventions and discoveries without showing himself. Verde almost never attends conventions and the like, but he's going to give a lecture about alternative energy sources this afternoon! How lucky! We have to see it!" He declared, and Hayato was nodding emphatically besides him.
"Sure." Agreed Tsuna. "I only came here because you asked, it's not like there's anything I planned on seeing anyway." He pointedly ignored the almost hysteric cries of happiness from his two friends.
This Verde's lecture only started at 4pm, and it was currently 9am. They had arrived early to spend as much time as possible at the convention. They figured that they would spend the rest of the morning looking at the stands and whatever else caught their eye, eat lunch around midday and then wait in front of the conference room an hour before the lecture started. Tsuna would have thought it to be too much, but both Hayato and Shoichi feared that there would be a line to attend the conference and neither wanted to risk missing it because there was no more space available. Unfortunately, the Sky's Intuition agreed with them.
The morning was pleasant, he supposed. Tsuna was not particularly interested in any of the displays. Byakuran had not yet made a reappearance, but nobody was worried about him; the older teen could make his way out of any trouble without their input.
Hayato and Shoichi were elated. They stopped at any stand that looked promising, and asked questions or clarifications to the scientists in charge. Said researchers were usually a bit dismissive or guarded around the children, but the two teenagers' enthusiasm, knowledge and quick mind won them over every time. It seemed all the people gathered here were impassioned by their work, so the two brains of Caeruleus blended in effortlessly. Tsuna was content to stay back and watch his friends enjoy themselves.
But such peace could not be expected to last very long in the Sky's life. The three teens were looking at one more innovative device -something about atoms and splitting matter, he had not bothered trying to understand further when the man in charge spoke more words he didn't know than ones he did, pronouns included- when they registered a commotion nearby.
Before they could understand what this was about, they saw a figure about their size dart through the crowd and attempt to lose the four vigils that were running after it. They were about to dismiss the event completely as something that did not concern them when Tsuna's meddlesome Intuition rang in his head.
The poor teen tried to shake it off, but the feeling that he had to get involved only increased further. "Uhm, guys." He began tentatively, not wanting to pull his friends out of their technology trance, but knowing better than to follow his Intuition alone towards an unknown situation in such a crowd. "I'm really sorry to interrupt, but I have this really strong feeling that we should go see what this was all about." He stated, hoping they took the hint.
Luckily they did, and apologized to the nice scientist for leaving him mid-explanation. Hayato looked ready to follow his Boss wherever he led, but Shoichi seemed more reluctant. Tsuna felt a pang of remorse, but the ringing in his head left him no time to wallow in his guilt. They had to go.
They were long accustomed to making their way through crowds of adults, and managed to slip through the throngs of people towards the area his Intuition guided him. There were even more people gathered there, like onlookers watching something unusual taking place in the middle of the way.
Chapter 23: That learned about robots
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