Chapter 131 At the end of the year, when they set off for Tokyo to participate in the Spring High School Musical...

Before heading to Tokyo for the Spring Tournament, they made a trip back to Namimori, first playing a practice match against Date Kogyo, and then the New Year arrived.

Sawada Tsunayoshi was wrapped up like a fluffy dumpling by Gokudera Hayato and Basil, and Hyuga didn't escape the same fate either. As family members with an important event coming up, the two were being closely watched by others, not to mention that Irie Shoichi had also returned.

Specifically, when Hyuga tries to take advantage of the Vongola's lack of knowledge about volleyball, Irie Shoichi will smile at him, essentially asking, "Do you know more or do I know more?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi sneezed and was pulled back into the house by the Vongola group, who were on edge.

They had just been building a snowman in the yard of Namimori's little house. The male and female heads of the household had gone out to enjoy some time alone, so everyone else simply stayed at Tsunayoshi's house without any hesitation.

It wasn't New Year's yet, so Hinata was just visiting Namimori for a bit. He planned to go home and celebrate with his family the next day.

Snowflakes fell thickly, covering the ground with a thick layer of snow, just like when Sawada Tsunayoshi woke up in the morning.

"Weren't we having a snowball fight this time last year?" he remarked simply as he ate breakfast, reflecting on the passage of time.

But Reborn doesn't care if you're nostalgic or what, "You really want to have another Vongola-style snowball fight?"

"I didn't!" the little chieftain quickly denied.

Who would want that kind of chaos to happen a second time?!

The others at the table laughed along with him. Irie Shoichi and Hinata explained their previous achievements, including some rather unusual ways they played snowball fights, and how everyone was completely soaked after the fight.

Lambo enthusiastically said that he could lead Hinata and Tsuna as a team to defeat everyone else.

Hinata nodded and said a few words following the child's lead. Lambo immediately ran to Sawada Tsunayoshi to extend an invitation.

They received stares from others who dared to sneak away.

In the end, Reborn took pity on him, since repeating an event that had already happened wouldn't be very original, and he preferred the unknown surprise.

The young chieftain had a slightly calmer morning, spending a rare free time with his family building a snowman in the yard.

It feels safe not having to go to school for a snowball fight. He took a carrot and stuck it right in the middle of the snowman's head, then rubbed his palms together and breathed on them to warm them. Although he kept doing this, his hands were still freezing cold.

Hinata is happy as long as someone plays with him. He and Lambo are creating something together, saying they want to build a super, invincible, giant snowman. Gokudera Hayato, who didn't pay much attention at first, is also aroused by his competitive spirit. Although there is no competition, these guys are secretly competing with each other.

Sawada Tsunayoshi first built a very ordinary snowman, but when he turned around, he found that his family had already made a lot of fun with it.

Takeshi Yamamoto had already built a snowman, and you could tell it was Tsuna from his signature hair. He was making the next one, standing shoulder to shoulder with the previous one.

Everyone seemed to think that way, except for Rokudo Mukuro, who seemed unwilling to participate in their childish activities and quietly watched them from the porch.

He had initially thought he had done a good job, but compared to his family, he seemed a bit rough around the edges. The little leader patted his frozen palms, grabbed a handful of snow and rolled it into a fluffy snowball. He bypassed his family and ran toward Rokudo Mukuro.

"Are you sure you want to throw that snowball at me?" Mukuro looked at the snowball and found it inexplicably funny.

"If this kind of thing hits someone, it'll feel neither light nor itchy, just a little bit..."

Before he could say anything more, Tsuna reached out and handed the snowball to Rokudo Mukuro.

?

Rokudo Mukuro fell into deep thought. What did Sawada Tsunayoshi mean by this?

"You want me to throw snowballs at people for you?" he speculated. "But what's the point of throwing these snowballs? They'll probably fall apart before they even hit anyone."

Rokudo Mukuro disliked it.

Sawada Tsunayoshi: "It wasn't meant to hit anyone!"

He handed the ball to Rokudo Mukuro, saying, "We're all building snowmen, Mukuro can make a small one too."

After saying this, seeing Rokudo Mukuro silently accept his snowball, Tsuna nodded and walked back the way he came, satisfied.

Rokudo Mukuro stared at the snowball he had just been so disgusted with for a while, then put his hands together and pinched out a cat ear on it.

At the age of high school students, they felt no shame at all. Tsuna and the others played outside all morning, while Reborn and Kaze sat on the second floor in the kotatsu. They didn't go downstairs and were playing Go, which Kaze had brought from his own country.

“Very interesting.” Reborn held the white piece.

Feng casually placed a piece, saying, "I'm not good at the way of Go."

Although he brought it, his original intention was to show Sawada Tsunayoshi something new and interesting, not to torture him.

Byakuran and Yuni have their own place to live. They can't get up in the morning, unlike children like Lambo and Ippin who are still young and full of energy and can sleep in.

When they finally got up and arrived at Tsunayoshi's house, they happened to run into him being pulled into the house because of a sneeze.

"Is he going to catch a cold?" Basil asked with some concern.

Sawada Tsunayoshi shook his head repeatedly, "My nose was just a little itchy!"

Byakuran, without any hesitation, approached Tsuna and offered to take him to their place for a checkup, saying they had the equipment to do the examination.

Gokudera Hayato and Rokudo Mukuro sneered, saying that sending Sawada Tsunayoshi to Byakuran was no different from throwing a meat bun to a dog.

"The difference is that Tsuna isn't a meat bun, but Byakuran can really be a dog," Yamamoto Takeshi pointed out with a smile, revealing the inaccuracies in their words.

In the end, Irie Shoichi took him to drink ginger soup.

"It doesn't taste good." Sawada Tsunayoshi frowned, clearly resistant.

Feng really didn't want to continue playing chess with Reborn, so when he heard them making noise, he immediately slipped away, leaving Reborn alone to face the chessboard where he only had a few moves left to win.

"Ginger soup is a good thing. You've all been out for so long, have a bowl each."

The calm and collected demeanor made it impossible to tell that they had just suffered a crushing defeat of five games in a row.

Hayato Gokudera set an example by drinking his own ginger soup and encouraging the Tenth Boss. When Hinata saw that everyone else had drunk theirs, even Lambo wrinkled his nose and finished his ginger soup, he also chugged it down in one gulp.

The spiciness hit her brain directly, and Hinata finally understood why her childhood friend didn't like drinking this stuff.

In the corner, Chrome and Rokudo Mukuro weren't drinking, which Hyuga found a bit strange. Rokudo Mukuro was one thing, but Chrome wasn't exactly a loner either.

"Why isn't Chrome drinking it?"

"Because ginger soup is a bit stimulating, my body can't eat things that are too stimulating," Chrome replied. She didn't explain her physical condition to Hinata. Although she was no different from ordinary people, she still needed to be careful occasionally.

Hinata Ryosuke knows that Chrome isn't in good health and is also learning to exercise with Kaze-sensei.

“So,” he said, his gaze falling on Rokudo Mukuro, the meaning quite clear, and Gokudera Hayato laughed without holding back.

"That's right, Rokudo Mukuro is very delicate, drinking this will only make his stomach worse."

Upon hearing this, the young leader, who had just finished drinking the ginger soup, looked disapproving. "Hai doesn't like to eat properly."

The Mist Guardian caused Sawada Tsunayoshi a lot of trouble in every aspect.

Rokudo Mukuro originally wanted to refute Gokudera Hayato's statement, but after seeing Sawada Tsunayoshi, he unusually didn't dare to say a word and sat to the side with a cold face.

Chrome smiled, showing no intention of helping Mukuro out of the predicament. Or rather, she was happy to see a boss worried about Mukuro's health.

The dining table couldn't even seat all of them, so everyone scattered and found a place they liked to finish their lunch.

Hinata, thinking that she would be returning to Miyagi the next day, dragged Tsunayoshi to find the coach from the elementary school in the afternoon.

They first went to the coach's house to check, and sure enough, no one was home.

Then we arrived at that club.

This is the first time the other members of the Vongola have come here. Coach Suzuki has brought them to success, but they haven't always been in Namimori. Sawada Tsunayoshi was busy fighting during middle school and rarely even played volleyball, let alone went back to the club to visit.

Even when he needed to visit, Tsuna didn't bother his family; he simply went out and came back on his own.

The club doors were open, and the sound of volleyballs hitting the floor could be heard from inside. Hinata looked around.

"It looks like it's been renovated again?"

"Yes, I remember there was a ball mark on this wall when I came last time."

Following the Tenth Boss's words, Gokudera Hayato looked over and saw that the walls had clearly been painted again; they were very clean and had very little dust.

“Those are all old relics left over from your childhood. If they’re left unattended, they’ll soon become iconic symbols.” A deep voice came from the front.

Suzuki stood there, talking to Hinata and Tsuna from a distance.

It wasn't like they hadn't seen each other for years. Sawada Tsunayoshi and Hyuga ran over happily. The coach, who was over 1.8 meters tall, was still the tallest after all these years.

He patted Hyuga and Tsuna on the head, then asked them, "Didn't Irie come with you?"

Suzuki thought he would see the three of them together this time, but it turned out that the two of them had bumped into each other at the mall when Irie came back earlier.

Sawada Tsunayoshi and Hyuga each took one of their arms and walked inside with the coach. "Shoichi-kun is going to visit his elders with his family. He didn't come back for a long time and got a good scolding from Eri-nee."

As the young leader walked, he called out to the Vongola members behind him, "This way!"

Rokudo Mukuro was mocked by Gokudera Hayato in the morning, and then disappeared after lunch. However, he had known about this club for a long time and must have secretly come to check it out after living in Japan for so many years.

This was Gokudera Hayato's first time here, and he found everything fascinating. Just then, Suzuki was explaining some of the things that had been renovated but still bore traces of their original appearance.

They came to a wall.

The surface of the wall has an old yellow hue compared to the other pieces, but that's not the most striking feature; the photos are at the center of the wall.

The first one posted was also the most eye-catching. It was a group photo taken by Irie Shoichi, with the words "Thank you Irie-kun for taking the photo" written on it in round font with a marker.

This is a photo of the tenth generation participating in the competition for the first time.

Gokudera was somewhat stunned, while Chrome and Basil behind him had already expertly taken out their phones and started filming.

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Author's note: My plans changed today. That darn teacher made us make a PowerPoint presentation, and it's not even a grade-evaluation course! Ugh!

The next chapter will be posted later [crying][crying]