After a friendly greeting, Nakahara Chuuya seemed to be unconcerned that his future alliance partner who came from halfway around the world was huddled in a mediocre table and ordered many children's meals. After briefly shaking hands, he looked behind him hesitantly.
Even though he has ordered several servings... it seems his partner hasn't finished eating yet?
The adults' eyes met for a moment.
He had never encountered such a situation in his business trip history - he meant that when he took the kids to eat Grandpa Ken's hidden menu on a business trip, he ran into a potential ally before he could even eat it. The other party seemed eager to do his best to be a good host and invite them to dinner somewhere else.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but lower his eyes to scan the leader who was still sitting on his arm.
I don't know what the other party is thinking. Maybe he wants to pretend to be an ordinary kid. He hasn't said a word yet.
But he was the one who wanted the hidden version. Squalo didn't think he was a considerate guy, but if the leader of the Vongola was away and they went back without even getting a hidden version...even he would feel guilty.
After all, let alone the hidden version, it is not impossible for their boss to clear out the entire store and ask their own Michelin chef to make a new Ken's package meal using top-quality ingredients but still at a cheap price.
And what about Sawada Tsunayoshi?
He just pitifully wanted a hidden version.
Squalo's heart moved. Varian's high-quality style gave rise to a strange desire to win in his heart.
Seeing the ochre-haired young man in a black coat slightly turned his head and talked to his subordinates, as expected, he was probably arranging a new place. The next step was to invite them to have dinner together...
Squalo patted the cub in his arms soothingly, and the cub raised his head, revealing a pair of overly clear brown eyes from under a strange red mask.
Squalo smiled at the other person, in a rare good mood, and then sat back down.
"Hey, Mr. Zhongyuan..., right?" He raised his eyebrows and invited, "Have you eaten? Our little kid hasn't finished yet."
Nakahara Chuuya, who was actually asking his subordinates whether the restaurant was ready, made a move.
The young man's cobalt blue eyes would probably fetch a sky-high price if put in an auction, but at this moment, he was staring at the carefree silver-haired young man and the cub beside him, revealing a hint of strange emotion.
The subordinate he was talking to, the rookie, also took a look and quickly scanned it with great professionalism. He paused, and the content he was about to report turned into...
"Boss, the toy on that child's face is from Grandpa Ken's new blind box of children's meals."
Nakahara Chuuya withdrew his gaze, and for some reason he found it a little funny.
He waved his hand, and the men in black suits behind him, although puzzled as to why they didn't follow the original script, still retreated in a well-trained manner, leaving only the King of Sheep and the rookie beside him, who followed slowly and took their seats.
"It just came out and I haven't eaten it yet."
Lieutenant General Nakahara took off his black gloves, leisurely sat down opposite Squalo and Tsunayoshi Sawada, and gave an approachable smile.
"You don't mind sharing the table, Mr. Squalo?"
The silver-haired creature nodded subtly, and his evaluation of the dwarf (hey) improved a lot in his heart.
He nodded, his gesture much gentler.
The rookie looked at the opened blind box opposite him and tactfully ordered a children's meal for himself. When he looked up, he saw the leader of his action staring at him with a complicated expression.
"You... are still quite childish." Nakahara Chuuya twitched his lips, waved his hand and changed his own clothes.
So a strange scene appeared in an ordinary Ken's Grandpa on the street in Yokohama. Sawada Tsunayoshi ate his own children's meal slowly, and gave the rest to Squalo - anyway, Sword Emperor Varian had a big appetite, and a children's meal was not enough to fill his teeth.
Finally, a pair of hands handed the so-called hidden blind box to him.
It is the center of the Central Plains.
"give."
Perhaps because he was facing a child, the other party tried hard to smile kindly.
Nakahara Chuuya has a lot of experience in raising children, so the little kid who stayed well by Squalo's side and didn't scream like some other sheep even when he didn't get to eat his favorite food, greatly improved his favorability towards him.
Besides that, he had a vague and inexplicable sense of familiarity with this kid.
Is it a child you know?
No, it's not possible.
He had been in Yokohama for the past few years, so how could he have the time to go to Italy and get to know a kid who was related to Vongola?
But what is the identity of this child? Yokohama's import and export is also an important business for the Vongola. At this time, they will not bring a child to travel...
The group left Grandpa Ken and got on the carriage that Yang had prepared for the guests. Along the way, Zhongyuan Chuuya was still thinking about this problem.
He remembered that there was a vague rumor that the Vongola had an inseparable relationship with some of the legendary Rainbow Children, and those Rainbow Children were said to have the bodies of babies. He saw that the child was almost not worrying except that he was always held by Squalo - or standing on the other's shoulders... Doesn't this make sense?
Nakahara Chuuya, who once treated the other party as a real cub, suddenly felt a lot more complicated.
"Speaking of which..."
However, when he got off the car, he couldn't help but keep his eyes on the cub, and asked nonchalantly, "This mask... can I take it off?"
This is considered an excessive inquiry.
After all, the two parties are only in the process of discussing cooperation, and the alliance relationship has not been established. What's more, if the other party is a mystic who doesn't want to reveal his identity, asking this question would seem a bit abrupt.
But he still looked at the other person and made such a sound.
Abrupt or not...
Information about the Children of the Rainbow related to the Vongola flashed through Chuuya Nakahara's mind - although the "Sheep" does not have the ability to collect secret intelligence on the top families in Italy for the time being, he still has a brother who is very skilled, so this information comes from Verlaine - in Verlaine's information, the Children of the Rainbow related to the Vongola, or in other words, related to Varian, seems to be an illusionist.
Therefore, if it is really abrupt, the other party will probably choose to use illusion to cover up his or her appearance.
For example, transforming into someone he knows.
At most, he's someone like Shirase.
Nakahara Chuuya thought casually, and then he saw that the baby raised his hand after a brief silence.
"Hello."
Squalo growled, and Sawada Tsunayoshi blinked and shook his head at him.
"Indeed," he said, "wearing a mask all the time is indeed very rude in front of our partners."
The funny mask was taken off, however, even though Zhongyuan Zhongye had expected it, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
——The reason is simple. The face of the illusionist belonging to Varian is not the illusionist's original face, nor is it the face of Shirase and others. Instead, it is...
"Outline..."
The rookie tilted his head in confusion.
"Boss?"
Nakahara Chuuya quickly rescued himself from his weak mood.
He looked at the child deeply. The child was still sitting obediently in Squalo's arms with a lovely smile on his face. He didn't know if he had added a filter, but he always felt that there was some helplessness in that obedient and gentle smile.
It was as if... as if that person was sitting in front of him again.
The young man with ochre hair and blue eyes put on an indifferent expression, looked deeply at Sawada Tsunayoshi again, and then turned away.
Even if it's Mafia, night is not a good time to negotiate.
After fulfilling his duties as a host and accompanying the prospective partner from Italy to have dinner and take a tour around the headquarters of Yang, Zhong Yuanzhong left on the grounds that he had other important matters to attend to.
He was replaced by the sheep's "strategist", Rimbaud.
Before coming, Rimbaud had heard about Sawada Tsunayoshi from Nakahara Chuuya, so he kept smiling when he saw the baby who had the same face as his old friend. He took a few people for a walk around the sheep's residence and sent them back to the room on the grounds that it was getting late.
Squalo originally thought that he could finish the conversation with him tonight so that he could send the kid back home: ...
"Tsk, are all the Japanese so slow?" Varian's combat captain muttered, and opened his cell phone to communicate the matter with the little ghost's guardian.
Then I was annoyed by the petty demands of a few people and had to shut down the computer.
In contrast is the attitude of the "sheep".
I don't know if it was a special arrangement by Nakahara Chuuya, but although a kid of Sawada Tsunayoshi's size was not within their scope of hospitality, because the sheep were originally an organization that would adopt abandoned children, all the necessary supplies for children were available. However, when the member of the sheep who delivered these things saw Sawada Tsunayoshi, a strange expression appeared on his face.
"This is baby essential oil, this is... these are all brand new and have never been used."
As the boy read the names of these things from the list, he would look up at the brown-haired cub from time to time, and every time he observed it, he would exclaim in his heart.
Too similar, too similar, really too similar.
The members of the sheep who had also walked through that time with the leader suppressed the shock in their hearts and tilted their ears to listen to the scary-looking shark. Oh, this shouldn’t be the name the guests called the child.
However, I only heard something like "little devil".
Tsk, be gentle to Brother Tsuneyoshi's child, you idiot!
——Yes, although no one said it out loud, he still unilaterally recognized Sawada Tsunayoshi as the child of "Sawada Tsunayoshi".
Although I don't understand why this child only appeared now, there seems to be something wrong with his age.
But this face! This personality! This soft, baby voice of thanks! If this wasn't Brother Sawada's child, he would stand upside down and mop the floor of Yang's building with his hair today!
Sawada Tsunayoshi: ...That's not necessary.
And he didn't know what this boy who looked vaguely familiar - in fact, it was mainly because the other party's gaze was too enthusiastic, so Tsunayoshi Sawada dug out such a snotty-nosed child from his memory and faced the other party's face - said when he went back, but all the members of the Sheep who appeared in front of Tsunayoshi Sawada that night gave him a strange sense of familiarity, and their expressions also changed perfectly from the initial fear of "What is this? I don't believe it" to finally freezing into some kind of strange expression, probably seen on the face of a being like mother.
Tsunayoshi Sawada slowly typed a question mark.
The captain, who was strangely aware of the crisis at some point, snatched his leader back from the unknown guy, and after making sure that nothing happened, he stuffed him neatly into the quilt.
Before Squalo could say anything, the brown-haired cub closed his eyes, and after a while he started snoring. His ability to fall asleep in one second was far superior to that of his teacher. Squalo, who had prepared a lot, was speechless for a moment.
With a complicated expression, he stuffed several fairy tale books that he had prepared according to Takeshi Yamamoto's instructions into the bedside table in a mess. The members of "Sheep" were very considerate and prepared a small bed for Tsunayoshi Sawada and placed it next to Squalo's bed. Although it was very convenient, it always made the young man feel strange.
But it's pretty good without him telling stories.
Squalo thought to himself and closed his eyes.
No words were spoken that night.
...What a ghost.
In the darkness, the baby lying safely in the cute crib opened his eyes.
His mind was still replaying the expression on Nakahara Chuuya's face when he saw him. The flash of surprise on Ou Doudou's face, who had become reliable and mature without his knowledge, showed that he had not forgotten him.
But no further action was taken.
Even if someone like Scotland treated him as his posthumous son, he wouldn't have such an expression now.
However, the other party clearly showed that he knew me.
This made Sawada Tsunayoshi feel entangled, but he kept suppressing the entanglement until it was revealed when he tossed and turned on the bed.
Didn't you recognize him? No, that's not right. Judging from his expression, he definitely recognized him, but why did he look like that?
But to be honest, Tsunayoshi Sawada wasn't really sure what he was expecting. Did he have to wait for his lovely Onii-chan to hold him up high while wiping her tears?
He couldn't bear the thought of such a situation.
But now something is wrong.
At the beginning, he was stunned by Nakahara Chuuya's attitude and lost the best opportunity to get to know the other party. Later, after the other party left in the name of work, he had no chance to contact him anymore.
Damn it, should I have just rushed over and called out “chuuya onii-chan, I missed you so much” the moment we met?
Hearing the sound of someone tossing and turning in another small bed next to his bed, Squalo first tried to block out the sound.
After trying in vain, he spoke quietly.
"If you don't sleep when you're young, you won't grow tall." Varian's combat captain said grimly, using the same phrase he used to coax his own difficult-to-raise little kids. He paused and combined it with reality. "Look at the guy I met today. He's a typical example of someone who won't grow tall."
Huh?
Sawada Tsunayoshi, who was still racking his brains over what to do, was stunned.
Are you talking about...?
Indeed, the child doesn't seem to be growing taller. What does one need to grow taller? Milk?
Hearing the frying pan sound starting over there, countless crossroads popped up in Squalo's mind. Finally, he pressed the pillow against his head in pain, trying to block out the frying pan sound.
Damn it, he shouldn't have agreed to let that brat Yamamoto Takeshi come here.
Damn it!!
…
On the other hand, while Sawada Tsunayoshi was still awake, Nakahara Chuuya was also still awake.
He sat at his desk and rubbed his brow tiredly.
"What's up?" He raised his head, nervously waiting for the reply.
Standing in front of him was Rimbaud, a Frenchman with long black hair, holding a cup of black tea and thinking. After a while, he shook his head.
Nakahara Chuuya couldn't tell whether he let out a sigh of relief or disappointment.
Rambo looked at him, his golden eyes gleaming slightly in the moonlight.
"I think you're wrong, Chuuya." He said softly.
Nakahara Chuuya had relaxed a lot from shaking his head, and when he heard that, he raised his head with a puzzled look on his face.
"What?" he asked blankly.
Rimbaud took a sip of his tea.
"I mean, that child's face is not an illusion. He himself is probably not a clone or child of Gang." He paused, looked at the expression of the ochre-haired young man, lowered his eyes and said, "Maybe... that's Gang himself."
Huh?
When the other party said this, Chuuya Nakahara's first reaction was not shock.
It was as if he had already had this guess in his mind, but because there was no way to confirm it, it had been suppressed in his heart.
Logically speaking, he had no remaining schedule for the day, and his only job was to accompany the guests who had come from across the ocean. If he was efficient, the cooperation between the two parties could be finalized tonight.
But he left soon after he appeared.
He was almost the only one who knew that his steps were a little staggering when he left.
When he saw the face of the cub, Nakahara Chuuya almost stopped breathing. He instantly forgot where he was and what he was going to do. Even though his mind kept telling him that it was a fake and a prank by a malicious illusionist, he couldn't reject such a face.
A face with the same features as his brother.
In order to prevent himself from doing something uncontrollable, Nakahara Chuuya staggered away and found Rimbaud, asking him to help deal with it.
Until now.
He got the answer from (one of) the people he trusted most.
"Eh?" The King of Sheep uttered a meaningless syllable.
Rimbaud looked at the child, who was rarely seen in a daze, and nodded again.
"Huh?" Nakahara Chuuya stood up suddenly as if he had finally come to his senses, pushed aside his chair and walked towards the door.
"No, that's not right, he, Tsuna, is asleep now."
This was reported to him by his subordinate just now, and he said with a strange look on his face that the other party said something like "It's time for the baby to go to bed, so he went to bed first."
So Nakahara Chuuya walked to the door, grasped the door handle and turned it back, turning back and forth several times like a headless ant on a hot pot, and asked Rimbaud again.
"Is that you, Tsuna? Did I hear you wrongly?"
Rimbaud replied slowly, drinking his tea.
"Yes, no."
It’s actually true.
Nakahara Chuuya looked as if he had been struck by lightning, walked back and forth a few times, then raised his head and asked again.
"So it's Tsuna? Tsuna turned into a child? And he has a relationship with the Vongola?"
Rimbaud nodded good-naturedly and answered his question.
This situation was repeated many times. When even Rimbaud was about to lose his patience, the young man finally squatted down, grabbing his hair.
He took out his cell phone, thought for a long time, frowned, and prepared to send a text message to Weilun, but his mind went blank for a moment and he couldn't write anything. In the end, he could only hurriedly and incoherently start preparing the things the child needed.
"What else do you need besides a crib? A pacifier? Formula? A bib? Diapers?"
Rimbaud: "Well... why not ask Verlaine?"
Nakahara Chuuya showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.
But it seemed a bit shocking to tell his brother directly that their Ododo had turned into a child, so after hesitating for a while in a daze, Nakahara Chuuya prepared a text message.
【To：Verlaine
If, I mean if, Gang has a child, what do we need to prepare for him?
From: Chuuya (love)】
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