The Estraneo falls and Jaeger is in denial.
Jaeger's gaze swept across the room. Or what was left of the room, which had clearly been the centre of the explosion. He was standing in the middle of what seemed to have been an operating theatre of the Estraneo's. Most of the evidence of the Estraneo's illegal human experimentations had been burned to ashes, but that didn't matter anymore, he mused. There was no one left to arrest. The whole Estraneo base had more or less been burned to the ground; the members of the famiglia burnt alive. By what, he wasn't sure. He wasn't sure he wanted to know. It was all very odd. If he didn't know better, he'd have said that a mini supernova had occurred in that very room.
But he did know better. Aside from what looked like selective casualties, there were also traces of Flames everywhere. It was in the air, mixing with the smell of burnt corpses. And it was disgusting. The air felt stuffed with Flames. Flames of all types from a million different people. It felt as if a mafia war had broken out in that room. And that just didn't make sense.
His gaze landed on a particular corpse whose Flame-proof clothes were still somewhat distinguishable. It was the only one whose clothes hadn't burnt to ashes. There were only very few people Jaeger could think of that would wear and be able to afford Flame-proof Aloha shirts and he was pretty sure he knew which of them this corpse belonged to. He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at his discovery. How did that person manage to get mixed up with the Estraneo? He'd have to question the Vongola later. He doubted that they'd be able to clear any of this mess up. It was more likely that they didn't have any idea that one of their Family members were involved, but the Vindice had to cover their bases and follow every clue they had.
Jaeger made his way through the base one more time, just to make sure he hadn't missed anything. While there was almost nothing left of the majority of the base, there were rooms that were left relatively unharmed. Those rooms looked more like prison cells and Jaeger supposed that that was where the people the Estraneo experimented on had been kept. It seemed as if whatever caused the explosion made sure not to harm the other prisoners here. Which made it seem as if whatever had caused the explosion was sentient. And wasn't that just a scary thought. He wouldn't want to face something so powerful. Just what had the Estraneo created?
And if his hunch was right, whatever that thing was was still alive somewhere. For he could also feel Night Flames in the room that most definitely did not belong to any of the Vindice. Bermuda would want him to get to the bottom of this mess as soon as possible. They did not need a monster roaming around freely. A monster with the power of all Flame types.
He shuddered.
The Vindice were feared, but only because Night Flames were so powerful and no one outside of the Vindice knew what Night Flames even were. But if there was some monster out there with all seven types of normal Flames along with Night Flames, would there be anyone who could stop that disaster?
Jaeger hoped that the monster was weak at the moment, for how could something not weaken after using this much Flame? That would mean that this was probably their only chance. Find the monster and eliminate it before it could cause any more problems.
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Easier said than done, as it was only about a year later when the Vindice finally got another clue to the incident that they had dubbed The Fall of the Estraneo. They had finally found three escapees from that incident. They managed to apprehend a ten year old who called himself Rokudou Mukuro and his two lackeys as they attempted to destroy yet another Famiglia.
The Vindice's joy was short lived, as the boys wouldn't budge, even when tortured and refused to divulge any information regarding The Fall of the Estraneo. The only thing they did manage to get out of the boys was their reason for destroying Famiglias.
"Kufufufu… Revenge for Ventisette." Mukuro had managed to bite out through his teeth and refused to explain himself further.
Jaeger had a sneaking suspicion that their little revenge did have something to do with The Fall of the Estraneo. He hoped he was right, because if the monster was what the boy had called Ventisette and if it was revenge, then it meant that the beast was no longer alive and they wouldn't have to deal with something so dangerous, right? Besides, there hadn't been any more incidents with massive amounts of Flames that seemed to have come from one being. Something so powerful wouldn't have been able to stay hidden for so long without any further incidents happening, right? Maybe it had died when it was so severely weakened after that explosion that caused the Incident.
Jeager could only hope.
