Isekai: Vongola Style
Chapter 4
Author's Note: I'm trying hard to keep the update weekly though it isn't easy to keep to the same day, I'm so sorry!
Many thanks to my lovely beta reader – Skitty! 3
Now, on with the story.
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"Juudaime!"
"Tsuna!"
"Vongola!"
"Little bro!"
…
This wasn't how it was supposed to be. Tsuna knew that slimes were supposed to be weak creatures that he could easily defeat. They took this quest after careful consideration too! Back to the present, why is the Slime King be chasing him?
"I wish I'd taken the man-eating rabbit hunting quest instead!" the brunet lamented while running for his life.
The quest had been simple: Hunt 10 slimes and collect their cores. What had gone wrong? Was this retribution for killing too many slimes? Tsuna didn't have time to think when the Slime King spit acid in his direction.
Yamamoto's sword couldn't cut through the Slime King completely and the huge green blob regenerated quickly. Gokudera's arrows were simply absorbed into that gooey monstrosity and dissolved. Lambo was helpless against the creature with no summons suitable for battle. Ryohei's punches did nothing for him and Tsuna was on his own.
The brunet was certain that his death was approaching. If this new world was like those games Gokudera occasionally played, he would be reborn in a chapel. The Slime King bounced his way over with intentions to crush the adventurers under its mass and Tsuna paled. His Storm guardian was running towards the creature with eyes ablaze.
"Gokudera!" he yelled, trying desperately to get his friend out of the creature's way but his arms were far too short.
From the inventory, the Hero's Holy Weapon glowed and like second nature, the Vongola Don equipped it. The useless object from before transformed into an armour with menacing looking gauntlets, surprising everyone.
Wasting no time, Tsuna propelled himself forward using his dying will. He was vaguely aware of the mana consumption as he flew towards Gokudera, pushing the archer out of harm's way. If dying will was like mana then stamina was like the mana's capacity.
"3 mana per second while in flight huh?" Tsuna thought. His base mana was 300 and with the superior math skills that Reborn hammered into him, he knew that he should conclude the battle in less than a minute or they would be in trouble.
The Slim King looked strangely adorable from above. Tsuna had taken advantage of his new speed and mobility to create distance and scout for his enemy's weakness. He could see Yamamoto and Gokudera regrouping while Ryohei distracted the creature. Lambo was watching everyone from a safe distance and Tsuna wondered how he was going to defeat such a huge creature.
As if sensing his thoughts, the Holy Weapon morphed into a disturbingly familiar hammer.
"This looks like Leon-hammer! Why does Reborn have to influence this world too?"
Before he could fuss over his sadistic tutor's hauntings, he heard Lambo yell. With no time to think, Tsuna dived down and swung the large hammer with all his might.
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"What do you think? Is it dead?"
Ryohei poked the unconscious Slime King with a stick. Nothing happened.
"Well, it isn't dead for sure because it would have disintegrated otherwise," Gokudera growled in annoyance. The creature was annoying when it moved and more annoying when it was unconscious. Of all the places it chose to be defeated, it had to trouble the small party by blocking the only path leading to the small bridge across the river.
Yamamoto laughed in good-hearted nature as usual. "Maa, give it some time to wake up."
"I say we should kill it!" Gokudera hissed. "Who knows when it will try to kill us again."
Tsuna couldn't fault Gokudera for his way of thinking. The creature had attempted to kill them after all.
"Yare yare, so noisy. Let me take care of it."
Pushing the archer and swordsman to a side, the beast man scrolled through his skills and hummed. Tsuna wondered what Lambo was going to do and looked over to Gokudera with a questioning gaze. The half-elf shrugged and scowled twice as hard at being told to move aside.
"Ok, I got this," Lambo announced and cleared his throat.
"[Contract]!"
A magical circle appeared with a bright light, blinding everyone temporarily. Lambo's eyes seemed to sparkle as the magic circle engraved itself on the unconscious King Slime. The magic circle mark glowed for a moment before the huge slime vanished.
Stunned, nobody spoke for a good while.
Ryohei was the first to happen. "That was extremely awesome! Congratulations on your first pet!"
Lambo beamed. "This is better than Pokémon!"
Gokudera gaped like a fish. "That's unfair! Why do you get a powerful summon when the rest of us need to train to become stronger? You can't just do this! You didn't even defeat it."
Upon sensing that his upset storm guardian was going to start another fight, Tsuna stepped in. "It's alright Gokudera-kun! I prefer having Lambo bind it as a familiar than to kill it. We've hunted enough as it is, I don't really wish to see any more deaths if possible. Besides, we've all gotten stronger from taking the quests. I'm sure everyone has levelled up quite a bit."
Taking the cue, Yamamoto was the first to announce that he gained a whopping 17 levels.
Gokudera growled when he discovered he only went up by 14 levels.
Lambo sighed, resigned to his fate. "Yare yare, only level 28?"
Tsuna smiled. "You did well, Lambo. It's an improvement of 18 levels after all!"
The comment only made Gokudera sore. Despite being a level higher than Lambo, the bomber still felt that it was unfair Lambo caught up to them so quickly by "stealing the spoils of others".
Ryohei frowned at his screen when Tsuna asked how much he improved. "I extremely don't remember! I'm level 44 now and can now perform healing to the extreme!"
Tsuna beamed. "That's great! I'm sure everyone could use some healing from the fight with the Slime King."
The boxer hesitated. "Are you extremely sure?"
Tsuna smiled and nodded. The boxing club captain didn't hesitate and told Tsuna to brace himself.
"Eh?"
Before anyone could react, Ryohei had punched Tsuna hard in the solar plexus and sent the brunet flying across the bridge.
"Juudaime!"
"Tsuna!"
Lambo was too shocked to react and when he did, both rain and storm guardians were running over to their boss. The cow child seethed and grabbed Ryohei by the front of his shirt.
"What the hell was that for?"
Ryohei only gave a confused look at three seething party members. Tsuna was momentarily stunned, the shock still in his system. He noticed that any pain from before was now gone but that didn't help his mental trauma of getting punched.
"Tsuna told me to heal so I did it to the extreme!"
"You just punched him all the way across the bridge! What if you killed him?" The archer yelled with a face so red Tsuna thought it would combust any moment.
"Guys, I'm fine. In fact, I'm healed. I don't know why onii-san did what he did it but it worked."
Yamamoto looked unsure and Lambo demanded to see the status screen and skill description.
[Healing Cross] Guarantees healing of physical wounds as much as the damage caused by the healer.
Lambo sighed and so did everyone else.
"Turf top, why do you have such a ridiculous skill?"
The boxer frowned, not understanding what was wrong. "It's like boxing isn't it?"
For some reason, Tsuna felt that the skill was specifically tailored for his sun guardian's mental capacity to cope with complicated situations. It reminded him of how they tried to explain to Ryohei about the time travel to the future that didn't exist. That was one experience nobody wanted to go through again.
"It's alright onii-san. I'm glad that I'm healed now but please refrain from using it too often alright? I'm sure some warning before you heal anyone would be appreciated."
Beaming, the sun guardian gave a thumbs up. Tsuna wondered how many more ridiculous things would happen to them in this foreign world. Surely things would be more peaceful without a certain hitman tutor breathing down their necks.
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Back in another world on the rooftop of Namimori Middle, a certain fedora-wearing infant sneezed.
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Levels:
Tsuna – Lvl 12 - Lvl 30
Gokudera – Lvl 15 - Lvl 29
Yamamoto – Lvl 18 - Lvl 35
Ryohei – Lvl 25 - Lvl 44
Lambo – Lvl 10 - Lvl 28
TBC 3
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