It was a distant memory of mine. Yet, it was something that I cannot easily forget.
It happened when I was around eleven years old.
It was around noon, I was crying while sitting on the swing at Kuoh's playground. My friend had to move to England because of his family's business.
While I was crying my heart out, it was at that moment a stranger came to me.
The man was young and had gravity-defying brown hair. He then kneeled in front of me making our eyes at the same level and said.
"Why are you crying, kid?"
"My friend went to another country. I don't have any friends to play with."
As I said those words with tears still flowing on my face, the stranger gently pats my head.
"There, there. You don't have to cry. I'm sure that someday, you will meet him again."
"Really?"
"Hm. I'm sure of it."
He was giving me a gentle smile. At that simple gesture, the loneliness that I felt gradually subsided.
The young man whose brown hair seems to defy gravity took something that he wore around his neck and placed it around mine.
It was a ring necklace. The ring was black with a silver dragon design. A circular orange-colored gem can be seen at the center.
"Now, I'll give this to you so you don't have to cry anymore okay?"
Saying this, he ruffled my hair a bit.
"And one more thing..."
The young man said before placing his finger at my forehead. His finger was giving off an orange bright glow.
Somehow I began to feel sleepy and tired.
I could still hear the man saying something to me but his voice was becoming muffled.
And then, my vision went black—
Prologue
My name is Issei Hyoudou. My parents call me "Ise".
I am currently a 2nd year Middle School student. But I'm not what you call a role model kind of a student.
You see, I'm no good when it comes to everything.
My grades suck so bad. I'm not that good at sports. Heck, I'm so clumsy that I would always fell on every damn staircase.
That is where my nickname as "No Good Ise" came from.
Yet, despite knowing all of this...
"For my son to be the next Mafia Boss...! UWAAA!"
"This is too sudden. But I'm so happy for my Ise-kun to be given such an opportunity, huhu."
My father was balling his eyes out while crying in tears of joy while my mother was depleting all the tissue that she had just bought from the grocery store as she wiped her nose.
Their reaction felt as if luck and fortune have dawned on our family.
But that is not the main issue that I'm concerned about.
"Me? As the next Mafia Boss? What kind of joke is this!?"
"It is not a joke, No Good Ise."
"Ack!"
Out of of nowhere, my head just got smacked by something that weighed almost like a ton.
"You are going to be the eleventh boss of the world's largest Mafia family. Whether you like it or not."
While scratching the back of my head, my eyes discerned a small figure standing at the dinner table.
It was a baby(?) with some weird thin curl sideburns wearing some kind of expensive all black suit. Hanging around his neck was yellow-colored pacifier...
BANG!
"HIIIII!"
I freaked out as the top of my head was grazed by something hot. There was a small fire burning at the crown of my head.
"Waaaahhh!"
I immediately try to extinguish the small fire that was currently ravaging my head by tapping all over it back and forth.
"That is for thinking that I'm a baby, No Good Ise."
The baby named Reborn said as he blow the smoke trail coming from his gun.
Wait... He has a gun!?
"My name is Reborn, the world's greatest hitman. And I will be tutoring you to be the eleventh boss of the Vongola Family starting from today."
The baby with a hat named Reborn smirked as he introduced himself. For some reason, the way he smirks send a cold shiver all over my body.
Vongola Family? What the heck is that?
BANG!
"Oi, oi!"
"You called me a baby again."
"I did not say anything!"
"You said it inside your head, No Good Ise."
"AHHH!"
That day, my training to become the next heir to the world's largest mafia family began.