'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Spells/Other's thoughts/Skills
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{Korin's Voice}
Inner Voice
Chapter 5 Infiltrating Kokuyo Land
Korin waited outside the Sawada Household for the brunette to get ready, 'She sure is taking her time…' He mentally sighed. He has gone home to change out of his school uniform into a more battle ready outfit, a yellow shirt under a black short-sleeved hoodie with a grey-blue jean that has a white cross on the right leg and yellow sport shoes, his gun in its custom holster he got from Ray tied to his hip by a black belt.
"So," He looked down at the bomber who is hiding behind the gate, "Why are you hiding like that?"
"S-Shut up!" Gokudera shouted angrily, "It's none of your business!-!"
"Sure…" Korin muttered.
"Gokudera-kun…?" Tsuna opened the door to her house; she changed to a white shirt with blue lines on the sleeves along with light grey mini-skirt and black spandex, Korin could marvel at the rather slender legs of the future-mafia-boss, "M-Motoyama-san!"
"H-Hime-sama!"
"Hey, Sawada-san." Korin greeted, 'Nice legs…'
"A-Ah… this… I'm just admiring this wonderful gatepost!" Gokudera said.
"If you're worried about Bianchi, it's alright." She tells him, "We managed to persuade her to agree to cover part of her face. That way, you won't be affected, right?"
"R-Really?-!" Gokudera said in shock, extremely happy that his cute boss did something like this for him, "T-Thank you, Hime-sama!" The silver-haired Italian slammed his head on the ground in gratitude, "I-I'll never forget this kindness!"
"G-Gokudera-kun! G-Get up! You'll hurt your head more!" Tsuna cried.
"Is that what you meant?" Korin asked, pointing at the Poison Scorpion behind her, who is in a squirrel suit for some reason, "I know you Gokudera isn't really going along with his sister but seriously…?"
'Now I don't want to be near her for another reason…' Gokudera sweat-dropped.
They managed to convince her change to goggles and they set off to the hideout that Reborn managed to find out somehow, which is an abandoned amusement park by the abandoned highway. Just by looking at the place, Korin is already feeling to chills of the dark aura emitting from it, "It's really ominous…" Tsuna said shivering a little.
"Yeah." Korin said, "Kind of remind me of those haunted amusement parks where there are hundreds of ghosts taking refuge there."
"Waahh!-! D-Don't say those kind of things as easily!" Tsuna cried.
"Is the whole area just ruins?" Gokudera asked.
"Yes. Long ago, it used to be to an entertainment resort called Kokuyo Land." Reborn explained.
"Kokuyo…Land…?" Tsuna muttered, remembering something, "Ah! I've been here before! That's right, there was a karaoke club, a cinema, and even a small zoo! There was even a plan for renovation but two years ago, a typhoon struck here and caused a mudslide. Since then, it's been locked up in this condition."
"It's like remnants of a dream." Bianchi said.
"The lock is rusted…" Gokudera states looking at lock and chains at the front gate, "It seems that those guys don't use this as the entrance."
"Move." Korin said, drawing his gun and shooting the lock clean off while startling the silver-haired teen, "Come on, let's go."
"Give us a warning next time!" Gokudera cried angrily.
'That's the GN-1 Giltine!' Reborn thought in shock, 'How someone like him possesses the weapon of the Ninth Knight…?'
Korin ignored him as he pressed on, along with the rest who reluctantly followed him in. It is a good thing that he is in front so they didn't see his stressed out expression, 'I sense a strong magic aura coming from somewhere in this place…' His hands clenched tight hard, 'And it is sickening… Just being in this place is making me sick.'
Somewhere else, on top of one of the buildings, sat a man cross-legged on top of one of the buildings. He has long light yellow hair and his eyes eerie yellow and tanned skin wearing a black coat over a white shirt and grey pants that has tribal patterns on its legs. He looked up in the sky as one of the pigeons land on his shoulder, "So… he has come… the one with the Fire God Talisman…" He muttered, "And he brought the Vongola Boss as well…"
His face twists to a devilish grin as he grabs the pigeon, "I'll enjoy ripping that charm out of his cold dead hands." He then squeezed the bird so hard that it exploded into a mess of blood, flesh and feathers.
Korin went on ahead leaving the rest far behind that they only small figures in his eyes, "Why is he in such a rush?" Gokudera wonders out loud.
"He seems rather uneasy for some reason." Bianchi said.
"True…" Reborn said, "It's like he's expecting something to pop out anytime soon."
"Hahaha, maybe he is nervous." Yamamoto laughed, "Reminds me of my first baseball tournament back in elementary school. He's just anxious of the mafia role play game."
"Y-Yamamoto, I'm telling you that-"
"Tsuna." Reborn interrupted the brunette's rant, "Since you're here before, you should lead the way."
"E-Eh?-! W-Why?-!" Tsuna cried, she not wanting to be the front if something unbelievable happened, "The last time I've been here is a long time ago!"
"The human memory is infinite." Reborn states, "You just have to recall, that's all. Or you want me to help you?"
"Nononononono! I'm good!" She cried out in fear. She then took the lead as she tries to catch up to Korin, "Motoyama-san! Please wait for us!"
"Hm?" Korin suddenly stopped, causing her to stop her tracks as well, "What's wrong, Motoyama-san?" She asked worriedly.
"Ne, Sawada Tsunahime."
"What is it?"
"What's the first thing you saw when you entered the place?"
"E-Eto…" She thinks for a while, "If I remembered correctly, it was a glass building housing the garden zoo…"
"There doesn't look like anything that resembles such a thing here." Bianchi said, "Your eyes are as good as holes."
"Gek!"
"A-Aneki!-!" Gokudera cried.
"Does that zoo have dogs?" Korin asked.
"Ah, yeah, they are dogs there." Tsuna tells him, "Why, is something wrong?" Korin kneels down on the ground in front of him, "Do you think dogs are able to survive two years without food or water?" He asked.
"That's a no brainer." Gokudera said annoyed, "There is no living thing in this world that can't survive without food or water."
"Then, what's this?" He asked, pointing at the animal footprint in front of him, "It looks like a dog's but bigger, and there is blood on where the claws are."
"HIEEEEEE!-! Are some of the animals still around?-!" Tsuna cried, "I-It can't be, right…? I mean, there's no way they are still alive after all these time…"
"That's why I asked before, can dogs survive without food and water for two years?" Korin explained, "Not just that, look over there." He points at the tree that seems to have a chuck bitten off its trunk, Tsuna getting terrified as the seconds ticked by, "As well as there." He points at the rusty abandoned cages by the bushes, its bars clearly gouged out.
"HIIIIIIEEEEEE!-! What's going on here?-!" She cried.
"Be careful, hime-sama!" Gokudera warns her, "Something's here!"
Everyone all got on their guard, looking for anything suspicious that might pounce on them at anytime and anywhere. Korin then sensed something coming towards them, "Yamamoto Takeshi, to your left!" He warned the baseball ace as a large dog charged at him, luckily Yamamoto has noticed and grabbed on the dog to prevent the teeth from reaching him, "T-This thing…!" Yamamoto cried, as the supposed dog falls into a heap of rotten flesh and dried up blood, "…is already dead!"
Two more of the same dog corpses came out flying towards them; Korin notices them and fires two shots from his revolver at them with the results of them breaking up into a hundred pieces on the bullet's impact, "We're being targeted! Let's move!" He shouted as they all ran away from the area.
"I got you now!"
Korin heard a voice from below them as a human-like figure appears from below and lands in front of Yamamoto, who trips back from the sudden appearance. The ground under him then cracked and he falls down into a dark dome under it, "Welcome!" The human figure leaped in after him.
"What…What was that just now?-!" Tsuna stuttered.
"I saw something human-shaped…" Gokudera stated.
"Not good." Korin cursed as he ran towards the hole along with the rest, "Yamamoto Takeshi!" He called out.
"Yamamoto!" Tsuna cried. "Tsuna's memory was right." Reborn said, "The garden zoo is buried in the mudslide."
"So we're standing on the roof the whole time?-!" She cried.
"Damn, he fell real far down…" Korin states, the baseball idiot rubbing his head, before laughing a little, 'And he is laughing…' He then sensed something from under there, "Yamamoto Takeshi, to your right! There's something moving!"
Yamamoto heard the warning and got ready to fight whatever is down there with him, "This is bad, now that we're separated, we won't be able to help him." Reborn said.
"W-What?-!" The brunette cried, "T-Then, Yamamoto…"
"Welcome, Yamamoto Takeshi…" The figure in the shadows growled as it stood up, "Kakippii's asleep now, you know~ Since I have no orders, it's been suuuuuuuuper boring around here. But then, my prey come here himself, it makes me super happy." It walked out of the shadow, a teen of their age if not older a little, his shaggy dog-like mane light blonde hair and a scar on his nose really makes him as a typical delinquent.
"A person?" Korin said out loud, 'But that movement back then is of an animal… he's not normal.'
"Hey! That's the Kokuyo Middle uniform!" Gokudera cried.
"Ah? Are those guys up there your friends~? Hahaha!" He laughed, "Just wait patiently up there, because you're next after I'm done with him."
"Ekkk!-!" 'This guy… is really dangerous…!' Tsuna shrieked in fear.
"Hahahaha!" Yamamoto suddenly laughed, catching them by surprise, "Hey, you're actually quite skilful despite how you look. Those zombie dog puppets earlier look so real!"
'Yamamoto still thinks this is all a game!-!' Tsuna cried.
"Those were definitely real…" Korin muttered, "The smell of the rotting flesh and blood is there, unless, of course, he placed some guts from another animal and let it decompose for two weeks or you could get some dead pigeon and stuffed them into the corpse…"
"HIIIEEEEEE! Don't say anymore, Motoyama-san!-!" Tsuna cried covering her ears.
"…Hm…? Is this guy for real…?" The dude chuckled, "Well, no matter… Alrighty then… boo!" He dashes at Yamamoto, who moved to the side to dodge his charge before he leaped up, placing something in his mouth and leaped off the side of the dome like a chimpanzee, "W-What's that?-!" Tsuna cried.
"That's not human!" Gokudera cried.
"The claws on his hands and feet…" Korin muttered, 'A beast transformation magic…? No, I don't sensed any magic coming from him, so it must be something in his biological make-up… was it altered somehow, or by someone…?'
"Thanks for the treat!-!" The dude leaped off the dome's wall and launched himself at Yamamoto, who in retaliation draw out his baseball and swing it at him and drawing out the katana hidden inside, but the blondie simply bite off the metal blade with ease, snapping it to two with the long blade impaling itself at the dome's wall.
"Ah! The Yamamoto's Bat is…!" Tsuna cried.
"The next thing that I gouge out will be your neck." He smirked, spatting out the metal pieces in his mouth.
"I-Is he the one that gouge out the trees?-!" Tsuna cried.
"Is he cursed?-!" Gokudera cried, "Some sort of curse?-!"
'There aren't curses like that…' Korin thought annoyingly, knowing that his identity as a mage is a secret to everyone but the fact that the silver haired teen next to him is a fanatic in such thing that come up with facts that are way past the actual things pisses him off.
"Hahaha, I see." Yamamoto laughed, "In this mafia role-playing game, anything goes as long as you defeat the opponent," His eyes sharpened in interest, "am I right?"
"He's really calm for someone who hasn't been in a life-death fight before…" Korin stated, 'More importantly… I can tell; his mental strength and instinct are almost as close as those who fought all their life, almost like… me…'
"Because he's not the sort that like to lose either." Reborn said, "He's not that calm inside when he saw his sword broke."
"Before we continue, can I ask you something?" Yamamoto asked after putting his baseball bag on the ground, "Did you…put on a disguise or something? Are you sure you didn't switch with someone else?"
"Oi oi… is this guy serious…?" The dude muttered.
'I didn't even notice anything changed!' Tsuna cried.
'She didn't notice at all…?' Korin thought.
"Maa, no matter, I'll tell you." He said, "You know how you can change game cartridges to play different games in one console?" He took out a few fake teeth between his fingers, "It is the same thing."
"Teeth?-!" Tsuna cried.
"I see, some kind of genetic engineering that with the data in those fake teeth is transmitted into his gene directly that causes that human-animal hybrid form." Korin muttered, "Inhumane, but interesting. To think that they are able to alter his genes so much yet there isn't much changes in his original biological blueprint."
"You can deduct that much just by looking?" Bianchi asked.
"My father works as a doctor and he kept quite a lot of medical books around the house." He explained, "I grew up sometimes reading them for fun and interest."
"By changing cartridges," He took out the fake teeth he has before, and placed in another one, "I can adopt various animals' abilities." This time, his limps and body grew really hairy as his chest puffed out and stretching his clothes to its limit, "Kong Channel!"
"That's a GG gorilla, subspecies of the orang-utan of the primate order." Bianchi stated.
"No way, that's impossible!-!" Tsuna cried.
'I think the more impossible thing is that for someone to actually is able to genetically modify him.' Korin thought.
"Whoa, that's cool!" Yamamoto said in surprise, "Is that some new kind of doping?"
"What I'm saying is," The gorilla hybrid grabs him by the shoulders, "That's not it!-!" and tosses him across the entire room and sends him crashing against the dome's wall.
"Yamamoto!" Tsuna cried out loud in horror as the baseball ace got back on his feet.
"Not good, it is too dark down there for him to make out where he is." Korin said grimly.
"Oi oi, don't be taking a break now…" The blonde chimera said, "Thanks to the blood of those dog corpses on you, I can sniff you out with my Wolf Channel!" He reappears besides Yamamoto with now silver hair and claws to match as he slashes at him with wolf claws. The people on top could only watch in horror as the baseball ace is tumbled around like a punching bag.
"Shit, I can't keep watching this any longer!" Gokudera said as he took out his dynamites. "I agree!" Korin said pulling out his gun.
"You guys better don't." Reborn said, "The structure of the dome seems rather fragile and you can easily cause a cave-in." 'Not only that… if Korin's gun really is the actual Giltine, then it would cause much worst.'
Korin clicked his tongue as he placed his gun back in its holster, 'Again… again I have to sit in the side lines as I watch an ally fight…' This scene makes him remembered something from his past, someone that he looked up to since he was a kid. A dark-brown haired man in a red trench coat that has a symbol of a single white wing with orange flames around it appears in his mind, 'Aniki…'
"It's all my fault!" Tsuna cried, "I shouldn't have brought Yamamoto with us!"
"If you're worried, then give him a hand." Reborn states as he kicks the poor brunette down into the dome cave.
"R-Reborn-san! What are you doing?-!" Gokudera cried.
"Shut up and watch."
"Ite…" Tsuna groaned as she rubbed her sore face.
"Tsuna-chan!" Yamamoto cried.
"Oh, a new prey…?" The dude chuckled, "This one looked weaker, so I should hunt her first!"
"What?-!"
"Thanks for the treat!-!" He laughed as he dashes towards her, Tsuna cried out in terror.
"Fuck this!" Korin leaped down into the dome and lands in front of her.
"Motoyama-san!" She cried in joy.
"Oh, another one for the picking~!" The wolf chimera laughed.
"You…" Korin muttered as the air around him became denser, "…DON'T GET COCKY, BRAT!-!-!" He shouted as a giant aura of a large wolf appeared around him, causing him to stop in his tracks in horror.
That split second is all he needs as he dashes towards him and hits him with a knee to the stomach that sends him back towards Yamamoto, who has picked up the sword handle from his broken sword and hit him at the face, knocking him unconscious.
"Nice, Korin." Yamamoto laughed.
"Your timing is good as well." Korin said passively.
"Come on, you should smile a little." Yamamoto said.
"Come on, we should get out of here." Korin said, before sensing a magic output from somewhere nearby, "This aura…" He picked up Tsuna and Yamamoto under his arms and leaped up straight up to the roof, "Reborn, take care of them for me and keep on heading deeper."
"Calling orders on me? You have some guts." Reborn said, before noticing Korin's gaze towards the forest, "Korin?"
"Motoyama-san?" Tsuna mutters worriedly, never seeing him this tense before.
"Whatever happens, do not come back for me." With that last sentence, Korin flashed up and away towards the western area of the abandoned amusement park. When Reborn looked closely, Korin is literally leaping off the air on an invisible platform. 'Void Instant Movement…!' He thought in shock, 'To learn such a technique at such a young age… who on earth are you, Motoyama Korin…?'
xxx Western Side of Kokuyo Land xxx
Korin lands down on a grassy plain in the middle of a dense forest surrounding the abandoned amusement park, 'The magic signature came from here…' He thought as he looked around for the mage, 'But where is he…?' He then noticed a man sitting on the grass crossed legged and several birds landing all over his shoulders.
"Oh…" He looked over at the black haired teen that arrived in the area, "How grateful for you to come here, Knight-san."
"You spiked your magic power to draw me here?"
"Perhaps. Since we're all fellow wizards, we can sense each other's powers." He stood up, "My, how rude of me… my name is Orcus (Underworld in Latin), not my real name though, I have forgotten it since I gain this magic."
"Hell (Another name for Underworld)…?" Korin muttered.
"Now, mind showing it to me?" He asked smiling, raising his hand up, "The Fire God Talisman?" Korin's eyes widen in shock as he drew his gun from its holster and towards him, "My my, what an impatient one are you…?" He chuckled.
"Why do you know I have it?"
"How could I not know?" Orcus laughed, "That charm itself has powers on its own that said to equal to of a god, thus its name, the Fire God Talisman. So…" He looked at him with his eerie yellow eyes staring straight at him, "Mind handing it over…?" The birds besides him suddenly all flew away scared of the aura he is giving out towards them, "Or, do you want me to take it from you?"
The wind blew the leaves down the trees and around them, Korin's eyes focused on Orcus and vice visa.
As one leaf lands in front of them, the future Knight fires his last shot in his revolver, the bullet flies straight at the mage at sound-breaking speeds, before it was stopped in the air by a powerful force of magic power that came from the palm of his hand.
Clicking his tongue in annoyance, he swings open the cylinder and unloads the empty casing before taking out a loader of four new bullets and tossing it into the air. He spins around and the bullets goes straight into the cylinder perfectly and he once again points it at him, only to find him nowhere in sight.
"The legendary weapon of the Ninth Knight, the Giltine." Orcus said appearing behind a tree behind Korin, "You possess such a grand weapon yet you're unable to use its most basic of abilities."
"Not really." Korin said, "This thing here is a real pain as it needs to be charged by firing each round."
He points his gun at him as two magic circles appear by the muzzle, "This time, it's fully charged. And I won't miss." He pulls the trigger, "Animo Flagrante (Burning Soul)!" A large flaming skull-shaped blast was shot out of gun and tunnelling towards Orcus, who stared at it uninterested.
"Oh, so this is the legendary attack of that gun." Orcus sighed, "I guess unless it is in the hands of its true owner…" He grabbed the skull blast in one hand, "…It's just a useless trinket!" He pressed the blast into the ground hard, creating a small crater along with a large shockwave that blew Korin back a little.
"It's a pity… to think that you came to possess not just one, but two of the most powerful weapons in both the magic world and the mafia underworld, and yet you're this weak." He stares at him hard, "It'll be a pleasure of ripping that charm away from you."
'Damn…' Korin grunted, 'Looks like I couldn't master the Giltine in a year after all… and I haven't figured out how to use the Fire God Talisman yet…' He puts his hands into his pocket, 'There's no choice, looks like I have to use magic after all…'
Korin drew out a white charm with red runic markings on it, "Spirits of Fire and Wind, spun out your fury at the enemy in front of you!" He chants out as a large tornado of flames hurls towards him, "Fire Phoenix Wind!"
Orcus smirked as his eyes widen in beastly fury, a black aura surrounds his right arm, forming a large claw twice the size of his original arm, "Dark Demon Arts: Atra Furor (Dark Fury)." He swings the claw around and slices through the tornado like it was nothing, Korin stares at shock before seeing the claw coming closer.
"Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak!-!" He screams as he launch at Korin with his claw slashing towards him, Korin managed to leap out of the way before the claw slashes in the trees and the ground behind him.
"Someone like you should just disappear into nothingness!-!" He screamed as he converts his other arm into a claw as well as slashes at him, this time getting Korin good as he was gashed from his chest all the way to his lower abdomen, "Damn it…" He grunted as he leaped back and onto the ground, feeling the sharp pain from his chest.
"These claws of mine are as strong as diamond, and sometimes faster than a speeding bullet." Orcus smirked as he raised his claws up, "Of course, with two, you can still avoid a fatal injury, but what happens…" Four more dark claws appear behind him, giving him an Asura look, "…if there are more…?"
"Crap!-!" Korin cried.
"Nigro Insaniae (Black Madness)!" He slashes forward at speeds that overwhelm the human's natural reflexes, slashing every single part of his body hard, Korin stumbles back more with a million gashes all over his body and blood dripping down from the wounds and onto the grass below them, "Again!" He slashes at him once more and it gashes him everywhere even more with much deeper wounds, "How does it feel?" Orcus smirked, "The feeling of ten thousands blades cutting up your skin?"
Korin grunted as he fell on his knee, "Dark magic…"
"My oh my…" Orcus said smirking, "You're a lot weaker than what the other people said. I guess that means the Tenth boss is almost totally pathetic…"
Korin's eyes twitched at that, "What was that…?"
"That's right, that girl is your boss, right?" Orcus said, "Mind if I slash her up? You see, in order to sustain this power, I need to kill a lot of people none stop."
"What in your right mind would think I would say yes?" Korin asked angrily.
"Oh, what am I thinking?" He laughed, "There is no need to ask you."
"I can easily kill her and you."
That sentence really hits Korin in the heart, his mind completely blank of thoughts on anything else. All he can think of doing right now is killing the dark mage in front of him, and he didn't care how, he would kill him with his bare hands.
That blank mind has cause his rage to erupt and all the wrath that he has kept inside explodes into a bright yellow-orange flames that engulfs his entire being, "WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!" Korin roared out in anger with the flames getting more intense as his own anger is raging out out of control.
"W-What is going on?-!" Orcus cried out in shock, never seen someone with such ferocious flames and rage. Within that flicking of flames, Korin stood there with a beast-like look in his eyes, his eyes emitting the same flames as the ones around him, his mouth in a beastly snarl as his sharp canines are shown gritting against each other, "N-No matter! You're still a weaking who can't even use the Giltine's full potential!-!"
"Who cares about that...?"
"W-What...?"
"As long as I have this anger, I'll crush your skull!"
Orcus gritted his teeth in anger that he is underestimated as he dashes at him with one thousand of the black claws charging at him, "You fucking weakling! Don't get cocky because you generated flames around you!"
"DIE!-!" Korin rushed forward, his mind completely gone berserk with thoughts of killing that man. The black claws lunged itself at his flames, which burns and incinerates all of them as they come within ten meters near him as he carries on dashing forward at him and lands a fist into the man's gut, causing him to cough out blood from his completely squashed organs.
Korin did not stop there as he carries on with another punch to the chin before he rushes in a huge rush of punches, each punch getting more stronger than the previous one.
A punch to the head, to the chest, to the thigh, to the arms, to the neck and the list goes on and on as Korin's rage took over him with a blind barrage of punches invades Orcus' body that caused it to become like all saggy like a rage doll, bones broken, ribcage cracked and blood vessels burst from all over.
At the end of the barrage, Korin stood there with his fist all bloodied with Orcus standing in the flames bruised extremely badly with blood trinkling all over, his eyes glazed over from the injuries he took. "Heh... with that kind of rage..." He laughed, "It's hard to tell which one of us is the monster..."
The teen was enraged as he punches Orcus one last time, this time, however, his hand pierces through the man's body. Blood dripped down on his hand, his eyes still sharp with beastly fury as the flames still surrounds them.
"Ha... what am I saying...?" Orcus chuckled, "The real monster among us... is more definitely you."
Korin's eyes has no much emotion in them besides rage, his mind still wanting to crush that man's mouth to shut him up.
"Moto...yama...-san...?"
Korin then heard a real familiar voice, before turning around to find the brunette staring at him in true horror. Tsunahime couldn't believed what she just witnessed. Her crush and possibly first love interest, has just murdered someone in cold blood.
"Sawada... Tsuna...hime...?"
Korin too is stiff from having someone seen him gone berserk. He then realized the flames around him, "No... not again..." He let go of Orcus as he arm slides out of the dead man, the blood staining him hand, "No... It's not supposed to go like this... NOOOOOOOOO!-!" Korin cried out as the flames erupts around him once more, completely out of control and wrecking everything around him.
Tsuna was caught by shock as the flames bursts out of Korin uncontrolled, noticing that Orcus' dead body is incinerated in the process.
Korin's mind is completely wrecked with the fact that he killed someone, it was too much for him. He couldn't control his own emotions and that led to the beserk flames around him that is destroying everything around him and is continuing to grow.
Tsuna could only stared in shock as the flames surrounds him, before she noticed that the flames are affecting Korin as well as burn marks are visible around his arms and his face.
She has originally ran out to find Fuuta who has somehow said that he has decided to follow Mukuro before disappearing into the forest. She then encountered another Kokuyo student who seemed to be captured as well before she got a real bad feeling from him and at the same time, witnessed the flames erupting from here which leads her here to witness Orcus' death in the hands of Korin.
'The flames are hurting him too...!' Tsuna thought in shock, 'If he carries on, he'll...' She tightened her heart as the brunette dashes into the flames without a second thought. The burning pain was the first thing that she felt as the flames touches her skin, but that did not stop her. She carries on into the flames towards Korin.
She finally reached Korin and embraced him tightly, "It's okay! It's over!" She cried, Korin's eyes were blank and he is still screaming out in terror, "He's gone! You don't have to do this anymore!"
"It's not your fault!"
That single sentence was all it took, Korin stopped screaming and life returns into his eyes. The flames dissipates as well as he slumps onto Tsuna, the girl having trouble keeping him up on his feet due to the difference in height [Korin is one head taller than her]. "Motoyama-san…?"
"Sorry." Korin apologized, "I let you saw something you shouldn't have seen at all."
"I-It's fine!" She said panicky, "I don't know what's going on, but it's not something you can control right…?" 'Like Hibari-san, though he has the intention to kill…'
"I… can't really explain what's going on right now…" Korin said, "But I can promise you this, it wouldn't happen again."
He stood back up, the brunette noticing the burn marks all over his arm and some on his face. 'Those flames are hurting him… but for some reason, it doesn't seems all that bad…' She thought, 'Motoyama-san… I don't know what you can't tell me, but I'll continue to trust you, to belief in you… cause I love you…'
Korin looks over to where Orcus' body once was, a heaping of burned flesh remains of him, 'Again… the flames are out again…' He clenched his fists, 'But no more… I have to become stronger, to not rely on such flames… Next time… I'll defeat another enemy, with my own hands!'
To be continued…
Part one of the Mukuro Arc completed!
With that, I thank you for reading this!