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Chapter 3

Killer Clown

Reborn was quite hated for the jobs he undertook. But this kind of blatant harassment was quite impressive since his demeanor never let him be on the side of being bullied. So it was a bit refreshing.

Facing him was the same dead fish face or head decapitated with sushi made from it placed in front of him.

"I heard Lambo was under your care. Thanks for that! The sushi's on the house."

It was bullying, isn't it? Or was it a misunderstanding? If you don't consider Lambo's words, this was just a good-natured person.

"That kid's a bit worrying and seems to be missing a bit of common sense and hasn't got it all under control. So it makes us worry a bit. So you've been really helpful.

Really, if you didn't take up his offer instead of Tsuna and babysitted him, I'd not have been hunting fishes but something else..." the teen smiled refreshingly as he brought his attention to the knife as it very meaningfully cut the head of another flopping fish and stopped its movement in one smooth movement as the other amicably met his eyes.

"It didn't cut properly this time huh" he referred the way bit of the body of the fish got in the way.

"It's lucky that it turned out well last time with good decisions made huh?"

Reborn had a distinct feeling that the teen was referring something else with that statement.

"Wait a bit Reborn-san. I'll change so that we can go out for the continued tour."

"Should I change too to fit the theme."

"I don't think there's a need because Reborn-san looks the part of a scary hitman-san right? Don't take it so seriously. It's just a joke."

"You must really be the life of the party being quite the joker" he spat out, getting a bit irritated with the constant threats.

"Huh? How did you know that I played the clown role here? Did Lambo tell you?" Yamamoto appeared genuinely confused wearing a pure white foundation with a perfect clown marks without the iconic red nose. But with the garish costume with frills in flashy red, it was obvious what he was.

He then took a baseball bat and placed it over his shoulder.

Reborn amusedly guessed, "Killer clown?"

"Not you too, Reborn-san! I was just going for a clown. I wonder why everyone keeps calling me that~ Everyone has such a morbid imagination hahaha"

A clown with a baseball bat is never going to give a good impression. Noticing his skeptic look

"Oh is it because of the bat? Don't worry it's nothing so barbaric. This actually can change between a baseball bat and a sword. In fact, it even removes any blood stains on the blade."

Isn't that much worse?!

"I just like swinging bats. But I've been told that rather than my swings, the balls hit from it are more dangerous as a weapon. Those guys have such a strange way of praising someone."

I don't know what's more dangerous this way. Reborn felt like there were a lot of things he wanted to comment on, seeing that his clarifications led to more questions. It did clear the previous issues, but the fact that those answers made more questions pop up, made him doubt letting this guy explain things would do any good.

"...Let's just get on with it."

But this guy is hitman material. Reborn considered training him

"So Namimori has a middle school and a separate school nearby near the abandoned haunted park."

"Why do you even keep a haunted park?"

"In the spirit of the town, everyone voted to keep it around until it stops being haunted."

Isn't it the other way around?

"So this other school is Kokuyo middle school which has an ongoing rivalry with Namimori middle school. Tsuna, me and another mutual friend are seniors in the Namimori high school with Lambo as a senior of the middle school. So he gets in a lot of one-sided fights with the Kokuyo high school cos of a fight that never got resolved when the chairman was in middle school."

"Why're you telling me this?"

"Cos Lambo seems pretty interested in you. Plus the ongoing fight from the then chairman of Namimori and the then president of Kokuyo has stretched on to high school and pretty much forcibly involved the residents of Namimori as a whole. So if you get gossip on property damage here, it's pretty much from their fight."

"Why on earth are they dragging this on?"

"It's partly because of the way Tsuna tried to pacify them. Also, those two don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, so it's easy to get spurred into a conflict."

"Then if they just didn't meet-"

"That's kind of not possible since in the end they're a part of our circle, and they're part of the main administrators here. The Kokuyo president is pretty charismatic and gets a lot of information from the victims of the chairman's rampage which he uses to bait and tease him

I personally think that they both got really bad hobbies."

If even this guy says so, it's easy to agree with the sentiment even if they never met or know each other

"Why give this chairman that much power?"

"Hmm? Hasn't Lambo told you? The chairman is our mayor."

What?!

"For a teenager to manage an entire town..."

"I know what you feel. But that guy has no opponents, and probably no one would ever take on that role."

What a corrupt system, seriously

"But there's no problem. The chairman is very particular with maintaining the order and discipline of this town and has his own disciplinary committee to enforce it with an iron fist. Because of that, the place is probably more peaceful than any other place you'll ever see."

The irony...

Yamamoto mimicked the wry smile the hitman gave in response to the explanation

"By the way, Lambo's on the chairman's side since he got pretty aggravated from being one of the Kokuyo president's favorite pets"

"Seems like both have them have pretty bad hobbies. By the way, you mentioned that part of the reason for this rivalry was because of Tsuna."

"Ah... That was because of his offhand comment. To be fair, it was just a passing comment. But it kinda rubbed them both the wrong way

He told them on one of their usual fights that they fought like an old married couple."

"Well wow..."

"Yeah, and by the way, Tsuna's their mutual friend who they both respect and whose opinion they both take pretty seriously..."

"Oh man... that's not bound to end well."

"Our mutual friend made things pretty worse. That guy has a perchance for following Tsuna around like a lost puppy. I mean he takes the werewolf role and is pretty much a large dog, but still...

Yeah so anyway, he immediately took Tsuna's side and while laughing commented that

The couples in town would get jealous that even without getting married they got along more than most of the parents living here."

"Fuel to the fire, huh."

"He even said that they successfully inadvertently married the Kokuyo and Namimori educational institutions being the representative head

And let me tell you, those two took their schools and territories very seriously and ended up wanting to completely erase the other from the picture so that such a misunderstanding can never occur again."

"Can't this guy stop picking fights?"

"I tried stopping the fight at that time by telling them it would be inevitable that they would be looked upon like that and they should get used to it since it's not like they can stop clashing with each other since they can't beat the other

I mean, looking from past experiences..."

Reborn looked at the person who hit the final nail into the coffin amusedly

"It's good that you're not aiming for a negotiator and going for something else."

"Really? I thought unlike the people I know, I don't really pick fights with others."

But instead opt on snide comments that shove people from the edge, huh?

"For a person claiming to be a pacifist, it's strange that you'd choose to carry a sword around. If its as safe as you claim, there's no reason to bring it around is there?"

Yamamoto turned around and looked at him with a pearly white smile as his eyes got slightly shaded by his hair.

"Ahaha, that's not true Reborn-san. You see I'm also a part of the security even if I'm not a part of the official dc committee.

It helps to be trained enough to rival a professional assassin especially when a random hitman decides to nonchalantly live in the same place as my best friend."

Reborn realized his hand automatically reached for his gun at the killing intent aimed at him.

"You don't have to get so serious, Reborn-san. It's just a teen's paranoia from a stressful hormonal period of growth hahaha."

It was as if they never had that interaction and the teen continued saying,

"How about we continue the tour. Ah right, since my shift would come by soon, I'll have to go for a bit. I'll ask our mutual friend to take over later. For now, let's go meet the other friend of Tsuna's."

"Why are you guys so insistent on making me meet that guy's friends?"

"It's cos he invited you to live with him. And we're worrywarts. If you want to skip meeting them, it's fine but, I wouldn't recommend it. Since you'll end up meeting them in... slightly more unpleasant situations."

"...Who are we meeting?"

"The Kokuyo president, Rokudo Mukuro. Ah, but if we're meeting him, we'll also end up meeting his assistant, Chrome Dokuro.

It's like they're stuck to the hips, hahaha."

They were near the abandoned amusement park so he guessed he'd be planning to make them meet.

"What role do these guys have?"

"You've made the right decision asking me that. Those guys are more influenced by Tsuna's ideas and don't acknowledge the roles they take.

Mukuro-san takes the role of Grim Reaper while Chrome-chan plays the role of a cursed maid."

"If they don't acknowledge their roles, why do they even bother?"

"Actually, their roles is more because of circumstances regarding their relationship. Pretty much everyone in this town has taken these roles because of circumstances" the other said smiling bitterly.

"Then do you have circumstances for cosplaying like a clown?"

"...I just wear this because it's lonely for only Lambo to wear that ridiculous costume. I mean there's no one else wearing something that stands out as much as a Jack O' Lantern costume."

"Is that so?"

"...Yeah. I'm a nice person, so I'll just tell one thing when talking with those two. Don't get too close with them. I mean it literally. Particularly Mukuro-san.

Chrome-chan's... a bit delicate, and it'll only spell problems in the future. Take it as advice for your safety."

"Ok, so we're heading to their place, right? Is it far from here?"

"No. It's right here."

'Here' was a building on the verge of collapsing near the abandoned park.

"...Let me guess, this was the most in-demand building?"

"Wow! How did you guess it? You're absolutely right!"

The refreshing teen was met with a blank stare from the hitman.

"Then I'll be leaving then. Have fun!"

"Wait, I can't meet them without introductions. They wouldn't know who I am."

"Don't worry, it's all fine. They will know about you. I mean he would have told them all about you, being Tsuna's room-mate."

"Information travels fast in this town, huh?"

"Well, it's a small place after all. Well, see ya later."

Saying so, Reborn was left alone in front of a decrepit building that seemed to be popular only in a strange town like this.

Well, he was already here, so he might as well get on with it. It was just that it felt like a presence was observing his each an every move like he was a particularly impressive specimen. When he looked above he spotted two people very blatantly observe him.

What was more strange was that what he thought would aim that kind of gaze at him was different from what he expected.

Rokudo Mukuro gave him a look of cautious curiousness. He never seemed to actually touch anything, his hands hovering over the windowsill while he kept a distance from the one person described to him as the closest acquaintance the president had.

It seemed like the situation was as complicated as he imagined.