Note: This chapter is full of dialogues, and some terms I made up myself. Earthian - people from Earth and Le Grandian - people from the Le Grande. As explained in previous chapters as well, Toshi is the Le Grandian leader and dictator, with rules and regulation. Le Grande is the place where Hibari, Xanxus, Timoteo and other characters to be introduced apparently lives, and it is still a mystery what this world is or from. Anyway, I hope, even if this chapter is full of dialogues, even in the last part, you can understand my explanation regarding the punishments.

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The Penalty and The Malevolent Voice

A very dark place...I couldn't visualize a thing...

Sounds of wails and laments echoed throughout the entire place...

A sound of chains...and other metallic objects were heard...

A whip...followed by a whimper of a man...

A sound of evil laughter...

A rough evil voice... "Be reduced to smithereens!"

...Where...

Is...this...?

I...don't get it...

"Ahh...!" a voice of a man who yelled after a sound of whip hitting a body resonated in the place.

Why...

"AHAHA!" that wicked voice tormented his mind

S-stop...

"Nng...! Sh-shit... a-ahh..." one after another a noise of whip increased.

"BWAHAHAHA!"

P-please...

...stop...

"An..hhh...da-damn...!" yet of another whimper of the man after the slam of the whip into a body.

No...stop...that man...

"Ahhn!" then a wham of the lash was heard in the whole dark place, he couldn't see a thing but only heard the noises and human voices.

...that man...

...is in ...

Pain...

"DIE! BWAHAHAHA!"

Stop...

Another smash of the rod...

"Haha!"

"Annhhh...!"

Please...

"PLEASE STOP!" and then the brunet, with his hair messed up as usual, jerked up in his bed, yelled like he wanted to shatter the house he was currently in.

"Ah-huh..." Tsuna gained his consciousness to his surroundings, as he looked around the house, with the fireplace in his front. He felt a little cold from the outside, which currently has a very heavy snowfall and pain in his chest, remembering the past events in the first town he encountered during his stay in the mysterious world.

He first wondered how he got in this house, as well as how he had survived that wound when he was stabbed near his heart. He got up from the bed, warily walking on the house and searching for a sign of a living person. But after some time, he found out no one was in that house after checking all places.

The house was small, only one storey and consist of a very small living room connected to the kitchen with a fireplace diving the two. With a wooden divider, there was that room where the bed was found, with a small table beside it. The top of the table had a little plant, a really peculiar plant with blue leaves and gray stems, just like those trees he saw outside, meaning he was still intact in the enigmatic world. There was a glass window beside the table, tightly closed, and beside it a calendar, which was luckily just as the same as the calendar he had in his house in his world. Today was March 15, and Tsuna laughed to himself after realizing yesterday was the White Day.

His stomach grumbled, and he searched for a food in the kitchen, but upon opening the little fridge, he found nothing in it. It was pretty empty.

Tsuna sighed. How the hell did he even get in in this house?

Well, the first thought that struck his mind was that a certain someone saved him. But who will save him? It had seemed that everyone from this world had hated him, for he was from "Earth", which was the name of the planet. Maybe other people from Earth saved him? But where was that person now? There's no way he could be outside in this blizzard, right?

Tsuna looked outside from the glass window, and realized that the blizzard was no longer there. He saw the sky – it was pure white, so clearly white that it was so sorrowful to look at. The snow was also white, bathing the whole scene with silvery color. All the creepy figures he saw before were no longer present.

And then in his contemplation came his dream. A dark place, noises of whimpers and evil voices...but it turned out that all scenes in his dream was just sounds. He never glimpsed any spot of light at all. And the voice...the voice was so familiar that Tsuna became really annoyed that he was so dumb that he couldn't recall whose voice it at all. The evil voice sounded very much alike to that Xanxus Enma had mentioned, though he wasn't really sure since that time he had closed his eyes to pretend asleep. The brunet tried and tried to think while still gazing outside what his dream was all about, and he couldn't came up with an answer until he heard a loud thud which seemed from outside the house.

There were also accompanied light footsteps in the noise, and a voice of a girl, a firm one like for an adult. Tsuna then checked where the noise came from, and upon looking at the door, he saw was a beautiful woman, who wore a brown coat. The woman had dark bluish hair, shoulder length and stern face, eyes with some emotions masked with her unyielding fierce looks.

"Hey, it seems you have awoken," the woman remarked, as he placed his sandals near the door and welcomed herself in her home. She undressed her coat and put it in the chair near the table, as she made her way through room Tsuna found himself upon waking. The woman opened the windows, wiped off some dirt or snows in it, and even watered the little plant. As the woman did her household chores, Tsuna felt guilty for the very awkward silence, as well as just standing doing nothing.

As the blue-haired lady reached for a broom in an old cabinet in the corner, Tsuna volunteered that he would be the one to sweep the floor and he also said that the woman must have been tired and she needed to rest.

"This is my work," the girl replied, not letting go of the broom in her hands. Tsuna pouted, though not so obvious as he just pulled a chair from the table and sat in there, for at least he didn't want to disturb the working woman. And this continued for hours.

However, the brunet couldn't really take silence, and after a while decided to start a conversation. "Umm...My name is Sawada Tsuna-"

"I know," the woman began preparing the food, which in turn was stored in the lowest portion of the fridge which Tsuna didn't notice. "Mine's Lal Mirch."

"The-then...Lal-san...wh-why am I here...?" the one with caramel eyes asked, placing both his hands crossed in the table, looking intently on the object examining unconsciously its different structure and color.

"I think you're not dumb enough not to know that," she remarked, still with expressionless face as Tsuna described it. "...or I hope someone like you who that idiot son of Toshi had loved so much was not so no-good."

"I...I was actually...nicknamed as No-Good Tsuna in my class..." and the brunet followed it with a little chuckle.

"Idiot,"

"I couldn't possible deny it, Lal-san..."

"Just Lal is fine,"

"Th-then...Lal...Why is this house...seemed so isolated...?" Tsuna asked, looking at Lal. "I can't see any houses from here..."

"They threw me out from that village," the woman didn't even bother looking at him, as she was currently arranging some paper files in the cabinet beside the calendar.

"Village? Why?"

"I think that's none of your business, Sawada," Lal frowned, glaring at the brown eyes, who pouted afterwards. They shared an awkward silence then, but the brunet didn't mind, knowing that the woman was busy.

The woman went out of the house that afternoon; the snow still continued its fall. She said she would go buy some ingredients for the food, and so Tsuna just assured him that the house would be safe. Bored, the brown-haired looked around the house again, and upon entering the room he was surprised to see a picture of Lal and a man beside her, a blonde man with bandana who smiled happily, while Lal blushed with a frown in the picture. She must have been really a shy person Tsuna thought that time, as he studied the picture once more.

Wait...then where is this person right now?

Lal arrived later, as she found Tsuna looking intently on the picture on her room, as she dashed over and hid the portrait immediately on the drawer.

"Pretend you didn't see it, Sawada," she looked with dead eyes at the brunet, speaking with expressionless voice. But Tsuna knew it - that behind that mask had hid a grief on what really happened to the man beside her in the picture. The brown-haired didn't know but he just felt it, the sorrow that surrounded the woman's words every time she talked to him.

Tsuna remained quiet afterwards, knowing the emotion that Lal must had felt during that time. He let the blue haired hide the picture and Lal just then went to do what she had intended to do.

"You know, before I came here, Hibari-san told me that he loved me," Tsuna stated, recalling the events happened before, but Lal, at first, didn't pay attention. "But I knew I was just friends with him, and I also didn't harbor such feelings for him,"

Lal then became interested on what really happened to the Toshi's son and his rumoured beloved. She then stopped on what she was doing and looked to the boy who was currently sitting on the chair near the little dining table.

"Even once, I didn't know that Hibari-san had liked me that much. I thought he never even considered me as an ally or a friend, since he always called me 'herbivore'"

The woman remained silent. Tsuna then became aware that Lal was actually listening to him.

"And so, I rejected him," Tsuna uttered with a lonely voice, as his bangs shadowed over his eyes.

"Then, what did he do?" Lal asked.

"He..Hibari-san...said goodbye, smiling, but he left his tonfas..." Tears began to fall from the brunet's eyes, as he stood up, turned around and wiped his tears. Yet loneliness lingered on his face. "Then the next day...he was gone..."

"That time...maybe..." the woman murmured. Tsuna then sat in the chair again.

"I...I thought he was just sick or something like that, but...some students said they heard that he was caught in an accident..."

"No, he wasn't." Lal stated with certain voice.

"Hey, Lal-san...Are you from Earth too..." Tsuna then asked, some tears still flowing from his eyes, but he looked at the woman. "...that's why they threw you out from the village?"

"No...I wasn't..." Lal looked below; the mask in her eyes vanished a little. Some sort of agony was felt between the two. "But...the picture...you saw it right? That man's name...was Colonello,"

"Is he your lover?" the brunet questioned.

"Definitely not!" Lal shouted, as he slammed his palms in the table that created a loud noise. Shadows formed in his eyes after realizing what she had done, and relaxed herself afterwards. But Tsuna saw it – the blush that crept in his face when he asked the question.

"But...I think...I loved him..." Lal muttered. "Even though...I knew he was from Earth...just like you..."

"Colonello-san is also from Earth?"

"Yes...but as you know, Earth people are very despised here, and he was thrown in some place I didn't know..."

"How did Colonello-san got in here?"

"I'll ask the same to you."

"Well, when I was in Earth, some group of thugs approached me and carried me away. After waking up, I just realized I was already here,"

"Colonello told me that he also just woke up and then he was already here too,"

"Then...why were you thrown out from the village?" Tsuna asked again.

"They knew I was friends with an Earthian. Everyone who was affiliated with an Earthian was also considered as Earthian, and so they almost tried to kill me. I just ran away there, and I found this abandoned house in the middle of the plains." Lal explained.

"But Earthian found loving a Le Grandian or vice versa, whomever considered who loved first was punished, it was one of the laws in this world," Lal added. "Punishment is really unbeknownst to everyone, since all sinners never returned alive. No one knew where sinners were punished also."

"However, of course, since Earthian were abhorred here, they would always believe that the Earthian was the first one to love when he or she was in relationship with a Le Grandian, unless the latter had found some way to watch you from Earth and to be even go there against all odds just to look at you or to protect you, just like what Toshi's son did to you,"

"The-then...don't tell me..." Tsuna began to falter

"Colonello's an Earthian so it was certain that he was the one going to be punished...that's why I'm by myself nowadays." Lal explained. "But...it was just so unfair...and I wanted to know where he was now...I wanted to be certain if he was alive or not, since he just disappeared two months ago,"

"Hey, do-don't tell me Hibari-san's being punished too!" Tsuna yelled in panic. That's impossible...right...? For such scary person just to be punished...

"There's a high possibility. He was the heir, yet he loved you, an Earthian. It was a very grave sin, for he, the successor of Toshi, would violate the laws,"

"Bu-but...he surely knew about that before going to Earth, right?"

"He must have loved you very much," said Lal.

"No way...how could he..." Tsuna then began regretting his actions. Maybe...maybe if he didn't rejected Hibari then maybe the prefect was safe, still beating up delinquents but loving him. "...I'm the worst..."

"There's still hope, Sawada..." the woman uttered. "I know...I wanted to believe...that Colonello's still alive..."

"Hey...Lal...there's no use grieving in here...I need to go and save Hibari-san!" Tsuna shrugged his thoughts away, and he knew there was still hope, since he just arrived here.

Upon hearing his statement, Lal's eyes began to show glimmers, she just knew that this child had the potential to save the Toshi's son. And she believed, at the same time, that Colonello's still alive, or even if not, at least she knew what really happened. However, if she would know that his beloved was tortured badly, she would not forgive the punisher, and would not hesitate to fight the Toshi if so. And she was sure that Tsuna was also thinking the same.

"I feel lighter now, Sawada."

"Ehh?" Tsuna returned back to his old self, but still determined to find Hibari.

"Let's go!"

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"Kufufu...Love is really a painful emotion, isn't it...?" a voice in the shadows stated. "Right...Xanxus-sama...?"

"Shut up. Get rid of that trash as soon as possible." The evil voice stated, as the other just smirked with morbid satisfaction. "No, I changed my mind. Let him suffer more,"

"Well, you knew my conditions...right?"

"Whatever, just do the damn thing."

"Right...right...fufufu..."

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"Juudaime!" Gokudera shouted loudly in the middle of somewhere he didn't know. He ran and ran from the place he found himself, but he realized he never found a village. When he found a big tree amidst the plain, he sat there, panting as snow began to fall. "Where the hell am I...?"

Just then someone approached him. The silver head looked up, and he saw an indigo-haired woman with lonely eyes.

"Hey...will you help me?"

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