The Amazing Shop

"Stop fooling around, Masa. Tsuna, right? Can you point out the location of the Still Silver?" Ryūken asked.

Tsuna rubbed his already bright-red cheeks. Only after shooting the smug Masa a glare did he say, "No problem."

D. Spada's Magic Mirror looked toward Hae on the bed, and Hae immediately became translucent. What appeared before Ryūken was a complete network of human veins, along with three points of light within them. Those were the Still Silver Tsuna had mentioned.

This was what Tsuna had seen through the Magic Mirror. Now, he used the mirror's own power to cast an Illusion on Hae, recreating what he had seen for Ryūken.

Seeing the condition of the Still Silver with his own eyes, Ryūken's expression turned grave. The Still Silver was flowing too quickly; it was impossible to remove it from a fixed point. The operation had to be performed dynamically.

"How is it, A Long? Are you confident?" Masa stopped fooling around when it came to serious matters.

Ryūken reached out to touch the location of the Still Silver, but his hand passed through empty air as though there was nothing there.

Ryūken turned to Tsuna. Tsuna scratched his nose awkwardly. "Uh, strictly speaking, what you're seeing right now is my Illusion. You can't touch Aunt Hae."

"So an operation is impossible in this state. Can you use an Illusion beside her to create a reference point?" As long as he had a reference, Ryūken was confident he could complete the operation while watching the Still Silver's movements.

"Uh, no. My Illusion has to target an object in order to work."

Tsuna was helpless too. The Magic Mirror's primary power lay in seeing through things. Its Illusion ability was only an additional feature and could only transform one target.

"What about using me as the target? I can lie beside her. Cast the Illusion on me, and let A Long operate on Hae." Masa pointed at herself and asked.

Tsuna looked her up and down. "That could work, but differences in body shape would cause slight deviations. Can you accept that?"

"No. The Still Silver is too tiny. I'm the only one confident enough to remove it. There isn't a second person in Karakura Town who would dare perform this operation! There absolutely can't be any deviation!" Ryūken said confidently, pushing up his glasses.

"Unless you can find someone with exactly the same height and build as the two aunts..."

Just as Tsuna and Ryūken racked their brains, Masa suddenly had an idea. "Someone with exactly the same height and build really can be found."

Masa grinned. "A Long, don't forget where my husband came from. A body that can perfectly match a soul—can't it create an identical copy of someone's body?"

Ryūken remembered as well. Kurosaki Isshin's true body as a Bleach was only a soul. To live normally in the World of the Living, he had to wear a body called a Gigai. A Gigai could naturally look exactly like its user.

"Lift the Illusion, Tsuna," Ryūken said. Unlike Masa, he was not so frivolous. Tsuna's displayed strength alone was enough to make him take the boy seriously.

Ryūken bent over Hae on the bed. "You heard that too, didn't you? Are you willing to trust me?"

Hae smiled softly. "You know I trust you. Always."

While Ryūken and Hae flirted, Masa dragged Tsuna aside and asked with a grin, "Little Tsuna, you don't mind staying overnight at Auntie's house, do you?"

Tsuna understood what Masa meant. She wanted to use this as an excuse to cover for him with Sawada Nana. Fortunately, Tsuna often visited the Kurosaki Residence, so the excuse would not seem too forced.

Once Tsuna nodded, Masa excitedly called Sawada Nana. Her reason was that Tsuna and Ichigo had played themselves tired and fallen asleep, and since the rain was so heavy, Tsuna might as well stay the night.

"Done!" Masa gave Tsuna a victory pose, then said to the ready Ryūken, "A Long, let's go now. We'll head straight to the shopkeeper's place. I'll call Isshin and have him meet us there."

"Fine, let's go!" As he spoke, Ryūken took out a bag, hoisted Hae onto his back, pushed open the window, and looked ready to jump out.

"Aren't we driving?" Tsuna could not help asking. There were two patients here. Were they really going out into the rain?

"The rain's too heavy to see clearly, and driving is too slow. You flew here too, didn't you?" Ryūken asked strangely. He manipulated Reishi to form a thin membrane over himself and Hae, keeping every raindrop from touching them.

Tsuna had no response. Instead, Masa poked his cheek. "Look at A Long. Little Tsuna, can you really bear to let Aunt Masa get soaked?"

Tsuna really had no way to deal with someone older than himself acting cute. The Magic Mirror transformed amid green light and draped itself over the two of them.

"Primo's Cloak."

"Good stuff, Little Tsuna. You should've taken this out earlier. Auntie got soaked for quite a while because of you." Masa climbed onto Tsuna's back. A raincoat could not completely block the rain, after all.

Tsuna silently apologized. He had never expected that the Sky, with its overwhelming defense that dyed everything, devoured everything, and embraced everything—Vongola Primo's Cloak—would be used for the first time to keep out rain.

"I'll call Isshin..."

At the Kurosaki Residence, upon learning that Masa's life was in danger, Isshin grabbed his car keys without a word and rushed outside. Just as he reached the door, he suddenly returned to his room, grabbed a large bag, and then left...

Above Karakura Town, two groups of figures moved rapidly through the curtain of rain. The feet of the group behind glowed green, and every advance came with a brief stagnation—the moment they used Fullbring Light to launch themselves. The feet of the group in front, however, never stopped glowing blue. Their path was completely straight, and their speed was astonishing. The gap between the two groups steadily widened.

"So that's the Quincy Hirenkyaku? It really is extraordinary." Tsuna sighed while hurrying onward. He had already gone all out, yet he still could not catch up to Ishida Ryūken ahead.

This was certainly partly because Ishida Ryūken was stronger than him, but the advantage of Hirenkyaku could not be denied.

Hirenkyaku was an advanced movement technique used by Quincy. By concentrating Reishi beneath their feet, they controlled it to carry themselves at high speed, as though they were wearing a pair of shoes made for rapid movement.

Simply put, Hirenkyaku was like skating while Fullbring Light was like bouncing. At the same level of strength, Hirenkyaku was simply faster.

"What? Are you jealous, Little Tsuna?" Masa, who did not need to exert herself, still had the mood to tease him. "If you want to learn, just have A Long teach you later."

"It's a signature Quincy ability. Of course I want to learn it," Tsuna said as though it were only natural.

"You... aren't you afraid of The Auswählen?" Masa's tone suddenly fell. The emptiness of losing one's power was not something one could simply let go of.

"The Auswählen isn't all-powerful. Look at that uncle's son. He's clearly mixed-blood too, but isn't he perfectly fine?" Tsuna said.

"Uryū? Has he already started training Quincy powers?" Masa asked in surprise.

"Just because that uncle didn't teach him doesn't mean nobody else did." Tsuna said, "Speaking of which, Aunt Masa, do you plan to let Ichigo become a Quincy?"

Masa puffed out her cheeks and voiced her thoughts. "Of course not. What's the point of all that fighting and killing? Ichigo should just live an ordinary person's life. If he becomes a Quincy, he'll have to worry about The Auswählen and all that."

Masa truly cared about being targeted by The Auswählen. In her view, as long as Ichigo never possessed power in his life, The Auswählen would never notice him. What she did not know was that, with Aizen already watching Ichigo, how could he possibly live as an ordinary person? She knew even less that Ichigo belonged to the group that did not need to fear The Auswählen.

Tsuna said nothing more. He respected the choices of other people's parents. He made up his mind that unless Ichigo came to him seeking power on his own initiative, he would not guide Ichigo into learning to control the abilities inside him ahead of time.

Besides, in the original timeline, Ichigo would still learn his powers and cut down Yhwach three years later. There was no need to rush.

Before long, Tsuna saw their destination. In the middle of a small clearing stood an unremarkable general store. This was the place Masa had brought them to—Urahara Shop.

This was the refuge Urahara Kisuke had opened in the World of the Living after the former captain of Squad 12 was forced to leave the Soul Society. Urahara Kisuke himself was one of the core producers of Bleach world's black technology. It could be said that he could pull out all kinds of unknown little gadgets.

Just as Tsuna landed from the sky, a small truck pulled up beside them. A middle-aged man in a floral shirt stepped out. It was Kurosaki Isshin. The Kurosaki Residence was closer to this place, which was why he had managed to meet up with Tsuna and the others.

Before Kurosaki Isshin could check on Masa, the door of that shabby old-fashioned shop opened. A middle-aged man holding a folding fan, wearing a green-and-white bucket hat, and dressed in a dark green coat and trousers stood in the doorway. He covered half his mouth with his fan and said in a lecherous, exaggerated tone.

"Oh ho ho, I was wondering why the sky seemed a little clearer. So distinguished guests have come calling."

This man was Urahara Kisuke. The torrential rain proved that he was talking nonsense and merely making sarcastic remarks.

"Kisuke, stop talking nonsense first. We need your help." Isshin took Masa into a princess carry and rushed straight into Urahara Shop.

Isshin's reckless actions frightened Kisuke into hurriedly stepping aside. When he saw pale-faced Hae on Ryūken's back, Kisuke realized the situation was serious.

In Urahara Shop's reception room, a muscular middle-aged man with a small braid was serving hot tea to Tsuna and the others. Standing beside Tsuna were a boy and a girl around his age.

The braided middle-aged man was Kukaku Shiba, the former Chief Kido Officer of the Soul Society. His Kido abilities were unfathomable. The girl was Yame. She wore twin ponytails and looked quiet and gentle. The other boy was different: his red hair made him seem much more outgoing. His name was Hanakari Jinta, and upon meeting Tsuna, he immediately gave him the nickname Hedgehog Head.

Urahara, Isshin, and Ryūken returned from the room next door, where Masa and Hae had been settled. Masa had strongly opposed being treated like a patient, but after Isshin saw that her energetic appearance was merely an act, he sternly ordered her to lie down.

"Yo, so this is the young man who has been very active over the past year?" The moment he entered, Urahara spoke to Tsuna in an exaggerated tone. A shrewd glint flashed in his eyes.

Urahara Kisuke, who had watched over Karakura Town for years, had clearly noticed Sawada Tsunayoshi's spiritual pressure long ago. Like Isshin and the others, since Tsuna had done nothing dangerous and was instead eliminating Hollows, he had taken no action against him.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi," Tsuna introduced himself.

"Then, Mr. Tsuna, could you explain the situation and your needs in detail?" Urahara Kisuke said. What Ryūken and Isshin had told him about The Auswählen earlier had only been fragmentary. The best option was to learn from Tsuna, who knew the details.