In a dim corner, Akasaka's wives, who had come along with him, watched him trick a child and all clicked their tongues.
Akasaka had mainly tricked the child for Mahiru's sake.
Mahiru gave an awkward yet polite smile. She was pretty embarrassed too and didn't know what to say.
Akasaka was very pleased with the Ten-Year Bazooka he'd tricked someone into handing over. He looked at the child in Mahiru's arms with an expectant expression.
He walked over to Mahiru.
Mahiru was looking forward to it too. After all, as a mother, it was impossible not to feel something at the thought of meeting her grown-up daughter.
Akasaka placed the Ten-Year Bazooka over the heads of himself and Mahiru's daughter.
There was a bang.
White smoke billowed in every direction.
Mahiru simply felt her arms grow heavier.
The child's weight changed, suddenly becoming much heavier.
When the smoke cleared,
the baby who had been in Mahiru's arms had suddenly become a child of over ten years old. She stared wide-eyed at her father, Akasaka, while clinging to her mother Mahiru's neck, apparently still trying to figure out what was going on.
Meanwhile,
in the timeline ten years later,
Mahiru was busy handling official business in the Vongola Family boss's office. She looked up and saw that her grown-up daughter, who had been sitting across from her and eating chips, had suddenly disappeared.
She was baffled. She put down the brush she'd been using to sign documents, then thought it over and seemed to understand what had happened.
Considering the timeline,
it seemed this was exactly when her daughter had gone to the past.
Mahiru then paid it no mind. After all, as someone who had been there, she knew exactly what had happened in the past. She'd already experienced it