07x174 - The Truth about the Future

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Tsuna: Shoichi-kun! Don't die!

EpTitle: Target The Truth about the Future

Tsuna: Shoichi-kun!

Gokudera: Here, your glasses.

Irie: What happened with Choice?

Tsuna: Sorry...

Tsuna: We lost.

Irie: What did you say?!

Tsuna: Whoa, Shoichi-kun!

Irie: I can't allow that to happen!

Irie: We have to win...

Irie: We're gonna win!

Tsuna: Huh?

Irie: It's not over!

Irie: We're gonna fight!

Gokudera: Hey, stop moving, Irie!

CervelloB: The Choice battle is over,

CervelloB: so communications will be reopened.

Irie: I can still...

Tsuna: Shoichi-kun, you're injured!

Haru: This is awful!

Kyoko: He needs to be treated right away!

Dino: Let's go!

Basil: Yes!

Ryohei: Yeah!

Irie: Byakuran-san, I can still fight!

Tsuna: N-No, Shoichi-kun!

Tsuna: Moving will make your injuries worse!

Gokudera: Do you want to die?!

Irie: I don't care if I die!

Irie: If that's what it takes to defeat Byakuran-san,

Irie: I'd be more than happy to die!

Tsuna: Huh?

Irie: More than happy...

Tsuna: Shoichi-kun... What are you saying?

Irie: I have to defeat Byakuran-san...

Tsuna: I don't get it...

Tsuna: I don't get it!

Gokudera: Boss?

Tsuna: Why are you still so obsessed about defeating Byakuran?

Tsuna: I don't get it!

Irie: Tsunayoshi-kun...

Tsuna: I know that Byakuran is a bad person,

Tsuna: and I know that terrible things will happen if he takes ³ Policy from us,

Tsuna: but I don't quite get it.

Tsuna: You could say that we're doing this to save mankind,

Tsuna: but it's so abstract that I have trouble relating sometimes.

Gokudera: The boss is absolutely right.

Gokudera: I can understand fighting to return to the past,

Gokudera: but it doesn't make sense for a bunch of kids

: to fight to clean up the mess in the future world.

Irie: I see... You're right...

Irie: I've been so busy the past few days that I didn't bother to explain anything.

Irie: No...I was foolish and assumed that you would understand.

Tsuna: Shoichi-kun, tell us.

Tsuna: Why are you so obsessed about Byakuran?

Tsuna: What happened between the two of you?

Irie: I'll tell you everything.

Irie: Rather, I want you to listen to what I have to say.

Irie: It all started eleven years ago.

Irie: I lived in Namimori, just like the rest of you.

Irie: One day, Lambo-san came flying into my home.

Irie: In return for saving Lambo-san,

Irie: the Bovino Family gave us a wooden box.

Tsuna: Huh?! Lambo's got something to do with this?!

Irie: A lot happened,

Irie: and I ended up not getting a chance to return the box.

Irie: So I held on to it for a period of time.

Irie: The box also contained some items meant for Lambo-san.

Irie: Including ammunition for the Ten-Year-Bazooka.

Tsuna: Ammunition for the Ten-Year Bazooka...

Irie: But I didn't realize what it was,

Irie: and accidentally dropped one on my foot.

Gokudera: Wait, that means...

Gokudera: It'd have the same effect as being shot from the Ten-Year-Bazooka?!

Irie: Yeah.

Irie: I exchanged places with a ten-years-older version of myself,

Irie: and went to the future for the first time.

Irie: When I arrived ten years in the future,

Irie: I found myself at an American engineering university.

Irie: Where am I?

Irie: I was just in my room...

Irie: Th-This is...

Irie: My picture?

Irie: And the date on this newspaper is...

Irie: Ten years in the future?

Irie: That's impossible...

Irie: What does this mean?!

Irie: What's going on here?!

Irie: Ow...

Byaku: Are you okay, kid?

Irie: Ah, Japanese...

Byaku: Thought you were Japanese.

Byaku: You must be exceptionally smart to come here at such a young age, Irie-kun.

Byaku: Or are you his little brother?

Byaku: Excuse me!

Irie: After a while, I returned to the past.

Tsuna: So you met Byakuran for the first time in the future...

Gokudera: Your story seems to be about standard time traveling.

Irie: Yeah, that's all it was.

Irie: Since Byakuran-san was still a normal person at the time...

Tsuna: Still a normal person?

Irie: In fact, once I returned to the past,

Irie: I completely forgot about Byakuran-san

Irie: because I was so excited about traveling through time.

Irie: But at the same time,

: I became depressed about how

: I hadn't fulfilled my dream of becoming a musician.

Tsuna: Huh? Shoichi-kun, you wanted to become a musician?

Irie: Funny, right?

Irie: That's why I thought to change the future so I could become a musician.

Tsuna: Change the future?

Tsuna: That's...

Irie: If you change the past, you change the future.

Irie: There's more than one future.

Tsuna: Huh? There's more than one future?

Reborn: Parallel worlds.

Dino: Sorry we're late!

Tsuna: Everyone!

Basil: Are you okay, Master Irie?

Tsuna: That's right!

Tsuna: We need to get Shoichi-kun's injuries taken care of!

Reborn: His wounds look bad...

Reborn: Ryohei, open up your Sun Iron.

Ryohei: Yeah!

Tsuna: Oh, what about Spanner?

Dino: Poison Scorpion and the others are tending to him.

Haru: Everything's okay now.

Kyoko: What a relief...

Kyoko: His injuries aren't too serious.

Ryohei: I'll heal you extremely, in no time.

Irie: Thanks...

Irie: Anyway, I need to explain about parallel worlds.

Tsuna: Come to think of it, the adult Lambo mentioned something about para-

Ryohei: What's a parasol world?

Ryohei: You mean an umbrella?

Gokudera: It's parallel! Parallel!

Reborn: Parallel worlds are the idea that every choice you make is a branching point,

Reborn: meaning that many possible futures can exist.

Tsuna: Branching worlds...?

Reborn: For example, take our first encounter.

Reborn: There's the future where you met me and become a top-class Mafia boss,

Reborn: and the future where you never met me and lead a lousy, worthless life.

Caption: Future

Caption: Didn't meet Past Did meet

Reborn: The idea would be that both worlds exist.

Tsuna: They both sound bad to me.

Tsuna: So you mean if these potential worlds were actually to exist...

Reborn: Yeah, including every single possibility.

Ryohei: But so much is possible.

Reborn: Yeah.

Reborn: That's why it's believed that

Caption: Past

: an infinite number of branches lead to an infinite number of parallel worlds.

Caption: Future

Tsuna: What?!

Ryohei: Incredible!

Basil: An infinite number of parallel worlds...

Dino: Sounds absurd.

Irie: So I believed that there must be a parallel world where I was a musician,

Irie: and I decided to visit the future again.

Tsuna: Huh? But how would you make a future where you were a musician?

Irie: I burned all of my school textbooks,

Irie: and wrote that I'd either become a musician or die, on my career plan.

Tsuna: Huh?

Tsuna: Shoichi-kun's quite extreme!

Irie: And then I traveled through time again.

Irie: And my future was different from the first time.

Irie: This time when I arrived ten years in the future,

Irie: I was at a run-down bar on the outskirts of a foreign city.

Irie: Yes! It worked!

Irie: Apparently, the future me had been performing

Irie: and working as a musician in this place.

A: Where'd that b*stard go?!

B: Are you a friend of Irie's?

A: That's perfect then.

A: You can pay us in his place!

Irie: Huh?!

B: If you can't pay...

Irie: I'm sorry!

Irie: I was being chased by a g*ng because of financial issues.

Tsuna: What?!

Basil: No way...

Irie: It's funny, right?

Irie: I guess I wasn't cut out to be a musician.

Irie: I ran out of there as fast as I could,

Irie: and reached a crowded street,

Irie: when through a twist of fate...

Irie: Ow!

Irie: I ran into that man again.

Irie: Yes...

Irie: It was Byakuran-san.

Tsuna: Byakuran?!

Irie: Yeah...

Irie: That wasn't all.

Irie: I-I'm sorry...

Byaku: Are you Japanese?

Irie: Yes... Uh...

Irie: It's the man from last time!

Irie: How is this...?

Irie: But this should be the first time he's ever met me in this world.

Irie: He shouldn't be able to recognize me.

Irie: Anyway, I shouldn't get too involved with him.

Byaku: Sorry about that.

Irie: Huh? Hold on.

Irie: Have we met before?

Irie: Huh? No, you must have me confused with someone else.

Irie: Huh? Huh?!

Byaku: My head hurts...

Byaku: What is this?

Irie: Huh?

Irie: A-Are you okay?

Byaku: I'm on the verge of figuring it out.

Byaku: I'm about to solve a critical question.

Byaku: I've met you before in a completely different place.

Irie: He must have me confused with someone else...

Byaku: In a different world.

Byaku: At a university.

Byaku: Your name is...

Byaku: Irie...

Irie: How? How does someone in this world know about me?!

Irie: I was so creeped out that I ran away.

Irie: The next thing I knew, I was back in the past.

Tsuna: Wh-What does this mean?

Irie: I didn't understand what was going on at the time.

Irie: I would learn of the power Byakuran-san obtained then

: when I traveled through time again later.

Tsuna: Huh?

Tsuna: You traveled through time again?

Irie: I couldn't accept that future as a musician.

Irie: I gave up on my dream and focused on going to college again.

Irie: And then, a year later, I had an urge to check on my future.

Irie: However...

Irie: The future I saw on my third trip through time

Irie: defied my expectations once again.

Irie: The world was in ruins. A scorched wasteland, ravaged by w*r.

Irie: That wasn't all...

Irie: My cell phone was playing a tyrannical speech by the one who

: started the w*r and succeeded in taking over the world.

Irie: A man named Byakuran.

Tsuna: No way!

Ryohei: Why him?!

Irie: I thought that it was some kind of mistake...

Irie: Just a bad dream.

Irie: So I tried changing whatever I could

Irie: and traveling through time again.

Irie: But every time, the future would be under

: Byakuran's control with only the slightest in changes.

Reborn: What did Byakuran do?

Irie: He abused the power I awakened within him to satisfy his own greed.

Irie: In every parallel world,

: he had the most knowledge and the most advanced technology,

: and he used them to create an indomitable army.

Tsuna: Th-That's just...

Tsuna: What is Byakuran's power?!

Irie: Parallel worlds are separate worlds which run parallel to our own.

Irie: Humans have no way of knowing about

Irie: their counterparts in the parallel worlds,

Irie: and there can never be any interaction.

Irie: However, Byakuran-san...

Irie: is able to share all of the knowledge and ideas with his counterparts.

Tsuna: Huh? Share?

Ryohei: I don't get it! Extremely confused!

Ryohei: What's so amazing abut Byakuran?!

Irie: Like I said...

Irie: An infinite number of branches will lead to all kinds of futures.

Irie: A future where military technology is highly advanced.

Irie: A future where the ruins of ancient cultures were successfully excavated.

Irie: A future where medical science has progressed significantly.

Irie: Originally, a person could only live in and experience one of those worlds,

On Screen: ,Multiple Experiences

Irie: but Byakuran-san has experienced all of those worlds.

Reborn: Which means he can take the best from each future.

Tsuna: Take the best?

Reborn: He's been through every possibility.

Reborn: His knowledge and experience can be used in other parallel worlds.

Reborn: Intelligence is the best weapon in this world.

Reborn: Allowing you to live with an advantage over everyone else.

Tsuna: An advantage over everyone else...

Reborn: He can make the impossible happen.

Irie: Exactly.

Irie: Byakuran-san made use of the knowledge from those other parallel worlds.

Irie: Like, knowing of a vaccine which hadn't been discovered in that world yet.

Irie: Or finding a royal family in hiding...

Irie: Providing the necessary technology for developing a weapon

: that would originally have required hundreds of inventions

Irie: and finishing development at a rapid pace.

Reborn: But that would mean that Byakuran only learned

Reborn: of his power a short time ago.

Reborn: It's impossible to accomplish so much in such a little time.

Irie: That's because as I traveled through time,

Irie: I accidentally allowed the Byakuran in the past to realize his power too.

Gokudera: The one in the past?

Irie: When I returned to the past,

Irie: Byakuran-san planted a transmission device on me,

Irie: which delivered a message to the past Byakuran.

Tsuna: Which means that Byakuran was using his power since ten years ago?

Irie: Yes.

Ryohei: Irie! What have you been doing this entire time?!

Ryohei: You stood by while Byakuran was doing evil?!

Tsuna: R-Ryohei...

Irie: I...

Irie: I lost my memory...

Tsuna: Huh?

Irie: When I went to the future for the eighth time,

Irie: I was caught in a device set up by the future me

Irie: which erased all memories concerning time travel and Byakuran-san.

Irie: For five years.

Tsuna: F-For five years?

Tsuna: Why did the future version of you do this?

Irie: To defeat Byakuran-san, of course!

Irie: The future version of me used the past me

: to earn Byakuran-san's trust while plotting to strike back.

Irie: So I was manipulated into approaching Byakuran-san

Irie: without any of my memories,

Irie: so he wouldn't suspect that I had any hostile intentions.

Irie: When I returned to the past,

Irie: there was a letter from the future me.

Irie: There were orders stating what I should do.

Caption: Shoichi Irie has a crush on...

Irie: It also listed a secret I didn't want revealed,

Irie: so I had no choice but to obey.

Irie: I used the Ten-Year-Bazooka on all of you

Irie: because the letter said to do so.

Gokudera: You had no idea when you...

Irie: Yes...

Irie: And I went to a college overseas, as instructed by the letter,

Irie: and became friends with Byakuran-san.

Irie: Ironically, that was the most fun I ever had in my life.

Irie: This was when we invented Choice.

Irie: But after five years, I remembered everything.

Irie: My terrible experience with time travel and the ravaged futures I had seen...

Irie: That Byakuran-san was the cause and that my duty was to stop him.

Irie: I panicked.

Irie: After a while, I resolved to become a spy.

Irie: I put my memory and the reality of this world in order,

Irie: and I realized the current situation, which left me astonished again.

Irie: Because among all the possible parallel worlds,

Irie: the world I was in was the only one

Irie: that hadn't been destroyed by Byakuran-san!

Tsuna: The only world that hasn't been destroyed by Byakuran?

Caption: Next Episode

Reborn: Byakuran's got an incredible power there.

Reborn: After hearing Shoichi's explanation,

Reborn: Tsuna finally realizes the gravity of this battle.

Reborn: But Byakuran shows no mercy as he comes for the Vongola Ring.

Reborn: When all appears lost, a new hope arrives.

Reborn: Next time on Reborn:

Reborn: Yuni Comes.

Reborn: Watch like your life depends on it.

: See you next time!