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 amm*nit*on for the Ten-Year-Bazooka.
Tsuna: amm*nit*on 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 sh*t 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 b*rned 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 bastard 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 m*llitary 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 w*apon 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 w*apon
: 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!
07x174 - The Truth about the Future
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Centers around the life of Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, a timid boy who learns he is the great-great-great grandson of the founder of the Italian Vongola Mafia family.
Centers around the life of Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, a timid boy who learns he is the great-great-great grandson of the founder of the Italian Vongola Mafia family.