and why the shot of mukuro at the end of the chapter? FOREBODING??

if kawahira is one of mukuro's avatars... it would make sense since he can also use illusions

but tsuna should have been able to detect mukuro in him, right?

/headscratch

i find it hard to believe that this person was just pulled out of the blue. unless there are other hidden allies out there

who have yet to be introduced. makes more sense that this is someone we already met, but can't remember/relate to the current situation

then again, khr =/= sense XD s'all good~

;DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

XD XD XD (trips on the unexplainable)

I want to think that he wasn't pulled completely out of the blue. XD Has to be a reason why TYL Ipin mentions him each and every time.

Of course it does. Having Tsuna & co. there gave Uni the hope to fight back. I'm assuming that *this* Uni is the only Uni,

amongst all the dimensions, that actually showed Byakuran the activated pacifiers.

.-. So now Byakuran wants to get her back no matter what.

--What happened in every dimension save this one is that Byakuran has totally dominated those worlds, but he hasn't succeeded in uniting

the Trinisette. For that he needs Uni's power.

--Something like the pacifiers being "dead". So even if he'd completed all three sets, the power they hold is inaccessible.

:'D This is incredibly fucked up. I can't think about all the branching possibilities without getting a headache.

But it's safe to say that if Irie hadn't tampered with time, everyone would have gone on to live normal lives.

But there's also the very real possibility that this world's Byakuran would awaken and take over everything, too.

So really, the only chance of winning, however slim - from Irie and TYL Tsuna's POV, is if the younger selves came forward with the rings.

Impossible, I think. ;;;

I know I like the very shonen idea of the antagonists turning a leaf and repenting for their sins and becoming good, but.

--Actually I haven't thought about how events here might affect the other dimensions.

But for that, I think, they're going to have to do the fixing in the past, before Byakuran here or in other worlds can start turning nutty.

--Also, what does Byakuran want to DO with the Trinisette? Just plain remaking the world the way he likes feels too small a goal considering

that he's already conquered each and every world through sheer force.

: | For some reason, I keep thinking the one-world goal of the One King in Tierkreis.

What about using the Trinisette to seal off Byakuran's ability in the past, then?

( Sorry for the hijack, Bhex. :'D )

( Obviously I think too much about this if I can come up with theories for Reborn but not for Umineko. )

( Also, Bhex, yes, that looks like a Hell Ring on Kawahira's finger. see left-most ring )

Hence the need to protect Uni. I don't think Amano stressed that enough with the current chapters, or just how important she is.

--But it'll probably become more obvious with more chapters. :'D

There's the Trinisette, then. It's never been said outright just what it's capable of, anyway.

thanks for the link to the rings, lyn - so how many rings have we seen so far?

one for genshiki, two for mukuro, and one for kawahira - two to go?

did i miss anyone? or does byakuran have hell rings too?

*genkishi, was it?

:'D I don't really remember how many rings have been accounted for, for both Genkishi and Mukuro.

Although it's possible that Byakuran might have possession of at least one of the remaining rings?

i don't remember there being a "666" ring, that's kinda... tacky XD

XD There is. I remember that ring the most, actually.

Actually--wait, lemme pull up that page where Mukuro reveals his Hell Rings.

( Gdit, officemate, stop walking around behind me. )

Here?

Mukuro has the two rings on the top row. Genkishi has the one with the face, on the right?

So the ones unaccounted for are the 666 ring and the one with the spike.

so byakuran doesn't have them... but i guess only illusionists have them.

marmon, maybe?

Possible. Torikabuto could have one, too.

...who is that again?

XD Mist dude of the Millefiore. The one with the scary ogre mask.

wait, is he one of the funeral wreaths?

He is~ The one Tsuna fought, right?

...he is? XD;;;; damn. need to reread.

XD