Reborn!: Playing Tsuna with the Script in Hand

I woke up as Tsunayoshi Sawada, the “good-for-nothing Tsuna” from "Katekyo Hitman Reborn!", with the entire plot in my hands and the future laid bare before me. I know the trajectory of Reborn’s bullets, the weaknesses of the enemies in the Ring Battles, Byakuran’s world-destroying plan ten years in the future, and what lies ahead for the Guardians. The bad news? My future is to become the Tenth Boss of the Vongola family, Italy’s largest mafia family. Reborn points a gun at me and vows to whip me into a proper godfather. All I want is to laze around, so I begin my desperate survival plan, which mostly involves running away: I ask to skip the Spartan training, try to dodge the Ring Battles, and use my knowledge of the plot to deal with Mukuro Rokudo and Byakuran. But the story keeps going off the rails, Reborn is even more sadistic than expected, and the Guardians refuse to follow the script. I get dragged deeper and deeper in, and there’s no escaping my responsibilities. It becomes a grueling record of survival: I want to retire in peace, but I’m forced down the path to becoming a godfather. I try to use the script to avoid danger, only to be swayed by the bonds between me, Reborn, and the Guardians. I ask Reborn to swap my application for retirement, but he tells me to turn my knowledge of the plot into sound decision-making. Then he dumps a mountain of family paperwork on me, and my vision goes black. This script and office work are both going to kill me. I’ll do things differently on this thorny road to becoming an “atypical godfather,” struggling to survive and, while I’m at it… maybe save the world?

(As long as I don’t get hit by one of Reborn’s bullets today, or get bitten to death by Hibari-senpai….)