He entered the Anteiku Cafe and noticed that everything was the same as it was, like the time before. He stands directly behind the bar, where an old man Yoshimura was preparing coffee. He just sat there and observed the art of coffee making without saying another word.Apparently, Touka wasn"t there to which Lucien was a bit happy as there wouldn"t be any awkward situation ahead. He still remembered that something. It happened more than a year ago when they had talked and she talked about the feeling she held for him when Lucien asked her that if she would be able to abandon everything to leave with him, she wasn"t able to give him an answer. Seeing that, he knew that she couldn"t abandon her family, even though it was abandoning the family for love...
Remembering that, Lucien smiled slightly as he ordered one cup of coffee from Yoshimura and then he just kept on observing the coffee making. Soon his cup of coffee was done and was already before him, in all its glory. Lucien felt the wonderful aroma of freshly made coffee which made him smile and he sipped from it immediately.
"It"s delicious as always, Mr. Yoshimura."
Said Lucien as he put down the cup of coffee and looked at old man Yoshimura who was currently cleaning some.
"That, what is happening to the CCG, is your job? Isn"t it?"
Asked Yoshimura after he finished cleaning cup of coffee he was currently cleaning and looked at Lucien who was leisurely sitting before him. Lucien then nodded his head, before proceeded to explain the state of things.
"You know, I need to smoke out the rats hiding in the shadows, so tomorrow there would be no rats."
Old man Yoshimura knew that he was referring to the Washuu Clan and their lapdogs, Vasuki organization. Although Washuu Clan weren"t rats, they were still hiding in the shadows. He knew that Lucien had in his plans to exterminate the entire Washuu Clan during the war between Commission of COunter Ghoul and ghouls for the 20th Ward.
"Don"t worry, my p.a.w.ns are strong enough to take care of the Commission of Counter Ghoul now, even though in the past the Aogiri Tree was weak, now they at least have enough strength to destroy them. What would one expect, that two of strongest Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigators were killed..."
Explained Lucien to him, now an only week or something around that remained till the day when the CCG would start their retaliation operation in the 20th Ward. Lucien knew this information thanks to the Arima, and thus he could wonderfully prepare. He immediately commanded forces of the Aogiri Tree to prepare hideouts and traps around the whole 20th Ward so they could be of some use. He also got to know that commander of the operation would be Washuu Yos.h.i.toki, so he ordered a.r.s.eahr to kill him at first and only then go to HQ of Vasuki and slaughter them all.
"Oh yes, one more thing. Don"t let that girl fight, even though she is stronger than before, this battle would be more dangerous."
Said Lucien to Yoshimura as he was referring to Touka, even though she was stronger thanks to Lucien"s training, but still, she was rather weak compared to really strong ghouls or numerical disadvantage against several high-cla.s.s ghoul investigators, namely a.s.sociate Special-Cla.s.s and Special-Cla.s.s.
Yoshimura hearing Lucien"s words, nodded in agreement as he knew that it was too dangerous for her to fight in such, we could already say large-scaled war compared to now.
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Lucien then returned to the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory to resume his training and more importantly to wait for the start of the "Final Act" as it would take some time for the CCG to coordinate everything they had in their a.r.s.enal and move their forces to the 20th Ward.
After some time he spent training, he decided to go to the 24th Ward, which now looked like a proper city, more to be precise fortress city and went to find his new soon to be Holy Imperial Knight Tatara, who was currently training in the martial arts that Lucien gave him. When Tatara agreed to become one of the Holy Imperial Knights, Lucien gave him a whole bunch of martial arts and a good amount of blood essences to enhance his strength as much as possible.
"Your Highness."
Said Tatara as he bowed when he saw Lucien appearing in the secluded yard, which belonged to him. Lucien nodded and head and then waved his hand so he could relax.
"I came to inform you about your target and mission. During the battle of the 20th Ward, you will kill Washuu Yos.h.i.toki, as he will be the commander of the whole War of the 20th Ward, based on my information. Then after the deed is done, you will contact me and I will transport you to the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory so you could rest there. After the extermination of the Washuu Clan and Vasuki is done, will be leaving for the Blood Island, immediately."
Tatara nodded in agreement and then continued training in his martial arts and Lucien returned tot he Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory as he only was here to say Tatara his orders by himself. When he arrived at the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory he went straight to the library to read some book about Akashic Multiverse he got when he became Executor of the Akashic Records.
He especially read more and more about the occupation of Executor to gain some basic understanding of the occupation itself and their rights and duties. They were basically something like mercenaries that were doing the quest for Akashic Records and these quests were issued mainly by Administrators of Akashic Records.
Administrators issued quest mainly for two reasons. Either they can"t do it themselves because of some reasons or restrictions. This was one of the reasons. The second one was that they were too lazy to do it themselves. For example, Lucien"s current quest, obtaining the Akashic-Grade Item G.o.d-Devil System was given to him, because the G.o.d-Devil Plane is sealed that no Administrator can enter. Lucien didn"t understand how it worked, but apparently, it was created by G.o.d-Devil to prevent other Administrators from entering the plane.