One month went fast as water and soon, the time when the operation codenamed "Final Act" would commence. Lucien"s future wife Itori was already on the Blood Island, she was there already one month and even though she feared that she would be unwelcome, it wasn"t that bad. She managed to befriend Lucien"s mother Selene, who was telling many things about Lucien when he was still a child.Besides that, she spent most of her time training in the arts of a weapon of her chose. She chose daggers, and she was practically training every day. As she heard from Lucien, that n.o.body would respect her even though she had status. You could say that Holy Niflheim Empire was somehow like a jungle when only strong deserved respect.
Even though, it wasn"t that bad as she had originally expected. Life there was very comfortable besides that training. She spent the rest of her time by learning many things, we could call a common sense of the Holy Niflheim Empire and of course, she was preparing for the Sacred Devourification Process, only mentally though. She would be unconscious during those ten years that would Sacred Devourification Process take.
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Giving up one"s humanity had many reasons. What exactly was the definition of humanity? Was it feelings? Morals? Race?
When Akira was spending time with Zelilios, both of them started growing closer to each other as time went by. Even she noticed it after several months spent together that she wasn"t that reserved around him and even started enjoying his company.
For Zelilios, Holy Imperial Knight N0.3 it was the same. So, as the time was slowly coming to the deadline he proposed her certain idea. An idea about becoming the Sacred Devourer Ghoul as it was possible if he ama.s.sed enough contribution and also blood essences. Even though blood essences weren"t that important, most important was a contribution or to get personal permission from someone high-ranking enough and only three people in the whole Holy Niflheim Empire had the power to do something with the Sacred Blood Crystal.
Old Ancestor of the Empire, Protector Azrael Etras di Aeon, then next one was current Emperor of the Holy Niflheim Empire, Asmodeus Etras di Aeon and then the last person was, of course, the Crown Prince of the Holy Niflheim Empire, Lucien Etras di Aeon.
What was a huge and nice surprise to Zelilios was that Akira agreed to become the Sacred Devourer Ghoul, even though she didn"t tell him the reason. Afterward, he needed permission to use the Sacred Blood Crystal. The most optimal choice would be to go to Lucien as it came out as truth. Lucien agreed to his request but told him that the time when they arrive at the G.o.d-Devil Plane he would need to be very active to pay his debt.
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When the first operation started n.o.body knew what was going on. It happened like thunder from the clear sky hitting the earth and destroying everything around it. This was the exact result of Lucien"s orders when he ordered his subordinates to start systematically killing every ghoul investigator in the 20th Ward.
Whole Commission of Counter Ghoul was totally caught unprepared and to that more than half of their ghoul investigators were killed in the span of one week. The most terrifying thing was, of course, the attack on the Commission of Counter Ghoul"s 20th Ward Branch Office, which served as headquarters for all ghoul investigators in the 20th Ward.
This attack happened exactly seven days. Seven days from the day Lucien gave his order to create chaos in the 20th Ward. At the seventh day, several masked people attack the Commission of Counter Ghoul"s 20th Ward Branch Office. Main attackers were Holy Imperial Knight N0.1 a.r.s.eahr and Holy Imperial Knight N0.3 Zelilios together with some mercenaries and also, of course, p.a.w.ns of the Aogiri Tree.
They attacked ruthlessly and quickly as fast as lightning, slaughtering every living soul in the Commission of Counter Ghoul"s 20th Ward Branch Office together with. They managed to kill even the whole high-command of the Branch Office, which was good as they escaped first when something happened.
Among killed were for example Branch Director, Kamemoch and Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigator Hōji Kōsuke, formerly a.s.sociate Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigator, but was promoted as some Special Cla.s.ses were killed by Lucien and his schemes. Hōji Kōsuke was personally killed by Tatara and his heart was ripped out of his body, while he was alive. This was something that Lucien gave Tatara as a reward for agreeing to be Holy Imperial Knight to which Tatara already agreed.
He held a huge grudge against Hōji Kōsuke as mentioned ghoul investigator was sent to Chine to help Chinese ghoul investigators in exterminating ghoul organization Chi She Lian, a group Tatara belonged to before joining Aogiri. He killed several of Tatara"s friends and used their kakuhou to make quinques. Now he was killed by the most brutal and deserving way.
During the attack they even mined the whole place, and blew the whole Commission of Counter Ghoul"s 20th Ward Branch Office to the air, creating such huge explosion that it could be seen from whole Tokyo. Lucien"s plans were an immediate success as he got information that the CCG was planning to exterminate all ghouls in the 20th Ward and would be sending most of their forces to do the work. Including several Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigators, excluding the Arima Kishō who would remain in the HQ to guard it.
Now only last thing remained to do. He only needed to wait for CCG to strike back at ghouls in the 20th Ward and then he could use his p.a.w.ns, the Aogiri Tree to start the direct war with the Commission of Counter Ghoul. Then he could attack the estate of the Washuu Clan together with his Holy Imperial Knights, a.r.s.eahr and Zelilios, thus finally completing the mission codenamed the "Final Act". After that, he would take Tatara and Arima Kishō with him, back to the Empire and finally leave this world for the far wider world.