As Lucien expected, Commission of Counter Ghoul had a lot of work with the preparation of the retaliation attack against the ghouls in the 20th Ward. Whole CCG was in the huge turmoil, and of course in a hurry to create a suppression plan and gain back at least a small part of their already crumbled image.During the last years, the public image of the Commission of Counter Ghoul became very terrible and the entire organization was weakened by a huge part. Many of their forces were killed in the action, counting also, several high-ranking members as a.s.sociate Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigators and Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigators.
Lucien"s schemes were very productive and gave beautiful results for him. Of course, this operation codenamed "Final Act" wasn"t an exception. From what Lucien knew, CCG was ama.s.sing forces to strike back at the ghouls in the 20th Ward and that with an intention of total extermination of every ghoul.
Now, he needed to only prepare his p.a.w.ns for the final bait, the Aogiri Tree. They were strengthened by a huge amount, they now had several of SS-rated ghouls and many of S-rated ones. This was a very nice result, to which Lucien invested only a bit of effort and a small number of his resources.
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Lucien then met with the Holy Imperial Knights, numbers N0.1 a.r.s.eahr and N0.3 Zelilios to discuss next and final steps of the plan, "Final Act". All three of them were at the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory as Lucien"s estate at the 21st Ward was already of no use. His contract with mercenaries was already finished and all of them went for the next job.
Thus Lucien was already living only in the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory. It was even more comfortable living here.
"When the battle for the 20th Ward starts, all of us will go to the estate of the Washuu Clan and kill every living being there, and blow the entire place to the air. Afterward, we will go immediately to Blood Island as there is already nothing useful here for us. I will extract future Holy Imperial Knights, Arima Kishō and Tatara after the battle has ended."
Both Holy Imperial Knight, a.r.s.eahr and Zelilios nodded their heads in agreement with Lucien"s plan as there was nothing to add. They had absolute advantage over their enemies when it came to the strength as they cultivation was very high for the Low-Grade World standards, only Lucien wanted to have everything under control, that was reason why he brought two Holy Imperial Knights with him, both on the Viscount-Rank and with him being also, Viscount-Ranked Sacred Devourer Ghoul.
"After we arrive at the Blood Island, we would join the frontlines as father sent message that the number of Viscount-Ranked demons is constantly increasing and also, that would be a good opportunity to obtain more resources for refining blood essences as during those ten years traveling through the s.p.a.ce-Tiem Vortex we won"t get any additional resources for cultivation. Also, Zelilios bring that weapon, to the Arima and say to him that when the battle of the 20th Ward starts, he could kill every Washuu Clan members or everyone related to the Vasuki in the HQ of the CCG."
Zelilios nodded at his order and grabbed the katana that was on the table and then disappeared from the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory as Lucien teleported him out. Arima Kishō had also, received orders from Lucien. He only had simple one, during the battle of the 20th Ward and Lucien"s rampage over the estate of the Washuu Clan, he had to kill every Washuu clansman or agent of the Vasuki in the HQ of the CCG. Especially it was Washuu Yos.h.i.toki, son of the current patriarch of the Washuu Clan, Washuu Tsuneyoshi.
Then there was also, son of the Washuu Yos.h.i.toki, Washuu Matsuri who served as the Special-Cla.s.s Ghoul Investigator, but he rarely left the HQ of the CCG or his mansion at the estate of the Washuu Clan so he would be disposed of either by Lucien or Arima Kishō. Even though Washuu Yos.h.i.toki wasn"t a really bad person, from what Lucien heard, by debt needs to be paid in blood and not even one member of the Washuu blood can be spared.
"a.r.s.eahr, you will go to HQ of the Vasuki organization and paint it in blood, that will be your mission during the time I and Zelilios raid the estate of the Washuu Clan."
Even though the Vasuki were only dogs of the Washuu, many of their agents held the blood of the Washuu so they need to be purged, completely. a.r.s.eahr nodded his head and then he left the meeting room and Lucien returned to training his way of the sword.
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Lucien spent several hours training his Kenjutsu and then when he finished his daily training routine, he went to walk through the city of Tokyo, maybe for the last time. He went to the 20th Ward as that Ward looked now totally different compared its looks in the future when the operation "Final Act" is over.
As he walked through the sunny summer days, he went to the place he hasn"t visited for some time already.
Anteiku Cafe, was right before him, he wasn"t there for more than one year, as he was cultivating, training and, of course, stabilizing his foundations he broke through to the Viscount-Rank and needed time for proper stabilization of his cultivation base.
As he looked at the Anteiku Cafe, he noticed that nothing had changed about the small cafe, which was run by ghouls, rather strong ones at that. Some memories that he didn"t want to remember were already up and creating havoc in his mind.
They weren"t bad memories, no, only those memories made him a bit sad about what happened with some people, or to be more precise about what happened with one person. About that another, Lcuein already knew that she is beyond hope when he looked at how to crazy she became. Crazy isn"t as crazy, he was talking about a person who was losing rational thinking, because even he was called lunatic often...