After that, he looked at another person standing there, with an indifferent expression, who was still calm as ever. Hirako Take. He is of average height and his facial features have been described as "plain," or "bland." He usually has a blank expression on his face. Always calm and indifferent. He was a perfect duo with Arima Kishou, who was his mentor."Senior Investigator Hirako... he didn"t stand out much in the academy, but after joining the bureau, he partnered up with Arima who was, at the time, 22 years old and an a.s.sociate Special Cla.s.s Investigator. While working with Arima, he eliminated a group of clown mask ghouls and made outstanding contributions in the 24th Ward investigation with his sound work ethic. His partnership with Investigator Arima lasted six years until he was promoted to Senior Investigator. Hira"s the guy who"s watched Arima the most up close. The one gut with firsthand knowledge of how Arima engaged the Owl."
Was going through the mind of Shinohara Yukinori as he was waiting for Hirako to make a move. If somebody could think about efficient strategy then it would be only Hirako as he watched Arima fight Owl several times and even partic.i.p.ated in some fights against Owl.
Hirako gripped his quinque and rushed at Owl/Yoshimura, and slashed at the target with full force. He dodged counterattack of the Yoshimura and hit his target. To this, both Shinohara and Kuroiwa used this chance and attacked Owl together with their quinques and with the usage of Arata Proto.
At first, it appeared that they got the Owl and managed to subdue it. But it was not the case.
"It"s over."
"Yeah."
"We lost."
Said three voices at almost the same time after another. It was apparent that their plan has failed. Owl was totally unscratched.
"The owl"s kakuho can"t be fatally damaged even with both Special Investigator"s quinques. Even though both were made from kagune of S-rated ghouls."
Stated Hirako as he observed Owl and both Special Cla.s.s Investigators Shinohara and Kuroiwa were prepared to attack the Owl again as they had the support of the Arata. But the attacks were all useless and they couldn"t even injure Owl. Even leaving scratch seemed impossible.
"Iwaccho. How far were we allowed to take these prototypes?"
Said Shinohara to Kuroiwa as he already knew that this situation was hopeless. They weren"t able to even injure the Owl, let alone to defeat it.
"... You think what I"m thinking?"
"Yeah. Let"s do it."
Said Shinohara with resolution and both of them stood up and pressed the hidden b.u.t.ton on the neck part of the Arata. Then entire armor started glowing in malicious b.l.o.o.d.y red color and releasing fearful aura.
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In another part of the complex, there were several tens of ghoul investigators searching through the building. Leading them was Chino Mutsumi, a.s.sociate Special Cla.s.s ghoul investigator. They had yet to find some ghouls and after some time, they finally found them. There were around ten members of the Aogiri Tree, hiding. Leading them were Bin Brothers.
But there was also somebody else, who didn"t belong to the Aogiri Tree. It was a woman, in weird attire, which was actually similar to Lucien"s battle attire. She had long orange hair and was wearing a noseless carnival clown mask with a toothy grin. The mask has a heart with three dots as its right eye and clover as its left eye with spades besides them and a protruding chin.
Itori was here hiding, amongst them, waiting for a good opportunity. Similarly to Zelilios who was waiting for his, which was after explosives would explode an entire building would collapse. Then he would strike and harvest lives.
Itori has hidden amongst members of the Aogiri Tree and was in a group which was under the leadership of the Bin Brothers. Two brothers didn"t know who she was, but they only heard from Tatara if something happened to her, death would be salvation for them, if her fianceé found them, as he was more powerful ghoul than Eto. So they didn"t dare to be disrespectful to her and let her do what she wanted.
Cannon fodder soldiers of the CCG took firing positions under the command of the Chino Mutsumi and at the moment they started shooting, Itori charged out, with full speed. She congealed several kagune tails, of her rinkaku kagune and attacked the line of the cannon fodder soldiers, killing several of them in an instant.
As this happened too quickly not even one of them had some time to react and even a.s.sociate Special Cla.s.s wasn"t an exception, as he wasn"t a very good fighter. Rather than a fighter, he was used to leading a squad of these cannon fodder soldiers. Itori took her chance as she slashed her tails as his hand, which was holding the quinque, swiftly severing his hand.
Blood squirted from his arm, and poor man kneeled on the ground. He looked at Itori with clear fear in his eyes, as she calmly severed his head from his body. Then she turned to the members of the Aogiri Tree and Bin Brothers, who finished killing rest of the cannon fodder soldiers and even killed several weak ghoul investigators. Of course, those investigators were killed by the Bin Brothers, as they were now many times stronger thanks to the blood essences. Only a little amount was missing and they would reach the SS-rate.
"Clean it here and quickly leave this place. Soon entire building would be destroyed."
Said Itori as she also exited this place and went to the place, where Zelilios was hiding. She wanted to see the fight between Special Cla.s.ses and the Owl. And of course the most important part of the show, how Zelilios would kill his targets. She saw how magnifically he killed his first target Suzuya Juuzou and now only two people from the list remained.
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Command Center of the 11th Ward Countermeasures Units
"We have lost connection with the a.s.sociate Special Cla.s.s Investigator Chino Mutsumi after he took his squad of several tens of soldiers to explore Tower 7. The only thing which was heard before connection loss were noises of the fight. Probably they were killed by an ambush by the Aogiri Tree."
Reported Mabuchi to the Marude Itsuki who was frowning hard after hearing this. The situation was already out of control. They have lost more than three hundred people, including a.s.sociate Special Cla.s.s Investigator and several lower-ranked investigators. Now even Owl has appeared and two Special Cla.s.s investigators, Shinohara and Kurioiwa were doing their best to keep it out of the battle. One could conclude that this battle is a fiasco.