After several more exchanges, Lucien chose a new strategy. It was clear that by doing this, the spar won't move to another point. So when they both rushed at each other and clashed again, Lucien let go of his katana and kicked IXA with all his power, shooting Arima away from him.

Then he congealed several kagune daggers, which shot at Arima with high speed, and as he couldn't react properly, he ended up injured by several of them, but nothing serious, just some scratches and so on.

Arima then stopped up and dropped the long white coat he was wearing all the time, revealing a pitch-black battle suit underneath. Lucien knew that this meant only one thing, Arima was going to be serious this time, and his assumptions became real as Arima rushed at him at his top speed and slashed at his right hand.

Lucien tried to block the IXA, but as he dropped his katana, he didn't have enough time to create a new one because Arima was already before him.

Leaving no other option, he tried to dodge the attack, barely dodging, but a few strands of silver hair were flying in the air.

"I must compliment you that your reflexes are rather good, but that's not enough."

Arima stated indifferently as he opened another case; this time, it was that pitch-black case with golden ornaments, which was waiting for Arima after he put it down.

Lucien knew that this was his second quinque, Narukami rated as S+-Rate, but the real strength was around SS-Rate, same as the IXA.

Narukami is an ukaku-type quinque. It discharges condensed RC cells just like lightning bolts that could do massive damage to the targets. One shot could kill B-Rated ghouls like ants and severely injure A-Rated ones, maybe even killing them in the process.

Possessing a tracking function, evasion of the bolts is next to impossible. But what was more alarming was that even this quinque had Mode Change. In this mode, this weapon becomes even more terrifying.

Then Arima aimed at Lucien and shot a bolt at Lucien, who immediately entered Kakuja V1 to defend. He was aware of the fact that it was impossible to dodge this attack, so the only option was to defend against it.

As he was watching the lightning bolt closing him, he took a defensive stance and waited for the moment. When the lightning finally hit him, he felt like his entire body was without any sense and like he was about to fall down.

However, fortunately, this condition lasted only a very short time as RC Cells started to work inside his body, and Lucien soon could control his body.

Then he returned this favor by shooting two kagune spears at Arima this time. He chose to create spears because they were far bigger than daggers, and he would have a far harder time shooting them down.

When two spears were flying at Arima, he tried to shoot them down by using the Narukami, but it was in vain; he managed only to damage one spear, so he couldn't do anything more and could just dodge the attack.

Lucien used this as he appeared behind him, delivering one swift kick to his stomach, and it didn't end there as he followed after flying Arima and slashed at him with his katana aimed at his hand, which was holding Narukami.

As Arima was rather immobile, he couldn't block the slash, and Lucien managed to break off Arima's grip on the Narukami, and now he remained with only one weapon IXA.

Arima coughed blood and looked at Lucien with a somewhat respectful gaze. Then he nodded his head at him, and Lucien did the same. It was already time to decide the winner; they had been sparring already almost for an hour.

Both of them stood opposite each other and prepared for the final clash. Lucien was prepared to perform Iaido, and Arima just stood there gripping his IXA. Lucien made the first move as he jumped at Arima.

His physique was extremely strong, so it wasn't any hard feat to jump several meters high into the air; when he fell on the place where Arima was standing, everywhere was dust wave.

Nothing could be seen, and it took several seconds for the dust to fall down. There was Arima, who was holding his quinque IXA, pointing it at Lucien's throat. But around his neck were three kagune daggers levitating and pressing his neck.

Draw.

The result of the spar was a draw. This could be said to be an amazing achievement. He actually managed to get the draw in the spar with White Reaper and Undefeated Ghoul Investigator Arima Kishou, but the truth was that none of them fought with the intent to kill.

This was a huge factor, intent to kill, because when one fights with the intent to kill, his attack is more vicious and more powerful.

"Exceptional."

Complimented Arima. He was sounding like a teacher, and Lucien enjoyed it because it came from someone like him. Lucien knew that he was a teacher, like a figure to the Kaneki Ken, when he lost his memories and lived under the new identity, Sasaki Haise.

"Arima-san, you are really Indisputably the strongest investigator alive. I heard from my father that you were the most notable combat genius of this generation; I am glad to be able to spar with you."

Lucien was genuinely happy to spar with a figure like Arima Kishou; he knew he could learn many from him by sparring with him even once.

Arima Kishou was able to train Sasaki Haise as an Associate Special Class investigator in a very short time. Even with the usage of quinque, Yukimura was B-Ranked quinque to combat stronger ghouls and kill some of them.

After both of them finished this spar, they went to the more secluded place where the conversation could be held.

"So what was that thing you want to discuss with me? Eto said that it was something very important."

Lucien said to Arima.

"I have obtained very important and very alarming information. I must warn you that this thing is very serious; it is personal order from Washuu Tsuneyoshi for the entire Washuu Clan and even Vasuki."

Hearing this, Lucien's expression changed in an instant.

If something important came from Washuu Tsuneyoshi himself, it must be something very important. And personal orders were different from normal ones; personal orders must be completed by any means, at any cost.

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