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 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 told many things about Lucien when he was still a child. Besides that, she spent most of her time training in the arts of her chosen weapon.
She chose daggers, and she was practically training every day. As she heard from Lucien that nobody would respect her even though she had status. You could say that Wandenreich was somehow like a jungle where only the strong deserved respect.
Even though it wasn't as bad as she had originally expected. Life there was very comfortable besides that training. She spent the rest of her time learning many things, which we could call a common sense of the Wandenreich and of course, she was preparing for the Awakening Process, only mentally tough.
She would be unconscious during those ten years that would Sacred Devourification Process take.
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Giving up one's humanity has 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 after several months spent together, she noticed that she wasn't that reserved around him and even started enjoying his company.
For Zelilios, Sternritter N0.3, it was the same. So, as the time was slowly coming to the deadline, he proposed her a certain idea. An idea about becoming the Noble Ghoul as it was possible if he amassed enough contributions and also blood essences.
Even though blood essences weren't that important, the most important was a contribution or getting personal permission from someone high-ranking enough, and only three people in the whole Wandenreich had the power to do something with the Royal Blood Crystal.
Elder of the Empire, Protector Azrael Etras di Aeon, then the next one was the current Emperor of the Wandenreich, Asmodeus Etras di Aeon and then the last person was, of course, the Crown Prince of the Wandenreich, Lucien Etras di Aeon.
What was a huge and nice surprise to Zelilios was that Akira agreed to become the Noble Ghoul, even though she didn't tell him the reason. Afterward, he needed permission to use the Royal Blood Crystal.
The most optimal choice would be to go to Lucien, as it came out as true. Lucien agreed to his request but told him that when the Apocalypse began, he would have an opportunity to repay his debt.
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When the first operation started, nobody 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.
The 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 after seven days. Seven days from the day Lucien gave his order to create chaos in the 20th Ward. On the seventh day, several masked people attacked the Commission of Counter Ghoul's 20th Ward Branch Office.
The main attackers were Sternritter N0.1 Arseahr and Sternritter N0.3 Zelilios, together with some mercenaries and also, of course, some cannon fodder 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 those killed were, for example, Branch Director, Kamemoch and Special-Class Ghoul Investigator Hōji Kōsuke, formerly Associate Special-Class Ghoul Investigator, but was promoted as some Special Classes were killed by Lucien and his schemes.
Tatara personally killed Hōji Kōsuke 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 Sternritter, to which Tatara already agreed.
He held a huge grudge against Hōji Kōsuke; as mentioned ghoul investigator was sent to China to help Chinese ghoul investigators exterminate the 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 into the air, creating a such huge explosion that could be seen from the 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-Class Ghoul Investigators, excluding the Arima Kishō, who would remain in the HQ to guard it.
Now only the 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 pawns, 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 Sternritters, Arseahr, 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.
