As Lucien expected, the Commission of Counter Ghoul had a lot of work to prepare for the retaliation attack against the ghouls in the 20th Ward. The whole CCG was in 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 significant amount. Many of their forces were killed in action, counting also several high-ranking members as Associate Special-Class Ghoul Investigators and Special-Class 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 amassing forces to strike back at the ghouls in the 20th Ward and that was with the intention of total extermination of every ghoul.
Now, he needed to only prepare his pawns for the final bait, the Aogiri Tree. They were strengthened by a huge amount; they now had several SS-Rated ghouls and many of S-Rated ones. This was a very nice result, in which Lucien invested only a bit of effort and a small number of his resources.
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Lucien then met with the Sternritter, numbers N0.1 Arseahr and N0.3 Zelilios, to discuss the next and final steps of the plan, "Final Act". All three of them were at Lucien's estate in the 21st Ward. His contract with mercenaries was already finished, and all of them went for the next job.
"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 Wandenreich, Arima Kishō and Tatara after the battle has ended."
Both Sternritter, Arseahr and Zelilios nodded their heads in agreement with Lucien's plan, as there was nothing to add. They had an absolute advantage over their enemies regarding strength as they all practiced RC Star Evolution Method.
"After we arrive at Blood Island, we would join the frontlines as father sends the message that the number of Greater Demons is constantly increasing and also, that would be a good opportunity to obtain more resources for refining blood essences. Also, Zelilios brought that weapon to the Arima and said to him that when the battle of the 20th Ward starts, he could kill every Washuu Clan member or everyone related to the Vasuki in the HQ of the CCG."
Zelilios nodded; hearing his orders, he grabbed the katana on the table and then left the meeting room. Arima Kishō had also received orders from Lucien.
He only had a 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 Yoshitoki, son of the current patriarch of the Washuu Clan, Washuu Tsuneyoshi.
Then there was also a son of the Washuu Yoshitoki, Washuu Matsuri, who served as the Special-Class 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 Yoshitoki wasn't a really bad person, from what Lucien heard, debt needs to be paid in blood and not even one member of the Washuu blood can be spared.
"Arseahr, you will go to the HQ of the Vasuki organization and paint it in blood; that will be your mission during the time Zelilios and I 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 needed to be purged completely. Arseahr nodded his head and then he left the meeting room and Lucien returned to training his way of 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 to 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 hadn'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 stabilizing his foundations; he broke through to the 5th-Star.
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 Lucien already knew that she was beyond hope when he looked at how crazy she became. Crazy isn't as crazy; he was talking about a person who was losing rational thinking because even he was called a lunatic often...
