32 Red Mask, White Cloak (1/2)

After some time that they were drinking, none of them spoke a word. Renji wasn't a talkative person when he wasn't drunk, Lucien enjoyed his blood wine and Uta was just Uta. Thinking about some kind of art or about something else. Not understandable to us mortals.

Itori was looking at the three of them and she didn't like this silence. Compared to her cheerful and funny nature this serious and heavy air was killing her slowly. But when it appeared that she lost all hope, the person who was usually cold as ice started to talk.

”Your name sounds very special. Etras di Aeon. Are you some kind of noble or something similar?”

Asked Renji. In his entire life, he didn't hear about some noble house of ghouls. Of course, there existed some rich families as Tsukiyama Family and he knew about only one noble house of ghouls. They originated from Germany and its name was Rosenwald Family. They are connected with Tsukiyama Family by blood.

But this family was exterminated by Washuu Matsuri around ten years ago, during so-call Rosenwald Extermination Operation.

”You could consider me an aristocrat.”

Answered Lucien truly. Even idiot could deduce from his name that he was some kind of nobility so there wasn't any point in denial. After that Lucien spent there more than an hour before leaving. When nobody was watching Itori gave Lucien small paper where was marked the certain location.

This was a location where were ghouls gathering in 14th Ward. In this ward was cannibalism very common. Lucien needed some bodies to refine them to blood essences so he asked Itori about the best place where to find bigger numbers of ghouls. Most of those ghouls would be only B-Rated and minority would be A-Rated.

He decided to give Itori one blood essence. It would help her to increase her RC Level and she could grow stronger.

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It took over one hour for Lucien to arrive at the marked location by foot. It was abandoned underground metro. At least part of it. It was devastated and everywhere was the smell of blood and cheap alcohol. Lucien just frowned at looking at the entrance which looked like it would collapse every second now.

He then just overcame himself and proceed to depths of the metro.

Soon he found his target. Or better said targets. In a huge underground space, there were several ghouls feeding on some corpses. Lucien quickly scanned the ghouls present. There were around twenty of them and most of them looked rather weak.

Lucien materialized several daggers from kagune and through his telekinesis, he started massacre down there. When one dagger slashed one life of ghoul was extinguished. After several minutes of intense slaughter and panic, none of those ghouls was left alive.

Lucien was rather disappointed because all of these ghouls were only of B-Rated. He needed to go deeper into this complex to find at least A-Rated ghouls or maybe even S-Rated ghoul. Lucien stored bodies of twenty-five ghouls into his Cross Crest and then proceeded deeper into the underground complex.

He was walking through some kind of tunnel until he heard some weird sound. Lucien immediately turned on his kakugan and congealed three tails as his kagune. The attack came out of nowhere aimed at Lucien, but he swiftly blocked the enemy's kagune attack by his own kagune.

As he was blocking the attack Lucien congealed another two tails from his kagune and attacked his ghoul who had ambushed him. The ghoul was a bit stronger than previous ones but he still lost an arm facing attack from Lucien's kagune tails.

This ghoul was a man and he wasn't even wearing the mask. Lucien then looked at him as he was crouching on the floor in pain as his arm was severed.

”Weak.”