34 Date (1/2)
During this one month of waiting nothing serious happened. Lucien spent most of his time training in Sacred Rinkaku Scripture and sometimes he would train in kenjutsu. As there was nobody to train with be it kenjutsu or sparring with kagune, Lucien was forced to train always alone.
His progress in Sacred Rinkaku Scripture was very good. Several days after reaching baron rank via RC Body Refining Technique he managed to reach Rinkaku Baron in his sacred scripture. Now he was currently cultivating the second stance of this scripture, which was something with defending oneself.
Good progress couldn't be said about his kenjutsu as he was again stuck. Because nobody was around to spar with him he was only doing shadow sparring which wasn't so effective. Even during fights when he would go hunt for some ghouls to refinement he used only his kagune. To his hunts, Lucien even had battle attire. It was basically something like an oriental version of Archer Emiya.
He wore a long red coat, ornamented from inside with Japanese symbols, underneath the coat was a thin layer of black armor created from a special flexible material so it won't hinder him in fighting and on his legs were high boots with protectors too. He looked like some modern samurai in this attire. But with combination with Hollow mask he usually wore, some ghouls nicknamed his ”Hollow”.
Hollow because he was like an incarnation of evil in that mask and cause he killed everything alive he saw. The only exception was ghoul investigators whose Lucien was avoiding because he didn't want to attract the attention of Washuu Clan. They had decided to not attack him so he won't be provoking them until everything is ready.
Currently, Lucien was in his typical white noble attire sitting with Itori at Helter Skelter Bar. After this whole month, they were much closer to each other than before. Itori being a very friendly person she even called him by his name without any prefix after the name. Lucien was doing the same.
But today was no ordinary day as something miraculous happened. Lucien took all the courage he had and asked Itori for a date. He was not afraid of fighting to the death with enemy stronger than him but this almost killed him. That waiting for her answer, every second was like a year in the deepest layer of hell.
”I would be glad, Lucien.”
Blushed a little Itori as she said these words and Lucien sighed in relief. It was a huge relief for him. This was the first time in his whole life when he was asking a woman for a date. He even carefully planned everything. Firstly they would go to see a movie and to the cinema. Itori would choose the movie. Secondly would be dinner but not something ordinary but rather meat of demon. Because Lucien was giving Itori blood essences and some of them had inside bit of his blood so her body was very slowly transforming. It wasn't some huge transformation, only that she would be able to digest certain creatures and she won't lose sanity eating other ghouls and using kakuja.
This all, of course, happened without her knowing. She only knew that these little blood red pearls were very good for increasing her RC Level so she was very happy to be given one. And Lucien always gave her one when he finished hunting for some ghouls in underground areas.
”We could go. I have everything planned.”
Said Lucien with a smile as both of them exited Helter Skelter Bar and went to the cinema. As they were walking through the streets he noticed something were disturbing. He was being watched and they were not someone unknowns.
Ghoul Investigators, Doves have shown up. Clothed in their characteristic gray long coats and holding cases with their quinques. Lucien counted several of them around but he couldn't recognize any one of them. What was weird that why would they came after him even if agents of V couldn't even scratch him. This probably wasn't order from Washuu Clan but rather some over-motivated director in the bureau.
”Itori, you have noticed?”