38 His majesty, the King (1/2)

Deep inside 24th Ward

Lucien finally arrived at the 24th Ward and was looking at the ruins of the ward. Destroyed building everywhere and remains of behemoth-sized kakuja of Underground King the Naagaraji.

This person was actually a very interesting one. He was a member of Washuu Clan, but he bore strong hatred against his own family and turned against them. In some part of his life, he even initiated uprising against humanity. Most of this is just legends because this happened around a hundred years ago. But fact remains that he was forced to flee to the underground, where he waited till ghouls could rise again and battle the humanity.

Underground King wasn't pure-blood ghoul but rather One-eyed ghoul, which had his kakugan in his right eye.

As Lucien was admiring the beauty of forgotten times he noticed the person standing not far from him. It was a man, clothed in typical Aogiri red robes and wore white mask featuring huge black lips, huge mouth with equally massive teeth and tiny slits for nostrils. His long black hair was tied up in a ponytail. Noro. The second direct subordinate of the One-Eyed King.

Lucien looked at him and Noro then turned around and was walking somewhere. Lucien knew that this meant he should follow him. Noro only communicated through his actions, not words. They went through the long tunnel on whose end was a simple iron door. Lucien opened to the door and entered inside.

There was another small corridor and wooden door on its end. Lucien entered the room and saw a very beautiful and luxuriously decorated chamber. Many books were in bookshelves and there was one huge leather sofa in the room. Opposite the sofa were three leather armchairs with golden ornaments stationed around the oval wooden table.

Everything here looked so beautiful and old. Just as Lucien was looking at the furniture he heard a gentle voice behind his back.

”Hi there.”

He turned around to see a beautiful young woman, with child-like appearance. She had long green hair which was somewhat messy and uncombed, however, she was radiating extraordinary charm.

”Hi, Lucien Etras di Aeon. It is pleasure to meet you, beautiful lady.”

Bowed Lucien as he introduced himself. Eto noted that he had very good manners and his name sounded very familiar. Not from these times but she heard it from Arima Kishou. He once mentioned that there exist ghouls with surname Aeon, who is extremely powerful.

”Yoshimura Eto.”

What surprised Lucien that she wasn't wearing bandages to cover her identity or anything like that. This Lucien finds rather confusing but this was probably just a way of showing sincerity during this meeting. Eto was jumping around an examining Lucien from all sides like scientist researching about the meteorite.

”We still need to wait for someone.”

Said, Eto, as she sat down at one of the armchairs around the table. Lucien then sat down too, cause he didn't want to stand the whole time. When they were both sitting, Eto was intensively staring at Lucien without any pause for several minutes, thus creating a somewhat awkward atmosphere.

”Are you curious about something?”

Asked Lucien, when he already couldn't bear that staring.

”Hmmm, you look rather handsome.”