19th December, Evening, 21st Ward, Lucien's Estate.
"Over a thousand members of the CCG and Police have surrounded and are waiting to raid the 11th Ward Ghoul's stronghold. Nearby residents are being evacuated to designated locations by the police. The raid is being commanded by Special Class Investigator Marude Itsuki, who also discovered the location. He spoke confidently about this large-scale operation. 'We will risk our lives to protect 99 percent of the citizens. But we will need everybody's cooperation for the other 1 percent. We will regain peace in the 11th Ward.'"
It was going in the news, and Lucien was watching it with eagerness as he was preparing his battle attire. He wore his battle attire and also his Hollow Mask. Zelilios also wore his combat attire, which was a little similar to his, and also wore a mask similar to Lucien's.
"The battle has begun. I am going to wreak havoc at the Cochlea Prison together with Tatara. You will go to the 11th Ward and kill those people on the list and protect Itori. Be careful and complete your mission."
Lucien ordered while he finished preparing all his necessary things.
"Yes, Your Highness."
***
Sometime after the start of the operation, 11th Ward.
On the roof of the building, there were several people in cloaks and masks standing. Bin Brothers, strengthened by blood essences, were two in identical outfits and masks and were now stronger than ordinary S-Rated ghouls.
Other ones were Noro, in the typical red cloak of the Aogiri Tree and he was wearing that weird smiling mask of his and Tarata in his traditional white attire, a remnant of Chi She Lian and red half-maks covering the lower half of his face. Eto was looking at soldiers of CCG beneath them as she was covered in bandages.
The last ones were Nico, a member of the Clowns and an associate of the Aogiri Tree. He was a spy; Clowns planted that in the Aogiri Tree, but it was the truth that he helped them immensely by giving them various important information and so on. Kirishima Ayato was doing the same thing as Eto, observing those soldiers of the CCG beneath them.
"They are here faster than expected."
Eto noted as she watched those soldiers of the CCG running here and there as they were creating the barricade and fortifications.
"Yes... Bin Brothers to the main building!"
Answered Tatara, and at the same time, he started giving orders.
"Yes."
Said both of them simultaneously.
"Kirishima, back. We need to go now, Eto, Noro; from now you are in charge."
After that, both of them walked away and met with Lucien.
"Hello, Eto, Tatara. I am glad that my supplies are given good use. I have ordered one of the strongest subordinates to stay here and hunt for the stronger ghoul investigators. Once an Owl arrives here, you could use that chaos for your people to escape. Now we must go to the Cochlea."
Lucien also went to the 11th Ward to meet with Eto and Tatara, and after a short talk, they left for the Cochlea Prison, together with most of the Aogiri members. Even though the 11th Ward would have lesser people, they were actually better-prepared thanks to Lucien's support.
CCG created a barricade with the use of their armored transports, and there were many people stationed, mainly those cannon fodder carrying firearms with Q Bullets. But the Aogiri Tree was even better armed as Lucien ordered complete fortification.
There were many heavy machine guns on the building, more precisely, M2 Browning machine guns. Several of them were firing at the cannon fodders of the CCG, killing tens of them in the first wave.
This caused their numbers to lessen, as there were now much more vulnerable greatly.
After they tried to resist, there would be surprised by grenade launchers. Even though members of the Aogiri Tree weren't that good at shooting, Lucien's mercenaries taught them all they could, and some of them were also there operating the M2 Browning machine guns.
***
As the battle was going on, the CCG was suffering heavy losses. The only one suffering was the cannon fodder, as they were falling like flies. Ghouls were using their kagunes as shields, significantly reducing the damage done by the CCG to them.
This didn't go unnoticed by Marude Itsuki, who was raging at seeing this. His subordinate, Mabuchi Katsuya, Rank 1 Ghoul Investigator, gave him just now a report about the situation.
"Sir, the building that serves as the base of the Aogiri Tree is heavily fortified. They have several M2 Browning machine guns and are unable even to leave the barricade. Besides that, they are using their kagunes as a shield to defend against our attacks, which greatly reduces our combat power. We have already lost almost one hundred people after an hour of the attack."
Marude Itsuki frowned hearing this, as it was clear that this would be nothing more than a stalemate if they couldn't breach through this barricade, but it was impossible because the enemy had several M2 Browning machine guns. The only chance would be waiting for a good opportunity to push through.
In another part of the battle zone, there were several people of the CCG talking. Shinohara Yukinori, Amon Koutarou, and also Suzuya Juuzou were talking together. Suzuya was bored because they weren't attacking, and also his mindset required a battle.
He was a young-looking man with an androgynous appearance, with pale skin and pure shoulder-length white hair. He wears red hairpins, which form the Roman numeral XIII (13), keeping back his bangs. He had dark red eyes with bags under them.
"... aren't we attacking?"
He asked in a bored voice as he looked at the non-changing status of the battle.
"We can't attack."
Answered Amon, who was standing behind him with crossed arms, as he was too observing the battle before him. Everybody knew that this wasn't going in a good way. If they didn't solve this, the only conclusion would be either terrible losses or retreats.
"They have large amounts of firearms and are heavily armed. I don't know from where they have obtained such an amount of firearms, but it appears that either the Aoigiri Tree obtained them or somebody is sponsoring them. Another thing, they have a better position than us, as they are above. They could pick us off from there."
Explained Amon to Suzuya. Even though he was relatively younger, he was a very intelligent and experienced person.