Immediately after Suzuya Juuzou was killed, something more interesting happened. Suddenly there, all ghoul intensified their firing rate by several times and launched a wave of another attack. They shot smoke screen grenades, several tens of them.
The entire area was covered in huge smoke, nobody saw anything, and you couldn't even properly breathe because of the smoke. Inside the building, Aogiri Tree members were currently retreating, leaving only a minority of them behind. Those who remained were controlling those heavy machine guns, M2 Browning machine guns, to do more damage to the CCG by killing many of their cannon fodder.
"Juuzou!!"
Screamed Shinohara after he saw Suzuya getting killed. He was something like a surrogate parent to his cause after he was rescued from the Big Madam; Shinohara was taking care of him and teaching him many things. Now all that was gone, as he was killed.
But still, he controlled his emotions and stepped back because of the smokescreen covering the entire area and fierce shooting from the ghouls operating M2 Browning machine guns.
Meanwhile, Zelilios also disappeared and was currently helping many of the Aogiri Tree members to escape through hidden tunnels and metro under the building. Also, people from Anteiku successfully infiltrated the building and searched for Kaneki Ken.
After ten minutes or so, after the smoke slowly vanished, they found that only a few ghouls were remaining in the positions, and many CCG cannon fodder members, concentrated their firepower on those positions; and after some effort, they managed to get rid of those ghouls, thus breaking through this frontline.
"Everyone charge!!!"
Screamed Marude Itsuki as all of the CCG cannon fodder members and also ghoul investigators charged at their target, which was the base of the Aogiri Tree. Currently, they suffered heavy losses, and from the original one thousand or so, only eight hundred remained alive.
But when they finally entered the building, a surprise awaited them. It was almost empty. Only a few ghouls remained there, but those were quickly disposed of by many ghoul investigators who were there.
One of them was also Hirako Take, a member of Squad 0 under the command of Arima Kishou.
They occupied those buildings at lightning speed as they were almost empty, and soon the Commission of Counter Ghoul controlled the entire surroundings and many of the buildings.
The only main building, which was the base of the Aogiri Tree in the 11th Ward, wasn't still fully under their control, but as CCG was going here and there, a few strong ghouls remained here and hunted for the doves.
One of them was Kirishima Ayato, who was now many times stronger thanks to blood essences, but still, his arrogance and idiotism weren't at properly lowered.
They slaughtered them like ants, especially Ayato and Bin Brothers; they were practically unstoppable in the mass of ordinary cannon fodder members of the CCG.
They were waiting for Noro to finish his part. And his part was planting explosives to bury this place together with countless people of the CCG. This would give them enough time for the most important part of the plan, the Cochlea Raid.
***
After a short time, CCG quickly took control of surrounding buildings and places. It was rather disturbing that they didn't encounter a lot of ghouls, barely twenty altogether, and all of them were extremely weak, below B-Rate. Many could already guess that rest of them had already escaped to another place or were hiding somewhere.
But what was more troublesome than that was the appearance of a new person. One-Eyed Owl has shown. This was getting too problematic already. Owl was rated as an SSS-Rate ghoul, an extremely dangerous one, and only one person could fight with it, White Reaper Arima Kishou, who wasn't here now.
"Tch... If only Arima were here... Who gives a crap about some emergency investigation of the two-four!!"
Cursed Marude Itsuki in the command center when he heard the message about the One-Eyed Owl from Shinohara Yukinori. The appearance of this ghoul turned the entire operation to a whole new level. Even that fortification created by several heavy machine guns, M2 Brownings, wasn't that serious.
"Shinohara! Only keep competent men that are expendable... and send the rest to the other towers. If you two can't handle him, then nobody can. It'll just be a waste of lives and won't buy us any time, either. Deal with him with the lowest number of men possible. Over and out."
Marude gave orders as he sat weakly at his chair in the command center. He watched the entire situation through the cameras.
***
There was another fight going on at one location between Kaneki Ken and Ayato Kirishima. Although Ayato was stronger than in the past, he was still at some disadvantage against Kaneki with his fearsome rinkaku kagune.
The battle progressed to Kaneki's advantage until Ayato chose to escape using his ukaku kagune; he flew away. Kaneki then took the unconscious Touka in a princess carry and took her away.
***
Zelilios was currently watching the fight between the One-Eyed Owl and two Special Class Ghoul Investigators, Shinohara Yukinori and Kuroiwa Iwao. Both of them were covered in their armor-type quinque, Arata Proto, and wielding their respective quinques.
Armor Arata Proto looked like some futuristic exoskeleton armor; it was black in color and had blue lines throughout the entire armor.
Both Shinohara Yukinori and Kuroiwa Iwao charged at the One-Eyed Owl and the rest of the ghoul investigators covered them by providing cover fire and support. Yoshimura, in his Owl-form, was an extremely fearsome and dangerous ghoul. He had Ukaku-type kagune and constantly released the crystal-like attack that was aimed at both ghoul investigators.
When they got close enough to him, and both of them slashed their quinques at Yoshimura with full power, he easily blocked their attacks. Yoshimura was more experienced than both of them, and he even managed to counterattack and knock them away several meters.
"This Arata's got one helluva protective feature for a prototype... we would have died twice by now if we were using gear from ten years ago."
Shinohara stated while panting for breath.
"Yeah... Using a kakuja kagune makes all the difference."
'He's got an ukaku that is best suited for long-range attacks... at close range; he is got the kagune on his shoulders... on top of that, he's got a shotgun-like kagune that covers close to midrange.' Though Shinohara was in his mind as he watched Shinohara.
"But man... I don't think he's gonna run out of steam either... this is what you call having all bases covered. The Owl is without a doubt the wort of the ghouls."