24th December, Anteiku, 20th Ward
Currently, Lucien and Itori are together at the Anteiku cafe, as the entire mansion is undergoing some changes in decoration because Christmas is here. So Lucien took Itori to stroll through the City during the time decoration of the manor would be done.
The mood in the Anteiku cafe wasn't the best one, as could be seen on certain people's faces. Especially Touka, which had a furious expression from time to time. The main reason behind this was that Kaneki Ken joined the Aogiri Tree and left the Anteiku.
Lucien and Itori were sitting at the table next to the window. Both of them watched the snow falling and covering the entire City. Even though it was City and not some mountains or forests, it still created a fascinating and romantic atmosphere.
"Lucien-san, I if can ask, what is your relationship with Itori-san?"
Questioned Touka after Lucien and Itori stood and were already leaving the Anteiku cafe. She only asked because they were holding hands, and it was rather surprising that he would be in the relationship with Itori as she wasn't a type for one, at least in her opinion.
"She is my fianceé."
Answered Lucien swiftly, which gave Touka shock, and also her face twitched a little, but soon she returned to normal, smiled, and congratulated them.
"Congratulation, Lucien-san."
"Thank you, Touka-san."
Thanked Lucien after she congratulated him, and he didn't miss the slight change in her expression when she heard that Itori was his fianceé.
Then they left the Anteiku and went to the 14th Ward, where the Helter Skelter Bar was located as Itori wanted to take something from the Helter Skelter Bar, as she would be spending most of her time at Lucien's estate.
It was rather understandable because she had already started living there.
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After they reached the Helter Skelter Bar, Lucien said that he must go somewhere and left Itori at the bar, saying he would return after two hours or so. The place he went was none other than a local branch of Tiffany, the most famous and luxurious jewelry seller around.
Lucien ordered the custom-made necklace for Itori as a present for Christmas. It cost him several tens of millions of dollars. It was made from pure gold, diamonds, and various very rare materials.
Lucien waited for some of his mercenaries to take him there as he was already bored and tired of walking and running.
He had an arranged meeting with the manager of the Japanese branch of Tiffany. After twenty minutes, he was already there, together with four mercenaries following him. Lucien called four of them because Itori had many things that would need to move, and he wanted to use manpower that was lazying around in his estate.
In reality, those mercenaries were doing almost nothing; they were just guarding an object, sparring, training or playing cards, watching tv, or other things.
Lucien then met with the manager and inspected the necklace. It was bought under the name of one of the companies under the Aeon House for more than thirty million dollars. Very pricy, but so be it.
Soon all this money would be worth nothing when the Demon Invasion occurred; then, previous values would turn to dust in a split of several seconds.
It was also because of this the entire Aeon House planned to spend all their money to buy resources and some useful things.
The necklace itself was in the design of antique, and it looked lovely and dignified at first look. Lucien ordered his subordinates to take the case, where the necklace was stored, and then they left the Tiffany store.
When they arrived at the Helter Skelter Bar, Itori already had her things packed up, and the only thing which remained was to load them into the car. This was swiftly done by mercenaries here; they took all her thing, and they returned to the estate after taking it all.
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The entire estate was already decorated with Christmas decorations. Strictly speaking, the decoration was composed of a huge and beautiful Christmas tree, festive dressing, and some other minor things. Everything was done perfectly, according to Lucien's instructions.
When Itori saw that, she was thrilled as it was apparent that Lucien was doing everything for her only. He was doing all of this because he loved her and wanted her to be happy.
"Go watch TV or read some books; there is some important information about certain topics. I am going to cook our dinner, which will be the meat of the powerful and rare demon."
Said Lucien immediately after they returned to the estate. He sent Itori to do some things as he would be cooking the demon's meat.
Itori nodded her head and went to read through those books, as she knew what they were about. Lucien then went to cook the meat of the demon. He spent several hours cooking it as it was very hard to prepare, but the effects and taste of the demon meat were incomparable to animals of the Low Stars.
Lucien was cooking meat of the Demonic Drake, which was a subclass of Demonic Dragon. The weakest of them is around 5 Stars strong.
Soon it would be already evening, and dinner would be already ready. The snow was already falling, the sky was dark, and the lights of the City were creating a fascinating atmosphere. Lucien looked through the window and saw that atmosphere and knew that he should go to change soon.
Dinner was already on the table and both Lucien and Itori sat down and looked at each other for a short time. Lucien went to change himself into formal clothes as they were having a traditional dinner. Itori also changed into formal clothes; both of them were wearing the typical white attire of the Aeon House.