When the dust or we should rather say, the blood settled and the remaining three ghoul investigators realized that the new mighty enemy had appeared, they were shocked and also greatly disturbed.
Now they had to fight against one more, probably an SS-Rated ghoul, maybe even stronger.
Zelilios appeared beside Akira Mado in a split of the second and with one hand, he grabbed her and then disappeared together with her.
Now only ones remaining here were Kuroiwa Iwao and Kotarou Amon, who were going to fight against their enemy duo consisting of Kaneki Ken and Kirishima Ayaoto, both SS-Rated ghouls, extremely proficient in combat and also, with pretty good cooperation.
The first one to break this deadly silence was Ayato, who started shooting tens of crystals from his Ukaku Wings at Kotarou Amon and Kuroiwa Iwao; both of them were defending rather easily, but as they were distracted and their attention was elsewhere, another attack came.
Kaneki Ken, called Eyepatch, attacked Kotarou Amon with all his kagune tails. This attack was the strong one, and Kotarou Amon tried to defend himself, but sadly he was not strong enough and was shotted away several meters, eventually coughing a lot of fresh blood and nearly fainting from the pain.
As soon as Kuroiwa saw that Amon was nearly killed in the once precise attack, he tried to come to him and help, but his attempt was futile as Ayato was shooting more and more crystal kagune projectiles at him to keep them away.
With some hardships, Amon managed to stand, but Kaneki was already before him, and with one kick to the stomach, Amon fell unconscious, and now only Kuroiwa was in the battle with Ayato.
Kaneki really didn't want to kill Amon because of his own reasons.
Kaneki, after dealing with Kotarou Amon, rushed to help Ayato in hopes of killing the Special-Class Ghoul Investigator, which would be huge merit for an entire Aogiri Tree as the Special-Class Ghoul Investigators are sitting on the top of the pyramid in the Commission of Counter Ghoul.
At least, on the outside, they were.
Then Kuroiwa and Kaneki started fighting against each other, with Kuroiwa holding a slight advantage sometimes and then Kaneki holding the advantage afterward. Kuroiwa was more experienced in combat, and he was also in his quinque Arata, so his physical abilities were greatly enhanced, but with a huge price.
On the other side, Kaneki was still physically stronger than Kuroiwa even with his Arata quinque, and also, his reflexes were much better.
Kaneki was also more agile as he had no problem evading Kuroiwa's butcher knife-looking quinque Kuroiwa Special which was an S-Rated quinque. As they were fighting, Lucien enjoyed watching this fight from the shadows.
After several minutes of fighting against Kuroiwa, Ayato and Kaneki finally managed to gain the upper hand and started to force him back. Lucien then yawned, seeing that, and turned his attention to another part of the story: the fight between Zelilios and Mado Akira.
In reality, it wasn't a fight as Zelilios was just evading all of her attacks because he didn't want to kill a woman, truly a knight. Zelilios was even using his kagune or kagune spear; instead, he just stood there, and either he defected the attacks of the quinque using his bare hands, or he just evaded with ease.
After several minutes, something was heard throughout the whole place. It came like thunder from the clear sky.
Booooom.
A loud explosion was heard through the whole underground lab of the Yasuhisa Mansion. Apparently, one Magitek Explosive Bomb exploded a good time before it should. What to say more, they were prototypes.
Lucien then stood up and started to run to the closest exit.
Soon enough, Kaneki and Ayato stopped their fight against Kuroiwa, who was already exhausted, and started running to some exit. Same with Zelilios; he even took Mado Akira with him after he knocked her unconscious. After one of the explosives exploded, next came a chain reaction, and they were exploding one after another.
The whole Underground Lab was falling down, and even the elevator was already destroyed. So the only thing was various hidden secret paths that were leading out of place. With the partial destruction of various parts of the underground lab, many of these hidden secret paths were now nicely visible and Lucien and others used them in their escape.
***
Some distance from the Yasuhisa Mansion
Lucien and Zelilios stood together, side by side, on a small hill with a good view of the Yasuhisa Mansion that was burning in flames. Even the area around the Yasuhisa Mansion looked like hell on earth, with flames spurting out of the ground and illuminating the whole Ward.
"Hmm, the biggest part should still come."
Said Lucien as he observed the burning Yasuhisa Mansion and admired the beauty of ever-destroying flames.
He was talking about the biggest explosive they placed there. It would explode every second, and when it explodes, it will take with its a diameter of several tens of meters.
Several seconds after, they saw a giant explosion that was high, maybe even thirty meters, and the whole mansion and its surrounding area ceased existing. The explosion destroyed the whole neighborhood, and who knows how many people have died now. Lucien didn't care; why should he? He accomplished his mission perfectly.
Kano is dead, underground lab and his research are destroyed.
They even killed some ghoul investigators, and with a huge probability, even Kotarou Amon and Kuroiwa Iwao are dead. Lucien hoped that Kirishima Ayato and Kaneki Ken survived, but they should, as they started running the second when the first explosion was heard.
Afterward, Lucien looked behind him and saw Mado Akira lying unconscious on the ground. He didn't know why Zelilios had saved her, but probably not entirely out of his Chivalry Codex.