"What happened to my team?"
Questioned Akira; after some time, they talked about various things, effectively switching the topic to a less comfortable one. Zelilios smiled sadly as he looked at her face, though now she was showing a bit of emotion, mainly sadness.
"Probably dead, all of them. You know, that place was a laboratory belonging to Kano Akihiro, the doctor that was researching a process called Ghoulification Process, which is basically turning humans into ghouls. He is already dead, but he managed to reach rather disturbing results. He managed to turn the pure-blooded human into an artificial one-yed ghoul."
Zelilios stated to Akira after a short time of silence, which wasn't that comfortable feeling. She looked like him like she had seen a ghost right now, and then she started looking down at her bed, probably thinking about something.
"Why would you want someone to turn humans into ghouls? You should know it. Right?"
Zelilios smiled and started thinking about how much he could tell, thinking about what he already told her about himself being the Noble Ghoul and also the fact she couldn't escape from the mansion, he decided to tell some things about Kano and, of course, the most critical information, the truth about the Washuu Clan.
"Dunno, probably some orders and plots from the Washuu Clan."
Said Zelilios causally as he continued watching Akira; she didn't miss the word and emphasis on the word Washuu Clan.
She was surprised that he mentioned the Washuu Clan, as they were creators of the Commission of Counter Ghoul and also could be called protectors of humanity in entire Japan. They had been protecting humans from ghouls for whole centuries already.
"The Washuu Clan is actually the clan of pure-blooded ghouls."
After this sentence was finished, Akira felt like she was struck by thunder or, more to be precise, some kind of thunder tribulation. Information about the Washuu Clan being ghouls was too much on her. Probably not only her but also every other human.
"How?"
She asked in a rather sad voice, feeling betrayed.
Why not? Both of her parents were ghoul investigators, and she also devoted her whole life to it. Her mother died when fighting for the CCG, which were basically watchdogs of the Washuu Clan and her father died not long ago.
Now she felt that all of her efforts were totally for nothing, useless.
"How should I now? They blended into human society several hundred years, and now we have the result. They are deeply rooted in human society and can't be removed so easily now. My tip is that they are trying to get more power and are trying to control humans from behind; because of this, they created the Commission of Counter Ghoul, so they got a better position in controlling humans. Thanks to that, they got a huge deal of political and military power and, of course, a constant source of food."
Akira started then thinking about various things she had heard now, especially about the Washuu Clan and other things that Zelilios had told her today. Then they talked about various things, mainly about some things about ghouls and some minor details about him.
***
Lucien was currently in his room in the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory and was resting after this day. After laying on the bed for two hours or so, he decided to go increase his RC rating to reach the 5th-Star, as he had already spent a long time at the 4th-Star.
He was already long enough at the 4th-Star, and he felt he had stabilized his foundation enough, so it was the right time. He had calculated that when he reached 5th-Star now.
Afterward, he brought out several tens of bloody red beads, the highest quality blood essences, and started them refining one by one. At first, one was very fast to digest, and his RC Level was increasing with lightning speed.
As he was nearing the required RC Level border, he started showing signs of lowering digestion speed. Instead, Lucien took out more Blood Essences and ate them like they were candies. Two hours later, he finally reached the threshold required for the breakthrough.
He took out one drop of blood from the Royal Blood Crystal and ate it together with several blood essences. The moment he ate that all, he felt a huge energy surge through his whole body, and all of his bones, muscles, tissues, and cells were undergoing massive strengthening and evolution.
There were several notable changes he felt now. One of them was that he felt another type of kagune in his body; to be more concrete, he had Ukaku-Type Kagune now.
He turned on his kakugan and unleashed his kagune wings. They were beautiful, with a wingspan of over three meters or so. They looked like some kind of crystals in bloody red and black color, creating a very wonderful sight.
Even though his wings looked like some piece of art, in reality, they were an extremely deadly tool to kill enemies. Now he had one more long-distance weapon without the need to create kagune daggers out of his Rinkaku.
Even though creating kagune daggers and controlling them through his telekinesis was very effective, he practically gave up on any other form of combat. Still, now he had Ukaku wings; he could just create a shower of kagune crystal projectiles and shoot them at the enemy until they die.
He even had now two permanent Rinaku Tails, which could be used in a fight at any time. His combat style would become more diverse and more unpredictable. Now that he had reached the 5th-Star, he knew that he had only a small amount of time before they would leave this world.
Now that Lucien was finished thinking about other things and, more importantly he finished experimenting with his new strength, especially those Ukaku Wings, he decided to check out his record to see the changes on it.
As Lucien observed the results and tested them, he decided it was time to go back to his estate to have some time with his beautiful and now also horny fianceé. Time was shortening, and there were only two years left before leaving this world, so everything must be prepared perfectly.
Lucien even planned that after a year, he would raid the ancestral home of the Washuu Clan, slaughtering the whole clan.