Holy Akashic Conqueror 55 Spar with the White Reaper

But before training, Lucien started refining some blood essences that he promised to give to Eto. This process took him almost two hours as he was refining a rather bigger number of them, but they weren't of high quality. Medium at best.

Then he contacted Darkwalker to prepare bulletproof vests for cannon fodder members of Aogiri Tree. These bulletproof vests were specially made to resist Q bullets. A special type of bullet with a melted down kagune coating. Even though coating is moderately thin, cause it must be refined from kagune of ghoul, it still has more destructive force against ghouls. Normal bullets are nothing in front of ghoul but Q bullet could do damage to the ghoul and with several precise hits, it could even kill them.

The only force that uses them is Bureau Investigators or what Lucien calls them cannon fodder of CCG. They are people assigned to the offices of Commission of Counter Ghoul. They do not carry quinques and are weak as an ant. Their main work consists of paperwork in offices, they do the majority of paperwork. We could say that bureau investigators are backup for the real ghoul investigators and quantity is more important than quality in their case.

Lucien knew that they were trained in Ghoul Countermeasures Training Center and they created the majority of the CCG employees. In his head, he even had the plan to attack that facility and destroy it but he could instigate Clowns to do that work.

Darkwalker was able to obtain several hundred units of q bullet bulletproof vests for Lucien. They were extremely expensive so Lucien was forced to pay a huge amount of money for them. But if they would serve the purpose so be it.

After finishing all things he had to do, Lucien went to the place where he should have a meeting with Arima Kishou.

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The meeting place was the same spot when he first met Tatara, it was wide and empty space under the Tokyo, inside the complicated system of tunnels.

Lucien quickly arrived at the place and noticed that Arima still wasn't here so he decided to wait for him. Fortunately, he waited only around twenty minutes or so, until he arrived.

Arima Kishou was clothed as usual in one of those typical white long coats of investigators and was holding the case with his left hand. He brought even quinques here, probably he said he was going to investigate some suspicious places here. It could be said effective cover. He had two cases and one of them was pitch black with various golden ornaments.

"Greetings Arima Kishou."

"Greetings Lucien Etras di Aeon."

Both of them greeted before the start of anything.

"Arimsan, you are known as strongest ghoul investigator in the entire world. I would like to request for a spar with you if I could."

At this Arima didn't say anything and just silently nodded his head. He too was curious about the power of heir of the Aeon House. He knew something about them from Washuu Clan but it wasn't much. Only that all of them were extremely strong. That's all.

Lucien seeing this became very happy, his eyes sparkled and he quickly took the battle stance and his eyes turned black with a red iris, kakugan was on. He congealed one kagune katana, which he firmly held in his right hand.

Arima also took out his weapon. Quinque rated at S+ IXA. It was koukaku-type quinque that took the form of a lance attached to a gun-sword handle with a spiked pommel. Very deadly and dangerous weapon. This was just offensive mode. It also had defensive mode when it could expand to create the weird looking shield, capable of defending against many strong kagune attacks. And it also had Mode Change, when it became something like kagune tails and could attack enemies.

Lucien knew that Arima was a very good swordsman, who was master in kenjutsu and swordsmanship of western countries. Both of them went to create some distance between them and then they both bowed to each other. By this duel had started.

But not completely. Neither of them wanted to make the first move because one who made first move would be put into a strong disadvantage. After several minutes of scanning and analyzing Lucien couldn't bear it and congealed several kagune daggers which shot at Arima with terrifying speed. Arima looked at this and Lucien could faint smile. He easily dodged the daggers and rushed straight at Lucien who was prepared to defend.

When the distance was almost closed suddenly IXA transformed from the lance to the tails and attacked Lucien from several sides. Lucien smiled widely at this, he was happy from the fact Arima was able to come with such surprise attacks. He quickly used kagune daggers to block all of those tail that were attacking them and shot at the Arima.

Lucien gripped his katana strongly and slashed at Arima with full force, he knew that Arima was someone above his level when it came to the techniques and experiences so there wasn't much need to hold back. When the katana was nearing Arima, in an instant IXA changed to the Defensive mode and blocked that attack, to which Lucine showed very displeased face. He knew that his attack failed and soon retribution would come.

And it came, as he was kicked to the stomach by Arima and was shot several meters away. Arima Kishou was half-human, a breed between human and ghoul, thus he had partial ghoul physiology and was stronger than normal human many times. Lucien was caught by surprise and couldn't defend against attack properly. He wasn't even wearing his battle attire cause it was made from some stronger materials and it would be unfair to use it in a spar.

Lucien spilled a little amount of blood but he was smiling. Smiling from this feeling, of feeling which gave him spar with Arima. It was making his blood boil and he wanted to fight more.

Arima didn't wait for Lucien to recover as he was already before him slashing at him with his IXA. Lucien knew that Arima wouldn't miss such a perfect chance to attack and was prepared. He blocked the IXA with his katana and sparks were flying in the air from the collision.

They were exchanging one blow after another. At the start, Lucien had some problems to assimilate with Arima's speed of fighting but soon he caught up and the actual fight was starting.

Chapter end