43 Honor

Both Lucien and Washuu Tsunemoro jumped away from each other after the initial clash. Elder of Washuu Clan, realised that in terms of physical strength he if far weaker than Lucien but his kenjutsu is more refined and experienced than Lucien's. This gave him slight advantage during this fight.

But when he realised that Lucien was manipulating several kagune daggers to attack members of Vasuki. Even though they were nothing more than chess pieces, they still held their value. After first wave of attacks, mercenaries attacked still schocked agents of V, which gave them some moment of suprise.

Lucien and Elder Washuu Tsunemoro exchanged several strikes and nobody had any advanatage. Lucien had better physical strength and Washuu Tsunemoro had better kenjutsu. One of weaknesses of ordinary ghouls was fact that they would be weaker with getting older. Sacred Devourer Ghouls didn't have this kind of weakness.

"Your kenjutsu is very exceptional Elder Tsunemoro, in this regard I must admit my defeat. Its my honor to exchange pointers with you."

He complimented kenjutsu of Elder Tsunemoro and bowed lightly. It was truth that Elder's kenjutsu was more refined and sharped than his own. He was only at Samurai Realm in kenjutsu but it must be said that he reached that realm not long ago and didn't have enough experiences.

"Same could be said about your physical strength and speed. I am already old and I don't have that in me already."

Returned compliment to the Lucien, Elder Tsunemoro. It was a little weird to see two people who are trying to kill each other, being so polite to each other. Lucien and Washuu Tsunemoro understood regarded it as noble manners.

Both of them took battle stances as they gripped strongly thier respective katanas. Iado, japanese martial art that ephasizes being aware and capable of quickly drawing the sword and responding to a sudden attack.

They performed perfect iado and their swords clashed, sparks were in air and both of them were gazing at each other. Their duel was in blank point.

Same cannot be said about agents of V that were fightning against mercenaries. Lucien was even supporting them by usage of kagune daggers. He managed kill several agents of V when they were occupied by fightning mercenaries, whose Lucien brought. But mercenaries too had some loses. Several of them managed to get killed.

Lucien looked at this and knew numbers of mercenaries were decreasing so hi gave signal. He shot one kagune dagger high in the air and then he let it fall onto ground, creating smaller crater. This was signal to Uta who was hiding in the shadows. He needed him to act. His strength was above SS-rate abd now his abilities were far stronger as he recieved many blood essences from Lucien as well as simplified version of combat technique.

Suddenly Uta appeared in his second mask, resembling a bird with a wide beak and four small holes on the side. Several tails materialised from his back in mere seconds and managed to kill two agents of Vasuki by taking them by suprise.

When Elder Washuu Tsunemoro saw that he was clearly mad. He knew that powerful one has appeared and he was locked in combat with Lucien. He was now regretting for not bringing stronger combatants. All agents here were only A-rated ghouls or half-humans with ability of First-Class Ghoul Investigator. Only minority of them were at S-rate.

Now that Uta has came to support him, Lucien could freely fight with Elder Tsunemoro. He knew that after some time all mercenaries would be killed even with his support. Agents of Vasuki had numerical advantage which wasn't small one. Fortunately he ordered Uta to come with him, and hide near by.

"Finally my friend arrived here, so now we won't be interrupted during our fight."

Said Lucien with vicious grin as he gripped his katana and shot toward Elder Tsunemoro at full speed. But he wasn't only thing. Several kagune daggers were already aiming at Elder's vitals. As Elder Tsunemoror was experienced combatant, he managed to dodge three kagune daggers and block one. But his leg and arm were injured by other two daggers.

Then he saw that Lucien was already before him with his attack, but unfortunately for him, as his arm was damaged he couldn't hold his katana properly and Lucien's attack managed to sever his hand. His hand fell onto ground and he knew that this was moment, he met his demise. Then he felt it. Shart pain penetrating his stomach, which was penetrated from one blood-red kagune tail.

"The-y alwas say that y-onger genrati-on willoercome us."

Said old man as he was coughing blood and he was on his knees. Lucien was looking at last moments of his life before comming to him, holding his katana in his hand.

"Your abilities in kenjutsu were exceptional, but sadly you didn't manage to block all my kagune dagger, which I controlled through telekinesis. I am honored to give you death worth of samurai."

Said Lucien as he bowed to Elder, before taking battle stance and slashing at his head. His head was severed but his face was clearly smiling. It could be said that Elder Washuu Tsunemoro died satisfied.

Then Lucien shot at the nearest agent of Vasuki and killing him in a one hit. He wasn't holding back in the slighest, cause these were just mere cannon fodder. He couldn't obtain some experiences from them or something.

When Lucien previously fought with Elder Washuu Tsunemoro he used his telekinesis only after some time. This was because he wanted to fight by pure kenjutsu. Masters in Samurai Realm were very rare, especialy in these Lower-Grade Worlds.

Uta was too going on rampage and several agents of Vasuki were killed by his hand. For him killing these weaker agents was nothing. Same could be said about Lucien and even his subordinate Darkwaler managed to kill several agents. Loses of mercenaries weren't so big as only around eight of them were killed in action.

After ten minutes fight ended and only dead bodies remained here. Lucien was a little bit schocked at act of agents of V. Even though they knew that they would loose and be killed, they still fought to the death. This was probably result of the brainwashing process, they had undergone.

"Bring all bodies at one place so I can store them."

Ordered Lucien to mercenaries. They just followed his order without any question. They didn't care about what would he do, they were too brainwashed in some way to be loayl to the Aeon House and carry orders without question. They already saw many supernatural things already.

After twenty minutes all bodies were at one huge pile and Lucien and stored them in his Cross Crest. After that mercenaries loaded all blood essences into armored vehilce and then Lucien looked at Uta who nodded his head and then disappeared. Lucien then got into armored vehilce and convoy went back to the estate.