Lancer, flying in mid-air, flew back to the auction house after watching Ken Kaneki leave.
He was indeed quite curious about Ken Kaneki's current situation after the 'plot' was completely chaotic, but obviously he was more concerned about Akira Mado and the others' situation. Taking out the walkie-talkie that had been temporarily frozen, he opened the channel again.
"This is Lancer, the whereabouts of 'One-Eye' are lost, what is the situation on site?"
"First Class Investigator Lancer? It's great that you are fine."
It was obvious that Lancer temporary action of sealing off the communicator signal just in case made the command center very worried, but then they reported the situation to him in an official manner.
"The 'Auction House Annihilation Battle' has been declared over. 37 Third Class Investigators, 14 Second Class Investigators, and 1 First Class Investigator have been killed. We are currently conducting the final search."
Lancer was completely stunned when he heard the other party's words.
"Why were so many people killed?"
Because of Lancer intervention, the CCG's manpower could be said to be very sufficient. After all, according to the original worldline, that explosion alone sent dozens of First Class and even Special Class Investigators to the heavens, but now the personnel were sufficient, and the Special Class Investigators could also spare people to support. For example, the one leading the team this time was Special Class Investigator Iwao Kuroiwa.
"Special Class Kuroiwa and the others encountered resistance from several Ghouls wearing clown masks when they rushed into the hall. According to Special Class Kuroiwa's description, those unidentified Ghouls were at least SS-rated Ghouls…"
At this point, the other party's voice gradually lowered.
It should be known that before this, there were only a few officially recorded SS-rated Ghouls in the CCG Japan Branch. The SSS-rated Owl was only set after the complete destruction of the 11th Ward Branch and considering the threat of Aogiri Tree. As for the number of SS-rated Ghouls, although not small, there were only a dozen or so, but now?
In less than 3 years, the number of known SS-rated Ghouls has directly doubled, and what is even more chilling is that most of these Ghouls are not solitary Ghouls but organized Ghouls, so their threat level has simply risen linearly.
"I see."
Ghouls wearing clown masks?
In Lancer impression, the 'plot' had no recollection of them.
'Could it be outside of the plot? No, since they are opposing the CCG, does that mean they are Ghouls that appeared in the plot but I don't know about them?'
The former Lancer relied on his understanding of the 'plot' to successfully pass through the most dangerous period, and it was the experience of that period that laid a solid foundation for him. But as time went by, or rather because of his 'intervention', the plot completely went out of control, and he also lost his foreknowledge. However, fortunately, he gained something he didn't originally have — 'power'.
'No matter what these masked Ghouls are up to, if they dare to stop my plan, I will hang them all on my spear!'
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"The Clowns?"
When Lancer was sitting at the table verbally recounting his experience and having Hideyoshi Nagachika write the report, Akira Mado walked over with a piece of information. After flipping through it a few times, Lancer showed a puzzled expression. After all, he had never heard of this Ghoul organization before.
"It's normal that you haven't heard of them, Lancer. This Ghoul organization was already subjugated more than ten years ago, and even their leader was captured and locked up in the 23rd Ward at that time."
At this point, Akira Mado stopped talking, because she believed Lancer knew what she meant.
Lancer brow also furrowed. Of course, he understood what Akira Mado meant. After all, they had also participated in the prison defense battle back then. Although the prison was not completely breached in the end, the losses were still considerable, and the biggest trouble was the escape of several imprisoned SS-rated Ghouls.
"Tsk, why didn't they just kill them back then?"
Lancer showed a disgruntled expression, but Akira Mado showed a helpless expression in response.
"The CCG needs to manufacture high-grade Quinque, so they need them to provide the base material, and if they want to study Ghouls, the stronger the Ghoul, the more data they can provide…"
Lancer only listened to Akira Mado's explanation with one ear and let it out the other. After all, he didn't care about the reason. He knew that what he said on this matter was completely meaningless, and the people above wouldn't pay attention to him.
It's just that the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Logically speaking, these SS-rated Ghouls, if nothing else, should have dozens of kilograms of explosives buried under their specialized cells, right? Wouldn't everything be solved if they just pressed the detonator when they tried to escape?
'Too bad I still don't have any reliable information from the Manager; otherwise, I should be able to figure some things out.'
Just as Lancer was bowing his head in thought, Hideyoshi Nagachika on the side had flickering eyes.
Undoubtedly, he knew that he had 'gained' a lot this time. After all, this kind of news was not something a 'normal' Second Class Investigator like him should be able to hear, no matter how you looked at it.
But just as he was considering how to look at the report in Lancer hand, Lancer directly handed the report to him.
"Lancer! This report is only allowed to be seen by Investigators of First Class or higher!"
Undoubtedly, Akira Mado was naturally dissatisfied with Lancer action, but she quickly covered her mouth afterwards.
'Oh no, I lost my temper at Lancer again.'
In her opinion, Lancer should like the Yamato Nadeshiko or the docile and feminine type of woman, but what she didn't expect was that Lancer didn't seem to be dissatisfied at all, only shrugging his shoulders.
"Calm down, Akira. Hideyoshi is my assistant after all, and he has the authority. After all, his original job is to help me process information, and you also know that I am better at combat, and not good at things like analysis. Hideyoshi happens to be good at this aspect. Letting him take a look might give us some better suggestions?"
Lancer attitude was not submissive, but he explained everything very thoroughly, and Akira Mado, in response, pinched her temples with a look of helplessness.
"The CCG has specialized analysts…"
"Tch, if there were specialized analysts, would they still let you get knocked out by a tranquilizer?"
Lancer tone at this time could be said to be very disgruntled, but Akira Mado seemed somewhat happy, after all, Lancer was disgruntled because of her, but fortunately, she quickly restrained the smile on her face. After all, she still needed to pay attention to her image. However, she gave Hideyoshi Nagachika beside Lancer a fierce glare, scaring the other party into hurriedly lowering his head to look at the document in his hand.
'If I can't provoke them, can't I at least avoid them?'
Focusing all his attention on the document in his hand, Hideyoshi Nagachika softly complained in his heart.