Aftermanth of Explosions

"Why did you save her? "

Asked Lucien in a curious voice, he observed the beautiful flames devouring everything around; the entire area around the Yasuhisa Mansion was turned into the Realm of Flames.

Sometimes there would be a small occasional explosion that was an addition to the raging flames beneath the heaven.

"I don't know, Your Highness."

Answered Zelilios in a low voice as he also stared at still exploding Yasuhisa Mansion and the surrounding area. Who knows who died there? Maybe even Kuroiwa and the rest of them didn't survive those explosions and raging flames.

Maybe with some luck, Kirishima Ayato and Kaneki Ken survived, but probably yes, as Lucien told them that tonight there would be huge fireworks.

Lucien observed him before turning to continue to watch the fireworks; he admired the beauty of the flame and explosion. After ten minutes of watching, he turned around to walk away, but before that, he turned to Zelilios and with a serious face said.

"She is your responsibility. You take care of her and persuade her. If she accepts, it is again your responsibility to take care of her and make enough contribution to get acess to the Sacred Blood Crystal and process of turning her into Noble Ghoul."

After Lucien said that, Zelilios bowed in gratitude

***

After returning to the manor, Lucien went to his room to get a hot shower as he was all sweaty from the latest adventure. Those flames were too intense, and there were extremely hot thanks to them.

He had worked a bit today and also disposed of Kano, and at least he was sure that Special-Class Ghoul Investigator Kuroiwa Iwao had died in those explosions down there, so the current mission could be considered a huge success.

The only thing he wanted to do for now was to sleep and relax as he was tired. More than anything, he was exhausted from those explosions' immense heat and noise.

Meanwhile, Zelilios took Akira to his room and let her sleep; during her sleep, he also took a shower, changed, and then slept on the couch in the room. He wasn't aware why exactly he saved the human woman in front of him, but what happened, happened.

He was pretty happy that His Highness the Crown Prince didn't kill her out of anything; instead, he gave her his responsibility to him as his own responsibility.

***

Several hours later

After sleeping for several hours, Mado Akira finally started showing signs of a slow awakening. She at first only opened one of her eyes weakly and then the second one. Before anything, she sat on the bed and held her head, which hurt.

'Where am I? This room looks like from some fantasy book.'

She said to herself as she observed luxurious-looking furniture; many things were ornamented with gold, and on the walls were various beautiful paintings of people she didn't recognize, but they were clothed in very fancy clothes, and most of them were holding some sort of weapon.

"Awake?"

Asked the voice out of nowhere. Akira was surprised at first, but gradually she calmed down and started looking for the source of the voice.

Then she saw a very handsome black-haired man clothed in a luxurious-looking white outfit created from several components. He wore a white suit with a long coat, tight high boots, and a white waistcoat; overall the man was giving out the presence of an aristocrat.

"And you are?"

Questioned Akira in a calm voice as she observed the man before her, not sure about what to do.

"Zelilios, Sternritter N03 of Wandenreich, currently acting as the personal knight of his Highness, Crown Prince Lucien Etras di Aeon."

Introduced Zelilios himself as he gave out even a traditional salute.

Akira was surprised at first that the man before saved her because she had never heard anything like Wandenreich or anything he said to her. Even though she was shocked inside, she tried to keep calm as much as possible and tried to sort out all those chaotic thoughts in her head.

"What are you?"

Asked Akira after some time of thinking and observing Zelilios, who was comfortably sitting on the sofa in front of her.

Like her, he was also observing Akira and watching her every movement or expression. Watching her expression was rather a hard task because even now, she barely changed it by an inch.

"Noble Ghoul, we are like ghouls but evolutionary we are on a much higher level. For example, we are stronger, live longer, don't need to eat humans to survive, and many other things. Wandenreich is a country located on the Blood Island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, or as you, humans call it, one of the world's mysteries."

Then Zelilios slowly explained some minor things about Noble Ghouls and Wandenreich as he talked about it and answered all her questions. She was shocked to hear that there existed such powerful ghouls, alas in hiding in the dark, but she was also surprised by the fact of how different they were from ordinary ghouls.

For example, the fact that they can't get crazy even if they consumed other ghouls and all these things; when she asked about it, Zelilios showed her Blood Essences and told her how they were getting RC Cells from other ghouls as it was barbaric to consume other ghouls or some creatures in a manner consuming their flesh.