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The world, once a war fueled society, had found a common ground, the death of the Demon Emperor, Lelouch vi Britannia . They had celebrated at his death and gladly embraced peace to each other and yet this was all part of the Demon Emperor's plan. Using himself as a symbol and scapegoat of hatred, he led everybody, step by step, through his plan. He made himself the focal point of hatred and staged his own climatic death. The majority of the world rejoiced, unaware of his plan, his sacrifice except however a few loved ones who disconcerned the truth.

It has been several months since the zero requiem incident, the world is still slowing rebuilding through the help and benevolence of peace. It's such a rare and fragile thing, hard to believe that it exists right outside the window, although there are slight hiccups, the world seems to much happier. The cost of this time of peace however was exceedingly high, casualties reached millions, innocents slaughtered and occasional property damage, yet it was all worth it, maybe.

Kallen Kōzuki, ace pilot of the Black Knights, currently focuses her daily routine through Ashford Academy, home life with her mother and occasionally work for the Black Knights . Due to her war efforts she gained a pseudo celebrity status, credited with killing the Demon Emperor's right-hand man and knight of zero, Suzaku Kururugi, an accomplishment just short of eliminating the Demon Emperor himself and considered a key factor in his downfall. She herself though does not take pride in these accomplishments after she had discovered the true purpose of the zero requiem.

As the alarm clock rang, Kallen stirred under the sheets, she was tempted to try and ignore it and resume her slumber but it was such an annoyance that getting up seemed the prefered choice compared to damaging it and going through the hassle of a broken clock.

Thats right, it's a school day today. After dealing with the trivial matters such as breakfast and changing in to uniform, passing a look at photos in her room, she left home once again leaving for Ashford Academy

As she walked there she couldn't reminisce about the past, she had before lots of great yet unconventual times related to the academy, she remembered the festivals and how they were to make a giant pizza, which was never successful, not from a lack of trying though, after several attempts the students presumed it cursed and started the rumor that if the giant pizza was ever made, the Demon Emperor will rise from grave and force feed the pizza down their throats.

As Kallen reached the entrance of the academy, she gazed on the building in front of her recalling someone who had long ago asked if she would return to Ashford Academy with him. The red haired girl slightly smirked.

"Heh, what a liar" hervoiced muttered aloud to herself.

"Jerk"she mumbled softly,passing into the grounds.

The part time Guren pilot sat down at her desk waiting for her first class which was history. After sitting staring out the window for a few minutes, a loud noise came from the corridor, that could only mean one thing, the arrival of the student council's vice president and Ashford's most eligible bachelor Gino Weinberg. With unbeknownst to him, several female admirers in tow, Gino graced the classroom with serene presence, spotting Kallen he walked up to her with his radiance aglow.

"Morning Kallen" he greeted her.

After pleasantries, the Knight of the Round, invited the Black Knight's Ace to a tour of the best pastry shops he had discovered later.

"Sorry, I can't" replied Kallen, "After class I have to go a council meeting. new festivals and stuff like that. By the way, don't you have to go as well vice-president?"

Gino laughed that he had forgot, and that with all the exciting things in his life he had forgotten about it, but now that she had reminded him of it she can rest assured that he would be there.

Kallen wasn't overly fond of Gino, but considered him a close friend, after all those were uncommon lately as most people who greeted her was in part more interested at the role she played during the recently ended war.

With the arrival of the teacher the history class, how boring. Several people didn't really pay the subject mind especially Kallen, a few months ago she had made history and now she had to listen to someone's not as exciting war stories, another thing she disliked about history that she could relate to, is that the history text is usually told by some observer's perspective, the writer could have gotten details exceedingly wrong and it would be presented as fact. Humanity could sure be conceited sometimes.


After class, the student council was ready to start their discussion, what to do at their festival.

"After a week of thinking," council president Rivals began, "We still have no idea what we are going to do!"

"Maid café, haunted house, giant pizza, these are all to generic, we need something so great, so amazing, Milly will run down here and congratulate me for a job well done!"

Rivals continued his usual speech, while the rest of the council contemplates the possible answer.

Gino offered his two cents, "The question should be, what do commoners love, and of course commoners love knightmares, so we should combine the ideas, and do a haunted knightare... wearing a maid costume... selling pizza"

"I'm not really sure thats really idea or not," Kallen sighed, "but I don't think it would be really practical"

"Why?"

"Cost for one thing"

"But all the previous fetivals were a high budget"

"Safety is another thing, a large military vehicle in a crowded place while wearing a dress"

Several minutes later the council meeting was concluded, with hardly any progress made. Mostly it resulted to just a wasted afternoon.


With the meeting now over the Red Lotus, decided to head home as usual, she didn't care to join her classmates trip through the newly built shopping centre, after all with such a crowed place she could attract overzealous unwanted company, she had many fans after the war and most of them wanted to gossip about her heroics, those people always seem to depress her, they talked about how horrible the Demon Emperor was, how grateful they were for her contribution to his death. This was more than enough to anger her and reminded her of how badly her relationship with Lelouch ended, while she yearn to give an aggressive response she still had to grin and put up the front that she was be happy, it was almost intolerable.

Once she reached her home she found her house unoccupied, her mother would be home later but for now she was left alone. Entering her room she sat on the bed, she started gazing her surroundings and then stopped at her photo collection, focusing on the centre picture which featured a boy who attended Ashford Academy with her long ago.

"Hi again," Kallen began talking to the picture. " President Rivals is still not satisfied with our festival planning so far"

Kallen began telling the photo about her life daily, she did it to comfort to her and help to relieve her of stress. She could pretend what responses he would give, smart, snide and teasing her to her limit. Sometimes she asked the photo about the "what ifs" in her life. what if she knew who he was sooner, what if the Black Knights never betrayed him, what if he answered about how he felt about her, the photo always remained silent to these questions.

"Everyday life is so different without you Lelouch," the red-haired girl continued. "I still can't believe you gone, if feels like a dream and every time I want to wake up to see you grinning and tease me about falling asleep in class. I miss you, what I wouldn't give to see you one last time"

Staring at the image for several minutes, the Black Knight's ace then ran a bath and tried to get comfortable, the water was relaxing and warm. Just as about she was going to get cozy her cell phone began to ring, who could have such bad timing to call her right now, of course the answer was Tamaki. Cursing him as she answered the phone she received a jovial greeting.

"Yo, how was your day?" the ever eager Tamaki began.

"Stop the stalling," Kallen replied. "I was kind of busy before you interrupted me"

"Thats harsh, what a mean thing to say to an old friend that could just be calling because he cares about you and wonders how you are"

"Are you calling because you care about me and wonder how I am?"

"Well... no..."

"I see, so what does the great veteran who saved the world want with me?"

"I kind of need some...assistance, some physical able assistance"

"Interesting, go on."

"A couple days the Black Knights were quite short staffed so I was happy to fill in for some work. I got assigned a mission to stop some local drug dealers, it was pretty cool, I got command of a squad and everything, I was quite a role model to them and they gave me their greatest praise,"

"Tamaki!"

"Right, so anyway, I had to stop this group of over 20 people with only my loyal followers and only 2 knightmare,s the enemy armed with dangerous guns and knives"

"For such a small group you needed knightmares?"

"I know, those thugs were strong"

"Okay...so then what happened?"

" I admit they caught me by surprise, who would have thought a sign could be so miss leading, anyway my unit suddenly on medical leave, it was such a shock, the knightmare frames are submerged by the docks and all that, so satisfied?."

"Yes, I shall pity those brave people who followed you, so what do you need me for? Surely you can just get more back-up from the order"

"How do I say this? The order heard about my great exploits and observe me carefully so they can learn from my greatness and it would be so disappointing for them for me to ask for additional staff"

"I see, so basically you screwed up, you're in hot water and afraid what will happen if they find you messed up again so now you need discrete help!"

"You got it Kallen, I knew I could count on you, I need you here in 3 hours"

The Black Knight's Ace sighed, really how did Tamaki get such a trusted position in the first place.

"Fine, I have nothing better to do, send me the co-ordinates"

"Your the greatest, I'll pick you up soon. Oh, and you'll keep this between us right, nobody else needs to know"

"Yeah, yeah, anything for an old friend"

Getting dressed, the Red Lotus, decided that since it was Tamaki it wouldn't be anything to hard and some exercise for now would do her some good. Gathering her field kit and leaving a note for her mother, she said goodbye to the photo in her room and left.


Tamaki drove them to a seemingly empty warehouse down by the docks. They climbed to a nearby tower, using the view to look through the warehouse's windows and hopefully to identify their targets. Tamaki, using his binoculars, then directed their attention to small group of people just outside the warehouses's entrance. Kallen trembled with fear at the sight of them, and by "trembled" it meant sighed and by "fear" it meant disappointment at Tamaki.

Five people were standing near them, judging from buldges in there clothes they appeared to be very lightly armed although it could be drugs they were hiding, outwardly appearing to be almost meek people with no military training, maybe some rouge doctors who wanted to get rich quick.

Inside they only had about 17 people, most of them sitting in weird positions, obviously these people were the ones taking the drugs and seemed to be no threat.

"Seriously Tamaki," the Kallen stated in an umimpressed tone. "How could you have failed this mission?"

"There smarter than they look," Tamaki quickly retorted. "Anyway lets get this over with quickly, how about this sniper rifle, we can take them out from here"

"No way, after you dragged me all the way out here just to do that, this requires a more personal touch or else I won't be satisfied"

Kallen climbed down from the tower, Tamaki would try to talk her out of it but he knew it would be no use to try and stop somebody that headstrong, maybe he will just stay up here arm the long range gun just in case something went wrong.

As she crept closer to the unsuspecting group she placed the symptoms some of the people were showing, it seemed so familiar like she had seen s=those symtons before, it could only point to one thing, the ever so popular refrain. Sneaking closer she overheard the the 5 people talking, apparently something about one of them didn't have any money and was trying to set up a deal or some kind, the rest of the company didn't seem pleased with his actions.

The first thing she needed to do was verify their actions, walking in their view she put on her infamous sick girl routine, hobbling over in an attempt to appear weak and vulnerable. Catching their attention she put on her best innocent face.

"Um, excuse me," began the seemingly weak red-haired girl.

Three of people gave their attention to her, the smallest one smiled at her, ready to hear her words.

"Good evening, how can we help you" spoke the man. "It's rare to find someone so young around here at this time"

"I heard from a friend that I could get some refrain somewhere here"

"Really? And why would you be interested in that?"

"I could use some, you wouldn't happen to have any would you? I have some money, I can pay for it"

"You know, you could really get in serious trouble for asking something like that to the wrong people, but...I might just happen to be able to help."

"So you actually have some then?"

"Sure, maybe this is what your looking for" replied the unsuspecting man as he put his hand into his right trouser pocket and pulled out a vial of yellow liquid.

"Yeah," smirked Kallen. "Thais what I needed to see"

In a sudden swift movement the man was knocked out by a right uppercut to the jaw, before the other two could comprehend what had happened they felt a sharp pain by their back of their heads before the also followed suit to the realm of the dreaming. Seeing what had happened one of the people that stayed slightly back started fumbling at his pockets. The Black Knight's Ace dispatched him with a spin kick, she had really wanted to spin kick somebody recently, it always look so fun as long as you were not on the receiving end.

The last person got on his knees hunched over the fallen men, apparently checking their conditions, while being mortified on how quickly a young girl had knock out these people, what he was actually doing was robbing the unconscious man's refrain supply, quickly securing the required instruments he hoped to intoxicated himself as soon as he could.

Readying the needle, his hands were suddenly in pain, the red-haired girl had painfully disarmed him, clutching his hand in pain, he now resorted to now pathetically begging.

"Please, please..." he began in a panic. "Just let me go, just one me..I need it just one more time"

He started sobbing, Kallen figured she should just knock him out.

"I...I..just want to see my little sister again" he muttered. "So please, mercy, just this one time, I need..."

And just like that he was out, a quick small blow to the head was all he needed.

'Such a pity,' thought the man's attacker. 'I could almost relate to him, well some of him anyway, sort of'.

With most of the work done, the inevitable appearance of Tamaki came into view, smiling proudly at a job done. All that's left to do gather the people and drugs into the transport, after offering words of praise, they loaded the people away, stripping them of any drug on their person, making sure the were secured, not the most exiting part of the job but Tamaki was able to do it.

"Thanks again Kallen," continued Tamaki. "Any remember nobody else in the Black Knights need to know about this right, this is just between us, I'm counting on you."

"Okay, okay," the girl grumbled, starting to get annoyed by the man. "Lets just go so I can get to bed"

"Um...you see, I kind of need to take them straight to headquarters, we don't want them to find out where you live after all, and since this is our secret I can't really show up with you right..."

"What! Tamaki!"

"Wait, wait, don't kill me just yet, I'll gladly give you the money for a ride home, I'll even give you more than enough, here take my wallet, take as much money as you want, just have mercy"

Kallen grabbed his wallet, after trying to calm down for a little, after all what did she expect from Tamaki, she took enough money for the a ride home and half what was left and threw the rest into Tamaki's face.

"Your really pushing it!" she shouted, face tinted with anger. "Fine, but this is the last time I'm going to help you, no matter how pathetic you sound next time!"

Tamaki timidly responded while slowly backing away to the driver's seat.

"Err, yeah, thanks again, really... thanks, and just again, please, don't tell anybody else about this, especially Ohgi..."

With that he hurriedly tried to leave as soon as possible, not daring to look, not even in the rear view mirror, leaving his friend alone behind, he didn't need to worry about her, she could take care of herself, he needed to worry about him and send his friend a thank you gift later in an effort for damage control.

Kallen watched him go, wondering if he might crash, still slightly miffed, she kicked a nearby object sending it flying a few metres. After spending a few minutes regulating her anger, she got out her phone and arranged for a ride, she would meet up with them at a nearby road.

As the red-haired girl began to leave she noticed the object she kicked earlier, it was that one syringe full of refrain she disarmed from the man earlier, still intact. Great, it appeared Tamaki had messed up again and left something important behind. She walked past it, willing to leave it behind, or that's what she would have liked to do, she couldn't leave something like that here where anyone walking pass could take it. She picked it up, staring at it for a second and put it in her pocket, deciding how to dispose of it later. Right now she wanted to go home and sleep the night away.