Geass no naku koro ni Kamichikaki-hen
(When the geass cries out God strength-chapter)
a.t.b 2015 18 June
"Stab,stab,stab..." whispered the silent figure as he slowly inserted the dagger in and out of the victim's heart. Pulses of blood spurted out from the heart as the dagger pierced through it, adding on to the pool of blood that was already forming on the ground. Darkness concealed the body as the figure stood up, as he plucked the dagger from the heart, he started a hysterically laughter – a roar of victory.
"Lelouch! Lelouch!" Shirley cried out as she frantically waved her hands in the air to signal Lelouch to come over. Hearing her call for him, Lelouch stood up and strolled over to Shirley. "What is it? Missy?" questioned Lelouch. Shirley smirked and grabbed Lelouch on the shoulder and thrust him into the councilor room.
The annual Ashford Academy carnival was taking place and the entire academy was participating in it. The band was playing in front of the great ashford fountain, the drama club was performing in the hall , the anime fan club was putting up their displays , cosfests were held all over the compound , the enterprise club was setting up their stalls and selling
lemonade to the students , the Information and Technology club was organising a light show using spotlights to liven up the carnival , while the councilors had a unique yet entertaining task - to be clowns.
"Lelouch, you are finally here, here is your costume!" exclaimed Rivalz as he watched Lelouch scrambling into the room. A black and white costume that resembled a cat was tossed into Lelouch's arms. "What is the meaning of this? Why are we forced to wear such silly costumes?" questioned a shock Lelouch. Shirley explained that it was the instructions of the school Principal.
"But... isn't the school principal Milly's dad? Why do we still have to disgrace ourselves?"
"Lelouch... you have to relax, i agreed to do this." a sassy Milly spoke admist the whining of Lelouch.
"Milly-sama... you did not ask us for our views..."
"Lelouch... all the council members agreed."added in Rivalz,"including C.C"
Lelouch gave a sigh and left with the costume.
Standing atop the roof of the main building, a lone C.C stood watching the activities of the students.
"Will everything be the same for eternity?" whispered C.C. A gentle breeze caressed her hair, and a smile appeared on her face.
Flowery flares exploded in the sky as the fireworks were fired from the courtyard.
As the fireworks were fired, Milly Ashford's voice echoed through the hallways and the compound, she was making an announcement.
"Attention all students, this is Milly Ashford, your council's spokeswoman. I will be glad to inform you that the academy's principal has called for an election to elect the chairman of the council. The chairman will carry heavy responsibilities and will be playing a huge role in the maintenance of the academy. Your council members will be going around to showcase their campaigns and provide a better insight on who you as students, should vote. As the person in charge of making this announcement, i shall initiate my campaign movement. I will be giving my speech two days from now at the ball room, all students are welcomed. Thank you."
"What? A campaign?" shouted Rivalz as he was putting on his costume.
"Milly did not tell us anything..." Shirley mumbled while staring outside the windows.
The cicadas wept as Lelouch sat on the courtyard bench. His costume piled up to one side of the bench. The words that Milly just announced were echoing in his head.
"Its obvious that Milly wants the chairman position to herself," thought Lelouch.
"May i?" enquired C.C as she sat beside Lelouch on the bench.
"C.C? Why are u wearing an emperor penguin suit? Ah!... never mind."
"It doesn;t matter... there is an important issue i need to discuss with you though."
The rain pelted heavily unto the ground as the students scramble to wind up the carnival.
"Milly is busy preparing for her speech tomorrow, i am going to help her fix the chandelier, she said it was faulty... ok?" Rivalz did not expect a reply and ran off to the ball room.
"Boy,boy... i wonder why Rivalz wants to help Milly... is he not participating in his own campaign too?" asked Shirley as she was figuring out how to initiate her campaign.
Lelouch made a little smirk at Shirley and left the Councillor room.
"What is wrong with him today?"
Ominous clouds loomed as the guests swarmed into the ballroom.
It was the day of Milly's campaign rally. The guests were ushered to their seats and were anticipating the arrival of Milly. Lelouch, Shirley and Rivalz were seated at the back to observe the speech. As the clock strucked 11, Milly wearing a tinted pink gown, appeared from the side of the stage. C.C was accompanying her and took her position by Milly's side. Encouraged by the applause Milly received from the guests, she stepped forward and started to make her speech.
"How flamboyant..." Lelouch muttered under his breath.
Rain started to pour as Milly continued her speech. The bits of her speech was very boring but the essence of the speech was basically emphasised on her ego and why she was so perfect that she is needed as the chairman of the council.
"Lelouch, what are you calculating?" Shirley questioned.
"Haha.Just some problem solving questions i got on the way up to kill time during the speech," replied Lelouch.
Distant thunders could be heard and flashes of lightning streaked across the sky. The rain continued to pour heavily and yet, Milly's speech was far from finished. C.C displayed a worried look on her face as he clutched her hands together as if she was feeling cold. The thunders became more pronouced and loud as the speech continued.
"I do believe that many of you guests will consider the other participants however..." Milly said confidently before she was interupted by a flash of lightning. The flash was so bright that the entire audience was spellbounded. Nine seconds later, a roaring thunder was heard followed by screams and shouts from the audience.
The entire chandelier was falling, and in fact, falling unto the stage where Milly was standing. She screamed in horror but however was rooted to the ground by fear. C.C's eyes were wide open and positioned her hands above her hand to brace the impact. Yet, the inevitable happened, the chandelier smashed unto both Milly and C.C.
Blood and glass pieces was splashed onto the audience. Screams and cries fused in the air as the situation became chaotic. Milly's body was sliced into pieces and her organs were strewn all over the stage. Her blood had stained half the backdrop red. Yet her appalled face was still in place. C.C on the other hand was totally crushed by the impact and her bones were contorted out of shape. Lelouch and Rivalz both stood up in horror while Shirley screamed in shocked. The glass shards even pierced the audience directly in front of the stage. Mr Ashford, Principal of Ashford Academy had his heart punctured by a glass piece, while the Ashford's butler had 5 glass pieces in his abdomen and was on the floor moaning for help. The entire bloody scene freaked many people as they were fleeing from the site. Rivalz crashed onto the floor and broke down while Shirley attempted to look at Milly's contorted body. If it wasn't for her intact face, she would not be recognised as a human.
The ambulance and the police was called in to control the chaotic mess. The academy was in total mayhem with people crying and screaming after witnessing that traumatic event.
Shirley was seated in the Councillor's room and staring into blank space. The thought of Milly's dissected body flashed across her mind and she would throw up.
A dishevelled Lelouch entered the room.
"Where is Rivalz?" panted Lelouch.
"Gone.. like how all of them left..."
"What nonsense are you sprouting? Where is he?"
"...He was detained by the police"
Rivalz was attempting to fix the chandelier the day before the speech and was the only one that came into contact with the chandelier. By the looks of it, a small fuse was attached to the chanderlier, when it went off, the chandelier would blow and fall. Rivalz was good at mechanics and was regarded as the main suspect for committing this murder.
"How are we going to conduct the election then?" Lelouch muttered.
Shirley stood up and stared at Lelouch with her small pupils, her hands clutching her breasts and whispered with a sinister smile, "my heart hurts so much, and yet you could think of is the elections."
Stunned, Lelouch attempted to laugh it off as a joke, his smile was rapidly fading as he tried to faked one, shaking his body uncontrollably, Lelouch muttered, " No...no... this can't be it, i won't ... won't accept it... Hehe... i won't ... what a lousy joke... Shirley... You can't be serious right?"
Shirley picked up her bag and ran out of the room with a reply – tears on the floor.
Drenched in rainwater, Lelouch dragged himself across the field. Tears and rain mixing on his cheeks.
"I can't just accept it like this... Shirley is preventing me from winning... haha! That is it! Haha! Shirley...Shirley... is an obstruction... obstruction...hahahahaha" laughed a hysterical Lelouch. His eyes glowed bright red, like a lighthouse in the rain, he cautions others of impending doom.
Its been a full day since that disaster.
Classes were cancelled and students were advised to go back home while the academy solve some issues.
Shirley was packing up her locker when she found a note :
"I am Rivalz. I have no time to explain what is going on, i have managed to escape from custody and i am now at fujimi costruction site. Please, i will explain to you when u come."
"Rivalz!" exclaimed Shirley has she read the note.
The students around her stared at her as she quietly retreated from the locker room.
It was 8 pm, Shirley was situated outside the construction site. She managed to crawl in through a nearby hole in the fence. The construction has been halted for over 3 months and was currently not in use.
Shirley sneaked around in the darkness to search for Rivalz. The clear moon aided her in her search but at the same time, could easily expose her to anyone who was nearby. Steadily and slowly, Shirley crept around the site, clutching a plastic bag full of bread as she manuevered through the garden of piles and large slabs of marble. After 15 minutes of
tedious searching, Shirley sat down on a pile of tyres. Both her physical and mental strength was depleted.
Throughout the search, she heard someone tailing and following her, although the footsteps of the stalker and her were almost synchornized, she could hear a little extra footstep whenever she stops walking. The person was hidden behind the piles, someone was hiding from her. She armed herself with a metal pole she found on the ground and stood there, unsure of what to do next. She was in the middle of a concrete forest and all she could do was wait. The stalker's footstep became more pronounced as it became louder, the distance between her and the stalker was minimising. Shirley was freaked out, tears of fear streamed down her cheeks as she slowly raised her pole.
"Rivalz... is that you?" she silently called out.
All she got was the whistling of the wind through a hollow pipe which amplified the eerie mood around the construction site. Her knees were shaking and just when she was about to breakdown and cry, she heard cracking. The sound of... glass shards being smashed.
Shirley shivered as the sound sent shivers down her spine, just before she could attempt to move, a mirror near her smashed into pieces of glass, a glass shard flew vertically into the ground in front of her.
The piece was long and was driven into the ground. Unaware of what to do next, Shirley bent down to examine the glass shard, she had no idea where did it come from. She was so nervous that she totally forgotten about the cracking sound.
As she foolishly stared at her reflection in the mirror piece, a reflection of Lelouch appeared behind her.
Shirley's eyes widen and her pupils shrunk, using whatever energy she had left, she shrieked. Shirley crawled on the ground, attempting to crawl away from Lelouch, yet in the process doing so, she was cutting herself with the broken mirror pieces on the ground. A blood trail was left by her as she attempted to pick herself up. Lelouch managed to grab onto her before she could do anything.
Shirley turned to face Lelouch's eyes. A ray of red light flashed out from Lelouch's eyes and into Shirley.
"No! No! No!... Lelouch... what is the meaning of this?" screamed Shirley as she brushed him away.
Her body's condition continued to deteriorate. The pain numbing feeling brought about by fear and shock was starting to wear off and she could feel glass shards in her knees and palms. Seeing that Lelouch was not doing anything but simply smirk at her , she decided to pick up another metal pole after losing the one when she was caught unawares.
Lelouch withdrew a dagger and licked the edges of it.
"Lelouch..." Shirley whispered.
Just as Shirley positioned herself, Lelouch started to dash over to Shirley.
Shirley swinged the metal pole at Lelouch with all her might, the pole hit Lelouch's back.
However, it did not even set Lelouch back by one bit.
Shirley dropped the metal pole and covered her head while Lelouch grabbed her neck. He easily lifted her and brought her over to a pile.
"Le..lou..ch" gasped Shirley.
Lelouch smiled as Shirley called out his name. He closed his eyes and smashed her head onto the pile.
"Are you going to surrender to me?" asked Lelouch calmly.
Shirley replied weakly, "i have lost..."
Lelouch gave a sinister laughter and continued to smash Shirley's head onto the pile. The resonating sound of the solid skull crashing onto the pile seems to be voicing out the pleas of Shirley. Her head was tossed at the pile and blood soon enveloped her face. Her skull was badly deformed and Shirley continued to speak even though she was constantly crashed onto the pile, "i...have...lost...we...have...lost...we...we..."
Blood crawled down her eyes as her nose was bleeding profusely. Her face was disfigured from the impact while the more she spoke, the more Lelouch smashed her head onto the pile.
"How dare you declare that you have lost...how dare you!" exclaimed a hysterically enraged Lelouch.
When Shirley could barely speak, he flung her onto the floor. He withdrew his dagger and started to stabbed her heart. As he stab her for the first time, Shirley gave a silent scream and blood spurted out in a pulse from the heart.
"Stab,stab,stab..." whispered Lelouch. As he was being drenched in Shirley's blood after he continuously stab her heart, he gave a hysterically laughter – a roar of victory.
"I have won... i have won... hahahaha... i have won... hahaha"
From afar, a silent firgure stood. Staring at the events happening.
"I do not desire such a world..." whispered the figure.
Ending notes
More will be revealed through the other chapters. This chapter protrayed Lelouch as a villian, the truth will only be revealed in the "anwser arcs" while these chapters are the "question arcs". The next chapter would be dokugoku-hen (poisoned words chapter).