The demon remembers
2088 a.t.b
November 25, 21:00
House of Commons
The Parliament was now in session and Tony Cobbler ,the prime minister, was addressing on the most recent economic development of the Empire .
"In conclusion, the recent economic downturn has caused a reduce in demand from our state-own clothing factories, and therefore our income for taxes will be affected . Also the private sectors are as well starting to be affected ; for now everything is fine, but at this rate we estimate that in six months we will have to start firing workers or raise taxes".
A collective mumble began spreading trough the great hall of the House of Commons.
"Ah! Yes, either raise taxes or fire people ! Such limited way of thinking this government has" was heard through the great hall as all eyes looked to the head seats where the emperor was sitting .
"What do you mean your majesty? This is normal precautions, for we need money so the government can survive during the crisis and to rebuilt it after the crisis passes .
"Yes, yes !" said a collective murmur of the others present.
"So fate says we either cut back or cut off our workers" the emperor said while he started typing something on his laptop. "If this is what fate wants I will just defy her, we will not raise the taxes nor will we fire workers ."
"What?" a collective gasp of shock filled the room, drowning it's silence with whispers , and then the Emperor raised his hand and all was silent.
"My lord then what do you suggest we do?"
"Adapt or die, that is natures only rule, instead of closing factories we adapt them, we convert them to industrial farms and cattle ranches, this way the people have jobs, and we also will have a stable economy" .
At this suggestion more mumbling was heard , but this time with a tone of admiration for the brilliant yet simple idea the emperor had.
"We have enough reserve funds to convert the factories and keep the workers paid until spring, but we will also have to do extensive surveys for suitable locations for the crops and cattle, and if we start searching tomorrow for suitable locations , we will first look for the area along New Pendragon" said Tony .
"No need to . Here" the emperor said as he pulled a flash disk out of his laptop and threw it at Tony for him to catch."There are suitable locations on that disk" . "For the county of Pendragon?" a question was heard.
"For the whole empire " said the king as the entire room gasped at hearing the statement.
"But it would take weeks ,even months to survey all the terrain … when did you start surveying it, my lord?" Tony said ,still shocked at the other man's words.
The emperor looked at his wrist watch and said "About 3 minutes ago'' .A second collective gasp filled the room , this time more surprised , as Tony's eyes lid up with admiration and awe for the king .
"Even in his eighties the king still continues to surprise and astound everyone" , he said in his mind.
"If there are no more issues I would like to call this month's meeting adjourned" said the Emperor, and seeing how no one said anything more the meeting finished , everybody going back to their homes.
On the way out he heard murmurs from the ones he passed on how brilliant the king was, how some called him genius and what he just did now ,a land survey which normally takes months ,and he did it in only a few seconds – it sounded like a miracle.
Once inside his personal limousine , Lelouch the Emperor lost himself in his own thoughts ." Miracle! Ha, what a bunch of hog wash . I prepared that factory conversion plan years ago in case of such a turn of events should arrive… perhaps I shouldn't have lied and told them that I did it all in 3 minutes" , he exhaled a breath of exhaustion . " Oh well I deceived so many and told so few truths - what's one more lie on my conscience anyway?"
Once he arrived at the New Aries Imperial Villa , the king went to his private quarters and sat down on his chair ,opening a photo book , looking at the pictures.
"He is so much like you Jeremiah, your grandson has about the same personality ,the same method of thinking… I wish you could have seen him as an adult now , old friend" , the emperor said as he started to go through the photo album.
"So many friends and family - all passed away…" he said looking at the pictures of Clovis, Euphemia, Cornelia, Suzaku, Villeta, Jeremiah, Odyseus and so many more until he finally got to the last two photos in the album.
The first one was of Nunnally , the one person for which he cared about more than anything in this world. To this one he gave a smile which was both filled with sadness and happiness , for all of the persons in the picture were now dead, most of them from old age, others from disease and a few died during the war, but he!
He survived every hellish trial the world set out for him , and now he was alone and all his loved ones were dead.
The second photo was of Schneizell which gave the emperor a scowl on his face, for Schneizell had caused him more grief than anything else , and if one thing he regretted about his death was that he lived a long life and did not die when he was borned.
"Looking at those photos again , Lelouch? You are still acting like a little boy! " a voice was heard in the room .Lelouch the Emperor turned around in his chair and looked at C.C who was lying on the bed in her underwear.
"Still the wise crack aren't you Witch?" Lelouch said as he got up from his chair and went to the clothes drawer next to the bed and opened it.
C.C got up from the bed and went behind him ,hugging and kissing his neck . "Old memories still troubling you, why don't you come to bed ? I'll make them go away" she said while planting kisses on his neck.
"I'm 88 years old C.C , don't you get tired of sleeping with an old fat fart like me?"
"Not at all, and you're not fat , your actually quite slim , and when compared to other men your age your prince charming ." she said still smiling.
"King charming to be correct, but... as you recall I was never, ever prince charming, I was a prince the world had not seen " Lelouch said as he grasped her hands with his own , continuing:
"How many years has it been , C.C , how many years have past since I was "The Iron Prince", he said as he looked at his old tricorn mask, cape, gun and suit ."How many years has it been since I was Zero?"
Author's note:
Read and review this is my pilot, if I get good reviews I will expand this into a series also I wrote it in anticipation for the New Geass project .
2nd Author's note :
Hi there ~! Gameboy5432's editor speaking here. We're relaunching the chapters (Now with much better grammar , so to speak) . So if you see too many commas or Godlike grammar skills , it means that the story was passed to me.
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