Lelouch and black bunny girl decided to take the train going to school.

"When are you gonna get dressed?", he asked.

"I have no other clothes."

Lelouch sighed and took off his black school jacket and lent it to the girl.

"Thank you, Lelouch.", she replied.

"I've been meaning to ask.", he said as he faces the girl. "Who are you?"

The green-haired bunny grinned. "Curious aren't we? A question for a question. Deal?"

"Okay, ask away after you answer my question.", Lelouch approved.

The bunny girl wore the jacket and fixed its buttons. The crowd was no longer staring at her.

"I'm C.C. I walk around looking for interesting people.", she said.

"Like?"

"Yourself. I've decided to stay in Ashford academy to get to know you more."

Lelouch was puzzled. Anyway, he still got what he wanted to know.

"Okay, C.C. why did yo-"

C.C. hushed the boy's mouth. "My turn."

"Okay."

"Why did you not use the rook?", she asked.

"Seriously, after all that commotion, you're just asking that?", he said slightly laughing.

The girl nodded as she signals to Lelouch they are near their stop station.

"Well, if the king doesn't move, his subordinates won't follow.", he explained. "I said that earlier."

"You could've lost the king. It was defenseless. Is it pride?"

"No. It is my philosophy in life. And the king was not defenseless, it had its followers to protect him.", he further added.

C.C. smiled. "I like your answer. What are you trying to do?"

"I'll answer that if you answer my next question."

"Deal."

"I would like to defeat the Britannia company."

C.C. was shocked. "That's quite an ambitious dream."

"No. It can be and it will be. I just need the right company who is much willing to defeat Britannia too, but I won't settle with weak associations. I need smart and-"

"The Black Company.", C.C. commented.

"The group earlier? Nah. They are not the ones I need."

The train stopped on its designated station. The pair went down and decided to walk their way to Ashford academy.

"You're wrong.", C.C. firmly stated. "The Black company is a group of strong-willed and smart employers that are continually being deceived by the Britannia company, stealing their ideas and bribing the employers."

"Are you one of them?"

"No. I read about them online.", she explained. "By the way, there is a display of latest products from the business companies next week. The Black company and Britannia company will be participating."

Lelouch continued walking. It was already nighttime. They were now at the gates of Ashford.

"That's none of my business."

C.C. smirked. "If you say so.", she shrugged and grabbed her cellphone. "I have a copy of their prototype. I copied it earlier."

"So?"

"I'll send it to your mail. By the looks of it, they need another month to finish it. But, you can possibly do something."

She sent the file to Lelouch and walked away. "Their contact number is there too."

Lelouch checked the contents of the mail. It was all about a robotics project. They were planning to create small robots, enough to be called toys, but can be commanded verbally.

Wow, it is almost finished.

Lelouch almost lost sight of the green-haired girl who was now walking to the building where the principal's office was located.

"Where are you going?", he asked.

C.C. waved her hand to him, not turning her back. "Getting my files done so I can start here tomorrow."

"You're staying here?"

"Yes. Don't worry. I won't be much of a bother to you."

What's with that woman.

Lelouch didn't bother himself with her anymore and walked towards the clubhouse where his sister, Nunnally, was waiting, while scanning the Black company's plan.

"I'm home."

Upon reaching their room, Sayoko, the house maid served tea for Lelouch and prepared for dinner.

"Welcome home, brother.", Nunnally happily said. She was not blind nor cripped. She was just a weak and dependent girl who needed his brother's care.

After dinner, Lelouch accompanied Nunnally to her room and put her to sleep. He read her a bedtime story "Alice in Wonderland" until she fell asleep.

He then proceeded to his own room where he stayed up all night to finish the prototype robot of the Black company.

Morning soon came. Lelouch and Nunnally happily ate their breakfast and shared some stories about their week. Of course, Lelouch did not share about his awful abduction. It would scare his precious little sister. On the other hand, Nunnally shared that she and her friends, Rolo, Kaguya, and Anya are going on a field trip next week, to Mt. Fuji. She also added that they will be hiking and taking lots of pictures.

"Okay, okay. Just be careful there.", Lelouch chuckled.

After eating their breakfast, Lelouch and Nunnally went to their respective classes.

Lelouch was on his third year while Nunnally was on her first year of high school.

Lelouch's class.

Rivalz quickly approached Lelouch and asked about what happened to him, he quickly reassured him that he was fine. The bubbly Milly talked, as always, about her plans for the much-awaited school festival, that, by the way, keeps getting postponed. Shirley, a beautiful orange-haired maiden, approached Lelouch and scolded him for his sudden disappearance.

"Lulu! Please do not skip your classes or els-!", she blabbered.

Milly laughed. "Or else you will not graduate on time and our future plans will be ruined. Right, Shirley?"

"Pres!"

Milly laughed even more at the sight of a blushing Shirley. She has always been a fan of their love team. Shirley, obviously, really likes Lelouch since freshmen year while Lelouch does not really know.

Suzaku joined the noisy bunch and reprimanded Lelouch too. Lelouch just laughed off their scoldings and promised not to do it again.

A tall man entered their room and instructed everyone to settle down.

"Sir Ohgi is here!", Milly exclaimed.

Everybody went to their seats as Sir Ohgi introduced their new classmate.

"Please come in and introduce your self."

A familiar green-haired girl with golden orbs and pale skin entered the room. Everyone was surprise at her beauty, well, except Lelouch.

"Hi everyone. I am C.C. and I came from Britannia. Nice to meet you all.", she briefly introduced her self.

"Please sit next to Kallen.", he instructed her.

She walked and sat beside Kallen, a red-haired girl who was very familiar to C.C.

C.C. looked her in the eye and smirked, softly saying, "Pink bunny."

Kallen, at first, was shocked to see the girl they kidnapped going to her school but hid it anyway.

"Please do sit.", she pointed to C.C.'s seat.

Sir Ohgi cleared his throat and grabbed his book out of his bag. He was teaching history. Class proceeded and everyone listened as Ohgi talked. A few questions, then and now, were also answered by the students. Before they knew it, lunch time came.

"Class dismissed.", Ohgi remarked as he went out of the room.

C.C. then gave Kallen a piece of rolled paper as she went out of the room. Kallen opened this while curiously looking at her.

My mouth is shut. I won't tell anyone about you and Sir Ohgi's company.

Kallen sighed of relief.

Safe.

However, she just realized that there was another man who was there yesterday. A black-haired Ashford student.

He looked like-. She slowly turned her head to face Lelouch who was already staring at her. She clenched her fists.

I won't let this Britannia student blow our plan.

She approached him and his group of friends. He faced her, knowing she was going to talk to him.

"Have a minute?", Kallen seriously asked.

"Sure.", Lelouch replied as he stood up and went out of the room with Kallen.

"Pres, just go on to the student council room. I'll follow.", he added.

Milly nodded and the rest of the group went to the student council room to have their lunch.

"Are you going to spill our secret?", Kallen asked, still clenching her fist.

"What secret? Kidnapping? Blackmailing?"

"All of it."

Lelouch looked at her. "I did some modifications to your prototype."

Kallen wondered at his weird comment. "What do you mean?"

Lelouch then opened his phone and showed her his plan. Instead of only voice command, gestures could also be a means to direct the robot. He had also finished making a sample product and showed its picture to Kallen.

"I had a friend help me assemble the parts. I'm not an expert in robotics.", he further explained.

"Why are you doing this?", she angrily asked.

"I just figured you guys needed my help so you won't resort to kidnapping."

"Don't mess with us!", she shouted.

"I am not. I think your goal and my goal are directed on the same path.", he stated.

"So?"

"How about you accept my offer to be your leader?"

"Leader? Are you crazy? Ohgi is our leader!", she shrugged off the man's selfish ambitions.

"How about a bet?", he offered.

"Bet?"

"Black company ranks 198th of the companies in the world while Britannia company is the 1st."

"What of it?", she opened her clenched fist and eagerly listened to Lelouch's offer.

Lelouch faced the curious woman and showed his plan. "If I can raise Black company's rank to the top ten, I'll be your leader. To win, you need an able leader, one who has the mindset to always win."

"Such as you?", Kallen laughed at waved her hands to his hilarious offer.

"Yes. Tell that to Sir Ohgi and text me of his reply.", he said.

"Okay, we lose nothing if our ranks stayed at the bottom but we gain something if we rise up.", she commented. "How about C.C.?"

"What about her?"

"Is she with you?"

"No. She has nothing to do with this. She was bored and wanted to go to school."

"Do you not know her?", Kallen asked.

"Not really. By the way, Milly wants to hire you in the student council because you seemed exceptionally strong. Visit her for confirmation.", he said.

"Sure. I've got no clubs anyway.", she answered. "I'm going."

She walked away from him and Lelouch went to the student council room.

"Lelouch! You're finally here!", Gino, a student council member from the special class waved at him.

"He wanted me to take him on one of your chess games.", Rivalz chuckled.

"Gambling, you mean?!", Shirley shouted. "Rivalz and Lulu! Don't drag Gino in your monkey business!"

Everyone then laughed at the ever-caring Shirley. Another girl entered, one with long pink hair and snow white skin , Euphy, accompanied by a dark green-haired miss, Nina.

"The special class is not busy?", Lelouch asked.

Euphemia smiled, "Yes! Apparently, the teachers were busier with something other than classes."

Suzaku offered Euphy a seat. Euphy blushed like a strawberry at Suzaku's action. "Thanks, Suzaku."

She sat down and joined the chitchat of the group. Staying in the student council room were Milly, Lelouch, Rivalz, Shirley, Gino, Suzaku, Euphy, and Nina.

"Lelouch could be in the special class if his attendance were enough.", Gino said.

Lelouch chuckled, "Meh. I don't think it's for me."

"Well, your grades are the best!", Shirley exclaimed while blushing. "Especially in Math and Science."

Milly grabbed some papers on her table and scanned through to find a certain application form.

"Speaking of smart people, C.C., our new classmate, is a smart one.", Milly announced.

"What!", everyone exclaimed.

"Yes, yes. She was a child prodigy. My father said that she was able to read, write, do simple math when she was three and had a really good memory.", Milly added.

"Why, then, is she here?", Rivalz asked.

"I don't know about that.", Milly answered.

That woman was a child prodigy? I thought she was just clever. Lelouch thought.

"Maybe she hit her head and lost it all.", Rivalz joked and laughed at his own joke.

Silence.

Okay, the rest but him did not laugh. Poor Rivalz. Hahaha!

"I didn't."

Everyone slowly looked at the source of the small voice. At the door, C.C. was standing with her green hair flowing freely.

"I knocked but everyone seemed busy.", C.C. apologized.

"I-it's okay.", Milly assured.

C.C. then looked at Rivalz.

Snap! Rivalz thought.

"I got interested in something in this school that's why I enrolled.", C.C. explained.

Rivalz almost cried. "I'm so sorry!" He said repeatedly until C.C. told him to stop.

Euphemia examined this familiar looking girl. She has seen her before, in the past. Perhaps, in her childhood days.

"C.C., would you like to join the council?", Milly asked. "The more, the merrier."

"Sure. Thank you!", C.C. bowed expressing her thanks.

The bell rang and classes resumed in the afternoon. This time they had a Chemistry class with Ms. Cecile.

"A little trivia here. Anyone who can answer this difficult question gets exempted for the quiz.", Ms. Cecile excitedly said.

The whole class cried because no one has ever answered her trivias or someone could've, had he not been busy with creating his plans against the Britannia company and not paying attention to his class.

"Come on, you can do it!", Ms. Cecile cheered the class. "Are you ready?"

She took a deep breath before speaking, "What is the chemical formula for Benzoyl peroxide?"

The class cried again. Everyone thought, "How are we supposed to know?!"

"C14H10O4", a small voice boringly answered.

The whole class turned their heads to the direction where Kallen and C.C. were seated. Lelouch even looked and had their attention for the class suddenly went quiet.

"Who was that?", Ms. Cecile asked.

Kallen pointed at C.C. who was busy staring at the window. When her attention was finally caught, she stood up.

"Ms. Cecile, it is C14H10O4. Benzoyl peroxide (BPO) is a medication and industrial chemical. As a medication, it is used to treat mild to moderate acne. For more severe cases it may be used together with other treatments. Some versions come mixed with antibiotics such as clindamycin. Other uses include bleaching flour, hair bleaching, teeth whitening, and textile bleaching. It is also used in the plastic industry.", she further explained.

WOW. The class applauded her excellent answer.

"That's right! Class, see? You can answer my trivia. Ms. C.C., you are exempted for next meeting's quiz.", Ms. Cecile announced as she left the room.

Everyone was still dumbfounded at their new classmate. Milly approached C.C. and complimented her intellect. Shirley even said that she wants C.C. to teach her. Rivalz apologized again upon realizing that she never did hit her head. HAHAHA. Suzaku asked for some tips on how to be good in Science and even commented that she should be in the special class, where the smart or the very rich enroll in, with Nina Einstein. Kallen, who was sitting beside her, already knew she was smart but not like a chemistry-book type smart. The Black company definitely knows who to kidnap. She even thought that if they just get C.C., they don't need Lelouch's offer anymore.

Actually, she asked C.C. about joining the Black company right after Ms. Cecile's class. She couldn't waste the opportunity. But, she was bluntly rejected. "Not interested. I am still a student. I can't do anything for your company."

She knew it was C14H10O4.

Lelouch thought while looking at C.C. who was busy writing something on a small piece of paper. She gave this small paper to Lelouch just before the next class started.

Lelouch opened the paper.

From: The Witch

"Witch, huh?"

I have seven doctorates. Doctor in Philosophy, Medicine, Natural Science, Health Science, Psychology, Engineering, and Theology.

Keep it a secret, though. I don't want to be kicked out of school.

To: Lelouch vi Britannia

Lelouch was shocked. Very shocked, specifically of the last note.

She knows me. Lelouch. Vi. Britannia.

C.C. gave a small smirk before leaving the classroom. Lelouch stayed in his seat for a full minute until he realized that he needed to run after this witch.