Kallen had come to an understanding that Lelouch was simply not romantically minded. He devoted himself to those he cared about completely, but as he sat with her in the royal gardens, speaking with her intently, he hadn't made any attempts to flirt with her. Oh no, that was left completely to her. Not that she minded, she had discovered that she could fluster Lelouch easily when he knew that she was being honest, and he could always tell she was being honest. It was actually a lot of fun to see the man of masks lose his composure so easily.

"You know Lelouch, I never thought that you would look so handsome in a Britannian uniform." She made another comment, smirking when she saw Lelouch blush a bit.

"Well, I… ah," He tried to respond, causing her to burst into laughter.

She felt a pair of eyes on her back as she laughed for a moment before the feeling went away. She looked behind her at Jeremiah. Jeremiah had come to guard them at his own insistence, and with his level enthusiasm, it was difficult to deny him. He was sitting off to the side, just out of hearing range, for a regular person that was, something told Kallen that the cyborg could listen in on them if he wanted to.

Jeremiah scanned the area again before looking back to the newspaper he was reading, frowning as he read, and Kallen could take a guess why. As could be expected, since Lelouch had made his decrees the nobles had started to make public protests. As happy, no grateful, as she was that Lelouch had made them, it made her incredibly angry that after Lelouch had given them a chance to be decent people, the Nobles could only complain about not getting special treatment.

"Kallen," Lelouch said to get her attention, and from the look on his face, he was uncomfortable with what he was about to say, "Your father has requested an audience with us."

Kallen frowned. Her father hadn't made any attempt to contact her in years, but of course, now he would try to reconnect with her. "To hell with him, I don't want to see him again after what he did to my mother.

Lelouch nodded, "It's probably for the best anyway, he has backed Schneizel for a long time now, and if we gave him the chance to snoop around…" There he was, calculating again. While most girls would have found it annoying for their boyfriend to constantly drop out of conversations to go deep into thought, Kallen had to admit that she liked it, at least a little. It was part of his charm as the magnificent Zero; charismatic, unpredictable, and intelligent beyond belief.

Jeremiah stood up suddenly, drawing Lelouch and Kallen's gaze.

"You there! Come out from the bushes!" An intruder? It had to be, Lelouch had ordered that even other members of the royal family were not to come here to give the two of them some privacy. Kallen stood up, ready for a fight.

"You there! Come out from the bushes!" Lelouch was forced out of his thoughts by Jeremiah's booming voice. An assassination attempt already? It was true that he had expected that the nobles would want him dead, but for them to act so quickly?

Lelouch followed Jeremiah's gaze to a shaking bush only five meters away from him and narrowed his eyes. How had they gotten so close without them noticing?

A small girl fell out and Lelouch blinked, "I-I-I'm sorry your majesty. I-I-I didn't mean- I-I-I, please don't execute me!" The girl looked up and flinched under Lelouch's gaze and looked away to avoid his glance, she seemed to have accidentally locked eyes with Jeremiah, because she jumped back and lowered his head, looking straight down.

Looking over the girl's face, Lelouch's face softened when he recognised her. His youngest sibling, Princess Elouise deci Britannia, who he recalled to only be eleven years old. Lelouch gave a wave to Gottwald to signify that he stand down, as Elouise obviously wasn't a threat. He also recalled that Elouise was the only daughter of Charles' twenty-second consort, who he married for her family's technology company.

He stepped closer to Elouise and knelt down to her level, "Calm down." He said in a gentle voice, not wanting to frighten her further. "I requested that this area be off-limits to give us some privacy, did the guards not tell you."

Elouise refused to look up, instead just shaking her head, "I-I-I came out through the window."

"Why?" Lelouch asked, a little intrigued. He remembered the trouble that he would get into when he was her age at the palace. The princess started shaking.

"I'm sorry! I really wouldn't have if it wasn't for my, for my," She looked up and started to look around, crazed, before she suddenly pointed to a tree closer to the place, narrowing his eyes, Lelouch could see that there was something metal in the tree. "My Flydroid!" Elouise explained, excitement shining in her eyes as she pointed.

"Jeremiah, could you fetch it, please?" Lelouch asked, standing up.

"Yes, your majesty!" Jeremiah darted off quickly to get it. Lelouch snuck a quick glance to Kallen, who almost looked endeared by the situation, which just made Lelouch confused.

Lelouch turned back to Elouise and offered her his hand, which she hesitantly took.

Jeremiah returned and handed the machine to Lelouch, which he passed to Elouise. Elouise accepted it gratefully and hugged it to her chest.

"Now, how did it get there?" Lelouch asked.

Elouise blushed, Lelouch noticed that she had calmed down a bit, she must have realised that she wasn't in trouble.

She took a deep breath, "I wanted to test my Flydroid today, but Uncle Winston told me I wasn't allowed to fly it inside. The guards told me I wasn't allowed to go outside either, but I have lessons tomorrow and the day after, so if I don't test it today than I'd have to wait three days before I have a chance. So, I decided I'd just open my bedroom window and fly it from there, but then a mean bird crashed into it and crash landed into the tree."

Lelouch chuckled, "So did your Uncle Winston make your Flydroid for you?" He vaguely remembered that Winston Stuart was the head of his family and CEO of their business.

Elouise shook her head, "Ah-uh, I made it, using a bunch of the spare parts he gave me!" She said proudly. Lelouch blinked in surprise before looking back at the 'Flydroid' that Elouise was hugging to her chest, it looked pretty professional, but he could tell looking closely that it was made of mitch-matched parts by the different metals used.

"Could you show me how it works?" Lelouch asked, and Elouise nodded excitedly, he had to admit that this was feeling nostalgic back to better days when he and Nunnally would play with their new toys.

Elouise put the Flydroid on the ground, it looked mostly like a metal box, with four fins on the upper corners. Elouise pulled a remote out from one of her dress pockets, and a digital display lit up.

She pointed the remote at the Flydroid and the fins lit up green and it began to hover a meter from the ground. "You see this green dot here?" She pointed at the screen on her remote, "That's the Flydroid, you just tap on the screen where you want it to go." She tapped the screen and the Flydroid flew in a straight line to where tapped. She tapped the screen again and the Flydroid flew back.

"When I get the parts to make another Flydroid, I'm going to teach it how to follow it, that way it can play chasings with its friend!" She said cheerfully, which gave Lelouch an idea. That could be useful.

"Elouise, if I got you the parts, do you think you could make a bigger Flydroid?" Elouise blinked at him in confusion before bringing her had to her chin in thought.

"I think so, why?" Lelouch didn't answer but instead asked her another question.

"And do you think you could build it to carry a metal spear too?" Elouise's eyes widened in excitement.

"So they can fight each other like in RoboRumble on T.V.?" Lelouch smiled.

"Yeah, that's right. Do you think you could do it?"

Elouise nodded excitedly, "I'll go to my room and write you a list of parts immediately!" And she ran off back towards the palace.

"I know that look, what are you thinking?" Kallen asked, voice filled with amusement.

Lelouch looked back at her, "I think I just found some anti-Fleija counter measures." Kallen's eyes widened in shock.