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Chapter Three
"Nothing good can come by rejecting yourself." Riki Naoe (Little Busters)
Nanteleod had now returned to his hotel after his discussion with Margrave Jeremiah Gottwald. The two of them had come to an agreement. While the Margrave had desired to pin the blame of Suzaku Kururugi, Nanteleod had not been so keen on it. While he did not warn them against doing so, he did council the Margrave that the worst case scenario is the person who killed Prince Clovis reveals themselves.
While Sir Gottwald did not see how that was not good for him, Nanteleod was not inclined to tell him. The deal that had been struck between the two of them. It was that Nanteleod would not hinder the Purists in their attempt to claim control over Area 11. In return Jeremiah would hand over General Bartley to Nanteleod to interrogate.
While it was not the best deal out there, it was better than no deal. From what Nanteleod could gather Sir Jeremiah would take action tomorrow itself then make a public announcement. As long as he upheld his end of the deal and gave over Bartley they could get along fine. But it did amuse Nanteleod to no end that the leader of the Purists had no idea that he was talking to a half blood, let alone striking deal with one.
Not that anyone knew that, such information was on a need to know basis only and no one needed to know, not yet in any case. Though Nanteleod did have to ponder when his residence would be completed and also about the special Retreat he was having finished as well. It may not be the real deal, but at least in sense that place would be a little bit of home as it were.
Reaching his room, he drew back the curtains now and looked out at the city, the Shinjuku Ghetto was not visible from this place. If it was, the price of it would have gone down, though Nanteleod was no above going cheap if it meant he could more easily access that place. But right now was not the time, no he had to wait for a bit, wait and see what hornets nest would be kicked up and by whom?
Prince Clovis being dead, the fact that he was alone in that place, the fact that all his advisors and knights have no memory of leaving him. There has to be something wrong with that, either they were all lying or they were all telling the truth. Regardless of that they failed the Viceroy and let him die, if Nanteleod was able to recall correctly, misconduct while on duty that resulted in death of one superior or comrades was usually punishable by death.
Though he would like to have Bartley's side of the events before he jumped to any conclusions. If it is true that he had no recollection of why Prince Clovis was alone, it means that there was more to this. More in the sense that is was above the heads of men like Margrave Gottwald. But not over his, while the idea of grabbing control of Area 11 was rather enticing. Nanteleod knew he was not cut out for such things, he was more hands on rather than sitting behind a desk and flex his pen muscles all day.
If he had to look at what sitting behind a desk would look like 10 years down the track, he need only look at Bartley. Being like that and having that sort of build and weight was not on Nanteleod's to do list, not that it had been on Bartley's it probably just happened. For now though he was going to rest his head and sleep it had been a long day and there was a lot to do tomorrow at least.
Before he would turn in for the night though, he had to ponder how Lelouch would react to the death of his half brother. If he recalled correctly Lelouch did know Clovis better than he knew most of his other siblings. But that was not hard since one could not expect a Prince or Princess to personally know the army's worth of children that the Emperor had. Yet it would be interesting to see how he and Nunnaly would react to this news, also he wondered how would they react to Suzaku being blamed for all of this?
Code Geass
With Kallen
Kallen was now on the phone trying to get Ohgi to pick up the phone and talk to her. She had a most strenuous day, but there was one thing she had to tell him. After about the 4th call he rang back and the first thing he asked was "What is wrong Kallen are you alright?"
Now in a hushed voice she said "Ohgi, I am in the same class as the Knight of Ones nephew!"
There was a pause on the other end of the line before Ohgi asked her "Okay, what is it that you rang to tell me about other than that."
Now it was Kallen's turn to pause as she considered what she was about to say to Ohgi. She had just broken the news to him that they had relative of the top tier of Britannia within arms reach. To Kallen, Ohgi had not yet appreciated what it was she had just said. So now taking a deep breath she said again "I'm telling you, we have a relative of the Knight of One within our reach, from what I learnt from my Step Mother. He also said he lived the past 7 years with the man so he must be close to him."
Ohgi on the other end of the line told her "Kallen you have to calm down, I have no idea what you are trying to get at here? Also if you at that home of yours, do keep your voice down, for both our sakes."
Kallen took in a deep breath, what Ohgi said was true, she was getting a little worked up. But she now also had to tell him the point she was trying to make. Which to her was rather simply, but Ohgi was a little dense at times so she knew she had to explain it to him.
"Ohgi imagine the image, the moral our cell would get if we took out the Knight of Ones nephew, imagine the backing we would get from it!"
Kallen knew that Ohgi would understand what she was saying, they would get more backing if they were able to pull something like that off. If they did do that, it would trump anything and everything that the JLF had done up till now. It was a good idea and there was no way that Ohgi would refuse it or rebuke it right?
Wrong, Ohgi for his part went ahead and did just that stating "Kallen get a grip of yourself, how would we even do such a that? How do you plan on getting this done, he is a the Knight of Ones nephew after all. I would assume he that he does have bodyguards even if they are yet to be seen Kallen."
Kallen was in a bit of shock after this, she thought Ohgi would be all on board with taking with taking out a high profile target. But clearly she was wrong, she also hadn't thought of a way that they could take this NanteleodAurelinaus Khushrenada Waldstein. Gods even thinking about that name pissed her off to Kallen it reeked of his nobility, like he was trying to flash the fact that he was better than all of them about with it.
A little irritated by his name and by the fact that Ohgi did not agree with her she told Ohgi "We can figure out how to take him out, once we decide to do so, Ohgi, we can't just let something like this slip past us!"
Her voice was hushed but her tone was frantic, she did not want Ohgi to just let this one go as it were. She had no idea how long this Nanteleod would be at school for or how long he intended or was allowed to stay in Area 11. So in a last ditch attempt to get Ohgi's approval she said "Ohgi, come on, up till now what have we been able to do, if we can take out the Knight of Ones nephew his own foster son! Think of it, it would show all of us in Japan that Britannia is not untouchable even those as high up in its hierarchy!"
Ohgi was not swayed by that and told her "Kallen you need to listen to yourself, killing on boy no matter how high up he is, will not change free Japan. You and I both know that, if we tried this there will be risks, to succeed we need to be able to do pull it off and not let the Ghettos suffer for it. That nullifies the point about letting everyone know we did it. If we succeed and everyone knows, then the Ghettos will suffer if we ourselves can't be caught, Kallen after what went down in Shinjuku we need to think smarter."
Kallen wanted to argue with him, to tell him that he was wrong. To tell him that no matter what they did or didn't do the Ghettos were going to suffer for it. Britannia and its people did not need reasons to bully the Japanese, they did not need reasons to make people under them suffer.
But Ohgi would not hear her and she knew that, everything he had said to her was true. Even if she did bring up her counter arguments, for now she chose to give it a rest. So she replied to Ohgi "You are right, I did not think of it like that Ohgi."
She then promptly hung up on him as she did not wish to hear his voice for a while now. It was rather childish of her, but right now she did not care about that. She was upset that her idea had been turned down, she was upset that she had been spoken to like a child. Yet she was not just willing to let this on go, if she could provide Ohgi with information on her proposed target, then he could agree with her. All she had to do was learn more about Nanteleod Aurelinaus Khushrenada Waldstein after all.
Code Geass
The Next Day
Kallen had been sitting down in her classroom and the usual girls were now fussing over her. It made her harder to track Nanteleod's movements. He was neither early nor late to class and arrived exactly on time to each and every class. By the time Lunch Break had come around, she had picked that he clearly did find it a little amusing when people screwed up his name. Especially the Teachers when they called upon him to answer a question.
From what she could tell he was rather reserved about most things and was quiet when he was alone. If he was asked a question by his fellow students, he was nothing but polite about it. She did take note of the fact that out of everyone in the class, he had some familiarity with Lelouch. The same guy who had spoken to her the day before about Shinjuku.
Suddenly it her, he had spoken about Shinjuku and told her not to tell anyone about it. His voice it could have been the same, but she now had to listen to him a bit to try and get a feel for it. That meant she had to observe Nanteleod and Lelouch for she did not wish to put aside either one just yet. Luckily for her the two of them seemed to sit side by side which had made it easier on her.
But now she was caught off guard by one of the girls who was fussing over her stating "Hey Kallen you have been starting at Nanteleod and Lelouch for a while now, you're not thinking of making a move are you?"
Before she could even reply another girl chimed in saying "Oh Nanteleod and Lelouch, well I can see that both of them are rather cute so it is only natural that they would attract the gaze of every girl in Ashford Academy."
Kallen inwardly wanted to cringe at what they were saying, her and one of them! She would sooner date an Ox if she had to in order to avoid such a date. But it would appear that the topic was not yet over as the third girl now spoke out saying "Hey if anyone has a chance with either of those two, I bet it is Kallen."
Kallen did have to remind herself that she should learn their names at one point, but now the first girl who had brought this all up perked up saying "Yeah Kallen, you are pretty, cute and best of all you are a really nice girl, I agree you are the only one who has a chance of getting them, we'll be cheering for you Kallen."
This was not what Kallen wanted, she did not want a cheer team for her to get with any Britannian boy, no matter how cute or handsome he looked. So now she tried to pacify the three girls by telling them "I am not sure that they would want me, I mean I am frequently ill and all so I don't think they'd want to date me? I can't cook well, I can't do house chores, I can't even go out on dates with them you know what I mean?"
Now Kallen was not aware of the consequences of what she had just said, but a fire clearly stirred in the girls around. And now with much spirit the second girl state "So what Kallen! If they can't love you for who you are, then they need to check in the mirror and see how shallow they are!"
The first girl now added her to pence in by saying "Yeah so what if you are ill, a real man would love you no matter what happens to you! If they don't they are not real men, don't let ideas like that hold you back!"
Finally the third girl spoke or rather she now walked over to Nanteleod and now pointed to Kallen asking him "Hey Nanteleod would you date Kallen, even if she is as ill as she is?"
Kallen wanted to either punch that girl in the face or slam her face into her desk. She should have thought of a better answer to give rather than the first one that came out of her mouth. But now Nanteleod's gaze turned towards her and for a moment their eyes lock. In that moment there was something about him, something she knew she had seen before.
But that was only for a moment, for now Nanteleod broke away his gaze and turned to answer the girl who had asked him the question. Speaking softly and politely he told her "I do not believe it is healthy or fair to just date someone whom you barely know. I am sure that MissStadtfeld is a wonderful lady, but if I was to decide if I would date her or not, I would like to get to know her a little more."
The girl now returned to Kallen a look of triumph on her face as she said "There see Kallen, there is nothing holding you back, so when you are rather to dive head first, you can know that you are free to do so."
Code Geass
With Nanteleod
As the day drew to a close and the periods were getting over Nanteleod had received a text from Milly Ashford. It read "Hey Leo, I need you to come to the Student Council Building right after Classes finish, Lelouch will be bringing Kallen who will be joining us and I intend to throw a small polite party! Make sure to come back ASAP, love Madame President!"
Nanteleod sighed, he wondered if Lelouch knew about this, but now as he looked up he saw Shirely approach Lelouch and ask him "Hey Lulu, you coming along?"
But if there was one thing Nanteleod was sure of, it was that Lelouch did not know that Carrot Head liked him. This girl clearly had a crush on Lelouch since she had not even bothered to look at Nanteleod. But now as he got up to leave himself he saw and heard Lelouch's reply "Sorry maybe some other time."
Carrot Head's face went from happy to confused in an instant, clearly Lelouch had gotten the message from Milly to bring Miss Stadtfeld to the Student Council Building. He was about to ask her if she would like him to accompany her there, but now he saw Lelouch doing his duty and the Vice President of the Student Council.
He had walked over to where Miss Stadtfeld was being fussed over and one of the girls asked him "What's up?"
Positioning himself in front of Miss Stadtfeld he looked down directly at her before he asked "You think that you could spare a minute, I need to talk to you."
The reaction from Carrot Head was clearly that of a girl in love seeing a guy go after another girl. In fact all the girls around Miss Stadtfeld gasped as they now looked to her as she stood up. Standing up Miss Stadtfeld said "Sure, I was wondering when you were going to ask."
Shirely went from concerned to now shock as she made a noise and all the girls around Miss Stadtfeld squealed like little girls seeing something cool. Nanteleod had to wonder what the hell was the big deal, he was only talking to her because he had to do so. With a sigh Nanteleod tapped Carrot Head with the back of his hand and said "Miss Fenette, come we don't want to keep Madame President waiting."
Carrot Head was still in shock and she now only managed to speak to Nanteleod in a tone that told him that she was not all quite there "Yeah, Madame President, we can't keep her waiting, we can't can we?"
Now Nanteleod did not need a degree to tell that she was not yet out of her daze as it were. Clearly she was confused, shocked, jealous and a lot more all at once. She had clearly gotten the wrong idea about Lelouch and Kallen so her mind was filling in the dots for her and she clearly did not like them.
Nanteleod wanted to just tell her to snap out of it, but that might be a bit too rough for Carrot Head. So instead he tried a different approach saying "I'm leaving now Miss Fenette, walk with me or don't, but we can't let Madame President wait too long, I heard from Rivalz that she doesn't know mercy."
The mention that the Student Council President did not know mercy seemed to trigger a memory in Carrot Head who snapped out of her daze completely. Turning around to face Nanteleod she told him "Well that is true, you are right we should hurry."
With that the two of them hurried off to the Student Council Building. Whatever it was that Carrot Head had recalled about the Madame President, it had snapped her out of her daze. One part of Nanteleod did wish to know what it was she had done. But the more primal part of his mind told him that some things best left alone if you wish to sleep at night.
Code Geass
Pendragon
The Emperor was alone when the Knight of One approached him, he did not have to open his mouth to tell Charles zi Britannia why he had come. No the Emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire already knew why he was here. Speaking now the Emperor addressed his Knight asking "Are you concerned for the boy?"
Bismarck Waldstein gave a nod gave a nod before he replied "I am Your Majesty."
The Emperor raised an eyebrow at this now asking "Oh and what is it that has you concerned for him, my Knight of One?"
It was not that Charles needed to ask, no he only wanted to hear Bismarck say why concerned about his nephew. Sir Waldstein who no doubt knew this, said so anyway since it had been asked of him "I do not believe that he is ready for this level of independence, especially with what just happened in Area 11 so recently Your Majesty."
In reply to this Emperor Charles zi Britannia just said "There is a time that every bird must leave the nest, it is the will of nature, you cannot stop it."
Bismarck in reply to this stated "Your Majesty, he is not ready for this, he is too young and not mature enough for such a level of independence from the authority that he has known. The Authority of yourself and the Knights of Round, he is not yet at the stage where he can recognise the authority of any other."
Charles now gave a laugh at this, a laugh that would have made any one else take a few steps back. But not Bismarck, not the Knight of One, who knew better than to do so. Now taking in a deep breath the Emperor told Bismarck "I see no fault in that, his inability to work under anyone else means that he will not work under anyone else. If a person is too weak for him to truly recognise and accept their authority, the fault lies not with him but with them. Not a soul in the Empire would follow me if they saw me as a feeble old fool."
Bismarck did not say that he would, because the Emperor already knew that he would. No instead the Knight of One chose to say "It is still not healthy for him to do so, there is also the issue of the Decorate that will appear later. That is the one enemy we both know he cannot yet handle, Your Majesty."
The Emperor paused as if to consider this for but a moment before he dismissed it saying "He'll survive, you above all should know that he is a survivor after all he did survive alone after the invasion, didn't he?"
Bismark took in a breath now as he considered what to say next, what the Emperor said was true, from a certain point of view. While his nephew now come foster son had survived the invasion of Area 11, it was not something Bismarck could say he was proud of. He would never want to live like that or see anyone live in such a state, the same state that he had found his nephew in.
But there was another problem, one that the Emperor also knew of but clearly did not care for it. An issue that would come up, due to events that had taken place well before the Invasion of Area 11. So now Bismarck addressed it anyway stating "About the 11th Prince and the 87th Princess, Your Majesty if he does find them, if he did find them he would-."
The Emperor silenced Bismarck with a wave of his hand before he turned his back on the Knight of One. A pause followed this before Charles said "I know that, I have known it ever since you brought him to me, I knew that since the day he met them in what is now Area 11. He might not know it, but he is simply doing his duty there, why do you think I let him have this independence of his."
Bismarck said now more, even he truly did not understand Emperor Charles zi Britannia all of the time and he was one of the only humans alive who had a chance. No for now all he did instead of asking any more questions was state "Forgive me for doubt you, Your Majesty."
In reply to this Emperor Charles simply said to him was "You should know better, after all you too possess the power of Kings, don't you."
Code Geass
With Nanteleod
Nanteleod was not truly impressed by Milly that she had got him into an apron and had him help prepare food for the party as it were. Now looked him a little shocked as he told her "I'm sorry to inform you of this Madame President, but I have no idea how to cook."
She seemed to be shocked but Nanteleod was able to guess it was fake when Milly stated "Oh Aurelinaus, I did not want you to help me cook, I skipped the last period and finished all of it, I want your help to serve it out in an elegant manner."
In short she was tired of all this work and wanted someone else to do the last part for her. Lazy, but lazy due to the fact that she had just prepared a feast of sorts. This was forgiveable, but it also fell into the right to tease category or at least something along those lines.
His uncle had asked him to loosen up as it were so now he chose to tease Milly by stating "Oh so I am to discreetly poisons certain cakes then discreetly serve them to the unsuspecting victims. I hope you thought this out and have a discreet poison that is a long release cycle that will slowly kill its victim. Do you have the substance on hand or do I have to order one in. If you don't have one in mind, I may be able to suggest a few depending on the results that you want."
There were two types of jokes that Nanteleod told, the first was one that the Knights of Round found funny. The second was the type that the Emperor and another certain individual enjoyed along with no one else. This joke from the face that Milly was making was clearly the latter and Nanteleod had messed this up.
Trying to break the tension that was in the air Nanteleod told Milly now "Relax tis just a joke, no need to worry your pretty head over it, though if you were to poison anyone, don't implicate me with the deed."
Milly seemed to loosen up a bit after hearing this and said "You actually had me scared for a minute there, good lord Nanteleod, if who the hell taught you jokes like that, you need to learn some new material."
Nanteleod chuckled at this before he replied "Perhaps I do, I'll let His Majesty know that you believe he needs a better sense of humour, I'm sure if it is coming from you, he'll take it to heart, after he stops laughing that is."
Milly did not look impressed when she told Nanteleod "Now I know you are just trying to screw with me, I don't think you picked this up. But the only person allowed to mess with the students in this academy is me, you better not by trying to take my seat as Queen of Tease."
Nanteleod now chuckled at that as he recalled the face of a certain Knight of Round and the legacy she claims to live up to. The title of that deceased Knight was rather misleading once you grew up and looked into it a bit more. No age had nothing to do with it, having a filthy mind was all that you needed to see it.
So now doing his best to stop his chuckling he states "Queen of Tease, first Queen of Tease is the 2nd highest rank not the highest, below that is Duchess of Jest below that is Countess Muse and below that is Sir Prize and Prankensteins Monster. From what I have heard at best you are Sir Prize's Squire, Squire Mischief, there are a lot more ranks below that, but I don't care to recall them all right now."
Now Nanteleod was not aware that would have offended most people if he had told them that to their face. Yet Milly Ashford was not most people and she did not take it as an insult, no it was much worse, she took it as a challenge. She now raise he hand and pointed her index finger at Nanteleod declaring "That is it, I will ascended beyond the title of Queen of Tease, one day you will acknowledge me I will Hoka- Empress Troll!"
Nanteleod wanted to sigh, not to his own lack of experience with people that had got him here. No he was sighing at the fact she got the last title wrong, there was no Empress there was only a Goddess. The last person who held that rank died years ago, though it had nothing to do with the title or did it?
But that was not all Milly had spouted off a random title, she did not yet know that Troll was part of a rank that was far below her. So now he educated her stating "Madame President, that is the wrong rank and you are far too powerful to be Troll in the Girls Bathroom."
Milly raised an eyebrow at that before she asked "Troll in the Girls Bathroom, that is mouthful, how did you come up with all of these titles."
Nanteleod recalled memories of a Knight of Round playfully tormenting him, he'd known her before she was Knight of Round when he was but a little boy as well. She had educated Nanteleod to these titles, she had been the one to introduce the concept to him. Though she admitted that she was not the creator of it herself, she was merely a pupil of it.
Nanteleod was not going to indulge the name of said person but he did state "Call it TITGB for short and no I was not the one who came up with these titles, rest easy at least on that account."
Milly was about to ask him who that was but now she looked at the clock and then back to Nanteleod. They needed to do this fast and would have to pick up on this conversation later or never as Nanteleod would prefer it. Now her tone being more serious told Nanteleod "Hey Aurelinaus those cake aren't going to cut themselves get to it!"
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