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Chapter 7
"Nunnally, Lelouch is still alive…out there somewhere."
Nunnally's eyes widened when Suzaku told her that, and one of her hands flew to her mouth. "But…he died right in front of me Suzaku! He bled to death! How can he still be alive?"
Even though her tone suggested that she was upset, Suzaku could tell that she was actually hoping that Lelouch was still alive. Sitting down in a chair next to her, he took her hand in his. "During the first Black Rebellion, I had nearly killed Lelouch, not knowing it was him at the time as Zero. We both would have died that day. I had him trapped in the cockpit of the Lancelot, and Schniezel was going to destroy the Lancelot with Zero in it, which would claim my life as well. But Lelouch, using his geass, ordered me to live." He paused to take a deep breath. "Lelouch had told me once after he took over as Emperor that the geass command does not disappear on someone until the person who put it there dies. Nunnally, somehow today one of the members of the White Knights made that geass command flare back up. His command on me to 'live' is still there, so he has to be alive!"
Looking away from Suzaku, Nunnally stared at the table for a few silent moments. "He's still….alive?"
Suzaku nodded slowly. "Yes."
"Does C.C know?"
Suzaku blinked slowly and then remembered why C.C should know whether or not Lelouch was still alive. "I don't know…" He gasped a little. "What about Dmitri? What will happen about him?"
"I highly doubt C.C would divorce him just so she can go back to Lelouch. After all, I think she's happy with him."
"Still…I think we should start questioning C.C about what happened four years ago." He moved towards the door, before looking at Nunnally. "If C.C knows where Lelouch is, hopefully he'll help us."
Taking a deep breath, Nunnally nodded slowly, before looking at the ground with a deep sigh. Suzaku knew that Nunnally was probably happy to know that Lelouch was still out there somewhere, but that also probably came with some confusion as to how he had managed to survive. Truthfully, I don't know either. Walking out the door with the mask back on, Suzaku goes to where the others are and his eyes land on Dmitri. Dark burgundy hair, deep gray eyes, he was wearing glasses now as he was giving Milly and Rivalz details about how he knows which sites to take down. He was wearing a dark red turtle-neck, black slacks, and black boots. Listening to his voice carefully, Suzaku didn't know why he was secretly suspecting Dmitri to be Lelouch, but at this point he just wanted to find his old friend who was supposed to be dead.
"Is something wrong, Zero?" Dmitri asked looking up at him. His voice had a slight accent to it, making it sound like something was perhaps stuck in his throat. Narrowing his eyes behind the mask, Suzaku shook his head. Lelouch…you aren't Dmitri, are you?
"Not at all."
"Alright…" Dmitri turned his gaze back to Milly and Rivalz. "Like I said earlier, it is a complicated process about figuring out which sites are meant to be taken down and which aren't."
"I see, I see…and you do it for a living?"
He nods slowly, before taking a drink from his bottle of water. "Yes."
"Why?" Milly stares at Dmitri with a confused expression. "Don't you ever wonder if the people whose sites you bring down might come after you and your family?"
"I do my job because I must. No one else wants to take down the sites, so therefore the job falls to me."
"You don't get stressed from it?"
"Someone has to do it."
~Elsewhere in Tokyo~
Euphemia opens her eyes slowly. She was no longer inside her cage, but now locked in a cell at the bottom of some building. Then men named Kazuya and Kazejin were cruel to her in front of their men, but when they were alone with her they were rather kind…much like her father actually. Though she always heard them talking with their men, making battle plans that made absolutely no sense to her right now. She looks up as Kazuya entered the room with her lunch.
"Hey, did you sleep well?" He smiles warmly at her. She knew the only reason why she was still alive was only because she was a child. Though she was positive if they knew who her father was, she would be killed within a heartbeat even if he was supposedly dead.
Kazuya sighs a little as Euphemia refuses to talk with him. He puts the tray of food down on the table near the bed. "We aren't going to hurt you. I promise you."
"But you're going to hurt all of the Britannians…"
He blinks as he looks at Euphemia, a little surprised that she actually said something to him. "Only if we have to, child. Kazejin's real objective is not to kill all the Britannians, but to prove that there is a conspiracy about this new Zero, and the death of the Emperor four years ago. To us, his death looked staged as though it was planned out months in advance."
"But it isn't right to say that you're going to kill all the Britannians as a cover up."
"You're smart for a little kid, you know that? And…I know it isn't right, but I'm not the one calling the shots around here. Kazejin does."
"But aren't you his second in command?"
"Yes, I am. But I don't make the shots. I only suggest them to Kazejin, nothing more."
Euphemia doesn't say anything to that and she chooses to remain silent. Kazuya sighs a little, before leaving the room. He walks up the stairs and locks the door so none of the other members of their group could gain access to the girl. He goes down the hall and enters Kazejin's room. Kazejin, who has short black hair and emerald green eyes, was staring at chart layouts of the Knightmare frame that Emperor Lelouch had used, the Gawain.
"Kazejin…?" As far as he knew, the Britannians held all the Knightmare frames that were used during the Black Rebellion in a museum in Britannia.
Kazejin taps the paper thoughtfully. "We're going to build our own Knightmare frame Kazuya, and we will prove the conspiracy from four years ago."
"But…we don't have the materials to build a Knightmare."
"What part of building our own do you not understand? It doesn't matter, you'll understand soon enough on how this is going to be made possible. The Britannians are going to be wishing that Zero had never killed their Emperor four years ago once we're through with them."
"Sir, I thought we were only going to prove the conspiracy, not eradicate them?"
"I've changed my mind. We're going to continue with proving the conspiracy and eradicate them at the same time. Let's make them join their Emperor in hell, Kazuya."
Kazuya only stares at Kazejin in horror. The little girl that he takes care of here was a Britannian. So if Kazejin planned on eradicating them all…He quickly shakes his head when the image of the child's dead, broken body appears in his head. No, he couldn't think of that now. Kazejin, his friend since childhood, wouldn't kill a child just because she was Britannian.
At least…he hoped not.
Alright review! I know it has taken me forever just to update, but I couldn't figure out where to go with this chapter. This is where the story gets tricky, and I may just start re-watching Code Geass once more so I can accurately do some of the chapters coming up. Anyways review and let me know what you all think!
