Chapter 21: revenge intentions.
Tokyo, 9:00 am
"Thank you for your hospitality," Elisabeth said.
"Just imagine, it's nice to have guests every once in a while." Saeko said.
"True ... Now I really have to go."
"Why do not you stop another bit?"
" Are you sure?"
The Japanese nodded.
"It must be sad to be alone in that house ... And I want to keep her company, at least for today."
"I do not want to bother you ..."
"No trouble!"
"OK then."
Saeko smiled, satisfied.
Pendragon, at 5.15 pm
Sayoko, after reporting the message to Milly, was returning to the imperial palace when suddenly someone pushed her into an alley. After the initial surprise, he saw a girl with long green hair and a short raven-haired boy who kept her under fire; he had a dagger, she a gun.
"If you move a muscle you're dead!" Threatened the green, pressing the barrel of the gun on the forehead.
The waitress swallowed, then said:
"I know you, you're the girl who was with Lelouch years ago."
"Exact."
"And what do you want from me?"
"We need your help, to make contact with Jeremiah Gottwald, the emperor's right hand."
"For what purpose?"
"He possesses the geass canceller, with which he can cancel the power of the geass. Thanks to it we will free all those who live in the imperial palace, and arrest the tyrant. "
"Jeremiah will never accept, he has sworn loyalty to Lelouch."
"I have an ace up my sleeve, you just need to know this. But now I want to know if you will help us or not. "
"I can not betray Mr. Lelouch, after serving him for more than a decade."
"In that case, it is worth while to suppress you immediately!" Roy intervened.
He started to slit her throat, but CC stopped him.
"Do not be rushed." She warned him.
"CC, it's not the time to be cute! If we let her go, she will alert the emperor, who will unleash on our tracks policemen, soldiers and secret agents! "
She did not care and turned to Sayoko:
"Now listen to me: Lelouch has become a tyrant, he is no longer the boy you used to know. He enslaved the entire human race through geass: only me, you and a few others are free from his control. My goal is to restore freedom to the human species, but without Jeremiah's help I will never make it. Will you contact him for me? "
Sayoko hesitated for a few seconds, then answered:
"Yes."
"Very well."
"What should I tell him?"
"Make up a credible excuse, like confidential information or something."
"I will do it."
CC smiled, satisfied.
"Take it to the monumental cemetery, usually that place is deserted. Have I been clear? "
"Yes."
"Now it goes."
The maid nodded, then resumed her journey, looking back from time to time.
"Do you trust her?" Roy asked.
"We have no choice. She is the only one not to be geassed. We must hope that he will not betray us. "
"Now we go back to the hotel?"
"Yes, our task is over, at least for now."
After a few minutes the two guys walked.
Eowyn moon base
Sophie was desperate: locked in a dark room with a handful of workers, while screams and shots were heard outside. She was afraid; she knew that sooner or later that woman would come in and slaughter them on the spot.
"Doctor? Doctor! "Anna called her.
"What is it?" She asked.
"What ... What should we do?"
"We can not do anything."
"How can we not?"
"We can not communicate with security teams, we can not contact the Earth, we can not go out because the door is automated. And even if we could risk crashing into Mrs free destruction. "
"We are lost, then!"
"I'm afraid so."
At that moment there was a kind of earthquake, then the ceiling above them was literally uncovered. Above their heads stood an immense black hole, which sucked them upward, along with all the staff at the base (or at least the one who had not been killed by Ellie). Then it closed again, leaving only a base now empty and reduced to a pile of rubble.
Ellie, satisfied with her work, smiled.
It took a bit of exercise, after a long period of inactivity.
She think.
But how much time has passed since the day I was sealed? The last time I visited the Earth, its inhabitants were for the most part stuck at a primitive stage, except for some advanced civilization (but not too much). Now they have built an extra-planetary base ... Surely centuries have passed, if not millennia.
She looked around, and then looked up at the sky.
This is not Mars ... It must be the moon. And if the memory does not deceive me nearby stands the outpost of Motu ... I'll go and have a look.
She walked, determined.
They will bitterly regret having locked me up in that two-bit knick-knack!