Chapter 24: Interrogation.
7:15 am
When Lelouch regained his senses he realized almost immediately that he was blindfolded and chained.
"Is anybody there?" He asked.
"Wake up well, Lelouch ..." A familiar voice replied.
Immediately a surge of anger took hold of him.
"CC ... Whore!"
"You better stay still, Zero ... Or do I have to call you Lelouch vi Britannia?" A second voice asked him, Todoh's.
Lelouch winced. Now his identity was no longer a secret.
"Why did you do it, Lelouch?" Ohgi asked.
"Did what?"
"We know who you are, we know about the geass, we know you killed Kallen." Todoh replied.
"I didn't kill her!"
"You better confess, Lelouch ..."
"... CC. DIRTY LIAR!"
He tried to get up but a kick in the kidneys took his breath away, causing him to fall to his knees. Someone, certainly Todoh, pointed a blade at his throat.
"Until yesterday you used us as pawns in your dirty game ... Conditioning our minds with geass! But now the party is over!"
"There is no geass!"
"Liar!"
Todoh gave him a punch that split his upper lip.
"You killed Admiral Katase! We know you blew the ship up! "
"Katase committed suicide for not falling into the hands of the British!"
"You're stubborn, I see ..."
"I swear, I have nothing to do!"
"A Briton's oath is worth less than zero to me!"
"Thanks for the trust, Todoh ..." Dietard intervened.
"I didn't kill Kallen! CC is the killer! It also instigated Tamaki and Sugiyama to rape Cornelia!"
"And why should she have?"
"Close Kallen's mouth and use Cornelia as a scapegoat. But now the goat is me."
"I bet she acted on your order ... Or maybe you forced her with the geass!"
"There is no geass, and I ordered her not to do it!"
"Why did a Prince of Britannia decide to help us? Do you want to try to climb the throne?"
"Former Prince ... I have long renounced the imperial title."
"You're still struggling against your own homeland, and that doesn't make sense!" Nagisa said.
"Britannia is no longer my homeland ... Ever since I was exiled here to Japan, by my own father ... Emperor Charles."
"When?"
"In 2009 ... Shortly after the murder of my mother, Marianne vi Britannia."
"Marianne ... The shining lightning?" Dietard asked.
"Exact."
"The story at the time caused quite a stir, the media talked about it for months ... Various hypotheses were made about what happened ... From a terrorist attack to a conspiracy within the imperial family."
"That's what I thought too. My mother, because of her bourgeois origins, was despised by the other princesses."
"Why did you decide to wear Zero's mask?" Ohgi asked.
"Finding my mother's killers and destroying Britannia… A bloody empire, where the weakest are trampled on and have no rights. You Japanese should know it well. "
Silence fell for a few minutes, then a female voice, which Lelouch identified as Rakshata's, said:
"Maybe it's sincere."
"Are you sure?" Todoh asked her.
"Assuming the geass story is true, what need was there to kill Kallen that way? "Assuming the geass story is true, what need was there to kill Kallen that way? He could have ordered her to commit suicide, or simply to keep silent. And she would obeyed."
"What bullshit ... Let's kill him!" CC exclaimed.
Lelouch swallowed, fearing that his end was near.
