Chapter 114: Abundant breakfast.

Holy Britannian Empire, 7:30 am

Lelouch, Cornelia and Rakshata were having a hearty breakfast with Charles. The meal consisted of bacon, scrambled eggs, sausages and beans in a sauce.

Damn ... I don't even remember the last time I had breakfast with my family ... Well, with my father and my stepsiste.

Lelouch thought, finding that situation very bizarre.

"Do you intend to leave immediately?" Asked his father.

"Yes ... If I hold back too much, others will start to suspect who knows what."

"I will provide you with an escort to take you to the airport."

"Are you sure it's prudent? What if some of the soldiers were maneuvered? "

"If they were, I would have been dead long ago, I assure you."

He looked at him unconvinced. He couldn't trust. However, being guided by paranoia, as his followers had done when they learned about the geass, was stupid.

"Agree." He said.

"Better ... But don't you fear attacks from enemy spaceships?"

"Fortunately, the reptilians don't mind small, lonely aircraft, otherwise they would have shot us down." Cornelia intervened.

"It will be enough to retrace the itinerary backwards. This way we will avoid bad encounters. " Rakshata stated.

"This breakfast is really great!" She said after tasting a piece of sausage.

"I had it prepared by one of the best chefs in the empire." Charles answered her.

"Very good!"

Lelouch smiled to see his lover so cheerful.


Weiswolf, 4.45 pm

Esdeath was walking through the corridors of the fortress when she ran into Oscar.

"Major Hammel ..."

"I'm a captain, now."

"Have you seen Leila by any chance?"

"I haven't seen her since I left the canteen."

"I see…"

He snorted.

"Now she control the nation and the army, it is her job to lead them against the alien invaders. I hope she succeeds. "

"Commander Breisgau has what it takes. He inflicted severe defeats on the Britons. "

"Will she also inflict them on aliens?"

"She will do it."

"I wish I had your faith in her ..."

She turned, staring at somewhere in the corridor.

"Come to think of it, this alien invasion is a stroke of luck."

He looked at her puzzled.

"I do not understand…"

"Before their arrival, the United Republic of Europia was on the edge of the abyss. The British had arrived at the gates of Warsaw, and only Unit W-0 was fighting them seriously. The regular army was unused, the old government was corrupt and fearful, the citizens foolishly opposed to war. At this rate within a few months this nation would have collapsed totally, definitively. Instead, in this way it was saved. "

"For now ..." The captain reminded her.

"Yeah, for now ... As long as the lizards control half of the planet we won't be safe."

"It will take years to chase them away, assuming they don't crush us."

The woman gave her interlocutor a glare.

"Thanks, any other obviousness?" She asked, annoyed.

Oscar did not reply, looking down.


Himalaya, 11.00 pm

Despite the late hour Shinku and Zhou were still awake and were walking through the streets of the underground city, when they saw a small crowd gathered in a square around a big screen, which was broadcasting a terrestrial news.

"Fierce fighting is still going on from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, neither side is willing to yield. On the domestic front, there are new terrorist attacks by the maneuvers, the latest of which, which took place in Oslo, caused more than 30 victims ... "

Intrigued, they approached and saw, among those present, King Libaax. This one noticed them first.

"Ah, it's you ..."

"How long have you owned that big screen?" Asked the young Chinese.

"For a long time ... And it's just one of many we own." The sovereign answered him vague.

"How do you get terrestrial television broadcasts?"

"Thanks to our means of interception, located in our espionage station. They are very powerful. "

"Are you saying that you are able to intercept any kind of communication?"

"All over the planet… But we only use it in emergencies. Until yesterday we were not interested in your quarrels, even if we have been monitoring you for centuries by means of spy drones. "

"For what purpose this ... Surveillance?" Zhou asked.

"Monitor your technological development. I want to clarify that these are simple security measures. " Aris intervened.

Under normal circumstances Shinku would have found it unacceptable for anyone, terrestrial or alien, to spy on his homeland, regardless of the reason. But that was not a normal occurrence, and he feared that if he protested they would drive him and his companions out of the city, sending them back out into the freezing cold. And he couldn't allow it.

"If you want you can stay and watch." The king invited them.

Both he and his assistant nodded.