Disclaimer: I do not have anything association with Code Geass.
Continued Aftermath
"So tell us," Lelouch requested, "who exactly is VV and was he really the emperor's first ally?"
"First ally?" Jinta replied, "Well, I suppose that's one way of putting it. He and your father Charles were always together. They've been together for their whole lives."
"Huh, so they were always that close," Nunnally asked.
"Yeah, in fact…it's no different from how you two are," Jinta said, "in terms of sibling bond."
Lelouch and Nunnally were shocked to hear what Jinta had said.
"Wait, siblings?" Lelouch responded.
"That's right," Jinta said, "Vincent zi Britannia, that is VV's real name and he is the twin brother of your father, Charles zi Britannia. In other words, he's your uncle."
Lelouch and Nunnally were shocked at the revelation.
"He's our uncle?" Nunnally asked.
"Yeah," Jinta nodded.
"Are you sure about that?" Lelouch asked, "That man was an only child and not only that but from what Alice told us, he's still a child and—" Lelouch cut himself off when he thought about things and then he realized, "Wait…does this have something to do with Geass and Codes?"
"Yeah it does," Jinta said, "you know that CC desire you to have your Geass up to a certain level so that it would be enough for you to take her code, therefore you becoming an immortal Code Bearer capable of giving Geass yourself. That's how it was for CC, that how it was for me, and that's how it was for your father's brother."
"I see, so that's it," Nunnally said.
"Yes," Jinta said with a nod, "your uncle Vincent received his Geass power when he was twelve and he received it from a Code Bearer who was called ZZ."
"Do you know what his own Geass power he had was?" Nunnally asked.
"Making himself invisible to others," Jinta answered.
"Making himself invisible?" Lelouch replied with a raised eyebrow.
"He was a mischievous kid back then so he used his Geass for pranks from time to time," Jinta said amused, "although he did use it to protect and shield Charles as long as he held him. Anyway, the more the person uses their Geass, the more potent it gets and it can evolve to the point where Geass can appear in both eyes. After only a year of obtaining Geass, Vincent's Geass evolved to the point where it appeared in both of his eyes and he killed his contractor ZZ and took his code."
"So he was only thirteen when he did that?" Nunnally asked surprised.
"Yes that's right," Jinta said with a nod, "not long after that, he gave your father Geass which allows him to alter a person's memories. So VV, your uncle Vincent is the same age as your father."
"This is all surprising," Lelouch said, "we were always given the impression that our father is an only child."
"Yes, that how Charles made it to be so that people wouldn't know about his brother's existence," Jinta said, "and anyone who did had their memories altered via Geass."
"I see…" Lelouch said.
"I believe that what we need to know," Nunnally said, "did our father…did he use his Geass on us or anyone close to us?"
Lelouch was surprised and figured there was a possibility and he looked at Jinta.
"Well, did he?" Lelouch asked.
Jinta thought about it a bit before giving his answer, "As far as I can tell, he hasn't used on you or any of your siblings or even his consorts and loyal servants….from what I can tell. CC could properly tell you better than I can. She did seem close to both of your parents."
Lelouch and Nunnally took in what Jinta informed them.
"One other thing Jinta, how do you know all of this?" Lelouch asked.
Jinta nodded, "I'd hoped you would ask me that."
"You hoped?" Nunnally asked tilted her head a bit.
"Yes," Jinta said, "and how do I know it…it's because I was there."
"You were there?" Lelouch asked.
"Yes," Jinta placed his hands together, "the truth is that there was a time I served a Britannian prince back then."
Lelouch and Nunnally were surprised again.
"Wait, you did?" Lelouch asked.
"Yeah," Jinta said with a nod, "fifty-five years ago, I ended up in Pendragon and was taken in by a man who was the Crown Prince at the time. The Crown Prince had a wife and two sons and his name was Duncan von Britannia and he was Vincent and Charles's father. In other words, he was your grandfather."
"Our grandfather…" Nunnally said surprised.
Jinta smiled thinking about the man who was tall and had short blonde hair and violet eyes and wore his imperial garb.
"Yes, your grandfather was different from the other members of the Imperial Family," Jinta said, "he was a prince but he never lorded his title. In fact, he desired to change Britannia for the better."
"Change Britannia for the better?" Lelouch asked, "What do you mean?"
"Britannia remains the same as it has been for many decades," Jinta said.
"Yeah, it is," Lelouch said.
"Back then your grandfather desire to reform Britannia," Jinta said, "he was an idealistic man who believed that the government should exist for sake of the people. He valued life and was strong in his belief. He was respected by his wife, Lady Eliza zi Britannia, your grandmother as well as his sons and me. I had spent time with him and I enjoyed learning about him and his family and gradually he and I became friends," Jinta then had a sad expression, "but it was all destroyed five years later when members of a conservative party as well as some of his siblings got wind of your grandfather's radical ideas as they called it and decided to make sure he never ascend the throne as Emperor of Britannia so for that…"
"He was killed, wasn't it?" Lelouch guessed with a frown, "My grandfather was assassinated."
"Yeah," Jinta said and then he had his head down in shame, "it happened right in front of me. I was with Prince Duncan as well as Lady Eliza, Master Vincent, and Master Charles and yet…"
Jinta was shaking in sadness and Lelouch and Nunnally were sad to see how Jinta was reacting.
"I couldn't protect him," Jinta said, "I pledged my loyalty to your grandfather because he was a good man and I believe in his ideals and I was willing to help him achieve his dream and yet, when it came down to it, I failed to protect him and not long afterwards, I would fail to protect his wife, your grandmother Lady Eliza. She was also killed and all this happened during the period when members of the imperial family were rivals to each other and assassinations occurred everywhere for the desire for the throne."
"The Emblem of Blood, right?" Lelouch said.
"Yeah…" Jinta said with a nod.
"The Emblem of Blood…." Nunnally said.
"It was that terrible time that change Vincent and Charles as well," Jinta said, "two thirteen-year-old boys having been exposed to the violence and deception that went on around them."
"I see…and they both grew up to be callous bastards," Lelouch said with bitterness.
"…Unfortunately yes," Jinta said crossing his arms, "when it was said and done, they must have decided that the belief their father had was naïve and would never get things done in Britannia which eventually led to your father adopting the Social Darwinism mentality."
They suddenly heard someone groan and they looked over and saw CC. They saw CC flinching and fidgeting around.
"CC doesn't look so good," Nunnally said.
"Maybe she's having a bad dream," Jinta said.
"Maybe…" Lelouch said.
Lelouch went over and checked closely to CC and saw that CC was muttering something. CC suddenly grabbed Lelouch's wrist and surprised Lelouch and then Lelouch suddenly saw images of CC and all the events that had happened to her in the past. Lelouch was shocked seeing the visions of CC in various timelines and he was shocked to see CC going through many ways of death and then he heard a name and was surprised. Lelouch felt a hand on his shoulder and it got him out and saw that Nunnally had her hand on his shoulder and saw that he was no longer seeing images.
"Lelouch, are you all right?" Nunnally asked out of concern.
"Y-Yeah," Lelouch replied, "I just…"
"What happened?" Nunnally asked.
"Images," Lelouch answered, "I saw images of CC and I'm assuming it's her past and how she died many times."
Nunnally and Jinta were surprised and they looked at each other and then back to Lelouch.
"That has to be hard," Nunnally said.
"Yeah it was," Lelouch said.
CC started to slowly open her eyes and Lelouch, Nunnally, and Jinta were seeing CC waking up.
"W-Where am I…?" CC spoke.
"Well, you're finally awake," Jinta said.
"Jinta…" CC spoke and then saw the Lamperouge siblings, "Lelouch and Nunnally…" CC recalled what had happened, "oh that's right," CC looked at Jinta's coat, "is this your Jinta?"
"Yeah, it is," Jinta said, "you can hold on to that for now. I can take it back later."
"So CC, what the hell were you thinking?" Lelouch asked.
"Pardon?" CC replied frowning at Lelouch.
"Showing up like you did," Lelouch said, "and getting between me and Nonette. What you did was unneeded and unwanted."
"Oh really?" CC replied and then she sighed, "So that's the first thing you say the moment I wake up? Do I not get a thank you? I did save your life."
"No, what you did was interfered," Lelouch shot back, "that's what you did."
"My 'interference' saved your life Lelouch," CC said, "if you don't want to give thanks fine, but I see no reason for you to complain about it."
"I told you to stay out of it," Lelouch said, "and yet you refuse to listen and why is that? Is it simply because I won't do what you want?"
"You seem to have trouble hearing me," CC said, "I said I will protect…whether you want it and not."
"Man, you're so conceited," Jinta said rolling his eyes.
"Jinta, stay out of this," CC responded, "this is between me and Lelouch."
"We'll talk about this later," Lelouch said looking at CC, "but I got to say, I was surprised to discover something about you…Catherine."
CC, Nunnally, and Jinta were surprised.
"That's your actual name," Lelouch said, "I have to say…that is a nice name."
"C-Catherine?" Jinta asked.
"CC, is that your real name?" Nunnally said.
CC was shocked and then she frowned at Lelouch.
"How horrid," CC said with her frown, "Lelouch, don't you know it's a bad habit to eavesdrop on people?"
"I wasn't exactly eavesdropping," Lelouch said, "you grabbed my hand while you were still unconscious and I was made to see images of your past. Although the way I see it, it's better than being called CC."
"Don't compare me to other humans," CC said, "besides I…" CC had her head down and placed her hand on where her scar was, "I have…forgotten everything so a name is just something for a human and I'm not human…"
CC looked away with a sad expression and the others in the cavern with her just looked at CC.
"You seem human to me," Nunnally said.
"Well I'm not," CC insisted.
"A matter of perspective…" Lelouch said, "Anyway, we've been here long enough. It's time for us to head back to the others. We need to leave Narita."
"Right," Nunnally agreed.
"It's unfortunate that we didn't get the people involved of the Code-R Project," Lelouch said with a frown.
"Guess we're back to square one on the searching," Nunnally said, "still how did they know that we were coming for them?"
"Hmm…" Lelouch responded and looked at CC.
"Stop it," CC said annoyed with the look Lelouch gave her, "it wasn't me, I did not tip them off."
"I believe you," Lelouch said.
CC was caught off guard, "R-Really?"
"Yes I at least know that you're not the type to lie," Lelouch said.
"I see…well that's good to hear," CC replied.
"It's fine…" Lelouch said, "Although I still say that you're wrong in not telling me who killed my mother and you were wrong to get involved in between myself and Nonette and…" Lelouch looked at CC with a glare, "I also didn't appreciate what you did to Sayoko. You and I are going to have a serious talk about what's going to happen from now on."
"Lelouch, listen—" CC spoke as she stood up.
"Let's go," Lelouch interjected ignoring CC.
Lelouch left and Nunnally followed. CC sighed at what was happening as the siblings put their masks back on.
"So he's going to go on like this," CC said.
Jinta sighed as he watched Lelouch and Nunnally walk away and then he turned to CC.
"Well CC, what are you going to do?" Jinta asked.
CC just looked at Jinta, "Do you really need to ask?"
Jinta sighed again, "I guess not...still though Catherine, so that's your real name."
CC flinched and she looked at Jinta with a frown.
"Oh c'mon, don't look at me like that," Jinta said waving his hands, "it's just amazing that after two centuries, I finally learned your real name," Jinta chuckled a bit, "and to think this only happened because I hung with Lelouch and I'm so glad that I did."
"Oh well, I'm so glad that your entertained," CC remarked sarcastically.
CC walked away with a frown and Jinta just looked on sighing and shaking his head as he went after her. Later on, Zero, Void, Jinta, and CC joined with the rest of the Black Knights and they all began to leave the Narita Mountains.
Somewhere in Toyama
The truck arrived and was entering a large building. In the trucks were Madd and the members of the Code-R Research Team and they entered inside the building. Watts stopped the truck and Madd nodded with satisfaction.
"We're here," Madd said.
Three girls came and greet them.
"Welcome back Colonel Madd," The girl with the long jet black hair said.
Madd got out of the truck and nodded, "Sancia."
The girl named Sancia bowed to Madd and the dark skinned girl with short blonde hair and the girl with the pale blue hair bowed to Madd as well.
"Lucretia, give me an update," Madd said.
"Yes sir," The pale blue haired girl named Lucretia responded, "so far, there have been no problems."
"Good," Madd said with a nod and then looked over to the dark skinned girl, "Dalque?"
"Everything is ready Colonel," The dark skinned girl named Dalque replied.
"Good," Madd said and then turned to the researchers, "This is our new base now."
"Understood," One of the researchers said as he and the others got out of the truck, "but um, who are they?"
"These girls here are my subordinates," Madd answered, "they'll help out from time to time but they are mainly here for a serious and important matter."
"A serious matter Colonel?" Watts asked.
"Yes, there was another subordinate that I had but she betrayed us," Madd informed.
Sancia, Dalque, and Lucretia nodded at the researchers again.
Two Days Later, Tokyo Settlement
In the Viceroy's Palace in Area 11, Cornelia was in a meeting room with government officials. Her knight Guilford and her military adviser Darlton were with her and they were not in a pleasant mood. Euphemia was not with them as she was still in Narita. Cornelia insisted that her sister returned to the Tokyo Settlement with her but Euphie insisted on staying at least until the man named Joseph Fenette was picked up by his family and she also had assured Cornelia that she would be fine as she had Villetta Nu to keep her company. Nonette volunteered to stay with Euphie and keep her company as well. Cornelia felt much better since Nonette was going to be with her and decided that it would be fine as she was confident that Nonette would protect her sister Euphemia needed at the moment and she didn't doubt that Villetta Nu would protect her as well. Cornelia thought about Nonette and felt glad as even though the woman struck fear in her from time to time and did get on her nerves from time to time, she was always willing to help Cornelia out when she could and for that, the Second Britannian Princess was grateful to the Knight of Nine who was her senior in the military academy. Right now they were discussing what had happening in Narita.
"The Japan Liberation Front was mostly wiped out due to your operation in Narita Viceroy," The vice minister praised, "all is left is hunting down the survivors one by one."
"Are you being sarcastic?" Cornelia responded in a foul mood, "Our military forces are barely able to hold after that damn fiasco that occurred."
"N-No, that wasn't my intention Viceroy," The responding official answered nervously.
"The occupation government is responsible for this," Guilford said, "the problems originated from the policies adopted after this territory was occupied."
The government officials flinched at Guilford's words.
"They've done nothing about Area 11's subway networks and mining railways," Guilford continued, "Why were they left untouched? Not only that but also in the ghettos, they falsify the registries and property deeds as the rebellion continues to spread and goes on unchallenged," Guilford glared at the government officials, "would you care to explain why they been allowed to become breeding grounds for anti-government activities?"
"Um, well…" The Vice Minister spoke nervously, "they subways runs throughout the entire country so we can't just fill them all in. We don't have the budget for it."
"The terrorists are using them as their strike base and escape routes!" Guilford pointed out angrily, "And you've known full well that it's been happening!"
"W-Well, it was by Prince Clovis's instruction so—" The Vice Minister pointed out.
The Vice Minister cut himself off when he saw that Cornelia was giving him a death glare.
"Um well," The Vice Minister said, "It is as the previous Viceroy said, 'the situation will become too chaotic if we're forceful. It would give the Chinese Federation an excuse to move right in and take advantage."
"They already have their excuse," Cornelia pointed out, "Zero is gradually gaining influence and he's growing stronger and bolder each day."
"Vice Minister," Darlton spoke, "it would seem that there are people who are self-governing this area as representatives of the Elevens under management of the Ministry of Home Affairs, isn't that right? A group called the NAC."
The members of the government were gasped as they were surprised.
"We were able to discover signs of the NAC and their conspiracy in Narita," Darlton continued, "but all the evidence was buried, quite conveniently really. Our suspicion about them remains high so if we act first…"
"Hmm yes," Cornelia spoke, "the so-called distinguished families and financial groups…relics of the past…"
"Please wait!" The Vice Minister spoke as she stood up from his seat, "They are merely rumors. There's is no proofs of these things happening," The Vice Minister took his handkerchief and wiped the sweat off his forehead, "if you suppress them then Area Eleven's economy will certainly collapse and that means no tax revenue to send to the homeland. Besides, it's a widespread principal of the empire that the Numbers manage their own kind."
"And what have you done to find the Black Knights?" Cornelia asked.
"Well we do know that the Black Knights are indeed behind the rockslide but that is all we have," The Vice Minister explained, "we can't get any more from that. We know that six members of the Black Knights were eliminated so—"
"Only six," Cornelia interjected, "that is nothing unless you were able to get information out of the corpses of those six Elevens."
"Well no, we didn't even get the chance as they took the bodies of their comrades before we could get to them," The Vice Minister explained, "it's all we got and that how things stand."
Cornelia looked at her computer screen and looked at the list of all the Britannian soldiers that had lost their lives in Narita.
"So you can't catch Zero, you have no new information, and you don't want us to hit Kyoto as well," Cornelia said and she shook her head in disappointment, "After all this, I've come to the conclusion that there's only one word to describe you gentlemen here. Do you know what it is?"
"Um, n-no, what is it Your Highness?" The Vice Minister replied nervously.
"Incompetence," Cornelia said with such venom, "it's for people that can't get results and this describes you useless fools perfectly. Trying to get this area secured and stable as soon as possible is what we need but instead in being part of the solution, you just continuously keep being part of the problem," Cornelia sighed, "and as I look over the documents and the decisions that were made by Clovis and you people, I find it more and more that younger brother was truly incompetent as well. Honestly, I can't understand what my younger brother was thinking and now he's remembered as a disgrace for his involvement in his illegal activity."
The government officials flinched and looked away from the cold stares of the Viceroy and her two people close to her.
"We truly had no idea that Prince Clovis was involved in such a thing," The Vice Minister pointed out, "but even if we did know and tried to stop it or report it…"
"Hmph I know," Cornelia responded bitterly, "so just drop it. I know what you're going to say so don't bother."
The government officials gulped in response.
"There is one other thing that we need to discuss," Darlton said.
"The Purist Faction, right?" Guilford said.
"Correct," Darlton said.
"Yes," Cornelia said with a frown, "they disobeyed orders during the operation in Narita and lost to that red Knightmare and not only that…"
"They dragged a civilian with the intent to kill him and make it look like Zero did it," Darlton said.
"I absolutely despise Zero and I intend to make sure he suffers for what he's done," Cornelia said, "but I resent the fact that our own soldiers were ready to kill one of our citizens and deceive us with their lies."
"The Purist Faction has definitely fallen in disgrace," Guilford said.
"Yes," Cornelia said as she looked at her computer screen and looked at the files of all members of the Purist Faction, "as of now, the Purist Faction is now officially disbanded."
"Yes Your Highness," Guilford and Darlton said in unison.
"Although let's not forget," Darlton said, "the only ones who did right from this whole thing was Jeremiah Gottwald and Villetta Nu."
"Yes, I know," Cornelia said with a nod, "it seems there may be hope for Gottwald after all…that is if it wasn't for that Orange business. By the way Darlton, you mentioned that one of them was found in the road in the city, correct?"
"Yes Viceroy," Darlton said as he pulled up on the screen the picture of Cohen, "Tim Cohen, that's the name of the soldier we found in the city…killed by what appears to be a gunshot to the head."
The others were surprised about what they heard.
"The others Purist Faction members were surprised and they've all said the same thing that they have no idea what had happened…but from what I was able to piece together, it would seem that Cohen may have been the one who really knew the identity of the person who provided them the Sutherlands…and their intended victim."
"This is disturbing," Guilford said, "to think someone set up this civilian but the question is why."
"Unfortunately, we don't have the answer to that," Darlton said.
"Well Euphemia is looking after that civilian right now in Narita," Cornelia pointed out, "let's hopes she's able to get some answers from him."
"Agreed," Guilford and Darlton said in unison.
The government officials still gulped and didn't know what was going happen since Cornelia declared them as incompetent.
Mount Fuji
In the base within the mountains, the members of Kyoto were discussing battle that had taken place in Narita.
"To think that Cornelia was capable to such a degree," Kirihara said, "it was mostly one-sided."
"The Japan Liberation Front has been decimated," Munakata said, "the light of hope for Japan has been extinguished."
"No, there are still survivors of the JLF and Todoh is among them," Kubouin pointed out, "they are still strong, still fighting."
"But even so, they can't really do much at this point," Osakabe said, "if they were to be confronted by even a small squad of Cornelia's forces, I doubt that they would survive," Osakabe shook his head, "I'm afraid I agree with what Munakata says, Japan's light of hope is lost."
"No, there is still hope," Kaguya said still sitting behind the window pane.
The old men looked over to Kaguya.
"Are you referring to the Black Knights?" Kirihara asked.
"Hmph, you've been infatuated with Zero ever since he rescued your cousin Suzaku Kururugi," Munakata said, "it was by your insistence that we gave the Guren Mk-II to the Black Knights."
"Well, it seems that after all of this, I've learned something interesting about Zero," Kaguya said.
Kaguya simply smiled and Kirihara raised an eyebrow.
"Lady Kaguya, is there something you know?" Kirihara asked, "Something about Zero?"
The other members of House Kyoto were surprised and Kaguya still had her smile.
"Well, I might know something," Kaguya said as she was still smiling, "something that is quite familiar to me…"
"Huh, what is it?" Yoshino asked, "What are you talking about?"
The other old men looked at each other confused and they looked at Kaguya again and wondered what was in the mind of the fourteen-year-old girl.
Ashford Academy
Class was taken place and it was a lecture about Elizabeth III. Shirley was discreetly opening an envelope that she received from her father and it contained two tickets to the orchestra and she was happy with her father's gesture. Shirley then looked and noticed that two people were not in and it was Lelouch and Kallen. Shirley also noticed that Rai was just sitting and had a bored expression. Shirley was sad to not see Lelouch and then she was worried at the fact that both Lelouch and Kallen were absent. Shirley couldn't stop thinking about it and started to feel distraught for the rest of her days. Even doing her activities, her mind was elsewhere. Later on in the Student Council Room, Shirley was just looking at the envelope she had and Milly and Rai looked over and noticed.
"Hey Shirley," Rai spoke, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine," Shirley replied.
"You don't look fine," Milly said, "no you look frustrated. Seriously what's wrong? Are you constipated? Is it your monthly?"
"Huh?" Shirley replied shocked.
Rai and Nina were shocked as well and Rai held his hand over his face amazed that the Student Council President would say such things out in the open so easily.
"Will you stop?!" Shirley responded as she was embarrassed, "It's not what that is at all!"
"I see," Milly said, "you feel lonely since Lelouch is not here, aren't you?"
"Uh, w-well…" Shirley spoke and she looked away nervously with a blush, "it's more like Kallen is also absent as well, the same time as Lulu is."
"Ah so carefree," Milly said, "While the rest is grappling on the situation that occurred in Narita two days ago. Suzaku has been gone since then because of his military duties."
"I know that but Lulu and Kallen gone at the same day together, that's serious," Shirley pointed out.
"Are you letting your imagination run wild again Shirley?" Rai asked.
"No I'm not," Shirley insisted, "okay then Rai, how do you explain it?"
"Coincidence," Rai said with a shrug, "that's all."
"You're going to have to do better than that," Shirley said.
"That's all it is Shirley," Rai replied and then he sighed, "geez try to relax, will you?"
Milly started to laugh, "I envy you Shirley, that's what I love about you."
"Hmm?" Rai responded surprised and looked at Milly.
Nina was also surprised and she looked over to Milly and Shirley.
"Don't make fun of me!" Shirley said agitated.
"Then just tell him already," Milly said as she stood up from her chair, "just three little words: 'I love you'."
"That would make things easier if you just tell him how you feel," Rai said and then looked at Shirley, "so just go ahead and confess to Lelouch. Tell the guy that you're in love with him."
"You make it sound like it's so simple," Shirley said.
"What, it's not?" Rai asked confused.
"No, it's not," Shirley replied and then she looked down with a downcast expression, "it's not easy and besides, what if…what if he…"
"What if he rejects me?" Milly spoke trying to impersonate Shirley's voice with the impersonating worried expression, "It could ruin our great friendship!"
Milly then laughed and Rai and Nina sighed while Shirley was not amused.
"You don't have to laugh that hard you know," Shirley said blushing.
"I think that it's great that all of us can be here right now," Milly said, "especially in this place now."
Shirley and Rai were surprised at Milly said.
"We all have to prepare," Milly said, "nothing last forever."
Rai just looked at Milly and blinked and then he looked down and nodded.
"Yeah, yeah that's true…" Rai said quietly.
Rai suddenly got flashes of a woman and then a little girl and then he got flashes of a tall and intimidating man. Rai snapped out of it and shook his head.
"What the hell is this?" Rai asked himself in his head, "I feel like I know these people but from where? Are they part of my lost memories?"
"Sorry," Milly said in which Rai suddenly looked at Milly, "there's no need to be so serious about it. If it really bothers you, why don't you ask him the next chance you get?" Milly looked over to side and smiled, "So how do you feel about it?"
"Oh, you're back," Rai said looking at where Milly was looking.
Shirley wondering what Milly and Rai was looking at and when she saw, she was surprised to see Lelouch who was wearing his black shirt with his red jacket over it and his black pants with his black shoes.
"Oh Lulu!" Shirley spoke surprised, "I'm surprised to see you. I thought you would be gone for the whole day."
"Nunnally wasn't feeling well so I was looking after her for a while," Lelouch replied, "Sayoko has things she needs to take care of so I stayed with Nunnally. Right now Alice is looking after her at the moment."
"Oh, is Nunna okay?" Shirley asked.
"Yeah, she's fine," Lelouch said with a smile, "it was a minor thing really but it didn't hurt to be careful. She'll be up to her usual self the next day."
"Oh good," Shirley said relieved.
"Really Lelouch, you're going with that story?" Rai asked in his head.
"Well, I'm glad it wasn't serious," Milly said.
"Yeah," Lelouch said with a nod and then he looked over a stack of papers, "Are these the ones you want me to take care of Madam President?"
"That's right," Milly said with a nod, "Make sure you organize them by year and class, okay?"
"Yeah yeah, I got it," Lelouch replied as he picked up the stack of papers, "you're certainly good at given orders."
"Well I'm just grateful to have such an obedient subordinate," Milly replied amused.
"A subordinate," Lelouch said with a shrug as he left, "yeah, I suppose I am."
As Shirley watched Lelouch leaved, she sighed and looked at Milly.
"Madam President, I wish you wouldn't do that," Shirley said, "it was bad for my heart," Shirley looked at Rai, "that goes for you too Rai."
"Huh, what the hell did I do?" Rai replied raising an eyebrow.
Shirley looked over and noticed that her envelope containing her tickets were missing.
"Hey, where's my envelope?" Shirley asked panicking.
Shirley was shocked and mortified as she realized that Lelouch unknowingly picked up her envelope along with the documents. Shirley rushed to go after Lelouch and fortunately for her, she was able to find him and called out to him with Lelouch stopping and turned to see Shirley.
"Was my letter mixed with the document?" Shirley asked.
"Huh?" Lelouch responded and he looked and saw the envelope, "Oh I'm sorry," Lelouch picked up the envelope and handed over to Shirley, "here you go."
"Thanks…um Lulu?" Shirley responded.
"Hmm?" Lelouch replied, "What is it?"
"Well the thing is," Shirley said as she opened up the envelope and took out one of the ticket, "my father sent me these."
"Your father?" Lelouch asked.
"Mmhm," Shirley nodded, "my father's job require him to be away a lot but often times, he would send me things and these are one of them. They're tickets to a concert."
Shirley handed one of the tickets to Lelouch and Lelouch took the ticket and looked at it.
"A concert?" Lelouch asked, "Tomorrow night?"
"Yeah," Shirley said with a smile and she blushed, "I um…would like it if you came with me. Um, that is if you want to."
"Hmm…" Lelouch looked at the ticket and then he looked at Shirley who was fidgeting and blushing and then he smiled, "Sure, why not? I'm sure I can make time."
Shirley was surprised and looked at Lelouch, "You'll come?"
"Yeah, I'll come along," Lelouch answered, "I'll go with you to this concert."
Shirley was amazed and was extremely happy.
"Great!" Shirley said happily, "Thank you Lulu. I'm so glad you said yes."
Shirley and Lelouch discussed where they would meet and at what time so that they can go together for the concert. Shirley nodded and left and then she stopped and waved with a bright smile at Lelouch and Lelouch waved back with a warm smile. On a roof of one of the buildings, CC was watching Lelouch speaking with Shirley and then she suddenly frowned.
"Don't make assumptions," CC said and then she looked at the side, "you know full well that to me, Lelouch is—" CC stopped and then she flinched a bit, "I didn't think it would be a problem with Nonette and besides, I did it to protect Lelouch and—" CC was silent and then she raised an eyebrow, "Interfered? Wait, are you actually agreeing with your son said to me? You wanted to see how the fight would have gone between him and Nonette?" CC frowned again and sighed, "Okay, okay I get it…" CC placed her hand on her head, "Honestly Marianne…what?" CC was silent and then she shook her head, "I don't have a contract with Nunnally, you know that," CC listened and then she shook her head, "I really don't care and besides, as I have told Lelouch before, the power of Geass will force the person to live in solitude and it will happen and when that does, he will fulfill the contract," CC was silent again and then she crossed her arms, "Well it might be hard right now with Nonette on my trail…" CC sighed, "Yes yes I get it," CC said annoyed, "what I did at Narita may not have been the smartest thing I've done but still even you have to admit that—"
"Seriously, who are you talking to CC?" A voice asked suddenly.
CC flinched as she recognized the voice and couldn't believe that it was happening again. CC slowly turned around and saw that it Nunnally with Sayoko and Alice with her. CC was shocked and turned away surprised that it was the second time that Nunnally surprised her.
"Miss CC?" Sayoko spoke, "I believe Lady Nunnally asked you a question."
"I have nothing to say," CC responded.
Nunnally suddenly appeared in front of CC, surprising the immortal Code Bearer and Nunnally just looked at CC deadpanned.
"CC, you mention Marianne," Nunnally pointed out, "CC, what is going on? No more dodging the subject. Are you…speaking with my mother's ghost?"
CC felt trapped and didn't know how she was going to get out of it.
"CC, what did I tell you?" Marianne's voice spoke in CC's head sounding upset.
Elsewhere, there was a tall young man who silver hair and wore sunglasses. The silver haired young man smiled and then he walked away.
Zero's Mobile Base
Jinta was sitting in a room with his thoughts.
Flashback: 1560atb, in a castle
In a castle, fire was spreading around Jinta who was wearing armor and was on the floor and had stabbed a man with his katana who looked at Jinta with a grin. The man was a monk and he was started to laugh. Jinta felt something and took off his right glove and saw the Code on his hand. Jinta was shocked and he looked at the monk with hatred.
"You bastard," Jinta said with anger, "you tricked me. You've been deceiving me all along."
The dying monk looked at Jinta with glee as blood seeped from his mouth.
"Now you bear the burden of immortality," The grinning monk said, "and you get to give Geass power to people."
"You only pretended to me by ally and yet…" Jinta said upset, "you were also conspiring with my hated enemy and now…" Jinta clenched his teeth as he was upset, "you know what was really going and you were making a fool out of me," Jinta was shaking, "the princess…she…"
"That's just how it is," The monk said, "now it's your problem. I didn't care who it was as long they evolved their Geass and take the Code from me. You shouldn't be complaining, after all I did make sure you lived just as did with Shuzen."
"You bastard!" Jinta responded with rage, "Damn you TT!"
"I don't care," The monk called TT said, "I'm finally free after 800 years."
TT breathed his last breath and died with a smile on his face and Jinta screamed in anger and pulled the katana out of TT's body and raised it up in the air with hatred toward TT.
Flashback End
Jinta sighed and looked at his hand that had the Code on it.
"My life that I had known ended that day," Jinta said sadly and then was determined, "Lelouch, I won't let you suffer the same fate that I did. I'll aid you and make sure you don't stray the path you have chosen."
Stadtfeld Manor
Naoto was at the entrance of the manor of his father and he sighed.
"Let's get this over with," Naoto said to himself.
Naoto was about to knock on the door but was surprised when the door opened and there was Kallen who had opened the door.
"Hi Naoto," Kallen said.
"Hi Kallen," Naoto replied.
"Uh, so it's you," A woman said.
Naoto and Kallen frowned with disdain as they knew who it was and they looked over and saw the woman they both despised, their father's wife Mrs. Stadtfeld.
"I'm amazed that you would have the gall to come here," Mrs. Stadtfeld said with disdain.
"Hello Helen," Naoto said deadpanned.
Helen was annoyed with Naoto's attitude, "I see you still don't know how to show respect," Helen sighed, "I suppose it's to be expected. After all, you and Kallen are that woman's children. A pathetic Eleven who couldn't do anything right," Helen smiled, "and now she's serving a twenty-year sentence in prison. I wonder how long before you join her…or maybe even worse for you two."
"Hey!" Kallen responded angrily, "Don't talk about our mother!"
"Say one more word old hag," Naoto said with venom, "and see what happens."
Helen was shocked at what they said to her and got angry.
"How dare you!" Helen said angrily.
"That's enough!" A male voice said.
They looked over and saw James Stadtfeld who was Kallen and Naoto's father.
"James…" Helen spoke.
"Helen, you will stop this nonsense now," James said.
Helen was surprised, "James, you can't be—"
"Helen!" James interjected and glared at his wife, "You will stop! I had already told you that I asked for Naoto to come here and you start picking a fight with both of my children and worse, you speak ill of Sena again."
Helen was upset, "Why? Why do you care so much for that Eleven?"
"Helen, that's enough out of you," James said strongly, "My children and I have a lot to talk about so I don't want to hear anymore from you," James sighed and looked at his son happily, "I'm so glad to see you again Naoto."
"Sure Dad," Naoto said.
"Anyway, follow me you two," James said, "we have much to talk about."
James headed to a direction and Naoto and Kallen followed their father. Helen looked on and was upset and she went back upstairs upset.
"Even after all this," Helen said in her head feeling insulted and angry, "he still prefers that Eleven bitch over me, me…his own wife!"
That's it for this chapter. Next chapter: The Black Knights receive an invitation to meet with one of the members of House Kyoto.