Chapter 5.802 Another Side

Cornelia li Britannia went back to the detention cell area once she's sure that her older brother has stopped paying close attention towards her. And she waited a bit longer once she's nearby until she saw Kururugi Suzaku left the area.

Afterwards, it didn't take much for her to retrace her steps to relocate the cell where Lelouch was locked in. Though of course, she had no way to unlock the cell without asking either her brother or Suzaku for the security codes.

Yet it was not as if it mattered. She could still hear Lelouch's voice from this side. Apparently, Suzaku left Lelouch with the other girl that she saw before.

The two of them have been chatting casually to each other. And it sounded like... the two of them went to the same school? Cornelia snorted softly, partially in disbelief at how such thing would happen.

And then the conversation inside turned back towards the royal family, and Cornelia suddenly couldn't help feeling nervous. But whatever it was she was expecting to hear, it turned out far from what she had imagined.

"That time... the one who was truly at fault, was me."

She knew it! Euphie... wasn't the type to start a massacre and kill anyone indiscriminately! If she did... then someone—someone must have forced her to do it! Cornelia felt her heart starting to hurt. But Lelouch... how could he do something like this?

"—my Geass suddenly went out of control."

Cornelia felt her heart went still. Geass...? What... was Geass?

She took a brief chance to peek in into the cell to find the two sitting against each other on the single bed. And Lelouch had the most sorrowful look in his eyes. Cornelia quickly moved out of sight when she thought Lelouch's eyes would turn towards the direction of the door.

The two started talking again, as Cornelia listened closely to every single word that Lelouch spoke. And the more she listened to his words, the more... her heart hurts. She thought that only Euphemia was the one who had an unfortunate fate—but so was Lelouch! Her tears started to fall as Cornelia continued to listen to Lelouch's voice.

Lelouch had sounded so hurt... and the way he called himself an idiot, he sounded so resentful of himself.

"Was it hard... having to shoot her yourself?"

She took another peek inside, and barely caught sight of Lelouch hastily wiping his tears away. Cornelia immediately stepped back and left the cell. Whatever anger that she has left before coming to the cell completely disappeared, and she vowed that she'd find out who was truly responsible for the tragedy that befell her sister.

For Euphie... as well as Lelouch.

Throughout the rewrite I've been juggling between Schneizel and Cornelia, in which one should I turn sympathetic towards Lulu (in preparation for the latter chapters) considering I'm pursuing the version of Charles and Marianne from Nightmare (without the Eden Vital thing) and Cornelia easily won the vote. So we'll see how it goes from here.