Chapter 2.791 Assignment
"Then... should I check on it personally?"
Charles turned around to find the very person he had just thinking about standing behind him. Marianne just smiled at him sweetly.
"After all... there was already a request for aid coming from Area 11. We could always send the girl over by using that reason. And no one would've questioned her movement, given her position."
He shrugged. "Very well, something like that could be arranged immediately," Charles started to say before calling someone to pass the order. "Regardless, it shouldn't interfere with our plan."
Marianne smiled. "Of course. We still needed to get C.C. back to our side, didn't we? But dear... if Schneizel got Lelouch, wouldn't that also affect the plan? Aside from the possibility that it might cause C.C. to slip further from our grasp... she might instead try to rescue him herself?"
"Hmm..." All in all, her words had some merit. It would not do to have Schneizel interfering in his work at this point. The plan was still halfway through, there were still so much to be done before reaching the final phase. Schneizel's interference would just put a dent on his task and might even undo all of the preparations that have been done.
Lelouch... shouldn't fall to the hand of his second eldest.
"Then go... I will leave the rest to your own discretion," he said finally as the lady made some excited noise for being allowed to see her son personally.
Chapter 5.835 Change of Heart
'Anya' halted the progress of her own Knightmare, Mordred as she started to notice the inconsistencies in the attacks from the Black Knight. It was too odd. The locations of the attacks seemed to have no important significance and from the intel she received from the other squads, she could tell that the enemy's movements did not make any valid sense.
Those attacks were all just a diversion!
'Anya' told the other soldiers to go on without her as she turned back towards the Viceroy's Palace... while also observing the grounds for any signs of irregularities. Sure enough, Mordred's sensors appeared to have picked up a signal that might be coming from Gawain. She smiled.
That should mean C.C. would try to...
Marianne had sped her approach toward the palace to try to corner her once she appeared to make her escape with Lelouch. But just as she was scanning for any signs of the green-haired immortal, her scanners picked up two life signs on the ground.
It was Lelouch... and a red-haired girl. But no sign of C.C. with them!
She contemplated between waiting for C.C. to appear first or to grab Lelouch on her own before seeing Siegfried suddenly making an appearance in front of the youngsters. And that rogue Siegfried... was attacking those two!
From her point of view, she could see that Lelouch and the girl have tried their best to make themselves poor targets against the bulky Siegfried. But when she saw Lelouch faltered a few times while trying to avoid the falling shards all around the area, her motherly instincts immediately tingled.
By rights, her priority should be on recovering C.C... right? But would that... should be at the cost of her son's life? Even if at the of the days, all of them would return to the same collective consciousness... to have to reunite with her child like this...
"...I will leave the rest to your own discretion,"
An old memory of young Lelouch calling towards her suddenly surfaced from the back of her mind, and that brought Marianne's attention back to the present. She turned her sight towards the Siegfried again, her mind suddenly cleared of any sort of doubts.
Recovering C.C. was indeed important, but much more than that... the thing that mattered more was—!
Regaining her skill as the former Knight of Six, Marianne the Flash piloted the Mordred towards Siegfried before ramming the machine towards the wall...
The shortest piece so far... but I guess I need to place a point of reference as to when Anya arrived in Japan.
[Edit] And there goes another complementary addition to wrap her side of the plot for this part. Hopefully, this reads well.