The next few days after the incident, Suzaku and I were given a tour of the Misurugi Empire by Julio himself. Jeremiah and Sayoko are already on that island that Riza told them about it, so they could give me progress on what Ange is doing on that island. I got to admit the castle looks nice and all, but it kinda reminds me of how the Holy Britannian Empire looked like. I used to hate that empire, but as far as I can tell, my death has it getting along well with the Japanese, and that's all matters.

"This is my bedroom," the Clovis-lookalike showed his place. "It's nice, huh?"

When we took a look at the place, it looks nice, but I wonder how Clovis was doing sleeping when he was alive.

"Now, I'll show you the kitchen. In fact, let's have lunch after this part of the tour," Julio suggested.

"Good idea, Clovis," I said with disdain.

"What was that?" he turned to me with suspicion.

"Oh, nothing," I replied.

Anyway, Suzaku, Julio, and I were sitting on a small round table together by the gardens. We're eating beef steak.

"I admit the castle looks really nice," I commented while I took a bite of my meal.

"Why thank you," Clovis, I mean Julio, looks complimented. "Too bad as of the moment, one of the rooms will be replaced."

"What do you mean, Julio?" Suzaku asked while he took a bite of his meal.

"Since Lelouch here is a childhood friend of Angelise's, he can have her room," was the reply.

I looked surprised when he said that. Too bad he just made my plans go a lot easier.

"You mean it?" I crept up a smile on my face.

"Yes, I mean it," Julio replied.

"Great."

Like I'm thinking right now, he made my plans go a lot easier than this.

"Um, Julio, there are some things I want to ask you," I started.

"Hmm?" he turns to me after a drink of water.

"Since you are God, what powers do you have?"

"I'll tell you, but you promise you and your friend here will keep this as a secret."

"We promise, right, Suzaku?" I turn to him with a smile.

"Right, Lelouch," he agreed with a smile.

"First off, I can teleport myself in any distance. Second, I can move fast than a speed of light, and lastly, I can have a holographic project elsewhere," this Clovis-lookalike explained his powers.

"I see," I'm getting curious. "Did you have any power of mind control?"

"Only to those who can use Mana if someone tried to escape my grasp. Why?" Julio replied before asking.

"Nothing," I said flatly.

Now that I thought about it, I feared what would happened if he even thinks about using this power on Momoka, who can use Mana, while she and Ange are trying to get away from this creep. I wonder if I still have my Geass. Can my power prevent something like that from happening?

Either way, I'm not gonna let this happen. I'm sure Ange would call out her name to trigger memories of their time together to break her free from this creep's control, but my Geass could do even better than that. I prefer the latter choice when that moment will come.

If only I still have my Geass...

"Anyway, Suzaku and I are going," I said as I finished my drink of water. "Let's go."

Then we left the palace as we went outside. I'm planning to go to the waters to see my reflection, and as I closed my eyes, I think of the Geass. When I opened them, I saw the Geass on both of my eyes.

"Good. I still have my Geass," I said.

"And you just turned them on on your own?" Suzaku asked.

"Well, let's see if I can turn them off voluntary," I closed my eyes again, and after a while, I looked at my reflection to see the Geass has deactivated. I smiled at this. "Excellent."

"So what now, Lelouch?"

"I need a test subject, Suzaku. If Julio said he can take control of the minds of Mana users, I need to see if my Geass is capable of preventing this. I'm sure his power won't be able to deactivate mine, only Jeremiah can disable Geass. Maybe a criminal should be my test subject. Find me one and make sure he's under that Clovis-lookalike's control."

"Okay."

As Suzaku runs off on his own, I waited for him in the streets, hoping to find me that person. Suddenly, he came bursting out of jewelry store as he showed this criminal in front of me. We drag him to the alley, and we removed his mask to see his eyes looked dull, the sign of mind control.

It's time to test my power.

"Now, be free!" I activated my Geass as I looked into the criminal's dull eyes. As it reached on him, there is a struggle between Julio's mind control and my Geass. The latter has won through that, and it looks like he got his free will back. Of course, I deactivate my power.

"What have I done?" the criminal said with remorse before running off.

"Suzaku, remind me that the next time I see that maid, I'm using my Geass on her in case something like this would come up," I give the instructions.

"Got it!" Suzaku got my message.

Although it's a successful test, maybe I should have more test subjects to see if my Geass could do more than just breaking someone from mind control.

Author's Note: Nice chapter, huh? Lelouch is being paranoid if Julio would think about using mind control on Momoka. Well, if you watched Cross Ange episode 21, looks like his paranoia is right with Embryo doing that when Ange tries to escape from him. Like I said, Embryo is not going to appear, but Julio will have his characteristics; the meaning of a composite character.

Don't worry, with Lelouch around, he can stop Julio's mind control with his Geass, so he might think of using it on Momoka just in case. However, he narrates that he should see if his Geass can do more than just breaking someone from mind control.

We shall see what that is in the next chapters.