Sylvia's POV
Dear Diary...
It's been a while since I wrote on my entry.
What have I done?
Because of my betrayal against my older sister, Angelise, for her being a Norma, I would have to make up for my sins against by joining Lelouch's rebellion against my older brother, Julio. I become the masked avenger that will help me make up for this, Zero, because I can't just show up to her fighting for her side now due to what happened on that night. As of this moment, I'm training with Tusk so I can learn how to fight and take care of myself.
Lelouch is right. The reason I betrayed my sister was because I was being dependent on Julio. Now that I made my choice to won't let her love for me and the sacrifice Mother made for her be in vain, it's time I should be independent.
Now, for my third day of training, I'm walking on a straight line while keeping my balance on the platform I'm standing now.
"For today's training, you will learn how to balance. In case you have to walk straight into a log, you will have to keep balance of your body to cross it or you will fall from it," Tusk explained.
As I imagine myself walking into a log that is big and its end is on the other side, I walked through it calmly. I reached the other side, and my imagination stopped.
"Good," Tusk congratulated me. "You learned how to balance yourself. There are times you're going to face difficulties so allow me to give you some difficulty."
I was back to the starting line and he puts five books on my head.
"Books, really?" I asked.
"Books represents the knowledge you learned. Let's see how much you learned by walking to the end of the line without letting any of those books fall," he explained my lesson and it begins.
I took one step, and I tried moving my head a little to keep the books maintained in my head. I walked through the line, and did the same pattern. Anyway, I went through to the finish line without letting any of the books fall off my head.
"Very good, Silvia. Looks you're learning," my teacher said with a smile on his face.
"You're a very good teacher, Tusk," I smiled at him.
"Thanks. With you around, this is my first time teaching."
"I see..."
"Now that you've learned balancing, it's time I give you a weapon. I think on the next two days, you'll learn how to train using it."
With those words, he direct me to a part of his house which is located in a jungle a handful of weapons on a wall. There are so many I can't choose.
"Now, which weapon do you want to use, Sylvia?" he asked. "To make it clear, what weapon do you prefer to use?"
"I like using a whip to hit people," I said before bad memories come to me; bad memories of my betrayal. As I went back to reality, I put my hand onto my face. "I shouldn't have said that."
"You shouldn't. Ange saw you hitting her repeatedly with that weapon. If you were to use that weapon as Zero, I'm sure she will recognize you and you won't gain her forgiveness," Tusk explained in a strict tone. "Good thing I saw Lelouch making such humiliations to you."
"Do you have to remind me of that?" I asked while I'm blushing. I never forgot about this.
"At least you learned your lesson. In fact, by thinking over not to use a whip as your weapon, you're balancing your decisions."
"Thanks, Tusk. I needed to make my decisions right."
"As for your weapon, try using a rapier. That could be useful. Don't worry, you'll be training so you can use it properly."
Lelouch's POV
"That girl is making herself the warrior you wanted her to be," Suzaku told me while we watched the training session through a camera hidden in the place.
"Ange is so going to be surprised when she found out about her being Zero and I was the one who reformed her," I added while I was sitting on the main deck of the aircraft carrier.
"What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking by tomorrow, I'm going to sent her on that island to visit her sister. Of course, she will go there not as herself, but as Zero."