Now that today is the fourth day of the week, I decided to have Sylvia called to visit Ange in the island. As I waited for her outside the aircraft carrier, she is already wearing her armor with the Zero costume to hide it.

"Remember, Sylvia..." I said with my arms crossed.

"I know, Lelouch. Try not to let her know," she finished my sentence before putting on the black bottom half mask and Zero mask.

We get on the ship as I told her of what she should do on her visit.

Sylvia's POV

At least the fourth day of the week is my break. Lelouch wanted me to take Angelise a visit. As I thought about her, I was filled with sadness because I felt bad about letting her down that night. I hoped giving her flowers and chocolates could be my first good deed.

He dropped me off to the area of Arzenal where the Para-mail are being launched to the fight against the DRAGONs. Speaking of those creatures, I wonder if there's a way to get to their dimension.

"So you're Ange's little sister, huh?" I was greeted by a black-haired woman. "Take off that mask. Let me see your face."

I looked tense under the mask when she said that.

"Don't worry. I won't tell Ange about your true identity," she said with reassurance.

Taking a deep breath, I removed my Zero mask and also the black bottom half mask.

"I see..." the woman added. "What's your name?"

"Sylvia. Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi," I replied with confidence in myself.

"You're here to make amends with what happened on that night, didn't you?"

"How did you know that?" I was surprised when she said it.

"I saw what happened on that night through Emma here," she directed me to a woman with green hair and glasses. "She can use Mana."

"I see..."

"Also, Lelouch informed me of your visit."

If there's one thing Angelise and I know about Lelouch, he is a manipulator, but he has a heart of gold. Not to mention that smug expression he gives out sometimes made us think on how to get hints for his strategies.

"If you're here for a visit to make amends with your big sister, so be it. I'll give you about thirty minutes to stay with her," she knows how to give me instructions. "If you can't show your face to her because of your betrayal, then you should hide your face with that mask."

I got to thank her for reminding me this so I put on the black bottom half mask and Zero mask.

"By the way, my name is Jill, and I'm the commander of Arzenal," the black-haired woman told me her name.

After our conversation, Emma directed me to the cell where Angelise is being held. She has a cellmate with her and it's a red-haired Norma.

"You got a visitor," she stated, and I went inside.

"Aren't you...?" Angelise started talking to me. It's been a while. Since I told her that night that she's not my sister or anything, I'm going to talk to her as a stranger.

Well, I am a stranger. She's not talking to me as Sylvia, but as Zero.

"My name is Zero, and I'm the leader of the rebellion known as the Black Knights," I responded calmly.

"And I assumed you're 'S', the person who gave me flowers, chocolate, and two letters, right?" Angelise asked me.

"Yes, I did," I confirmed her to be that person who gave her those things on the other night.

"Zero, huh? Then this means you can save us right," the red-haired Norma stated.

"Uh, yes I can," was all I could say before I noticed Emma is glaring at me. "Emma, I want you to leave us alone. Please."

Because of my insistence, that woman left me alone with the two.

Suddenly, I was caught with bad smell, and I know the answer.

"You two haven't bathe, haven't you?" I realized. "Don't worry. I got bathing materials right here."

In fact, I bought two big buckets of water and a dipper. The two Normas took off their clothes and I put water on them.

"Zero, aren't you going to take your clothes off?" Angelise asked me. I would not do that because that would risk of exposing my armor.

"No, I'm not. In fact, I don't feel dirty," I replied before I turned to the Norma next to her. "What is your name, Norma?"

"I am Hilda," she introduced herself.

"And I am Ange," my sister introduced herself to me.

"I know who are you, Princess Angelise," I stated.

"How did you...?" she looks surprised when I said her true name.

"Know?" I finished her sentence. "Hilda, may I talk to this girl by myself? You can take a bath of your own."

"Oh, okay," Hilda went to the other side to take her own bath.

As for me, it's time to scrub Angelise's back. I looked at her wounds and I know I was the one who inflicted them on her by using a whip. I was paralyzed with fear from what I'm doing because I was thinking about that bad memory.

"Zero?" Angelise called for me.

"Oh, it's nothing," I brushed off the memory and went back to reality while scrubbing her back. "I was just thinking about the fact that you were a Norma."

"To tell you the truth, I didn't know about this until Julio exposed me," she stated with bitterness.

"Princess, let me ask you something. Did Mo... I mean, Her Majesty tried to rescue you on that day?" I asked before she glared. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry."

"Yes, she did," was her reply. If only I had been watching the rescue until Mother's death, I could have been thinking of her as a good sister and gave her a hug instead of stabbing her arm and yelling of hating her.

"What are you running away from?" I asked the next question.

"Why do you ask that?" Angelise demanded.

"People never run away from anything. To make it clear, why did you left the island one day so you can see Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi again?" I asked. Look at me, saying my full name when I'm wearing a mask. "You could have avoided getting stabbed in the arm and whip marks all over your body."

"Since you're a masked avenger, I'll tell you..."

She started tell me that she thought her own little sister, which is me but under the Zero mask I'm wearing, would accept her even if she's a Norma. After all, she felt bad about she took away her freedom. I know this is about when I fell off that horse. Anyway, she continued with her story about me when she thought I would forgive her for being a Norma, but I didn't.

That's what it's like of being a Norma.

"I understand," I said while crying with tears of remorse under the mask.

"Are you crying?" she asked me.

"It's nothing," I tried not to show my sadness because it would make her suspect of who's under the mask. I wanted to wipe off my tears but I couldn't because of the mask. "I need to know something before I go. Did you mean to push Sylvia off the horse the two of you were riding together? I mean, was it an accident or not?"

"I don't know anymore," she started to cry. "I tried to help her, but I failed. I blamed myself for this, but Sylvia said that it's not my fault. Now she thinks I meant to push her off the horse and leaving her unable to walk, so maybe I did. I just don't know anymore."

Looking at her face so I can analyze if she's telling the truth or not, I gave her a hug.

"Zero..." Angelise looked calm.

"Angelise, I know you didn't mean to do it, even if you don't," I responded to her statement before letting go and I gave her a pat to her head. "You're a good girl, despite you're a Norma."

"Thank you, Zero," she smiled while crying happily. "To tell you the truth, I knew she can walk. She just loves to blame me for her condition."

"That's right. You get it now, Angelise," I looked sad when I said the truth about myself. "Your little sister is just a liar."

Too bad she doesn't know of who's under the mask. It's best not to let her know, lest reminded her of the betrayal I put her through. I want nothing to do with the person I was when she tried to 'rescue' me.

As I left the cell and looked at the sky, I'm wondering about myself.

Which is the real me? The face of the now kind younger sister or the mask of Zero.

All I know is that being a betrayer to an older sister is not the real me, so I only have two choices left to think about it.

Which is the real Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi?