A/N: Well sorry about the late post. I had this ready at the same time I posted chapter 3, but I guess I was…well there is no beating around the bush on this one…I was just lazy lol. Anyway once again thank you all for your reviews and I am looking forward to the ones for this chapter.
Chapter 4
Links to the Past
Later that afternoon C.C. was left bound to a metal chair in a large room lit by only a light hanging above her head while the room was cast in darkness. The green haired immortal knew what was coming, but even they should realize that torture would not get her to talk. She had endured a lot worse throughout her long life, but on this day C.C. was about to be proven wrong. It wasn't long before Hayate walked into the room followed by Vita who had a wide smile on her face.
"Good afternoon C.C. comfortable," Hayate asked.
"That isn't how you start off a torture session," The immortal girl remarked.
"Torture, oh heavens no hurting people isn't in my nature, but this is an interrogation."
"Then you will not get anything out of me."
"We beg to differ," Vita replied.
"Yes I think a different approach is needed with you and Vita is going to help me."
C.C. cocked her head to one side in confusion, but her earlier confidence began to show signs of weakness as the lights came on. The immortal girl saw Vita wearing a chief's hat moving into position behind a large table where C.C. saw the largest buffet of pizza she had ever seen. Her mouth watered at the sight of all of that pizza, but then her expression turned into one of shock and slight horror as Vita used a large wooden mallet to begin bashing the pizzas ruining them.
"We're just warming up," Hayate said with a smile as Vita was cutting loose living the dream of some children unleashing her inner problem child.
Meanwhile across town at the hotel Lelouch was being kept at a knock at the door came and Nanoha opened the door to find Major Auris Gaiz standing at the door with two armed soldiers behind her.
"I am Major Auris Gaiz of the Capital Defense Corps and assistant to Lieutenant General Gaiz, is Lelouch Lamperouge here?"
"He is, but may I ask what this is about," Nanoha hesitantly asked.
"My superior as well the higher ups wish to test a possible theory Lieutenant General Gaiz and others suspect about Geass and a possible connection to an ancient civilization which we hope could give us an idea into their intentions or perhaps confirm what we suspect Orpheus to be after."
"I don't think I understand?"
"We assure you no harm will befall Lelouch and you are welcomed to go with him," Auris said to coax their coöperation.
After some hesitation the group left with Auris as the four took a small transport craft to a small island where a research station had been set up. The small ship landed as Nanoha, Signum, Fate and Lelouch disembarked with Auris leading them into the ruins themselves as the former Britannian Prince noticed something familiar about their architecture.
They look similar to the ruins on Kamine Island.
The stonework Lelouch observed was similar, but the young man wondered if it was mere coincidence yet as they were led deep inside where waiting for them was Lieutenant General Gaiz. He had another solider with him who were discussing an issue with the ruins, but stopped when he saw Lelouch and his escort approach.
"So you are the infamous Zero, I am Lieutenant General Gaiz of the Capital Defense Corps, I am aware of your reputation."
"I doubt you brought me out here to get my autograph," Lelouch said dryly.
"Straight to the point, alright," The military officer replied a he gestured for the group to follow him.
Back at the interrogation room C.C. was sweating uncontrollably as she was madly struggling to break free of her bounds as watching Vita desecrate pizzas was becoming too hard for her to watch as the small red-head ruined over two hundred good pizzas before smashing them into oblivion. Hayate still smiling approached the green haired woman with a simple question.
"Are you ready to talk?"
"No, it will take more than that," C.C. declared boldly although her voice was shaky.
"Then Vita please be a dear and make us some pizzas," Hayate asked while Vita donned a chef's apron to match her hat which had a picture of cute bunny with red eyes and white fur. After pounding some dough that was prepared beforehand the small child began attempting to hand toss it, but on purpose she was doing a bad job.
"No that is not how it is done, pizzas must be properly hand tossed and handled with the utmost care to ensure a soft and fluffy crust."
"We know," Hayate replied with a smile while Vita got frustrated after it landed on her head, she tossed the dough onto the table and began just smoothing it out with her mallet.
"NO," C.C. wailed as she watched Vita doing everything wrong in making a pizza.
Deeper underground at the ancient ruins Regius Gaiz led the group to a large chamber that was identical to the one Lelouch and Kallen Kouzuki had been in at the time they had stolen the Gawain Knightmare Frame to escape the island. The group walked through the chamber heading towards the massive stone doors while sitting in front of it was a small pyramid like object with ancient glyphs written upon it. On the stone doors was the symbol of Geass.
"We have a theory there might be relationship between your Geass power and the ancient civilization that I know Fate and Nanoha have heard of, Al-Hazard."
"Al-Hazard," Lelouch asked while Fate and Nanoha did remember it.
"You could say its Mid-Childa's version of Atlantis, a lost world where its native civilization was renowned for its enormous scientific and magical advancements which predate even the Ancient Belka civilization. While it is widely regarded as a myth these days, it is still sought after by some, thanks to its rumored miracles and advances." Regius explained.
"I see," Lelouch said as he was catching on to what the military commander was hinting at. "You suspect a relationship between my Geass and Al-Hazard, which could explain why a Geass user would attempt such a daring raid against you."
"That is what we are hoping your presence here could verify, so by all means touch the pedestal…do something to trigger a reaction."
"C.C. might have been better suited for this, but I'll try," Lelouch replied walking up the steps.
Nanoha almost wanted to stop Lelouch from triggering a reaction from the ruins, but Signum stopped her while Fate simply watched. A few minutes of walking around the platform nothing happened, but when Lelouch did finally place his hand on the small pyramid in the center of the platform facing the doors the runes upon the stone pyramid began glowing bright red. Lelouch felt a sharp pain coming from his left eye as his Geass was responding to the unusual phenomenon.
This is just like what happened on Kamine Island, but the sensation is different this time.
Although it felt similar Lelouch knew there was something different happening here, the doors began glowing before they parted revealing a hidden chamber. Moments later a small glowing light red orb that was the size of a marble floated out of the hidden chamber heading towards Lelouch. The small marble shaped stone floated in mid-air for a few minutes until a female electronic voice spoke.
"Abyss Soul Active, User detected, Proceeding to imprinting," The small marble spoke.
"What is this," Lelouch asked looking at the marble curiously before a red beam shot out scanning his Geass eye passing through the visor on his head.
"Imprinting completed, it's a pleasure to serve you Milord," The small marble said as it began to change as the object transformed from a small red marble into a scepter had a long golden handle and a black fitting which held an enlarged red gem, roughly the size of a tennis ball now, encircled with silver blades.
Lelouch took the scepter like object into his hands before asking, "What are you?"
"Abyss Soul, Assault Device Class-Omega, reserved by the use only of Warlock Caste of the Al-Hazard Guardians," Abyss Soul replied, suddenly the red orb began blinking. "Alert, data files seem lost or corrupted, origin unknown."
At that moment Nanoha's own Intelligence Device, Rising Heart began to react to the Abyss Soul before transforming.
"I'm honored by be in your presence milady, could you please tell me your name," Abyss Soul inquired, but this time its attention was directed at Nanoha.
"Me?" The young woman asked as she ascended the steps moving close to Lelouch and the device he held.
"You know her," Lelouch asked before his device answered.
"She has the Assault Device Omega Class Rising Heart, Milord."
"And why that's important?"
"Rising Heart is one of the first Omega Class Devices in existence. As such, it is a Relic that can be only used by Regis Lineage individuals, specifically the First Princess of Al-Hazard, or any of the direct ruling lineages."
Everyone was now completely shocked as jaws were now hanging, but Lelouch remained composed as he asked, "Are you sure?"
"Positive Milord, any attempt to fully activate Rising Heart if you aren't of Royal Lineage will result in the Device destroying the linker core of the thief in an overload flare. The Device has a full registry of the DNA of the Royal House and it only will answer to those of direct matriarchal lineage of the royal line," Abyss Soul explained before realizing something. "It seems that the device has suffered massive damage to its memory banks, compared to me it seems like someone went primitive and clubbed his memory banks. Let me do something," Lelouch's Device said as a ray of light was emitted from the red orb making contact with the gem on Rising Heart.
"Contingency Ragnarök - Uploading Basic Regeneration Subroutines," Abyss Soul responded.
"Incredible, we have probably just made the greatest discovery of the century," Regius admitted as he never expected such revelations, the information he was given paid off in more ways than he could have even have expected.
"But father this proves there is a link," Auris said while her father nodded in agreement.
"Yes, but I think the Bureau is going to be very interested in what we learned today. This could change things very drastically for Earth."
"Restoration Complete," Rising Heart said as the light died and Nanoha's device restoring it to its original specs and software, which also repaired its vocal functions enabling it to speak more normally.
At that moment Abyss Soul transformed into a gold bladed staff while Lelouch's own appearance began to change as he donned what would be his own Battle Jacket. The casual clothing he was in vanished as he became grabbed in black robes trimmed with gold and silver. He had a flowing black cape with a purple interior, gold plates of armor on his forearms, white cuffs at the end of his sleeves, a sleeveless black coat with gold armor plating on the shoulders and parts of the chest where the cape was attached and a high collar that covered the lower half of his jaw. The coat had a purple interior as well and a black belt with a gold plate going across his chest attached to a parted skirt of silver scale mail armor that protected his thighs. The rest of his attire consisted of a form-fitting black leather shirt lined with gold and it came complete with a white cravat that bore a small red gem on it, matching black pants and black belted boots with gold knee armor and three silver buckles on the sides of the boots.
Fate and Signum were surprised by Lelouch's sudden change in appearance as he looked more fearsome than before especially as Abyss Soul had become a bladed staff which looked more like a halberd with a curved bladed tip. Lelouch himself was understandably stunned by his own change in appearance as he began examining himself. Shockingly a pair of small black feathered angelic wings emerged from his back as the cape created openings for the wings to emerge from.
Fate, Signum and Nanoha were rendered speechless. Nanoha especially was entranced by Lelouch's current appearance as the former prince now appeared before her like a regal, Fallen Angel, dark, yet beautiful, and enticing all at the same time. Lelouch tried moving his wings to see if they were the real thing and much to his surprise they were as his angelic black wings flapped a few times at his command. Deciding to test something Lelouch floated off the ground after he jumped up to test if he could fly or not and remarkably he was hovering a few feet off the ground.
"Lelouch-san I don't think you should be trying that," Fate cautioned.
"Why not it seems easy enough," Lelouch remarked as he boldly attempted flight despite the fact he had no training. A fact that was made clear when he slammed into a rock pillar before falling back to the ground with his pride hurt more than his face.
"He'll need training," Signum commented.
"I agree," Regius replied as he saw the benefits and possibilities before him.
Back at Headquarters C.C. was on the verge of tears as she was at her breaking point. Hayate and Vita had done everything in their power to break C.C. and get her to talk and tell them everything, but now the two were down to the last trick they had saved for last. It was such that even had Reinforce coming out and protesting against it as the small girl was standing on the table trying to get Hayate's attention.
"Please Hayate-chan please don't resort to this, the poor thing," Reinforce Zwei wailed with teary eyes.
"It for the greater good we must, but are you ready to talk now C.C?" Hayate asked sweetly as at Vita's work bench laid the remnants of attempts at making Pizza.
More appropriately attempts at making something that WASN'T pizza as the food Vita had made doing everything you shouldn't do to make a pizza was done so the final products were burnt misshapen food. It didn't help matters when Vita did what she did when she was alone with junk food such as enjoying some of the perfectly prepared pizzas and savoring their consummation in front of the twitching immortal woman who was on the verge of breaking down.
Then at last on a pedestal behind a wall of bomb-proof glass was C.C's Cheese-Kun plushie wearing a jacket packed with C4 high explosives linked to a remote detonator Vita was holding. The immortal woman's eyes widened in horror as she exclaimed in a loud voice, "ANIMALS, YOU ANIMALS...HOW YOU CAN BE SO MONSTROUS?! MY CHEESE-KUN, LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
In the opposite corner of the room behind a blast chamber was a dummy wearing an identical vest, but at a push of the button Vita held the dummy exploded as the explosion reduced the wooden dummy to bits leaving almost nothing left of it.
"Will you talk or," Hayate asked nicely as Vita moved her finger to the detonator button. "5…4….3…2…."
"NO, PLEASE IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DON'T, OK OK I'll tell you everything, just please don't push the button," C.C. said as she broke down into tears.
"I knew we would get somewhere," Hayate said finally as a disappointed Vita put away the remote. "So tell me everything related to Geass and what you know about this other immortal."
Meanwhile in another part of the Bureau Headquarters, Shamal was conducting a physical of Nunnally while at the same time she was explaining to her the possibility of having the use of her legs restored to her and rehabilitation that would be involved following the procedure, but the only problem that would remain would be Nunnally's blindness. Also present in the room were Sayoko and Zafira with the latter in his wolf form resting in a corner of the room.
"So you're saying I could walk again?"
"Yes Nunnally-chan, but you would still need some physical rehabilitation since you haven't used your legs in such a long time." Shamal replied as she finished her examination on Nunnally, but was looking at the results she made of her brain as she tapped her chin with her left index finger trying to figure out the unusual patterns she was seeing. She knew from what she was told that the blindness was the result of mental trauma, Nunnally wishing to block out the world in a sense. Yet Shamal was noticing some oddities within her brain.
These usually result from forceful suppression of certain memories by means of drugs, but it seems this is the result of likely magical means.
As Shamal continued her investigation into this oddity she began trying to undo what she saw was forceful memory modification which her results suggests magic was involved somehow and attempted to undo it. Yet as she carefully worked to undo these memory blocks and the tampering done something much unexpected happened. The results she had moments ago began to change suddenly as parts of Nunnally's brain suddenly became very active, but before Shamal could realize what was going on Nunnally's eyes opened and the girl began screaming. Her eyes had a red rimmed glow around them, but the redness began to fade before vanishing completely.
The modified memories placed on her by Charles zi Britannia had become undone as Shamal had unlocked the memories that had been blocked causing them to overlap with the ones that had been made thus putting Nunnally through a terrible amount of pain as her head was throbbing trying to cope with the sudden flux of suppressed memories coming back to her.
The screaming continued as Shamal didn't know what to do, so she did the only thing that would be advisable for someone of her field. She used a sedative to sedate Nunnally and put the girl under as her mind was now giving a chance to recover from the undoing of Charles's Geass she had unknowingly caused.
"The girl is she," Zafira asked concerned for the girl.
"Someone call Hayate-sama, I think this must be something related to Geass but someone should maybe tell Lelouch-kun what happened as well." Shamal said as the last part of the sentence she had hesitated on and for good reasons.
It was about an hour later when Lelouch, Signum, Nanoha, Fate, Hayate and Vita arrived to meet with Shamal to explain what had happened during her examination with Sayoko providing an eye-witness account. Lelouch was outraged, but he was trying to restrain himself from exploding on the spot. Everyone else was shocked by this develop meant while Hayate and Vita on the other hand seemed saddened.
"So what you're saying is that you found evidence of someone having tampered with Nunnally's memories," Lelouch asked while Shamal nodded her head.
"I suspected magic was involved, so I examined the matter further and attempted to undo the block. Then Nunnally's episode happened and well you know the rest," Shamal said hanging her head low in shame.
"But who tampered with Nunnally-chan's memories," Nanoha inquired, but Hayate had the answer.
"It was Charles zi Britannia; it was her father that did it."
"WHAT," Lelouch said as the restraint he had on his anger was now slipping.
"C.C. told us everything; she knew what had happened to your mother. The other immortal, your uncle and brother to Charles called V.V. had killed Marianne out of jealously."
"My…own uncle killed her, but what about Nunnally?"
"Nunnally was witness or rather a forced witness by V.V. but Charles was aware of what really happened and feared repercussions from V.V. so he went further to cover up what happened," Hayate explained as her expression suggested she did not want to explain further the methods Charles used.
"What did he do," Lelouch asked hesitantly knowing he wouldn't like the answer.
"She was traumatized by V.V. yes, but her legs were shot to make it appear she was caught in the gunfire…V.V. didn't shoot her through. But he knew it wouldn't be enough for a convincing story so Charles went further before using his Geass power to alter her memories after…shooting her legs to cripple her."
An uneasy silence fell upon the room as Lelouch stood there frozen as his mind was trying to process what Hayate just told him. He held the expression that someone had just killed everyone he loved, but literally his whole world came crashing down on him. Two whole minutes passed before Lelouch spoke, but his voice was shaky yet all restraint he had on his anger was gone now as he began.
"How…how could he," Lelouch said as his eyes were burning with a terrible rage none had ever seen before. "HOW COULD HE?"
Lelouch was on the edge of the abyss that would likely send him spiraling into madness, his rage was such that the Abyss Soul activated and Lelouch's attired activating an Assault Suit form. His Battle Jacket altered accordingly as the cape vanished while the angel wings came opaque covered in a black metal-like substance while the white cuffs on his sleeves vanished and black leather gloves with an armor plate on the top of the hand appeared. His staff also transformed as the blades changed splitting into dual blades giving it the appearance of two-prong spear top.
Lelouch let out a cry of sorrow and anger and slammed his fist into the wall which to the shock of everyone shattered the wall completely. Fate realizing the situation could get worst walked up to Lelouch and swiftly slapped him across the face hard which brought the former prince back to his senses.
"You are better than this Lelouch, you need to control yourself," Fate said sternly like a parent scolding a child. "You should be focused on the now and not revenge, but your sister who has just remembered the abject betrayal of her own father, and feels lost and with her world broken. She'll need her brother when she wakes up."
Lelouch was quiet for a moment as the slap to the face allowed to regain his composure as he reevaluated his priorities.
"If anything, Lelouch passed for the crucible that we passed for when Hayate adopted us, but unlike us he had no friends to support himself. It's so rare then that he willingly became a ruthless individual, if it was required to protect the only being that he deemed as precious to him?" Signum said to Nanoha, Fate, Shamal and Hayate before Signum spoke telepathically to her mistress telling her something that only she was now aware of. "Come with me," Signum said to Lelouch suddenly before dragging him off taking him out of the room.
"Lelouch, where are they going?" Nanoha asked as she was about to go after them but Hayate stopped her with one hand on her left shoulder.
"Let them go Nanoha, now Lelouch needs to vent out. He just learned that the man that he already hated for disowning him and Nunnally, hid the truth about the death of his mother, and was in truth the one who made Nunnally invalid. In this instant, if there is someone who can understand Lelouch's emotions right now and show him a constructive outlet for that rage of all of us is Signum."
Nanoha didn't say anything, but she quietly watched Lelouch get pulled away while a look of worry remained. Sensing her concern Fate spoke to her friend.
"Right now he its teetering in the edge of the abyss, he's almost at the same point that I saw someone else long ago."
"Who you speak of," Hayate inquired.
"Precia," Fate answered sadly.
Sometime later Signum dragged Lelouch clear to a wide open field ideal for mage training as well as perfect for a sparring match between two combatants. It was located on the grounds of the Ground Forces Academy, although it was late and the students were in the dorms but Signum believed the empty training field would be ideal.
"Why did you bring me here," Lelouch demanded as Signum released her vice-like grip she had on his collar.
"Isn't it obvious," Signum replied sharply.
"No it isn't," The former prince answered as he dusted himself off.
"It's obviously you are outraged by what you just found out."
"Really," Lelouch snapped.
At that moment Signum changed into her own Battle Jacket which consisted of her traditional white coat and pink belted under combat uniform she wore underneath along with metal boots and gauntlets appeared on her hands and feet with her Armed Device the sword Laevatein ready in hand. Lelouch took a few steps back as he assumed a more defensive stance while Signum stood her ground regarding the young man for a moment.
"I have found that in this kind of situation, you need an outlet. Welcome to your first lesson of Magic," Signum declared before adding. "You are going to find the basis of your Device, and destroy targets in the process. Besides, it beats to merely simmer in impotent rage against a dead man who you can't kill anyway, feel free to try Lelouch?"
"Wait, a dead man," Lelouch began as Signum had overlooked a major fact that had happened recently.
"You haven't heard," The pink haired woman took a breath before she replied. "As you were unconscious, on Earth someone murdered the Britannian Emperor, and the Knight of One, hours after yourself was attacked. Right now Britannia is under martial law and the country it's closed, while the armed forces are weathering the eruption of terrorist attacks and insurrections everywhere that the failed SAZ ceremony triggered."
Lelouch was stunned as he wasn't sure how to respond to that, the Britannian Emperor killed. A few moments later the former Britannian Prince began laughing bitterly which worried Signum until Lelouch spoke.
"Is that so, well isn't that just ironic," Lelouch said before adding. "Fate truly gives and takes it away doesn't it? The reason for my anger, my suffering, the world's suffering and Nunnally's suffering, its dead…gone…yet I wasn't the one to bring him down."
"You weren't but you still have your sister."
"I know, but…I just feel empty right now."
"Then you simply need to be filled, you have your sister still and she'll need you more than ever now. Shall we begin?"
Later that night a concerned Nanoha and Fate accompanied by Vita and Hayate made their way to the training grounds and saw Lelouch burning the midnight oil as he was training relentlessly. Considering it was almost three hours ago when they last saw the former prince, but now it seemed the young man was getting a better grasp of magic as he was shooting bolts of blood-red energy at targets Signum was launching into the air. Lelouch missed a few, but some of his shots landed with Signum reminding him.
"Visualize your objective."
"Lelouch is determined," Fate commented as Nanoha quietly observed Lelouch.
"Signum will teach Lelouch all he needs on the basics, but we should consider someone else who might be more suitable to teaching Lelouch different forms of magic." Hayate pointed out in an effort to assure Nanoha, but it seemed the issue of a proper education in his first use of magic was the least of her worries.
She watched as Lelouch was focused on mastering the Abyss Soul as Signum was educating him in the basics of handling his Intelligence Device and the Fundamentals of magic.
The training session would continue through the night until dawn, but when the dust cleared and the sun was rising over the training field at the Ground Forces Academy a pair of students came across the sleeping form of Lelouch who trained and exercised his new magical abilities to the point of exhaustion. Signum had long since turned in on a couch inside the training hall building to sleep, but Lelouch persisted in continuing to train on his own. Currently kneeling over Lelouch were a pair of young female cadets, one had short blue hair and green eyes who appeared to be about thirteen years old while the second girl was a year older with orange hair styled into a pair of pigtails and blue eyes. Both girls were wearing the usual cadet uniforms, but they both had curious expressions on their faces at the sleeping young man on the ground before them.
"Is he dead?" Subaru Nakajima asked poking at Lelouch's head with her right index finger.
"Nah he's still breathing see," Teana Lanster replied.
"What are you two doing?"
Subaru and Teana turned their heads to see a fifteen year old girl with waist-length length blue hair and green eyes wearing a cadet uniform but it was clear besides her age that the girl was in a higher class grade than the two younger girls.
"Oh good morning Gin-nee," Subaru said greeting her older sister Ginga Nakajima.
"Good morning," Ginga replied back before coming to a stop over the sleeping form of Lelouch. "Who is this?"
"We don't know is he a new student?" Teana inquired.
"No this isn't anyone I have seen so I don't know if he is new or not, but we should probably contact someone and let them know we got someone asleep in the middle of the training field." Ginga noted, but she did take notice of the Intelligence Device Lelouch was holding as it shifted into its combat ready mode which was its small scepter form instead of its standby form. The battle jacket faded and Lelouch was back in casual wear once more.
"Well he has a staff right so he's a mage," Subaru pointed out. "He must be student right?"
"We won't know until we have his ID checked out," Ginga said before pulling out a small communications device to call someone to the training field.
Suddenly out of the blue Nanoha arrived on the scene in her upgraded Battle Jacket which was based on a white and blue school uniform, but since the repair and restoration on Rising Heart the device updated her attire.
It was a more regal version of her usual barrier jacket, dubbed the Assault Suit, but it was more fitting of a member of the Royal Caste of an ancient civilization. She had white-silver armor on her chest and white leg armor with red, cobalt lines, and far more embroiled and decorated clothing. It came complete with white stockings and her lower leg is covered by white armor to her knee. The rest of it was based on her usual battle jacket besides the updates to it.
Subaru was in awe at her appearance because two years ago Nanoha had saved her during a terrible incident at the Mid-Childan airport, the event left a deep rooted admiration for Nanoha with the girl aspiring to be just like her.
"I can't believe you pushed yourself so hard," Nanoha said kneeling down next to Lelouch before noticing the cadets surrounding him.
"Oh you know him Captain Takamachi," Ginga inquired putting away her small handheld device.
"Yes I do I am sorry he ended up sleeping in the middle of your training field, I'll remove him right away."
"HEY Mistress Hayate told me to pick up Lelouch," Vita cried out arriving on the scene and finding Nanoha already picking up Lelouch, but the infamous Ace of Aces gave the small girl a cold stare that made Vita reconsider her next move very carefully as she commented, "But as you are doing that, there is no problem."
Sheesh…possessive much, she's head over heels over the guy already?
Although Vita reasoned that Nanoha wouldn't easily admit that, but her actions suggested that she was strongly attached to Lelouch. It was a question if Nanoha herself realized and if Lelouch would even notice it.
A/N: Well that is chapter four, Lelouch has a magic device of his own and some connections and mysteries about Geass has been revealed, but there is still more to come as Nanoha has been confirmed as a descendant of royalty. Also for the interrogation scene I had a very hard time with that one while it was very difficult in trying to keep Hayate in character, but I did it as I did because we all know she is unlikely to actually harm someone let alone torture them…at least physically in this case. No she went for C.C's weakness and it paid off. The scene was inspired from the infamous Margarine Scene from Sonic the Hedgehog series or SatAM as I believe it was nicknamed.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed it and stay tune for the next chapter.