Chinese Federation border outpost, helipad, July 31st, 2018 a.t.b.

-Third Person POV-

A commander who stood in front of five new soldiers stated, "Greetings, you sludge-cleaning new meat. I am Commander Zheng Qin and second-in-command of this unimportant outpost and the only higher-ranking authority you will have to deal with. Hear this well for I am only going to say this once. I only answer to three people: God, the Tianzi, and Colonel Wang. Those High Eunichs your elders told you to obey have been abolished and are now just a bunch of dead limp-dicked motherfuckers. Anyways, all of you need to report to the barracks until further instruction."

Zheng Qin then left the helipad and the five new soldiers left as well. Meanwhile in a Black Knight base hidden somewhere in the Chinese Federation, Lelouch had just finished taking a shower and was drying himself when he heard someone knock on the bathroom door. Wrapping a towel around his waist, Lelouch then asked, "Who is it?"

"Is the door unlocked? This is Anna Clement, former scientist of W-0 speaking."

"The door is unlocked. I just finished drying myself."

The door opened and a girl with light purple hair and bright green eyes came in while she also had only a towel on, but she only had it wrapped around her waist and was aware that her C-cup size breasts were exposed. She blushed heavily as she stared at Lelouch's slightly muscular body. He had taken to exercising so that he didn't have the athletic ability of a marshmallow and while he was nowhere near where a standard eighteen-year old would be, he could run two laps around a track field before stopping from exhaustion. Anna then realized why she came here and covered her exposed breasts with her left arm before saying, "The towel I was given was too small. I could only cover my lower half with the one that I was given by. . . Naomi Inoue, I think it was."

"I swear if this was one of Tamaki's mistakes again, I'm gonna have Kallen rip off his balls before shoving them up his asshole. That being said, you can use one of the larger towels in here, but you'll have to drop it off in the laundry room of the base." Lelouch said before exiting the bathroom and closing the door behind him. Heading to his private quarters, Lelouch went into his personal changing room and immediately changed into his Zero outfit sans the helmet before coming out.

'I swear, whoever built this base should have been castrated by Kallen! There's always a breeze blowing through and the showers are all in a single area as opposed to the commanders and grunts having their showers close to them!' Lelouch thought as he made his way to the mess hall. Once there he noticed that Tamaki and Naoto were arguing.

"Naoto, I did not put radishes in your soup!" Tamaki shouted.

"Bullshit, Tamaki! You put radishes in my soup even though I specified that I didn't want radishes!" Naoto yelled back.

Lelouch decided to step in and immediately got in between the two before saying, "You are forbidden from fighting each other within the Black Knights. If you cannot resolve your dispute peacefully, you will both be confined to your quarters."

Kento Sugiyama then arrived and said, "Um, guys, I have a confession to make. I was the one who put radishes in Naoto's soup."

"You have to patrol outside the base for the next three hours as punishment, Sugiyama." Lelouch stated.

-switch to Euphemia's POV-

I was helping the members of W-0 settle into the base when I first met him. He was a blue-haired young man just like Rivalz Cardemonde but he was Japanese instead of Britannian. My voice got caught in my own throat and I was unable to speak, for somehow I was able to notice that the young man's soul was damaged. Quickly gathering up my nerves, I walked to him and said, "Um, do you need help with figuring out where everything is?"

The young man asked me in a very cold and uncaring tone, "Who are you, and why would someone like you talk to a dead man like I am?"

"I am former Princess Euphemia li Britannia, member of the Black Knights and a leader of their civil sector. Who are you and why do you refer to yourself as dead while it is quite the opposite? I don't need a reason to help people, it's just. . . whenever I see something that needs to change or someone who needs help, I can't just leave it alone." I found myself calmly replying to the young man's questions.

"I am Akito Hyuga. I was supposed to have died because of 'his' actions, which is why I call myself a dead man."

"Who is this 'he' that you just referred to?"

"Shin Hyuga Shing, my older brother. He hates me and desires for me to die. I intend to defy that desire and kill him instead. The hatred between myself and Shin has already reached the point where reconciliation is impossible; for this hatred to end, one of us must die at the hands of the other. Furthermore, he killed- nay, slaughtered our parents in cold blood along with the rest of my clan. Nothing except for our blood ties me to that asshole Shin."

I was devastated to hear that Shin murdered his own parents and his clan without even feeling remorseful for his actions and knew that Akito was adamant in wanting to kill his brother. "Akito. . ." I said rather sadly, but then Leila Malcal arrived at where I was.

"I can understand why you feel empathetic towards Akito Euphemia, but he isn't interested in you." Leila said to me. I turned to her and saw that her expression was rather melancholic. I knew for a fact that she was much curvier than me and her breasts were larger as well. I felt a slgiht pang of jealousy as I admired her body. "I can take it that you speak from experience, Leila?" I asked.

"Yes, Euphemia. It took a long time and quite a few battles, but Akito eventually opened up to me and when the time was right I confessed to him that I had fallen in love with him. Akito only started reciprocating my feelings for him two weeks before W-0 Headquarters was overrun."